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Exile Editions Mongolian Études: To the Ends of an Empire: A
Book SynopsisA wonderful look at Soviet-era life as witnessed from the edge of the empire, this book is comprised of letters, poems, and prose pieces that together create a narrative. Through an entirely original form, Vladimir Azarov, who trained to be an architect in Moscow during Stalin's Iron Curtain years, begins with a simple exploratory exchange of letters between him and a faceless bureaucrat during his days overseeing the design and construction of the Soviet Embassy in the isolated republic of Mongolia. What follows is an unfolding sequence that finds Azarov meeting a remarkable Mongolian woman and later discovering the memoirs of one of Russia's greatest poets, Anna Akhmatova, eventually revealing an unlikely love story between the Mongolian woman and Akhmatova's son. This enthralling account serves as both a cultural study and an exploration of the human condition.
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Lone Pine Publishing,Canada Girdles and Other Harnesses I Have Known
Book SynopsisJoyce Harries's delightful collection of memoirs, fiction, essays, recipes and poems will dare you to laugh, cry and face head-on the small triumphs and larger tragedies of everyday life. From Joyce's vignettes of her childhood in the 1930s to the struggles and happiness of being a young mother to the heartache of widowhood, this wise and gentle collection will inspire readers to view their lives with reverence and hope: * I've Decided How I Want My 105th Birthday Celebrated If Cost Is No Object * It All Worked Out for the Best * What Mothers Don't Know * Footprints on the Wall * Vineyard Dreams on a Summer Night * Sixty-nine-Year-Old Me Talking to My Body * My Fabulous Fantasy Meal * Stampede Cattle Station * Romance at Windsor * Coming Home.
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Nimbus Publishing Ltd Rogues and Rascals: True Stories of Maritime Lives and Legends
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Broadview Press Ltd Memoirs of Emma Courtney
Book SynopsisIn November of 1795, after William Godwin requested a sketch of Mary Hays’ life, she arrived at the idea of Memoirs of Emma Courtney. Godwin followed up his request with a “hint” that a fictional exploration of the painful experience she had undergone in her relationship with William Frend might help her to come to terms with it. It was to be an “instructive rather than self indulgent” work. The resulting novel is one of the most interesting and important explorations of gender-related issues of the time. Emma is exposed to a series of situations—motherlessness, orphanhood, poverty, dependence, and more—which encourage her to reflect “on the inequalities of society, the source of every misery and vice, and on the peculiar disadvanteges of my sex.” The novel quickly became viewed as “a scandalous disrobing in public” but it has endured as much on the basis of its readability as on its pointed social commentary.Trade Review“Marilyn Brooks’ excellent edition of Emma Courtney situates Hays’ first novel philosophically, in relation to Godwin and Wollstonecraft; biographically, in relation to Hays’ tormented love affairs; and with regard to the literary ferment expressed in the Jacobin novel. Brooks also provides essential, and in some cases rare background material in the several appendices. The result is that this wonderful formerly obscure novel now yields the intellectual excitement and scandalous frisson that it generated upon publication.” — Sandra Sherman, University of Arkansas, FayettevilleTable of ContentsAcknowledgementsIntroductionMary Hays: A Brief ChronologyA Note on the TextMemoirs of Emma CourtneyAppendix A: Selections from the Mary Hays and William Godwin CorrespondenceAppendix B: Selected Letters of William FrendAppendix C: Articles by Hays in the Monthly MagazineAppendix D: Reviews of Memoirs of Emma CourtneyAppendix E: On Sensibility On Melancholy Appendix F: The Anti-Jacobin BacklashAppendix G: Mary Wollstonecraft to Mary HaysAppendix H: Obituary of Mary WollstonecraftSelect Bibliography
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Broadview Press Ltd Walsingham: or, the Pupil of Nature
