Biographical fiction / autobiographical fiction
Penguin Putnam Inc David Copperfield Penguin Clothbound Classics
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University of Illinois Press The Complete Fables of Jean de La Fontaine
Book SynopsisAn inspired new translation of the work of one of the world's greatest fabulistsTrade ReviewLewis Galantière Prize, American Translators Association, 2008. "The translations are not literal but instead convey the spirit of the 17th-century writer. The volume includes . . . extensive notes offering comments and explicating sources, references, translation difficulties, and so on; and lovely illustrations by David Schorr. Highly recommended."--Choice"Ably translated from the French by Shapiro, the voices of the animals, birds, insects (and even the occasional human) who populate La Fontaine's fables come alive in rhyme and rhythm that develop the traditional tales." --Library Journal"In Shapiro's translations, meaning and sound patterns flow into each other with metrical control and create La Fontaine's soothing melody, which is reinforced through a never-ending wit and humor to articulate and to overcome his distaste for human folly."--Translation Review
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Pennsylvania State University Press The Greek Girls Story
Book SynopsisAn English translation of the Abbé Prévost's 1740 novel The Greek Girl's Story. Includes foreword by Jean Sgard, notes, and appendices.Trade Review“This superb new translation by Alan J. Singerman, one of the foremost specialists on Abbé Prévost, constitutes the first scholarly edition in English of Histoire d’une Grecque moderne. This remarkable novel—an early, paradigmatic example of unreliable first-person narration, one of the greatest novels ever written on the theme of jealousy, and an outstanding example of eighteenth-century Orientalism—will appeal to a broad spectrum of readers. Singerman's introduction and notes are models of erudite scholarship and critical lucidity.”—Guillaume Ansart,Indiana University“At one time a Benedictine monk, Antoine-François Prévost (1697–1763) was a man of dubious morality fascinated by scandal and the struggle between virtue and desire. As a novelist, he wrote about enigmatic historical and fictional characters, exploring their hypocrisy, madness, and disgrace. His Histoire d’une Grecque moderne (1740), based on the actual experiences of a French ambassador to the Ottoman Empire at the beginning of the 18th century, may not be as well known as his sentimental novel Manon Lescaut (1731), but it is nevertheless a classic literary masterpiece that well deserves this outstanding new translation. . . . [This] is the first accurate, single-volume translation and critical edition of the novel. Singerman provides a fascinating introduction, extensive footnotes, and a highly reliable English rendering of Prévost’s powerful narrative, which is clearly far more than just a roman à clef. Summing up: Essential.”—C. B. Kerr ChoiceTable of ContentsContentsForeword by Jean Sgard Acknowledgments Introduction The Greek Girl’s Story Book One Book Two Appendix 1: Contemporary Source Texts for The Greek Girl’s Story Appendix 2: Life and Works of the Abbé Prévost Notes Works Consulted
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University of Washington Press Stories to Caution the World
Book SynopsisStories to Caution the World is the first complete translation of Jingshi tongyan, the second of Feng Menglong''s three collections of stories which were pivotal in the development of Chinese vernacular fiction. These tales, whose importance in the Chinese literary canon and in world literature is without question, have been compared to Boccaccio''s Decameron and the stories of A Thousand and One Nights.Peopled with scholars, emperors, ministers, generals, and a gallery of ordinary men and women in their everyday surroundings -- merchants and artisans, prostitutes and courtesans, matchmakers and fortune-tellers, monks and nuns, servants and maids, thieves and imposters -- the stories in this collection provide a vivid panorama of the bustling world of imperial China before the end of the Ming dynasty.Feng Menglong collected popular stories from a variety of sources (some dating back centuries) and circulated them via the flourishing seventeenTrade Review"Stories to Caution the World offers the reader plenty to savor. . . . often shrewd and knowing, and never dull, [the translated comments] provide a new element of commentary over and above that built into the stories through the storyteller's manner, and introduce an agreeably unpredictable element that enhances the pleasure of reading Stories to Caution the World." * China Review International *"An important addition to any collection supporting Chinese studies and Asian literature. Highly recommended." * Choice *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction Translators' Note Chronology of Chinese Dynasties Stories to Caution the World Title Page from the 1624 Edition Preface to the 1624 Edition 1. Yu Boya Smashes His Zither in Gratitude to an Appreciative Friend 2. Zhuang Zhou Drums on a Bowl and Attains the Great Dao 3. Three Times Wang Anshi Tries to Baffle Academician Su 4. In the Hall Halfway-up-the-Hill, the Stubborn One Dies of Grief 5. Lu Yu Returns the Silver and Brings about Family Reunion 6. Yu Liang Writes Poems and Wins Recognition from the Emperor 7. Chen Kechang Becomes an Immortal during