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University of Ottawa Press The Wrong World
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Mira Books 92 PACIFIC BOULEVARD
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Mira Books Alaska Nights
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Mira Books Alaska Home
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Mira Books A Country Christmas Heart of Texas
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Mira Books Texas Nights Heart of Texas
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Darkenryde Publishing Duel the Darkness for Nightmare Rule
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Hopkins Fulfillment Service On Politics A Carnival of Buncombe Maryland Paperback Bookshelf
Book SynopsisThese seventy political pieces from the 1920s and 1930s are drawn from Mencken's famous Monday columns in the Baltimore Evening Sun.
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MJ - Ohio University Press Cities of the Interior
Book SynopsisLadders to Fire, Children of the Albatross, The Four-Chambered Heart, A Spy in the House of Love, Seduction of the Minotaur. Haunting and hypnotic, these five novels by Anaïs Nin began in 1946 to appear in quiet succession.Trade Review“A prose/poetry dream; a lyrical celebration of the inner life and the images it evokes.”“Beautiful, rare novels.””Real and unmistakable genius.”“She explores relationships on a level to which few contemporary novelists penetrate.”“She wishes to immerse readers in that flow of sensibility and reflection from which human beings distill the significance of what they do and suffer.”
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MJ - Ohio University Press Seduction of the Minotaur
Book Synopsis“Some voyages have their inception in the blueprint of a dream, some in the urgency of contradicting a dream.Trade Review“Beautiful, rare novels.”“A prose/poetry dream: a lyrical celebration of the inner life and the images it evokes.”
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Univ of Chicago on Behalf of Ohio Univ Press Ladders to Fire
Book SynopsisAnaïs Nin’s Ladders to Fire interweaves the stories of several women, each emotionally inhibited in her own way: through self-doubt, fear, guilt, moral drift, and distrust. The novel follows their inner struggles to overcome these barriers to happiness and wholeness.Trade Review“Anaïs Nin writes sensitively, with psychological training as well as insight…. She has a subcutaneous interest in her characters and Lawrence’s sixth sense.” * Times Literary Supplement *
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Random House USA Inc A Blink of the Screen
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Alfred A. Knopf Collected Poems of Mark Strand
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Penguin Random House LLC Remarkable Unspeakable New York A Literary History
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Beacon Press A Stranger in the Village Two Centuries of AfricanAmerican Travel Writing
Book SynopsisDispatches, diaries, memoirs, and letters by African-American travelers in search of home, justice, and adventure-from the Wild West to Australia.
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MP-NCA Uni of North Carolina Renaissance and Other Studies in Honor of William Leon Wiley
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MP-NCA Uni of North Carolina Lope de Vega El Peregrino en Su Patria
Book SynopsisThis critical, annotated edition and study of a long-neglected work by Lope de Vega reveals the philosophical seriousness that the author in his early maturity, anticipating Cervantes' Persiles y Segismunda by more than a decade, brought to his treatment of the Byzantine novel or novel-of-adventures.