Book SynopsisWalsingham is both a lively story and a commentary by Mary Robinson on her society’s constraints upon women. The novel follows the lives of two main characters, Walsingham Ainsforth and his cousin, Sir Sidney Aubrey, a girl who is passed off as a son by her mother so that she will become the family heir. Sidney, educated in France, returns to England as an adult and persistently sabotages Walsingham’s love interests (having secretly fallen in love with him herself). Eventually, Sidney reveals her identity, and she and Walsingham declare their mutual love, wed, and share the family’s estate.This Broadview edition includes a rich selection of primary sources material including contemporary reviews; historical and literary accounts of eighteenth-century female cross-dressers; and selections from contemporary works that focus on the figure of the "fallen" woman.Trade ReviewMary Robinson's Walsingham is at once a novel of ideas, sentimental romance, gothic adventure and worldly satire. This responsibly edited and amply annotated edition effectively demonstrates how the work integrates the literary, social, educational and gender politics of the 1790s. Shaffer's thoroughly researched introduction serves as a resource for students and scholars alike." - Laura L. Runge, University of South FloridaTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionMary Darby Robinson: A Brief ChronologyA Note on the TextIndex to the PoetryWalsinghamAppendix A: Contemporary Reviews (1798) 1. The Monthly Review 2. The Critical Review 3. The Analytical Review 4. The Anti-Jacobin 5. The Monthly Magazine and British Register 6. The Monthly Mirror 7. The Monthly Visitor 8. British CriticAppendix B: Accounts of Real Eighteenth-Century Female-to-Male Cross-Dressers 1. Mrs. Charlotte Charke, A Narrative of the Life of Charlotte Charke (1755) 2. [Henry Fielding], The Female Husband (1746) 3. Anon, The Female Soldier (1750) 4. Giovanni Bianchi, An Historical and Physical Dissertation on the Case of Catherine Vizzani (1751)Appendix C: Fictional Eighteenth-Century Cross-Dressers 1. Selina Davenport, English Forbearance and Italian Vengeance (1828) 2. Miss A. Kendal, Tales of the Abbey (1800) 3. Sophia Lee, The Two Emilies (1798)Appendix D: Fictional Leniency Towards Sexually Fallen Woman 1. Miss Street, The Recluse of the Appenines (1793) 2. Sophia Woodfall, Frederick Montravers (1803) 3. Mary Robinson, The Natural Daughter (1799) 4. Elizabeth Helme, The Farmer of Inglewood Forest (1796) 5. Amelia Opie, The Father and Daughter (1800)Select Bibliography and Works Cited
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Broadview Press Ltd A Known Scribbler: Frances Burney on Literary
Book SynopsisFrances Burney’s journals and letters, composed between 1768 and 1839, contain a unique account of the creative, social, and commercial ambitions and achievements of an eighteenth-century female writer. Focusing on Burney’s literary life, this selection from her journals and correspondence combines Burney’s own accounts of the creation of her popular novels, her aspirations for her dramatic writings, and her reflections upon her letters and journals as literary productions in their own right.In addition to Burney’s letters and journal entries, this Broadview edition includes: selections from Burney’s Brief Reflections relative to the Emigrant French Clergy (1793) and Memoirs of Doctor Burney (1832); letters by family and friends about her literary activities; and contemporary reviews of The Diary and Letters of Madame d’Arblay.Trade Review“This rich selection gives a vivid sense of Burney, the sharp-eyed and exacting writer. It also brings to life her struggles, and her self-awareness, as an author, striving and competing in a literary marketplace. The book charts one extraordinary woman’s life of writing, but its journal entries, letters and reviews also reveal the changing habits of a whole literary culture.” — John Mullan, University College London“These accounts of Frances Burney’s literary adventures, along with the advice of her closest friends and relatives, provide a penetrating view of a woman writer’s constraints and obstacles in the eighteenth century. Justine Crump’s selections, from Burney’s excitement over the anonymous publication of Evelina to Samuel Crisp’s warnings about propriety and Edmund Burke’s praise of Cecilia, provide intriguing perspectives of Burney and her art.” — Linda Lang-Peralta, The Metropolitan State College of DenverTable of ContentsAcknowledgementsPrefaceAbbreviations and Short TitlesIntroductionBurney and the Literary MarketplaceBurney and Eighteenth-Century TheatreCreativity and the Female Artistin Eighteenth-Century BritainBurney’s Life-WritingsFrances Burney: A Brief ChronologyA Note on the TextPrincipal PersonsJournals and Correspondence of Frances BurneyReferencesAppendix: Contemporary Reviews of The Diary and Letters of Madame d’Arblay New Monthly Magazine and Humorist (February 1842) [John Wilson Croker] The Quarterly Review (June 1842) [Thomas Babington Macaulay] The Edinburgh Review (January 1843) Eclectic Review (1847) Select Bibliography
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Broadview Press Ltd Autobiography Of Ashley Bowen (1728-1813)
