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GloryGlory is the wryly ironic story of Martin Edelweiss, a twenty-two-year-old Russian émigré of no account, who is in love with a girl who refuses to marry him. Convinced that his life is about to be wasted and hoping to impress his love, he...
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The Makioka Sisters: Introduction by Edward G. SeidenstickerJunichirō Tanizaki's magisterial evocation of a proud Osaka family in decline during the years immediately before World War II is arguably the greatest Japanese novel of the twentieth century and a classic of international literature. Tsuruko, the eldest sister of the once-wealthy Makioka family,...
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Ajax. Electra. Oedipus TyrannusSophocles (497/6-406 BCE), with Aeschylus and Euripides, was one of the three great tragic poets of Athens, and is considered one of the world's greatest poets. The subjects of his plays were drawn from mythology and legend. Each play contains at least one heroic...
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Historia AugustaThe Historia Augusta is a biographical work roughly following the model of the imperial biographer Suetonius (LCL 31, 38) and covering the lives of the Roman emperors from Hadrian (r. 117-138) to Carinus (r. 283-285), with a lacuna between the lives of the Gordians...
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Historia AugustaThe Scriptores Historiae Augustae, or Historia Augusta, is a collection of biographies of Roman emperors, heirs, and claimants from Hadrian to Numerianus (117-284 CE). The work, which is modeled on Suetonius, purports to be written by six different authors and quotes documents and public...
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Sense and Sensibility: An Annotated EditionSense and Sensibility (1811) marked the auspicious debut of a novelist identified only as A Lady. Jane Austen's name has since become as familiar as Shakespeare's, and her tale of two sisters has lost none of its power to delight. Patricia Meyer Spacks guides...
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The Program Era: Postwar Fiction and the Rise of Creative WritingIn The Program Era, Mark McGurl offers a fundamental reinterpretation of postwar American fiction, asserting that it can be properly understood only in relation to the rise of mass higher education and the creative writing program. McGurl asks both how the patronage of the...
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Defending Middle-Earth: Tolkien: Myth and ModernityWhat are millions of readers all over the world getting out of reading The Lord of the Rings? Newly reissued with a new afterword, Patrick Curry's Defending Middle-earth argues, in part, that Tolkien has found a way to provide something close to spirit in...
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Rome and the Mysterious Orient: Three Plays by PlautusStill funny after two thousand years, the Roman playwright Plautus wrote around 200 B.C.E., a period when Rome was fighting neighbors on all fronts, including North Africa and the Near East. These three plays--originally written for a wartime audience of refugees, POWs, soldiers and...
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The Beautiful and DamnedIn this follow-up to his tremendously successful first novel, This Side of Paradise, F. Scott Fitzgerald again recaptures the Jazz Age's darker side as well as its excitement and joie de vivre.The Beautiful and Damned traces the meteoric path of two glittering young socialites....
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Selected Short StoriesIt is universally acknowledged that Leo Tolstoy, author of War and Peace and Anna Karenina, was as much a master of the short story as of the full-length novel. This original collection, which features some of his most hard-to-find tales, will enchant longtime enthusiasts...
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The Black TulipA prize of 100,000 guilders awaits the gardener who can produce a black tulip, a rich reward that incites a bitter competition in 17th-century Holland. Cornelius von Baerle, a gifted and passionate florist, has dedicated himself to cultivating the elusive flower. But a ruthless...
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Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of QuotationsIt is better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid than to open it and remove all doubt.When in doubt, tell the truth.Twenty years from now, you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you...
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Selected Essays/Essais Choisis: A Dual-Language BookOne of the great French Renaissance thinkers, sixteenth-century philosopher Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592) was remarkably modern in his views. His writings--brilliant forerunners of the modern essay--reflect his thoughts and opinions on poetry, philosophy, theology, law, literature, education, and world exploration. Highly readable works written...
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Pudd'nhead WilsonSwitched at birth by a young slave woman attempting to protect her son from the horrors of slavery, a light-skinned infant changes places with the master's white son. This simple premise is the basis of Pudd'nhead Wilson, a compelling drama that contains all the...
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The Fanfiction Reader: Folk Tales for the Digital AgeWritten originally as a fanfiction for the series Twilight, the popularity of Fifty Shades of Grey has made obvious what was always clear to fans and literary scholars alike: that it is an essential human activity to read and retell epic stories of famous...
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The Necropastoral: Poetry, Media, OccultsIn The Necropastoral: Poetry, Media, Occults, poet Joyelle McSweeney presents an ecopoetics and a theory of Art that reflect such biological principles as degradation, proliferation, contamination, and decay. In these ambitious, bustling essays, McSweeney resituates poetry as a medium amid media; hosts "strange meetings"...
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Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo EmersonA classic collection of critical essays, poems, and letters from one of the greatest minds of nineteenth-century America.Author: Ralph Waldo EmersonPublisher: Signet BookPublished: 06/07/2011Pages: 576Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.59lbsSize: 6.79h x 4.26w x 1.23dISBN: 9780451531865Audience: Young AdultAbout the AuthorRalph Waldo Emerson, the son of a...
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The Red Badge of Courage and Four StoriesHere is Stephen Crane's masterpiece, The Red Badge of Courage, together with four of his most famous short stories. Outstanding in their portrayal of violent emotion and quiet tension, these texts led the way for great American writers such as Ernest Hemingway.Author: Stephen CranePublisher:...
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Maggie, a Girl of the Streets and Selected StoriesPublished in 1893, Maggie: A Girl of the Streets shocked a world unprepared for its grim and starkly realistic exploration of a pretty young girl's fall on New York's Bowery, and its critical depiction of the irresponsibility of men toward women. The five other...
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