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BiblioLife Las Obras de Arturo Reyes III
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Tokyopop Press Inc PEREMOHA Victory for Ukraine
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Applewood Books A Lifetime with Mark Twain
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Applewood Books Its a Womans World Boxed Set II
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Applewood Books La Cuisine Creole Trade
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Lulu.com RoyaltyFree OneAct Plays
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Jacana Media (Pty) Ltd Pride and Prejudice
Book SynopsisComprises the most exceptional written and photographic entries for the annual Gerald Kraak Award. Offering important African perspectives gathered from the continent, this inaugural edition features works of fiction, journalism, photography and poetry.Table of ContentsThe fourteen submissions included in the anthology are:Farah Ahamed, Poached Eggs (Fiction, Kenya) A subtle, slow and careful rendering of the everyday rhythms of domestic terror that pays homage to the long history of women's resistance. Written with wit, humour and grit, the story also sings of freedom, resistance and the desire to be unbound.Beyers de Vos, 'A Place of Greater Safety' (Journalism, South Africa) This piece covers the underground issues that are seldom discussed in the South African LGBT+ movement - homelessness, poverty, as well as attraction and violence - with empathy, real curiosity and knowledge.Sindiswa Busuku-Mathese, 'Midnight in Lusikisiki' (Poetry, South Africa) This poem hums with sadness and sings with anger. It is full of the sort of melancholy that marks the passing of something very important. It provides an opportunity to connect the theme of gender with issues of poverty and political corruption.Dilman Dila, Two Weddings for Amoit (Fiction, Uganda) A fresh piece of sci-fi written in a clear and bright way that surprisingly draws on covert and subversive love.Justin Dingwall, 'Albus' (Photography, South Africa) The choice of exquisitely beautiful high-fashion models to represent people with albinism - who are so often depicted as unattractive - is just breathtaking. It makes its point and leaves you wanting more.Amatesiro Dore, For Men Who Care (Fiction, Nigeria) A complex and thoughtful insight into a part of elite Nigerian life, as well as the ways in which buying into certain brands of patriarchy can be so deeply damaging and have direct and unavoidable consequences.Tania Haberland, 'Resurrection' (Poetry, Mauritius) An erotic poem that is powerful in its simple celebration of the clit.Julia Hango, 'Intertwined Odyssey' (Photography, South Africa) A solid and thought-provoking collection that forces questions about power. The photos make the lovers (or are they fighters?) equal in their nakedness and in their embodiment of discomfort.Dean Hutton, 'Dean's Bed' (Photography, South Africa) An important contribution to conversations about bisexuality, attraction, age and race.Otosirieze Obi-Young, You Sing of a Longing (Fiction, Nigeria) A thoroughly modern epic yet with bones as old as time. This is a story of love and betrayal and madness and music that is all the more beautiful for its plainspoken poignancy. But there is also prose in here that takes your breath away.Olakunle Ologunro, The Conversation (Fiction, Nigeria) Provides valuable insight into issues of intimate partner violence, family acceptance and the complexity of gender roles in many modern African contexts.Ayodele Sogunro, 'One More Nation Bound in Freedom' (Academic, Nigeria) An informative piece that gives a crisp and 'objective' voice to the many themes that cut across this anthology.Sarah Waiswa, 'Stranger in a Familiar Land' (Photography, Kenya) This collection of photos showcases the best of African storytelling. The images take risks and speak of danger and subversion yet, at the same time, they are deeply rooted in places that are familiar to urban Africans.
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Jacana Media (Pty) Ltd The Heart of the Matter
Book SynopsisShowcases some of the most provocative works of fiction, poetry and non-fiction. The winning essay, 'Mothers and Men' by OluTimehin Adegbeye, truly captures the essence of the African LGBTQI+ community. The anthology showcases some of Africa's most talented writers. The unique prize calls for multi-layered, stirring African voices
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Jacana Media (Pty) Ltd The Beautyful Ones Have Just Been Born Vol. IV
Book SynopsisThe Jacana Literary Foundation and the Other Foundation are thrilled to announce the publication of the fourth volume of The Gerald Kraak Anthology, The Beautyful Ones Have Just Been Born.
