 | The Canterbury Tales Revisited21st Century Interpretations
Publication Date: January 7, 2008In "The Canterbury Tales Revisited - 21st Century Interpretations", Editor Kathleen A. Bishop has brought together a group of authors that is both diverse and international including scholars from the United States and Canada, as well as the UK and the continent and Asia. The articles they have contributed cover 'hot' new areas such as Chaucer and Judaism, Queer studies, and feminism and gender. The eminent Medievalist David Matthews has contributed an insightful opening piece situating Chaucer studies in the new century and discussing where we have been and ...
 |  | The Monkey's Paw and Other Tales of Mystery and the Macabre
Publication Date: August 30, 2005THE MONKEY'S PAW and Other Tales of Mystery and the Macabre, Compiled by Gary Hoppenstand, brings together a unique collection of W.W. Jacobs's horror stories never before collected. There are eighteen stories altogether in this collection of the macabre and supernatural. Jacobs's own boyhood memories of South Devon Wharf lend an authenticity to the many stories with nautical backgrounds or that feature seamen as protagonists. An Academy Chicago original. Second printing. ...
|  | Secrets of the Field: A spiritual adventure into the new world of personal transformation, evolution, inspiration and enlightenment.
Publication Date: May 29, 2012This is a spiritual adventure story—the journey of a man-child named Charlie Smithson who decides to leave the pinnacle of success and risk it all to become a true man. Charlie is led deep into the wilderness by a guide named Moses, where he encounters the mysterious forces of ‘The Committee’, and is trained to become a Messenger and a Keeper of the Field. He is then abandoned, and must go on alone toward an encounter that will either destroy him, or bring him to enlightenment. ...
|  | Much Ado About Nothing
Publication Date: April 27, 2012| ISBN-10: 1461108926 | ISBN-13: 978-1461108924This collection chronicles the fiction and non fiction classics by the greatest writers the world has ever known. The inclusion of both popular as well as overlooked pieces is pivotal to providing a broad and representative collection of classic works. ...
|  | The Book of Useless Information
Release Date: June 26, 2006What you may so cavalierly call useless information could prove invaluable to someone else. Then again, maybe not. But to The Useless Information Society, any fact that passes its gasp-inducing, not-a-lot-of-people-know-that test merits inclusion in this fascinating but ultimately useless book... Did you know (or do you care)... • That fish scales are used to make lipstick?• Why organized crime accounts for ten percent of the United States’s annual income?• The name of the first CD pressed in the United States?• The last year that ca...
|  | The Oedipus plays of Sophocles: Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone
Publication Date: 1962To Laius, King of Thebes, an oracle foretold that the childborn to him by his queen Jocasta would slay his father and wed hismother. So when in time a son was born the infant's feet were riveted together andhe was left to die on Mount Cithaeron.But a shepherd foundthe babeand tended him, and delivered him to another shepherdwhotook himtohismaster, the King or Corinth. Polybusbeingchildless adoptedthe boy, who grew up believing that he was indeed theKing's son. --This text refers to the Kindle Edition edition....
|  | Anne La de Alamos Ventosos (Coleccion "Anne, La De Tejados Verdes"/Anne of Green Gables Series) (Spanish Edition)
...
|  | Li bie ji (Zhongguo gu dian shi ci lei bian) (Mandarin Chinese Edition)
...
|  | Fantasy, Myth and the Measure of Truth: Tales of Pullman, Lewis, Tolkien, MacDonald and Hoffmann
Release Date: September 15, 2010This book, now in paperback, shows how the fantasy tradition culminating in Pullman's His Dark Materials inherits the Romantic quest to transpose spiritual and moral values, once the prerogrative of organized religion, into new myths. Wary of escapist fantasy, it explores how stories can generate a new vision. ...
