Biography, Literature and Literary studies Books
Dover Publications Inc. The Dover Anthology of Classic Christmas Stories
Book SynopsisThe enduring appeal of the Christmas story relies on heartfelt tradition and often moral quandaries both magical and mundane, all wrapped in the lore and practice of this cherished holiday. This anthology collects ten classic tales from some of literature's greatest writers. Stories included in this collection are The Gift of the Magi by O. Henry, The Elves and the Shoemaker by the Bros. Grimm, A Christmas Tree by Charles Dickens, The Burglar's Christmas by Willa Cather, A Letter From Santa by Mark Twain, A Country Christmas by Louisa May Alcott, Where Love Is, There God Is Also by Leo Tolstoy, The Christmas Banquet by Nathaniel Hawthorne, A Kidnapped Santa Claus by L. Frank Baum, and Christmas; or the Good Fairy by Harriet Beecher Stowe.
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Dover Publications Inc. Frankenstein
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Dover Publications Inc. Scarlet Letter
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Cambridge University Press King Richard III
Book SynopsisThis second edition of King Richard III features a new introductory section by Janis Lull, which focuses on contemporary stage and film productions as well as recent scholarly criticism. Lull stresses the importance of women in the play but shows how female roles are often side-lined on stage and screen.Table of ContentsIntroduction: History and meaning in Richard III; Richard III and Macbeth; Plot and language in Richard III; Richard III in performance; The audience in Richard III; Recent stage, film, and critical interpretations; Note on the text; List of characters; THE PLAY; Textual analysis; Appendix 1. The Q-only 'clock' passage; Appendix 2. The Plantagenet family tree; Reading list.
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Faber & Faber A Sultry Month
Book SynopsisWine and dine with Victorian London's literati in a heatwave in one of the first ever group biographies, introduced by Francesca Wade (author of Square Haunting).Though she loved the heat she could do nothing but lie on the sofa and drink lemonade and read Monte Cristo ''One of the most illuminating and insufficiently praised books of the last 60 years.'' ObserverNever bettered.' Guardian''Brilliant.'' Julian BarnesWholly original.' Craig BrownA pathfinder.' Richard HolmesExtraordinary.' Penelope LivelyJune 1846. As London swelters in a heatwave sunstroke strikes, meat rots, ice is coveted a glamorous coterie of writers and artists spend their summer wining, dining and opining.With the ringletted face of an Egyptian cat goddess', Elizabeth Barrett is courted by her secret fiancé, the poet Robert Browning, who plots their elopement to Italy; Keats roams Hampstead Heath; Wordsworth visits the zoo; Dickens is intrigued by Tom Thumb; the Carlyles host parties for a visiting German novelist and suffer a marital crisis. But when the visionary painter Benjamin Robert Haydon commits suicide, they find their entwined lives spiralling around the tragedy . . .One of the first-ever group biographies, Alethea Hayter's glorious A Sultry Month is a lively mosaic of archival riches inspired by the collages of the Pop Artists. A groundbreaking feat of creative non-fiction in 1965, her portrait of Victorian London's literati is just as vivid, witty and enticing today.Elegant Hayter more or less invented the biographical form which is a close study of a brief period in the life of an individual or a group . . . A rigorous scholar [with] an artist's eye.' A. S. ByattHayter's clever, innovative book turned a searchlight on a time, a place, a circle of people; it has surely inspired the subsequent fashion for group biographies.' Penelope LivelyNothing I've ever read has flung me so immediately into those streets, that weather, that period. Hayter never forgets that people want stories, that lives are stories.' Margaret ForsterHayter could take a tiny chip of life [and] find within it the seeds of a whole existence.' Richard HolmesA pioneer . . . Beautifully written vignettes . . . Immaculate scholarship and intense readability.' Jonathan BateOutstanding . . . A small masterpiece.' Anthony Burgess''A brilliant recreation of London literary life in 1846, which is highly original in its form and narrative cross-cutting.'' Julian BarnesTrade Review'Hayter's clever, innovative book turned a searchlight on a time, a place, a circle of people; it has surely inspired the subsequent fashion for group biographies.' Penelope Lively'Nothing I've ever read has flung me so immediately into those streets, that weather, that period. Hayter never forgets that people want stories, that lives are stories.' Margaret Forster'Hayter could take a tiny chip of life [and] find within it the seeds of a whole existence.' Richard Holmes'A pioneer . . . Beautifully written vignettes . . . Immaculate scholarship and intense readability.' Jonathan Bate'Outstanding . . . A small masterpiece.' Anthony Burgess
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Carcanet Press Ltd Beyond the Walls Selected Poems
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Taylor & Francis The Self on Trial
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Queer Literature in the Sinosphere
Book SynopsisQueer Literature in the Sinosphere is the most up-to-date English-language study of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ+) themed literature and culture in the Chinese-speaking world. From classical homoerotic texts to contemporary boys' love fan fiction, this book showcases the richness and diversity of queer Chinese literature across the full spectrum of genres, styles, topics and cultural politics. The book features authors and literary works from mainland China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore and the global Chinese diaspora. Featuring chapters by leading scholars from around the world, this book rewrites literature, history and culture from a queer lens in China and globally.
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Amberley Publishing Kents Literary Heritage
Book SynopsisThis book explores the fascinating history of Kentâs remarkable literary heritage as well as being a guide to the locations where that heritage can still be found.Trade Review'Kent’s Literary Heritage takes an extensive look at the lives of those who were born, grew up, lived or were simply inspired by repeated visits to the county.' -- Kent Online, October 2023
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Amberley Publishing East Anglias Literary Heritage
Book SynopsisThis book explores the fascinating history of East Angliaâs remarkable literary heritage as well as being a guide to the locations where that heritage can still be found.
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Coach House Books Spiral Agitator
Book SynopsisSteve Venright, the true heir to the literary legacy of Henri Michau, Christopher Dewdney and Jorge Luis Borges, is the only surrealist ever to come from Sarnia, Ontario. Spiral Agitator, his fourth book, is a sumptuous assortment of prose poems and visual art from beyond the Turbulated Curtain.
