 | The Last Days: A Novel (French Literature)
Publication Date: September 1996| Series: French Literature "profound, complex, likable" novel, tr B Wright...
 |  | Aleph (Vintage International)
Release Date: June 26, 2012| Series: Vintage International Transform your life. Rewrite your destiny.In his most personal novel to date, internationally bestselling author Paulo Coelho returns with a remarkable journey of self-discovery. Like the main character in his much-beloved The Alchemist, Paulo is facing a grave crisis of faith. As he seeks a path of spiritual renewal and growth, his only real option is to begin again—to travel, to experiment, to reconnect with people and the landscapes around him.Setting off to Africa, and then to Europe and Asia via the Trans-Siberian railroad...
|  | The New York Concert Saloon: The Devil's Own Nights (Cambridge Studies in American Theatre and Drama)
Publication Date: May 28, 2007| Series: Cambridge Studies in American Theatre and Drama (Book 14) A concert saloon is an establishment offering various kinds of entertainment, including alcohol, with some also providing gambling and prostitution. Brooks McNamara explores the concert saloon in New York from the Civil War to the early years of the twentieth century.He focuses on the theatrical aspects of the concert saloon and examines the sources of saloon shows, changes in direction during the century, performing spaces and equipment, and employees and patrons. ...
|  | The Golden Ass: The Transformations of Lucius
Publication Date: August 31, 1998In all of literature, there are few books with the vitality of The Golden Ass. The story follows Lucius, a young man of good birth, as he disports himself in the cities and along the roads of Thessaly. This is a wonderful tale abounding in lusty incident, curious adventure and bawdy wit.Robert Graves (1895-1985) was a British poet, novelist, translator, and critic. His many books include the historical novels I, Claudius and Claudius the God, the autobiography Good-bye to All That, and the mythic/literary studies The White Goddess and The Greek Myths. In all ...
|  | Tragedy and Civilization: An Interpretation of Sophocles
Publication Date: March 15, 1999Drawing on comprehensive analyses of all of Sophocles’ plays, on structuralist anthropology, and on other extensive work on myth and tragedy, Charles Segal examines Sophocles both as a great dramatic poet and as a serious thinker. He shows how Sophoclean tragedy reflects the human condition in its constant and tragic struggle for order and civilized life against the ever-present threat of savagery and chaotic violence, both within society and within the individual. For this edition Segal also provides a new preface discussing recent developments in the ...
|  | The Best Women's Stage Monologues of 2003
Publication Date: April 2004| ISBN-10: 157525333X | ISBN-13: 978-1575253336The latest edition of our monologue series, edited by D.L. Lepidus, contains 60 monologues for women from published or readily available plays, by our finest contemporary playwrights.Whether you need a monologue for class or an audition, this is an essential book for all actresses. ...
|  | Iceland as we know it,
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|  | America and Other Poems: Selected Poetry by Ayukawa Nobuo
Publication Date: June 1, 2007America and Other Poems is the first English translation of a single volume by the seminal Japanese Modernist poet, Ayukawa Nobuo. One of Japan's most influential yet overlooked poets, Nobuo was an important voice for peace and probity in the years that followed World War II and the collapse of Japan's rationale for war. This landmark selection spans from 1947 through 1976, and includes work ranging from early writings about the poet's experience on the front line to poems focused on the influence of Western culture on Japanese society. Nobuo's lyrical, complex ...
|  | Morning Haiku
Release Date: January 25, 2011From a leading writer of the Black Arts Movement, poems of commemoration and loss for readers of all ages A collection of haiku that celebrates the gifts of life and mourns the deaths of revered African American figures in the worlds of music, literature, art, and activism. ...
| | Madhushala: The House of Wine
Publication Date: August 30, 1990Dr Harivansrai Bachchan is India's leading Hindi poet - a confidante of the Nehrus. His son is India's best-known cinema superstar - Amitabh Bachchan. The core of this book is a long sequence called Madhushala (the house of wine) which could be compared to the Rubaiyat in imagery and metre. ...
| | Irish melodies, songs, and poems
Publication Date: 1859This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1859 Excerpt: ...darting Around thee, thro' all the gross clouds of the world; When Truth, from her fetters indignantly starting, At once, like a sun-burst, her banner unfurl'd. Ob, never shall earth seo a moment so splendid! Then, then had one hymn of deliverance blended The tongues of all nations, how sweet had ascended The first note of Liberty, Erin; from thee. But shame on tho...
