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Lulu.com Letter to my Father
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Wildside Press Strange Tales 6 Strange Tales 6 October 1932
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Chump Change The Confessions of St. Augustine
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Princeton University Press The Island of Happiness
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Brilliant drawings and a powerful translation make Madame d’Aulnoy’s seventeenth-century fairy tales feel just as immediate and necessary as when they were written. . . . Natalie Frank’s stylized drawings work with the text to bring its heartwrenching and gruesome scenes to life, heightening the emotional impact of crucial moments."---George Hajjar, Foreword Reviews"Madame d’Aulnoy’s 17th-century French fairy tales are interpreted by the feminist visual artist Natalie Frank in surreal, contemporary images." * New York Times *"The new illustrations by Natalie Frank are another triumph of this collection, and they heighten the potential for d’Aulnoy’s radical stances. Frank’s women are larger than life; they’re clearly defined in a realist style while surrounded by surreal splashes of color and figures that blend into one another."---Megan Otto, Chicago Review of Books
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Broadview Press Ltd Clarissa: Or, The History of a Young Lady
Book SynopsisThis classic novel tells the story, in letters, of the beautiful and virtuous Clarissa Harlowe's pursuit by the brilliant, unscrupulous rake Robert Lovelace. The epistolary structure allows Richardson to create layered and fully realized characters, as well as an intriguing uncertainty about the reliability of the various "narrators." Clarissa emerges as a heroine at once rational and passionate, self-sacrificing and defiant, and her story has gripped readers since the novel's first publication in 1747-1748.This new abridgment is designed to retain the novel's rich characterizations and relationships, and reproduces individual letters in their entirety whenever possible. This Broadview Edition provides a uniquely accessible entry point for readers, while retaining much of the powerful reading experience of the complete novel.Trade ReviewClarissa is one of the towering masterpieces of the eighteenth century, and it is impossible to understand the literature of the period and the rise of the novel without it. This new edition provides a rigorously conceived, expertly executed solution to the problem of abridgment, and restores to the undergraduate classroom a work previously excluded by sheer length." - Thomas Keymer, University of Toronto"Eager to introduce rather than replace a masterpiece, Richetti and Bowers offer a practical classroom compromise to the familiar problem of Richardson's prolixity. Surely an abridgment of this magnitude—with its smart choice of the 1751 third edition as copy text, its accessible introduction and notes, and an appendix that resurrects important historical contexts—will tempt new generations of readers to consider, eventually, all of Clarissa." - Janine Barchas, University of Texas at AustinTable of ContentsAcknowledgementsIntroductionSamuel Richardson: A Brief ChronologyA Note on the TextClarissaAppendix A: Prefatory Material for the Second Edition, 1749Appendix B: Richardson’s Correspondence Correspondence with “Mrs. Belfour”/Lady Bradshaigh (1748–53) Letter 1: Lady Bradshaigh to Richardson Letter 2: Richardson to Lady Bradshaigh Letter 3: Lady Bradshaigh to Richardson Letter 4: Richardson to Lady Bradshaigh Letter 5: Richardson to Lady Bradshaigh Correspondence with Johannes Stinstra (1753–54) Letter 1: Richardson to Johannes Stinstra Letter 2: Johannes Stinstra to Richardson Letter 3: Richardson to Johannes Stinstra Appendix C: Eighteenth-Century Responses to Clarissa Henry Fielding, Letter to Richardson (1748) Sarah Fielding, Letter to Richardson (1749) Review of Clarissa by Albrecht Von Haller (1749) Review of Clarissa by Samuel Johnson (1750) Elizabeth Echlin, An Alternative Ending to Richardson’s Clarissa (1754–55) Denis Diderot, “In Praise of Richardson” (1761) From James Beattie, “On Fable and Romance” (1783) Anna Lætitia Aikin Barbauld, “The Life of Samuel Richardson, with Remarks on His Writings” (1804) Select Bibliography
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Penguin Putnam Inc The Fugitive In Search of Lost Time Volume 6
Book SynopsisThe long-awaited penultimate volume--the very summit of Proust's art (Slate)--in the acclaimed Penguin translation of Marcel Proust's greatest work, in time for the 150th anniversary of his birthThe greatest literary work of the twentieth century. --The New York TimesA Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition, with flaps and deckle-edged paperPeter Collier's acclaimed translation of The Fugitive introduces a new generation of American readers to the literary riches of Marcel Proust. The sixth and penultimate volume in Penguin Classics' superb new edition of In Search of Lost Time--the first completely new translation of Proust's masterpiece since the 1920s--brings us a more comic and lucid prose than readers of English have previously been able to enjoy.Miss Albertine has left! So begins The Fugitive, the second part of what is often referred to as the Albertine cycle, or books five and six of In Search of Lost
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Albatross Funnybooks Spookhouse 2
Book SynopsisA spooky, funny, and sometimes gross, book for kids of all ages! This Albatross Funnybooks anthology features works by some of the greats in the field of horror and humor comics! Featring THE DISGUSTING MONSTERS OF GLORGORF by Steve Mannion, KRUD KID by Eric Powell and Kyle Hotz, MY SISTER IS THE DEVIL! by Eric Powell, CHRISTINA by Eric Powell & Jake Smith, SPIDER-BOY! by William Stout, EYEVIS by Dave Johnson, MARYBELLE THE DESTRUCTOR by Eric Powell and Brett Parson, LULA GOES TRICK-OR TREATING by Eric Powell, THE HEADLESS SPACEMAN OF DRWOSY ACRES by Eric Powell and Robb Mommaerts, JACK-O-LANTERN JITTERS by Lance Inkwell, DEVIL SPROUTS by Eric Powell and Hilary Barta, PAPPA EYEBALL'S BIG DATE by Eric Powell, I.T. by Eric Powell and Gideon Kendall, THE SLOP by Eric Powell and Logan Faerber, and SPACE PLUMBER'S DAUGHTER by Eric Powell!