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Kenneth F Conklin LLC Norvel: An American Hero
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Unicorn Publishing Group Remembering Christopher Robin: Escaping
Book SynopsisThis story began a hundred years ago when a child became the inspiration for his famous father, A. A. Milne, who created one of the best known children's characters in recent history. His parents wanted a girl and to begin with treated him as one. They were initially quite distant from him and his upbringing was left to a loyal and loving nanny. Unfortunately, this left Christopher Robin Milne terminally shy and lacking in self-confidence. Unable to escape from the shadow of his fictional self, he became an object of continued interest from a non-understanding public. His salvation started with being sent away to Stowe School, going to Cambridge and joining the Army in the Second World War as a sapper. After an unhappy and directionless time immediately post-war in London, he eventually married and, very successfully, ran a bookshop in the South West for twenty-one years. His life was dominated by a love of the countryside, learned at his parents' country home, Cotchford Farm in Hartfield, East Sussex, and much later in Devon. How he turned his life round, against the odds, is the subject of this biography.
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Unicorn Publishing Group Beyond Chocolate
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Dzanc Books Henrytown
Book SynopsisTwenty years ago, Henrytown came crackling over Rocky Mountain radio frequencies as a spoken history—a series of tall tales Chris Erickson would recite between folk songs on his insomniac broadcast “The Old-Time Music & Lore.” A chimerical masterwork of storytelling and performance art, Erickson’s folklore recast the American Midwest as its own fantastical condition, captivating a cult-listenership steeped in small-town mythologies like Wisconsin Death Trip, Winesburg, Ohio, and Carl Sandburg’s Rootabaga Pigeons.This volume, produced in partnership between Dzanc Books and Graver Goods, brings that beloved town back to the page. Local brainiac Amber Kusnetsov goes missing after a mediocre performance on a biology quiz. A deadly explosion at Polk Plastics sends plumes of acrid smoke into the community. Gloria-half-of-something the Wampus Cat murders dirtbike enthusiast Mandu Fam Lam Bartlum behind the Park Tavern. Old Lookie floats slowly over the earth on his adult tricycle. John Dinger the Large is on his way to Niantic to kill trolls!Sung out by a town crier as mysteriously attuned to weather patterns and local myths as he is to the pandemonium of American speech, Chris Erickson’s debut work isn’t so much a novel as a telling the bees—a promiscuous, hive-minded folklore which speaks in many voices at once, past the human, and knows that every town is its own living breathing superorganism.
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CYPRESS BOOK CO LTD IMPORT HARRY POTTER THE HALFBLOOD PRINCE
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Soft Stir Stories of Collision
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INCA Press Incalculable Loss
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bleu. Script
Book SynopsisScript is the second book of J.J. Zana and a continuation of the series started with Cycles. Composed of fragments, it gathers eleven sectionswith a central part telling about his experiments with drugs.
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Hyper Hypo You Ate My Ears
Book SynopsisYou Ate My Ears is an illustrated anthology of 60 idioms from around the world: those weird, wonderful, and sometimes rude expressions that are nonsensical unless you're a native speaker of the language of origin. Idioms such as Stop ironing my head or Like an angel peeing on your tongue inspire Vitorovich to create literal illustrations that capture the cheeky and inventive and often bizarre ways of communicating in each culture. The idea emerged last summer when the artist visited her grandparents in Belgrade, where she discovered a book on Serbian idioms. She and her grandma read through all the expressions, and as her grandma tried to explain their meaning and origin, they ended squealing with laughter. For example, in Serbia, they say Morning is smarter than the evening, an expression that may only make sense if you've spent an evening drinking with a group of Serbians. Idioms are so ingrained in our daily speech that we rarely think about how they came into existence or why w
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Onomatopee Seasonal Matters Rural Relations ENG edition
Book SynopsisWhat if we reconsider contemporary rural challenges through relationships rather than oppositions? Based on seasonal work experiences, Seasonal Matters Rural Relations delves into the realm of contemporary agriculture and European labour migration. Through a variety of discursive formats, ranging from essays and interviews to drawings and recipes, this book explores the socio-political implications on rhythms, rituals, and cohabitation in Europe's countryside. The publication encourages a layered conversation between agricultural workers, engaged citizens, artists, and designers.
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Mundus Press Brook Hsu Nostalghia
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Profile Books Ltd Dante
Book Synopsis"A vital guide ... It is difficult to imagine anyone seriously interested in Dante who will not want to own this book" AN Wilson, The Times Since Dante Alighieri wrote the Divine Comedy it has defined how people imagine and depict not only heaven and hell, but romantic love and the human condition. However, while Dante's works are widely celebrated outside Italy, the circumstances of his extraordinary life are less well known. Born in 1265, Dante's adolescence was characterised by literary genius, but his political activism in one of the medieval world's wealthiest cities led to his death in exile. Pre-eminent Dante scholar Alessandro Barbero and celebrated translator Allan Cameron bring the poet vividly to life. Animating the political intrigue, violence, civil war, exile and cities that shaped Dante's poetic and political life, this is a remarkable portrait of one of the creators of European literature and a towering medieval figure in time for the 700th anniversary of his death.Trade ReviewBarbero ... richly contextualizes the life of a middle-class man of letters in medieval Italy -- Heather Webb * TLS *A vital guide ... It is difficult to imagine anyone seriously interested in Dante who will not want to own this book -- AN Wilson * The Times *Impeccably written and researched ... In all cases, [Barbero's] reasoning is cogent, his research impressive and his answers set in earnest dialogue with the historical record -- Joseph Luzzi * NY Times *