the Dragon Boat Festival 8. Artisan Cui's Love Is Cursed in Life and in Death 9. "Li the Banished Immortal" Writes in Drunkenness to Impress the Barbarians 10. Secretary Qian Leaves Poems on the Swallow Tower 11. A Shirt Reunites Magistrate Su with His Family 12. A Double Mirror Brings Fan the Loach and His Wife Together Again 13. Judge Bao Solves a Case through a Ghost That Appeared Thrice 14. A Mangy Priest Exorcises a Den of Ghosts 15. Clerk Jin Rewards Xiutong with a Pretty Maidservant 16. The Young Lady Gives the Young Man a Gift of Money 17. The Luckless Scholar Rises Suddenly in Life 18. A Former Protogee Repays His Patron unto the Third Generation 19. With a White Falcon, Young Master Cui Brings an Evil Spirit upon Himself 20. The Golden Eel Brings Calmity to Officer Ji 21. Emperor Taizu Escorts Jinniang on a One-Thousand-Li Journey 22. Young Mr. Song Reunites with His Family by Means of a Tattered Felt Hat 23. Mr. Le Junior Searches for His Wife at the Risk of His Life 24. Yutangchun Reunites with Her Husband in Her Distress 25. Squire Gui Repents at the Last Moment 26. Scholar Tang Gains a Wife after One Smile 27. Fame Immortals Throw Guanghua Temple into an Uproar 28. Madame White Is Kept Forever under the Thunder Peak Tower 29. Zhang Hao Meets Yingying at Lingering Frangrance Pavilion 30. Wu Qing Meets Ai'ai by Golden Bright Pond 31. Zhao Chun'er Restores Prosperity 32. Du Shiniang Sinks Her Jewel Box in Anger 33. Qiao Yanjie's Concubine Ruins the Family 34. Wang Jiaoluan's One Hundred Years of Sorrow 35. Prefect Kuang Solves the Case of the Dead Baby 36. The King of the Honey Locust Grove Assumes Human Shape 37. Wan Xiuniang Takes Revenge through Toy Pavilions 38. Jiang Shuzhen Dies in Fulfillment of a Love Bird Prophecy 39. The Stars of Fortune, Rank, and Longevity Return to Heaven 40. An Iron Tree at Jingyang Palace Subdues Demons Notes
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Yale University Press The Heroic Slave
Book SynopsisFrederick Douglass's only work of fictionan imaginative retelling of the most successful slave revolt in American historyaccompanied by an interpretive introduction, notes, and a selection of related writings by Douglass and others First published nearly a decade prior to the Civil War, The Heroic Slave is the only fictional work by abolitionist, orator, author, and social reformer Frederick Douglass, himself a former slave. It is inspired by the true story of Madison Washington, who, along with eighteen others, took control of the slave ship Creole in November 1841 and sailed it to Nassau in the British colony of the Bahamas, where they could live free. This new critical edition, ideal for classroom use, includes the full text of Douglass's fictional recounting of the most successful slave revolt in American history, as well as an interpretive introduction; excerpts from Douglass's correspondence, speeches, and editorials; short selections by other writers on the Creole rebellion; and recent criticism on the novella.Trade Review"The Heroic Slave: A Cultural and Critical Edition is simply excellent. This well-conceived, well-executed edition reveals aspects of Douglass that are often forgotten. Some of the historical documents included will be new even to specialists."—Maurice Lee, Boston University"Robert Levine, John Stauffer, and John McKivigen are careful and accomplished scholars and this book is the edition one would expect from their combined efforts. This is a tremendous resource."—John Ernest, University of Deleware
£13.00
Yale University Press Anna Karenina
Book SynopsisTrade Review“The translation is the most accurate Tolstoy we have in English. Marian Schwartz has been a major force in bringing Russian literature into English for many years, but this is her masterpiece.”—Michael Holquist, author of Dostoevsky and the Novel -- Michael Holquist“If there is a Tolstoyan out there who is interested in reading a translation that is exquisitely mindful of the book’s complex texture, or someone who has meant to get to Karenina but hasn’t yet got around to this particular pleasure, Schwartz’s tribute to Tolstoy’s craft and sensitivity should be at the top of the list.”—Jim Kates, Arts Fuse -- Jim Kates * Arts Fuse *Longlisted for the 2015 American Literary Translators Asssociation, National Translation Prize in Prose. -- NTA * National Translation Awards *
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Random House USA Inc Barnaby Rudge
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Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group Decameron
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Random House USA Inc Persuasion
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Random House USA Inc Pride and Prejudice
Book SynopsisNo novel in English has given more pleasure than Pride and Prejudice—one of the great classics in literature. Critics in every generation reexamine and reinterpret it, but the rest of us simply fall in love with it—and with its wonderfully charming and intelligent heroine, Elizabeth Bennet. We are captivated not only by Pride and Prejudice''s romantic suspense but also by the fascinations of the world we visit in its pages. The life of the English country gentry at the turn of the nineteenth century is made as real to us as our own, not only by Jane Austen’s wit and feeling but by her subtle observation of the way people behave in society and how we are true or treacherous to each other and ourselves.