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Pan Macmillan Shakespeare for Every Day of the Year
Book SynopsisFrom Allie Esiri, editor of the bestselling A Poem for Every Day of the Year and A Poem for Every Night of the Year, comes this beautiful audio anthology of Shakespeare's works.William Shakespeare wrote at least 37 plays, 154 sonnets and a handful of longer poems and you can discover them all here. Each track of this unique collection contains an extract, which might be a famous poem, quote or scene, matched to the date, performed by leading actors such as Sir Simon Russell Beale, Helen McCrory, and Damian Lewis. Allie Esiri's introductions give her readers a new window into the work, time and life of the greatest writer in the English language. Shakespeare for Every Day of the Year is perfect for listening or sharing and brings you Shakespeare’s best-known and best-loved classics alongside lesser known extracts read by a range of award-winning Shakespearean actors. Esiri’s entertaining and insightful thoughts on each entry will fill your year with wonder, laughter, wisdom and wit.The complete cast of performers are: Sir Simon Russell Beale, Helen McCrory, Damian Lewis, Hattie Morahan, Pappa Essiedu, Jade Anouka, Ben Allen and Jot Davies.
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Zubaan Crafting the Word – Writings from Manipur
Book SynopsisManipur has a rich tradition of folk and oral narratives, as well as written texts dating from as early as in eighth century AD. But it was only in the second half of the twentieth century that women began writing and publishing their works. Today, women's writing forms a vibrant part of Manipuri literature, and their voices are amplified through their coming together as an all-woman literary group. Put together in discussions and workshops by Thingnam Anjulika Samom, Crafting the Word captures a region steeped in conservative patriarchy and at the center of an armed conflict. It is also a place, however, where women’s activism has been at the forefront of peace-making and where their contributions in informal commerce and trade hold together the economy of daily life.
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Columbia University Press Table for One
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Penguin Putnam Inc Biased
Book SynopsisA fascinating new book... [Dr. Jennifer Eberhardt is] a genius.--Trevor Noah, The Daily Show with Trevor NoahPoignant....important and illuminating.--The New York Times Book ReviewGroundbreaking.--Bryan Stevenson, New York Times bestselling author of Just MercyFrom one of the world''s leading experts on unconscious racial bias, a personal examination of one of the central controversies and culturally powerful issues of our time, and its influence on contemporary race relations and criminal justice.You don''t have to be racist to be biased. Unconscious bias can be at work without our realizing it, and even when we genuinely wish to treat all people equally, ingrained stereotypes can infect our visual perception, attention, memory, and behavior. This has an impact on education, employment, housing, and criminal justice. In Biased, with a perspective that is at once scientific, investigative, and informed by personal experience, Jennifer Eberhardt offers us insights into the dilemma and a path forward.Eberhardt works extensively as a consultant to law enforcement and as a psychologist at the forefront of this new field. Her research takes place in courtrooms and boardrooms, in prisons, on the street, and in classrooms and coffee shops. She shows us the subtle--and sometimes dramatic--daily repercussions of implicit bias in how teachers grade students, or managers deal with customers. It has an enormous impact on the conduct of criminal justice, from the rapid decisions police officers have to make to sentencing practices in court. Eberhardt''s work and her book are both influenced by her own life, and the personal stories she shares emphasize the need for change. She has helped companies that include Airbnb and Nextdoor address bias in their business practices and has led anti-bias initiatives for police departments across the country. Here, she offers practical suggestions for reform and new practices that are useful for organizations as well as individuals. Unblinking about the tragic consequences of prejudice, Eberhardt addresses how racial bias is not the fault of nor restricted to a few bad apples but is present at all levels of society in media, education, and business. The good news is that we are not hopelessly doomed by our innate prejudices. In Biased, Eberhardt reminds us that racial bias is a human problem--one all people can play a role in solving.
