 | The Essential Margaret Fuller by Margaret Fuller (American Women Writers)
Publication Date: June 1, 1992| Series: American Women Writers The leading feminist intellectual of her day, Margaret Fuller has been remembered for her groundbreaking work Women in the Nineteenth Century, which recharted the gender roles of nineteenth-century men and women. In this new collection, the full range of her literary career is represented--from her earliest poetry to her final dispatch from revolutionary Italy. For the first time, the complete texts of Woman in the Nineteenth Century and Summer on the Lakes are printed together, along with generous selections from Fuller's Dial e...
 |  | Friends, Lovers, Chocolate: An Isabel Dalhousie Novel (2) (Isabel Dalhousie Mysteries)
Release Date: August 29, 2006| Series: Isabel Dalhousie Mysteries In this delightful second installment in Alexander McCall Smith’s bestselling detective series, the irrepressibly curious Isabel Dalhousie gets caught up in a highly unusual affair of the heart.When Isabel is asked to cover for vacationing Cat at her delicatessen, Isabel meets a man with a most interesting problem. He recently had a heart transplant and is suddenly haunted by memories of events that never happened to him.The situation piques her insatiable curiosity: Could the memories be connected with the donor’s...
|  | Commedia della Morte: A Novel of the Count Saint-Germain
Release Date: March 13, 2012| Series: Count Saint Germain Chelsea Quinn Yarbro's modern classic, Hotel Transylvania, introduced the Count Saint-Germain and his beloved, Madelaine de Montalia. The Count is one of the most critically acclaimed vampire characters ever created, with dedicated fans who have followed his adventures through more than twenty novels, dozens of short stories, and thousands of years of human history. But of all the women the Count has loved, the most popular is the beautiful, ever-youthful Madelaine. In Commedia della Morte, Saint-Germain learns that Madelaine—no...
|  | Candide: Ou L'optimisme (Librio) (French Edition)
Publication Date: March 30, 2004| ISBN-10: 2290335363 | ISBN-13: 978-2290335369| Edition: 2 This book is a facsimile reprint and may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. --This text refers to the Paperback edition....
|  | Tragedy's End: Closure and Innovation in Euripidean Drama
Publication Date: July 25, 1996| ISBN-10: 019508344X | ISBN-13: 978-0195083446Euripides is a notoriously problematic and controversial playwright whose innovations, according to Nietzsche, brought Greek tragedy to an early death. Dunn here argues that the infamous and artificial endings in Euripides deny the viewer access to a stable or authoritative reading of the play, while innovations in plot and ending opened tragedy up to a medley of comic, parodic, and narrative impulses. Part One explores the dramatic and metadramatic uses of novel closing gestures, such as aetiology, closing pro...
|  | Three Tragedies (Penguin plays & screenplays)
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|  | Othello (Dover Thrift Editions)
Publication Date: June 7, 1996| Series: Dover Thrift Editions One of the greatest of Shakespeare's tragedies, Othello tells the story of a Moorish general who earns the enmity of his ensign Iago when he passes him over for a promotion. Bleak and unsparing, this play offers a masterly portrait of an archvillain and an astute psychological study of the nature of evil. Explanatory footnotes. ...
|  | Ideology: A Very Short Introduction
Publication Date: December 18, 2003Ideology is one of the most controversial terms in the political vocabulary, exciting both revulsion and inspiration. This book examines the reasons for those views, and explains why ideologies deserve respect as a major form of political thinking. It investigates the centrality of ideology both as a political phenomenon and as an organizing framework of political thought and action. It explores the changing understandings of ideology as a concept, and the arguments of the main ideologies. By employing the latest insights from a range of disciplines, the re...
|  | Three Indian Poets: Ezekiel, Moraes, and Ramanujan
Publication Date: September 15, 2011| ISBN-10: 0195695291 | ISBN-13: 978-0195695298| Edition: 2 Three Indian Poets introduces the poetry of Nissim Ezekiel, Dom Moraes, and A.K. Ramanujan--three of the best-known and most significant of modern Indian poets who wrote in English--to students and teachers of Indian literature. Considered to be the founders of modern Indian poetry in English, they became the first post-colonial poets writing in English who commanded international attention. This updated edition of Three Indian Poets was brought out after the deaths of Ezekiel and Moraes in 20...
