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Book SynopsisThe famous series of biblical commentaries Expositions of Holy Scripture was written by Alexander Maclaren, a 19th-century Scottish preacher and priest. This enormous collection of sermons and expositions covers a wide range of Bible books and portions, providing unique insights into the Christian faith and the Scriptures. The plot is full with surprises that will keep the reader fascinated. Some stories are brutal and weird, while others creep up on you and draw you in slowly. Maclaren's approach in Expositions of Holy Scripture is distinguished by his reverence for the Bible and his commitment to sound biblical interpretation. He provides in-depth and eloquent interpretations of biblical passages in order to assist people grasp the spiritual and moral truths contained within. Throughout the series, Maclaren's sermons cover a wide range of biblical topics, including Jesus' teachings, Old Testament events, and the moral and ethical precepts found in the Bible. His writing style is sophisticated as well as engaging, making the Bible's difficult principles understandable to a large audience. This version of Expositions of Holy Scripture is both current and legible, with an eye-catching new cover and professionally typeset manuscript.

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Book SynopsisThe Mabinogion is a group of Welsh ancient testimonies that had been translated and prepare with the help of Lady Charlotte Guest inside the 1800s. One of the most crucial cycles of Celtic folklore is advised in those legends and folktales. When Lady Guest's version came out within the middle of the 1800s, it brought the ones memories to loads greater English-talking people. There are mythological memories, heroic memories, and Arthurian memories on this series. Some of the characters are Pwyll, Branwen, and Culhwch. The Four Branches of the Mabinogi, which follows the lives of various characters and looks into magic, the future, and how the human and supernatural realms have interaction with every other, is at the coronary heart of the meeting. The translation by using Lady Charlotte Guest is praised for being both nicely-written and easy to understand. Victorian readers were added to the wealthy tapestry of Welsh legend through her art work. This sparked a brand new hobby in Celtic folklore and had an impact on later writers, together with J.R.R. Tolkien. Reading The Mabinogion is like searching into the cultural and mythical history of Wales inside the Middle Ages. Lady Guest's translation has made a big distinction in how an awful lot people understand and admire Celtic literature. It has additionally made positive that these recollections will stay on within the large literary lifestyle.

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Book SynopsisOur memories are like the multi-coloured flowers in a gardenâsome happy, some sad; each special on its own, but all coming together to paint a beautiful picture of a life well lived.

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Book SynopsisAlbert Camus's lively journals from his eventful visits to the United States and South America in the 1940s, available again in a new translation. In March 1946, the young Albert Camus crossed from Le Havre to New York. Though he was virtually unknown to American audiences at the time, all that was about to changeThe Stranger, his first book translated into English, would soon make him a literary star. By 1949, when he set out on a tour of South America, Camus was an international celebrity. Camus's journals offer an intimate glimpse into his daily life during these eventful years and showcase his thinking at its most personala form of observational writing that the French call choses vues (things seen). Camus's journals from these travels record his impressions, frustrations, joys, and longings. Here are his unguarded first impressions of his surroundings and his encounters with publishers, critics, and members of the New York intelligentsia. Long unavailable in English, the journals have now been expertly retranslated by Ryan Bloom, with a new introduction by Alice Kaplan. Bloom's translation captures the informal, sketch-like quality of Camus's observationsby turns ironic, bitter, cutting, and melancholyand the quick notes he must have taken after exhausting days of travel and lecturing. Bloom and Kaplan's notes and annotations allow readers to walk beside the existentialist thinker as he experiences changes in his own life and the world around him, all in his inimitable style.Trade Review"An intimate glimpse into the psyche of a widely admired writer." * Wall Street Journal *"With its ample photographs, rich introduction, and smooth-flowing, conversational translation, Travels in the Americas is an engaging travel account that reintroduces Albert Camus as both a man and an existentialist icon moving through North and South America in the postwar years." * Foreword Reviews *“Nine months after the end of the Second World War, Camus crossed the Atlantic on the SS Oregon to New York, traveling between ‘continents gone mad,’ as he put it. Three years later, he journeyed via Dakar to South America. This attractively illustrated new translation of the journals from those trips shows us an intensely curious, often solemn, and sometimes witty Camus as he attempts to understand the cultures he was encountering. As Alice Kaplan explains in her Introduction, the travel logs are an invitation to ‘see the Americas, as if for the first time, through his eyes,’ They also chart the writer’s transition towards literary celebrity and reveal the private doubts and needs that troubled him.” * Edward J. Hughes, author of 'Albert Camus' *"Bloom’s translation is a model of tight writing... it reads briskly, as we would expect journal entries to read, and precisely, as we would expect of anything penned by Camus... Travels in the Americas is a small, beautiful gem, worthy of a large readership." * Great Lakes Review *“An elegant new translation.” * London Review of Books *