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Wildside Press WEIRD TRAILS WEIRD TRAILS April 1933
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Wildside Press Weird Tales 291 Summer 1988
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Wildside Press Weird Tales 300 Spring 1991
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W. W. Norton & Company The Factory
Book SynopsisThe English-language debut of Hiroko Oyamada—one of the most powerfully strange young voices in JapanTrade Review"[D]ecidedly experimental and subliminally philosophical, it best fits someplace between anti-capitalist science fiction and magic realism." -- Andreea Scridon - Asymptote"In a wry, deadpan style, she distills the profound unease of a world where companies grow more and more imperceptibly controlling even as they promise workers less." -- Julian Lucas - Harper's Magazine"Through these characters, Oyamada has crafted a titanic ecosystem of modern work life, complete with the obligatory never-ending office dinner with co-workers and the emergence of strange new species conjured up by the meaningless, enervating patterns of the 9-to-5 existence." -- Japan Times"Oyamada deftly ties together the plights of human and nature, both becoming unrecognizable in an inflexible industrial economy. " -- Kirkus"A noteworthy young female writer with a distinctive voice." -- Lithub"The Factory may take its cues from Kafka, but it’s still very much its own thing: a wry, satirical, discombobulating look at how we’ve all become cogs in the great machine of capitalism." -- Ian Mond - Locus Magazine"The Factory depicts a strange reality, but really points out how similar Oyamada’s surreal world is to our own. This makes it an ideal novel for our moment." -- Megan Evershed - London Magazine"The text feels as disorienting as the place it describes. Exchanges of dialogue are rendered in a single chunky paragraph; a chapter might move back and forth between time with no cue that it’s doing so; the reader might be offered the end of an anecdote then have to read on to find the beginning of it. These are clever tactics, a match of form and subject all the more impressive given this is a first novel." -- RUMAAN ALAM - New Republic"Strangely chilling..." -- Alison McCulloch - New York Times"The Factory is a tale of inaction rather than revolt, a story about the warm, velvety embrace of production models, in which Oyamada’s bunker-like Ur-factory comes on like a last bastion of security, a White Whale that nobody’s chasing but ends up swallowing you regardless." -- Bailey Trela - Ploughshares"Disquieting in its slow creep forward, the book presents copious mysteries: What is the purpose of these individuals’ jobs? What does the factory even make? What is up with the human-sized nutria supposedly living and dying in great numbers on the factory grounds? Perhaps even more unexpected is the way writer Hiroko Oyamada refuses to answer the questions she presents, allowing those mysteries, and their unsettling effects, to linger." -- The A.V. Club"The interplay, in The Factory, between what we believe and what we don’t, what we see and what we can’t, becomes the fabric of this strange world." -- Sophie Haigney - The Baffler"She is fond of jump cuts and scenes that dissolve mid-paragraph and flow into the next without so much as a line break. A pleasant vertigo sets in. Objects have a way of suddenly appearing in the hands of characters. Faces become increasingly vivid and grotesque. Nothing feels fixed; everything in the book might be a hallucination." -- Parul Seghal - The New York Times"In quiet exasperation, the characters start to ask themselves not what they do for the factory but what the factory does to them. " -- The New Yorker"In quiet exasperation, the characters start to ask themselves not what they do for the factory but what the factory does to them." -- The New Yorker"Hiroko Oyamada’s “The Factory" descends from a different lineage of workplace fiction that includes Melville’s “Bartleby, the Scrivener,” Joseph Heller’s “Something Happened” and Ricky Gervais’s “The Office.” " -- Sam Sacks - The Wall Street Journal"Oyamada paints a stirring portrait of modern work-life culture." -- Annabel Gutterman - TIME Magazine"A proletarian novella for today’s world." -- Rieko Matsuura"Three employees at a monolithic factory in an unnamed Japanese city begin to see reality itself seem to mutate in Oyamada’s stellar, mind-bending debut." -- Publishers Weekly (starred)"In surreal, tactile, and often funny prose, Olga Ravn’s The Employees and Hiroko Oyamada’s The Factory present the workplace as a hallucinogenic hall of mirrors, a crucible where our sense of self warps and dissolves." -- Stephen Kearse - The Atlantic"There’s a blend of the banal and the outrageous that we recognise from a certain strain of modern Japanese literature, and the delivery is exquisite… As the workers toil and their voices blur, it all leads to a question simultaneously outraged and amused: ‘What the hell is wrong with the world?’" -- John Self - The Guardian
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New Directions Publishing Corporation The Hole
