 | Richard Henry Dana Jr.: Two Years Before the Mast and OtherVoyages (Library of America)
Release Date: October 6, 2005| Series: Library of America (Book 161) This volume collects three sea-going travel narratives by Richard Henry Dana, Jr., that span 25 years of maritime history, from the age of sail to the age of steam. Suffering from persistent weakness in his eyes, Dana left Harvard at age 19 and sailed from Boston in 1834 as a common seaman. Two Years Before the Mast (1840) is the classic account of his voyages around Cape Horn and time ashore in California in the decade before the Gold Rush. Written with an unprecedented realism that challenged the romanticism of previous m...
 |  | Sassafrass, Cypress & Indigo: A Novel
Release Date: September 28, 2010Ntozake Shange's beloved Sassafrass, Cypress & Indigo is the story of three sisters and their mother from Charleston, South Carolina. Sassafrass, the oldest, is a poet and a weaver like her mother before her. Having gone north to college, she is now living with other artists in Los Angeles and trying to weave a life out of her work, her man, her memories and dreams. Cypress, the dancer, leaves home to find new ways of moving in the world. Indigo, the youngest, is still a child of Charleston—"too much of the south in her"—who...
|  | Selected Poems
Publication Date: August 17, 2007"No one else has ever made avant-garde,experimental poems so attractive to both thegeneral and the special reader."—RandallJarrellThe one hundred and fifty-six poems here,arranged in twelve sections and introduced by E. E. Cummings's biographer, include his mostpopular poems, spanning his earliest creations,his vivacious linguistic acrobatics, up to hislast valedictory sonnets. Also featured arethirteen drawings, oils, and watercolors byCummings, most of them never before published.The selection includes most of thefavorites plus many fresh and surpris...
|  | Adam in Eden
Publication Date: December 11, 2012In this comic novel of political intrigue, Adam Gorozpe, a respectedbusinessman in Mexico, has a life so perfect that he might as well behis namesake in the Garden. But there are snakes in this Garden too, andin order to save his relationship, his marriage, his life, and the soulof his country, he may have to call upon the wrath of the angels toexpel all these serpents from his Mexican Eden.In this comic novel of political intrigue, Adam Gorozpe, a respected businessman in Mexico, has a life so perfect that he might as well be his namesake in the Garden of ...
|  | The Queen of the South
Release Date: May 31, 2005Few authors inspire the kind of passion that Arturo Pérez-Reverte does. Reviewers, readers, and booksellers alike have embraced his fiction as the perfect blend of suspense and literary ambition. A global bestseller, he is one of the most admired and widely read authors in the world. And his stunning new novel is his best yet. A remarkable tale, The Queen of the South spans continents, from the dusty streets of Mexico to the sparkling waters off the coast of Morocco, to Spain and the Strait of Gibraltar. A sweeping story set to the irresistible beat of the dr...
|  | Anthills of the Savannah
Release Date: February 4, 1997In the fictional West African nation Kangan, newly independent of British rule, the hopes and dreams of democracy have been quashed by a fierce military dictatorship. Chris Oriko is a member of the cabinet of the president for life, one of his oldest friends. When the president is charged with censoring the oppositionist editor of the state-run newspaper—another childhood friend—Chris's loyalty and ideology are put to the test. The fate of Kangan hangs in the balance as tensions rise and a devious plot is set in motion to silence the firebrand critic...
|  | The Mango Season
Release Date: October 26, 2004From the acclaimed author of A Breath of Fresh Air, this beautiful novel takes us to modern India during the height of the summer’s mango season. Heat, passion, and controversy explode as a woman is forced to decide between romance and tradition.Every young Indian leaving the homeland for the United States is given the following orders by their parents: Don’t eat any cow (It’s still sacred!), don’t go out too much, save (and save, and save) your money, and most important, do not marry a foreigner. Priya Rao left India when she was twenty ...
|  | Endgame and Act Without Words
Publication Date: June 16, 2009Samuel Beckett was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1969; his literary output of plays, novels, stories and poetry has earned him an uncontested place as one of the greatest writers of our time. Endgame, originally written in French and translated into English by Beckett himself, is considered by many critics to be his greatest single work. A pinnacle of Beckett’s characteristic raw minimalism, it is a pure and devastating distillation of the human essence in the face of approaching death. ...