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Book SynopsisThe late Alice Kane was born in Ireland in 1908. Moving with her parents to Canada in 1921, she was educated in New Brunswick and at McGill University in Montreal before beginning a career with the Toronto Public Library, where she had a major interest in fairy tales. After her retirement in 1973, she taught Children’s Literature at the University of New Brunswick, then began a second career as a professional storyteller in association with the Storytellers School of Toronto. She was a featured performer at many storytelling events, including the American Storytelling Festival at Jonesborough, Tennessee. Her rich oral heritage is remembered in Songs and Sayings of and Ulster Childhood, edited by Edith Fowke (1983).Trade Review“Alice Kane is the best storyteller I have heard, and her stories not only entertain but raise our hearts as if by magic. Now we can read them, an that is the next best thing to hearing them.” — Edith Fowke“Her Voice rises off the page as if she were telling the story beside us. It’s a tone that is oral in its cadences, yet at the same time unobtrusively literary — The voice of an enduring classic.” — Dennis Lee“Alice Kane is the kind of artist who in countries like Japan would become a national treasure. She has taken the art of storytelling from children’s libraries and made it an art for everyone. She has become a one-woman elder for story lovers across Canada.” — Toronto StarTable of ContentsIntroduction by Robert Bringhurst To Seek a FortuneIvon TortikThe Tale of the Tsar Saltan and Prince GuidonThe Golden Apples of Lough ErneBewitchmentThe Woman of the SeaThe Seven Wild GeeseThe KorriganTo Lose a WorldGreen WillowThe Golden FlyThe Peach-Blossom ForestWives and HusbandsThe Good WifeThe Clever WifeThe Lazy Barber’s WifeRebirth and ReturnThe Blue Faience HippopotamusThe Silver Sauver and the Transparent AppleChilde RowlandTattercoatsThe Girl Who Took a Snake for a HusbandEpilogue: A Sword of Power, a Mother’s BlessingNotes by Sean KaneAcknowledgments