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Hardpress Publishing Whitemans Guide to Hastings St Leonards and the Neighbourhood 1
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Comma Press Iran100
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LEGARE STREET PR Bouguereau
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Vintage Publishing Howard Marks Book Of Dope Stories
Book SynopsisSince the Stone Age, drugs have been sniffed to induce sleep, mixed to cure ills, swallowed to stimulate creativity, snorted to increase sexuality, popped for the hell of it and smoked to see God. Natural or synthesized, they have been smuggled for all kinds of reasons from saving the world to becoming stinking rich. Blamed for deaths, wars, suicides, collapses of governments, multiple crashes, individual crises, anarchy and chaos, they have also been praised for opening minds and expanding consciousness.Worshipped and demonised, venerated and chastised, force-fed and forbidden. Every society has had its intoxicant, be it sacrament or scourge.They have also become irreversibly interwoven with politics, sex, business, religion, and rock and roll, providing writers, whether emerging from the ancient classical world or the street laboratory of today, with both inspiration and challenge.An unforgettable, once-in-a-lifetime trip, The Howard Marks Book
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Penguin Books Ltd Tales of the German Imagination from the Brothers
Book Synopsis''It was a very momentous day, the day on which I was to be slaughtered'' Bringing together tales of melancholy and madness, nightmare and fantasy, this is a new collection of the most haunting German stories from the past 200 years. Ranging from the Romantics of the early nineteenth century to works of contemporary fiction, it includes Hoffmann''s hallucinatory portrait of terror and insanity ''The Sandman''; Chamisso''s influential black masterpiece ''Peter Schlemiel'', where a man barters his own shadow; Kafka''s chilling, disturbing satire ''In the Penal Colony''; the Dadaist surrealism of Kurt Schwitters'' ''The Onion''; and Bachmann''s modern fairy tale ''The Secrets of the Princess of Kagran''. Macabre, dreamlike and expressing deep unconscious fears, these stories are also spiked with unsettling humour, showing stylistic daring as well as giving insight into the darkest recesses of the human condition.Peter Wortsman''s powerful translations are accompanied by brief overviews of the lives of each author, and an introduction discussing the notion of ''angst'' and the stories'' place in the context of German history.Translated, selected and edited with an introduction by Peter WortsmanTrade ReviewAppealing -- The New YorkerAll twenty-five tales make absolutely riveting reading and are almost all suitable for reading to children as bedtime stories. As for the adults - within the pages of Tales of the German Imagination is a treasury of delicious, old fashioned story-telling -- The BayA solid collection of classic stories ... a labor of love -- Library Journal
£11.69
Penguin Books Ltd Beauty and the Beast Classic Tales About Animal
Book SynopsisThe “tale as old as time,” in versions from across the centuries and around the world—published to coincide with Disney’s live-action 3D musical film starring Emma Watson, Ian McKellen, Ewan McGregor, Audra McDonald, Kevin Kline, Stanley Tucci, Dan Stevens, and Emma ThompsonNearly every culture tells the story of Beauty and the Beast in one fashion or another. From Cupid and Psyche to India’s Snake Bride to South Africa’s “Story of Five Heads,” the partnering of beasts and beauties, of humans and animals in all their variety—cats, dogs, frogs, goats, lizards, bears, tortoises, monkeys, cranes, warthogs—has beguiled us for thousands of years, mapping the cultural contradictions that riddle every romantic relationship.In this fascinating volume, preeminent fairy tale scholar Maria Tatar brings together tales from ancient times to the present and from a wide variety of cultures, highlighting the continuitieTrade Review[This] new book from Penguin ... provides some historical context [to the Disney film] ... Most of the stories about young women and animal grooms follow a predictable pattern ... But the Penguin book also includes plenty of stories in which the genders are flipped, pairing young men with animal brides. * The New Yorker *The tales in Tatar's compilation swing from vicious to romantic, from comedy to horror ... Tatar's book alone contains stories from almost two dozen countries. * NPR.org *A rich, intriguing volume highly recommended for fairy-tale fans. * Booklist *Maria Tatar's new collection for Penguin Classics ... ventur[es] deeper into the rich universe of animal bridegroom stories ... There is also the parallel tradition of animal bride stories-swan maidens and selkies with a much sharper edge than The Little Mermaid ... The source material here is much richer in possibilities than turning Belle into a crusader for women's literacy. * Jezebel *Maria Tatar rounded up stories about animal brides and grooms from around the world in this new Penguin Classics collection, and while I am a certified fairy tale nerd, there was plenty in this book that was new to me. -- Constance Grady * Vox *Superb ... Each story is basically an expression of anxiety about marriage and relationships-about the animalistic nature of sex, and the fundamental strangeness of men and women to each other ... Tatar points out, too, that every generation of monsters speaks to the anxieties of its time. * The Atlantic *
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Penguin Books Ltd Fantastic Four
