 | Bad Little Falls: A Novel (Mike Bowditch Mysteries)
Release Date: August 7, 2012| Series: Mike Bowditch Mysteries (Book 3) Anthony- and Edgar-award nominated author Paul Doiron delivers another “masterpiece of high-octane narrative” (Booklist) with his newest harrowing thriller about the hunt for a murderer at the height of a major snowstorm Maine game warden Mike Bowditch has been sent into exile,transferred by his superiors to a remote outpost on the Canadianborder. When a blizzard descends on the coast, Bowditch iscalled to the rustic cabin of a terrified couple. A raving and halffrozenman has appeared at their ...
 |  | Cat's Cradle: A Novel
Release Date: September 8, 1998Cat’s Cradle is Kurt Vonnegut’s satirical commentary on modern man and his madness. An apocalyptic tale of this planet’s ultimate fate, it features a midget as the protagonist, a complete, original theology created by a calypso singer, and a vision of the future that is at once blackly fatalistic and hilariously funny. A book that left an indelible mark on an entire generation of readers, Cat’s Cradle is one of the twentieth century’s most important works—and Vonnegut at his very best. ...
|  | Lost Souls (Star Trek: Destiny #3)
Release Date: November 25, 2008The soldiers of Armageddon are on the march, laying waste to worlds in their passage. An audacious plan could stop them forever, but it carries risks that one starship captain is unwilling to take. For Captain Jean-Luc Picard, defending the future has never been so important, or so personal -- and the wrong choice will cost him everything for which he has struggled and suffered. For Captain William Riker, that choice has already been made. Haunted by the memories of those he was forced to leave behind, he must jeopardize all that he has left in a desperate bid ...
|  | Humor in British Literature, From the Middle Ages to the Restoration: A Reference Guide
Publication Date: February 28, 1997| ISBN-10: 0313297061 | ISBN-13: 978-0313297069 Humor began in British literature during the Middle Ages, when Chaucer developed the storytelling tradition along with the ironies that resulted from the juxtaposition of people from different classes and points of view. Shakespeare later developed vernacular and street humor in his comedies, festive humor in his romances and histories, and dark humor in his tragedies. During the Restoration, Congreve established the Comedy of Manners. This book overviews scholarship in humor in British literature from the...
|  | SPELL OF THE TIGER CL
Publication Date: February 23, 1995Citing the predatory relationship between India Bay's Bengal tigers and the natives of Sundarbans, a study notes how the tigers are worshipped by the people there and recounts themany legends that associate the tigers with supernatural qualities. ...
|  | Masterpieces of Classic Greek Drama (Greenwood Introduces Literary Masterpieces)
Publication Date: October 30, 2005| ISBN-10: 0313332681 | ISBN-13: 978-0313332685Aeschylus' Oresteia, Sophocles' Oedipus plays, Euripides' Medea and Bacchae, and Aristophanes' Birds andLysistrata are discussed in this lively and scholarly volume.The author's experience teaching these plays to gifted high school students makes this volume particularly useful.The drama festivals, the adaptations of myth, the relevance of Aristotelian criteria, and the political and cultural background of each play are described fully, and the nature of tragedy and comedy, plot construction, stagecraft, t...
|  | The Plays of Sophocles (Classical World Series) (BCPaperback Series)
Publication Date: January 30, 2006| Series: BCPaperback Series The emphasis throughout this book, aimed at late school and early university students, is on Sophocles’ tragic thinking, on the concept of the ‘Sophoclean hero’, and on the dramatic structure of the plays. A brief concluding chapter draws together what has been said in the seven studies of the individual plays. The aim of the book is to help readers to understand why Sophocles is still worth reading, or going to see in the theatre, in the twenty-first century. It shows how far Sophoclean scholarship has moved in re...
|  | Macbeth (Oxford School Shakespeare Series)
Publication Date: February 10, 1994| ISBN-10: 0198319703 | ISBN-13: 978-0198319702The new editions contain new sections: Classwork and Examinations and Background to Shakespeare's England . There are also short sections on Date and Text, and Source. This book is intended for age 14 - 16. ...
|  | Romantic Magazines and Metropolitan Literary Culture (Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and Cultures of Print)
Release Date: April 15, 2011| ISBN-10: 0230251781 | ISBN-13: 978-0230251786The decade after 1815 was a period of cultural instability, in which literature was redefined in response to a mass readership. Magazines were a product of and response to a culture that was metropolitan in size and heterogeneity. This book analyses a literary genre that made creative use of a cultural confusion which elsewhere provoked anxiety. ...