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Book SynopsisThe Victorian era witnessed dramatic transformations in print culture, and this new anthology covers the exciting intellectual and social debates of the period. From first-person accounts of the lives of factory workers to Oscar Wilde’s aesthetic theory, and from narratives of British travelers in Africa and Asia to Havelock Ellis’s theories of “sexual inversion,” the surprising diversity of nineteenth-century nonfiction writing is represented. Illustrations from Victorian periodicals provide a vivid sense of the original reading experience.The book’s thematic organization emphasizes the social and historical contexts of prose writings, as well as the way in which these writings address each other. In addition to a general critical introduction, the anthology features new thematic introductions by experts in the field.Trade Review“A cause for celebration! With its judiciously chosen examples of life writing, travel memoirs, and social commentary, its glorious illustrations, and captivating selection of materials related to aesthetics, evolution, eugenics, and sexuality, this anthology will be a blessing to teachers, students, and scholars interested in the explosive growth of print media in the Victorian period.” — Christopher Keep, University of Western OntarioTable of ContentsAcknowledgementsA Note on the TextIntroduction: Victorian Print Media and the Reading Public, Mary Elizabeth Leighton and Lisa SurridgeLIFE WRITINGIntroduction, David AmigoniWilliam Dodd, from A Narrative of the Experience and Sufferings of William Dodd, A Factory Cripple (1841)Alexander Somerville, from The Autobiography of a Working Man (1848)John Stuart Mill, from Autobiography (1873)Harriet Martineau, from Autobiography (1877)Anthony Trollope, from An Autobiography (1883)John Ruskin, from Praeterita (1885–89)Annie Besant, from Annie Besant: An Autobiography (1893)Oscar Wilde, from De Profundis (written 1897; published 1905)Edmund Gosse, from Father and Son: A Study of Two Temperaments (1907)Beatrice Webb, from My Apprenticeship (1926)THE CONDITION OF ENGLAND: INDUSTRIALIZATION AND SOCIAL REFORMIntroduction, Dan BivonaHarriet Martineau, from Illustrations of Political Economy (1832–34)Thomas Carlyle, from Past and Present (1843)from “Gospel of Mammonism”from “Captains of Industry”Friedrich Engels, from The Condition of the Working Class in England in 1844 (1845; trans. 1887)Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, from Manifesto of the Communist Party (1848; trans. 1888)Charles Dickens, from “A Walk in a Workhouse” (1850)Henry Mayhew, from London Labour and the London Poor (1851)John Stuart Mill, from On Liberty (1859)John Ruskin, from Unto This Last (1860)Octavia Hill, from “Blank Court; or, Landlords and Tenants” (1871)William Booth, from In Darkest England and the Way Out (1890)EDUCATIONIntroduction, Janice SchroederThomas Arnold, from “On the Discipline of Public Schools” (1835)Harriet Martineau, from Retrospect of Western Travel (1838)Mary Carpenter, from Reformatory Schools, for the Children of the Perishing and Dangerous Classes, and for Juvenile Offenders (1851)John Henry Newman, from Discourses on the Scope and Nature of University Education Addressed to the Catholics of Dublin (1852)Henry Morley and Geraldine Jewsbury, from “Instructive Comparisons” (1855)Frederick Denison Maurice, from Learning and Working: Six Lectures Delivered in Willis’s Rooms, London, in June and July, 1854 (1855)Matthew Arnold, from “Art. VIII.—The Functions of Criticism at the Present Time” (1864)Emily Davies, from The Higher Education of Women (1866)Henry Maudsley, from “Sex in Mind and in Education” (1874)Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, from “Sex in Mind and Education: A Reply” (1874)John Churton Collins, from “An Educational Crisis, and How to Avert It.—II” (1886)William Morris, from “English at the Universities” (1886)John Addington Symonds, from “English at the Universities.—III.” (1886)Walter Pater, from “English at the Universities.—IV.” (1886)Matthew Arnold, from “English at the Universities.—IX.” (1887)James Anthony Froude, from “English at the Universities.—IX.” (1887)AESTHETICS AND CULTUREIntroduction, Dennis DenisoffJohn Ruskin, from The Stones of Venice (1851–53)Anna Jameson, from Legends of the Madonna, as Represented in the Fine Arts (1852)George Eliot, from Adam Bede (1859)Matthew Arnold, from “Culture and Its Enemies” (1867)Walter Pater, from Studies in the History of the Renaissance (1873)William Morris, from Hopes and Fears for Art (1882)James McNeill Whistler, from Mr. Whistler’s “Ten O’Clock” (1885)Oscar Wilde, from “The Critic as Artist” (1891)Vernon Lee and Clementina Anstruther-Thomson, from “Beauty and Ugliness” (1897)GENDER AND SEXUALITYIntroduction, Susan HamiltonSarah Stickney Ellis, from The Women of England: Their Social Duties and Domestic Habits (1839)Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon, from A Brief Summary, in Plain Language, of the Most Important Laws Concerning Women; Together with a Few Observations Thereon (1854)Florence Nightingale, from Suggestions for Thought to the Searchers after Truth among the Artizans of England (1860)John Ruskin, from Sesame and Lilies (1865)John Stuart Mill, from The Subjection of Women (1869)Thomas Hughes, from The Manliness of Christ (1879)William Thomas Stead, from “The Maiden Tribute of Modern Babylon” (1885)Mona Caird, from “Marriage” (1888)John Addington Symonds, from A Problem in Modern Ethics (1891)Havelock Ellis, from Studies in the Psychology of Sex: Sexual Inversion (1897)FAITH AND DOUBTIntroduction, Catherine HarlandThomas Carlyle, from Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh (1833–34)from “The Everlasting No”from “Centre of Indifference”from “The Everlasting Yea”Benjamin Jowett, from “On the Interpretation of Scripture” (1860)John William Colenso, from The Pentateuch and Book of Joshua Critically Examined (1862)John Henry Newman, from Apologia pro Vita Sua (1864)Leslie Stephen, from “An Agnostic’s Apology” (1876)Vernon Lee, from “The Responsibilities of Unbelief: A Conversation between Three Rationalists” (1883)Frances Power Cobbe, from “Agnostic Morality” (1883)SCIENCEIntroduction, Bernard LightmanCharles Lyell, from Principles of Geology, being an Attempt to Explain the Former Changes of the Earth’s Surface, by Reference to Causes Now in Operation (1830)Charles Bell, from The Hand: Its Mechanism and Vital Endowments as Evincing Design (1833)Mary Somerville, from On the Connexion of the Physical Sciences (1834)Robert Chambers, from Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation (1844)Herbert Spencer, from Social Statics: or, The Conditions Essential to Human Happiness Specified, and the First of Them Developed (1850)Philip Henry Gosse, from Evenings at the Microscope (1859)Mary Ward, from Telescope Teachings: A Familiar Sketch of Astronomical Discovery; Combining a Special Notice of Objects Coming within the Range of a Small Telescope, Illustrated by the Author’s Original Drawings; with a Detail of the Most Interesting Discoveries Which Have Been Made with the Assistance of Powerful Telescopes, Concerning the Phenomena of the Heavenly Bodies, Including the Recent Comet (1859)Charles Darwin, from On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life (1859)Lydia Becker, from “On the Study of Science by Women” (1869)Francis Galton, from Hereditary Genius: An Inquiry into Its Laws and Consequences (1869)Charles Darwin, from The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex (1871)Richard Proctor, from “A Voyage to the Ringed Planet” (1872)Thomas Henry Huxley, from “The Struggle for Human Existence: A Programme” (1888)TRAVEL AND EXPLORATIONIntroduction, Laura FraneyJames Holman, from A Voyage Round the World Including Travels in Africa, Asia, Australasia, America, etc. etc. from 1827 to 1832 (1834)Charles Darwin, from Journal of Researches into the Geology and Natural History of the Various Countries Visited by H.M.S. Beagle, under the Command of Captain FitzRoy, R.N. from 1832 to 1836 (1839)Richard F. Burton, from Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to El-Medinah and Meccah (1855)David Livingstone, from Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa (1857)Henry Walter Bates, from The Naturalist on the River Amazons, a Record of Adventures, Habits of Animals, Sketches of Brazilian and Indian Life, and Aspects of Nature under the Equator, during Eleven Years of Travel (1863)Emily Eden, from “Up the Country”: Letters Written to Her Sister from the Upper Provinces of India (1866)Alfred Russel Wallace, from The Malay Archipelago: The Land of the Orang-utan, and theBird of Paradise. A Narrative of Travel, with Studies of Man and Nature (1869)Henry M. Stanley, from How I Found Livingstone; Travels, Adventures, and Discoveries in Central Africa; Including Four Months’ Residence with Dr. Livingstone (1872)Anthony Trollope, from Australia and New Zealand (1873)Florence Dixie, from Across Patagonia (1880)Isabella L. Bird, from Unbeaten Tracks in Japan: An Account of Travels in the Interior, Including Visits to the Aborigines of Yezo and the Shrines of Nikkô and Isé (1880)Kate Marsden, from On Sledge and Horseback to Outcast Siberian Lepers (1891)Mary H. Kingsley, from Travels in West Africa Congo Français, Corisco and Cameroon (1897)

