 | Politics, Ideology, and Literary Discourse in Modern China: Theoretical Interventions and Cultural Critique
Publication Date: November 23, 1993This collection of essays addresses the perception that our understanding of modern China will be enhanced by opening the literature of China to more rigorous theoretical and comparative study. In doing so, the book confronts the problematic and complex subject of China's literary, theoretical, and cultural responses to the experience of the modern. With chapters by writers, scholars, and critics from mainland China, Hong Kong, and the United States, this volume explores the complexity of representing modernity within the Chinese context. Addressing the ...
 |  | The Amazon Quest: 1918 (The House of Winslow #25)
Release Date: August 1, 2006Emily Winslow felt deeply indebted to James Parker when she learned that his wounds resulted from trying to save her brother's life in the trenches of World War I. But by the time she discovered what really happened on that battlefield in France, Emily had fallen for James's charm. Devastated by his betrayal and overwhelmed by feelings of bitterness, Emily throws herself into her writing career. She accepts an assignment to record the life of an isolated tribe of headhunters deep in the Amazon rain forest, believing it will allow her emotions time to heal. But all...
|  | Blood of Victory: A Novel
Release Date: May 13, 2003In the autumn of 1940, Russian émigré journalist I. A. Serebin is recruited in Istanbul by an agent of the British secret services for a clandestine operation to stop German importation of Romanian oil—a last desperate attempt to block Hitler’s conquest of Europe. Serebin’s race against time begins in Bucharest and leads him to Paris, the Black Sea, Beirut, and, finally, Belgrade; his task is to attack the oil barges that fuel German tanks and airplanes. Blood of Victory is a novel with the heart-pounding suspense, extraordinary historica...
|  | Doc Be Nimble
Publication Date: October 31, 2010Dr Gibson Poldar knows there is always something new to see in the ER. When he sncounters a number of identical emergency cases all coming from the local university campus he suspects he may be seeing an emerging public health disaster. As he gets closer to the real truth behind these cases, he is captures and tortured by the Islamic fundementalist whose experiments in bioterrorism he had exposed. Lust and suspicion are competing forces in the torrid love affair between Dr Poldar and Suraya, a beautiful Muslim lab technician, who is somehow deeply involved i...
|  | A Field Guide to Deception
Publication Date: December 1, 2009Praise for Red Audrey and the Roping by Jill Malone:“Luminescent writing. . . . Finely tuned, daring, and perceptive, Malone’s auspicious debut leaves us wanting more.”—Whitney Scott, Booklist“A lyrical, passionate novel about desire, about danger, and about the need for self-forgiveness. A wonderfully impressive writing debut.”—Sarah Waters, author of Tipping the Velvet and The Night Watch“First-rate writing and characterization.”—Cecelia Martin, Diva“Malone’s nonlinear novel jitterbugs...
|  | Futurity: A Lifetime and More
Publication Date: May 10, 2010Adriana Seranno's life in New York City isnot as she hoped it would be. But on a girls' night out shemeets the handsome Solaro through what she believes is achance encounter; electricity sizzles the air between them.Solaro has lived 12,000 years as an elite member of thesacred Brotherhood of Light, a spiritual sect of an ancientEgyptian society. Its members stand for all that is holy,and they uphold the truths of God against the dark forces ofthe material world. Solaro and eleven of his brotherhoodwere chosen to remain on Earth for a special mission. ButSolaro's...
|  | The Complete Poems (Penguin Classics)
Release Date: March 30, 1978| ISBN-10: 0140422153 | ISBN-13: 978-0140422153One of the great English Romantic poets, William Blake (1757-1827) was an artist, poet, mystic and visionary. His work ranges from the deceptively simple and lyrical "Songs of Innocence" and their counterpoint "Experience" - which juxtapose poems such as "The Lamb and The Tyger", and "The Blossom and The Sick Rose" - to highly elaborate, apocalyptic works, such as "The Four Zoas", "Milton" and "Jerusalem". Throughout his life Blake drew on a rich heritage of philosophy, religion and myth, to create a poetic worlds...
|  | Mythical Monsters
Release Date: August 2, 1989This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience. We believe this work is culturally important and have elected to bring the book back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. This text refers to the Bibliobazaar edition. --This text...
|  | Goethe's Faust: The Making of Part I
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|  | New Playwrights The Best Plays of 1998
Publication Date: April 2000| ISBN-10: 157525171X | ISBN-13: 978-1575251714| Edition: 1st The substantial and adventurous volume, presented to us by Smith and Kraus, who continue to publish for the theatre where others fear to tread, will take the lover of new plays into uncharted and rewarding territories.Reading a new play, often by a new playwright, is a vigorous business that demands a reader's attention and insight, but the rewards are many, and there are lots of them here. - Romulus Linney, Introduction ...
|  | Hamlet (Shakespeare for Everyone)
Publication Date: May 1, 2001| Age Level: 9 and up | Grade Level: 4 and up...
|  | The Iliad: A Commentary: Volume 2, Books 5-8
Publication Date: August 31, 1990| ISBN-10: 0521281725 | ISBN-13: 978-0521281720This is the second volume in the major six-volume commentary on the Iliad now being prepared under Professor Kirk's direction.The volume consists of four introductory essays followed by the commentary itself (the Greek text is not included). This project is the first large-scale commentary on the Iliad for nearly 100 years, and takes special account of language, style, and thematic structure while examining the complex social and cultural background of Homer's epic. ...
|  | The Allotment: New Lyric Poets
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|  | Twitterature: The World's Greatest Books in Twenty Tweets or Less
Release Date: December 29, 2009Perhaps while reading Shakespeare you've asked yourself, What exactly is Hamlet trying to tell me? Why must he mince words and muse in lyricism and, in short, whack about the shrub? But if the Prince of Denmark had a Twitter account and an iPhone, he could tell his story in real time--and concisely! Hence the genius of Twitterature. Hatched in a dorm room at the brain trust that is the University of Chicago, Twitterature is a hilarious and irreverent re-imagining of the classics as a series of 140-character tweets from the protagonist. Providing a crash course ...
| | Crooked Counties; Further Rivals of Sherlock Holmes
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|  | The Haunting Hour TV Tie-in Edition
Release Date: August 30, 2011| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and upTen terrifying tales that will haunt you forever . . . Read the spine-tingling story of a baby-sitter who loves evil tricks . . . the terrifying tale of a boy who dared to lie down in the tomb of an ancient mummy . . . the ghastly story of two boys just dying to have the scariest Halloween ever?.?.?.?and more. These are the original stories that inspired the hit TV show R.L. Stine’s The Haunting Hour. This bone-chilling collection of ten of the author’s most frightful tales is guaranteed to give you chi...
|  | Aaron's Awakening
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| | Track and Field: Field Events (High Interest Books: Sports Clinic)
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|  | Philip Pullman, Master Storyteller: A Guide to the Worlds of His Dark Materials
Publication Date: October 20, 2006| Age Level: 11 and up | Grade Level: 6 and up <div><br/><div>Philip Pullman is one of the most commercially and critically successful British authors of the past decade. With a writing career extending back to the early 1970s, Pullman's great achievement has been in the publication of the <em>His Dark Materials</em> trilogy: <em>Northern Lights</em> (1995; US title <em>The Golden Compass</em>), <em>The Subtle Knife&...
|  | Sound and Action Stories
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