 | Darkness
Publication Date: April 24, 2012| ISBN-10: 098159624X | ISBN-13: 978-0981596242Poetry. "Yedda Morrison has produced an edition of Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness in which only references to the natural world remain. But what counts as 'natural' is far from self-evident, and Morrison's erasures open onto a range of philosophical and ethical questions.... If the test of conceptual writing is the degree to which the distance between the concept and the execution creates enough friction to generate a spark across that gap, here, the ethereous space between the idea and the text—betwe...
 |  | On Wings Of Song
Publication Date: August 1, 2010Rebellious society girl Arabella Raynsford is leading a double life as a music hall singer but to escape a possible scandal, she flees to Constantinople to join Florence Nightingale. Arabella's ambitious mother wants her to marry wealthy Irish landowner Oswald Delaney but she has fallen in love with humble engineer Nat Sloane, a man her parents will never accept as a suitable husband. Besides, marriage will mean having to give up singing. Will she be able to find her path to happiness? ...
|  | The Forsyte Saga: The White Monkey
Publication Date: September 1, 2008| Series: The Forsyte Saga (Book 4) Following her marriage to Michael Mont, Fleur Forsyte throws herself into the Roaring 20s with the rest of London and takes life as it comes. But her marriage is haunted by the ghost of a past love affair, and however vibrant Fleur appears, those closest to her sense her unhappiness. Michael, devoted to Fleur but not blind to her faults, is determined to stand by her through anything. Will their marriage last, and just how much can Michael forgive? ...
|  | The Adults: A Novel
Release Date: February 1, 2011In her ruefully funny and wickedly perceptive debut novel, Alison Espach deftly dissects matters of the heart and captures the lives of children and adults as they come to terms with life, death, and love. At the center of this affluent suburban universe is Emily Vidal, a smart and snarky teenager, who gets involved in a suspect relationship with one of the adults after witnessing a suicide in her neighborhood. Among the cast of unforgettable characters is Emily’s father, whose fiftieth birthday party has the adults descending upon the Vidal’s ...
|  | Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (A New Verse Translation)
Publication Date: November 17, 2008"Compulsively readable. ... SimonArmitage has given us anenergetic, free-flowing, high-spirited version."—Edward Hirsch, New York Times Book Review,front-page reviewAlready a classic of modern translation, this fresh, vibrant work by dynamicBritish poetSimon Armitage updates the late fourteenth-century poem for a new generation.The story of Sir Gawain andthe Green Knight, initsdepiction of Arthurian landscapes, dreamlikecastles, and violent winterjourneys, demands apeerlessstoryteller, and, "like the Gawainpoet [himself], Armitage is somestoryteller"...
|  | Iphigenias at Aulis: Textual Multiplicity, Radical Philology
Release Date: May 26, 2005How should a literary scholar approach a text characterized not by stability but by variation and flux? This book offers a radical new perspective on the limits-and the accomplishments-of the modern traditions of textual criticism in classics.Sean Alexander Gurd takes as his starting point the case of a single Greek tragedy by Euripides, one of his last. According to ancient accounts, the Iphigenia at Aulis was produced at the city Dionysia, the great festival of Athenian tragedy, sometime after Euripides died (between 407 and 405 BCE). Whether the text performed th...
|  | The Lontar Anthology of Indonesian Drama Vol. 1: Plays for the Popular Stage
Publication Date: June 1, 2011The popular stages of urban Indonesia offer windows on inter-ethnic cultural obsessions and signs of participation in global trends. This volume brings together representative plays from the 1890s until the 1960s. It includes examples of the diverse genres that make up Indonesian popular theater: komedi stambul, opera derma, tonil, sandiwara and lenong.Authors: H. Krafft, Lie Kom Hok, Kwee Tek Hoay, Astaman, Andjar Asmara, Kotot Soekardi, D. Suradji, Suryosumanto and Soemantri SastrosuwondhoEditors: Matthew Isaac Cohen and John H. McGlynnTranslators: John H. McG...