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Book SynopsisThis edition brings together Tolstoy’s 1886 masterpiece and several shorter works that connect with it in thought-provoking ways. The stories are accompanied by a fascinating selection of contextual materials, including nineteenth-century reviews, excerpts from Tolstoy’s letters concerning death, excerpts from a pamphlet he wrote after witnessing the slaughtering of livestock, and a portfolio of relevant photographs. As well as crafting fresh translations both of the stories themselves and of the background materials, Kirsten Lodge has provided an illuminating introduction and helpful annotations.Trade Review“Brilliantly conceived and executed, this slender volume should hold great appeal to both teachers of literature and students of life… In her masterful translation, Lodge captures the writer’s full stylistic register, from his quiet lyricism, lucid metaphors, fleshy descriptions, and arresting juxtapositions to his at times torturous syntax, defamiliarizing word choice, and scathing, mirthless wit. Like his contemporaries, modern readers cannot help but marvel at the range and originality of Tolstoy’s experiments in the literature of death, from the felling of a tree at the close of ‘Three Deaths’ to the dark inner worlds of characters drawing their last breath. Lodge’s inclusion of ‘Strider’—a short story told from the perspective of a dying horse—feels especially timely in light of the recent turn in literary criticism toward animal studies… Taken together, Lodge’s selections from Tolstoy’s oeuvre form a sort of modern dance macabre in which death, indifferent and inhuman, fells not only sinners from all stations of life but also plants, animals, self, and other. As her volume amply demonstrates, Tolstoy—more than a century after his own storied death at the Astapovo train station—remains as vital as ever.” — Jefferson J.A. Gatrall, Montclair State University“Kirsten Lodge’s translation is neat and efficient; she doesn’t mind phrasings that would not, in 1886 in English, have been used and I don’t mind either (for example “goofed up,” p. 21). The voice is steady and un-self-conscious and not bookish or cautious or twisted by Russian grammar or syntax.” — Bob Blaisdell, The Russian ReviewCOMMENTS on Kirsten Lodge ’s edition of Notes from the Underground:“… superlative in all respects. It offers an excellent translation, highly readable yet always faithful to the original, as well as essential supplementary materials that make it by far the easiest edition to teach from.” — Michael Wachtel, Princeton University“Kirsten Lodge’s important new edition of Dostoevsky’s Notes from the Underground offers readers a dazzling collection of contexts, sources, and images for Dostoevsky and his novel, all of which will be indispensable for students and general readers alike.” — Robin Feuer Miller, Brandeis University“For years I have taught these classic Russian texts [Tolstoy’s The Death of Ivan Ilyich, Dostoyevsky’s Notes from the Underground, and Zamyatin’s We] to students with little or no knowledge of Russian language or culture. In addition to providing clear, readable translations of the texts themselves, Lodge’s editions provide critical apparatus—introductions, notes, secondary texts, and images—that have made these stories much more accessible to my students. Contextual material that I have long had to put in handouts and powerpoints is now conveniently included in the text itself. These are certainly the most teachable editions of these texts currently available.” — Chad Engbers, Calvin UniversityTable of Contents Introduction The Death of Ivan Ilyich Strider Three Deaths In Context Killing Animals, Eating Animals from Leo Tolstoy, The First Step from Howard Williams, Preface to The Ethics of Diet: A Catena of Authorities Deprecatory of the Practice of Flesh-Eating (1882) From Tolstoy’s Letters Concerning Death Letter of Oct. 17, 1860 to Afanasy Fet (on the death of Tolstoy’s brother Nikolai from tuberculosis Letter of May 1, 1868 to Aleksandra Tolstaya, Tolstoy’s grandmother (on “Three Deaths”) Other Writings by Tolstoy from Leo Tolstoy, Childhood, Chapter 27: Grief (1852) from Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina (1878 from Leo Tolstoy, Confession (1879) from Leo Tolstoy, “Notes of a Madman” (unfinished; begun in 1884 and published posthumously) Critical Reception from Nikolai Leskov, “On the Kitchen Muzhik and Other Matters: Notes on Certain Reviews of Count Leo Tolstoy’s Work” (1886) from Dmitry Pisarev, “‘Three Deaths’: A Story by Count Leo Tolstoy” (1859) Nineteenth-Century Images

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Book SynopsisHere are the best short fiction stories, short non-fiction pieces and poetry from the Pikihuia Awards for Maori writers 2023 as judged by Emma Espiner, Carol Hirschfeld, Maiki Sherman, Mike Ross, Hemi Kelly and Robert Sullivan. This competition, run by the Maori Literature Trust and Huia Publishers, is held every two years to promote Maori writers and their work. This year, the awards sought short non-fiction and poetry, along with short fiction, from writers in te reo Maori and English. The competition attracts entries each year from writers of all ages and those who are starting out to seasoned authors. This collection of finalists' work celebrates Maori writing, introduces new talent and gives an opportunity for Maori writers to shine.

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Book SynopsisLondon today is embattled as rarely before. In a city of enormous wealth, poverty is rampant. The burnt-out hulk of Grenfell Tower stands as an appalling reminder that inequality can be so acute as to be murderous. Here, Claire Armitstead has drawn together fiction, reportage and poetry to capture the schisms defining the contemporary city. With nearly 40% of the capital's population born outside the country, Tales of Two Londons eschews what Armitstead labels a "tyranny of tone," emphasising voices rarely heard. Featuring writers such as Ali Smith, Jon Snow, Arifa Akbar and Ruth Padel alongside stories from previously unpublished immigrants and refugees, this is a compelling collection which captures the fabric of the city: its housing, its food, its pubs, its buses, even its graveyards.