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Harvard University Press Northanger Abbey
Book SynopsisIn her introduction to Northanger Abbey—part of Harvard’s celebrated annotated Austen series—Susan Wolfson proposes that Austen’s most underappreciated, most playful novel is about fiction itself and how it can take possession of everyday understandings. Wolfson’s running commentary will engage new readers and delight scholars.Trade ReviewThe Belknap Press of the Harvard University Press continues its stellar collection of gorgeous, oversized editions with a new annotated version of Jane Austen’s 1817 novel Northanger Abbey. Princeton University English professor Susan Wolfson does the annotating honors this time, filling page after page with her lively and freakishly comprehensive marginalia… Her Introduction is fast-paced and insightful… The quality of the annotations themselves is universally excellent… No matter how many times you’ve read Northanger Abbey, Wolfson will teach you something, and many of the connections she draws are fascinating. -- Steve Donoghue * Open Letters Monthly *Offers up just the type of sumptuous reading experience that we’ve come to expect from this series…The Northanger Abbey text is richly illustrated with paintings, museum-quality photographs, and colorful Regency prints. A pleasure to turn, these luxurious pages will satisfy even the most book-hungry Janeite—and at a reasonable price. This is just the type of chocolate-box of a book that you will want to savor while curled up on the sofa…Wolfson’s smart and gorgeous new edition of Northanger Abbey is a must-have for anyone who looks forward to reading or rereading this novel in time for its bicentenary. You are in for a treat. -- Janine Barchas * JASNA News *Susan Wolfson is the ideal scholar-critic to guide us through Jane Austen’s mock-gothic Northanger Abbey. With a masterly introduction, this annotated edition is a treasure-trove of historical background, intertextual illumination, and literary insight. -- Joyce Carol OatesThrough her introduction and notes, Susan Wolfson provides abundant information about Jane Austen’s life, circumstances, and cultural setting, as well as a penetrating interpretation of Northanger Abbey. This annotated edition adds to the enjoyment that the novel has given readers over almost three centuries. Austen’s spoof of the Gothic supplies not only entertainment, but also, as Wolfson demonstrates, insight into the author’s attitudes toward reading, gender relations, the novelist’s art, and much besides. -- Patricia Meyer Spacks, University of VirginiaNorthanger Abbey, least known of Jane Austen’s novels, offers some of her wittiest lines and most personal opinions. Susan Wolfson’s cogent and spirited introduction and her notes, acute and thorough, make this an edition every Austen enthusiast will learn from and enjoy. -- Claire Tomalin, author of Jane Austen: A Life
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Random House Publishing Group Main Street
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LMH Publishing Understanding Jamaican Patois: An Introduction to
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Oxford University Press Reading
Book SynopsisToday many people take reading for granted, but we remain some way off from attaining literacy for the global human population. And whilst we think we know what reading is, it remains in many ways a mysterious process, or set of processes. The effects of reading are myriad: it can be informative, distracting, moving, erotically arousing, politically motivating, spiritual, and much, much more. At different times and in different places reading means different things. In this Very Short Introduction Belinda Jack explores the fascinating history of literacy, and the opportunities reading opens. For much of human history reading was the preserve of the elite, and most reading meant being read to. Innovations in printing, paper-making, and transport, combined with the rise of public education from the late eighteenth century on, brought a dramatic rise in literacy in many parts of the world. Established links between a nation''s levels of literacy and its economy led to the promotion of reading for political ends. But, equally, reading has been associated with subversive ideas, leading to censorship through multiple channels: denying access to education, controlling publishing, destroying libraries, and even the burning of authors and their works. Indeed, the works of Voltaire were so often burned that an enterprising Parisian publisher produced a fire-proof edition, decorated with a phoenix. But, as Jack demonstrates, reading is a collaborative act between an author and a reader, and one which can never be wholly controlled. Telling the story of reading, from the ancient world to digital reading and restrictions today, Belinda Jack explores why it is such an important aspect of our society.ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.Trade ReviewAn altogether riveting read. * Paradigm Explorer *Table of ContentsList of illustrations 1. What is reading? 2. Ancient worlds 3. Reading manuscripts, reading print 4. Modern reading 5. Forbidden reading 6. Reading and/as interpretation 7. Pluralities Further reading Index
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Freedom Only Freedom
Book SynopsisBehrouz Boochani is a Kurdish-Iranian writer, journalist, scholar, cultural advocate and filmmaker. Boochani was a writer and editor for the Kurdish language magazine Werya in Iran. He is a Visiting Professor, Birkbeck Law School; Associate Professor in Social Sciences at UNSW; non-resident Visiting Scholar at the Sydney Asia Pacific Migration Centre (SAPMiC), University of Sydney; Honorary Member of PEN International; and winner of an Amnesty International Australia 2017 Media Award, the Diaspora Symposium Social Justice Award, the Liberty Victoria 2018 Empty Chair Award, and the Anna Politkovskaya award for journalism. He publishes regularly with The Guardian, and his writing also features in The Saturday Paper, Huffington Post, New Matilda, The Financial Times and The Sydney Morning Herald. Boochani is also co-director (with Arash Kamali Sarvestani) of the 2017 feature-length film Chauka, Please Tell Us The Time; and collaborator on Nazanin Sahamizadeh's play Manus. His book, No Friend But The Mountains: Writing From Manus Prison won the 2019 Victorian Prize for Literature in addition to the Nonfiction category. He has also won the Special Award at the NSW Premier's Literary Awards, the Australian Book Industry Award for Nonfiction Book of the Year, and the National Biography Prize. Omid Tofighian is Adjunct Lecturer in the School of the Arts and Media, University of New South Wales; and Honorary Research Fellow at Birkbeck Law, University of London. He is an award-winning lecturer, researcher and community advocate, combining philosophy with interests in citizen