Book SynopsisTrade Review“A groundbreaking example of comics representation in literature.”—Publishers Weekly“Penguin provides introductory essays; superb analyses by the series editor, Ben Saunders; and extensive bibliographies.”—Michael Dirda, The Washington Post“Stories become classics when generations of readers sort through them, talk about them, imitate them, and recommend them. In this case, baby boomers read them when they débuted, Gen X-ers grew up with their sequels, and millennials encountered them through Marvel movies. Each generation of fans—initially fanboys, increasingly fangirls, and these days nonbinary fans, too—found new ways not just to read the comics but to use them. That’s how canons form. Amateurs and professionals, over decades, come to something like consensus about which books matter and why—or else they love to argue about it, and we get to follow the arguments. Canons rise and fall, gain works and lose others, when one generation of people with the power to publish, teach, and edit diverges from the one before ... A top-flight comic by Kirby—or his successor on “Captain America,” Jim Steranko—barely needed words. You could follow the story just by watching the characters act and react. Thankfully, Penguin volumes do justice to these images. They reproduce sixties comics in bright, flat, colorful inks on thick white paper—unlike the dot-based process used on old newsprint, but perhaps truer to their bold, thrill-chasing spirit.”—Stephanie Burt, The New Yorker“As before, all three of these volumes re-present Professor Ben Saunders’ learned general series intro which does an excellent job of succinctly explaining the rise of Marvel Comics and the Marvel Method.”—Forces of Geek
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Oxford University Press The Return of Sherlock Holmes
Book SynopsisArthur Conan Doyle famously killed off Sherlock Holmes in 1893. While the outcry that supposedly followed was mostly apocryphal, Doyle was tempted to return to Holmes in 1901-2 with The Hound of the Baskervilles, the success of which led to a more permanent revival. The thirteen tales that followed make up this volume.Table of ContentsIntroduction Note on the Text Select Bibliography The Return of Sherlock Holmes The Empty House The Norwood Builder The Dancing Men The Solitary Cyclist The Priory School Black Peter Charles Augustus Milverton The Six Napoleons The Three Students The Golden Pince-Nez The Missing Three-Quarter The Abbey Grange The Second Stain Explanatory Notes
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Oxford University Press The Oxford Book of Modern Science Writing
Book SynopsisSelected and introduced by Richard Dawkins, The Oxford Book of Modern Science Writing is a celebration of the finest writing by scientists for a wider audience - revealing that many of the best scientists have displayed as much imagination and skill with the pen as they have in the laboratory. This is a rich and vibrant collection that captures the poetry and excitement of communicating scientific understanding and scientific effort from 1900 to the present day. Professor Dawkins has included writing from a diverse range of scientists, some of whom need no introduction, and some of whose works have become modern classics, while others may be less familiar - but all convey the passion of great scientists writing about their science.Trade ReviewA compendium of some of the most illuminating thinking of the past 100 years. * Eureka, The Times *A feast for many long evenings. * Katie Owen, The Sunday Telegraph *Engaging selection. * Christopher Hirst, The Independent *Richard Dawkins has done a wonderful job. * Nicholas Lezard, Saturday Guardian *Stunning anthology. * The Times *Table of ContentsPART I: WHAT SCIENTISTS STUDY; PART II: WHO SCIENTISTS ARE; PART III: WHAT SCIENTISTS THINK; PART IV: WHAT SCIENTISTS DELIGHT IN
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Oxford University Press The Oxford Book of Prayer
Book SynopsisAn attractive reissue of the late Bishop George Appleton''s celebrated selection of over 1,100 prayers from many centuries and many traditions, including Christian, Jewish, Hindu, Buddhist, Muslim, Iranian, Shinto, Classical Greek and Latin, native American, and Bahá''í. The wide-ranging contents ofThe Oxford Book of Prayer reflect the cooperation of the many advisers who have ensured that the choice of prayers is ecumenical in the widest sense of the word. The prayers are arranged under headings such as ''Prayers from the Scriptures'', ''Prayers of Christians, personal and occasional'', ''Prayers of the Church'', and ''Prayers from other traditions of faith'', but there is also a subject index to guide the user to prayers for particular occasions, and an index of authors and sources. The book may thus be used for browsing or for more structured prayer, for private meditation or for public worship.Trade ReviewReview from previous edition this collection of prayers has become a classic, to be found on the shelves of almost every member of the clergy ... many are deeply personal and beautifully suited to those moments when we simply need help in expressing the thoughts of our hearts * The Door *
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Penguin Books Ltd Orwell and the Dispossessed
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Penguin Books Ltd Orwells England
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WW Norton & Co Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Book Synopsis“I LOVE this book, as a reader, and I always enjoy teaching it. In the midst of current conversations and conflicts (Black Lives Matter and the responses to it, for example), its importance as a truly ‘American’ novel only grows.”—Anita Guynn, University of North Carolina at Pembroke
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British Library, Historical Print Editions Gloriana Or the Revolution of 1900. A Novel.
