 | English Authors Series: Andrew Marvell Revisited (Twayne's English Authors Series)
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 |  | A Summer of Faulkner: As I Lay Dying/The Sound and the Fury/Light in August (Oprah's Book Club)
Release Date: June 3, 2005| Series: Vintage International The 2005 Summer Selection is available in an exclusive three volume boxed edition that includes a special reader’s guide with an introduction by Oprah Winfrey.Titles include: As I Lay DyingThis novel is the harrowing account of the Bundren family’s odyssey across the Mississippi countryside to bury Addie, their wife and mother. Told in turns by each of the family members–including Addie herself–the novel ranges in mood from dark comedy to the deepest pathos. Originally published in 1930.The Sound and the Fu...
|  | Specter Spectacular: 13 Ghostly Tales
Publication Date: September 15, 2012Spirits, poltergeists, hauntings, creatures of the dark -- Specter Spectacular: 13 Ghostly Tales delivers all these and more in thirteen spooky twists on the classic ghost story.From the heartwarming and humorous to the eerie and chilling, this anthology holds a story for everyone who has ever been thrilled by the unknown or wondered what might lie beyond the grave. Step inside and witness ghosts of the past, tales of revenge, the inhuman, the innocent, the damned, and more. But be warned -- once you cross the grave into this world of fantasy and fright, y...
|  | The Bedford Anthology of American Literature, Volume Two: 1865 to Present
Publication Date: February 28, 2008| ISBN-10: 0312412088 | ISBN-13: 978-0312412081| Edition: First Edition Prepared by recognized scholars and devoted teachers, The Bedford Anthology of American Literature brings the canon of American literature down to a manageable size. Half the length of other leading anthologies, and offered at a much lower price, the anthology reflects years of firsthand experience in the classroom and extensive research on what instructors are actually teaching in the survey course today. Prepared expressly for students and informed by the new understandings of and...
|  | A Celtic Book of Days
Publication Date: May 1998Did you know...that St. Patrick cursed the rush which pricked him when he sat down, and now every green blade has a brown tip? That the Druids considered mistletoe to be a cure for barrenness? That there is one hour in every day when any wish you make will be granted, but nobody knows when it is?Filled with intriguing Celtic facts, illustrations, sayings, and quotations, this illuminating little book contains an entry for each day of the year. The writings of Celts as diverse as William Butler Yeats, William McGonagall, Tobias Smollett, and James Joyce are featured,...
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|  | Sweetbitter Love: Poems of Sappho (Shambhala Pocket Classics)
Release Date: December 12, 2006| Series: Shambhala Pocket Classics Sappho is the greatest lyric poet of antiquity. Plato, a century after her death, referred to her as “the Tenth Muse,” and Longinos, in his first-century treatise “On the Sublime,” uses her verse to exemplify that transcendent quality in literature. In Sappho’s lyrics we hear for the first time in the West the words of an individual woman of her own world: her apprehension of sun and orchards; the troubles and summits of love, desire, and friendship. Her poems combine an impression of intima...
|  | La Honda Journal: a haiku diary
Publication Date: March 1, 2012This lovely small volume is a journal in haiku form, by award-winning haiku poet David E.LeCount. With tenderness and humor, Mr.LeCount recalls moments from the day-to-day life of family, wind and rain, dogs, frogs and donkeys that fill his life in rural La Honda, California. Truly a treasure to read and re-read. ...
|  | In The Beginning
Release Date: March 6, 1991Written by the author of "Grey is the Colour of Hope", in which she tells about the four years she spent in labour camp for her dissident activity, this book goes back to life before her arrest, interweaving her experiences growing up in Odessa with those of her childhood friend and future husband Geraschenko: a biased education, pressure to work for the KGB, the growth of faith and literary awareness, a moving, improptu wedding and a sham trial. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title....
|  | The Edmund Wilson Reader
Publication Date: August 21, 1997A gifted novelist, poet, playwright, and historian, Edmund Wilson (1895–1972) served on the staffs of Vanity Fair, New Republic, andNew Yorker, but is best known for the grace and insight of his literary criticism. Whether illuminating the Symbolist poets and modernist literature in Axel's Castle, recording the events and everyday pulse of the Great Depression in The American Earthquake,or exploring the consciousness of Civil War America in Patriotic Gore, Wilson's formidable intelligence grappled unceasingly with literature and history and with the ...
|  | English Romantic Poets (Bloom's Period Studies)
Publication Date: January 1, 2004| Series: Bloom's Period Studies From Blake to Coleridge, and Wordsworth to Shelley, this volume provides a critical overview on the poets who defined the English Romantic period.This title, English Romantic Poetry, part of Chelsea House Publishers' Period Studies series, features a selection of critical essays analyzing the writers and works that defined English Romantic Poetry. In addition to a chronology of the important cultural, literary, and politcal events that shaped this period, this text includes an introduction and editor's note written by Harold B...
|  | Reconstructing Camelot: French Romantic Medievalism and the Arthurian Tradition (Arthurian Studies)
Publication Date: September 7, 1995| Series: Arthurian Studies (Book 36) French Romanticism was a widespread movement, as apparent in the works of historians and scholars as in the works of creative writers. One of its principal characteristics was the cult of the middle ages, and this book examines the treatment of the Arthurian legends in French Romantic medievalism. Taking into account works of historiography and literary history, as well as literary texts proper, it assesses the place of the Arthurian material in French culture in the period up to 1860, the date of publication of Edgar Q...
|  | Until Antietam: The Life and Letters of Major General Israel B. Richardson, U.S. Army
Publication Date: November 3, 2009While researching this book, Jack C. Mason made the kind of discovery that historians dream of. He found more than one-hundred unpublished and unknown letters from Union general Israel B. Richardson to his family, written from his time as a West Point cadet until the day before his fatal wounding at the Battle of Antietam, the bloodiest day in American history. Using these freshly uncovered primary sources as well as extensive research in secondary materials, Mason has written the first-ever biography of Israel Bush Richardson.Richardson’s letters span...
|  | Sherlock Holmes Scrapbook
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|  | JLA: Liberty and Justice
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|  | Grandpa Is a Cubs Fan, Daddy is a Cubs Fan, I am a Cubs Fan!
Publication Date: June 15, 2010| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: P and up Who can forget your first Cubs game? The "El" ride? The smell of hot dogs and the thrill of the crowd? Remember walking into Wrigley holding your dad's hand as the park opens up before you, grass, the greenest of green, the man in the scoreboard and ivy covered walls? Relive your first Cubs game and share it with your child through this beautiful book. Pass on your love of the Cubs to your child as your Father did before you. ...
| | The Technology of Baseball (Sports Illustrated Kids: High-Tech Sports)
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|  | Donovan McNabb: The Story Of A Football Player (Robbie Readers)
Publication Date: September 2004| Age Level: 7 and up | Grade Level: 2 and up...
|  | Official West Ham United FC Annual 2012 (Annuals 2012)
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| | What Shall I Cook? (What Shall I Do Today?)
Publication Date: March 1997| Age Level: 5 and up | Grade Level: K and up...
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