 | American Indian Stories
Publication Date: September 1, 2003American Indian Stories, first published in 1921, is a collection of childhood stories, allegorical fiction, and an essay. One of the most famous Sioux writers and activists of the modern era, Zitkala-Sa (Gertrude Bonnin) recalled legends and tales from oral tradition and used experiences from her life and community to educate others about the Yankton Sioux. Determined, controversial, and visionary, she creatively worked to bridge the gap between her own culture and mainstream American society and advocated for Native rights on a national level. Susan Rose ...
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 | The Works of Stephen Crane
Publication Date: January 2006Works of Stephen Crane with active table of contents.Works include:Active ServiceThe Little RegimentMaggie, A Girl of the StreetsMen, Women, and BoatsThe MonsterThe O'Ruddy, A RomanceThe Red Badge of CourageThe Third VioletWar is Kind --This text refers to the Kindle Edition edition....
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 | Twilight in Delhi (New Directions Paperbook)
Publication Date: June 1, 1994| Series: New Directions Paperbook (Book 782) The sounds and smells of Delhi--the flutter of pigeons' wings, the call to prayer, the scent of jasmine and frying ghee--come to life in the novel whose detail E.M. Forster called "new and fascinating" upon its original publication in 1940. Reprinted with a revised introduction by the author, Twilight in Delhi is enacted between two revolutionary momen s of change, depicting the change of a way of life and culture. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title....
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 | The Secret Crown
Release Date: January 12, 2012From the mountains of Bavaria to the secret tunnels under KingLudwig II's castles, no one is safe when they search for the SecretCrown. Hidden among the crates in a recently discovered World War II bunkerare documents stamped with an elaborate black swan, the insignia of themurdered King Ludwig II. According to legend, Ludwig stockpiled amassive treasure in the years before his death, a cache of gold andjewels that would finance the construction of the largest castle of alltime. But in the years since his death, no one has found any evidencethat Ludwig had hidde...
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 | Love Shook My Heart: New Lesbian Love Stories
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 | 75 Classical Myths Condensed from Their Primary Sources
Publication Date: June 28, 201175 Classical Myths Condensed from their Primary Sources is designed to familiarize students with these stories in the most economical and accessible way possible. This text provides condensed versions of the essential myths and legends of the Greeks and Romans, as told by their primary sources. The streamlined stories, which retain much of the drama, irony, and pathos of the originals, include Homeric epics, Greek tragedies, Vergil’s Aeneid, the most famous episodes of Ovid’s Metamorphoses and Hesiod’s poems, and more.Based on their primary...
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 | One Day the Ice Will Reveal All Its Dead
Release Date: February 22, 2005 In this unforgettable debut novel Clare Dudman has imaginatively re-created the life of theGerman scientist Alfred Wegener, whose theory of continental drift—derided by hiscontemporaries—would eventually revolutionize our perception of the world. Wegener’sirresistible urge to discover the unknown takes him from the horrors of World War I’s trenches toseveral lengthy expeditions across the unexplored ice of Greenland, an extraordinary questthat—with the support of a remarkable woman—gives birth to a powerful idea worth fighting for...
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 | Collected Poems and Prose
Publication Date: December 6, 1995Representing Pinter's own selection of his non-dramatic writings, this volume includes pieces of poetry and prose up to 1990 and ranges back to the earliest piece, "The Kullus", which was written when he was 19 years old. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title....
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 | The Tragedy of Coriolanus: The Oxford Shakespeare The Tragedy of Coriolanus (Oxford World's Classics)
Publication Date: May 15, 2008| Series: Oxford World's Classics Perhaps the most brilliant political play ever written,Coriolanus is a gripping psychological study of therelationship between personality and politics, and itsRoman hero one of the most memorable Shakespeare evercreated. The introduction to this new edition offers thefirst full stage history and analysis of the originalproduction of Coriolanus at the Blackfriars theater, andalso examines Shakespeare's adaptation of his historicalmaterial while emphasizing the wide range of interpretations that are possible in performance.About ...
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 | Gogol: The Nose (Russian Texts) (Russian Edition)
Release Date: October 1, 1994| Series: Russian Texts Gogol's most remarkable exercise in the genre of the absurd. ...