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Book SynopsisLIFE AFTER THE APOCALYPSE The world has been brought to its knees by the “zombie virus.” Nations have fallen, cities have been overrun by the infected, and the human race has come perilously close to extinction. But with the first winter come and gone, the infected have been reduced to not much more than a background nuisance and survivors around the world are taking stock and vowing to rebuild and rise up stronger, better, and unafraid. All new stories from New York Times best-selling author John Ringo’s “Black Tide Rising” series: Kevin J. Anderson Brendon DuBois Jody Lynn Nye Michael Z. Williamson Kacey Ezell Mike Massa Christoper L. Smith Lydia Sherrer Jason Cordova Brian Trent Patrick Vanner Jamie Ibson About Black Tide Rising: “. . . an entertaining batch of . . . action-packed tales. Certainly, fans of Ringo’s particular brand of action-adventure will be pleased.”—Booklist “This anthology broadens Ringo’s Black Tide world, serving up doses of humanity amid the ravenous afflicted. Comedy has a place in this harsh reality, and these stories stir adventure and emotion at a frantic clip throughout. Zombie fiction fans will be thrilled.”—Library Journal About the Black Tide Rising Series: “Not only has Ringo found a mostly unexplored corner of the zombie landscape, he's using the zombie frame to tackle a broader theme: the collapse and rebirth of civilization. The zombie scenes are exciting, sure, but its the human story that keeps us involved. A fine series.”—Booklist About Under a Graveyard Sky: “Ringo combines humor and horror in this strong series debut, the thinking reader’s zombie novel.”—Publishers Weekly About John Ringo: “[Ringo’s work is] peopled with three-dimensional characters and spiced with personal drama as well as tactical finesse.”—Library Journal “. . . Explosive. . . . fans . . . will appreciate Ringo’s lively narrative and flavorful characters.”—Publishers Weekly “. . .practically impossible not to read in one sitting . . . exceedingly impressive . . . executed with skill, verve, and wit.”—Booklist “Crackerjack storytelling.”—Starlog BLACK TIDE RISING SERIES: Under a Graveyard Sky To Sail a Darkling Sea Islands of Rage and Hope Strands of Sorrow Black Tide Rising Voices of the Fall We Shall Rise At the End of the World At the End of the Journey The Valley of Shadows River of Night

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Book SynopsisLandfall is New Zealand''s foremost and longest-running arts and literary journal. It showcases new fiction and poetry, as well as biographical and critical essays, and cultural commentary. Writers: Aimee-Jane Anderson-OConnor, Nick Ascroft, Joseph Barbon, Airini Beautrais, Tony Beyer, Mark Broatch, Danny Bultitude, Brent Cantwell, Rachel Connor, Ruth Corkill, Mark Edgecombe, Lynley Edmeades, Johanna Emeney, Bonnie Etherington, Jess Fiebig, Meagan France, Kim Fulton, Isabel Haarhaus, Bernadette Hall, Michael Hall, Rebecca Hawkes, Aaron Horrell, Jac Jenkins, Erik Kennedy, Brent Kininmont, Wen-Juenn Lee, Zoë Meager, Alice Miller, Dave Moore, Art Nahill, Janet Newman, Charles Olsen, Joanna Preston, Jessie Puru, Jeremy Roberts, Derek Schulz, Sarah Scott, Charlotte Simmonds, Tracey Slaughter, Elizabeth Smither, Rachael Taylor, Lynette Thorstensen, James Tremlett, Tam Vosper, Dunstan Ward, Susan Wardell, Sugar Magnolia Wilson.

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Book Synopsis The Wish List is a quirky little gift book that sounds an irresistible call to get out there and start living. In the same chunky format as the authorfs bestselling 14,000 Things to Be Happy About, The Wish List presents a compulsively readable list of unexpected goals. There are wishes large--retrace Odysseus'' route around the Mediterranean--and wishes small--find a genuine arrowhead. There are artistic wishes--write a sonnet. Athletic wishes--learn to box. Practical wishes--master the rudiments of plumbing. Whimsical wishes--become a taster at Ben & Jerry''s. And fantasy wishes--live in a Venetian palazzo. The Wish List is meant to plant seeds, jog us out of complacency, and articulate unspoken desires.63,000 copies in print.

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Book SynopsisThese fascinating and diverse stories reflect the everyday concerns of Palestinians living under occupation. Writers who were children during the first intifada appear alongside those who remember the outbreak of the Lebanese civil war. In this volume, Palestinian women offer compassionate, often critical, insight into their society in times of hardship and turmoil, yet look beyond to the warmth of human relations and the hope that better times will come. The contributors include authors from the occupied territories, Palestinians with Israeli citizenship, and writers from the Palestinian Diaspora.Trade Review'... in turn lyrical, sensuous, comic and ironic ... valuable ammunition against the impoverished imagination of political discourse ... it is the quality of subtle, evocative writing here that makes [Qissat] remarkable.' The Independent 'A humane, richly rewarding read ... no two women share the same perspective, but the kaleidoscope effect of so many visions serves to illuminate rather than blur.' Vogue '... raw and honest ... Themes of domesticity, burgeoning sexuality and the experience of being a woman in Arab society are dealt with ... Beautifully written, they give us a different perspective on life in Palestine.' The Sunday Times ' ... many layered, haunting, sensuously rich and often threatening to the status quo ... subversion and fragmentation, exile and return, echo through ... Such moments show more than a thousand news broadcasts.' The Times 'The writing feels precious, but also main-stream and relevant.' Scotland on Sunday

