 | Edgar Allan Poe : Essays and Reviews : Theory of Poetry / Reviews of British and Continental Authors / Reviews of American Authors and American Literature / Magazines and Criticism / The Literary & Social Scene / Articles and Marginalia (Library of America)
Release Date: August 15, 1984| Series: Library of America The most complete collection of Poe's critical writings ever published, revealing his wit, uncompromising candor, and breadth of knowledge. Contains all his major writings on poetry, fiction, and the duties of a critic, along with his reviews of writers both known and unknown, and finally, his articles on a wealth of subjects, including South Sea exploration, geography, music, drama, cryptography, ancient languages, and modern critics. ...
 |  | Pieces of the Heart
Release Date: April 4, 2006To escape the stress from her all-consuming job as an accountant, Caroline Collier joins her overbearing mother at the family's vacation home in the mountains of North Carolina. But the serene beauty of Lake Ophelia cannot heal Caroline's heart, which is still broken by the loss of her younger brother, who died when she was seventeen. And the tension between her and her mother still simmers. Only their neighbors, the husband and daughter of one of Caroline's childhood friends, seem able to penetrate her cool reserve, giving Caroline the courage to face her biggest ...
|  | Driven with the Wind (Cheney Duvall, M.D. Series #8)
Publication Date: October 2000Doctor Cheney Duvall is one of inspirational fiction’s most beloved characters, known for all of her adventures, struggles, successes, and romances. Now Gilbert and Lynn Morris bring the series to New York in Driven With the Wind. Here, wedding bells are poised to chime for their friends…but will they? During the month-long journey, Shiloh asks Cheney to be his bride. It is the day she both feared and anticipated. Her answer, however, can only be a refusal. Shiloh is not a believer, and he soon grows bitter over her rejection. Cheney, meanwhile, is dev...
|  | On Sparrow Hill (The Oak Leaves Series #2)
Publication Date: January 17, 2008Two time periods—Victorian Ireland and contemporary England—are again woven together in this sequel to The Oak Leaves. Rebecca Seabrooke is a commercial manager for Quentin Hollinworth's family manor and is focused on two things: running the best historical home in the country and forgetting about the childhood crush she's had on Quentin ever since her father worked as the valet for his family. They don't, after all, run in the same social circles. When Quentin's distant cousin Dana Martin Walker comes to visit the Hollinworth estate, Rebecca r...
|  | Blood Wyne (Sisters of the Moon)
Publication Date: February 8, 2011| Series: Sisters of the Moon (Book 9) We're the D'Artigo sisters: half-human, half-Fae. We're sexy, we're savvy, and we just turned in our badges to the Otherworld Intelligence Agency. My sister Camille is a wicked-good witch. Delilah's a werecat and blossoming Death Maiden. And as for me? I'm Menolly, acrobat-extraordinaire-turned-vampire. But being a vamp isn't all it's cracked up to be, especially when the Godfather of all vampires decides to play Prince Charming...It's the holiday season, and a vampire serial killer is on the loose. Hungry ghosts are te...
|  | The Happy Return
Publication Date: March 2000Hodder Headline Audiobooks presents abridged readings of some of the finest in drama, classic literature, popular fiction, poetry, children's stories, and religious and inspirational works. Among Hodder Headline's outstanding cast of readers and performers are Juliet Stevenson, Anna Massey, Simon Callow, Stephen Fry, and Dame Judi Dench. Each set of cassettes is attractively packaged and shrink-wrapped. ...
|  | Every Man Dies Alone
Release Date: October 19, 2010This never-before-translated masterpiece—by a heroic best-selling writer who saw his life crumble when he wouldn’t join the Nazi Party—is based on a true story. It presents a richly detailed portrait of life in Berlin under the Nazis and tells the sweeping saga of one working-class couple who decides to take a stand when their only son is killed at the front. With nothing but their grief and each other against the awesome power of the Reich, they launch a simple, clandestine resistance campaign that soon has an enraged Gestapo on their t...
|  | Vengeance Of The Mountain Man
Release Date: July 1, 1997| Series: Mountain Man (Book 19) Some people don't know when to leave bad enough alone. Just when it seemed that Smoke Jensen's life had settled down to something resembling normal...He'd all but forgotten the vicious young gunfighter who called himself Sundance. Smoke had hoped to teach that twisted kid a lesson by shooting off his ear. Buy the lesson didn't take...Now, after years on the run, Sundance's hunger for revenge has pushed him over the edge. He's gathered a gang of the worst robbing, pillaging, raping scum from the Texas-Mexico border and is heading for ...