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New York University Press Kalilah and Dimnah
Book SynopsisTimeless fables of loyalty and betrayal Like Aesop's Fables, Kalilah and Dimnah is a collection designed not only for moral instruction, but also for the entertainment of readers. The stories, which originated in the Sanskrit Panchatantra and Mahabharata, were adapted, augmented, and translated into Arabic by the scholar and state official Ibn al-Muqaffa? in the second/eighth century. The stories are engaging, entertaining, and often funny, from The Man Who Found a Treasure But Could Not Keep It, to The Raven Who Tried To Learn To Walk Like a Partridge and How the Wolf, the Raven, and the Jackal Destroyed the Camel. Kalilah and Dimnah is a mirror for princes, a book meant to inculcate virtues and discernment in rulers and warn against flattery and deception. Many of the animals who populate the book represent ministers counseling kings, friends advising friends, or wives admonishing husbands. Throughout, Kalilah and Dimnah Trade Review[A] delightful new translation of a major text of classical Arabic literature. * Al-Ahram Weekly *[This translation] should immediately become the English translation of choice for this work. * Al-Usur al-Wusta *
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Copper Canyon Press,U.S. Our Andromeda
Book Synopsis Honored as a New York Times Book Review "100 Notable Books of 2013" Honored by Cosmopolitan as the one poetry title on their list of Best Books of the Year For Women, by Women” "A heady, infectious celebration."The New Yorker "Shaughnessy''s voice is smart, sexy, self-aware, hip . . . consistently wry, and ever savvy."Harvard Review Brenda Shaughnessy''s heartrending third collection explores dark subjectstrauma, childbirth, loss of faithand stark questions: What is the use of pain and grief? Is there another dimension in which our suffering might be transformed? Can we change ourselves? Yearning for new gods, new worlds, and new rules, she imagines a parallel existence in the galaxy of Andromeda. Rave reviews for Our Andromeda Love is the fierce engine of this beautiful and necessary book of poems. Love is the high stakes, the whip of its power and grief and possibility for repair. Brenda Shaughnessy has brought her full self to bear in Our Andromeda, and the result is a book that should be read now because it is a collection whose song will endure.” The New York Times Book Review "It is a monumental work, and makes a hash of those tired superlatives that will no doubt crop up in subsequent reviews. But the truth is that I have no single opinion about this collectionhow could I? The book is a series of narratives that resist interpretation but not feelingexcept that I am certain it further establishes Shaughnessy’s particular genius, which is utterly poetic, but essayistic in scope, encompassing ideas about astronomy, illness, bodies, the family, ''normalcy,'' home." The New Yorker "Another Brooklyn poet, Marianne Moore, defined poetry as ''imaginary gardens, with real toads in them.'' In Our Andromeda, Shaughnessy has imagined a universe, and in it, real love moves, quick with life." Publishers Weekly,starred review Brenda Shaughnessy laments and sometimes makes narratives about the struggle to keep her small family together in the aftermath of a difficult birth. In the title poem, she posits a galaxy far, far away where familial love might overtake all woe and turmoil of the heart and body and mind. Once there, she says to her son, you''ll have the babyhood you deserved.’ She also delivers a number of lovely lyrics in a supple, plainly stated line; some merely expressive, some with a philosophically questioning air; on fate, dreams, the present time’s long gaze back at the past you know, all the good things poets write about.” Alan Cheuse, on NPR’s list 5 Books of Poems to Get You Through the Summer” This book explores love and motherhood and the turbulent terrain of grief.”Cosmopolitan "Shaughnessy articulates, with force and clarity, the transformation that motherhood has required of her. Her poems are full of regret and ferocity."Boston Review "Brenda Shaughnessy explores the possibilities of a second chance in life and what could come of it. Enticing and thoughtful, Our Andromeda is a fine addition to contemporary poetry shelves." The Midwest Book Review Brenda Shaughnessy was born in Okinawa, Japan and grew up in Southern California. She is the author of Human Dark with Sugar (Copper Canyon Press, 2008), winner of the James Laughlin Award and finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, and Interior with Sudden Joy (FSG, 1999). Shaughnessy’s poems have appeared in Best American Poetry, Harper''s, The Nation, The Rumpus, The New Yorker, and The Paris Review. She is an Assistant Professor of English at Rutgers University, Newark, and lives in Brooklyn with her husband, son and daughter.