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Outskirts Press Against A Diamond Sky Tales from Orions Arm Vol 1
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Peter Lang Publishing Inc Perceptions de lEspace Chez Franketienne Et Tahar
Book SynopsisLe présent ouvrage est une étude comparative entre deux grandes figures de la littérature d'expression française: Frankétienne, haïtien de souche, et Tahar Ben Jelloun, d'origine marocaine. Ils jouissent d'une renommée internationale, fondée sur une œuvre forte. Entendons: une œuvre visionnaire, pertinente, qui s'inscrit dans la mimésis spatio-temporelle, le vécu humain, et qui fait aussi entendre un cri perçant, un souffle envoûtant, une musique originale. Elle croise, à bien des égards, celle de René Depestre, d'Abdelkébir Khatibi, de Yasmina Khadra, de Soljénitsyne et de Zola.Singulière, elle est à la fois géographique et dramatique, avec le nomadisme des personnages, la mise en scène de l'espace, des atrocités et conflits actantiels. L'espace-fiction chez les deux poètes-romanciers s'ancre dans l'horreur, le chaos et la psychose, qui constituent des thèmes fondamentaux de leurs œuvres.L'étude, qui offre une nouvelle approche théorique et une méthode d'analyse effic
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Peter Lang Publishing Inc Preston King
Book SynopsisThis volume celebrates the remarkable career of Dr. Preston King, an African American political philosopher with an international reputation. King's first degree was from Fisk University (1956). He moved directly to the London School of Economics (LSE), completing his M.Sc. (Econ) in 1958 with a Mark of Distinction. He taught at LSE for the next two years. A scrape with Jim Crow America kept him in exile for the next 40 years. Major friends and influences at LSE were Professors Sir Karl Popper, Michael Oakeshott, and Dr Bernard Crick. King took up subsequent lectureships at the universities of Keele, Ghana, and Sheffield. He was Senior Research Assistant at the Acton Society Trust (London), then professor at the universities of Nairobi, New South Wales (Sydney), and Lancaster, returning at last to the United States as joint Woodruff Professor at Emory and Distinguished Professor at Morehouse. The essays comprising this volume are by internationally renowned scholars. They creativelyTable of ContentsHistorical Method – Gary Browning: Preston King: Beyond Contextualism – Stephanie Lawson: Contextualism and Incommensurability: A Critique – JamesMoore: Political Theories and Histories of England in the Early Eighteenth Century: The Skeptical Perspective of David Hume – Sam Cherribi: Portrait of Africa: Preston King Revisited – Toleration – Peter Jones: Power, Liberty and Rights: Preston King on Toleration – Jan Dobbernack andTariq Modood: Struggles for Tolerance and Recognition: Thinking with Democratic Multiculturalism – ChrisBrown: Tolerance in an Intolerant Age – Rupert Read: Rawlsian Liberalism Is Founded on Precautionary Thinking— but the Precautionary Principle Undermines Rawlsian Liberalism – Friendship – Graham M. Smith: Fragments on the Theme of ‘Friendship and Politics’ – Heather Devere: Friendship in Antiquity: Some Hidden Histories of a Political Concept – Janet Coleman: Reflections on the Self Itself: Aristotle on Reciprocity and Friendship – Preston King: Time, Tolerance, and Friendship – Contributors.
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Peter Lang Publishing Inc Esmeraldas en la imaginacion literaria
Book SynopsisEste libro interpreta aspectos de la literatura afroecuatoriana en el context de Esmeraldas, la provincial donde vive la mayoría de la población. Mi propósito es analizar desde una perspectiva post-colonial, el impacto duradero de la esclavitud, el racismo y la discriminación sobre la población negra desde las perspectivas de sus escritores. Subsecuentemente, exploro cómo recursos temáticos y retóricos -imágenes, símbolos, metáforas, etc., combinan para crear discursos literarios sobresalientes que afirman valores y contribuciones negros al resistir la posibilidad de pasar por la historia sin dejar una huella. Es un libro original en el cual tendrán interés especialistas, estudiantes, bibliotecarios y la comunidad diaspórica.