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Random House USA Inc The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Other Stories
Book SynopsisA vibrant translation of Tolstoy’s most important short fiction by the award-winning translators of War and Peace. Here are eleven masterful stories from the mature author, some autobiographical, others moral parables, and all told with the evocative power that was Tolstoy’s alone. They include “The Prisoner of the Caucasus,” inspired by Tolstoy's own experiences as a soldier in the Chechen War, “Hadji Murat,” the novella Harold Bloom called “the best story in the world,” “The Devil,” a fascinating tale of sexual obsession, and the celebrated “The Death of Ivan Ilyich,” an intense and moving examination of death and the possibilities of redemption. Pevear and Volokhonsky’s translation captures the richness, immediacy, and multiplicity of Tolstoy’s language, and reveals the author as a passionate moral guide, an unflinching seeker of truth, and ultimately, a creator
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Random House USA Inc The Annotated Sense and Sensibility
Book SynopsisFrom the editor of the popular Annotated Pride and Prejudice comes an annotated edition of Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility that makes this tale of two sisters in love an even more enjoyable read. Here is the complete text of the novel with more than 2,000 annotations on facing pages, including: -Explanations of historical context-Citations from Austen’s life, letters, and other writings-Definitions and clarifications-Literary comments and analysis-Multiple maps of England and London-An introduction, bibliography, and detailed chronology of events-More than 100 informative illustrations Filled with fascinating information about everything from the rules of inheritance that could leave a wealthy man’s daughters almost penniless to the fashionable cult of sensibility that Austen so brilliantly satirizes, David M. Shapard’s Annotated Sense and Sensibility is an entertaining and edifying delig
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Random House USA Inc The Annotated Northanger Abbey
Book SynopsisFrom the editor of the popular Annotated Pride and Prejudice comes an annotated edition of Jane Austen’s Northanger Abbey that makes her lighthearted satire of the gothic novel an even more satisfying read. Here is the complete text of the novel with more than 1,200 annotations on facing pages, including: -Explanations of historical context-Citations from Austen’s life, letters, and other writings-Definitions and clarifications-Literary comments and analysis-Maps of places in the novel-An introduction, bibliography, and detailed chronology of events-225 informative illustrations Filled with fascinating details about the characters’ clothing, furniture, and carriages, and illuminating background information on everything from the vogue for all things medieval to the opportunities for socializing in the popular resort town of Bath, David M. Shapard’s Annotated Northanger Abbey brings Austen’s world into richer focus.
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Random House USA Inc Wuthering Heights
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Random House USA Inc Jane Eyre Vintage Classics
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Random House USA Inc Decameron
Book SynopsisIn the summer of 1348, with the plague ravaging Florence, ten young men and women take refuge in the countryside, where they entertain themselves with tales of love, death, and corruption, featuring a host of characters, from lascivious clergymen and mad kings to devious lovers and false miracle-makers.J. G. Nichols’s new translation, faithful to the original but rendered in eminently readable modern English, captures the timeless humor of one of the great classics of European literature.Named after the Greek for “ten days,” Boccaccio’s book of stories draws on ancient mythology, contemporary history, and everyday life, and has influenced the work of myriad writers who came after him.A brilliant new translation of the work that Herman Hesse called “the first great masterpiece of European storytelling.”