|  | Till Eulenspiegel: His Adventures
Publication Date: August 10, 2001| ISBN-10: 0415937639 | ISBN-13: 978-0415937634| Edition: 4 A classic fable of German literature, Till Eulenspiegel is a cheerfully scatological collection of 95 loosely related vignettes depicting the life and times of a famous roving jester. ...
|  | Servius' Commentary on Book Four of Virgil's Aeneid
Publication Date: September 1, 2002| ISBN-10: 0865165149 | ISBN-13: 978-0865165144A unique tool for scholars and teachers, this translation and commentary, on facing pages with the original Latin, allows easy access to Servius' seminal work on one of the most widely-read books of the Aeneid: Book 4.Special Features--------------------------------------------------------------------------------Introduction on the life of Servius, the textual tradition Latin text of Virgil's Aeneid, Book 4, with Servius' commentary beneath it Facing-page translation of both Virgil and Servius Endnote...
|  | Fabliaux: Ribald Tales from the Old French
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|  | Who Can Be Happy and Free in Russia?
Publication Date: February 2, 2004No wonder the peasants Dislike a wet spring-tide: The peasant needs greatly A spring warm and early. This year, though he howl Like a wolf, I'm afraid. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition....
|  | English in Print from Caxton to Shakespeare to Milton
Publication Date: April 2, 2008English in Print from Caxton to Shakespeare to Milton examines the history of early English books, exploring the concept of putting the English language into print with close study of the texts, the formats, the audiences, and the functions of English books. Lavishly illustrated with more than 130 full-color images of stunning rare books, this volume investigates a full range of issues regarding the dissemination of English language and culture through printed works, including the standardization of typography, grammar, and spelling; the appearance of popular l...
|  | Forbidden Fruit / More Forbidden Fruit, or: Master Percy's Progress in and Beyond the Domestic Circle (Zebra Books Z-1059)
Publication Date: 1970First printing of the Grove Press [Zebra Books] edition of a pair of classics of Victorian erotic literature; [Reprint of the original published anonymously in London in 1905.] Cover photo by LaGarde. ...
|  | In the Spirit of Powys: New Essays
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|  | Paradise Lost (Penguin Classics)
Release Date: April 29, 2003| ISBN-10: 0140424393 | ISBN-13: 978-0140424393| Edition: Reissue In Paradise Lost, Milton produced a poem of epic scale, conjuring up a vast, awe-inspiring cosmos and ranging across huge tracts of space and time. And yet, in putting a charismatic Satan and naked Adam and Eve at the centre of this story, he also created an intensely human tragedy on the Fall of Man. Written when Milton was in his fifties - blind, bitterly disappointed by the Restoration and briefly in danger of execution—Paradise Lost has an apparent ambivalence towards authority which h...
|  | Letters from the Desk of Ronald Reagan
Release Date: February 8, 2005Ronald Reagan, one of America’s most beloved presidents, is now gone. But his voice lives on in this stirring and very personal collection of letters written during his presidency to his fellow Americans, showing us a new and surprisingly intimate side of our fortieth president. During even the busiest times in his presidency, Ronald Reagan took time out to respond to dozens of letters each week from the many friends and private citizens who wrote to him about their concerns. These letters, collected in the president’s “Handwriting File,...
|  | Fire & Silk (BookStrand Publishing Romance)
Publication Date: September 18, 2012[BookStrand Historical Fantasy Romance, HEA] Flann O'Conall, the gruff, redheaded son of a king in ancient Ireland, has for the past twenty years preferred the wilderness to the company of a woman. Then, one rainy night, he reluctantly opens his rainproof blanket to the innocent yet disdainful and taunting Mariana de la Castra del Oro. What happens under his blanket? The encounter of his fire with her silk creates a maelstrom of conflict and raw passion that changes both their lives. First, he teaches her some survival skills, while she tries to teach him ...
|  | Lilian Jackson Braun: Three Complete Novels
Release Date: April 27, 1998The most unlikely, most unusual, most delightful team in detective fiction join forces in one big hardcover book of Cat Who . . . favorites to discover that - whether they're at home in Moose County or on top of Potato Mountain for a little R&R - mystery always has a way of finding them. But when prizewinning reporter Jim Qwilleran and his fabulous felines work together, they're never far from getting to the bottom of things. ...
|  | Cc The Three Little Pigs (Children's Classics (Andrews McMeel))
Publication Date: January 1, 1991| Age Level: 4 and up...
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