Book SynopsisThe first American sailor known to write his own autobiography, Ashley Bowen remains a valuable storyteller who can speak to today’s readers about the maritime world in the age of sail. Ashley Bowen began his seafaring career at the age of eleven. After leaving the sea, Bowen spent the rest of his days as a ship-rigger in Marblehead, Massachusetts. A witness to significant historical events, including the British conquest of Canada and the American Revolution, Ashley Bowen confounds today’s audience with his eighteenth-century interpretation of events—an interpretation informed by his deeply religious beliefs and his suspicion of Yankee patriotism.The Broadview edition is the first to present the story of Ashley Bowen as a continuous narrative. Vickers’ introduction provides the context for Bowen’s life in colonial New England, and additional writings by Ashley Bowen and his Marblehead contemporaries are included. The appendices include Bowen’s diary accounts of his experiences in the 1759 British expedition against Quebec, smallpox epidemics, and the American Revolution.Trade Review“Thanks to Daniel Vickers and Broadview Press for making Ashley Bowen’s Diary and Journals so readily accessible. Heretofore only available to scholars working in research libraries, The Autobiography of Ashley Bowen can now become essential reading in undergraduate Early American, Atlantic, and maritime history courses.” — Robert A. McCaughey, Columbia University“Daniel Vickers’ masterful treatment of Ashley Bowen’s journals gives us the best look into colonial maritime life to date. Bowen’s meticulous journal entries combined with Vickers’ editorial technique makes this an invaluable resource for scholars and maritime enthusiasts alike.” — Joshua M. Smith, U.S. Merchant Marine Academy“The Autobiography of Ashley Bowen is an essential source for anyone interested in maritime history. Daniel Vickers provides an excellent introduction that places Bowen in the larger context of Atlantic history. The maps, notes, and appendices are a treasure trove of information.” — Jerry Bannister, Dalhousie UniversityTable of ContentsAcknowledgementsForewordIntroductionAshley Bowen: A Brief ChronologyThe Autobiography of Ashley Bowen (1728–1813)Appendix A: Ashley Bowen, “Courtship of Dorothy Chadwick”Appendix B: Ashley Bowen, Journal Entries Relating to the Seven Years War and the Expedition Against Quebec, 1759Voyage to QuebecQuebec CampaignBattle of the Plains of Abraham and the Capture of QuebecAppendix C: SmallpoxAshley Bowen, “A Memorandum of the Smallpox from the First Discovery at Marblehead, 1773”Ashley Bowen, Journal Entries on the Smallpox Epidemic and Inoculation Controversy (1773–74)Excerpts from the Essex Gazette Relating to the Smallpox Epidemic and Inoculation Controversy (1773–74)Ashley Bowen, Journal Entries Relating to the Smallpox Epidemic (1777)Ashley Bowen, Journal Entries on Minding the Smokehouse During the Smallpox Epidemic (1792)Appendix D: Ashley Bowen, Journal Entries During the American RevolutionThe Coercive Acts Take Effect (1774)Lexington and Concord (1775)Bunker Hill (1775)Benedict Arnold’s Attack on Quebec (1775–76)Two Weeks in the War (1776)Campaign in the Middle Colonies (1776–77)Religion and Revolution in MarbleheadAppendix E: Personal Writings of Ashley BowenPoetryOn SmallpoxOn Revolution and ReligionOn MarriageDreamsAppendix F: Contemporary Accounts of MarbleheadReverend John Barnard (1714–66)Alexander Hamilton (1744)Francis Goelet (1750)Ensign Francis Williams (1775)Robert Honyman (1775)Francisco de Miranda (1784)George Washington (1789)Appendix G: Miscellaneous WritingsJournal of Elizabeth Bowen MartinLetter from Nathan Bowen to Ashley Bowen (24 May 1757)From the Boston News-Letter and New England Chronicle (10 March 1763)From a Letter from Ashley Bowen to the Reverend William Bentley (14 May 1807)From William Bentley’s DiaryAshley Bowen’s Obituary, Essex Register (6 February 1813)Select Bibliography
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Arsenal Pulp Press Stoney Creek Woman: The Story of Mary John
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Arsenal Pulp Press The World Is Moving Around Me: A Memoir of the
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Arsenal Pulp Press How Poetry Saved My Life: A Hustler's Memoir
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Arsenal Pulp Press Tomboy Survival Guide
Book SynopsisA memoir of struggle, acceptance and empowerment.
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Arsenal Pulp Press Dead Reckoning: How I Came to Meet the Man Who
Book SynopsisIn this gripping and emotional memoir, a woman confronts the man who murdered her father twenty years earlier.
