 | The Legacy of David Foster Wallace (New American Canon)
Publication Date: April 15, 2012| Series: New American Canon Considered by many to be the greatest writer of his generation, David Foster Wallace was at the height of his creative powers when he committed suicide in 2008. In a sweeping portrait of Wallace’s writing and thought and as a measure of his importance in literary history, The Legacy of David Foster Wallace gathers cutting-edge, field-defining scholarship by critics alongside remembrances by many of his writer friends, who include some of the world’s most influential authors. In this elegant volume, literary c...
 |  | The Blessing: New & Selected Poems
Publication Date: April 1, 2000Gathering over one hundred previously uncollected and new poems, together with four previous books, The Blessing provides a necessary overview of a surprising and deceptively accessible poet."Skillful, direct, and surprisingly delicate."-The Village VoiceRichard Jones was born in London and educated at the University of Virginia. His first book of poetry, Country of Air (Copper Canyon Press, 1986), won the Posner Award from the Council for Wisconsin Writers. He published At Last We Enter Paradise in 1991 and Perfect Time in 1994.Jones has edited Poetry East sin...
|  | AN Enemy of the People: An Adaptation of the Play by Henrik Ibsen (Penguin Classics)
Release Date: June 29, 2010| Series: Penguin Classics When Dr. Stockmann discovers that his town's water is poisoned, he does what any responsible citizen would do: reports it to the authorities. But Stockmann's good deed has the potential to ruin the town's reputation as a popular spa destination, and instead of being hailed as a hero, Stockmann is labeled an enemy of the people. Arthur Miller's adaptation of Henrik Ibsen's classic drama is a classic in itself, a penetrating exploration of what happens when the truth comes up against the will of the majority. ...
|  | Terra Nova.
Publication Date: January 1998Drawn from the journals and letters found on the frozen body of Captain Scott, the action of the play blends scenes of the explorer and his men at various stages of their ordeal, with flashbacks of Scott and his young wife and with fateful glimpses of his Norwegian rival, Roald Amundsen, whose party beat him to the South Pole. Refusing the use of sled dogs as unsporting, Scott and his team struggle to drag their heavy gear across a frozen wasteland, only to find that Amundsen has preceded them to their goal. The play is also a study of British pride and upper-cl...
|  | Bright Sword of Ireland
Publication Date: March 1, 2004Bright Sword of Ireland is the third in Juilene Osborne-McKnight's wonderful retelling of cherished Irish folktales. A dedicated researcher into the origins of Celtic myth and legend, Osborne-McKnight infuses her stories with passion, romance and magic.Her focus this time is the great warrior queen Medb of Connaught. Beautiful. Bold in battle . . . and in bed. A legend among her people, she lusts for the Brown Cow of Cuailnge for the power and the glory that it would bring to her. And she will use anyone, do anything, to reach her goal. Who should stand in her ...
|  | Freaky Friday
Publication Date: 1996 Like Mother, Like Daughter... Annabel Andrews is tired of her mother telling her on what to do. She's tired of being told to do her homework, clean up her room, and be nice to her little brother, Ape Face. If she were an adult, she could do anything she wanted, like watch TV all day and eat marshmallows for breakfast. One Friday morning, Annabel's wish comes true when she wakes up and realizes she's turned into her mother! But after a major washing machine mishap, losing Ape Face, and a terrible teacher conference, Annabel starts to suspect that being an adult is n...
|  | Man in the Blue Moon
Publication Date: August 17, 2012“He’s a gambler at best. A con artist at worst,” her aunt had said of the handlebar-mustached man who snatched Ella Wallace away from her dreams of studying art in France. Eighteen years later, that man has disappeared, leaving Ella alone and struggling to support her three sons. While the world is embroiled in World War I, Ella fights her own personal battle to keep the mystical Florida land that has been in her family for generations from the hands of an unscrupulous banker. When a mysterious man arrives at Ella’s door in an unco...
|  | Openings: Poems (Harvest/Hbj Book)
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|  | Hybrid
Publication Date: June 30, 2009Just when you think you have read and seen it all, something new dawns on the horizon. Julian, Max and Emily open a new door into the unreal, a door that will mesmerize the reader wtih shocking unexpected twists and turns as a new generation of vampires is revealed. ...