|  | The Lucretian Renaissance: Philology and the Afterlife of Tradition
Publication Date: November 25, 2011With The Lucretian Renaissance, Gerard Passannante offers a radical rethinking of a familiar narrative: the rise of materialism in early modern Europe. Passannante begins by taking up the ancient philosophical notion that the world is composed of two fundamental opposites: atoms, as the philosopher Epicurus theorized, intrinsically unchangeable and moving about the void; and the void itself, or nothingness. Passannante considers the fact that this strain of ancient Greek philosophy survived and was transmitted to the Renaissance primarily by means of a poem...
|  | Lancelot and Guinevere: A Casebook (Arthurian Characters and Themes)
Publication Date: January 4, 2002| ISBN-10: 0415939119 | ISBN-13: 978-0415939119| Edition: New edition Beginning with an introduction that examines the portrayal of Lancelot and Guinevere from their origins to the present day, the sixteen essays in this collection deal with such varied topics as feminist readings of the characters' representations, the depiction of the lovers in medieval manuscript illuminations, in film, and in other visual arts. ...
|  | Patterns for America
Publication Date: May 21, 1999| ISBN-10: 0691001340 | ISBN-13: 978-0691001340In recent decades, historians and social theorists have given much thought to the concept of "culture," its origins in Western thought, and its usefulness for social analysis. In this book, Susan Hegeman focuses on the term's history in the United States in the first half of the twentieth century. She shows how, during this period, the term "culture" changed from being a technical term associated primarily with anthropology into a term of popular usage. She shows the connections between this movement of "culture...
|  | Queen of the Turtle Derby and Other Southern Phenomena
Release Date: April 12, 2005In classic Dixie storytelling fashion, with a rare blend of literary elegance and plainspoken humor, the inimitably charming, staunchly Southern Julia Reed wends her way below the Mason-Dixon line and observes many phenomena– from politics, religion, and women to weather, guns, and what she calls “drinking and other Southern pursuits.” To hear Reed tell it, the South is another country. She builds an entertaining and persuasive case, using as examples everything from its unfathomable codes of conduct to its disciplined fashion sense. And then ...
|  | Head Over Heels (A Lucky Harbor Novel)
Publication Date: December 1, 2011| Series: A Lucky Harbor Novel (Book 3) Breaking rules and breaking heartsFree-spirited Chloe lives life on the edge. Unlike her soon-to-be married sisters, she isn't ready to settle into a quiet life running their family's newly renovated inn. But soon her love of trouble--and trouble with love-draws the attention of the very stern, very sexy sheriff who'd like nothing better than to tame her wild ways. Suddenly Chloe can't take a misstep without the sheriff hot on her heels. His rugged swagger and his enigmatic smile are enough to make a girl beg to be han...
|  | Intrigue: langue, culture et myst
Publication Date: November 5, 2010| ISBN-10: 0205741320 | ISBN-13: 978-0205741328| Edition: 3 Intrigue is a comprehensive and flexible intermediate-level French textbook that develops the four basic communicative skills: reading, writing, speaking, and listening. Its proficiency-oriented methodology focuses on communication, linguistic functions, and interactive exchanges. This innovative mystery-story textbook arouses student curiosity and encourages students to participate actively in understanding the story and related authentic documents, to discuss the content of chapter readings, t...
|  | The Random House Book of Fairy Tales
Release Date: August 12, 1985| Age Level: 5 and up | Grade Level: K and up...
|  | My First Real Mother Goose
Publication Date: October 1, 2000| Age Level: 2 and up...
|  | The Last Summer
Publication Date: May 16, 2012It’s June 1948, and Charlotte Mason’s father is tentatively backing the family’s Oldsmobile into the driveway of a small two-story home in northeastern Georgia. Only five minutes ago, almost 8-year-old Charlotte was excited to move into their new house, but now she’s not so sure when she sees how quiet and lonely it appears. Sent to help move boxes to her room, it’s not long before she proves to be “too much of an obstacle,” and is forced to sit on the porch with nothing to do. This is when, as if from nowhere, th...
|  | Ultimate Guide to Pro Hockey Teams (Sports Illustrated Kids: Ultimate Pro Guides)
Publication Date: August 1, 2010| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up...
|  | Dolphins Stained Glass Coloring Book (Dover Stained Glass Coloring Book)
Publication Date: October 17, 1995| Age Level: 5 and up | Grade Level: K and up...
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