 | The Muse in Bronzeville: African American Creative Expression in Chicago, 1932-1950
Release Date: August 27, 2011The Muse in Bronzeville, a dynamic reappraisal of a neglected period in African American cultural history, is the first comprehensive critical study of the creative awakening that occurred on Chicago's South Side from the early 1930s to the cold war. Coming of age during the hard Depression years and in the wake of the Great Migration, this generation of Black creative artists produced works of literature, music, and visual art fully comparable in distinction and scope to the achievements of the Harlem Renaissance.This highly informative and accessible work, enha...
 |  | Contemporary American Short Stories
Release Date: September 29, 1996This volume contains twenty-three stories by some of the most important writers at work in the middle of the twentieth century. As Sylvia and Douglas Angus write in their introduction: "These stories present a fascinating psychological record of what may best be termed "The Age of Crisis', the age in which modern man finds himself teetering on a fine edge of destiny, when his own fateful decisions will take him either to hell or to paradise." ...
|  | The Primal Mind: Vision and Reality in Indian America (Meridian)
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|  | Mine Is the Night: A Novel
Release Date: March 15, 2011SHE LOST EVERYTHING SHE LOVED.HE HAD EVERYTHING SHE NEEDED.BUT COULD SHE FIND THE COURAGE TO TRUST HIM?Stepping from a battered coach on a rainy April eve, newly widowed Elisabeth Kerr must begin again, without husband or title, property or fortune. She is unafraid of work and gifted with a needle, but how will she stitch together the tattered remnants of her life? And who will mend her heart, torn asunder by betrayal and deception? Elisabeth has not come to Selkirk alone. Her mother-in-law, Marjory Kerr, is a woman undone, having buried her husba...
|  | More Ghost Stories of an Antiquary
Release Date: January 26, 2006The follow-up volume to "Ghost Stories of an Antiquary" collects seven more of Montague Rhodes James's classic horror stories, including "A School Story," "The Rose Garden," "Casting the Runes," and "Martin's Close.""...gifted with an almost diabolic power of calling horror by gentle steps from the midst of prosaic daily life, is the scholarly Montague Rhodes James, Provost of Eton College, antiquary of note, and recognized authority on mediæval manuscripts and cathedral history. Dr. James, long fond of telling spectral tales at Christmastide, has become by...
|  | Rosie
Publication Date: May 1, 2005Nick Robertson thought he’d gotten used to his grandmother’s behavior. At 87, Rosie’s determined that before life passes her by, she will live a little. Or, preferably, a lot. It wouldn’t be so bad if Nick had nothing else to do. But with a living to make on the Isle of Wight, two warring parents on the mainland, and a love life in terminal decline, he would prefer his grandmother to get on with things quietly. But there’s no time like the present, insists Rosie. She’ll help Nick find the soul mate he clearly lacks, and he can ...
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|  | Chaucer, Ethics, and Gender
Publication Date: May 15, 2008| ISBN-10: 0199534624This book makes a vigorous reassessment of the moral dimension in Chaucer's writings. For the Middle Ages, the study of human behaviour generally signified the study of the morality of attitudes, choices, and actions. Moreover, moral analysis was not gender neutral: it presupposed that certain virtues and certain failings were largely gender-specific. Alcuin Blamires - mainly concentrating on The Canterbury Tales - discloses how Chaucer adapts the composite inherited traditions of moral literature to shape the significance and the gender i...
|  | All Men Are Mortal
Publication Date: May 17, 1992Probably de Beauvoir's strangest and most compelling novel, this is the captivating story of a beautiful young actress who revives a downcast stranger at a French resort.He becomes thoroughly attached to her and confides a terrifying truth: he is immortal. But having been resuscitated into enjoying life again, he soon starts breaking free from her grasp and all notions of mortality. ...
|  | Sophocles: Antigone (Cambridge Translations from Greek Drama)
Publication Date: March 24, 2003| ISBN-10: 052101073X | ISBN-13: 978-0521010733Cambridge Translations from Greek Drama aims to eliminate the boundary between Classics students and drama students. Sophocles: Antigone is the fifth title in the series, and is aimed at A-level students in the UK and college students in North America.Features of the book include a full commentary running alongside the translation with questions to encourage discussion, notes on pronunciation and a plot synopsis. Background information to the story is also provided. ...
