| The Custom of the Country (Vintage Classics) Release Date: June 5, 2012| Series: Vintage Classics Edith Wharton’s lacerating satire on marriage and materialism in turn-of-the-century New York features her most selfish, ruthless, and irresistibly outrageous female character. Undine Spragg is an exquisitely beautiful but ferociously acquisitive young woman from the Midwest who comes to New York to seek her fortune. She achieves her social ambitions—but only at the highest cost to her family, her admirers, and her several husbands. Wharton lavished on Undine an imaginative energy that suggests she was as fascinated as she...
| | I'd Rather Be Single Publication Date: August 19, 2011"I'd Rather Be Single" is a HOT anthology with four stories on women who have been through it ALL and pushed to the point where they just rather be single...Indulge in the pages of this steamy anthology to find out why...The Crew Bookclub. Tyra went from dating deadbeats to dating athletes. But living the good life came at a price.... "The Skeletons In My Closet" By: LaShonda DeVaughn, Author of A Hood Chick's Story I & II - They say in order to receive true and real love, we must all take chances. Will Kenneth end up being the real deal? Or will Rita end up ...
| | Sifting Through the Madness for the Word, the Line, the Way: New Poems Release Date: January 6, 2004from "neither Shakespeare nor Mickey Spillane" young young young, only wanting the Word,going mad in the streets and in the bars, brutal fights, broken glass, crazy women screaming in your cheap room, you a familiar guest at the drunk tank, North Avenue 21, Lincoln Heights sifting through the madness for the Word, the linethe way, hoping for a check from somewhere, dreaming of a letter from a great editor: "Chinaski, you don't know how long we've been waiting for you!" no chance at all. ...
| | Seeing the Gawain-Poet: Description and the Act of Perception (Middle Ages Series) Publication Date: December 1991| Series: Middle Ages Series This is an examination of the descriptive art found in four medieval poems: "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight", "Pearl", "Purity" and "Patience". Generally accepted as being the work of a single author, alternately known as the "Pearl" or the "Gawain-Poet", these 14th-century poems are bound together in British Museum Cotton Nero A.x. Readers of the poems rarely fail to admire their descriptive art - the minutely detailed and precisely visualized depictions of costume, landscape, interior funishings or storms at sea. Sarah Stanbury e...
| | Battlestar Galactica: The Unofficial TV Show Companion Publication Date: February 28, 2012Often helmed as one of the greatest science fiction shows of all time, Battlestar Galactica is epic in every way. If you are new to the series or watching it again, then this companion is for you. With profiles on characters and summaries of every episode, this guide will help you keep track of all the plots and subplots. TVcaps is an imprint of BookCaps™ Study Guides. Each unofficial TV guide, recaps TV shows to help refresh your memory for what has previously happened. They feature character profiles, show history, and episode by episode recaps. To...
| | Caravan to Vaccares Publication Date: May 1, 2012From all over Europe, even from behind the Iron Curtain, gypsies make an annual pilgrimage to the shrine of their patron saint in Provence. But at this year’s gathering, people are mysteriously dying. Intrepid sleuths Cecile Dubois and Neil Bowman join the caravan in order to uncover the truth behind the deaths, in the process revealing an international plot that the sinister Gaiuse Strome will stop at nothing to keep secret. ...
| | Crossing the Rubicon: A Novel in Linear Form Publication Date: April 13, 2010This antiwar story takes place in 1967-68 in Vietnam. It's about those who crewed the helicopters in an assault helicopter company. There are two main male characters, one poor and one slightly upper middle class. They arrive in their new company on the same day and therefore become friends. Both are 24 years old. There is also an American female character who is in Vietnam with the Red Cross at the beginning of the book but has to return home when her father becomes ill. Her letters to Robert give a female point of view about the war. She is 23.In 1967-68 the...
| | The Back Nine Release Date: March 27, 2007Golf: it’s that simple, and that bedeviling, and that’s what it comes down to when Charlie McLeod—having fled unspecified disaster back East—turns up at a golf club near San Francisco and is entranced again by a game that had defined him until, years ago, he had to give it up. Now he begins caddying, a job that respects every privacy and motivation, while wrestling with those things that had exiled him not only from the sport but from life itself.In the profane, reassuring yet competitive world of the caddy shack, lost souls jostle for posi...
| | One Home Run Publication Date: June 3, 2011Injuries prematurely ended Charlie Becker's big league dreams, but in his new job as a scout for the Cleveland Indians, he looks for the proverbial diamonds in the rough-amateur ballplayers with the talent and the determination to play major league baseball. When he hears about Randy Wilson, a centerfielder described as "another Mickey Mantle", he makes the trek to tiny St. John's College to see him play. Wilson, a junior at St. John's, displays both power and speed during the game against rival Valparaiso College, and he caps off his impressive performance by s...
| | The Antigone (Large Print Edition) Publication Date: August 21, 2008This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience. We believe this work is culturally important and have elected to bring the book back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. ...
| | Contemporary View of Haiku = Vista Contemporanea de Haiku ...
| | A Poem on Living Day to Day. Publication Date: June 8, 2012This is a brief poetic verse, questioning the journey of life. ...
| | Laughter and tears: Reflections in poetry ...
| | Prose, poems, and parodies ...
| | Classical Greek Prose: A Basic Vocabulary Publication Date: April 1, 1998| ISBN-10: 1853995592 | ISBN-13: 978-1853995590This handbook contains a classified list, with English equivalents, of 1500 words in common use among classical Greek historians, orators and philosophers. One hundred of these are dealt with at greater length in a supplement, which also focuses on a number of crucial idioms. The aim of the book is that learners drilled in these words over the course of a semester or two should find that they can read the texts of such authors as Thucydides, Plato and Demosthenes with a high degree of fluency. An alphabetical i...
| | Postmodernism: A Reader (Hodder Arnold Publication) Publication Date: September 9, 1992| ISBN-10: 0340573813 | ISBN-13: 978-0340573815Postmodernism provides a collection of the incessantly cited but nevertheless still widely-scattered critical texts on postmodernism and literary theory. It includes all the "classics" as well as some less obvious, though no less stimulating, choices. An introduction and commentary by Pat Waugh provides essential information and offers a context within which to view the chosen texts. ...
| | Alternative Histories of English Publication Date: February 1, 2002| ISBN-10: 0415233577 | ISBN-13: 978-0415233576| Edition: 1st This groundbreaking collection explores the beliefs and approaches to the history of English that do not make it into standard textbooks.Orthodox histories have presented a tunnel version of the history of the English language which is sociologically inadequate.In this book a range of leading international scholars show how this focus on standard English dialect is to the detriment of those which are non-standard or from other areas of the world. Alternative Histories of English:* reveals the ...
| | A Middle English Anthology (Waynebook, 50) ...
| | Deutschkloster (German Edition) Release Date: July 18, 2001This Elibron Classics book is a facsimile reprint of a 1909 edition by Egon Fleischel & Co., Berlin. ...
| | The Roman Twins Publication Date: September 25, 1998| Grade Level: P and up Maximus and Vanilla, twin slaves, use all their wits to escape their cruel master, Slobbus Pompius. ...
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