Book SynopsisWinner of the Akutagawa Prize, The Hole is by turns reminiscent of Lewis Carroll, David Lynch, and My Neighbor Totoro, but is singularly unsettlingTrade Review"As Oyamada’s slim, beguiling novel unfolds, the eerie atmospherics steadily ascend from unease to maximal uncanny..." -- 4Columns"The Hole magnifies the plight of some younger adults, particularly women. Work is banal. Childrearing is unappealing. And being a housewife is not, as one of Asa’s older neighbors describes it, “a summer vacation that never ends.” What, the novel asks, is left for a woman to do?" -- Asian Review of Books"The Hole tells a fantastical story, as translated by David Boyd, in which increasingly bizarre illusions blend into reality, with a reclusive adult at the center. Oyamada unsettles readers, not allowing us to remain comfortable in the reality she creates, which makes for a beguiling read." -- Booklist"It takes a writer of great talent to mold the banality of the everyday into the stuff of art, and to build an entire world around a metaphor other writers might quickly deploy and cast aside, but Oyamada is in complete control of her talent. " -- Japan Times"Oyamada’s atmospheric literary thriller puts a fresh, gripping spin on the bored housewife set-up." -- Publishers Weekly (starred)"The Hole is Oyamada’s second novel, and the second to be translated into pitch-perfect contemporary English by David Boyd....Brilliant." -- Alex Andriesse - Reading in Translation"Oyamada's slender novel belies a multi-layered, complex examination of contemporary disconnect and isolation so chillingly affecting that the surreal quickly turns convincingly plausible, and then all too insistently real." -- Shelf Awareness"Oyamada’s greatest strength lies in keeping readers feeling discomfited... [The] whole narrative shudders not at mysterious creatures or secret family members but at the banality of life." -- Spectrum Culture"Surreal and mesmerizing." -- Hilary Leichter - The New York Times"The desire to escape the doldrums of late summer, for both the isolated Asa and the (likely lockdown-weary) reader, is telling of the current moment’s general malaise." -- The Seattle Times"Horrific and scary, while at the same time affirming and beautiful." -- Rumaan Alam - The New Republic
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Random House Publishing Group Three OneAct Plays Riverside Drive Old Saybrook Central Park West
Book SynopsisThree delightful one-act plays set in and around New York, in which sophisticated characters confound one another in ways only Woody Allen could imagineWoody Allen’s first dramatic writing published in years, “Riverside Drive,” “Old Saybrook,” and “Central Park West” are humorous, insightful, and unusually readable plays about infidelity. The characters, archetypal New Yorkers all, start out talking innocently enough, but soon the most unexpected things arise—and the reader enjoys every minute of it (though not all the characters do). These plays (successfully produced on the New York stage and in regional theaters on the East Coast) dramatize Allen’s continuing preoccupation with people who rationalize their actions, hide what they’re doing, and inevitably slip into sexual deception—all of it revealed in Allen’s quintessentially pell-mell dialogue.
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Random House USA Inc A Man Without a Country
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Ohio State University Press Latinx Rising An Anthology of Latinx Science Fiction and Fantasy
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Ohio State University Press How to Make a Slave and Other Essays
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Mad Creek Books Ripe
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Wayne State University Press Arab Folktales from Palestine and Israel Raphael Patai Series in Jewish Folklore and Anthropology
Book SynopsisThis collection studies the cultural tradition of the ""qassas"", or storyteller, and the Arab folktale. The annotated stories offer an insight into Arab culture and tell of the trials and tribulations of ordinary people but also describe fantastic creatures and encounters with supernatural beings.
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Wayne State University Press Giambattista Basiles the Tale of Tales or
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewWith stories marked by vertiginous fantasy, spirited wit, and baroque excess, Basile redefined the fairy tale for European audiences. Nancy Canepa's splendid new translation captures all the narrative energy and stylistic élan of The Tale of Tales and ensures that this collection will finally receive the attention it deserves.'– Maria Tatar, John L. Loeb, Professor of Germanic Languages and Literatures at Harvard University and author of The Hard Facts of the Grimms’ Fairy Tales and Off With Their Heads!'Canepa's edition, with its newly-commissioned pen-and-ink illustrations, seems to be aimed at general readers. Basile's Tale of Tales constitutes a crossroads in this landscape, and Canepa has provided a valuable service by making it available again in English.'– Journal of Folklore Research'Reading The Tale of Tales, Giambattisa Basile's 17th-century book of fairy stories, is both exhilarating and exhausting. If that sounds like a warning, it is. If that sounds like a promise, well, good news.'– Genevieve Valentine, NPR Books