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Book SynopsisShortlisted for the 2017 Boardman Tasker Award for Mountain Literature. 'How much risk is worth taking for so beautiful a prize?' The Magician's Glass by award-winning writer Ed Douglas is a collection of eight recent essays on some of the biggest stories and best-known personalities in the world of climbing. In the title essay, he writes about failure on Annapurna III in 1981, one of the boldest attempts in Himalayan mountaineering on one of the most beautiful lines - a line that remains unclimbed to this day. Douglas writes about bitter controversies, like that surrounding Ueli Steck's disputed solo ascent of the south face of Annapurna, the fate of Toni Egger on Cerro Torre in 1959 - when Cesare Maestri claimed the pair had made the first ascent, and the rise and fall of Slovenian ace Tomaz Humar. There are profiles of two stars of the 1980s: the much-loved German Kurt Albert, the father of the 'redpoint', and the enigmatic rock star Patrick Edlinger, a national hero in his native France who lost his way. In Crazy Wisdom, Douglas offers fresh perspectives on the impact mountaineering has on local communities and the role climbers play in the developing world. The final essay explores the relationship between art and alpinism as a way of understanding why it is that people climb mountains.Table of ContentsForeword by Katie Ives; 1 The Magician's Glass; 2 Stealing Toni Egger; 3 Searching for Tomaz Humar; 4 Big Guts; 5 Crazy Wisdom; 6 What's eating Ueli Steck?; 7 Lone Wolf; 8 Lines of Beauty: The Art of Climbing; Acknowledgements.

