 | Ethan Frome (Wordsworth Classics)
Publication Date: October 5, 2000| ISBN-10: 1840224088 | ISBN-13: 978-1840224085With an Introduction by Dr Pamela Knights, Department of English Studies, Durham UniversityOn a poor farm near Starkfield in western Massachusetts, Ethan Frome struggles to wrest a living from the land, unassisted by his whining and hypochondriacal wife Zeena. When Zeena's young cousin Mattie Silver is left destitute, the only place she can go is Ethan's farm. An embittered man and an enchanting young woman meeting in such circumstances unleash predictable consequences as passions are aroused between the th...
 |  | Crime and Punishment (Everyman's Library)
Release Date: May 25, 1993(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)Dostoevsky’s drama of sin, guilt, and redemption transforms the sordid story of an old woman’s murder into the nineteenth century’s profoundest and most compelling philosophical novel. Raskolnikov, an impoverished student living in the St. Petersburg of the tsars, is determined to overreach his humanity and assert his untrammeled individual will. When he commits an act of murder and theft, he sets into motion a story that, for its excruciating suspense, its atmospheric vividness, and its depth of characterization and v...
|  | The Fine Delight: Centenary Essays on Gerard Manley Hopkins
Publication Date: December 1989On August 7-8 1989 Loyola University of Chicago presented a symposium commemorating the centenary of Gerald Manley Hopkins' death and celebrating his exquisite poetry. Six of the eight essays in this volume were presented at this symposium. A seventh, by Peter Milward, S.J., would have been given at the conference had distance not been prohibitive. An eighth essay, by the editor, captures the broader issues involved in presenting such a symposium, and the lively exchange that took place at the round table discussion survives in the form of an appendix. ...
|  | Replenish The Earth
Publication Date: August 15, 2011In February of the year 303, the Roman emperor Diocletian issued the first in a series of edicts designed to destroy Christianity. Striking at the heart of the church, the measure banned Christian worship and ordered the Roman legions to destroy churches and scriptures.This novel opens on the day the first edict was issued. It follows Linus and Priscilla, two members of a small Christian community, through what church historians would later come to call the Great Persecution.Replenish The Earth is a thriller that takes you into the heart of a Christian commun...
|  | La sangre que Dios maldijo (Spanish Edition)
Publication Date: March 1, 2011Las más grandes hazañas de los hombres, los que hicieron leyenda y los seres míticos de la historia, se esconden en las escrituras del inicio del mundo. Los Nefilim, descendientes directos del Divino, mitad hombres y mitad ángeles, tocaron la tierra por primera vez en los tiempos de Noé; arrasaron con todo lo posible, disfrutaron con vehemencia de los placeres carnales, corrompieron el corazón humano, insultaron la fe y se irguieron como dioses. De esta forma Dios dio origen al diluvio, intentando limpiar a su creación sin log...
|  | Half Past Midnight
Publication Date: December 22, 2011The Doomsday Clock gauges the threat of nuclear war. Currently, the clock is set at six minutes before midnight. What happens after the hands reach midnight? Survivalist Leeland Dawcett finds out when he and his family are plunged into the nightmare of their country returned to a third-world state. No phones. No computers. No television. At first, Leeland thinks basic survival is the answer. Until he crosses the path of the wrong guy… Someone who wants to do more than just survive… ...
|  | The Goodnight Trail (Trail Drive, No.1)
Release Date: August 15, 1992Former Texas Rangers Benton McCaleb, Will Elliot, and Brazos Gifford ride with Charles Goodnight as he rounds up thousands of ornery, unbranded cattle for the long drive to Colorado. From the Trinity River brakes to Denver, they’ll battle endless miles of flooded rivers, parched desert, and whiskey-crazed Comanches. And come face-to-face with Judge Roy Bean and legendary gunslingers like Clay Allison. For McCaleb and his hard-riding crew, the drive is a fierce struggle against the perils of an untamed land. A fight to the finish where the brave reach glory&...
|  | Biographia Literaria: The Collected Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Biographical Sketches of my Literary Life & Opinions (v. 7)
Publication Date: February 1, 1985Biographia Literaria has emerged over the last century as a supreme work of literary criticism and one of the classics of English literature. Into this volume poured 20 years of speculation about the criticism and uses of poetry and about the psychology of art. Following the text of the 1817 edition, the editors offer the first completely annotated edition of the highly allusive work. ...
