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Spada the Bandit. Edited with Annotations and an Afterword by Rob Couteau

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Report copyright infringementby Andre Spada (Author), Rob Couteau (Author)"To have lived to the full, to have loved, to have fought, to have killed: that is a man's life. And even though the price be death, it would be cheap at that." As chronicled in this extraordinary memoir, André Spada (1897 - 1935), the infamous Corsican bandit known as the "King of the Maquis," embodied a complex amalgam not only of Good and Evil but also of contrary emotions and perceptions. These include compassion an...

Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 3: The Complete and Authoritative Edition Volume 12

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Report copyright infringementby Mark Twain (Author), Harriet E. Smith (Editor), Benjamin Griffin (Editor)Mark Twain's final and uncensored masterpiece, presented in three volumes, is a landmark publication in American literature. "Twain will begin to seem strange again, alluring and still astonishing . . . in ways that still resonate with us."--New York Times "His crystalline humor and expansive range are a continuous source of delight and awe."--Los Angeles Times Book Review When the first...

Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli [Her Autobiography With Mem. by Various Authors, Ed. by W.H. Channing]

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Report copyright infringementby Sarah Margaret Ossoli (Author)"Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli" offers an intimate look into the life and mind of one of America's most important intellectuals. This volume presents Margaret Fuller's autobiography, supplemented by memoirs from various authors and edited by W.H. Channing. Fuller, a central figure in the transcendentalist movement and a pioneering feminist, shares her personal journey, intellectual development, and reflections on society and cu...

The Dreiser-Markham Letters: The Correspondence of Theodore Dreiser and Kyra Markham, 1913-1944

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Report copyright infringementby Keith Newlin (Editor)Between 1913 and 1916 Theodore Dreiser, already known for his realist portrayals of American city life, experienced a period of exceptional creative activity, which saw him radically rethink his literary techniques and expand the scope of his work. At the same time, Kyra Markham (born Elaine Hyman) was pursuing an acting career in the American "Little Theater" movement. That the pair were lovers, that they inspired, confided in, and critici...

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Report copyright infringementby John Zheng (Author), Michael Antonucci (Editor)Conversations with Michael S. Harper brings together fourteen interviews with one of the most innovative and influential voices in contemporary American poetry. A distinguished professor at Brown University and the author of fifteen poetry collections, Michael S. Harper (1938-2016) infused his work with the rhythms of jazz and blues, creating a lyrical space where Black history, culture, and spirituality converge.S...

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Report copyright infringementby David S. Wills (Editor)Beatdom 26 is the Allen Ginsberg special edition of our journal, released on the 100th anniversary of the Beat poet's birth. This issue includes essays, interviews, poems, memoirs, reviews, art, and photography related to Ginsberg. It is made by contributors from all around the world and examines parts of Ginsberg's life and work that have often been overlooked or misunderstood.ContentsEssays, Memoirs, and Interviews"Allen Ginsberg on the...

Russian Literature: A Very Short Introduction

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Report copyright infringementby Catriona Kelly (Author)Rather than presenting a conventional chronology of Russian literature, Russian Literature: A Very Short Introduction explores the place and importance in Russian culture of all types of literature. How and when did a Russian national literature come into being? What shaped its creation? How have the Russians regarded their literary language? The book uses the figure of Pushkin--'the Russian Shakespeare'--as a recurring example, as his wo...

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Report copyright infringementby John Sutherland (Author)Lady Chatterley's Lover. The Blue Lagoon. Portnoy's Complaint. The Da Vinci Code. For the last century, the tastes and preferences of the common reader have been reflected in the American and British bestseller lists, and this Very Short Introduction takes an engaging look through the lists to reveal what we have been reading--and why. John Sutherland shows that bestseller lists monitor one of the strongest pulses in modern literature an...

Shakespeare's Sonnets and Poems: A Very Short Introduction

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Report copyright infringementby Jonathan F. S. Post (Author)Not for nothing is William Shakespeare considered possibly the most famous writer in history; his works have had a lasting effect on culture, vocabularies, and art. His plays contain some of our most well-known lines (how often have you heard the phrase 'To be or not to be'?), yet whilst his poems may often feel less familiar than his plays they have also seeped into our cultural history (who has not heard of ''Shall I compare thee t...

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Report copyright infringementby Mark Fisher (Author)Explore the weird, the eerie, and the horrific in 20th-century literature, film, and music--from H.P. Lovecraft and Daphne Du Maurier to Stanley Kubrick and Christopher Nolan. What exactly are the Weird and the Eerie? Two closely related but distinct modes, and each possesses its own distinct properties. Both have often been associated with Horror, but this genre alone does not fully encapsulate the pull of the outside and the unknown. In se...

