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The Six Books on the Priesthood of St. John Chrysostom (1837)

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Report copyright infringementby John Chrysostom St John Chrysostom (Author), St John Chrysostom (Author), F. W. Hohler (Translator)The Six Books On The Priesthood Of St. John Chrysostom is a collection of writings by St. John Chrysostom, a prominent early Christian theologian and bishop of Constantinople. Originally written in Greek in the 4th century, this book has been translated into English and published in 1837. The book is divided into six sections, each focused on different aspects of ...

Bibliotheca Americana Vetustissima: A Description Of Works Relating To America Published Between 1492 And 1551 (1866)

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Report copyright infringementby Henry Harrisse (Author)This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work. Number o...

Salvage: Readings from the Wreck - Hardcover

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by Dionne Brand (Author)One of Literary Hub's most anticipated books of 2024Dionne Brand explores English and American literature, and the colonial aesthetic that shaped her sense of self and the world, of what was possible and what was not. In Salvage: Readings from the Wreck, Dionne Brand's first major book of nonfiction since her classic A Map to the Door of No Return, the acclaimed poet and novelist offers a bracing look at the intersections of reading and life, and what remains in the wr...

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by Kate Baer (Author)An Instant #1 New York Times BestsellerA Goop Book Club Pick"If you want your breath to catch and your heart to stop, turn to Kate Baer."--Joanna Goddard, Cup of JoA stunning and honest debut poetry collection about the beauty and hardships of being a woman in the world today, and the many roles we play - mother, partner, and friend."When life throws you a bag of sorrow, hold out your hands/Little by little, mountains are climbed." So ends Kate Baer's remarkable poem "Thi...

Hekate Soteira: A Study of Hekate's Roles in the Chaldean Oracles and Related Literature - Paperback

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by Sarah Iles Johnston (Author) Number of Pages: 200 Dimensions: 0.51 x 9.04 x 6.05 IN Publication Date: April 21, 2003

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by Pliny the Younger (Author), P. G. Walsh (Translator)In these letters to his friends and relations, Pliny the Younger, lawyer, author, and natural philosopher, provides a fascinating insight into Roman life in the period 97 to 112 AD. Part autobiography, part social history, they document the career and interests of a senator and leading imperial official whose friends include the historians Tacitus and Suetonius. Pliny's letters cover a wide range of topics, from the contemporary political...

Shakespeare: The World as Stage - Paperback

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by Bill Bryson (Author)Bill Bryson's bestselling biography of William Shakespeare takes the reader on an enthralling tour through Elizabethan England and the eccentricities of Shakespearean scholarship--updated with a new introduction by the author to commemorate the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's deathWilliam Shakespeare, the most celebrated poet in the English language, left behind nearly a million words of text, but his biography has long been a thicket of wild supposition arranged aro...

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by Martin Heidegger (Author)Poetry, Language, Thought collects Martin Heidegger's pivotal writings on art, its role in human life and culture, and its relationship to thinking and truth. Essential reading for students and anyone interested in the great philosophers, this book opens up appreciation of Heidegger beyond the study of philosophy to the reaches of poetry and our fundamental relationship to the world. Featuring "The Origin of the Work of Art," a milestone in Heidegger's canon, this ...

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by Annie Dillard (Author)"[This] is a book of great richness, beauty and power and thus very difficult to do justice to in a brief review. . . . The violence is sometimes unbearable, the language rarely less than superb. Dillard's description of the moth's death makes Virginia Woolf's go dim and Edwardian. . . . Nature seen so clear and hard that the eyes tear. . . . A rare and precious book." -- Frederick Buechner, New York Times Book ReviewFrom Pulitzer Prize-winning Annie Dillard, a book a...

Demosthenes: Selected Speeches - Paperback

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by Demosthenes (Author), Robin Waterfield (Author), Chris Carey (Author)'Even if everyone else succumbs to slavery, we must still fight for our freedom.' Admired by many in the ancient world as the greatest of the classic Athenian orators, Demosthenes was intimately involved in the political events of his day. As well as showing a master orator at work, his speeches are a prime source for the history of the period, when Athens was engaged in a doomed struggle against the rising power of Maced...

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by Walter Scott (Author), Jane Stevenson (Author), Peter Davidson (Author)Old Mortality (1816), which many consider the finest of Scott's Waverley novels, is a swift-moving historical romance that places an anachronistically liberal hero against the forces of fanaticism in seventeenth-century Scotland, in the period infamous as the killing time'. Its central character, Henry Morton, joins the rebels in order to fight Scotland's royalist oppressors, little as he shares the Covenanters' extrem...