|  | A Mirror in the Roadway: Literature and the Real World
Publication Date: February 5, 2007| ISBN-10: 0691130337 | ISBN-13: 978-0691130330In a famous passage in The Red and the Black, the French writer Stendhal described the novel as a mirror being carried along a roadway. In the twentieth century this was derided as a naïve notion of realism. Instead, modern writers experimented with creative forms of invention and dislocation. Deconstructive theorists went even further, questioning whether literature had any real reference to a world outside its own language, while traditional historians challenged whether novels gave a trustworthy repr...
|  | The Pulp Western
Publication Date: September 5, 2000"The Pulp Western is a seminal work in the field, filled with fascinating information about the magazines, their contents, their editors and the most popular writers and characters."- J. Randolph Cox for Dime Novel Round-Up--This text refers to the Kindle Edition edition....
|  | Poisoned Pins (Claire Malloy Mysteries, No. 8)
Publication Date: April 1, 1993Claire Malloy balances her duties as single mother and bookstoreowner against her part-time sleuthing when she investigates the murderof a local sorority girl. By the author of Maggody in Manhattan.20,000 first printing.National ad/promo. Tour. ...
|  | Darkness at Morning Star
Release Date: October 1, 1992Summoned by the twin sister she has not seen since childhood, Serena leaves behind her adoptive parents and flees to her sister's adopted home with a Kansas ranching family, a family plagued by dark intrigue and scandal. Original. ...
|  | In the Shadow of the Law: A Novel
Release Date: June 13, 2006 A Christian Science Monitor Best Book of the YearWinner of the Philadelphia Athenaeum Literary Award In the Shadow of the Law is the story of Morgan Siler, a powerful Washington, D.C., law firm that has transformed itself from a traditional practice serving those most in need into a shrewd giant serving the interests of the wealthy. Through the intertwined stories of a pro bono murder case and a class action lawsuit brought against a large chemical company, we meet the fascinating, engaging, and conflicted characters that make up this world: Mark Clayton...
|  | The King of Torts / The Last Juror
Release Date: June 5, 2007The King of TortsClay Carter has been at the office of the public defender too long and, like most of his colleagues, dreams of a better job in a real firm. When he reluctantly takes the case of a young man charged with a random street killing, he assumes it is just another of the many senseless murders that hit D.C. every week. As he digs into the background of his client, Clay stumbles on a conspiracy too horrible to believe. He suddenly finds himself in the middle of a complex case against one of the largest pharmaceutical companies in the world, looking at the k...
|  | Illegal
Release Date: March 24, 2009The Edgar-nominated author acclaimed for his crackling courtroom scenes delivers an adrenaline-laced, no-holds-barred thriller—his most powerful novel to date—as a disgraced lawyer travels the twisted border between justice and revenge.Haunted by a tragedy in his past and wanted by the cops for his latest malfeasance, trial lawyer Jimmy “Royal” Payne needs to skip town. That’s when he crosses paths with twelve-year-old Tino Perez, newly arrived from Mexico with no money and no papers. The gutsy kid first robs Payne, then pleads f...
|  | Choice of Evil: A Burke Novel
Release Date: May 16, 2000When his girlfriend, Crystal Beth, is gunned down at a gay rights rally in Central Park, Burke, the underground man-for-hire and expert hunter of predators, vows vengeance. But someone beats him to the task: a shadowy killer who calls himself Homo Erectus and who seems determined to wipe gay bashers from the face of the earth. As the killer's body count rises, most citizens are horrified, but a few see him as a hero, and they hire Burke to track him down...and help him escape.In Choice of Evil, Burke is forced to confront his most harrowing mys...
|  | The Adventures of Henry Turnbuckle: Detective Comedies by Jack Ritchie (Mystery Makers Series)
Publication Date: September 1, 1987| Series: Mystery Makers Series These stories are funny! The 29 Turnbuckle tales offered here mix black humor with “formula” crime stories in a hilarious twist to the hard-boiled detective tale.Turnbuckle’s cockeyed reconstructions of a murder exasperate his logical and long-suffering sidekick, Ralph, but they lead to a solution anyway—most of the time. Turnbuckle may or may not know whodunit but he’s always confident that there will soon be another murder. ...
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