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 | Sweet on My Lips: The Love Poems of Mirabai
Publication Date: December 1, 1997Poetry. Translated from the Hindi by Louise Landes Levi. The newly printed second edition of this book collects Louise Landes Levi's translations of the 16th century devotional poetry of Mirabai, a female Hindu mystic who sang of her great spiritual love for the lord Krishna. "The beautiful poems of Mirabai have been beautifully translated from the Middle Hindi, and they should serve as a fine key to this tantric poet's consciousness"—Lawrence Ferlinghetti. ...
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 | The Poetry of the Early Tang
Publication Date: September 17, 2012Originally published to great acclaim by Yale University Press as "The Poetry of the Early T'ang" in 1977, this Quirin Press Revised Edition offers the full original text with the following features: Older Wade-Giles transliteration fully updated and revised to the current Pinyin standard. Fully re-typeset and proofed for typographical errors and inconsistencies. New expanded index. This title is also available in a fully searchable E-book format including Chinese unicode characters ISBN: 978-1-922169-03-7 (pdf) In "The Poetry of the Early Tang" Owen deftl...
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 | Iracema (Library of Latin America)
Publication Date: March 16, 2000| Series: Library of Latin America Jose de Alencar's prose-poem Iracema, first published in 1865, is a classic of Brazilian literature--perhaps the most widely-known piece of fiction within Brazil, and the most widely-read of Alencar;s many works. Set in the sixteenth century, it is an extremely romantic portrayal of a doomed live between a Portuguese soldier and an Indian maiden. Iracema reflects the gingerly way that mid-nineteenth century Brazil dealt with race mixture and multicultural experience. Precisely because of its nineteenth-century romanticism, Ir...
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 | On a Spaceship With Beelzebub
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 | Factory Production in Nineteenth-Century Britain (Victorian Archives Series)
Publication Date: December 26, 2002| ISBN-10: 019514872X | ISBN-13: 978-0195148725This anthology brings together writings ranging from the canonical to the obscure that suggest the scope of responses--from wondrous celebration to apocalyptic horror--elicited by the advent and establishment of the factory system in nineteenth-century Britain. Addressing complex questions about the possible effects of mass production on human life and labor, this collection presents important works by John Ruskin, Thomas Carlyle, and William Morris alongside lesser-known selections from factory tourists' t...
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 | Hamlet in His Modern Guises
Publication Date: February 1, 2001Focusing on Shakespeare's Hamlet as foremost a study of grief, Alexander Welsh offers a powerful analysis of its protagonist as the archetype of the modern hero. For over two centuries writers and critics have viewed Hamlet's persona as a fascinating blend of self-consciousness, guilt, and wit. Yet in order to understand more deeply the modernity of this Shakespearean hero, Welsh first situates Hamlet within the context of family and mourning as it was presented in other revenge tragedies of Shakespeare's time. Revenge, he maintains, appears as a function of...
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 | The Novels of Federico De Roberto: From Naturalism to Modernism
Publication Date: April 1, 2011This first English-language monograph on de Roberto's work offers a comprehensive examination of his novels and of his journalistic and theoretical writings on narrative art. The novels of Federico De Roberto: From Naturalism to Modernism places his masterpiece, I Viceré, within the framework of his endeavours to advance the modern novel and reconcile external observation and psychological introspection. It questions claims which define the author's literary production as fragmented and shows instead how his fiction reveals coherent poetics stemming from a...
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 | Magnetic Hearts: Whispers Of Love\White Diamonds\Legacy (Arabesque)
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 | Love Once & Forever (Timeswept)
Publication Date: January 1999| Series: Timeswept A beautiful woman travels back in time and finds love in a past paradise in this time-travel romance from the author of "The Magician's Lover" and "Heart's Magic". ...
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 | In a Country of Mothers
Release Date: April 5, 1994No relationship is more charged than that between a psychotherapist and her patient—unless it is the relationship between a mother and her daughter.This disturbing literary thriller explores what happens when the line between those relationships blurs.Jody Goodman enters psychotherapy with questions of career and love on her mind.But Claire Roth, her therapist, keeps changing the focus of their sessions to Jody's parentage—Jody was adopted; Claire gave up a baby for adoption who would now be exactly Jody's age.As the two women become increasingly involv...
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