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by Jane Austen (Author), John Mullan (Editor)'I wonder what will become of her!' So speculate the friends and neighbours of Emma Woodhouse, the lovely, lively, wilful, and fallible heroine of Jane Austen's fourth published novel. Confident that she knows best, Emma schemes to find a suitable husband for her pliant friend Harriet, only to discover that she understands the feelings of others as little as she does her own heart. As Emma puzzles and blunders her way through the mysteries of her s...

The Letters of Ernest Hemingway: Volume 2, 1923-1925 - Hardcover

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by Ernest Hemingway (Author), Sandra Spanier (Editor), Albert J. Defazio III (Editor)The Letters of Ernest Hemingway documents the life and creative development of a gifted artist and outsized personality whose work would both reflect and transform his times. Volume 2 (1923-1925) illuminates Hemingway's literary apprenticeship in the legendary milieu of expatriate Paris in the 1920s. We witness the development of his friendships with the likes of Sylvia Beach, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and John Do...

Othello: No Fear Shakespeare Side-By-Side Plain English - Paperback

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by William Shakespeare (Author), Sparknotes (Author)Read Shakespeare's plays in all their brilliance--and understand what every word means! Don't be intimidated by Shakespeare! These popular guides make the Bard's plays accessible and enjoyable. Each No Fear guide contains: The complete text of the original play A line-by-line translation that puts the words into everyday language A complete list of characters, with descriptions Plenty of helpful commentary Author BiographyWILLIAM SHAKES...

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by Larrington (Author)"She sees, coming up a second time, earth from the ocean, eternally green;the waterfalls plunge, an eagle soars above them, over the mountain hunting fish." After the terrible conflagration of Ragnarok, the earth rises serenely again from the ocean, and life is renewed. The Poetic Edda begins with The Seeress's Prophecy which recounts the creation of the world, and looks forward to its destruction and rebirth. In this great collection of Norse-Icelandicmythological and h...

Doing It with the Cosmos: Henry Miller's Big Sur Struggle for Love Beyond Sex

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Report copyright infringementby Elayne Wareing Fitzpatrick (Author) Number of Pages: 220 Dimensions: 0.66 x 8.5 x 5.54 IN Illustrated: Yes Publication Date: November 01, 2001

How to Write Like a Writer: A Sharp and Subversive Guide to Ignoring Inhibitions, Inviting Inspiration, and Finding Your True Voice - Paperback

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by Thomas C. Foster (Author)The New York Times bestselling author of the beloved classic How to Read Literature Like a Professor teaches you how to write everything from a report for your community association to a meaningful memoir in this masterful and engaging guide.Combing anecdotes and hard-won lessons from decades of teaching and writing--and invoking everyone from Hemingway to your third-grade teacher--retired professor Thomas C. Foster guides you through the basics of writing. With Ho...

Bibliostyle: How We Live at Home with Books - Hardcover

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by Nina Freudenberger (Author), Sadie Stein (Author), Shade Degges (Photographer)A visual delight and an inspiration for every bibliophile with a growing home library, this dream-and-drool design book features some of the most jaw-dropping book collections of homeowners around the world. NAMED ONE OF JO'S FALL FAVORITES IN MAGNOLIA JOURNAL Interior designer Nina Freudenberger, New Yorker writer Sadie Stein, and Architectural Digest photographer Shade Degges give readers a peek at the private ...

The Secret History of Wonder Woman - Paperback

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by Jill Lepore (Author)NATIONAL BESTSELLER - Within the origin of one of the world's most iconic superheroes hides a fascinating family story--and a crucial history of feminism in the twentieth-century. "Everything you might want in a page-turner...skeletons in the closet, a believe-it-or-not weirdness in its biographical details, and something else that secretly powers even the most "serious" feminist history--fun." --Entertainment Weekly The Secret History of Wonder Woman is a tour de force...

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Report copyright infringementby Sandy McIntosh (Editor), Susan Terris (Editor)Original memoirs by outstanding poets from diverse backgrounds who recall how they found their beginnings. While university creative writing programs generally seek to develop the talents of maturing writers, essential information about the development of the craft will be found in these early memoirs. As poet and Writing Professor David St. John wrote the previous anthology: " Simply the best collection of essays I...

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Report copyright infringementby Tracy K. Smith (Author)Drawing on deep passion and personal experience, former US Poet Laureate Tracy K. Smith demystifies the art form that has too often been mischaracterized as "inaccessible," "irrelevant," or "intimidating." She argues that poetry is rooted in fundamentally human qualities innate to our capacities to love, dream, question, and cultivate community. Lifting the veil on her own creative process, Smith shows us how reading and writing poetry al...