|  | The Lamp Of Heaven: A Chinese Play In One Act
Publication Date: January 17, 2007This book is a facsimile reprint and may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. ...
|  | The American 1890s: A Cultural Reader
Publication Date: July 7, 2000America at the last fin de siècle was in a period of profound societal transition. Industrialization was well under way and with it a burgeoning sense of professionalism and a growing middle class that was becoming increasingly anxious about issues of race, gender, and class. The American 1890s: A Cultural Reader is a wide-ranging anthology of essays, criticism, and fiction first printed in periodicals during those last remarkable years of the nineteenth century, a decade commonly referred to as the “golden age” of periodical culture. To de...
|  | Women on the Edge: Four Plays by Euripides (New Classical Canon)
Publication Date: December 24, 1998| ISBN-10: 0415907748 | ISBN-13: 978-0415907743Women on the Edge, a collection of Alcestis, Medea, Helen, and Iphegenia at Aulis, provides a broad sample of Euripides' plays focusing on women, and spans the chronology of his surviving works, from the earliest, to his last, incomplete, and posthumously produced masterpiece. Each play shows women in various roles--slave, unmarried girl, devoted wife, alienated wife, mother, daughter--providing a range of evidence about the kinds of meaning and effects the category woman conveyed in ancient Athens. The fem...
|  | Warrior (The Cat Star Chronicles, Book 2)
Release Date: October 1, 2008"A COMPELLING TALE OF DANGER, INTRIGUE, AND SIZZLING ROMANCE!" - CANDACE HAVENS "He came to me in the dead of winter, his body burning with fever." Even near death, his sensuality is amazing... Leo arrives on Tisana's doorstep a beaten slave from a near-extinct race with feline genes. As soon as Leo recovers his strength, he'll use his extraordinary sexual talents to bewitch Tisana and make a bolt for freedom... She has only one chance to tame him... Tisana, whose healing powers are legendary, already knows Leo's the one who can help her fulfill her destiny... sh...
|  | In Her Defense
Release Date: April 3, 2001Frank O'Connell's need to live on the edge cost him his family, his home, and a partnership in his father-in-law's prestigious D.C. firm. Then Ashley Bronson walks into his life. The murder of a former cabinet official has just propelled her from the society column to the front page, and, inexplicably, she wants Frank to defend her. Frank thinks his biggest challenge is defending a client against the prosecution's overwhelming evidence. He's got a lot to learn. Subsumed in a defense in which ethics are bent and morals compromised, a desperate Frank hits upon an ins...
|  | A Cotswold Mystery
Publication Date: July 25, 2008| Series: Cotswold After three catastrophic house-sitting commissions, filled with murder and intrigue, the Montgomery house in Blockley seems like a welcome break for fearless Thea and her trusty spaniel Hephzibah. The opportunity to explore the lost Cotswold villages, with only the minor hindrance of checking up on the client's mother, in the adjoining house, promises to be the perfect get away. But Granny Gladys Gardener, with her conveniently erratic memory and series of ailments that disappear as quickly as they arrive, is a force to be reckoned and is soo...
|  | Rowan of Rin (Rowan of Rin #1)
Release Date: February 17, 2004| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and upBravest heart will carry on when sleep is death, and hope is gone. Rowan doesn't believe he has a brave heart. But when the river that supports his village of Rin runs dry, he must join a dangerous journey to its source in the forbidden Mountain. To save Rin, Rowan and his companions must conquer not only the Mountain's many tricks, but also the fierce dragon that lives at its peak....
|  | The Return of the Dragon (Dragon of Lonely Island)
Release Date: July 12, 2005| Age Level: 10 and up | Grade Level: 5 and up...
|  | Danny the Dragon (Usborne First Reading, Level 3)
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|  | The Story of the Philadelphia 76ers (NBA: A History of Hoops)
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