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Penguin Publishing Group The Dark Tower Companion A Guide to Stephen Kings Epic Fantasy
Book SynopsisA COMPREHENSIVE GUIDE TO STEPHEN KING'S BESTSELLING DARK TOWER SERIES.“A valuable tool for exploring the series. Both newcomers and frequent visitors to Mid-World will be informed and delighted.”—Stephen KingThe story of Roland Deschain of Gilead, the last gunslinger, and his lifelong quest to reach the tower and save humanity across infinite parallel worlds is one that has consumed Stephen King throughout his career as characters and concepts crossed back and forth between the series and the rest of his fictional universe.The Dark Tower Companion is the ultimate compendium to King’s evolving magnum opus, presenting the mythology, history, and geography of this epic fantasy that has captivated generations of readers. Featuring interviews with Stephen King, Ron Howard, Dark Tower expert Robin Furth and others, Bev Vincent reveals The Dark Tower’s influential literary origins, examines its connections to the
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Tim Hickson On Writing and Worldbuilding
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Penguin Random House LLC The Crown Crime Companion The Top 100 Mystery Novels of All Time
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Cambridge University Press American Fiction 19011925 2 Part Paperback Set A Bibliography 2 Volumes
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Cambridge University Press The Modern Short Story Cambridge Contexts in Literature
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iUniverse Bilbos Birthday and Frodos Adventure of Faith
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iUniverse Andrew M Greeley The Mysteries of Grace
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iUniverse Mystery Readers Walking Guide Chicago
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iUniverse Mystery Readers Walking Guide New York
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iUniverse Stout Fellow A Guide Through Nero Wolfes World
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iUniverse Solar Labyrinth Exploring Gene Wolfes BOOK OF THE NEW SUN
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iUniverse The SemiComplete Guide to Sort of Being a Gentleman
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iUniverse Stout Fellow A Guide Through Nero Wolfes World
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Victor, Broadstreet & Johnson Publishing CS Lewis Called Him Master
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Westminster/John Knox Press,U.S. The Gospel According to Tolkien
Book SynopsisReaders have repeatedly called The Lord of the Rings the most important book of our age--absorbing all 1,500 of its pages with an almost fanatical interest and seeing the Peter Jackson movies in unprecedented numbers. Readers from ages 8 to 80 keep turning to Tolkien because here, in this magical kingdom, they are immersed in depth after depth...
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Random House USA Inc Animal Farm Everymans Library Contemporary
Book SynopsisOne of Time magazine's 100 best English-language novels and the most famous of all twentieth-century political allegories.“A wise, compassionate, and illuminating fable for our times.” --The New York TimesThis story of a group of barnyard animals who revolt against their vicious human master, only to submit to a tyranny erected by their own kind, is a universal drama. Taking as his starting point the betrayed promise of the Russian Revolution, Orwell lays out a vision that, in its bitter wisdom, gives us the clearest understanding we possess of the possible consequences of our social and political acts. Orwell is one of the very few modern satirists comparable to Jonathan Swift in power, artistry, and moral authority; in Animal Farm his spare prose and the logic of his dark comedy brilliantly highlight his stark message.“Remains our great satire on the darker face of modern history.” --Malcolm Bradbury&ldqu
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Random House USA Inc Crime and Punishment
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Bloomsbury USA 3pl Mistress of Udolpho Life of Ann Radcliffe
Book SynopsisA biography of the Gothic novelist, Ann Radcliffe, this text constitutes a "cultural history" of a writing woman, demonstrating her place within radical culture, literary tradition and aesthetic discourse, and examining her role in the rise of the professional woman writer.Table of ContentsThe great enchantress; dissent versus decorum; taste versus trade; Miss Nancy; a literary establishment; the aesthetics of terror; portraits of the artist; unrivalled genius; picturesque tours; the mighty magician; behind the veil; horrid mysteries; the gothic tourist; olden times; construction of the legend; sequestered at Windsor; the final years; Mother Radcliffe.
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Liverpool University Press J.G. Farrell
Book SynopsisThis new, invigorating and accessible study excitingly explores the substance and significance of J.G. Farrell's Empire Trilogy and assesses its damning and influential critique of British colonial rule.
