Literature
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The Joy of Reading: A Passionate Guide to 189 of the World's Best Authors and Their WorksCharles Van Doren has laid a feast before all of us that is irresistible.--Mortimer J. AdlerThis engaging love letter to reading follows the great authors and classics that transformed the world: from Aristotle and Herodotus in ancient Greece to Salinger and Heinlein in 20th...
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Collected Stories of W. Somerset Maugham: Introduction by Nicholas ShakespeareFrom one of the twentieth century's most enduringly popular fiction writers: the only hardcover edition of his short stories. Though W. Somerset Maugham was also famous for his novels and plays, it has been argued that in the short story he reached the pinnacle...
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13 Ways of Looking at the NovelFrom the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Thousand Acres comes an essential guide for writers and readers alike: an exhilarating tour through one hundred novels that "inspires wicked delight." --Los Angeles Times Book ReviewFrom classics such as the thousand-year-old Tale of Genji to fiction...
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My Life and Work: Henry Ford's Autobiography, with a History of the Ford Motor CompanyMy Life and Work is the autobiography of Henry Ford; a businessman who revolutionized automotive manufacture in the early 20th century. This book takes us through the major episodes of Ford's life, from his early beginnings and the development of his successful commercial endeavors....
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Latin American and Arab Literature: Transcontinental ExchangesSince the 19th century, Arab migration from the Ottoman Empire to Latin America and Latin American travel to the Arab world has created transcontinental routes - and in the late 20th century, the translation of Latin American classics into Arabic flourished in the Arab...
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Das französische ChansonDas französische Chanson ist ein intermediales Genre von nationaler und internationaler Tragweite. Im Zuge der Medienrevolutionen des 20. und 21. Jahrhunderts erfährt die französische Chanson-Kultur eine gattungsgeschichtlich relevante Weiterentwicklung. Damit ist auch eine verstärkte nationale Markierung des nun international erfolgreichen Genres verbunden. Die vorliegende...
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Grete Meisel-Hess: The New Woman and the Sexual CrisisThis first book in English on Meisel-Hess, an early feminist voice in modernist discourse, illustrates the dynamic interplay between gender, sexuality, and race/ethnicity in Austrian and German modernism. Grete Meisel-Hess (1879-1922), a contemporary of Freud, Schnitzler, and Klimt, was a feminist voice in early-twentieth-century...
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Pictorial Photography and the American West, 1900-1950: The Broad MovementThis book is an investigation of the widely overlooked photographic style of pictorialism in the American West between 1900 and 1950 and argues that western pictorialist photographers were regionalists that had their roots in the formidable photographic heritage of the nineteenth-century American West.Author: Rachel...
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Death Comes for the ArchbishopIn the aftermath of the Mexican-American War, two French Jesuit priests travel to the American Southwest to establish a new Roman Catholic diocese. Upon arrival, Father Jean Marie Latour and Father Joseph Vaillant encounter an ethnically diverse population in an unforgiving landscape, entrenched customs...
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Korunah's GiftKorunah wagara: mana tagara.'Eagle fly: I follow.When ten year old Ellie is taken from the family farm in the Huon Valley, no-one imagines that her abductor is an indigenous man whose people have lived deep in the Tasmanian Wilderness for over 150 years, shunning...
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On a Night of a Thousand StarsIn this moving, emotional narrative of love and resilience, a young couple confronts the start of Argentina's Dirty War in the 1970s, and a daughter searches for truth twenty years later. New York, 1998. Santiago Larrea, a wealthy Argentine diplomat, is holding court alongside...
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BreakwaterA novel about a marriage torn apart by a violent secret for fans of Lauren Groff's Fates and FuriesEmilia has it all: arewarding career as a statistician, a wonderful husband, two healthy young sons, and a house in the countryside. But when a brief...
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After Engulfment: Cosmicism and Neocosmicism in H. P. Lovecraft, Philip K. Dick, Robert A. Heinlein, and Frank HerbertIn this pioneering work of criticism, spanning the genres of weird fiction and science fiction, Ellen J. Greenham examines H. P. Lovecraft's influence on canonical science fiction writers and the use of Lovecraft's cosmicism as a lens through which selected works by Philip K....
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John Deere's Steel PlowThis book has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for present and future generations. This whole book has been reformatted,...
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Images of the Anthropocene in Speculative Fiction: Narrating the FutureIn order to demonstrate that speculative fiction provides a valuable contribution to the discussion about the challenges of the Anthropocene, Images of the Anthropocene in Speculative Fiction investigates a range of novels whose subject matter pertains to various aspects of the Anthropocene. These include...
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Nordic IceTo those who read my story, have you ever wondered if life is fair? Is it possible for love to conquer and heal a lifetime of internal and external wounds? Can a man with a cruel past find not only his soul, but his...
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مسيح الخلافةتتحدث الرواية عن الفترة الزمنية السورية الممتدة من خريف العام 2010، أو عشية انطلاق أحداث الثورة السورية، حتى ربيع العام 2014 حين بدأت كفة الصراع تميل لصالح قوات النظام وتنظيم داعش على حساب قوى المعارضة المسلحة.في سياق تلك الأحداث تتصادم المصائر والهويات المختلفة وتتبدل...
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The Chambers of My Heart - Venice, Paris and New YorkThe story is recounted by a thirty-something writer of Italian-American descent, whose parents have settled in Paris; his mother, Emily, a New Yorker by birth, teaches contemporary art at the American University, while his father, Massimo, originally from Monza (Lombardy, Italy) is himself a...
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Johnny Bear, and Other Stories from Lives of the HuntedThis book has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for present and future generations. This whole book has been reformatted,...
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Johnny BlossomThis book has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for present and future generations. This whole book has been reformatted,...
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