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Random House USA Inc The Original Frankenstein
Book SynopsisWorking from the earliest surviving draft of Frankenstein, Charles E. Robinson presents two versions of the classic novel—as Mary Shelley originally wrote it and a subsequent version clearly indicating Percy Shelley’s amendments and contributions. For the first time we can hear Mary’s sole voice, which is colloquial, fast-paced, and sounds more modern to a contemporary reader. We can also see for the first time the extent of Percy Shelley’s contribution—some 5,000 words out of 72,000—and his stylistic and thematic changes. His occasionally florid prose is in marked contrast to the directness of Mary’s writing. Interesting, too, are Percy’s suggestions, which humanize the monster, thus shaping many of the major themes of the novel as we read it today. In these two versions of Frankenstein we have an exciting new view of one of literature’ s greatest works.
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Vintage Espanol Lolita Spanish Edition
Book SynopsisLolita, la más famosa y controversial novela de Vladimir Nabokov, cuenta la historia de la obsesión devoradora del cuarentón Humbert Humbert por la nínfula Dolores Haze. Ternura y fascinación —además de tristeza y un humor mordaz— llenan sus páginas pero es, por encima de todo, una meditación sobre el amor—el amor como abuso y alucinación, locura y transformación.
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Random House USA Inc Dracula
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Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group The Three Musketeers
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Random House USA Inc A Room with a View Where Angels Fear to Tread
Book SynopsisE. M. Forster’s beloved Italian novels, now in a single hardcover volume.Forster’s most memorably romantic exploration of the liberating effects of Italy on the English, A Room with a View follows the carefully chaperoned Lucy Honeychurch to Florence. There she meets the unconventional George Emerson and finds herself inspired by his refreshingly free spirit— which puts her in mind of “a room with a view”—to escape the claustrophobic snobbery of her guardians back in England. The wicked tragicomedy Where Angels Fear to Tread chronicles a young English widow’s trip to Italy and its messy aftermath. When Lilia Herriton impulsively marries a penniless Italian and then dies in childbirth, her first husband’s family sets out to rescue the child from his “uncivilized” surroundings. But in ways that they can’t possibly imagine, their narrow preconceptions will be upended by the rich and varied charms of Fo
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Random House USA Inc The Canterbury Tales
Book SynopsisA clear modern prose translation of Chaucer’s masterpiece of Middle English storytelling by the acclaimed poet David Wright. The Canterbury Tales has entertained readers for centuries, with its comic animal fables, moral allegories, miniature epics of courtly love, and rollicking erotic farces that bring fourteenth-century England to life on every page. The gloriously varied stories, narrated by a group of pilgrims on their way to Canterbury, are peopled with saints, sinners, and ordinary mortals in a vivid panorama of the medieval world. This prose translation renders these tales as accessible and irresistible to modern readers as they were to Chaucer’s contemporaries.
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Random House USA Inc Hadji Murat
Book SynopsisTolstoy’s final work—a gripping novella about the struggle between the Muslim Chechens and their inept occupiers—is a powerful moral fable for our time. Inspired by a historical figure Tolstoy heard about while serving in the Caucasus, this story brings to life the famed warrior Hadji Murat, a Chechen rebel who has fought fiercely and courageously against the Russian empire. After a feud with his commander he defects to the Russians, only to find that he is now trusted by neither side. He is first welcomed but then imprisoned by the Russians under suspicion of being a spy, and when he hears news of his wife and son held captive by the Chechens, Murat risks all to try to save his family. In the award-winning Pevear and Volokhonsky translation, Hadji Murat is a thrilling and provocative portrait of a tragic figure that has lost none of its relevance.
