 | Vigil: A Novel (Wsp Readers Club)
Release Date: July 21, 2009| Series: Wsp Readers Club When a nanny from war-torn El Salvador moves in with a wealthy American family, the result is an inspiring story about the power of love to cross cultural boundaries.Cecilia Samartin’s most impressive work yet, Vigil is told from the perspective of Ana, a middle aged woman who is waiting at the deathbed of her husband as he loses his battle against cancer. While she waits, she thinks back on her life and the incredible journey that brought her from war-torn El Salvador, to a convent in the U.S., and finally to a wealthy California e...
 |  | The God of Small Things: A Novel
Release Date: December 16, 2008Compared favorably to the works of Faulkner and Dickens, Arundhati Roy’s debut novel is a modern classic that has been read and loved worldwide. Equal parts powerful family saga, forbidden love story, and piercing political drama, it is the story of an affluent Indian family forever changed by one fateful day in 1969. The seven-year-old twins Estha and Rahel see their world shaken irrevokably by the arrival of their beautiful young cousin, Sophie. It is an event that will lead to an illicit liaison and tragedies accidental and intentional, exposing “...
|  | Equation For Love
Publication Date: July 22, 2012(Gay / Contemporary / BDSM [Light] / Exhibitionism) Sex + money shouldn't = love, but since when does the heart follow any laws but its own? Recent college graduate and mathematical genius Skye McCord is determined that this summer he's going to do something he's always wanted to try--living. And, as a scientist, he's not leaving anything to chance. He's got a new job in Las Vegas, a signing bonus burning a hole in his pocket, and what else does a brainy geek spend his money on but an education? But this time, it's one of a carnal variety. Liam Maddox isn't you...
|  | Someone Killed His Boyfriend: A Summer of Sex, Sun and Murder in Provincetown
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|  | Blood Howl
Publication Date: August 12, 2011Gun for hire Jed Walker doesn't figure it for a difficult job-a simple smash and grab retrieval-except his new client doesn't want money or goods. He wants shy, gorgeous Redford Reed, a man who turns Jed's world upside down inside a day. He is in no way prepared to fall hard and fast for his newest assignment.Redford Reed lives his life locked in his grandmother's house, haunted by a terrible curse and watching the world pass him by until Jed shows up, sent by a man who will stop at nothing to claim Redford as his own. Teaming up with Jed is Redford's only ch...
|  | The Metamorphosis
Publication Date: June 26, 2012Often cited as one of the most influential works of short fiction of the 20th century, Metamorphosis is widely studied in colleges and universities across the western world. Nobel Peace Prize winner Elias Canetti described it as "one of the few great and perfect works of the poetic imagination written..." ...
|  | The Spoken Word and the Work of Interpretation (Conduct and Communication)
Publication Date: June 1, 1983| ISBN-10: 081221143X | ISBN-13: 978-0812211436Dennis Tedlock presents startling new methods for transcribing, translating, and interpreting oral performance that carry wide implications for all areas of the spoken arts. Moreover, he reveals how the categories and concepts of poetics and hermeneutics based in Western literary traditions cannot be carried over in their entirety to the spoken arts of other cultures but require extensive reevaluation. ...
|  | Eduardo De Filipo: Four Plays (Great Translations for Actors Series,)
Publication Date: October 2002| Series: Great Translations for Actors Series, Eduardo De Filippo, possibly the finest and certainly the funniest and most loved playwright in Italy, was a great Neapolitan actor who wrote dozens of plays for his own theater company.In Italy he is known simply as "Eduardo."His plays are all superb comedies, yet always based on strong human emotions.Since de Filippo usually wrote in Neapolitan dialect, British translations have tended to be farcical and over-the-top.These new translations are truer and closer in spirit to the originals.Translated by the actress ...
|  | Wynnere and Wastoure and the Parlement of the Thre Ages (TEAMS Middle English Texts)
Publication Date: October 1992| ISBN-10: 1879288265 | ISBN-13: 978-1879288263Wynnere and Wastoure and the Parlement of the Thre Ages, by Ginsberg, Warren, ed.. 4to. ...
|  | Time and Space: A Poetic Autobiography
Publication Date: July 1, 2000Written while in exile in the United States, “Time” and “Space” were originally intended to appear together in a single volume. Not until 1986, however, did they appear so in Spanish— and not until 1988 were they published together in English. By presenting them together, Jiménez had wanted them to convey the same continuity of emotion, the same philosophical intensity, that he had experienced while writing them. “All My Life,” he wrote in his introduction, “I have toyed with the idea of writing ...