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Black Rose Books Requiem for a Lightweight
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Firefly Books Ltd Sigmund Freud
Book SynopsisNot a typical biography, Ralph Steadman examines Freud using Freud's 1905 essay on Jokes and illustrates his points with 75 drawings. The result is a masterful interplay of text and illustration, visual and verbal puns, and unexpected insight. One genius takes on another. In what is a thoroughly atypical biography, Ralph Steadman examines Freud using his 1905 book The Joke and Its Relation to the Unconscious to illustrate his points with 75 illustrations. The result is a masterful interplay of text and illustration, visual and verbal puns, and unexpected insight. Sigmund Freud bursts defiantly and gleefully beyond the bounds of orthodox biography. It is a wildly humorous exercise in bending, stretching and speculating on the activities of the so-called Father of Psychoanalysis. Ralph Steadman wields his shrewd wit and fierce pen to highlight the ebbs and tides of Freud's life and career from early childhood to the moment of death. But there's a twist. Rich illustrations and witty text work hand in hand to transform each scene into a "joking situation," which the artist hilariously examines according to the techniques wielded by Freud himself in his 1905 book on humour and the unconscious mind. The result is a fantastic Freudian festival of visual and verbal puns, unexpected insights, and sheer intellectual enjoyment. Sigmund Freud is superbly illustrated with more than 50 major drawings and 25 vignettes by a renowned master of the pen. It remains one of the most original illustrated books of our times and a Ralph Steadman classic. AUTHOR: Ralph Steadman has been a cartoonist since 1956, starting as a caustic observer of Britain's political and social scene. He is well known as the illustrator of Hunter S. Thompson's Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. Steadman's work appears regularly in newspapers and magazines, including Rolling Stone and the Atlantic Monthly, and his many published books include Tales of the Weirrd and Alice in Wonderland.
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Irwin Law You Be the Judge
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Coach House Books Suzanne
Book SynopsisAnaïs Barbeau-Lavalette never knew her mother’s mother. Curious to understand why her grandmother, Suzanne, a sometime painter and poet associated with Les Automatistes, a movement of dissident artists that included Paul-Émile Borduas, abandoned her husband and young family, Barbeau-Lavalette hired a private detective to piece together Suzanne’s life.Suzanne, winner of the Prix des libraires du Québec and a bestseller in French, is a fictionalized account of Suzanne’s life over eighty-five years, from Montreal to New York to Brussels, from lover to lover, through an abortion, alcoholism, Buddhism, and an asylum. It takes readers through the Great Depression, Québec's Quiet Revolution, women’s liberation, and the American civil rights movement, offering a portrait of a volatile, fascinating woman on the margins of history. And it’s a granddaughter’s search for a past for herself, for understanding and forgiveness.It’s about a nameless despair, an unbearable sadness. But it’s also a reflection on what it means to be a mother, and an artist. Most of all, it’s a magnificent novel.’ Les MéconnusAnaïs Barbeau-Lavalette is a Montreal-based author and director. She was named the 2012 Artist for Peace by the social justice organization Les Artistes Pour la Paix.Rhonda Mullins is a writer and translator living in Montréal. She received the 2015 Governor General's Literary Award for Twenty-One Cardinals, her translation of Jocelyne Saucier's Les héritiers de la mine.
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Coach House Books There Is No Blue
Book SynopsisTHE GLOBE AND MAIL: BOOKS TO READ IN FALL 2023THE GLOBE AND MAIL BEST 100 BOOKS OF 2023CBC BOOKS BEST CANADIAN NONFICTION OF 2023Martha Baillie’s richly layered response to her mother’s passing, her father's life, and her sister’s suicide is an exploration of how the body, the rooms we inhabit, and our languages offer the psyche a home, if only for a time. Three essays, three deaths. The first is the death of the author’s mother, a protracted disappearance, leaving space for thoughtfulness and ritual: the washing of her body, the making of a death mask. The second considers the author’s father, his remoteness, his charm, a lacuna at the centre of the family even before his death, earlier than her mother’s. And then, the shocking death of the author’s sister, a visual artist and writer living with a diagnosis of schizophrenia, who writes three reasons to die on her bedroom wall and then takes her life.In this close observation of a family, few absolutes hold, as experiences of reality diverge. A memoir of cascading grief and survival from the author of The Incident Report."Martha Baillie’s novels are thrillingly, joyously singular, that rare combination of sui generis and just plain generous. That There Is No Blue, her memoir, is all of those things too, is no surprise; still, she has gone somewhere extraordinary. This triptych of essays, which exquisitely unfolds the “disobedient tale” of the lives and deaths of her mother, her father, and her sister, is a meditation on the mystery and wonder of grief and art making and home and memory itself. It made me think of kintsugi, the Japanese art of repair, in which the mending is not hidden but featured and