media, popular culture, displacement and discrimination. He is the translator of Behrouz Boochani's multi-award winning book No Friend but the Mountains: Writing From Manus Prison (2018).Moones Mansoubi is a community, arts and cultural development worker based in Sydney. Her work is dedicated mainly to supporting and collaborating with migrants and people seeking asylum in Australia. She has managed numerous community and cultural projects and the first translator of Behrouz Boochani's work when he began writing from Manus Island. She was translation consultant for Boochani's book No Friend but the Mountains: Writing from Manus Prison (Picador Australia 2018). Her translation of the article An Island Off Manus (Saturday Paper 6 May, 2017) was included in Boochani's winning nomination for the Amnesty Media Award in 2017. Moones has a Masters Degree in International Relations and is passionate about social justice and social cohesion. She is currently coordinator of the Community Refugee Welcome Centre in Inner West Sydney and a content producer for SBS Radio, Persian program.Trade ReviewBehrouz Boochani’s prison writings transcend journalism to become both a cry for justice, and an anatomy of a brutal prison system designed to strip its inmates of their identity, their aspirations, their agency, and crush their spirit. His writings are urgent, eloquent, and desperately poetic. Writing from within his Manus Prison, Boochani exposes the horror and inhumanity of Australia’s offshore detention system, yet he also captures the uniqueness, comradeship, and intimate acts of resistance of his fellow inmates, and affirms their full humanity. He fulfils his mission, his “duty to history”, and ensures that this dark chapter in Australian history, and those who suffered its consequences are not forgotten. A tour de force in bearing witness. * Arnold Zable, author of The Fig Tree *International law entitled people fleeing persecution to claim asylum. But those who seek refuge in Australia are subjected to indefinite offshore detention – a form of torture designed to sap their spirit and traumatise their minds. Behrouz Boochani survives to tell the truth about the cruelty of this policy, in a book which should open the eyes of Australians to a cruelty for which they are politically and morally responsible. These are writings of literary power and first-hand authenticity, with a message of urgent importance at a time when the siren slogan of “offshore detention” is appealing to governments in the UK and elsewhere. When will we recognise that it is both unprincipled and inhumane to punish the innocent? * Geoffrey Robertson AO QC *No Friend But the Mountains was a classic of Australian literature; Freedom, Only Freedom is something better. It is the definitive statement on freedom from a diverse group of writers working together on familiar themes. * ArtsHub *Behrouz Boochani’s newspaper articles about the “Manus Prison” have lost none of their original immediacy. This book also showcases some of the rich conversations prompted by his writings. A must-read for anybody wondering about what might happen when governments opt for an Australian “solution” and shirk their responsibilities towards refugees. * Klaus Neumann, author of Across the Seas (2015) *Behrouz Boochani’s work matters not merely because it bears journalistic witness to the brutality of mandatory refugee detentions but also because it distils that experience into a sophisticated theory of power and resistance. This book offers a deep engagement with a truly original writer. * Jeff Sparrow, author of Crimes Against Nature, (2021) *No writer wants to be a prison writer, no exile dreams of displacement without end. But nothing illuminates totalitarian thinking better than the power of creative imagination. We are fortunate that Behrouz Boochani and his friends summoned the courage to push the experience of Australia’s refugee regime into words. This stunning collection chronicles Boochani’s determination not to vanish. Freedom, Only Freedom is absolutely necessary reading for all those who want to understand what moral responsibility, political courage, and the anti-totalitarian imagination mean today. * Lyndsey Stonebridge, Professor of Humanities and Human Rights, University of Birmingham, UK, and author of Placeless People *Focused on - but not limited to - his individual journey into exile, Behrouz Bouchani’s Freedom Only Freedom offers a provocative and vivid criticism of politics of incarceration, alienation, and subjugation of displaced refugees across the world with specific reference to the case Australia. He has created a new lexicon to reckon with the traumas of border-crossing, displacement, and alienation. * Fatemeh Shams, author of A Revolution in Rhyme: Poetic Co-Option Under the Islamic Republic *A necessary book in the era of border fetishism. Boochani shows us that the current punitive migration measures are rooted in a racist colonial history. Through linking the struggle of the indigenous people of Kurdistan to the struggle of migrants incarcerated by the Australian state in Manus Prison Boochani unfolds how a progressive political subjectivity emerges from the ruins of the nation-states system. Freedom, Only Freedom is a collection of critical and thoughtful contributions to scholarship on contemporary bordering practices. * Shahram Khosravi, Stockholm University, Sweden *Manus is a polite form of torture, designed to deny us the privilege of people like Behrouz. It is often forgotten that the trial judgment in the Tampa case was delivered just 8 hours before the terrible 9/11 attack on America. Our government ramped up calling boat people like Behrouz “illegals”. It’s a lie: Behrouz points out that he broke no law, committed no crime, and had no trial, but was jailed for years. * Julian Burnside, AO, KC *This collected volume of Boochani's prison writings - supported and contextualised by essays from experts in migration, refugee rights, politics and literature - is profound and necessary reading for anyone interested in literature and human rights. Boochani's prison writings, though produced under horrendous conditions, are poetic, sharp in observation and generous in ambit. His body of work documenting firsthand the atrocities inflicted on refugees by the Australian government and their mandatory detention policies has allowed the world to bear witness to human rights violations which might otherwise have remained in the dark. * Maxine Clarke, Author of The Hate Race *The poetic and essayistic pieces in Freedom, Only Freedom: The Prison Writings of Behrouz Boochani exemplify the intersection of his prodigious literary and artistic creativity with his formidable political-geographical, political-scientific and journalistic expertise. Boochani and his collaborators undo familiar frames of reference with respect to the political space of incarcerated seekers of sanctuary and share