|  | O Beloved Kids: Rudyard Kipling's Letters to His Children
Publication Date: April 28, 2008Displaying the same verve and wit as the Just So Stories, this charming collection brings together the series of letters Rudyard Kipling wrote to his children—his "dear people" as he called them—from 1906 to 1915. The correspondence with each child is eloquently presented—for Josephine, his daughter, who died at the age of six, the grief of whose loss almost stopped him from continuing with the stories; for his son John, who would become a young officer and be lost in the trenches of World War I, his father never forgiving h...
|  | Beckoning Trails
...
|  | Erotic Travel Tales
Publication Date: November 9, 2001Written to satisfy wanderlust or arouse it, Erotic Travel Tales offers explicit erotic fiction set in evocative locales -- from Kiev and the Sahara to Athens and the Amazon, from Barcelona and Paris to New Orleans and San Francisco. It features the work of established sex writers Maxim Jakubowski, Helena Settimana, Christopher Hart, Alison Tyler, Thomas S. Roche, and M. Christian. ...
|  | The Moonflower: A Novel
Publication Date: June 1991When Marcia Talbot receives the letter from her husband Jerome telling her that he wants a divorce, she acts quickly. She boards a plane to Japan, where Jerome has been working, confident that she can change his mind and bring him back home with her.But when she arrives, Marcia is no longer sure...of anything. Jerome is a stranger to her--a man obsessed with Japan and the mysterious work going on in his laboratory. He tells her only that he will never return to the States, leaving her confused and hurt. What, or who, is so important to him that he would give up all...
|  | Robert Ludlum's The Hades Factor: A Covert-One Novel
Release Date: May 30, 2006| Series: Covert-One Robert Ludlum has been acclaimed as the master of .suspense and international intrigue for over twenty-five years. His many books have thrilled millions of readers, reaching the top of bestsellers lists the world over and setting a standard that has never been surpassed. Now, from the imagination of one of America’s greatest storytellers comes Robert Ludlum’s The Hades Factor.A homeless man in Boston, an Army major in California, and a teenage girl in Atlanta all die suddenly and painfully—each a victim of a hitherto unknown, f...
|  | Against Gravity
Publication Date: July 1, 2005It is the late 21st century, and it is a very different world. Meet Kendrick Gallmon, survivor of The Maze, a secret research facility where thousands of political prisoners became unwilling guinea pigs in experiments to create the perfect soldier. Kendrick is trying to pick up the pieces of his life, even though he knows his nervous system, which is riddled with unstable nanotech augmentations, is slowly killing him. Then one day, his heart stops beating, forever. A ghost urges him to return to the source of all his nightmares—a long-abandoned military co...
|  | Hard Revolution: A Novel
Publication Date: March 2004| Series: Pelecanos, George HARD REVOLUTION is a rich, dramatic, totally engrossing story of two brothers-one a rookie police officer, one a recently returned Vietnam veteran-caught up in the chaos that engulfed D.C. in 1968, when riots followed the assassination of the Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. Derek Strange is his family's straight arrow, but his older brother Dennis has always had a harder time.Home from the war and in several varieties of trouble, Dennis is in danger of making one bad decision too many.While Derek tries to be there for Dennis, no amount...
|  | Bradley and The Billboard
Publication Date: April 1, 2002| Age Level: 10 and up...
|  | Salmon Fishing (Reel It in)
...
|  | Every Day's a Holiday: Amusing Rhymes for Happy Times
Release Date: September 23, 2003| Age Level: 8 and up In Every Day's a Holiday, the ever inventive Dean Koontz ponders the origin of Valentine's Day; introduces Jinx, a guy who really gets into Halloween; and explains that extra "a" on the end of Kwanzaa. There are also holidays you may not have heard of -- but that you are sure to be celebrating soon -- including Praise-the-Chicken Day, Lost-Tooth Day, and Up-Is-Down Day.With over 250 million copies of his books sold, Dean Koontz is considered one of the world's premiere suspense writers. Now he is conquering a whole new field with his flag...
|  | Abuelos / Grandparents (Spanish Edition)
...
|
Data Source by Amazon.com |
留言列表
留言列表