beautifully illuminated. Baillie’s variety of attention, carved out of language, is tenderness, is love." – Maud Casey, author of City of Incurable Women"This is a stunning memoir, intense and meticulous in its observations of family life. Baillie subtly interrogates and conveys the devastating mistranslations that take place in childhood, the antagonism and porousness of siblings, and the tragedy of schizophrenia as it unfolds. I couldn’t put it down." – Dr. Lisa Appignanesi, author of Mad, Bad and Sad and Everyday Madness""Exquisite." – Souvankham Thammavongsa, author of How to Pronounce Knife"I am grateful for this profound meditation on family and loss.” – Charlie Kaufman, filmmaker"This strange, unsettling memoir of outer life and inner life and their bizarre twining captures the author’s identity by way of her mother’s death, her sister’s failing battle with mental illness, and the mysterious figure of her father. It combines anguished guilt, deep tenderness, and bemused affection in highly evocative, often disturbing prose. Its brave honesty is amplified by a persistent lyricism; its undercurrent of fear is uplifted by a surprising, resilient hopefulness. It is both a plea for exoneration and an act of exoneration, an authentic meditation on the terrible difficulty of being human." – Andrew Solomon, author of The Noonday DemonTrade Review"There is No Blue is a study in the tyranny of fragility. . . It's strangely mesmerizing, also disturbing. It's a book about memory--whose memory counts--but it's also a book about art." – Christina Patterson, The Sunday Times"[Baillie] knows she’ll never find out why a shared childhood should have had such different outcomes; the only truth she arrives at will be variable and of her own making. Still, the 'disobedient tale' she tells is tough, tender and compelling." – Blake Morrison, The Guardian "Baillie’s memoir in essays, There Is No Blue, emerges from a desire to collapse [the] distance between sister and sister." – Rachel Gerry, Literary Review of Canada “Revealing, puzzling, dazzling, The Search for Heinrich Schlögel resists reduction, rewards rereading. It draws you forward as a narrative should, but ultimately unfolds in you like poetry.” – Jamie Zeppa, Literary Review of Canada on The Search for Heinrich Schlögel“Baillie delivers a work of magical realism that captures the experience of postcolonial guilt ... and gives voice to a silenced past.” – Publishers Weekly, starred review of The Search for Heinrich Schlögel“A poetic journey into mystery that asks hazy questions about time, culture and one’s sense of self.” – Kirkus Reviews on The Search for Heinrich Schlögel“The beautiful descriptions of the wild outdoors in northern Canada alone make this book worth reading. Baillie is an excellent storyteller, combining adventure with deeper elements and the characters' search for self. Highly recommended.” – Library Journal on The Search for Heinrich Schlögel“Clara, despite her volatility, is the novel's linchpin – a creative choice that speaks to Baillie's characteristic cerebral playfulness as well as her allegiance to characters held on society's margins … Baillie's empathetic portrayal of Clara shows a mind following its own kind of logic. There's a lighter tone to this novel, so it might surprise readers how much it has to say about creativity and the fractured self.” – The Globe and Mail on If Clara“If Clara finds Baillie at the top of her game with this complex, deftly layered new novel … a richly rewarding read to sink into for a solitary afternoon.” – The Toronto Star on If Clara
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Fernwood Publishing Co Ltd A Legacy of Love: Remembering Muriel Duckworth,
Book SynopsisMuriel Duckworth passed away August 22, 2009 in her one hundred and first year. In the weeks that followed memorial services were held in Austin Quebec, Halifax, Montréal, Ottawa, Toronto and Vancouver. People from across Canada recognized that her passing marked the end of an era and they wanted to not only remember her but to come together to be a part of her ongoing legacy of love. This book brings together stories from Muriel's family and close friends from the past dozen years of her life. It is a collection of incredible tales of Muriel's ability to reach out to people, her humour, her deep affection for her family, her ongoing activism and enduring political feistiness, her views on education, religion, death, war and love. The book is richly illustrated with photographs from Muriel's later years.
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Fernwood Publishing Co Ltd Just Jen: Thriving Through Multiple Sclerosis
Book SynopsisWinner of the 2017 Margaret and John Savage First Book Award – Non-Fiction!Jen Powley was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis at fifteen. By thirty-five, she had lost the use of her arms and legs.Just Jen is a powerful memoir that tells the story of Powley's life at the time of her diagnosis, and the infinite, irrevocable ways it has changed since. Powley's writing pulls no punches. She is lively, bold and unapologetic, answering questions people are often afraid to ask about living with a progressive disease. And yet, these snapshots from Powley's life are not tinged with anger or despair. Just Jen is a powerful, uplifting and unforgettable work by an author who has laid her life - and her body - bare in order to survive.
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McArthur & Company Dogs, Houses, Gardens, Food and Other Addictions
Book SynopsisAn enormously entertaining and witty memoir.