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Wildside Press Trips in Time Time Travel Tales by Roger Zelazny Poul Anderson Christopher Priest and More
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Wildside Press The Man Who Changed Rooms and Other Criminal Types
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Wildside Press Weird Tales 333
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Wildside Press Black Amazon of Mars and Other Tales from the Pulps
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Borgo Press Last Conflict
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Wildside Press Men and Machines Science Fiction Stories by Fred Saberhagan Jack Williamson Fritz Leiber and more
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Wildside Press Sherlock Holmes Mystery Magazine 2
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Union Square & Co. The Art of War
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Kessinger Publishing Co A Pilgrimage To StratfordUponAvon The Birthplace
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Pan Macmillan A Curious Invitation
Book SynopsisSince ancient times human beings have gathered together for social purposes. And since not very long after that writers have written about these occasions. The party is a useful literary device, not only for social comment and satire, but as an occasion where characters can meet, fall in love, fall out or even get murdered. A Curious Invitation features forty of the greatest fictional festivities. Some of these parties are depictions of real events, like the Duchess of Richmond’s Ball on the eve of battle with Napoleon in Thackeray’s Vanity Fair; others draw on the author’s experience of the society they lived in, such as Lady Metroland’s party in Evelyn Waugh’s Vile Bodies; while yet others come straight from the writer’s bizarre imagination, like Douglas Adams’ flying party above an unknown planet from The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. Suzette Field offers you the chance to gate
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Headline Publishing Group The Neil Gaiman Reader
Book SynopsisA captivating collection of fiction from one of the world's most beloved writers, introduced with a foreword by Booker Prize-winning author, Marlon James.
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Little, Brown Book Group The Mammoth Book of Erotic Romance and Domination
Book SynopsisBDSM/Bondage and Dominance and Submission, recently brought to such extraordinary prominence by 50 Shades of Grey, are perennially popular erotic themes. This collection of over 40 outstanding new stories by some of the best writers of erotica and romance, including Kay Jaybee, K. D. Grace and Rachel Kramer Bussel all shortlisted for the Erotic Writer of the Year award Donna George Storey, Sunday Times bestseller Vina Jackson, Booker-shortlisted Matt Thorne, Portia da Costa and Kristina Lloyd.
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Little, Brown Book Group Speak My Language and Other Stories
Book Synopsis''There is something special about literature . . . that addresses our innermost sexual and amatory selves. Gay stories offer us vindication, fellowship, validation and a sense of shared identity that we need now as much as ever,'' writes Stephen Fry in the foreword to this anthology.In this exciting new collection of gay short stories, we hear from authors imagining, surmising, and revealing aspects of gay life from a multitude of perspectives, ages, eras, locations, cultures and political climates. Contributors range from those emerging into a life of writing to those who have enjoyed international mainstream success. Some, such as Felice Picano, were pioneers of not only gay writing but also gay liberation itself. Others are recipients of world-class awards, including Vestal McIntyre, whose Lake Overturn: A Novel was named Editor''s Choice by the New York Times Book Review and Out magazine, and a Best Book of 2009 by the Washington PostTrade ReviewA truly enormous collection of short stories from a diverse collection of LGBT writers. The stories are eclectic and brilliant, and it's pretty much the essential purchase of 2015 for even the most casual reader of queer fiction. -- Matthew Bright * Lethe Press *One of the most exquisite gay anthologies of the year -- Diriye Osman * Huffington Post *This often dark collection explores what it means to be a gay man. There are certainly special things to be found among the 40 stories. -- Marcus Field * Independent *It's a rich, varied identity explored here that spans locations, cultures, perspectives ages and eras. With work from familiar British talent to internationally-acclaimed authors. Speak my Language is an opportunity to hear a myriad of gay voices. * Winq *There's a particular kind of loneliness or isolation that many of the excellent writers included here, like Patrick Gale and Damian Barr, explore which reflects the experience of being gay, whether in secret or out in the open -- Lesley Mcdowell * Sunday Herald *Reading Speak my Language is a reminder that the short story is a quick piece of literature for the deep thinker. While you may be able to read these stories quickly, the handful of pages they cover tend to provide as much food for thought as a full novel -- Ben Kelly * Attitude *