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Liturgical Press An Anthology of Christian Mysticism
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John Wiley & Sons A Provincial Newspaper and Other Stories
Book SynopsisWhen the young narrator of Miriam Karpilove’s A Provincial Newspaper leaves New York to work for a new Yiddish newspaper in Massachusetts, she expects to be treated with respect as a professional writer. Instead, she finds herself underpaid and overworked.Trade ReviewThese wonderful and unique stories describe a Jewish world rarely seen in Yiddish letters, a world of women writers and dreamers. Kirzane’s translations bring these stories to life for the contemporary reader." - Allison Schachter, Vanderbilt University"An important work of feminist excavation that is so much more fun than that phrase implies, giving us a chance to read the words of a lively, complex writer in her prime. Kirzane’s translation makes the Yiddish inflections sing with life, and made me feel a warm connection to a writerly foremother I barely knew before." - Sarah Seltzer, executive editor, Lilith MagazineTable of Contents Acknowledgments Translator’s Note Introduction Part 1. A Provincial Newspaper Part 2. My Three Years in the Land of Israel Part 3. Other Stories A Marriage and a Divorce In a Country Town Just Like the Young Folks Do Man and Radio Perfectly Suited A Promise Kept Victims of Love They Both Were Married Good News—and Bad We’re People, After All From the Same Yikhes A Clever Mother Old Sarah The Old Man Ran Away A Kosher Swimming Pool (A Scene in Coney Island) The Shadkhn She Was in Paris The Invitation For a Bit of Respect Glossary
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Univ of Chicago on Behalf of Ohio Univ Press Welcome to Our Hillbrow A Novel of Postapartheid South Africa Modern African Writing
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Bloomsbury USA 3pl Novels Plays Essays Max Frisch Vol 90 German Library S
Book SynopsisTexts include selections from "Sketchbook 1946-1949," "I'm Not Stiller," and "Homo Faber: A Report," The plays includes selections from "Now They are Singing Again," "Don Juan," and "Andorra," The essays and speeches include "Emigrants," "Foreignization I," and "Switzerland as Heimat,".Table of ContentsForeword: Peter Demetz Introduction: Rolf Kieser PART I: NOVELS AND OTHER NARRATIVES From SKETCHBOOK 1946-1949 Translated by Geoffrey Skelton From I'M NOT STILLER Translated by Michael Bullock From HOMO FABER: A REPORT Translated by Michael Bullock From GANTENBEIN Translated by Michael Bullock From SKETCHBOOK 1966-1971 Translated by Geoffrey Skelton WILHELM TELL: A SCHOOL TEXT Translated by Lore Segal and Paul Stern From MILITARY SERVICE RECORD Translated by Alice Carey From MONTAUK Translated by Geoffrey Skelton From MAN IN THE HOLOCENE Translated by Geoffrey Skelton PART II: PLAYS From NOW THEY ARE SINGING AGAIN Translated by Alice Carey DON JUAN, OR THE LOVE OF GEOMETRY and Postscript Translated by Michael Bullock From ANDORRA Translated by Michael Bullock From THE FIRE RAISERS Translated by Michael Bullock From BIOGRAPHY: A GAME Translated by Michael Bullock From TRIPTYCH: THREE SCENIC PANELS Translated by Geoffrey Skelton PART III: ESSAYS AND SPEECHES EMIGRANTS Speech on the Occasion of the Awarding of the Georg Buchner Prize, 1958 Translated by Alice Carey FOREIGNIZATION I Translated by Alice Carey SWITZERLAND AS HEIMAT? Speech on teh Occasion of the Awarding of the Grand Schiller Prize Translated by Alice Carey QUESTIONNAIRE Words of Thankson the Occasion of the Bestowal of an Honorary Doctorate by the Politechnical Institute of Berline, June 29, 1987 Translated by Rolf Kieser
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Vanderbilt University Press Changes in the Landscape
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Vanderbilt University Press Selected Passages from Correspondence with Friends
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Vanderbilt University Press The Araucaniad
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O'Brien Press Irish Love Poems
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American Federation of Astrologers The Judgments of Nativities
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American Federation of Astrologers Inc Five Medieval Astrologers
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American Federation of Astrologers Inc The Introduction to the Science of the Judgments of the Stars
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American Federation of Astrologers Inc Astrologia Gallica Book 17
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American Federation of Astrologers Inc Six Astrological Treatises by Mashaallah
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American Federation of Astrologers Inc Mathesis
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American Federation of Astrologers Inc Mathesis
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