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Hopkins Fulfillment Service Talmudic Stories
Book SynopsisThe book features an appendix including the original Hebrew/Aramaic texts for the reader's reference.Trade ReviewThis book offers the best set of literary readings of Talmudic materials in English, and the best English introduction to the issues such readings entail, that this reviewer has seen. Choice This book goes well beyond the explanation of difficult Talmudic stories. It presents, indeed, an entirely innovative theory. Rubenstein's argument is not only important, but also, I think, persuasive. This book should not be allowed to go unnoticed: in a well-trodden field like Talmudic studies one rarely gets the feeling that a major breakthrough has been achieved. -- Sacha Stern Journal of Jewish Studies Rubenstein has produced a fascinating volume... Anyone who reads this book will find important new insights. -- Gary G. Porton Shofar This is a mature work, in which the author invested much labor and thought. The thoroughness, methodical diversity, and scholarly discretion can serve as a model of the demanding standards that are to be expected from serious research into rabbinic literature. -- Eliezer Segal Journal of the American Academy of Religion It analyzes several notable rabbinic stories in a fresh and detailed manner. -- Carol Bakhos Journal of Biblical Literature A distinctive and nuanced analysis of six narratives from the Babylonian Talmud... I would recommend this excellent book to Rubenstein's intended audience as well as anyone who is interested in the literary analysis of religious narratives... Rubenstein's analyses are careful and thorough, and he argues his points well. In addition, Talmudic Stories opens up a host of new challenges. -- Jonathan Schofer Hebrew Studies This work establishes Rubenstein as the leading scholar of narrative in the Babylonian Talmud. -- Marc Bregman Religious Studies ReviewTable of ContentsContents: Introduction *Torah, Shame, and "The Oven of Akhnai" (Bava Mesia 59a-59b) * Elisha ben Abuya: Torah and the Sinful Sage (Hagiga 15a-15b) * Torah and the Mundane Life: The Education of R. Shimon bar Yohai (Shabbat 33b-34a) * Rabbinic Authority and the Destruction of Jerusalem (Gittin 55b-56b) * Torah, Lineage, and the Academic Hierarchy (Horayot 13b-14a) * Torah, Gentiles, and Eschatology (Avoda Zara 2a-3b) * Conclusion
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Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group Letters to Felice
Book SynopsisMore than two decades of letters from one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century—the author of The Metamorphosis and The Trial—to the people in his life, from his years as a student in Prague in the early 1900s to his final months in the sanatorium near Vienna where he died in 1924. Sometimes surprisingly humorous, sometimes wrenchingly sad, these letters, collected after Kafka's death by his friend and literary executor Max Brod, include charming notes to school friends; fascinating accounts to Brod about his work in its various stages of publication; correspondence with his publisher, Kurt Wolff, about manuscripts in progress, suggested book titles, type design, and late royalty statements; revealing exchanges with other young writers of the day, including Martin Buber and Felix Weltsch, on life, literature, and girls; and heartbreaking reports to his parents, sisters, and friends on the declining state of his health in the last months of his life.
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Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group Letters to Friends Family and Editors
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John Wiley & Sons Treasure of the Sangre de Cristos
Book SynopsisThis collection of tales and traditions from the Southwest includes stories of lost mines stacked with bars of gold, mule loads of silver cached away, and fabulous Jesuit treasures buried when the order was expelled from New Spain. Some of the tales also offer other views of "treasure".