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Trafford Publishing This Old House by the Lake
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Trafford Publishing Hospital History and Medical Practice in My Small Town: With Personal Stories of the Author
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Guardian Books The Hedge
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Broadview Press Ltd The Life of Mr Richard Savage
Book SynopsisThe Life of Mr Richard Savage was the first important book by a then-unknown Grub Street hack, Samuel Johnson. Richard Savage (1697—1743) was a poet, playwright, and satirist who claimed to be the illegitimate son of a late earl and to have been denied his inheritance and viciously persecuted by his mother. He was urbane, charming, a brilliant conversationalist, but also irresponsible and impulsive. His role in a tavern brawl almost led him to the gallows, though his life was saved by an eleventh-hour pardon by the King. Over time he attracted many supporters, practically all of whom he managed to alienate by the time of his death in a debtors’ prison in Bristol. Johnson, who had been friends with Savage for a little over a year, drew on published documents and his own memories of Savage to produce one of the first great English biographies.The edition is supplemented by other writings by Johnson, a selection of Savage’s prose and verse, contemporary and posthumous responses to Savage and to Johnson’s biography, and selections by Johnson’s first two major biographers, Sir John Hawkins and James Boswell.Trade Review“Samuel Johnson’s Life of Mr Richard Savage is one of the greatest narratives in any genre of the British eighteenth century. Johnson’s biography of his friend, a minor poet and hack writer who represented himself as the illegitimate son of a nobleman and died in a Bristol jail, is at once sympathetic and satiric. Broadview’s edition, freshly edited and annotated by Nicholas Seager and Lance Wilcox, should be welcomed by students and general readers alike. Their introduction is lively, informed, and concise. The narrative itself is supplemented by relevant writings of Johnson and Savage, excerpts establishing Savage’s reputation, and a range of other useful aids.” — Robert Folkenflik, University of California, Irvine“This deeply informed edition of The Life of Mr Richard Savage is essential reading for students both of Samuel Johnson and of biography. The literary criticism, editorial practice, reception history, and wide-ranging reclamation of contexts are exemplary. The edition also allows us to read Savage’s poetry, which Johnson included in his footnotes but which Seager and Wilcox prudently place at the back of their book. They have joined Samuel Johnson to produce an admirable Savage that should find readers from the classroom to the boardroom.” — Howard Weinbrot, University of Wisconsin, Madison“Like all Broadview editions, this is a first-rate version of Johnson’s work. The introduction is a masterpiece of information. It explains who Johnson was when he took on this project, and why he would write such a work about his friend. Even more exciting are the appendices, devoted to such topics as related writings by Johnson; some of Savage’s writings; Savage’s contemporary reputation; Savage’s posthumous reputation; and the lives of Johnson. A more useful text for the classroom could not be imagined.” — George E. Haggerty, Studies in English Literature 1500-1900“This comprehensively researched edition breaks new ground in what we know of Savage, adds abundant dimensions to the study of his life and work, and recasts The Life of Mr Richard Savage as an ideal teaching text in the area of eighteenth-century literature.” — Joe Lines The Modern Language ReviewTable of ContentsAcknowledgementsIntroductionA Note on MoneyRichard Savage and Samuel Johnson: A Brief ChronologyA Note on the TextAn Account of the Life of Mr Richard Savage, Son of the Earl RiversJohnson’s extended footnotes to the LifeAppendix A: Errors of Fact in Johnson’s Life of SavageAppendix B: Related Writings by Johnson London (1738) The Rambler no. 60 (13 October 1750) From The Rambler no. 145 (6 August 1751) The Idler no. 84 (24 November 1759) “The Life of Collins” (1781) Appendix C: Richard Savage, Satirist The Bastard (1728) “Fulvia” (c. 1728) From An Author to Be Let (1729) From The Progress of a Divine (1735) Appendix D: Savage’s Contemporary Reputation From Eliza Haywood, Memoirs of a Certain Island Adjacent to the Kingdom of Utopia (1724) From The Life of Mr. Richard Savage [The “Newgate Biography”] (1727) From Nature in Perfection (1728) From William Saunders, “On Richard Savage, Esq” (1742) Appendix E: Savage’s Posthumous Reputation Denis Diderot, Review of L’Histoire de Savage (1771) Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Prologue to Sir Thomas Overbury (1777) “On Richard Savage, the Poet” (1790) Appendix F: Johnson’s Biographers From Sir John Hawkins, Life of Samuel Johnson (1787) From James Boswell, Life of Samuel Johnson (1791) GlossarySelect Bibliography
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Cfi Goodbye, I Love You
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Scholars Press Letters from Ancient Egypt
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American Society for Microbiology Women in Microbiology
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Lynne Rienner Publishers Inc Mau Mau Memoirs: History, Memory and Politics
Book SynopsisThis study of 13 personal accounts of the Mau Mau revolt by Kenyans, demonstrates that these memoirs serve to refute both the British version of the revolt and that of the leaders of the independent Kenyan state. It also points to the importance of Mau Mau in the making of modern Kenya.