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Book SynopsisThe Story of the Stone is widely held to be the greatest work of Chinese literature. This book is a straightforward guide to a complex classic. Each chapter of the companion summarizes and comments on each chapter of the novel, providing English-speaking readers with the cultural context to enjoy the story and understand its world.Trade ReviewReaders of Cao's novel will find the commentary invaluable because it allows them to join in the epic sweep of the Jia family as it navigates Chinese society in the 18th century. Highly recommended. -- C. M. Smith * Choice Reviews *Brave readers embarking on The Story of the Stone—China’s grandest, most complex, and most inspiring work of literature—will be greatly assisted by this welcome guide, both for its admirably succinct summary of the novel’s plot and for its thought-provoking commentary, by lifelong Stone aficionados Susan Chan Egan and Kenneth Pai Hsien-yung. -- John Minford, translator of The Story of the Stone, or The Dream of the Red Chamber, volumes 4 and 5A Companion to The Story of the Stone ushers us into a world in which mythical fantasies engender realist indulgences and passionate romances induce philosophical awakenings. Historian Susan Egan Chan and writer Pai Hsien-yung have formed a dream team in producing a most succinct guidebook for anyone interested in a journey into classic China at its most mesmerizing. -- David Der-wei Wang, author of The Lyrical in Epic Time: Modern Chinese Intellectuals and Artists Through the 1949 CrisisApproachable and authoritative, Egan and Pai’s Companion will be welcomed by novices and connoisseurs alike. Far more than just a guide to plot and characters, the book offers a wealth of information on eighteenth-century Chinese society—everything from politics, history, and religion to medicine, sexuality, and theater—that greatly enriches any encounter with The Story of the Stone. -- Mark Elliott, author of Emperor Qianlong: Son of Heaven, Man of the WorldWith chapter-by-chapter summaries and commentary, this book offers a useful and most needed English guide to The Story of the Stone, a mid-eighteenth century masterpiece that arguably remains the greatest novel ever produced in China. -- Wei Shang, author of Rulin Waishi and Cultural Transformation in Late Imperial ChinaA Companion to The Story of the Stone is a field guide to support every reader, not just the uninitiated, through this long and fearsomely complex book. This guide is as necessary as Blamires’s The Bloomsday Book or Puette’s Guide to the Tale of Genji to bring China’s greatest novel into the mainstream of world literature. -- Dore J. Levy, author of Ideal and Actual in "The Story of the Stone"[A] Companion to the Story of the Stone, with its infectious enthusiasm for the story and its characters, is a welcome corrective for those of us who sometimes lose the forest for the trees. It is written for readers with no prior knowledge of Chinese culture or language, but even literary scholars and seasoned readers of Stone will find in it all kinds of interesting insights. -- Andrew Schonebaum * Journal of the American Oriental Society *The explanations of the material and social culture of premodern China and the slow and gentle pace with which Egan and Pai introduce literary and philosophical themes make Companion ideal for general readers who want to take on the project of reading The Story of the Stone in its entirety. * Nan Nu *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionKey to Recurring Characters1. The Origin of the Stone and the Vicissitudes of Life2. The Jia Family’s Fortune Coldly Appraised by an Antique Dealer3. Dai-yu’s Arrival at the Jia Household4. A Manslaughter Cover-Up and the Xue Family’s Arrival5. The Girls’ Destinies Revealed to a Bewildered Bao-yu6. Bao-yu’s First Sexual Experience; Grannie Liu’s First Visit to the Jias7. The Perspectives of Two Old Servants; Bao-yu Is Smitten by a Bashful Boy8. Bao-yu and Bao-chai Locked in Fate9. A Schoolhouse Brawl10. Qin-shi’s Illness Heads Off an Accusation Against Her Brother11. Xi-feng Visits Qin-shi; Jia Rui Flirts with Xi-feng12. Xi-feng Sets a Trap for the Amorous Jia Rui; Dai-yu Travels South to See Her Ailing Father13. Qin-shi’s Warning and Her Lavish Funeral14. Xi-feng Imposes Order on the Ning Household; the Funeral Procession Is Greeted by a Prince15. Qin Zhong Fools Around with a Nun and with Bao-yu; Xi-feng Takes a Bribe16. Yuan-chun’s Promotion at Court; Dai-yu’s Return and Qin Zhong’s Death17. Bao-yu’s Poetic Skills Are Tested by His Father; the Household Prepares for the Visitation18. The Imperial Concubine’s Visit to Prospect Garden19. Bao-yu’s Grand Bargain with Aroma and His Growing Intimacy with Dai-yu20. Bao-yu Tries Unsuccessfullyto Please Everyone; Shi Xiang-yun’s Arrival Leads to a Declaration21. Aroma Finds an Ally in Bao-chai; Patience Seizes Evidence of Jia Lian’s Misconduct22. An Opera Piques Bao-yu’s Interest in Monkhood; Gloomy Riddles Distress His Father23. Bao-yu Moves with the Girls Into Prospect Garden; the Lovers Bury Fallen Flowers24. Two Ambitious Social Climbers: Jia Yun and Crimson25. Jia Huan and Aunt Zhao Exact Their Revenge; the Monk and the Taoist Come to the Rescue26. Crimson Sends Jia Yun a Message; Skybright Carelessly Shuts Out Dai-yu27. Tan-chun Repudiates Her Mother; Dai-yu Ponders Her Fate Seen in Fallen Flowers28. Bao-yu Gives Aroma’s Sash to Jiang Yu-han; Yuan-chun, in Her Gifts, Favors Bao-chai Over Dai-yu29. Grandmother Jia Shows Her Compassionate Side; a Matchmaking Abbot Provokes a Lovers’ Rift30. Bao-yu Is Chastened by Bao-chai for Being Rude; He Causes Golden to Be Dismissed31. Bao-yu Lets Skybright Rip Up Two Fans for Fun; Shi Xiang-yun Finds the Kylin Meant for Her32. Criticism of Dai-yu Prompts Bao-yu to Avow His Love; Golden Commits Suicide33. Bao-yu Is Savagely Beaten by His Father Due to Jiang Yu-han’s Disappearance34. Aroma Confides Her Worries to Lady Wang; Bao-yu Sends Dai-yu Two Used Handkerchiefs35. Grandmother Jia Indicates Her Preference for Bao-chai; Bao-yu Makes Golden’s Sister Laugh36. Aroma Receives an Informal Promotion; Bao-chai Hears Bao-yu Reveal He Prefers Dai-yu37. The Founding of the Crab-Flower Club38. A Crab-Eating Feast Is Hosted by Shi Xiang-yun39. Li Wan Laments Her Lack of an Able Assistant; Grannie Liu Is Enlisted for Entertainment40. Grannie Liu Is Given a Tour of Prospect Garden and Made the Butt of Practical Jokes41. The Finicky Adamantina Serves Tea; Grannie Liu Passes Out on Bao-yu’s Bed42. Grannie Liu Names Xi-feng’s Daughter Before Departing; Bao-chai Befriends Dai-yu43. Xi-feng Squeezes Aunt Zhou and Aunt Zhao for Her Party; Bao-yu Makes an Offering to Golden44. Xi-feng Catches Jia Lian with a Servant’s