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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...

A teacher of writing and literature for 35 years, Donna DeLeo Bruno has loved books and relished reading for as far back as she can remember. Since retirement, she shares her immense enjoyment and keen appreciation of books and writing styles, with presentations at...

Fiction. Literary Nonfiction. The true current-day descendant of the Black Mountain School, the San Francisco Renaissance, and the New York School.Author: Lou RowanISBN-10: 0990950611ISBN-13: 9780990950615Publisher: Golden Handcuffs ReviewLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/01/2020Pages: 168Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.52lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.36d

"At the court of King George the Third the madness lingers on... Just like on TV today..."Red was King George the Third's most favorite and powerful color: red for anger, red for love and red for madness. Is the madness floating over the court...

Catalogue and scholarly consideration of these vital manuscripts. Following her vital cataloguing of the surviving 200+ manuscripts of the Historia Regum Britanniein Volume III, Julia Crick has been able in Volume IV to present the information which the manuscripts contain both about thetextual development...

Organised around each decade of the post war period, this book analyses novels written by and for women from 1945 to the present. Each chapter identifies a specific genre in popular fiction for women which marked that period and provides case studies focusing on...

Many rivers run through Nancy Schoenberger's third collection of poems, Long Like a River. From the Clark Fork ("its full house of trout the dream of a summer noon"), to the Mississippi ("long as its Indian name"), to the Amazon and Napo Rivers, these...

Christine Brooke-Rose is a writer, critic, and narrative theorist whose extraordinarily varied body of work tests the relationship between twentieth-century theory and fiction in unparalleled ways. As they rupture "the relics of nineteenth-century ideologies," Brooke-Rose's fictional experiments offer new ways to theorize life and...

Howard Frank Mosher has spent the greater part of his career depicting a relatively isolated section of Vermont known as the Northeast Kingdom. Yet, even as he writes about that particular area in the Green Mountain State, he is investigating age-old themes from among...

Highly original and insightful, Bearing Across explores the complex interrelationships between American literature and science in the 20th century.Author: Steven CarterISBN-10: 0761823182ISBN-13: 9780761823186Publisher: University Press of AmericaLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/06/2002Pages: 212Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.56lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.45d

Fictions of Childhood analyzes identity from the perspective of child/adolescent narrators and protagonists using the works of Nina Bouraoui, Linda Lê, and Gisèle Pineau. This theme is studied in French narratives that bring to the fore questions of the power imbalances in both the...

Althea Richards has critique the whole aspect of life to save the world from total destruction. . Her logic and good wisdom has won its highlights in her book. Her spirituality and how she solidified our humanistic role and the impracticality of lessening such...

The period covered in this book ranges from the early part of the 20th century right through to its end-roughly from the death of Chekhov to that of Ted Hughes. The question is raised whether the vision of the modern world that opened up...

Is there a right way to write a literary life? In this collection of columns from the New York Sun, Carl Rollyson explores the relationship between narrative and literary analysis. Should biographies be written in the style and form of novels? How to balance...

This I Need To Know is one writer's view of the descent of the western literary tradition. Writers and artists are but the scaffolding upon which our common literary heritage is built. Each of us places a brick in the edifice and then fades...

Author: Arelo C. SederbergISBN-10: 0595211569ISBN-13: 9780595211562Publisher: iUniverseLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/01/2001Pages: 320Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.11lbsSize: 8.90h x 6.30w x 0.80d

Author: Giulio D'AgostinoISBN-10: 059516935XISBN-13: 9780595169351Publisher: iUniverseLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/01/2001Pages: 364Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.30lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.90d

Author: John Condon MurrayISBN-10: 0595157564ISBN-13: 9780595157563Publisher: iUniverseLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/01/2001Pages: 112Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.60lbsSize: 9.14h x 6.16w x 0.48d

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our...

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our...

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our...

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our...

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our...

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our...

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our...

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our...

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our...

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our...

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our...

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you...