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Random House USA Inc Agnes Grey The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
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Random House USA Inc The Hunchback of NotreDame
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Random House USA Inc The Complete Short Stories of Mark Twain
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Random House USA Inc Notes from a Dead House Everymans Library
Book SynopsisA beautiful hardcover edition of the first great prison memoir, Fyodor Dostoevsky's fictionalized account of his life-changing penal servitude in Siberia. Translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, with an introduction by Richard Pevear. Sentenced to death for advocating socialism in 1849, Dostoevsky served a commuted sentence of four years of hard labor. The account he wrote afterward, Notes from a Dead House (sometimes translated as The House of the Dead), is filled with vivid details of brutal punishments, shocking conditions, and the psychological effects of the loss of freedom and hope, but also of the feuds and betrayals, the moments of comedy, and the acts of kindness he observed. As a nobleman and a political prisoner, Dostoevsky was despised by most of his fellow convicts, and his first-person narrator—a nobleman who has killed his wife—experiences a similar struggle to adapt. He also undergoes a transformation
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Random House USA Inc Journey to the Center of the Earth Twenty
Book SynopsisJules Verne’s most beloved novels are gathered here in one hardcover volume: three thrilling tales of fabulous journeys under, through, and around the earth.Verne was one of the great pioneers of science fiction. Born in France in 1828, he wrote brilliantly about space, air, and underwater travel long before airplanes and space ships had been invented, and he is still one of the most widely read internationally of all science-fiction writers. But beyond charting new territory for adventurous fiction, his creations have entered our culture and taken on the magnitude and vitality of myth. It is hard to imagine anyone who has not heard of Captain Nemo and his giant submarine exploring the ruins of Atlantis in Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, Phileas Fogg’s frantic race around the world by every means of transportation in Round the World in Eighty Days, and the harrowing descent through a volcanic crater to underground caverns where prehistoric creatures roam in Journey to the Center of the Earth. These stories have seized the imaginations of readers for generations and are as vivid and exciting now as when their author first imagined traveling beyond the bounds of the possible. Translated by Henry Frith
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Macmillan Learning The House of Mirth
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Macmillan Learning Tess of the DUrbervilles
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Macmillan Learning Heart of Darkness
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Little, Brown & Company A Handful of Dust
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Little, Brown & Company Vile Bodies
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Little, Brown & Company The Loved One
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Little, Brown & Company Unconditional Surrender
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Back Bay Books The Vexations
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Little Brown and Company A Calling for Charlie Barnes
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Back Bay Books Miracle at St. Andrews
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Redhook An Education in Malice
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Orbit An Education in Malice
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Mulholland Books A Haunting on the Hill
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Little, Brown & Company Raise High the Roof Beam Carpenters and Seymour
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Random House USA Inc El Borak and Other Desert Adventures
Book SynopsisRobert E. Howard is famous for creating such immortal heroes as Conan the Cimmerian, Solomon Kane, and Bran Mak Morn. Less well-known but equally extraordinary are his non-fantasy adventure stories set in the Middle East and featuring such two-fisted heroes as Francis Xavier Gordon—known as “El Borak”—Kirby O’Donnell, and Steve Clarney. This trio of hard-fighting Americans, civilized men with more than a touch of the primordial in their veins, marked a new direction for Howard’s writing, and new territory for his genius to conquer.The wily Texan El Borak, a hardened fighter who stalks the sandscapes of Afghanistan like a vengeful wolf, is rivaled among Howard’s creations only by Conan himself. In such classic tales as “The Daughter of Erlik Khan,” “Three-Bladed Doom,” and “Sons of the Hawk,” Howard proves himself once again a master of action, and with plenty of eerie atmosphere his plotting becomes t
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Little, Brown Book Group The Amazing Test Match Crime
Book SynopsisThe best cricket novel ever written . . .Before ''Sandpapergate'' there was The Amazing Test Match Crime.''Cricket is the great narrative sport, and a close, hard-fought Test Match is the nearest any sport comes to the structure, rhythm and feel of a good novel. The opening is there, if someone is brave enough to take it . . .'' Marcus BerkmannEngland are due to play Australia Imperia (names have been changed for legal reasons) at the Oval, in the final Test of the summer.The series hangs in the balance when England''s Captain and star player disappears without trace . . .A wonderful novel which reads like a cross between an episode of Blackadder and England, Their England.Trade ReviewI can quite honestly say that I have never laughed as much at a book since I read about that classic cricket match in England Their England -- Brian JohnstonA glorious romp -- Emma John