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Lynne Rienner Publishers Inc Voices from Mutira: Change in the Lives of Rural
Book SynopsisDocumenting the changes occurring since the 1984 study, this edition provides a collection of life histories from the women of Mutira. Two new introductory chapters frame the life histories within the context both of significant macro-level transitions in Kenya and current thinking on gender.
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Fulcrum Publishing Going Over East (PB): Reflections of a Woman
Book SynopsisThis new edition of the reflections of a woman rancher includes an epilogue that shares the author's present-day story.
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Fulcrum Inc.,US In Search of Kinship (PB): Modern Pioneering on
Book SynopsisIn superbly crafted writing, Page Lambert weaves together stories of western ranching traditions and ancient native American beliefs.
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Fulcrum Inc.,US By Grit and Grace: Eleven Women Who Shaped the
Book SynopsisFor most, the image of the American West has been male dominated, focusing on characters ranging from Jesse James to John Wayne. In the hardscrabble West of the nineteenth century, however, women played prominent and influential roles, helping to shape the evolution of not only the region but the nation as a whole.In this lively and informative book, ten noted historians explore the lives of eleven women, from the "Wild West" performer Annie Oakley and the notorious Calamity Jane to the entrepreneur Mary Ellen Pleasant and the reformer Abigail Scott Dunaway. By telling the fascinating tales of these women, this accessible and thoroughly researched collection not only enlightens us but also serves to secure a place in history for these remarkable women.
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Fulcrum Inc.,US Growing Up True: Lessons from a Western Boyhood
Book SynopsisWritten in a compellingly simple style, Growing Up True evokes the struggles of a boy stretching for manhood in rural Colorado during and after World War II. But the lessons and demands of real life always nipped at the edges of his fantastic dreams.
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Fulcrum Publishing The Hank Adams Reader: An Exemplary Native
Book SynopsisVine Deloria once said that Hank Adams was the most important Native American in the country. From his treaty rights work to his mediation of disputes between AIM and the US government in the 1970s, Adams shaped modern Native activism. For the first time, Adams' writings are collected, evidencing his unparalleled role in Indian affairs and beyond.Trade Review"Adams has always been an insightful and prolific writer and the Adams Reader will serve to introduce a new generation of Native leaders and activists to the important contribution made by this great intellectual." --Steve Pavlik, Indian Country Today
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Fulcrum Inc.,US Smaldone: The Untold Story of an American Crime
Book SynopsisStarted by Italian brothers from North Denver, the high-profile Smaldone crime syndicate began in the bootlegging days of the 1920s and flourished into the 1980s. Connected to notorious crime figures, politicians, and presidents, Clyde Smaldone was the crime family's leader. Through candid interviews and firsthand accounts, Dick Kreck reveals the true sense of what it meant to be a Smaldone, not only the corrupt but also the virtuous.
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Fulcrum Inc.,US Boxeando por Cuba: La Historia de un Immigrante
Book SynopsisIn 1961, fearing the communist rule of Fidel Castro, Guillermo Vicente Vidal's family sent him to America through Operation Peter Pan. He arrived in Colorado and was sent to an orphanage with his brothers, and his family reunited four years later. Fifty years later, he served as Denver's mayor. This is his story of overcoming incredible odds.Trade Review"I really enjoyed it." --President Bill Clinton "The book is lovely, beautifully written and so evocative of a time and place." --Anna Quindlen "Growing up in a wealthy, privileged family in Havana in the 1950s, Guillermo seemed to lead an idyllic life, but, in fact, he and his brothers lay awake for hours as their parents raged at each other long into the night. Then Castro came to power, and, in 1961, Guillermo's parents sent the boys to the U.S. with more than 14,000 other Cuban children on Operation Peter Pan. When relatives in Miami failed to meet the Vidal brothers, they found themselves in an orphanage in Denver, where they suffered brutal abuse. After many years, their parents joined them; Vidal grew up to be mayor of Denver, and today he is a Hispanic business leader. Cuban Americans will certainly take pride in the successful immigrant story here, but the candor of the personal drama at home gives the book added depth and resonance. Paralleling the broader context of political uproar in Cuba and the missile crisis are the raging battles between the parents, from which there wasno escape." --Booklist "Una historia que inspira." --Ken Salazar, Secretario del Interior de Estados Unidos "Un libro lirico y magico." --John Hickenlooper, gobernador de Colorado "Una historia inquietante sobre la transicion a la adultez, que recuerda una novela 'dickensiana', aunque...totalmente veridica." --Helen Thorpe, periodista
£15.26
Graywolf Press,U.S. My Lesbian Husband: Landscapes of a Marriage
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£17.99
Graywolf Press,U.S. Early Morning: Remembering My Father, the Poet
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£19.80
Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3pl The Language of Blood
£11.39
Graywolf Press A Lie about My Father
Book SynopsisMy father told lies all his life and, because I knew no better, I repeated them. Lies about everything, great and small, were the very fabric of my world.The lie in the title of astonishing memoir Lie About My Father is born of shame. Traveling around upstate New York in the nineties, John Burnside can''t bear to share the truth about his father during a casual conversation with a hitchhiker. He covers his uneasiness with a lie. It felt natural to do so.His father, abandoned as a baby on a stranger''s doorstep, created a masterful web of deceit to erase this unbearable fact. John, even as a child, represented everything that was wrong with the world and became the recipient of his father''s selfhatred in the form of enraged violence, and worse, petty, cruel belittlement. Growing up in the tough working-class neighborhoods of Scotland and later England, John learned to lie back to his father and, later, about his father.