The Beauty of Choice: On Women, Art, and Freedom

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Report copyright infringementby Wendy Steiner (Author)Author BiographyWendy Steiner is Richard L. Fisher Professor of English Emerita at the University of Pennsylvania as well as an opera librettist and multimedia artist. Her many acclaimed books include The Scandal of Pleasure: Art in an Age of Fundamentalism (1995) and Venus in Exile: The Rejection of Beauty in Twentieth-Century Art (2001). Number of Pages: 288 Dimensions: 0.9 x 8.7 x 5.7 IN Publicatio...

The Resurrection of Villiers de l'Isle-Adam

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Report copyright infringementby Léon Bloy (Author), Richard Robinson (Translator)The Resurrection of Villiers de lʼIsle-Adam, by Léon Bloy, originally published in 1906, 15 years after Villiersʼ passing, is as much an homage to Villiers de lʼIsle-Adam - his literary corpus and genius - as it is a plea to Thomas Edison to help subscribe monetarily to the statue, sculpted in marble, by Frédéric Brou. "And now, itʼs to you that I address myself, Thomas Alva Edison. Will you not do anything for h...

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Report copyright infringementby Leslie Powell Ahmadi (Author)Here's the story of a Black American language and culture professor who is too ashamed to admit she is terrified of moving to post-revolutionary Iran with her husband. Nevertheless, she packs up her life in Columbus, Ohio, and ventures off to her husband's homeland with him and their one-year-old daughter in 1992.In her first two weeks, the "morality police" stop her for wearing stockings that aren't black enough, and she is herded ...

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Report copyright infringementby J. M. Clark (Author)"The Abbey of St Gall as a Centre of Literature & Art" provides an exhaustive examination of one of the most vital intellectual and cultural hubs of the Middle Ages. J. M. Clark explores the monastery's profound impact on European civilization, tracing its development from a humble hermitage into a world-renowned beacon of learning and artistic excellence. The work highlights the critical role played by the Abbey of St Gall in the preser...

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Report copyright infringementby Joshua Chambers-Letson (Author)Takes up the work of artists and theorists who ask what happens when we learn to linger, dwell, live, and work with queer grief What if, instead of overcoming grief, we learned to live with it? Unfinished Grief invites readers to linger within loss and to understand mourning not as an endpoint, but as a mode of relation, continuance, and care. In this lyrical follow-up to his acclaimed After the Party, Joshua Chambers-Letson turn...

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Report copyright infringementby Vittoria Fallanca (Author)What can design tell us about literature? What can literature tell us about design?ÂThe Design of Montaigne's 'Essais' provides a model for answering these questions by analysing the uses and function of the term dessein. Wresting design free from its intentionalist connotations and focusing instead on the polysemy of the term in its early modern usage, which connoted both a mental plan or intention, and a material drawing or sketch, t...

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Report copyright infringementby Fyodor Dostoyevsky (Author), David McDuff (Translator), David McDuff (Introduction by)With their penetrating psychological insight and their emphasis on human dignity, respect and forgiveness, Dostoyevsky's early short stories contain the seeds of the themes that came to his major novels. Poor Folk, the author's first great literary triumph, is the story of a tragic relationship between an impoverished copy clerk and a young seamstress, told through their passi...

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Report copyright infringementby Artemidorus (Author), Peter Thonemann (Editor), Martin Hammond (Author)'Dreams are products of the mind, and do not come from any external source' Artemidorus' The Interpretation of Dreams (Oneirocritica) is the richest and most vivid pre-Freudian account of dream interpretation, and the only dream-book to have survived complete from Greco-Roman times. Written in Greek around AD 200, when dreams were believed by many to offer insight into future events, the wor...

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Report copyright infringementby Rachel Khong (Author)NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - READ WITH JENNA'S MAY BOOK CLUB PICK - From the award-winning author of Goodbye, Vitamin How far would you go to shape your own destiny? An exhilarating novel of American identity that spans three generations in one family and asks: What makes us who we are? And how inevitable are our futures? "Mesmerizing"--Brit Bennett - "A page turner."--Ha Jin - "Gorgeous, heartfelt, soaring, philosophical and deft"--Andrew S...

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Report copyright infringementby Mary Beard (Author), John Henderson (Author)We are all classicists--we come into touch with the classics on a daily basis: in our culture, politics, medicine, architecture, language, and literature. What are the true roots of these influences, however, and how do our interpretations of these aspects of the classics differ from their original reality? This introduction to the classics begins with a visit to the British Museum to view the frieze which once decora...

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Report copyright infringementby F. Scott Fitzgerald (Author), Philip McGowan (Editor)'The wise writer, I think, writes for the youth of his own generation, the critic of the next, and the schoolmasters of ever afterward.' Following the education and young life of Amory Blaine, from indulged only child to disillusioned war veteran, This Side of Paradise is a thinly veiled account of Fitzgerald's time as a Princeton undergraduate and an aspiring writer set against the turbulent background of ad...