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William Morrow & Company The History of MiddleEarth Part Two
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Mariner Books A Lie Someone Told You About Yourself
Book SynopsisA People 10 Best Books of the Year • A New York Times Notable Book of the Year • An Independent (UK) 20 Best Books of the Year'Wise, bracingly honest...A reassuring reality check...Exhilarating.' —New York Times Book ReviewA heartbreaking, soul-baring novel about the repercussions of choice that “will strike a resonant chord with parents everywhere,” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review) from the award-winning author of The Welsh Girl and The FortunesA Lie Someone Told You About Yourself traces the complex consequences of one of the most personal yet public, intimate yet political decisions a family can make: to have a child, and conversely, to choose not to have a child. A first pregnancy is interrupted by test r
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Revelations
Book SynopsisTrade Review“Intense…Margery’s faith and emotions are rich on the page"—Publishers Weekly "Richly atmospheric...a fascinating and important story." —Minneapolis Star Tribune "Revelations is skillfully set-dressed, its players lavishly — and appropriately — costumed...Mary Sharratt tackles Margery’s adventures with a lively earnestness." —Los Angeles Review of Books "This book gives the reader inspiration to realize all she accomplished in her society. If Kempe was able to travel the world, write a book, and forge her own path, we should be able to do the same...[Sharrat] has brought Margery Kempe back to life and made her an inspiration for us all." —Christian Feminism Today "Sharratt evokes the sights and smells of medieval England as viscerally as she does Margery's divine ecstasy, immersing readers in both her inner and outer journeys...Revelations will appeal to any reader interested in tales driven by a flawed woman with a certain purpose."—Booklist “Historical fiction at its best.”—Kirkus Reviews, starred review “Mystic or madwoman? Mary Sharrat makes this controversial woman a sympathetic character, defined and defied by the time in which she lived. Revelations is filled with fascinating details about the perils of the 15th-century pilgrim road, especially for a woman daring enough to travel it alone.”—Donna Woolfolk Cross, internationally bestselling author of Pope Joan “Set during a time of fervid religious persecution, Mary Sharratt’s carefully researched, capaciously imagined Revelations brings to vivid life 15th century Christian mystic Margery Kempe. A transporting novel that captures both the harsh reality of medieval womanhood and the mystery of the divine.” —Cathy Marie Buchanan, New York Times bestselling author of The Painted Girls and Daughter of Black Lake "Considered through the female gaze, Margery Kempe’s travels and travails take on new significance as she undertakes a dangerous mission for Julian of Norwich in a time of Lollard persecution and a misogynist Church patriarchy. Thriller, domestic tragedy, medieval travelogue, meditation on a woman’s spiritual awakening, Revelations pulses with life. A gem of a book. Highly recommended!"—Candace Robb, author of the bestselling Owen Archer mysteries "Mary Sharratt's Revelations is a book worthy of its fascinating subject. A deeply imaginative and empathetic novel, full of surprises and delights."—Bruce Holsinger, USA Today bestselling author of The Gifted School and A Burnable Book "In this beautifully rendered tale, Mary Sharratt has managed to capture the ecstatic and vulnerable wisdom of the holy madwoman, Margery Kempe, and distill the quintessence of feminine wisdom. I love the way she weaves the radically optimistic teachings of Julian of Norwich into Margery’s journey. Revelations brings these two medieval luminaries to life with startling relevance for our times."—Mirabai Starr, translator of The Showings of Julian of Norwich and author of Wild Mercy "Revelations brings to vivid life Margery Kemp and her world with all its riotous color, conflicting religious beliefs, deadly perils, saints and sinners. In Sharratt’s skillful re-imagining of Kemp’s travels and travails she gives us —
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux Gigi Julie de Carneilhan and Chance Acquaintances
Book SynopsisTwo volumes of Colette''s most beloved works, with a new Introduction by Judith Thurman.Perhaps Colette''s best-known work, Gigi is the story of a young girl being raised in a household more concerned with success and money than with the desires of the heart. But Gigi is uninterested in the dishonest society life she observes all around her and remains exasperatingly Gigi. The tale of Gigi''s success in spite of her anxious family is Colette at her liveliest and most entertaining. Written during the same period as Gigi, Julie de Carneilhan, based on Colette''s last years with her second husband, focuses on a contest of wills between Julie, an elegant woman of forty, and her ex-husband. Chance Acquaintances, a novella, involves an invalid wife, her philandering husband, and a music-hall dancer whose odd meeting at a French spa affects and indelibly marks each one of their lives.
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