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Michigan State University Press Aucassin and Nicolette: A Facing-Page Edition and
Book SynopsisA comic masterpiece of medieval French literature, Aucassin and Nicolette is categorized by its anonymous author as a “chantefable”, or “song-story”, and is the only known work of this kind. This edition includes the thirteenth-century French text and a modern English translation on facing pages.An introduction outlines the text’s background, genre, literary relations, historical contexts, major themes, and relevance to a contemporary audience. Its alternating sections of verse and prose recount a story of love between the aristocratic but distinctly unheroic young lord Aucassin and his beloved Nicolette. Despite familial disapproval, class and ethnic differences, imprisonment, and geographical separation, Nicolette’s single-minded pursuit of Aucassin raises interesting questions about gender roles and their depiction in the Middle Ages.The issue of identity is also addressed, as the identity of Nicolette shifts in terms of class, religion, and ethnicity: born a Muslim princess, she becomes both a slave and a Christian convert, and is eventually recaptured by her Saracen family, much to her displeasure. With its daring escapes, its descriptions of travel to exotic lands, its separations, and its happy reunions, Aucassin and Nicolette is both a classic romantic comedy and an entertaining parody of the romance genre.
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Akashic Books,U.S. Speculative Los Angeles
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Birchwood Palace Industries LLC Private Worlds
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Pilot Press Responses to Derek Jarman's Blue (1993)
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MX Publishing The Art of Deduction: A Sherlock Holmes
Book SynopsisThe Game is Afoot! A collection of art, poetry and writing from fans of the great detective Sherlock Holmes and his companion Doctor Watson. From the deadly Moriarty to domestic life of Holmes and Watson, the Art of Deduction showcases some of the greatest talent from arguably the oldest fan base in the world. Raising awareness for the www.saveundershaw.com campaign and royalties to Help For Heroes.
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MX Publishing The MX Book of New Sherlock Holmes Stories Part
Book SynopsisFeaturing Contributions by:Will Murray, Brenda Seabrooke, Arthur Hall, Steven Philip Jones, Dan Rowley and Don Baxter, David Marcum, Hugh Ashton, Sonya Kudei, Barry Clay, DJ Tyrer, Mark Wardecker, Paul Hiscock, Tom Turley, Brett Fawcett, Martin Daley, Bob Byrne, Tracy J. Revels, James Gelter, and Matthew White, with a poem by Kevin Patrick McCann, and forewords by Michael Sims, Roger Johnson, Emma West, Steve Emecz, and David Marcum.59 New Traditional Canonical Holmes Adventures Collected in Three Companion Volumes In 2015, the first three volumes of The MX Book of New Sherlock Holmes Stories arrived, containing over 60 stories in the true traditional Canonical manner, revisiting Holmes and Watson in those days where it is "always 1895" . . . or a few decades on either side of that. That was the largest collection of new Holmes stories ever assembled, and originally planned to be a one-time event. But readers wanted more, and the contributors had more stories from Watson''s Tin Dispatch Box, so the fun continued. Now, with the release of Parts XXXVII, XXXVIII, and XXXIX, the series has grown to over 800 new Holmes adventures by over 200 contributors from around with world. Since the beginning, all contributor royalties go to the Undershaw school for special needs children, located at one of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle''s former homes, and to date the project has raised over $110,000 for the school. This new collection of 59 adventures features Holmes and Watson carrying out their masterful investigations from the early days of their friendship in Baker Street to the post-War years during Holmes''s retirement. Along the way, Our Heroes are involved in dozens of fascinating mysteries - some relating Untold Cases, sequels to Canonical adventures, and a number or others that progress along completely unexpected lines. Join us as we return to Baker Street and discover more authentic adventures of Sherlock Holmes, described by the estimable Dr. Watson as "the best and wisest . . . whom I have ever known."