The World of All Souls: The Complete Guide to a Discovery of Witches, Shadow of Night, and the Book of Life

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Report copyright infringementby Deborah Harkness (Author), Colleen Madden (Illustrator), Claire Baldwin (Contribution by)From the author of The Black Bird Oracle comes a fully illustrated guide to the #1 New York Times bestselling All Souls series--"an irresistible . . . wonderfully imaginative grown-up fantasy" (People). Look for the hit series "A Discovery of Witches," now streaming on AMC+, Sundance Now, and Shudder! A world of witches, vampires, and daemons.A manuscript that holds the sec...

Noir Fiction and Film: Diversions and Misdirections

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Report copyright infringementby Lee Clark Mitchell (Author)The argument of Noir Fiction and Film is curiously counterintuitive: that in a century of hard-boiled fiction and detective films, characteristics that at first seemed trivial swelled in importance, flourishing into crucial aspects of the genre. Among these are aimless descriptions of people and places irrelevant to plot, along with detectives consisting of little more than sparkling dialogue and flippant attitudes. What weaves togeth...

Liberties Journal of Culture and Politics: Volume 4, Issue 3

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Report copyright infringementby Cynthia Ozick (Author), Linda Kinstler (Author), Michael Ignatieff (Author)Liberties, a Journal of Culture and Politics, is essential reading for those engaged in the cultural and political issues of our time. Liberties, is a collection of the most significant writers today as well as launching the voices of tomorrow.In this issue of Liberties: Cynthia Ozick on the power of Philip Roth; Linda Kinstler on the Need for Oblivion; Michael Ignatieff's History of My...

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Report copyright infringementby Mary Ruefle (Author)Following the acclaimed Dunce, which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, comes Mary Ruefle's latest prose publication The Book, now in softcover.True to its bold title, The Book affirms Mary Ruefle's legacy as (dubbed by Publishers Weekly) "the patron saint of childhood and the everyday." With the same curiosity found in Madness, Rack, and Honey and My Private Property, Ruefle's prose here feels both omniscient and especially intimate. "I...

Eric Williams and the Anticolonial Tradition: The Making of a Diasporan Intellectual

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Report copyright infringementby Maurice St Pierre (Author)A leader in the social movement that achieved Trinidad and Tobago's independence from Britain in 1962, Eric Williams (1911-1981) served as its first prime minister. Although much has been written about Williams as a historian and a politician, Maurice St. Pierre is the first to offer a full-length treatment of him as an intellectual. St. Pierre focuses on Williams's role not only in challenging the colonial exploitation of Trinbagonian...

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Report copyright infringementby Jessica Brantley (Author)In Medieval English Manuscripts and Literary Forms, Jessica Brantley offers an innovative introduction to manuscript culture that uses the artifacts themselves to open some of the most vital theoretical questions in medieval literary studies. With nearly 200 illustrations, many of them in color, the book offers both a broad survey of the physical forms and cultural histories of manuscripts and a dozen case studies of particularly signif...

Holy Fools and Funny Gods: The Hidden Link Between Religion and Humor

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Report copyright infringementby Izar Lunacek (Author)A god and a fool walk into a bar... In Holy Fools and Funny Gods, philosopher and cartoonist Izar Lunacek explores the surprising intersections between religion and comedy. Many view religion as a monument to eternal truth. Comedy, on the other hand, is the eternal iconoclast. This conflict between jokers and the faithful frequently marks our present-day culture. But in pre-Christian times, pagan pantheons included holy clowns precariously ...

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Report copyright infringementby Greg Hunter (Author), Dash Shaw (Artist)Dash Shaw is one of the most restless cartoonists of recent decades, constantly evolving in how he approaches the comics page. In the years since his breakthrough graphic novel Bottomless Belly Button, he has continued to create acclaimed, idiosyncratic comics, varying his uses of line and color as well as shifting from domestic realism to sci-fi farce to historical fiction. But some concerns in Shaw's work remain constan...

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Report copyright infringementby George O'Brien (Author)The increased visibility of the Irish novel in recent years has been one of the outstanding developments in contemporary Irish literature. This development has coincided with a period of significant change in Ireland as a whole. The Irish Novel 1960-2010 is the first book to study how the novel has been involved in discussing the seeds of change and the response to change as it evolved. The result is a wide-ranging survey, accessible and ...

Wallace Stevens: Collected Poetry & Prose (Loa

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Report copyright infringementby Wallace Stevens (Author), Frank Kermode (Author), Joan Richardson (Editor)"Undoubtedly, the single finest collection of Wallace Stevens ever produced." -- Library Journal Wallace Stevens's unique voice combined meditative speculation and what he called "the essential gaudiness of poetry" in a body of work of astonishing profusion and exuberance, poems that have remained an inspiration and influence for generations of poets and readers. Now, for the first time, ...