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Headline Publishing Group The Neil Gaiman Reader
Book SynopsisA captivating collection of fiction from one of the world's most beloved writers, introduced with a foreword by Booker Prize-winning author, Marlon James.Trade ReviewGaiman is god in the universe of storyGaiman's achievement is to make the fantasy world seem true - The TimesSome books just swallow you up, heart and soul
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Orion Publishing Co New Horizons
Book SynopsisThe citizens of Karachi wake up and discover the sea missing from their shores, the last Parsi on Earth must escape to other worlds when debt collectors come knocking, and a family visiting a Partition-themed park gets more entertainment than they bargained for.These stories and others showcase the epic scope of science fiction from the South Asian subcontinent. Offering a fresh perspective on our hyper-global, often alienating and always paranoid world, New Horizons brings together tales of masterful imagination where humanity and love may triumph yet.Trade ReviewA book worthy of being on the shelves of any reader who enjoys good stories - SF or otherwise * Factor Daily *
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Orion Publishing Co Needle in a Timestack
Book SynopsisNeedle in a Timestack is Robert Silverberg at his very best - intelligent, inventive, and visionary. This collection showcases his talent for thought-provoking science fiction, ranging in themes from time travel to space travel, the media to mortality.In the titular story - now a feature film by Oscar-winning screenwriter John Ridley - a jealous ex-husband warps time in a vindictive attempt to destroy his former wife''s new marriage. Thirty-one identical sons have a shocking surprise for their mother in There Was an Old Woman. The prophetic The Pain Peddlers depicts reality TV in a way that allows viewers to revel in a voyeuristic, adrenaline-fueled rush. Also included are Silverberg''s Hugo Award-winning Enter a Soldier. Later: Enter Another, and the Locus Award winner The Secret Sharer, a Joseph Conrad-inspired tale of a ship captain drawn into a strange alliance with a stowaway.
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H. G. Wells Library A Year of Prophesying
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John Murray Press An English Christmas
Book Synopsis''If I could work my will,'' said Scrooge indignantly, ''Every idiot who goes about with Merry Christmas on his lips, should be boiled with his own pudding, and buried with a stake of holly through his heart.''This year go carol-singing in the Cotswolds with Laurie Lee or attend church with a grumpy Samuel Pepys. Make plum puddings for bemused French villagers with Elizabeth David; go present shopping with Virginia Woolf or eat far too much with Agatha Christie. Celebrate Christmas at Chatsworth, in the workhouse or marooned in the ice with Shackleton ... For forty-five years, the arrival of John Julius Norwich''s latest Christmas Cracker became as essential a part of the Christmas experience as holly and mistletoe. In An English Christmas the late legendary popular historian gathered all the best writing about this strangest and most memorable time of year into one book and his brilliant eye for a story is evident on every page.VTrade ReviewIts contents are like those of a Christmas stocking, in that small nuggets jostle alongside much larger pieces * The Times *A charming introduction that's almost worth the admission price alone * The Spectator *
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC OCR Anthology for Classical Greek AS and A Level