|  | Hot Springs: A Novel (Earl Swagger)
Release Date: July 26, 2011| Series: Earl Swagger The undisputed master of the tough thriller, New York Times bestselling author Stephen Hunter delivers a masterpiece of crime fiction set in 1940s Arkansas, where law and corruption ricochet like slugs from a .45 automatic. Earl Swagger is tough as hell. But even tough guys have their secrets. Plagued by the memory of his abusive father, apprehensive about his own impending parenthood, Earl is a decorated ex-Marine of absolute integrity—and overwhelming melancholy. Now he’s about to face his biggest, bloodiest challenge yet. It is...
|  | The First Bend: Often the Difference Between Winning and Losing
Publication Date: December 13, 2010In racing circles, whether motorbikes, cars or even athletics, it is important to lead the field into the first bend. Often it is the opportunity to win, and if at the back of the pack a mammoth task to forge one's way to the front.Frequently there is no hope for the back markers.Rick Moffat became a good motorbike speedway rider and excelled at motorbike scrambles, too. However, the first bend in his love life seemed an impossibility to reach. Molly Hammond from next door figured as the real love of his life, the feeling shared mutually, but neither would ...
|  | The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner (Oxford World's Classics)
Publication Date: June 6, 2010| Series: Oxford World's Classics One of the supreme masterpieces of Romantic fiction and Scottish literature, The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner is a terrifying tale of murder and amorality, and of one man's descent into madness and despair. James Hogg's sardonic novel follows a young man who, falling under the spell of a mysterious stranger who bears an uncanny likeness to himself, embarks on a career as a serial murderer. The memoirs are presented by a narrator whose attempts to explain the story only succeed in intensifying its more ba...
|  | In Praise of Death (LUP Dissertaties)
Publication Date: June 18, 2008| Series: LUP Dissertaties This study is meant as a contribution to debates about literary and martial cultures in history as conducted by Joshua Goldstein (2001), Sheldon Pollock (2003) and the celebrated Indian historian Romila Thapar (1999). It offers insights into martial ethics and identity politics through an analysis of the development of medieval and contemporary heroic and epic genres. And it adds to our understanding of the literary-historical processes that lead to the deification of warrior-heroes in South Asia. By describing the different degrees o...
|  | The Duino Elegies (Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture)
Publication Date: May 15, 2008| Series: Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture Rilke's great cycle of ten elegies, perhaps his most profound poetic achievement, had its inception on the morning of January 21, 1912, but was interrupted by the First World War and not completed until a decade later. The Duino Elegies are not only the result of an extraordinary kind of contact with the unseen world; they are an attempt to understand that world in its holistic relationship to the visible, tangible world. This powerful rendering of the cycle is a product of the collaboration between ...
|  | Home Movie Nights
Publication Date: January 1, 1989Published on both Ireland and Canada, this collection reveals the variety and depth of this Irish poet's perception ...
|  | Inventing Medieval Landscapes: Senses of Place in Western Europe
Publication Date: June 30, 2002"This fascinating collection of highly readable essays literally opens new vistas on the medieval landscape. Readers who imagine a primordial, unspoiled landscape will be surprised to discover that the medieval landscape was an artifact that medieval men and women managed, created, and imagined in creative ways over and over again."--John J. Contreni, Purdue University"A real contribution to what we know about the relations between nature and culture, intersecting in landscapes. . . . I know of no other single volume that offers such a wide array...
|  | After Confession: Poetry as Autobiography
Publication Date: September 1, 2001In an age of memoir, the distinction between fiction and nonfiction has become increasingly blurred, sparking controversy among writers and readers alike. But what about the autobiographical impulse in poetry? In this groundbreaking collection, some of our best contemporary poets contemplate the legacy of the confessional poets such as Plath, Sexton, and Lowell. They also tackle such fiery topics as the nature of authorial responsibility in telling the truth, the focus on issues of self in relation to others and to the natural world, the very essence of cra...
|  | Letters to Poets: Conversations About Poetics, Politics, and Community
Publication Date: November 1, 2008Letters to Poets honors and commemorates the hundredth anniversary of Rilke's Letters to a Young Poet by partnering a selection of 14 of the country's leading contemporary poets with 14 emerging poets and documenting their correspondences. These poets challenge the hierarchies and pitfalls endemic to the mentoring process, and ask some of the day's toughest, most vital questions concerning race, class, and gender. Spanning a range of not only generations but cultural, aesthetic, and economic backgrounds, these diverse pairings both challenge and support each...
|  | Alice's Adventures in Wonderland: A Pop-up Adaptation
Release Date: October 1, 2003| Age Level: 4 and up...
| | Roman Stories (Tales from Around the World)
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