|  | John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester: The Poems and Lucina's Rape
Publication Date: April 6, 2010| ISBN-10: 1405187794 | ISBN-13: 978-1405187794Building on the strength of Keith Walker’s acclaimed The Poems of John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester (1984), leading scholar Nicholas Fisher presents a thoroughly revised and updated edition of the work of one the greatest Restoration wits.Includes the text of Lucina’s Rape, Rochester’s adaptation of Fletcher’s revenge tragedy Valentinian, in a text that readily identifies Rochester’s revisionsPresents the poems in versions that were current during Rochester’s lifetim...
|  | Wuthering Heights (Tantor Unabridged Classics)
Publication Date: July 21, 2008| Series: Tantor Unabridged Classics Perhaps the most haunting and tragic love story ever written, Wuthering Heights is the tale of Heathcliff, a brooding, troubled orphan, and his doomed love for Catherine Earnshaw. His desire for her leads him to madness when Catherine is made to marry a wealthy lord, sending Heathcliff on a lifelong quest to avenge himself upon those who stole his only love and his life.In this gripping chronicle of the never-ending conflict between the heart and the mind-and the pain and passion of true romance-Emily Brontë created...
|  | A New Resonance 2: Emerging Voices in English-Language Haiku
Publication Date: December 15, 2001This volume presents 17 poets whose work is just beginning to be recognized around the world as well as here at home. It presents enough poems to discover a sense of each poets' unique and emerging voice. ...
|  | Country Labors: Poems for All Seasons
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|  | Trades and Crafts in Medieval Manuscripts
Publication Date: April 21, 1998This is a book for readers who are interested in the art and the social history of the Middle Ages. Illuminated manuscripts of that period are a primary source of information about the way in which men and women went about the everyday business of living–working on the land, engaging in trade and commerce, devoting themselves to crafts and manufactures, or carrying on the range of activities that we now regard as the professions.Many of the scenes reproduced in this superbly illustrated account are simply works of art in their own right; others are take...
| | The Lady and the Highwayman
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|  | Fool For Love: New Gay Fiction
Publication Date: February 10, 2009In an age of hookups and cybersex, who has time for a little romance? For all those who think love’s gone the way of the 8-track tape comes a collection of new gay fiction designed to reignite their belief in love and romance. Follow the travails of a dog walker enchanted with his new client, a restaurant owner who catches the eye of his most loyal customer, a blind date fix-up, and other seekers of the lost flame as they stumble upon romance and a possible chance at love. Showcasing new work from some of today’s best-known gay writers, includin...
|  | Make Me, Sir
Publication Date: December 14, 2011Genre: BDSM Suspense Series: Masters of the Shadowlands; Previous Book: Lean on Me Her job is to make his life miserable. His job is to make her submit. Whose heart will surrender first? Across the country, rebellious BDSM submissives are being systematically kidnapped, one from each club. When her friend falls prey to the slavers, FBI victim specialist Gabrielle volunteers to be bait in a club not yet hit: the Shadowlands. She finds that being a bratty sub comes naturally, especially when she gets to twit the appallingly conservative Master of the trainees...
|  | You Belong to Me
Release Date: November 1, 1994In all the world, no man exists who can tame Alexandra Rubilov. A fiery and beautiful free-thinker, Alex's steadfast refusal to marry has frustrated her hapless father. And so he creates a "long-forgotten" agreement and sends his rebellious daughter away, ly maintaining that Alexandra has been promised since childhood to the handsome, insufferable libertine whom she must now accompany to his homeland to wed. Dismayed to find himself suddenly engaged, Count Vasili Petroff plans to repulse his unwanted fiancee by acting the perfect cad, unaware that wily Alexand...
|  | Five Shots and a Funeral
Publication Date: November 1999| Series: Early Cases of Ben Drake Follow cigar-smoking, bourbon-drinking detectiveBen Drake as he returns in this collection of murder-packedmystery capers. Includes "The Silent Ventriloquist," Death Plays aFoul Game," A Cold-Blooded Kidnapping," "Midnight Train toNowhere," and the highly-anticipated case of "Raspberry Jack."Full-color cover and seven interior illustrations by Paul Pope. ...
| | Arthur Conan Doyle: Beyond Baker Street (Oxford Portraits)
Publication Date: April 13, 2000| Series: Oxford Portraits Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930) is best known for his Sherlock Holmes stories and novels, yet he considered them only a small part of his literary output. He expected to be remembered for his historical fiction, especially The White Company. He also wrote science fiction novels, short stories, and horror tales. He was knighted for a pamphlet he wrote justifying England's actions during the Boer War, in which he served as a physician in a field hospital. After one of his sons was killed during World War I, he turned to spiritualism for...
|  | The Barefoot of Trickster Tales
Publication Date: October 1998Anthology of stories about wizards and wily characters.Readership level: 4 - 8 years. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title....
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