Book SynopsisThe OCR-endorsed publication from Bloomsbury for the Greek AS and A-Level set text prescriptions for examination in 2017-2019, giving full Greek text, commentary and vocabulary and a detailed introduction for each text that also covers the prescription to be read in English for A Level. The texts covered are:ASThucydides, Histories, Book IV: 1114, 2123, 2628 Plato, Apology, 18a7 to 24b2Homer, Odyssey X: 144399Sophocles, Antigone, lines 199, 497525, 531581, 891928 A-levelThucydides, Histories, Book IV: 2940Plato, Apology, 35eendXenophon, Memorabilia, Book 1.II.12 to 1.II.38Homer, Odyssey IX: 231460Sophocles, Antigone, lines 162222, 248331, 441496, 9981032Aristophanes, Acharnians, 1203, 366392Trade ReviewThis book is every teacher's dream. It is a one-stop shop ... [of] excellent value as it replaces the need to buy several separate volumes — and it does so in spendidly attractive style ... The texts it contains will be reading for anybody who has mastered GCSE and will be useful in university courses for years to come. * Classics for All Reviews *The book is, refreshingly, mainly the offspring of classroom teachers and is all the more welcome for that. * Journal of Classics Teaching *Table of ContentsPreface Then for each text: Introduction Text Commentary Vocabulary
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Propertius Tibullus and Ovid A Selection of Love
Book SynopsisAnita Nikkanen is a Research Fellow in Classical Philology at the Center for Hellenic Studies, Harvard University, USA. She taught Classics at Northwood College, London, UK, and has been a Departmental Teaching Fellow for Classics and Comparative Literature at Harvard University, USATrade Review[This book] cover[s] necessary ground admirably, as well as offering the intellectually curious plenty to take beyond the exam. Strongly recommended. * Classics For All Reviews *Table of ContentsPreface Introduction Latin Text Commentary Vocabulary
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New York University Press The Yoga Sutras of Patañjali
Book SynopsisA brilliant cross-cultural Arabic interpretation of a key text of yoga philosophy The Yoga Sutras of Patañjali is the foundational text of yoga philosophy to this day and is still used by millions of yoga practitioners and students worldwide. Written in a question-and-answer format, The Yoga Sutras of Patañjali deals with the theory and practice of yoga and the psychological question of the liberation of the soul from attachments. This book is a new edition and translation into English of the Arabic translation and commentary on this text by the brilliant eleventh-century polymath al-Biruni. Given the many historical variants of the Yoga Sutras, his Kitab Batanjali is important for yoga studies as the earliest translation of the Sanskrit text. It is also of unique value as an Arabic text within Islamic studies, given the intellectual and philosophical challenges that faced the medieval Muslim reader when presented with the intricacy of composition, interpretation, and allusion that permeates this translation. A bilingual Arabic-English edition.
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Dundurn Group Ltd Lets Tell This Story Properly
Book SynopsisHonouring strong new voices from around the world, the 2014 Commonwealth Short Story Prize is a global award, open to unpublished as well as published writers, with a truly international judging panel.This global anthology presents the winner of the 2014 Short Story Prize, Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi's Let's Tell This Story Properly, alongside some of the most promising and original stories entered for the prize during the past three years by emerging writers across the literary landscape of the world. Gathered from over ten thousand entries, the selected stories are provocative, rich in flair and ambition, and push the boundaries of fiction into fresh territory.Trade ReviewUnited only by the shared experience of diaspora and the consequences of imperialism, this collection of captivating vignettes focuses on the personal stories that form - and are often forgotten in - the broad sweep of history. * Publishers Weekly *Table of Contents The Commonwealth Short Story Prize Foreword by Ramesh Gunesekera Editor's Note Hummingbird, Daniel Anders (Australia) A Day in the Death, Evan Adam Ang (Singapore) Grandmother, Yu-Mei Balasingamchow (Singapore) Devil Star, Hazel Campbell (Jamaica) Sending for Chantal, Maggie Harris (Guyana) Fatima Saleh, Alexander Ikawah (Kenya) Notes from the Ruins, Anushka Jasraj (India) Cowboy, Helen Klonaris (Bahamas) Elbow, Khadija Magardie (South Africa) Antonya’s Baby Shower on Camperdown Road by A.L. Major (Bahamas) Let’s Tell This Story Properly, Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi (Uganda) The Sarong-Man in the Old House, and an Incubus for a Rainy Night, Michael Mendis (Sri Lanka) Ghost Marriage, Andrea Mullaney (UK) If These Walls Had Ears, Carl Nixon (New Zealand) Tenure, Julian Novitz (New Zealand) Next Full Moon We’ll Release Juno, Bridget Pitt (South Africa) The Night of Broken Glass, Jack Wang (Canada) About the Authors
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Little, Brown Book Group The Mammoth Book of Frankenstein