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Wildside Press The Cherryh Odyssey
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Scarecrow Press The Road to Science Fiction
Book SynopsisNow in Paperback! Between an ancient Roman''s trip to the moon and the fantastic tales of H.G. Wells lies a journey through time and space and an awesome evolution in scientific thinking. From Gilgamesh''s search for immortality to Lucian''s odyssey on the moon; from Jonathan Swift''s hilarious satire on scientists in Gulliver''s Travels to Mary Shelley''s horrifying description of a scientist who has gone too far in Frankenstein from Edgar Allan Poe''s balloon trip in the year 2848 to Jules Verne''s prophesies of the impact of scientific inventions on future civilization; from Edward Bellamy''s utopian escape from the industrial Revolution to H.G. Wells''s magnificent story of Earth threatened by an inescapable menace-here are the chief ancestors of the modern science fiction story. For the first time in paperback, these and other key works are gathered together in one anthology, complete with revealing commentary on the authors, their eras, and the role each played in establishing whTrade ReviewAn excellent introduction to the history of the genre. * The New York Times *The best series, historically arranged, of SF anthologies ever assembled...All six volumes belong in the library of every university, school, and teacher and reader of science fiction. Gunn has gathered stories of importance to the development of SF and stories that represent the best writing of the genre. * Anatomy of Wonder, 5th Edition *...provides one of the most comprehensive views of the field and should be required reading for all students of sf. It has withstood the test of time, with classic stories....Gunn's headnotes and introductions remain provocative, even years later. The Road to Science Fiction can be read as an historical document, one that says much about Gunn, his mind, and his take on sf as it does about the state of sf from its roots to its full maturity as a genre. * Science Fiction Studies *Table of ContentsChapter 1 Acknowledgments Chapter 2 Introduction Chapter 3 Science: The New Accelerator Chapter 4 The New Accelerator—by H.G. Wells Chapter 5 The Literary Dissent Chapter 6 The Machine Stops—by E.M. Forster Chapter 7 Islands in the Sky, Or Romance Triumphant Chapter 8 FromUnder the Moons of Mars—by Edgar Rice Burroughs Chapter 9 More Things Under Heaven and Earth Chapter 10 The Moon Pool—by A. Merritt Chapter 11 The Call of the Fantastic Chapter 12 The Red One—by Jack London Chapter 13 The Horror Out of Providence Chapter 14 Dagon—by H.P. Lovecraft Chapter 15 The Science-Fiction Magazine Begins Its Amazing Career Chapter 16 The Tissue-Culture King—by Julian Huxley Chapter 17 Pedestrian Words, Soaring Concepts Chapter 18 The Revolt of the Pedestrians—by David H. Keller, M.D. Chapter 19 The Philosopher of Time and Space Chapter 20 FromLast and First Men—by Olaf Stapledon Chapter 21 Ford's in His Flivver Chapter 22 FromBrave New World—by Aldous Huxley Chapter 23 The Alien from Milwaukee Chapter 24 A Martian Odyssey—by Stanley G. Weinbaum Chapter 25 Who Went There Chapter 26 Twilight—by John W. Campbell Chapter 27 The Idea Machine Chapter 28 Proxima Centauri—by Murray Leinster Chapter 29 The World-Wrecker on Mars Chapter 30 What's It Like Out There?—by Edmond Hamilton Chapter 31 The Legion of Science Fiction Chapter 32 With Folded Hands—by Jack Williamson Chapter 33 Mission of Levity Chapter 34 Hyperpilosity—by L. Sprague de Camp Chapter 35 The Alchemists Gather Chapter 36 The Faithful—by Lester del Rey Chapter 37 The Fairy Tales of Science Chapter 38 Black Destroyer—by A.E. van Vogt Chapter 39 The Stars Appear Chapter 40 Nightfall—by Isaac Asimov Chapter 41 The Man Who Sold the Genre Chapter 42 Requiem—by Robert A. Heinlein Chapter 43 A chronology of Science Fiction Chapter 44 About the Editor
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Scarecrow Press The A to Z of Utopianism
Book SynopsisThis reference contains more than 600 cross-referenced dictionary entries on utopian thought and experimentation that span the centuries from ancient times to the present.
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MP-VIR Uni of Virginia Cultural Haunting Ghosts and Ethnicity in Recent American Literature
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MP-VIR Uni of Virginia The Forgotten Female Aesthetes
Book SynopsisIn this text, Schaffer analyzes writers such as Lucas Malet, Ouida, Alice Meynell, Rosamund Marriott Watson and Una Ashworth Taylor. These women used aestheticism to forge a compromise between the two models of female identity available to them - the New Woman and the Angel in the House.