|  | The Taming of the Shrew (New Folger Library Shakespeare)
Publication Date: September 1992| ISBN-10: 0808509241 | ISBN-13: 978-0808509240From the Royal Shakespeare Company -- a fresh new edition of Shakespeare's controversial comedy of the war between the sexes THIS EDITION INCLUDES:* An illuminating introduction to The Taming of the Shrew by award-winning scholar Jonathan Bate * The play - with clear and authoritative explanatory notes on each page * A helpful scene-by-scene analysis and key facts about the play * An introduction to Shakespeare's career and the Elizabethan theatre * A rich exploration of approaches to staging the play featurin...
|  | Arena (Magic - The Gathering, No. 1)
Release Date: October 16, 1994As the fighter-mages of the four great Houses prepare for their annual battle, a powerful stranger arrives and he is interested in the fifth House, destroyed a generation ago--but why is the Grand Master afraid of him? ...
| | Coleridge and the Idea of Love: Aspects of Relationship in Coleridge's Thought and Writing
Publication Date: May 30, 1975Dr Harding demonstrates in this study the importance of human relationship in Coleridge's thought and writing. The first three chapters explore Coleridge's idea of relationship as it developed throughout his creative life, and show how Coleridge's own relationships influenced his thinking about morality. One section is devoted to a fresh interpretation of Coleridge's major poetry. The final chapter traces the idea of relationship in Coleridge's social and political philosophy. Dr Harding uses previously unpublished Coleridge manuscripts in support of his analysi...
|  | Figuring Poesis (Studies on Themes and Motifs in Literature)
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|  | Dear Friend and Gardener: Letters on Life and Gardening
Publication Date: April 2, 1998In this exchange of personal letters two of Britain's leading gardeners - Christopher Lloyd and Beth Chatto - share their successes and failures, and learn from each other's experiences in their two very different gardens. ...
|  | Marine Madness
Publication Date: March 15, 2011Marine MadnessBy:Dawn Martinez --This text refers to the Kindle Edition edition....
|  | The Perfect Witness
Release Date: May 1, 1999They used to be partners--Greg Monarch and Ira Sullivan, a couple of do-good lawyers in central California. But it all went bad for Ira. Bad enough that he wakes up in jail one day staring at a death sentence for murder. Only Greg Monarch has a prayer of getting him off--if he's willing to cross certain ethical lines.Layer by layer, Greg peels back a tissue of lies--and at the rotten core he comes to Sandy Polson. Sandy says she was with Ira the night of the murder, says she saw the whole thing. The prosecution believes she's the perfect witness. But what if Monarch ...
|  | Think Twice (Doubleday Large Print Home Library Edition)
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|  | Chasing Clues
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|  | Hansel y Gretel: Fairy Tale Favourites Pop-Ups: Hansel and Gretel, Spanish Edition (Mis cuentos favoritos)
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|  | The Little Sailboat (Lois Lenski Books)
Release Date: May 27, 2003| Age Level: 3 and up | Grade Level: P and up...
|  | Dinosaur Poems
Publication Date: November 18, 2004| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: P and up A collection of poems about one of children's favourite subjects - dinosaurs. Including the Stegosaurus, Tyrannosaurus Rex, the Bookoceros, together with dancing dinosaus and dinosaurs having a party. Korky Paul's lively illustrations to life this popular poetry book. John Foster and Korky Paul's poetry partnership began over 10 years ago, with the publication of Dragon Poems. The combination of John's inspired and witty selection of poems, with Korky's crazily imaginative and anarchic illustrations, has proved ...
|  | Gas City
Release Date: January 8, 2008Calling upon his considerable novelistic skills, Loren D. Estleman exposes the black heart of a seemingly stable, well-run city suddenly pitched into violence and chaos. A delicate balance of forces—greed and corruption, ambition and desire—run out of control in the wake of a serial killer's grisly rampage. A power struggle—between a police chief who has looked the other way for too long, a Mafia boss who holds the city's vices in his powerful grasp, and media reporters looking for a big story—turns what has been a minor dispute...
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