Book SynopsisFrankenstein . . . his very name conjures up images of plundered graves, secret laboratories, electrical experiments and reviving the dead.Within these pages, the maddest doctor of them all and his demented disciples once again delve into the Secrets of Life, as science fiction meets horror when the world''s most famous creature lives again!The Mammoth Book of Frankenstein collects together for the first time twenty-fourelectrifying tales of cursed creation that are guaranteed to spark your interest - with classics from the pulp magazines by Robert Bloch and Manly Wade Wellman, modern masterpieces from Ramsey Campbell, Dennis Etchison, Karl Edward Wagner, David J. Schow and R. Chetwynd-Hayes, and contributions from Graham Masterson, Basil Copper, John Brunner, Guy N. Smith, Kim Newman, Paul J. McAuley, Roberta Lannes, Michael Marshall Smith, Daniel Fox, Adrian Cole, Nancy Kilpatrick, Brian Mooney and Lisa Morton.Plus you''re sure to get a charge from t
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AuthorHouse Scenes from Tamil Classics
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John Murray Press Tidings of Comfort and Joy
Book Synopsis Pam Rhodes is best known as the familiar face of the BBC''s Songs of Praise, and here she brings together her personal selection of carols, poems, Bible readings and other inspirational passages from a wide range of sources. As well as the usual old favourites - from Hark the Herald Angels Sing to the stories of the shepherds and the wise men visiting the baby Jesus - there are plenty of lighter moments, with excerpts from Gervase Phinn''s memoirs and funny poems by modern writers. Alongside the items themselves Pam shares some of her own Christmas reminiscences and explores the resonance of the Christmas story for all our lives in her trademark inviting and heartwarming style. There is something here for everyone, from those wanting to enjoy dipping in for a taste of Christmas to those needing a sourcebook to inspire selections for Christmas services. Enjoy! Trade ReviewMuch-loved TV presenter and author Pam Rhodes has a seasonal book out... an inviting book to dip into or give as a gift. * Inspire Magazine *
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University of Toronto Press Lyrics on Freedom Love and Death
Book SynopsisA.J.M. Smith has described George Frederick Cameron as one of 'Canada's greatest poets,' who, with Isabella Valancy Crawford and Archibald Lampman, 'were cut off just when their work had reached maturity.' Cameron's poetry is rich in classical culture, and involves itself with political concerns, love and death.
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University of Toronto Press The German Novel 19391944
Book SynopsisThis book begins the large task of sorting out the vast number of German literary works which the war has piled up before us. The author has culled over four hundred novels and critical works and by indicating the numbers and content of the more significant novels, and some of their stylistic characteristics, he has shortened the task of future research.If this investigation provides a fair indication, it appears that the widely held conviction that German publishers brought out nothing but trash during the war years is mistaken. By now, students of literature should be in a sufficiently intelligent and tolerant mood to accept some detailed evidence and to begin to scrutinize it objectively. The present study is intended as a step in that direction.
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Romanticism and Revolution
Book SynopsisRomanticism and Revolution: A Readerpresents an anthology of the key texts that both defined the debate over the French Revolution during the 1790s and influenced the Romantic authors. Presents readings chronologically to allow readers to experience the unfolding of the debate as it occurred in the 1790s Provides anaccessible and in-depth sampling of the major contributors to the Revolution debate, from Price, Burke, and Paine to Wollstonecraft and Godwin Table of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgements. A Note on the Texts. Introduction. 1. Richard Price, A Discourse on the Love of Our Country. [What has the love of their country hitherto been among mankind?] [A narrower interest must give way to a more extensive interest]. [Every degree of illumination … hastens the overthrow of priestcraft and tyranny]. [The principles of the Revolution]. [Be encouraged, all ye friends of freedom and writers in its defence!] 2. Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France, and on the Proceedings in Certain Societies in London relative to That Event. [All the nakedness and solitude of metaphysical abstraction]. [The public declaration of a man much connected with literary caballers]. [The two principles of conservation and correction]. [The very idea of the fabrication of a new government, is enough to fill us with disgust and horror]. [Our liberties, as an entailed inheritance derived to us from our forefathers]. [Their blow was aimed at an hand holding out graces, favours, and immunities]. [A profligate disregard of a dignity which they partake with others]. [The real rights of men]. [But the age of chivalry is gone. – That of sophisters, oeconomists, and calculators, has succeeded]. [The real tragedy of this triumphal day]. [We have not … lost the generosity and dignity of thinking of the fourteenth century]. [Society is indeed a contract]. [The political Men of Letters]. [We do not draw the moral lessons we might from history]. [By hating vices too much, they come to love men too little]. [Old establishments … are the results of various necessities and expediencies]. [Some popular general … shall draw the eyes of all men upon himself]. 3. Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Men, in a Letter to the Right Honourable Edmund Burke. Advertisement. [I have not yet learned to twist my periods, nor … to disguise my sentiments]. [I perceive … that you have a mortal antipathy to reason]. [The champion of property, the adorer of the golden image which power has set up]. [Misery, to reach your heart, I perceive, must have its cap and bells]. [In reprobating Dr. Price's opinions you might have spared the man]. [The younger children have been sacrificed to the eldest son]. [The respect paid to rank and fortune damps every generous purpose of the soul]. [The spirit of romance and chivalry is in the wane; and reason will gain by its extinction]. [Reason at second-hand]. [This fear of God makes me reverence myself]. [The cold arguments of reason, that give no sex to virtue]. [What were the outrages of a day to these continual miseries?]. 4. Thomas Paine, Rights of Man: Being an Answer to Mr. Burke's Attack on the French Revolution. [The vanity and presumption of governing beyond the grave]. [Mr. Burke has set up a sort of political Adam, in whom all posterity are bound for ever]. [Mr. Burke does not attend to the distinction between men and principles]. [The Quixote age of chivalry nonsense is gone]. [Lay then the axe to the root, and teach governments humanity]. [We are now got at the origin of man, and at the origin of his rights]. [The natural rights of man … the civil rights of man]. [Governments must have arisen, either out of the people, or over the people]. [Titles are but nick-names … a sort of foppery in the human character which degrades it]. [Toleration is not the opposite of Intolerance, but is the counterfeit of it]. [The church with the state, a sort of mule animal]. Miscellaneous Chapter. Conclusion. [In mixed Governments there is no responsibility]. [The Revolutions of America and France, are a renovation of the natural order of things]. [It is an age of Revolutions, in which every thing may be looked for]. 5. Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: with Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects. To M. Talleyrand-Périgord, Late Bishop of Autun. [The prevailing notion respecting a sexual character was subversive of morality]. Introduction. [I shall disdain to cull my phrases or polish my style]. Chap. II The Prevailing Opinion of a Sexual Character Discussed. [The grand end of their exertions should be to unfold their own faculties]. [To endeavour to reason love out of the world, would be to out Quixote Cervantes]. [Surely she has not an immortal soul who can loiter life away]. Chap. III The Same Subject Continued. [It is time to effect a revolution in female manners]. Chap. IV Observations on the State of Degradation to Which Woman Is Reduced by Various Causes. [Their senses are inflamed, and their understandings neglected]. Chap. V Animadversions on Some of the Writers Who Have Rendered Women Objects of Pity, Bordering on Contempt – Sect. i [Rousseau]. [Is it surprising that some of them hug their chains, and fawn like the spaniel?]. [Let us then … arrive at perfection of body]. Sect. ii [Dr. Fordyce's sermons]. [Why are girls to be told that they resemble angels; but to sink them below women?]