Wife; Patience Is Struck and a Woman Hangs Herself45. The Steward’s Son Is Made a Magistrate; Bao-chai Supplies Dai-yu with Edible Bird’s Nest46. Jia She Tries to Take Faithful as His Concubine47. Grandmother Jia Gives Lady Xing a Scolding; Xue Pan Is Thrashed by Liu Xiang-lian48. Jia Lian Is Beaten by His Father for Criticizing Him; Caltrop Becomes Obsessed with Poetry49. The Arrival of Xue Bao-qin, Xue Ke, Xing Xiu-yan, and the Li Sisters50. Grandmother Jia Invites Herself to a Merry Gathering in a Garden Blanketed by Snow51. Aroma Makes a Trip Home in Style; Skybright Catches a Cold52. Xue Bao-qin Recites a Poem by a Blonde Girl; an Ailing Skybright Mends a Cloak for Bao-yu53. Solemn Ancestral Rites Are Performed on New Year’s Eve; the Festivities Last Half a Month54. Grandmother Jia Holds Forth at Her Banquet55. Tan-chun Takes Charge of the Household; Xi-feng Shares Her Views of the Cousins with Patience56. The Girls Put the Garden to Work; Jia Bao-yu Learns That He Has a Double in Zhen Bao-yu57. Nightingale Forces Bao-yu to Declare His Love for Dai-yu; Xing Xiu-yan Is Betrothed to Xue Ke58. A Dowager Consort’s Death Disrupts the Jia Household; the Child Actresses Stay On as Maidservants59. Conflicts Break Out Between the Ex-Actresses and Their Foster Mothers60. The Ex-Actresses Gang Up to Assault Aunt Zhao; Parfumée Tries to Help Fivey Join Bao-yu’s Staff61. Fivey Is Accused of Theft; Chess Tries to Replace Cook Liu with Her Own Aunt62. A Garden Party Is Held to Celebrate Bao-yu, Xue Bao-qin, Xing Xiu-yan, and Patience’s Birthdays63. The Party Continues Into the Night; Jia Rong, in Mourning, Flirts with the You Sisters64. Dai-yu Writes About Beauties in History; Jia Lian Is Urged to Take Er-jie as His Second Wife65. Jia Lian Secretly Installs You Er-jie in a Second Household; You San-jie Enthralls Cousin Zhen66. You San-jie Kills Herself with a Sword; Liu Xiang-lian Goes Off with a Crippled Taoist67. Bao-chai Gives Away the Presents from Her Brother; Xi-feng Discovers Jia Lian’s Second Marriage68. Xi-feng Lures You Er-jie into the Rong Compound and Humiliates Jia Rong with a Bogus Lawsuit69. Xi-feng, Feigning Kindness, Drives Er-jie to Her Death70. The Cousins Release Their Kites; Bao-yu, Though Deeply Troubled, Catches Up on His Studies71. Jia Zheng Comes Home for Grandmother Jia’s Birthday; Faithful Catches Chess in Flagrante72. Jia Lian Is Driven to Pawning Grandmother Jia’s Valuables; Sunset Is Promised to a Wastrel 73. A Maidservant Shows Lady Xing a Piece of Erotica; Ying-chun Refuses to Discipline Her Staff74. Lady Wang Turns Against Skybright; a Raid Is Conducted on Prospect Garden75. The Zhen Clan of Nanking Is Disgraced; the Jia Men Take to Gambling76. Grandmother Jia Resists Ending the Mid Autumn Party; Shi Xiang-yun Commiserates with Dai-yu 77. Chess and the Ex-Actresses Are Expelled; Bao-yu and Skybright Bid Their Final Farewell78. Lady Wang Lies About Skybright; Bao-yu Writes an Elegy to the Hibiscus Spirit79. Jia She Arranges a Hasty Marriage for Ying-chun; Xue Pan Weds a Conceited Girl80. Xia Jin-gui Turns the Xue Family Upside Down; Ying-chun’s Husband Treats Her Like a Slave81. Bao-yu Learns the Limits of the Matriarch’s Power; He Is Sent Back to the Clan School82. Aroma Probes Dai-yu on Concubines; Dai-yu Coughs Up Blood on waking from a Nightmare83. The Matriarch Is Told of Dai-yu’s Condition; Yuan-chun’s Illness Alarms the Jia Elders84. Jia Zheng Considers a Bride for Bao-yu; tthe Matriarch Is Pleased When Bao-chai Is Suggested85. Bao-yu Is Kept in the Dark About His Betrothal; Jia Zheng Receives a Promotion86. Xue Pan’s Murder Charge Is Reduced; Dai-yu Teaches Bao-yu About Music87. Dai-yu Plays a Tune That Snaps Her Qin String; Adamantina Has a Horrific Dream Vision88. Li Wan Is Consoled by Jia Lan’s Achievement; Zhou Rui Is Kicked and Jia Yun Is Humiliated89. The Snapped String Unnerves Bao-yu; Hearing He Is Betrothed, Dai-yu Stops Eating90. Hearing the Bride Is to Be a Cousin, Dai-yu Rallies; the Matriarch Bans Talk of the Betrothal91. A Timetable Is Set for Bao-yu’s Wedding; Dai-yu and Bao-yu Communicate by Talking Zen92. Bao-yu Discusses Noble Women with Qiao-Jie; Chess and Her Cousin Commit Double Suicide93. Bao-yu Identifies with Jiang Yu-han; Jia Qin Is Caught Seducing the Young Novices94. Crab-Flower Trees Bloom Out of Season; Bao-yu’s Jade Mysteriously Disappears95. Yuan-chun Passes Away in the Palace; Bao-yu Turns Into a Simpleton96. Wang Zi-teng Dies on His Way to the Capital; a Hasty Wedding Is Set Before Jia Zheng Departs97. Bao-yu Is Tricked Into Marrying Bao-chai; Dai-yu Burns Her Poems and Dies98. Bao-chai Tells Bao-yu That Dai-yu Is Dead; Bao-yu Improves After Mourning for Dai-yu99. Bao-yu Is Reconciled to Accepting Bao-chai; Jia Zheng Turns a Blind Eye to Misdeeds100. Tan-chun Is Betrothed to Be Married Afar; Efforts to Save Xue Pan Bankrupt His Family101. Wang Zi-teng’s Debt Strains the Wang Clan; Anxious, Xi-feng Entrusts Qiao-jie to Patience102. An Exorcism is Performed in the Garden; Jia Zheng Is Demoted for His Underlings’ Abuses103. Xia Jin-gui Mistakenly Poisons Herself; Jia Yu-cun Happens on Zhen Shi-yin at a Derelict Temple104. Jia Yun and Ni Er Vow Revenge on the Jias; Bao-yu Wants Nightingale to Know He Was Tricked105. The Secret Police Conduct a Raid of the Jia Compound; Four Jia Men Are Arrested106. Jia Zheng Realizes His Family Faces Financial Ruin; the Matriarch Begs Heaven to Punish Her107. Jia She and Cousin Zhen Go Into Exile; Grandmother Jia Distributes Her Possessions108. The Matriarch Hosts a Surprise Birthday Party; Bao-yu Wails for Dai-yu in the Desolate Garden109. Bao-yu’s Attempt at Intimacy Is Rebuffed by Fivey; Guilt Stricken, He Makes It Up to Bao-chai110. The Matriarch Dies with a Smile on Her Face; Lady Xing Makes Life Difficult for Xi-feng111. A Ghost Shows Faithful How to Hang Herself; the Matriarch’s Apartment Is Looted 112. Adamantina Is Abducted by Pirates; Xi-chun Resolves to Become a Nun113. Grannie Liu Playfully Offers to Be Qiao-jie’s Matchmaker; Nightingale Takes Pity on Bao-yu114. Xi-feng Dies Babbling of the Register; Wang Ren and Qiao-jie Antagonize Each Other115. Xi-chun Declares She Intends to Take the Vows; Bao-yu Relapses After Meeting His Look-Alike116. Bao-yu Has a Second Dream of Revelations; His Father Takes the Coffins to the South for Burial117. Bao-yu Reaches an Agreement with the Monk; Jia Lian Leaves Jia Qiang and Jia Yun in Charge118. Qiao-jie Is Offered to a “Mongol” Prince; Bao-yu Studies to Discharge His Filial Obligations119. Bao-yu Is Missing After the Examinations; the Emperor Declares a General Amnesty120. Bao-yu Bids His Father Farewell and Vanishes in the Snow; Aroma Marries the Actor Jiang Yu-hanSelected BibliographyIndex

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