intimate imaginaries of environmentally conceived pathways to healing and justice. * Rita Sakr, Maynooth University, Ireland *Table of ContentsList of Figures Foreword by Tara June Winch Writing in Languages of Freedom by Omid Tofighian Map Part One 2013-2015 - ‘Fighting to Take Back My Identity’: Creating a New Language in Collaboration “Becoming MEG45” by Behrouz Boochani “Unpublished Reports: Untitled and Two Souls, One Body” by Behrouz Boochani “Translating Manus and Nauru: Refugee Writing” by Moones Mansoubi “Collaborating with Behrouz Boochani: Journalists Against a System” by Ben Doherty Part Two 2016 (Feb-April) - A New Theory: Examining the Prison, Exposing the System “This is Manus Island. My Prison. My Torture. My Humiliation” by Behrouz Boochani “Life on Manus: Island of Damned” by Behrouz Boochani “Australia, Exceptional in its Brutality” by Behrouz Boochani “Testifying to History” by Jordana Silverstein Part Three 2016 (June-Dec) - Journalism as Minor Epics: Confrontation, Survival and Death “What it's Like in Solitary Confinement on Manus Island” by Behrouz Boochani “For Refugees Kidnapped and Exiled to the Manus Prison, Hope is Our Secret Weapon” by Behrouz Boochani “Untitled” by Behrouz Boochani “The Day My Friend Hamid Khazaei Died” by Behrouz Boochani “Faysal Ishak Ahmed’s Life was Full of Pain. Australia Had a Duty to Protect Him” by Behrouz Boochani “Time and Borders, Policy and Lived Experience: A Posthumanist Critique” by Sajad Kabgani “Kurdish Identity and Journalism: Reporting to Record History” by Roza Germian Part Four 2017 (Mar-Sept) - Introducing the Kyriarchal System: Knowing Manus Prison “A Kyriarchal System: New Colonial Experiments/New Decolonial Resistance” by Behrouz Boochani “Unpublished Report: Untitled” by Behrouz Boochani “An Island off Manus” by Behrouz Boochani “The Tortuous Demise of Hamed Shamshiripour, Who Didn’t Deserve to Die on Manus Island” by Behrouz Boochani “‘The Man Who Loves Ducks’: The Refugee Saving Animals on Manus” by Behrouz Boochani “Epistemic Violence, Aesthetic Breaks, and the Man Who Loves Ducks” by Anne McNevin “Exposing ‘Incalculable Cruelty’: Writings on Border Harms and Atrocity as Resistance” by Victoria Canning Part Five 2017 (Oct-Dec) - The Siege on Manus Prison: 23 Days of Collective Resistance “Days Before the Forced Closure of Manus We Have No Safe Place to Go” by Behrouz Boochani “Diary of Disaster” by Behrouz Boochani “The Refugees Are in a State of Terror on Manus”bu Behrouz Boochani “A Merciless Fear Provoked by Last Night's Events has Gripped the Manus Island Camp” by Behrouz Boochani “Manus is a Landscape of Surreal Horror” by Behrouz Boochani “The Breath of Death on Manus Island: Starvation and Sickness” by Behrouz Boochani “All We Want is Freedom – Not Another Prison Camp” by Behrouz Boochani “I Write from Manus as a Duty to History.” By Behrouz Boochani “A Letter from Manus Island” by Behrouz Boochani “23 Days of Resistance Alongside Behrouz Boochani” by Shaminda Kanapathi “Words That Escaped from Prison” by Erik Jensen Part Six 2018 (Feb-June) - A Duty to History: Dignity, Time and Identity “Four Years After Reza Barati’s Death, We Still Have No Justice” by Behrouz Boochani “Policy of Exile” by Behrouz Boochani “Mohamed’s Life Story is a Tragedy. But it’s Typical for Father’s Held on Manus” by Behrouz Boochani “The Gay, Transgender and Biosexual men on Manus are Forced into Silence” by Behrouz Boochani “Salim Fled Genocide to Find Safety. He Lost his Life in the Most Tragic Way” by Behrouz Boochani “Manus Island Poem” by Behrouz Boochani “Journalism, Borders and Oppression: The Nauru Context” by Elahe Zivardar and Mehran Ghadiri “On Mothers, Nature and the Body” by Fatima Measham Part Seven 2018 (Aug)-2019 (Apr) - Manus Prison Theory: Creating a Body of Knowledge “Manus Prison Theory” by Behrouz Boochani “Australia Needs a Moral Revolution” by Behrouz Boochani “Five Years in Manus Purgatory” by Behrouz Boochani “’Sam Could Have Been Saved’: Where Does the Money for Healthcare Go on Manus?” by Behrouz Boochani “The Paladin Scandal is Only a Drop in the Ocean of Corruption on Manus and Nauru” by Behrouz Boochani “The 'Papua New Guinea Solution' in Australia's Public Discourse and Human Rights Activism” by Mahnaz Alimardanian “Australian Corruption and the Pacific: Dollars, Displacement and Death” by Helen Davidson Part Eight 2019 (May-Oct) - Writing to Keep Hope Alive/New Dimensions to Systematic Torture “This Election is an Opportunity to Vote for Humanity and Freedom” by Behrouz Boochani “’The Boats are Coming’ is One of the Greatest Lies Told to the Australian People” by Behrouz Boochani “The truth about self-harm in offshore detention” by Behrouz Boochani “Purification by Love” by Behrouz Boochani “Emotion, Responsibility and Hope for Different Futures” by Claudia Tazreiter “Prison Notebooks and the Oceanic-Kurdish Connection: Boochani’s Political Reflectivity” by Steven Ratuva Part Nine 2020 (May-June) – New Narratives and Knowledge: New Writing and Collaboration “As I learn to live in freedom, Australia is still tormenting refugees” by Behrouz Boochani “’A Human Being Feels They Are On a Precipice’: COVID-19’s Threshold Moment” by Behrouz Boochani and Omid Tofighian “Boochani’s ‘Political Poetics’: Subverting and Reimagining the Fiction of Politics” by Anne Surma “Journalism as Dialogue: Creating Collective Activism Through the Prison Writings of Behrouz Boochani” by Lida Amiri Part Ten 2020 (Sept) – Neocolonial experiments/Creative resistance “For the refugees Australia Imprisons Music is Liberation, Life and Defiance” by Behrouz Boochani “’White Australia’ Policy Lives On in Immigration Detention” by Behrouz Boochani “On Documentation, Language, and Social Media” by Arianna Grasso “Carceral Coloniality as a History of the Present” by Helena Zeweri List of Contributors
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Faber & Faber The Letters of John McGahern
Book SynopsisThe collected letters of John McGahern, 'one of the greatest writers of our era' (Hilary Mantel) and 'the most important Irish novelist since Samuel Beckett.' (Guardian)
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Oxford University Press Inc Jewish Literature