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Canongate Books Letters of Note: Fathers
Book SynopsisIn Letters of Note: Fathers, Shaun Usher collects together remarkable correspondence by and about fathers, including proud parental words of love, advice from experienced dads to new ones, as well as letters from both frustrated and adoring offspring.Includes letters by:Anne Frank, W.E.B. Du Bois, Jawaharlal Nehru, Groucho Marx, Che Guevara, Ted Hughes Katherine Mansfield, Fergal Keane, Arthur Conan Doyle, Samuel Bernstein & many moreTrade ReviewPraise for Letters of Note: Quite literally the most enjoyable volume it is possible to imagine. Every page is a marvel * * Spectator * *It is inspiring, and often sad, funny, and occasionally quite surreal * * GQ * *A truly extraordinary reading experience * * Big Issue * *Witty, tragic, educational, inspirational * * The List * *Addictive, like dipping into a bag of variously tempting assorted candies, knowing that the next one will always bring surprise and pleasure * * New Yorker * *A gloriously presented compilation * * Financial Times * *The literary equivalent of a box of chocolates - bite-sized and pure addictive pleasure . . . The result is beautifully produced, with photographs and colour facsimiles of much of the correspondence. A gorgeous Christmas present * * The Sunday Times * *It is hard to see how Letters Of Note could ever be surpassed * * Mail on Sunday * *Funny, tragic, brilliantly incisive, historic, lyrical, romantic and studiedly offensive, this stupendous compendium of letters ancient and modern is my book of the year. You will never tire of it -- Stephen FryA wonderful collection of magical missives . . . It'll have you reaching for pen and paper * * Evening Standard * *
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Peepal Tree Press Ltd Green Unpleasant Land: Creative Responses to
Book SynopsisSelected by Bernardine Evaristo as an Observer Best Books 2021Green Unpleasant Land explores the repressed history of rural England’s links to transatlantic enslavement and the East India Company.Combining essays, poems and stories, it details the colonial links of country houses, moorlands, woodlands, village pubs and graveyards. It also explores the links between rural poverty, particularly enclosure, and colonial figures, such as plantation-owners and East India Company nabobs. Fowler, who herself comes from a family of slave-owners, argues that Britain’s cultural and economic legacy is not simply expressed by chinoiserie, statues, monuments, galleries, warehouses and stately homes. This is a shared history: Britons’ ancestors either profited from empire or were impoverished by it. Green Unpleasant Land argues that, in response to recent advances in British imperial history, contemporary authors have reshaped the pastoral writing to break the powerful association between the countryside and Englishness.
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Bodleian Library Birds: An Anthology
Book SynopsisThomas Hardy notes the thrush’s ‘full-hearted evensong of joy illimited’, Gilbert White observes how swallows sweep through the air but swifts ‘dash round in circles’ and Rachel Carson watches sanderlings at the ocean’s edge, scurrying ‘across the beach like little ghosts’. From early times, we have been entranced by the bird life around us. This anthology brings together poetry and prose in celebration of birds, records their behaviour, flight, song and migration, the changes across the seasons and in different habitats – in woodland and pasture, on river, shoreline and at sea – and our own interaction with them. From India to America, from China to Rwanda, writers marvel at birds – the building of a long-tailed tit’s nest, the soaring eagle, the extraordinary feats of migration and the pleasures to be found in our own gardens. Including extracts by Geoffrey Chaucer, Dorothy Wordsworth, Richard Jefferies, Charles Darwin, James Joyce, John Keats, Charlotte Brontë, Emily Dickinson, Anton Chekhov, Kathleen Jamie, Jonathan Franzen and Barbara Kingsolver among many others, this rich anthology will be welcomed by bird-lovers, country ramblers and anyone who has taken comfort or joy in a bird in flight.Trade Review"For centuries, birds have inspired the abiding interest of writers, and it’s easy to see why. . . . Studying birds inevitably leads to interest in a hundred other vivid realities of the natural world. That relationship resonates throughout the pages of Birds: An Anthology. . . Birds is really about the birds of the English countryside and how these flying wonders and their surrounding landscape shape each other. Among the standouts are contributions from Geoffrey Chaucer, William Shakespeare, George Eliot and Daniel Defoe." -- Danny Heitman * Wall Street Journal *"This is exactly the sort of book to have nearby when you’re simply looking to relax and enjoy the power of the written word – as well as the sight of a well-wrought woodcut – to carry you away to somewhere peaceful and filled with birds.” * The Well-Read Naturalist *Table of ContentsIntroduction 1 What is a bird? Definitions over time 4 A Birding Year: Spring 9 Inland: Field, Hedgerow, Pasture, Woodland 35 Bird Song & Songsters 59 A Birding Year: Summer 89 Birds in Flight 107 Hawks & Hawking 131 A Birding Year: Autumn 159 Birds & Man 179 Outland: River, Coast, Sea, Shore 211 A Birding Year: Winter 237 index of authors 259 index of birds 261 acknowledgements 264