|  | Starting Lines in Scottish, Irish, and English Poetry: From Burns to Heaney
Publication Date: February 15, 2001| ISBN-10: 0198186371 | ISBN-13: 978-0198186373Are literary ideas of originality and imitation, allusion and influence inherently political if the poems emerge from different sides of a border or of a colonial relationship? Taking as a framework the history of relations between Ireland, England, and Scotland since the 1707 Union, the book explores this question through a series of close readings. ...
|  | Maples in the Mist: Poems for Children from the Tang Dynasty
Publication Date: September 1996A collection of short poems written over 1000 years ago by such poets of the Tang Dynasty as Li Po, Yin Luan, and Du Mu. ...
|  | The Biblical Interpretation of William of Alton (Oxford Studies in Historical Theology)
Publication Date: October 14, 2011| Series: Oxford Studies in Historical Theology Studies of medieval Biblical interpretation usually focus on the printed literature, neglecting the vast majority of relevant works. Timothy Bellamah offers a groundbreaking examination of the exegesis of William of Alton, a thirteenth-century Dominican regent master at Paris whose commentaries have never previously appeared in print. As a near contemporary of Hugh of St. Cher, Bonaventure, Albert the Great, and Thomas Aquinas, William was an important representative of university exegesis at a time of rapidly ...
|  | Fictive Domains: Body, Landscape, and Nostalgia 1717-1770 (Bucknell Studies in Eighteenth-Century Literature and Culture)
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|  | American Science Fiction: Four Classic Novels 1953-56 (Library of America)
Release Date: September 27, 2012| Series: Library of America (Book 227) Following its acclaimed three-volume edition of the novels of science fiction master Philip K. Dick, The Library of America now presents a two-volume anthology of nine groundbreaking works from the golden age of the modern science fiction novel, works by turns satiric, adventurous, incisive, and hauntingly lyrical. Long unnoticed or dismissed by the literary establishment, these visionary “outsider” novels grappled in fresh ways with a world in rapid transformation and have gradually been recognized as Americ...
|  | The Four Seasons: Poems (Everyman's Library Pocket Poets)
Release Date: June 3, 2008| Series: Everyman's Library Pocket Poets For the poet, even the most minute details of the natural world are starting points for flights of the imagination, and the pages of this collection celebrating the four seasons are brimming with an extraordinary range of observation and imagery. Here are poets past and present, from Chaucer, Shakespeare, and Wordsworth to Whitman, Dickinson, and Thoreau, from Keats, Blake, and Hopkins to Elizabeth Bishop, Ted Hughes, Amy Clampitt, Mary Oliver, and W. S. Merwin. Here are poems that speak of the seasons as measures of e...
|  | Malcontents
Release Date: March 2, 2004Popular satirist Joe Queenan proves that cynicism in literature flourished long before Generation X in this acerbic compendium of the best classic satirical writing from the last several centuries, as well as from Ancient Greece. The collection encompasses essays, short stories, plays, and novels, with Queenan's insightful biographies of each featured writer. Selections include engaging, readable works by early wits ranging from Oscar Wilde to Mark Twain, and excerpts from The Prince by Machiavelli; "A Modest Proposal" by Jonathan Swift; "Justine" by the Marquis de...
|  | The Bride Thief
Release Date: March 26, 2002HAS ENGLAND’S MOST INFAMOUS BRIDE THIEF FINALLY MET HIS MATCH?At six-and-twenty, Samantha Briggeham knew her marital prospects were fading by the season and she was pleased by the thought. She had no intention of being betrothed–especially against her will–to a man she did not love. She had a plan...and it didn’t include being swept into a pair of powerful arms and spirited away by a masked rider. News of Sammie’s heroic rescue from undesired wedlock turned her into the toast of the ton, wooed by suitors far and wide. But she cou...
|  | My Life in CIA: A Chronicle of 1973
Publication Date: June 1, 2005"It's outrageous that an educated man and a gifted writer like Mr.Mathews could make such a public confession of such shameful activities."—Q. Kuhlmann, author of The Eye of Anguish: Subversive Activity in the German Democratic RepublicThrough a series of improbable coincidences, in the early 1970s Harry Mathews, then living in France, was commonly reputed to be a CIA agent. Even his closest friends had their suspicions, which were only reinforced each time he tried to deny such a connection. With growing frustration at his inability to make anyone believ...
|  | The Listerdale Mystery and Eleven Other Stories
Publication Date: January 11, 2006First published in 1934, this collection of Agatha Christie short stories features 12 ingenious tales involving mystery and adventure, from a stolen rajah’s emerald to a necklace discovered in a basket of cherries to a mystery writer’s bizarre near-arrest for murder. Among the stories in this enjoyable early collection are "The Girl on the Train," "Jane in Search of a Job,"and "Philomel Cottage," which was made into the film Love from a Stranger. ...
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