The Slicks: On Sylvia Plath and Taylor Swift

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Report copyright infringementby Maggie Nelson (Author)A keen, ardent celebration of unbridled female ambition in the work of Taylor Swift and Sylvia Plath In The Slicks, Maggie Nelson positions culture-dominating pop superstar Taylor Swift and feminist cult icon Sylvia Plath as twin hosts of the female urge toward wanting hard, working hard, and pouring forth--and as twinned targets of patriarchy's ancient urge to disparage, trivialize, and discipline creative work by women rooted in autobiog...

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Report copyright infringementby George Orwell (Author)"He has grasped the falsity of the hedonistic attitude to life." Orwell read Hitler--and believed him. In this blistering review from 1940, he lays out what most of polite society refused to face: that Hitler's appeal wasn't madness, but meaning. Not policy, but myth. While the democracies offered comfort and reason, Hitler offered blood, struggle, and the poetry of power--and people listened.Author BiographyGeorge Orwell (1903-1950) was a...

Forty-Three Ways of Looking at Hemingway

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Report copyright infringementby Jeffrey Meyers (Author)The multifaceted, cubist, and comprehensive perspective of Forty-Three Ways of Looking at Hemingway appears on the fortieth anniversary of Meyers's magisterial biography of Hemingway. This approach has never before been used to illustrate the complexity of his character, the range of his interests, and the brilliance of his work. This authoritative book uses sources in Italian, Spanish, French, and German. It reveals his reading of litera...

The Reconstruction Diary of Frances Anne Rollin: A Critical Edition

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Report copyright infringementby Jennifer Putzi (Editor), Frances Anne Rollin (Based on a Book by)In 1867, Frances Anne Rollin, a Black writer and teacher from South Carolina, traveled to Boston to seek a publisher for her biography of famed Black abolitionist, writer, and Civil War veteran Martin R. Delany--the first full-length biography written by an African American. Beginning in January 1868, Rollin kept a diary while in Boston documenting her progression on Delany's biography, negotiatio...

Create Dangerously: The Immigrant Artist at Work

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Report copyright infringementby Edwidge Danticat (Author)A New York Times Notable BookA Miami Herald Best Book of the Year A moving and deeply personal account of art and exile from Edwidge Danticat, winner of two National Book Critics Circle Awards--now with a new preface by the author "Create dangerously, for people who read dangerously. This is what I've always thought it meant to be a writer. Writing, knowing in part that no matter how trivial your words may seem, someday, somewhere, some...

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Lessing's Emilia Galotti: With An Introduction And Notes (1895)

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Report copyright infringementby Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (Author), Max Winkler (Editor)Lessing's Emilia Galotti: With An Introduction And Notes (1895) is a literary work by German writer Gotthold Ephraim Lessing. The book is a play that explores the themes of power, morality, and love. The plot revolves around the tragic story of Emilia Galotti, a young woman who is forced to choose between her love for a nobleman and her duty to her father. The play is set in Italy during the 18th century an...

Wild Fictions: Essays on Literature, Empire, and the Environment

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Report copyright infringementby Amitav Ghosh (Author)From the 2025 recipient of the Pak Kyongni Prize, often referred to as Korea's Nobel Prize in Literature. A collection of essays on themes central to Ghosh's work: imperialism and decolonization, climate change, and the stories of ordinary people making lives amid these historical forces. Wild Fictions brings together Amitav Ghosh's extraordinary writings on subjects that have obsessed him over the last twenty-five years: literature and la...

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Report copyright infringementby Marco Malvestio (Author)The Ecology of Italian Science Fiction investigates the representation of ecological issues in Italian science fiction and film from the 1950s to the present. Taking into account a previously understudied corpus, the book reveals how Italian science fiction has consistently been able to conceptualize and dramatize the impact of human activities on the health of planetary ecosystems and addresses the radical environmental changes that hav...

Desert Cabal: A New Season in the Wilderness - Paperback

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Report copyright infringementby Amy Irvine (Author)"A grief-stricken, heart-hopeful, soul song to the American Desert." --PAM HOUSTON, author of Deep Creek As Ed Abbey's Desert Solitaire: A Season in the Wilderness turns fifty, its iconic author, who has inspired generations of rebel-rousing advocacy on behalf of the American West, is due for a tribute as well as a talking to. In Desert Cabal: A New Season in the Wilderness, Amy Irvine admires the man who influenced her life and work while ch...

Words Made Flesh: Language, Body, and Conversion in Colonial Latin America

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Report copyright infringementby Caroline Egan (Author)Examines the role of the body in Indigenous-language religious texts from colonial Latin America Words Made Flesh examines the role played by corporeality in a series of missionary linguistic and poetic projects from Brazil, Peru, and Mexico in early colonial Latin America. Caroline Egan analyzes how works produced in Indigenous languages for the purpose of evangelization were shaped by and, in turn, transformed native understandings of em...