|  | La vida frenetica de Kate / I Don't Know How She Does It (Spanish Edition)
Publication Date: October 31, 2004Te presento a Kate Reddy, brillante gestora de fondos y madre de dos hijos. Sabe trabajar con nueve divisas diferentes en cinco husos horarios a la vez. Se levanta y se ducha, viste a los niños y les prepara el desayuno, y todo en media hora. Siempre tiene una apretada agenda de reuniones y viajes pero no deja de pensar en la lista para el súper, la fiesta de cumpleaños de los niños, el disfraz para el colegio... Y encima pretende tener una vida propia: comer con amigas, ir de tiendas, hablar con su marido y... ¡¡¡sexo!!! P...
|  | The Towneley Plays: Volume I and Volume II (Early English Text Society Supplementary Series) (v. 1 & 2)
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|  | Haiku Harvest
Publication Date: June 1987Mount Vernon, New York: Peter Pauper Press, 1962. Hardbound, about 7.5 inches tall by 4.5 wide, 61 pages. Decorations by Jeff Hill. Note: some later printings show only the original 1962 copyright but will have the ISBN printed on the front jacket flap. ...
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|  | Russian Poets (Critical Survey of Poetry (Salem))
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| | Kings, lords, & commons: An anthology from the Irish
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|  | American Philosophy and the Romantic Tradition (Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture)
Publication Date: July 10, 2008| ISBN-10: 0521067650 | ISBN-13: 978-0521067652| Edition: Reissue Professional philosophers have tended either to shrug off American philosophy as negligible or derivative or to date American philosophy from the work of twentieth century analytical positivists such as Quine.Russell Goodman expands on the revisionist position developed by Stanley Cavell, that the most interesting strain of American thought proceeds not from Puritan theology or from empirical science but from a peculiarly American kind of Romanticism.This insight leads Goodman, through Cavell...
|  | Maruja Mallo and the Spanish Avant-Garde (Ashgate Studies in Surrealism)
Publication Date: May 1, 2010| ISBN-10: 0754669327 | ISBN-13: 978-0754669326The first book in English on Maruja Mallo, this volume is an insightful examination of the life and work of this seminal artist of the Spanish avant-garde. Previously sidelined by a culture that treated women as 'insider-outsiders' and by her own mythmaking, Mallo no longer can be viewed as simply a muse to famous counterparts such as Salvador Dali and Federico Garcia Lorca; her role has been re-contextualized to demonstrate that she was a driving force in the flowering of Spanish culture through the 1920s and 19...
|  | Novas: Selected Writings (Avant-Garde & Modernism Studies)
Publication Date: August 20, 2007| Series: Avant-Garde & Modernism Studies The first full-scale English translation of one of Brazil's-and the world's-most influential avant-garde literary voicesA generous introduction to one of the key literary figures to emerge from Brazil in the second half of the twentieth century, this book offers English-speaking readers an ample selection of this prodigious writer's celebrated poetry and widely influential critical work. As a poet and as a cofounder of the renowned group Noigandres, Haroldo de Campos has made a unique and substantial contribution to t...
|  | Beat Down to Your Soul: What Was the Beat Generation?
Release Date: May 1, 2001In this wide-ranging anthology, Beat scholar Ann Charters brings together more than seventy-five essays, reviews, memoirs, poems, and sketches that evoke the credos and the controversies surrounding the Beat generation writers of the 1950s. Charters includes discussions of all the major Beat figures-Jack Kerouac, William Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, Neal Cassady, Diane di Prima, Gary Snyder, and many more-from commentaries by the Beats themselves as well as by such writers as Henry Miller, William Carlos Williams, Mary McCarthy, Joyce Carol Oates, Tom Wolfe, Grace Pale...
|  | Huasipungo (COLECCION LETRAS HISPANICAS) (Letras hispanicas) (Spanish Edition)
Publication Date: January 1, 2006| ISBN-10: 8437612519 | ISBN-13: 978-8437612515HUASIPUNGO porcion de tierra que cultiva el indio para su uso, pero que lo obliga a contrato forzoso con el latifundista. Jorge Icaza describe aquil la tragedia del indio ecuatoriano. Nos presenta el dolorido clamor de unos seres primitivos y maltrtados, unidos atavicamente a su tierra madre. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition....
|  | The Histories (Oxford World's Classics)
Publication Date: March 8, 2001| Series: Oxford World's Classics In The Histories Cornelius Tacitus, widely regarded as the greatest of all Roman historians, describes with cynical power the murderous `year of the Four Emperors'--AD 69--when in just a few months the whole of the Roman Empire was torn apart by civil war. W.H. Fyfe's classic translation has been substantially revised and supplied with extensive historical and literary notes. The Introduction examines the subtleties of Tacitus's writing and gives the necessary political and social background. ...
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