Book SynopsisThe story of Jewish literature is a kaleidoscopic one, multilingual and transnational in character, spanning the globe as well as the centuries. In this broad, thought-provoking introduction to Jewish literature from 1492 to the present, cultural historian Ilan Stavans focuses on its multilingual and transnational nature. Stavans presents a wide range of traditions within Jewish literature and the variety of writers who made those traditions possible. Represented are writers as dissimilar as Luis de Carvajal the Younger, Franz Kafka, Bruno Schulz, Isaac Babel, Anzia Yezierska, Elias Canetti, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Irving Howe, Clarice Lispector, Susan Sontag, Philip Roth, Grace Paley, Amos Oz, Moacyr Scliar, and David Grossman. The story of Jewish literature spans the globe as well as the centuries, from the marrano poets and memorialists of medieval Spain, to the sprawling Yiddish writing in Ashkenaz (the Pale of Settlement'' in Eastern Europe), to the probing narratives of Jewish immigrants to the United States and other parts of the New World. It also examines the accounts of horror during the Holocaust, the work of Israeli authors since the creation of the Jewish State in 1948, and the ingathering of Jewish works in Brazil, Bulgaria, Argentina, and South Africa at the end of the twentieth century. This kaleidoscopic introduction to Jewish literature presents its subject matter as constantly changing and adapting.Trade ReviewReading Jewish literature becomes a stimulating journey; Stavans jumps from one author to another without clinging to either time or space. * Tessa Calders i Artís, Escola de libreria *Table of ContentsChapter One: People of the Book Chapter Two: After the Expulsion Chapter Three: The Age of Anxiety Chapter Four: Into the Abyss Chapter Five: Into the Mainstream Chapter Six: The Ingathering Chapter Seven: The Promised Land Chapter Eight: The Letterless Canon References Further Reading Index
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Oxford University Press Inc Henry James
Book SynopsisAn elegant introduction to one of America''s most complex and influential writers.From his childhood in a family of leading American intellectuals through his mature life as a major American man of letters, Henry James (1843-1916) created a unique body of fiction that represents one of the greatest achievements in the nation''s literary history. James''s transnational life in the US and England and his extraordinary siblings (the philosopher William James and diarist Alice James) made his life as complicated as the fictions he produced. In this elegant introduction to the work of Henry James, Susan L. Mizruchi places the notoriously difficult and obscure writings in their historical and biographical context. As James grew in confidence as a writer, his fictions evolved accordingly. These complex accounts of human experience engage with the vital issues of both James''s era and our own. Among the works treated in this introduction are Washington Square, The Europeans, Daisy Miller, The Portrait of a Lady, The Golden Bowl, and The Turn of the Screw. Through his novels, as well as his journalistic and critical endeavors, James explores themes related to gender relations, human sexuality, the nature of modernity, the threat of relativism, the rise of mass culture, and the role of art.Since their creation, James''s writings have been a consistent subject of both literary theory and popular culture, receiving a diverse array of theoretical treatments, from formalism, deconstruction, phenomenology, and pragmatism to Marxism, new historicism, and gender and queer theory. James''s novels have been adapted into numerous films by directors including William Wyler, Peter Bogdanovich, Michael Winner, Merchant/Ivory, and Jane Campion. The impact of Henry James cannot be overstated.Trade ReviewThis is a swift, efficient approach to James's oeuvre, perfect for students and general readers. * Publisher's Weekly *Table of ContentsList of illustrations Prologue 1 Becoming Henry James 2 Global apprenticeship 3 The James brand 4 Professional author 5 Masterpieces Epilogue References Further reading Index
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Oxford University Press The Oxford Companion to English Literature 7e
Book SynopsisThe Oxford Companion to English Literature has long been established as the leading reference resource for students, teachers, scholars, and general readers of English literature. It provides unrivalled coverage of all aspects of English literature - from writers, their works, and the historical and cultural context in which they wrote, to critics, literary theory, and allusions.For the seventh edition, the Companion has been thoroughly revised and updated to meet the needs and concerns of today''s students and general readers. Over 1,000 new entries have been added, ranging from new writers - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Patrick Marber, David Mitchell, Arundhati Roy - to increased coverage of writers and literary movements from around the world. Coverage of American literature has been substantially increased, with new entries on writers such as Cormac McCarthy and Amy Tan and on movements and publications. Contextual and historical coverage has also been expanded, with new entries on European history and culture, post-colonial literature, as well as writers and literary movements from around the world that have influenced English literature. The Companion has always been a quick and dependable source of reference for students, and the new edition confirms its pre-eminent role as the go-to resource of first choice. All entries have been reviewed, and details of new works, biographies, and criticism have been brought right up to date. So also has coverage of the themes, approaches and concepts encountered by students today, from terms to articles on literary theory and theorists. There is increased coverage of writers from around the world, as well as from Ireland, Scotland, and Wales, and of contextual topics, including film and television, music, and art. Cross-referencing has been thoroughly updated, with stronger linking from writers to thematic and conceptual entries. Meanwhile coverage of popular genres such as children''s literature, science fiction, biography, reportage, crime fiction, fantasy or travel literature has been increased substantially, with new entries on writers from Philip Pullman to Anne Frank and from Anais Nin to Douglas Adams. The seventh edition of this classic Companion - now under the editorship of Dinah Birch, assisted by a team of 28 distinguished associate editors, and over 150 contributors - ensures that it retains its status as the most authoritative, informative, and accessible guide to literature available.Trade ReviewThis is a sympathetic study of an important part of recent social history. * Contemporary Review *Continues to stand out as distinctive, authoritative, and a work of excellence' * Reference Reviews *Increasing user-friendliness and a nice "up to date" feel * Reference Reviews *Sumptuous volume. * Ferdinand Mount, Standpoint *Detailed, clear and lively accounts. * Michael Kerrigan, The Scotsman *A classic now made contemporary, this really is a boon companion. * Michael Kerrigan, The Scotsman *Birch and the contributors have done an excellent job. * Sameer Rahim, Daily Telegraph *Excellence is in the details. * Times Literary Supplement, Henry Hitchings *This is a scrupulously produced, smartly laid-out, academically serious and at the same time relishably browsable book. * Henry Hitchings, The Times Literary Supplement *It offers companionable assistance; it's your pal in literary need. * John Sutherland, Sunday Times *Table of ContentsPreface to Seventh Edition ; Contributors' Biographies ; Abbreviations ; Note to the Reader ; 1. Contemporary Literary Culture ; 2. Literature and History ; 3. Black British Literature ; 4. Children's Literature ; The Oxford Companion to English Literature A-Z ; Chronology ; Poets Laureate ; Literary Awards ; Index of Contributors