A collection of ten critical essays on the Prologue to Chaucer's well-known work, arranged in chronological order of their original publication.Author: Geoffrey ChaucerISBN-10: 048561006XISBN-13: 9780485610062Publisher: Athlone PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/05/2001Pages: 224Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.71lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.48d

We Are Amphibians tells the fascinating story of two brothers who changed the way we think about the future of our species. As a pioneering biologist and conservationist, Julian Huxley helped advance the "modern synthesis" in evolutionary biology and played a pivotal role in...

This book makes an original and readable contribution to defining the nature of justice in the aftermath of a repressive regime. While considering transitional justice as conventionally defined, this work explores broader conceptions of justice and is distinct in approaching the subject through a...

Essays on Northern Ireland, South Africa, and the working lives of two writers accompanying short stories about the lower class in America from Granta Magazine.Author: Bill BufordISBN-10: 0140084819ISBN-13: 9780140084818Publisher: Granta MagazineLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/07/2008Pages: 252Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.69lbsSize: 8.27h x 5.83w x 0.54d

Alberto Manguel examines metaphors of readers and reading from literatures across centuries and the globe, from the ancient epic Gilgamesh to the World Wide Web, from the adventures of Ulysses to the tragedy of Emma Bovary, and he considers how these metaphors reflect the...

The volume provides an in-depth philosophical investigation into freedom as reality's point of origin and the metaphysical quality of being, anchored in a re-evaluation of Luigi Pareyson's reflections on the ontology of freedom. The first and fourth chapter focus specifically on the Italian philosopher,...

Essays written on Stephen King's "The Stand."Author: Anthony MagistraleISBN-10: 1557422508ISBN-13: 9781557422507Publisher: Wildside PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/18/2024Pages: 228Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.65lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.52d

Balzac by Hippolyte Taine offers a meticulous examination of the life, influences, and works of Honoré de Balzac, one of France's most prolific writers. Taine explores Balzac's literary vision, narrative style, and the socio-political climate that shaped his oeuvre, providing readers with a comprehensive...

Books and Persons by Arnold Bennett is a collection of essays and literary criticism originally published in the New Age magazine between 1908 and 1911. Bennett discusses contemporary literary trends, prominent authors of the time, and his own thoughts on writing and literature. This...

Tennyson's poetic drama portrays the life and reign of Mary Tudor with lyrical gravity and historical depth. Set during England's fraught transition from Protestant to Catholic rule, the play explores themes of power, persecution, and personal anguish. With richly drawn characters and tragic pacing,...

Author: Walt TraskISBN-10: 1958661376ISBN-13: 9781958661376Publisher: Tofu Ink Arts Press Brian L. JacobsLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/10/2026Pages: 46Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.28lbsSize: 10.00h x 7.00w x 0.13d

Author: Kristine Langley MahlerISBN-10: 1957392436ISBN-13: 9781957392431Publisher: Autofocus BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/17/2026Pages: 158Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.44lbsSize: 7.90h x 5.00w x 0.50d

A revised version of my second book outlining the history of slavery and connecting the events that happened to the so-called Negro's, to history in the Bible. Explaining how the Negro's received the title Negro and how they cannot shake the mentality of behaving...

This new critical edition of Dissoi Logoi starts from a codicological analysis that is unprecedented in scope (the studied codices are twenty-six) and depth (their material, dimensions, transmitted works, provenance, date, scribe, first possessors, and current place of conservation are considered). On this basis,...

This volume contains the final letters of Charles Burney from 1810, when he was 84, to 1814, when he died at the age of 88. Throughout these years, he was confined to his rooms at the Royal Hospital, Chelsea, where he continued to occupy...

Thoughts On Laughter, authored by Basil Montagu, offers a fascinating exploration into the nature and significance of laughter. Montagu, writing from the perspective of a Chancery barrister, delves into the philosophical underpinnings of humor and its role in society. The book examines various forms...

This Anthology "Scientific and Practical Research" has been formed as a result of the creative work of representatives of various fields, their aspirations and research. In this book a reader will get acquainted with works of various genres, from linguistics to historical themes, writing...

This Anthology "Scientific and Practical Research" has been formed as a result of the creative work of representatives of various fields, their aspirations and research. In this book a reader will get acquainted with works of various genres, from education to sports, nutrition, writing...