Literature
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Living by the WordIn meditative and passionate prose, these provocative essays explore feminist, environmental, and political issues and shed new light on racial debates, including the controversy surrounding Walker's bestseller, The Color Purple.Author: Alice WalkerPublisher: Amistad PressPublished: 10/23/1989Pages: 224Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.57lbsSize: 8.05h x 5.30w x 0.56dISBN:...
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The Second Common Reader: Annotated EditionHere, in twenty-six essays, Woolf writes of English literature in its various forms, including the poetry of Donne; the novels of Defoe, Sterne, Meredith, and Hardy; Lord Chesterfield's letters and De Quincey's autobiography. She writes, too, about the life and art of women. Edited...
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SpireThe vision that drives Dean Jocelin to construct an immense new spire above his cathedral tests the limits of all who surround him. The foundationless stone pillars shriek and the earth beneath them heaves under the structure's weight as the Dean's will weighs down...
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Tennis and the Meaning of Life: A Literary Anthology of the GameThe only book of its kind, Tennis and the Meaning of Life is a resplendent collection of the best fiction (and poetry ) written about this sport/obsession. The stories are hilarious and sad, whimsical and philosophical - and thoroughly saturated with the art of...
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Christmas at Thompson Hall: And Other Christmas StoriesOne of six beloved Christmas classics in collectible hardcover editions Christmas at Thompson Hall brings together the best of the Christmas stories of Anthony Trollope, one of the most successful, prolific, and respected English novelists of the nineteenth century. Characterized by insightful, psychologically rich,...
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Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg: The Letters"[An] essential Beat masterpiece." --The Village Voice. Perhaps one of the last great dual correspondences of the twentieth century, Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg: The Letters reveals not only the process of creation of the two most celebrated members of the Beat Generation, but...
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Memoirs of an Infantry Officer: The Memoirs of George SherstonThe second volume in Siegfried Sassoon's beloved trilogy, The Complete Memoirs of George Sherston, with a new introduction by celebrated historian Paul Fussell A highly decorated English soldier and an acclaimed poet and novelist, Siegfried Sassoon won fame for his trilogy of fictionalized autobiographies...
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The Wizard of Oz: And Other Wonderful Books of Oz: The Emerald City of Oz and Glinda of Oz (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)The coveted and award-winning Penguin Threads series continues with three more enchanting, beautifully sewn covers by a talented visual artist With paper and pen or needle and thread, storytelling has many traditions. Penguin's award-winning art director Paul Buckley presents Penguin Threads, a series of...
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The Kreutzer Sonata and Other StoriesA collection of some of Tolstoy's most powerful powerful stories The violent spiritual crisis in Tolstoy's life that inspired his last period of creativity produced the stories in this compelling and startling collection. They portray the multifaceted nature of desire, from idealistic romance to...
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NanaPrompted by his theories of heredity and environment, Zola set out to show Nana, the golden fly, rising out of the underworld to feed on society--a predetermined product of her origins. Nana's latent destructiveness is mirrored in the Empire's, and they reflect each others'...
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The Death of King ArthurRecounting the final days of Arthur, this thirteenth-century French version of the Camelot legend, written by an unknown author, is set in a world of fading chivalric glory. It depicts the Round Table diminished in strength after the Quest for the Holy Grail, and...
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A Year in Thoreau's Journal: 1851Thoreau's journal of 1851 reveals profound ideas and observations in the making, including wonderful writing on the natural history of Concord. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles,...
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The Third Man and The Fallen IdolThe Third Man is Greene's brilliant recreation of post-war Vienna, a city of desolate poverty occupied by four powers. Rollo Martins, a second-rate novelist, arrives penniless in Vienna to visit his old friend and hero Harry Lime. Harry is dead, but the circumstances surrounding...
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Gods and Myths of Northern EuropeSurveys the pre-Christian beliefs of the Scandinavian and Germanic peoples. Provides an introduction to this subject, giving basic outlines to the sagas and stories, and helps identify the charachter traits of not only the well known but also the lesser gods of the age.Author:...
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Smothered in Hugs: Essays, Interviews, Feedback, and Obituaries"In another country or another era, Dennis Cooper's books would be circulated in secret, explosive samizdat editions that friends and fans would pass around and savor like forbidden absinthe." --New York Times Book Review "His work belongs to that of Poe, the Marquis de...
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The Art of the Novel"Lucid, detached, and epigrammatic ...The book has its author's familiar swiftness and variety of attack and his elegant, provocative irony."-- The New Yorker"Every novelist's work contains an implicit vision of the history of the novel, an idea of what the novel is. I have...
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Dark SymphonyThis collection of the works from the nineteenth and twentieth century is filled with powerful, sensitive, and moving writings from the most notable Black writers in history. This anthology of Black writers brings together some of the most notable, effective, and emotional writings in...
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The Art of War (Collins Classics)HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics.The ancient Chinese art of warfare written by military strategist Sun Tzu in the 5th century BC.Author: Sun TzuPublisher: William CollinsPublished: 01/29/2019Pages: 112Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.05lbsSize: 7.60h x 4.90w x 0.30dISBN: 9780008313852About the...
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Women Writing Race, Nation, and History: N/NativeThis book presents how Nation and Narrative are bound together through the figure of the "N/native" as it appears in the non-fictional writings of Cornelia Sorabji, Grazia Deledda, Zitkála-Sá, Virginia Woolf, Victoria Ocampo, and Gwendolyn Bennett. It addresses two questions: How did women writers...
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Oltre La Mer Salee: Proceedings of the 21st International Congress of the Societe Rencesvals Pour l'Etude Des Epopees Romanes, Toronto, 13Oltre la mer salee collects revised versions of twenty-eight papers in English, French, Italian, and Spanish originally presented at the 21st International Congress of the Societe Rencesvals pour l'etude des epopees romanes, held in August 2018 in Toronto. Specialists in the field of medieval...
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