£13.50
Graywolf Press The Narrow Door: A Memoir of Friendship
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£13.60
Graywolf Press The Last Englishmen: Love, War, and the End of
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£22.40
Graywolf Press The Last Englishmen: Love, War, and the End of
Book SynopsisA sumptuous biographical saga, both intimate and epic, about the waning of the British Empire in IndiaJohn Auden was a pioneering geologist of the Himalaya. Michael Spender was the first to draw a detailed map of the North Face of Mount Everest. While their younger brothers-W. H. Auden and Stephen Spender-achieved literary fame, they vied to be included on an expedition that would deliver Everest's summit to an Englishman, a quest that had become a metaphor for Britain's struggle to maintain power over India. To this rivalry was added another: in the summer of 1938 both men fell in love with a painter named Nancy Sharp. Her choice would determine where each man's wartime loyalties would lie.Set in Calcutta, London, the glacier-locked wilds of the Karakoram, and on Everest itself, The Last Englishmen is also the story of a generation. The cast of this exhilarating drama includes Indian and English writers and artists, explorers and Communist spies, Die Hards and Indian nationalists, political rogues and police informers. Key among them is a highborn Bengali poet named Sudhin Datta, a melancholy soul torn, like many of his generation, between hatred of the British Empire and a deep love of European literature, whose life would be upended by the arrival of war on his Calcutta doorstep.Dense with romance and intrigue, and of startling relevance for the great power games of our own day, Deborah Baker's The Last Englishmen is an engrossing story that traces the end of empire and the stirring of a new world order.
£15.30
Rowman & Littlefield August Benziger: International Portrait Painter
Book SynopsisAugust Benziger was one of the most sought-after portrait painters of his time. His subjects ranged from Popes to princes, from presidents to businessmen. This biography brings us closer to his subjects who carried history from the 19th to the 20th century.
£43.81
Taylor Trade Publishing Daughter of Fortune: The Bettie Brown Story
Book SynopsisHer name was Rebecca Aston Brown, but the world knew her as Miss Bettie. Artist, world traveler, and for the times most shocking of all, a spinster to the end of her days, Bettie's life has been the subject of conjecture and rumor.
£9.49
Taylor Trade Publishing Lawmen of the Old West: The Good Guys
Book SynopsisMany of the well-known lawmen of the old west were as crooked as the men they went after. The men portrayed in this book, while less well known today, were good and honorable men. They are men that, in today's confusing world, can be held up as role models. The book is well written, in a style crafted to attract the mainstream reader.
£11.69
Taylor Trade Publishing Texas Sports Writers: The Wild and Wacky Years
Book SynopsisBob St. John recalls the antics of himself and others, such as Randy Galloway, Frank Luksa, Gary Cartwright, Dan Cook, and Blackie Sherrod, in this memoir of those madcap days of Texas sportswriting.
£13.49
Taylor Trade Publishing Singin' a Lonesome Song: Texas Prison Tales
Book SynopsisTexas convicts and inmates have made the Texas prison system the most colorful in the world over the past 150 years. TTrade ReviewGary Brown's book of prison tales is an extremely well written, captivating (no pun intended) collection of stories about the various inhabitants who have made up the history of the Texas prison system. The material is rich, varied and well researched. ...is an engaging collection that is unlikely to dissappoint any of its readers. -- Steve Zani * Review Of Texas Books *
£13.49