|  | Elucidations of Holderlin's Poetry (Contemporary Studies in Philosophy and the Human Sciences)
Publication Date: November 2000| Series: Contemporary Studies in Philosophy and the Human Sciences The commentaries of Martin Heidegger on the lyric poems of German Romantic poet, Friedrich Holderlin are an extraordinary encounter between poetry and the penetrating thought of a powerful philosophical mind. The writings included here reveal much about Heidegger's innermost thoughts on poetry, language, and how we think. This is the first English translation of this important work. ...
|  | Favourite Monsters: Poems
Publication Date: April 1, 2003| ISBN-10: 0864734344 | ISBN-13: 978-0864734341Full of stories, jokes, and stolen lines, this collection from a leading young New Zealand poet includes many voices and covers subjects ranging from world politics to parenthood, art, and religion. ...
|  | A bibliography of criticism on T'ang and Sung tz'u poetry (Wisconsin China Series No. 3)
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|  | Naked Before God Uncovering the Body in Anglo Saxon England (Medieval European Studies 3) (WV MEDIEVEAL EUROPEAN STUDIES)
Publication Date: May 1, 2003| ISBN-10: 0937058688 | ISBN-13: 978-0937058688| Edition: 1 At different times and in different places, the human form has been regarded in different ways. The Ancient Greeks thought it was the most admirable subject for art, whereas early Christians often viewed it as lascivious in our post-lapsarian state. With illustrations taken from manuscripts, statuary and literary, this is a fascinating collection of essays with much that will be new to scholars and general readers alike. ...
|  | Narrative Perspective in Fiction: A Phenomenological Meditation of Reader, Text, and World (University of Toronto Romance Series)
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|  | Towards Zero
Release Date: February 1, 2011 What is the connection among a failed suicide attempt, a wrongful accusation of theft against a schoolgirl, and the romantic life of a famous tennis player?To the casual observer, apparently nothing. But when a house party gathers at Gull’s Point, the seaside home of an elderly widow, earlier events come to a dramatic head. As Superintendent Battle discovers, it is all part of a carefully laid plan—for murder....
| | Detective Fiction: The Collector's Guide
Publication Date: September 1994| ISBN-10: 0859679918 | ISBN-13: 978-0859679916| Edition: 2 Sub This is the second edition of a guide to building up a collection of detective fiction works. ...
|  | The Best of Sisters in Crime
Release Date: July 1, 2000| Series: Sisters in Crime Selected from the acclaimed anthologies of mystery and suspense, The Best of Sisters In Crime offers a killer collection of award-winning authors and short stories of felonious, yet feminine, mystery fiction."A Gem For Mystery Fans."-BooklistPraise for the Sisters In Crime collections:"Excellent."-Newsweek"A literary variety show."-The New York Times"Outstanding." --Publishers Weekly"Not to be missed."--Murder ad libAll award-winning stories and authors featuring:Mary Higgins ClarkSue GraftonSara ParetskySharyn MccrumbElizabeth...
|  | Granny's Dragon
Release Date: August 14, 2008| Age Level: 3 and up | Grade Level: P and up A monster...
|  | NBA: Superstars 2006
Publication Date: January 1, 2006| Age Level: 7 and up | Grade Level: 2 and up Get in the game with Scholastic and the NBA!Profiles of14 of basketball's brightest stars in NBA Superstars:Chauncey Billups, Elton Brand, Kobe Bryant, Steve Francis, Manu Ginobili, LeBron James, Rashard Lewis, Steve Nash, Shaquille O'Neal, Paul Pierce, Peja Stojakovic,Amare Stoudemire, Duane Wade, Chris WebberIncludes:· Bold, colorful photos, including fourteen full-page photographs!· Cool profiles!· Stats, fun facts, and more! ...
|  | Forever Young (Positively for Kids)
Publication Date: October 1, 1996| Age Level: 9 and up...
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