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Flipped Eye Publishing Limited Un Nuevo Sol: British LatinX Writers
Book SynopsisUn Nuevo Sol: British LatinX Writers is the first major anthology of UK-based writers of Latin American heritage, a vibrant, new vanguard in British literature. Representing a community that is the eighth biggest in London, one of the fastest growing and best educated, numbering over 200,000 nationally, the work featured here includes fiction, poetry and theatre that exhibits the stunning fluidity with which the writers inhabit their hybrid heritage. Of the ten writers assembled here, some were born in Latin America and came to the UK in their twenties, others are second generation and have a British parent, but their work shares a fierceness, a playfulness with language and a sly political edge. Playing with form, genre, silence and coding, the resulting work channels and celebrates the rich mythology and scope of Latin American literature, but carries a uniquely British gene - a bit of banter, a flash of restrained cheek. It is no accident that some of the contributors are published and have growing international reputations - for example, Brazilian-British novelist Luiza Sauma (Penguin/Viking) and prize-winning Argentinian-British poet Leo Boix (Chatto). The book also includes an interview with the writer-actress Gael Le Cornec, exploring issues of identity, multiple heritage and displacement.
£9.36
Persephone Books Ltd The Second Persephone Book of Short Stories
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Valley Press Science Fiction for Survival: An Archive for Mars
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UEA Publishing Project Window: UEA MA Prose Fiction Anthology: 2021
Book SynopsisThis anthology showcases the best work from the 2021 graduates of UEA''s Prose Fiction MA, during a year like no other. These graduates had the honour of ushering in the 50th anniversary of UEA''s Creative Writing programme - a celebration of half a century of outstanding writers and writing. As the Covid-19 pandemic continued, much of this cohort''s learning, workshopping and socialising took place online. Window explores intimacy and interiority alongside the ways in which we look to the world outside for inspiration. Even in 2020-21, when so many of our connections were made through glass, masks or screens, writing helped us to reframe our ways of thinking and being, providing windows others could glimpse through. A champion of innovative literary futures, Ayò. bámi Adébáyò''s foreword is the perfect entry into this anthology of unique voices, who sought out connection through writing when the world was forced into isolation. The introduction by course convenors Philip Langeskov and Tessa McWatt welcomes readers with the knowledge that in the most difficult of circumstances, writing is more important than ever.
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Night Shade Books The Best Science Fiction of the Year: Volume
Book SynopsisFrom Hugo Award-Winning Editor Neil Clarke, the Best Science Fiction Stories of the Year Collected in a Single Paperback Volume Keeping up-to-date with the most buzzworthy and cutting-edge science fiction requires sifting through countless magazines, e-zines, websites, blogs, original anthologies, single-author collections, and more—a task that can be accomplished by only the most determined and voracious readers. For everyone else, Night Shade Books is proud to present the latest volume of The Best Science Fiction of the Year, a yearly anthology compiled by Hugo and World Fantasy Award–winning editor Neil Clarke, collecting the finest that the genre has to offer, from the biggest names in the field to the most exciting new writers. The best science fiction scrutinizes our culture and politics, examines the limits of the human condition, and zooms across galaxies at faster-than-light speeds, moving from the very near future to the far-flung worlds of tomorrow in the space of a single sentence. Clarke, publisher and editor-in-chief of the acclaimed and award-winning magazine Clarkesworld, has selected the short science fiction (and only science fiction) best representing the previous year’s writing, showcasing the talent, variety, and awesome “sensawunda” that the genre has to offer.
£13.49
Strategic Book Publishing The Letters of Tabula
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Alpha Edition The Golden Sayings Of The Blessed Brother Giles
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£17.96
Alpha Edition The Sea-Side Book: Being An Introduction To The
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£18.73
Alpha Edition Caruso And Tetrazzini On The Art Of Singing
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£15.04
Alpha Edition The Happy Herd
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£14.88
Lector House Beadle's Dime National Speaker: Embodying Gems Of
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Independently Published Oquenãodito: Primeiras linhas
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