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Oxford University Press Essays on Ethics and Culture
Book SynopsisThis volume presents a series of essays by Sabina Lovibond on moral philosophy, drawing on ideas from Platonic-Aristotelian ethics, the later Wittgenstein, and Iris Murdoch. A common theme is the lived experience of the socially situated subject, and Lovibond considers the role of imaginative literature (especially the novel) in ethical formation.Table of ContentsIntroduction 1: Wittgenstein and Moral Realism: The Debate Continues 2: Wittgenstein, Tolstoy, and the 'Apocalyptic View' 3: 'The Sickness of a Time': Social Pathology and Therapeutic Philosophy 4: Second Nature, Habitus, and the Ethical: Remarks on Wittgenstein and Bourdieu 5: Practical Reason and Character-Formation 6: Between Tradition and Criticism: The 'Uncodifiability' of the Normative 7: The Unquiet Life: Salience and Moral Responsibility 8: The Varieties of Attention 9: The Elusiveness of the Ethical: From Murdoch to Diamond 10: Post-Existentialist Moments: Murdoch and Highsmith 11: Iris Murdoch and the Quality of Consciousness 12: Vulnerable and Invulnerable: Two Faces of Dialectical Reasoning 13: Judith Butler on Political Agency 14: Philosophy, Literature, Politics: The Cases of Rorty and Collingwood Acknowledgements Index
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Oxford University Press Oxford School Shakespeare Loves Labours Lost
Book SynopsisOxford School Shakespeare is an acclaimed edition especially designed for students, with accessible on-page notes and explanatory illustrations, clear background information, and rigorous but accessible scholarly credentials. Love''s Labour''s Lost is a popular text for study by secondary students the world over. This edition includes illustrations, preliminary notes, reading lists and classroom notes.Table of ContentsIntroduction About the Play Leading Characters in the Play Synopsis Love's Labour's Lost: commentary Shakespeare's Verse Source, date and Text People in the Play Love's Labour's Lost Shakespeare's Revisions Classwork and Examinations Discussion of Themes and Topics Character Study Activities Critical Appreciation Essays Projects Background Government Religion Education Language Drama Theatre Further Reading William Shakespeare, 1564-1616 List of Shakespeare's Plays
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Oxford University Press Poetrys Nature
Book SynopsisHow is poetry a living art? This is the question at the heart of Poetry''s Nature. Although it is common to speak of nature poetry, Stewart contends that the essential nature of poetry is bound up with the natural world: by looking to nature, we can better understand poetry and, in turn, our own situation within nature. The study draws on contemporary physics and philosophy to argue that all beings, and all matter, are enmeshed in relations to one another, and that such processural relations can help us to think about poetry as an ever-arriving, ever unfinished art. Based on Stewart''s 2023 Clarendon Lectures in English at the University of Oxford, the volume''s four chapters explore four paradigms that illuminate poetry''s relation to other natural phenomena: the ways poems draw on birdsong to veer between language and sound, and hence between semantic density and meaninglessness; the experience of seasonality as a paradigm for the lyric''s recursive use of time; the flows and forms of water as an inspiration for the enactment and depiction of motion and rest in poems; and, finally, the vast domain of the imperceptible as a resource for the imagination. Her examples range from medieval lyrics to Modernism. Poems are events that are felt in time rather than being merely cognized; rewarding of our attention, like the natural world; experienced, like the weather, in our bodies. By reframing poetry in its relation to nature, Poetry''s Nature hopes to reframe our relation to the world in which we live, a task that is of ever greater urgency.
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Oxford University Press A Clergymans Daughter
Book SynopsisThe most formally experimental of all of George Orwell's novels, A Clergyman's Daughter charts the course of a young woman's voyage out of a small town in East Anglia and her eventual homecoming. This new edition of the novel is the first in over 30 years.Trade ReviewNathan Waddell ... has made a tremendous contribution to our understanding of one of Orwell's most neglected novels ... Waddell's editing, in fact, amounts to an outstanding scholarly achievement. * Richard Lance Keeble, George Orwell Studies *
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Palgrave Macmillan Contemporary British Theatre
Book SynopsisList of Photographs - Notes on Contributors - PART 1 - The Multiplicity of British Theatre; T.Shank - Sated, Starved or Satisfied: The Languages of Theatre in Britain Today; T.Dunn - PART 2 - Digging the Greeks: New Versions of Old Classics; R.Cohn - Cultural Transformations; J.Verma - Edward Bond and the Royal National Theatre; I.Stuart - Spread a Little Happiness: West End Musicals; S.Morley - PART 3 - Breaking the Boundaries: The People Show, Lumiere & Son and Hesitate and Demonstrate; L.Sobieski - Diverse Assembly: Some Trends in Recent Performance; T.Etchells - Experimental Theatre in Scotland; A.Cameron - The Welsh National Theatre: The Avant-Garde in the Diaspora; D.Hughes - LIFTing the Theatre: The London International Festival of Theatre; C.Armitstead - PART 4 - The Electronic Media and British Drama; M.Esslin - The Playwriting Profession: Setting Out and the Journey; T.Shank - Directors: The New Generation; J.Edwardes - Recent Tendencies in Design; M.Wolf - IndexTable of ContentsList of Photographs - Notes on Contributors - PART 1 - The Multiplicity of British Theatre; T.Shank - Sated, Starved or Satisfied: The Languages of Theatre in Britain Today; T.Dunn - PART 2 - Digging the Greeks: New Versions of Old Classics; R.Cohn - Cultural Transformations; J.Verma - Edward Bond and the Royal National Theatre; I.Stuart - Spread a Little Happiness: West End Musicals; S.Morley - PART 3 - Breaking the Boundaries: The People Show, Lumiere & Son and Hesitate and Demonstrate; L.Sobieski - Diverse Assembly: Some Trends in Recent Performance; T.Etchells - Experimental Theatre in Scotland; A.Cameron - The Welsh National Theatre: The Avant-Garde in the Diaspora; D.Hughes - LIFTing the Theatre: The London International Festival of Theatre; C.Armitstead - PART 4 - The Electronic Media and British Drama; M.Esslin - The Playwriting Profession: Setting Out and the Journey; T.Shank - Directors: The New Generation; J.Edwardes - Recent Tendencies in Design; M.Wolf - Index