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Ohio State University Press Drawing In the Feminine
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Ohio State University Press Muslim Comics and Warscape Witnessing
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Ohio State University Press Between Pen and Pixel
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Ohio State University Press Jordan Peeles Get Out Political Horror New Suns Race Gender and Sexuality
Book SynopsisJordan Peele''s Get Out: Political Horror is a collection of sixteen essays devoted to exploring Get Out''s roots in the horror tradition and its complex and timely commentary on twenty-first-century US race relations. The first section, The Politics of Horror, traces the influence of the gothic and horror tradition on Peele''s film, from Shakespeare''s Othello, through the female gothic and Ira Levin''s Rosemary''s Baby and The Stepford Wives, to the modern horror film, including the zombie, rural, suburban, and body-swap subgenres of horror. The second section, The Horror of Politics, takes up Get Out''s varied political interventions-notably its portrayal of the continuation of slavery and the deformation of the black body and mind in white, so-called progressive America. Contributors address Peele''s film alongside African American figures such as Nat Turner, W. E. B. Du Bois, and Jam
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Ohio State University Press Literary Afrofuturism in the TwentyFirst Century
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Ohio State University Press Diverse Futures
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Ohio State University Press The Dreamer and the Dream
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Ohio State University Press Monstrous Youth
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Ohio State University Press Muslim Comics and Warscape Witnessing
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Ohio State University Press Drawing in the Feminine
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Wayne State University Press Lovecraft A Study in the Fantastic
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Wayne State University Press Walter Benjamin and the Corpus of Autobiography Kritik German Literary Theory Cultural Studies Kritik German Literary Theory and Cultural Studies Series
Book SynopsisWalter Benjamin is considered one of the most significant writers and theorists in 20th-century Western culture. The author of this work shows that Benjamin's engagement with the political cannot be understood in terms of unified concepts, but rather should be understood from his language.Trade ReviewGerhard Richter's study is so effective that it exceeds its own intentions and opens up an illumination of language in our times as well as in Benjamin's. - Michigan Germanic Studies ""As the first full-scale study of Benjamin's practice of autobiography in any language, Gerhard Richter's admirable work performs a major scholarly service."" - Peter Fenves, Northwestern University ""This text is magisterial.... [It] renews one's amazement at the power and beauty of Benjamin's thinking. I rate this work very highly."" - James Rolleston, Duke University ""... a remarkable achievement."" - Michael Jennings, Princeton University
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Wayne State University Press Mapping FairyTale Space Pastiche and Metafiction in Borderless Tales Series in FairyTale Studies
Book SynopsisUses the metaphor of mapping to examine the narrative strategies employed in popular twenty-first-century fairy tales. The book analyses contemporary tales that both engage the fairy tale as a relevant genre and remake it to create a new kind of fairy tale.
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LUP - University of Georgia Press The Adventures of Telemachus the Son of Ulysses
Book SynopsisOne of the most popular and revered works of the 18th century. This text is a critical edition of Tobias Smollett's 1776 translation of Bishop Fenelon's 1699 ""Mirror for Princes"", written for Duc de Burgogne, heir presumptive to Louis XIV.
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LUP - University of Georgia Press Nursery Realms Children in the Worlds of Science Fiction Fantasy and Horror
Book SynopsisThis collection of essays explores the role of child characters in horror, fantasy, and science fiction literature and films from a variety of critical approaches - from textual analyses to psychological, historical, and gender- and ethnicity-based interpretations.
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LUP - University of Georgia Press Trickster Lives Culture and Myth in American Fiction
Book SynopsisAt once criminal and saviour, clown and creator, antagonist and mediator, the character of trickster has made frequent appearances in works by writers the world over. Trickster Lives offers thirteen new and challenging interpretations of trickster in American writing, including essays on works by African American, Native American, Pacific Rim, and Latino writers.Trade ReviewTrickster Lives represents a significant new perspective on American literature,as well as an important contribution to trickster scholarship, not simply because it contains excellent original essays on both well-known and lesser-known works, but because its interdisciplinary approach broadens our sense of what literary studies can be."" — Jeanne Rosier Smith, author of Writing Tricksters: Mythic Gambols in American Ethnic Fiction""For analysis and argument about trickster in Native Hawaiian texts, Brer Rabbit tales, Cherokee narratives, Erdrich novels, and selected Latino texts—and for challenging us to think about what is and is not appropriately called trickster—the volume is quite valuable."" — Americas
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LUP - University of Georgia Press Flannery OConnor
Book SynopsisThis study explores the dualities that inform O'Connor's fiction: extremes of faith and reason; acceptance and revolt; cool narrative and explosive action; and sacramental vision and a primary intuition of reality.
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University of Hawai'i Press The Legend of Gold and Other Stories And Modernity The Legend of Gold Paper
Book SynopsisA collection of four stories and a novella by Japanese modernist writer Ishikawa Jun. His works address issues of political and artistic significance, and in the introduction and critical essays, Tyler emphasizes Ishikawa's importance as a resistance writer.
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