. Chap. VI The Effect Which an Early Association of Ideas Has upon the Character. Chap. VII Modesty. – Comprehensively Considered, and Not as a Sexual Virtue. [Those women who have most improved their reason must have the most modesty]. Chap. VIII Morality Undermined by Sexual Notions of the Importance of a Good Reputation. [If the honour of a woman … is safe, she may neglect every social duty]. [The two sexes mutually corrupt and improve each other]. Chap. IX Of the Pernicious Effects Which Arise from the Unnatural Distinctions Established in Society. [How can a being be generous who has nothing of its own? or virtuous, who is not free? [I really think that women ought to have representatives]. Chap. X Parental Affection. Chap. XI Duty to Parents. [They are prepared for the slavery of marriage]. Chap. XII On National Education. [Morality, polluted in the national reservoir, sends off streams of vice]. Chap. XIII Some Instances of the Folly Which the Ignorance of Women Generates; with Concluding Reflections on the Moral Improvement That a Revolution in Female Manners Might Naturally Be Expected to Produce – Sect. ii. [Sentimental jargon]. Sect. vi [Women at present are by ignorance rendered foolish or vicious]. [Let woman share the rights and she will emulate the virtues of man]. 6. Thomas Paine, Rights of Man. Part the Second. Combining Principle and Practice. Preface. Introduction. Chap. I Of Society and Civilization. Chap. II Of the Origin of the Present Old Governments. Chap. III Of the Old and New Systems of Government. [Republicanism]. [Monarchy … is a scene of perpetual court cabal and intrigue]. Chap. IV Of Constitutions. [Government … has of itself no rights; they are altogether duties]. [The bill of rights is more properly a bill of wrongs]. [The sepulchre of precedents]. [Europe may form but one great Republic]. Chap. V Ways and Means of Improving the Condition of Europe, Interspersed with Miscellaneous Observations. [I have been an advocate for commerce, because I am a friend to its effects]. [When … we see age going to the workhouse and youth to the gallows, something must be wrong in the system of government]. [The aristocracy are … the drones, a seraglio of males]. [The plan is easy in practice]. [Active and passive revolutions]. [In what light religion appears to me]. [What pace the political summer may keep with the natural, no human foresight can determine]. 7. William Godwin, An Enquiry concerning Political Justice, and Its Influence on General Virtue and Happiness. Preface. Book I Of the Importance of Political Institutions – Chap. i Introduction. Chap. ii History of Political Society. Chap. iv Three Principal Causes of Moral Improvement Considered – I. Literature. [Truth … must infallibly be struck out by the collision of mind with mind]. II. Education. III. Political Justice. Chap. vi Human Inventions Capable of Perpetual Improvement. [Let us not look back]. Book II Principles of Society – Chap. i Introduction. Chap. ii Of Justice. Chap. iv Of the Equality of Mankind. Chap. v Rights of Man. [The impossibility by any compulsatory method of bringing men to uniformity of opinion]. Chap. vi Of the Exercise of Private Judgment. [Punishment inevitably excites in the sufferer … a sense of injustice]. Book III – Chap. vii Of Forms of Government. Book IV Miscellaneous Principles – Chap. ii Of Revolutions – Section I. Duties of a Citizen Section II. Mode of Effecting Revolutions. Section III. Of Political Associations. [There is at present in the world a cold reserve that keeps man at a distance from man]. Section IV. Of the Species of Reform to Be Desired. Chap. iv Of the Cultivation of Truth – Section II. Of Sincerity. [A gradation in discovery and a progress in the improvement, which do not need to be assisted by the stratagems of their votaries]. Chap. v Of Free Will and Necessity. [Mind is a topic of science]. [That in which the mind exercises its freedom, must be an act of the mind]. [So far as we act with liberty … our conduct is as independent of morality as it is of reason]. Book V Of Legislative and Executive Power – Chap. xiii Of the Aristocratical Character. [The principle of aristocracy is founded in the extreme inequality of conditions]. [Is it sedition to enquire whether this state of things may not be exchanged for a better?]. Book VI Of Opinion Considered as a Subject of Political Institution – Chap. i General Effects of the Political Superintendence of Opinion. Book VII Of Crimes and Punishments – Chap. i Limitations of the Doctrine of Punishment Which Result from the Principles of Morality. [The abstract congruity of crime and punishment]. Book VIII Of Property – Chap. vii Of the Objection to This System from the Principle of Population. 8. William Godwin, Enquiry concerning Political Justice, and Its Influence on Morals and Happiness. Preface to the Second Edition. [No man can more fervently deprecate scenes of commotion and tumult, than the author of this book]. Book VIII Of Property – Chap. viii Appendix. Of Cooperation, Cohabitation and Marriage. [Our judgement in favour of marriage]. Further Reading. Index.
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