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Little, Brown Book Group How It Ends The stunning new novel from Richard
Book SynopsisRICHARD AND JUDY BESTSELLING AUTHOR''Gripping, emotional, utterly engrossing'' Lisa Ballantyne''Stunning writing and wonderful nuanced characterisation. I was hooked'' Rosamund LuptonFor fans of Maggie O''Farrell and Celeste Ng, How It Ends is a sweeping and turbulent drama about the anxieties of post-war Britain, where one strong and inspirational young woman looks to find her place, no matter the cost... 1957: Within a year of arriving at an American airbase in Suffolk, the loving, law-abiding Delaney family is destroyed. Did they know something they weren''t allowed to know? Did they find something they weren''t supposed to find? Only one girl has the courage to question what really went on behind closed doors . . . Hedy''s journey to the truth leads her to read a manuscript that her talented twin brother hadTrade ReviewA gripping and emotional story which, although set in a past era, has chilling implications for the present day. How It Ends is an engrossing read with endearing characters thrust into traumatic circumstances. It stayed with me long after the last page as its subject matter is unfortunately still very relevant -- Lisa Ballantyne
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Dover Publications Inc. Home to Harlem
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Dover Publications Dark Princess a Romance
Book SynopsisIn W.E.B. Du Bois' novel, Dark Princess, Matthew Townes, an aspiring OB/GYN, moves to Berlin when he cannot finish his medical studies in New York City because of the racist rules of the program. Feeling homesick, he meets a purple-haired Indian princess named Kautilya and falls in love. They embark on an embattled and at times fantastical interracial romance through which Du Bois explores ideas of race and politics. As the two lovers work toward liberation from a whites-only world, they are torn apart and later reunited. The novel was published to mixed reviews in 1928, but is said to be the author's favorite of all his works.
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Dover Publications Orlando a Biography
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Dover Publications Inc. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
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Cambridge University Press Plays by W. S. Gilbert
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Cambridge University Press Plato Symposium
Book SynopsisPlato's Symposium is the most literary of all his works and one which all students of classics are likely to want to read. Sir Kenneth Dover provides here a sympathetic and modern edition of the kind that is long overdue.Trade Review'This commentary … does three things superbly. It explains Plato's Greek punctiliously, especially the less familiar constructions, particles, and words that are often loosely or wrongly translated. With a razor's sharpness it cuts through sloppy or faulty logic in Plato's Greek. And it provides the necessary background material, whether historical, literary, sexual, or social.' Greece & Rome' … few books can have given in three pages so informative and at the same time so provocative an account of Plato's philosophy.' The Times Educational Supplement'This is a tight-packed, authoritative, but readable edition.' J.A.C.T. BulletinTable of ContentsPreface; Abbreviations; Introduction: 1. Eros; 2. Homosexuality; 3. Philosophy; 4. Historical basis; 5. Date of composition; 6. Symposia; 7. Encomia; 8. Textual transmission; 9. Bibliography; The Symposium; Commentary; Indexes to the introduction and commentary; Appendix 1. Disagreements with Burnet's edition; Appendix 2. Proper names; Appendix 3. Greek words; Appendix 4. General.
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Random House USA Inc Sherlock Holmes The Complete Novels and Stories
Book SynopsisSince his first appearance in Beeton’s Christmas Annual in 1887, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes has been one of the most beloved fictional characters ever created. Now, in two paperback volumes, Bantam presents all fifty-six short stories and four novels featuring Conan Doyle’s classic hero--a truly complete collection of Sherlock Holmes’s adventures in crime!Volume II begins with The Hound of the Baskervilles, a haunting novel of murder on eerie Grimpen Moor, which has rightly earned its reputation as the finest murder mystery ever written. The Valley of Fear matches Holmes against his archenemy, the master of imaginative crime, Professor Moriarty. In addition, the loyal Dr. Watson has faithfully recorded Holmes’s feats of extraordinary detection in such famous cases as the thrilling The Adventure of the Red Circle and the twelve baffling adventures from The Case Book of Sherlock Holmes.Conan Doyle’s incomparable tales bring to life a Victorian England of horse-drawn cabs, fogs, and the famous lodgings at 221B Baker Street, where for more than forty years Sherlock Holmes earned his undisputed reputation as the greatest fictional detective of all time.
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Hope Kelley Book Publishing Lechuza
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Manchester University Press Queering the Gothic
Book SynopsisA first rate collection of essays on queer Gothic, ranging from 'Frankenstein' to George Eliot, E.M.Forster to Michael Jackson. Provides a chronological investigation of the Gothic from the eighteenth century to the present day and in doing so produces a new way of reading the Gothic tradition. -- .Table of ContentsAcknowledgementsIntroduction: Queering the Gothic - William Hughes and Andrew Smith1. ‘Love in a Convent’: Or, Gothic and the Perverse Father of Queer Enjoyment - Dale Townshend2. ‘Do You Share My Madness?’: Frankenstein’s Queer Gothic - Mair Rigby3. Daniel Deronda’s Jewish Panic - Royce Mahawatte4. ‘That mighty love which maddens one to crime’: Medicine Masculinity, Same-Sex Desire and the Gothic in Teleny - Diane Mason5. Gothic Landscapes, Imperial Collapse, and the Queering of Adela Quested in E. M. Forster’s A Passage to India - Ardel Thomas6. Antonia White’s Frost in May: Gothic Mansions, Ghosts and Particular Friendships - Paulina Palmer7. Devouring Desires: Lesbian Gothic Horror - Gina Wisker8. ‘The taste of blood meant the end of aloneness’.Vampires and Gay Men in Poppy Z. Brite’s Lost Souls - William Hughes9. Michael Jackson’s Queer Funk - Steven Bruhm10. Death, Art, and Bodies: Queering the Queer Gothic in Will Self’s Dorian - Andrew SmithNotes on ContributorsIndex
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