 | L'apotheose d'Orphee: L'esthetique de l'ode en France au XVIe siecle, de Sebillet a Scaliger (1548-1561) (Travaux d'humanisme et Renaissance) (French Edition)
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 |  | Roses and Thorns: A Poetic Pride and Prejudice
Publication Date: November 25, 1999A charming collection of sonnets and free verse written by, and about, the characters in Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. Within these pages you will meet Mr. and Mrs. Bennet, Lizzy, Jane, Darcy, Bingley and, of course, the imperious Lady Catherine de Bourgh and pompous Mr. Collins, as well as others eager to speak their minds and share their interpersonal relationships. Written in both sonnet and free verse , these poems are the forum for many "conversations" between all the characters. Delightfully interspersed with each poem is an excerpt from Pride an...
|  | On the Nature of Things, Translated by Martin Ferguson Smith (Hackett Classics Series)
Publication Date: September 3, 2001| ISBN-10: 0872205878 | ISBN-13: 978-0872205871Martin Ferguson Smith's work on Lucretius is both well known and highly regarded. However, his 1969 translation of De Rerum Natura--long out of print--is virtually unknown. Readers will share our excitement in the discovery of this accurate and fluent prose rendering. For this edition, Professor Smith provides a revised translation, new Introduction, headnotes and bibliography. ...
|  | Say the Name: A Survivor's Tale in Prose and Poetry
Publication Date: July 1, 2005Say the Name vividly describes in the voice of a fourteen-year-old the experiences of a Jewish girl who was imprisoned in Ravensbruck Concentration Camp during World War II. Miraculously, Judita Sternova of Kurima, Czechoslovakia, survives persecutions, hiding, flight, capture, deportation, and the Camp. Like the few other surviving Jews, she could not bear to remain in her village emptied of family and other Jews and emigrates to England and, eventually, the United States. After more than fifty years Sherman gets up from her years of memories, private resistanc...
|  | Multilingual Dictionary of Publishing, Printing and Bookselling (A & P Reference)
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|  | French Dressing: Women, Men, and Fiction in the Ancien Regime
Publication Date: December 16, 1994| ISBN-10: 041590322X | ISBN-13: 978-0415903226French Dressing looks at the ancien régime's scenarios of libertine seduction--unsafe sex and its consequences for women's lives.It places the gender performances of male and female-authored novels in dialogue in order to recover the complexity of a century obsessed, as we are today, with writing and living plots of desire. French Dressing exposes the erotic anxieties behind a national culture of sexual self-display--French undressing. ...
|  | A Coherent Splendor: The American Poetic Renaissance, 1910-1950
Publication Date: January 29, 1988| ISBN-10: 0521345332 | ISBN-13: 978-0521345330In this book Professor Gelpi traces the emergence of American Modernist poetry as a reaction to, and outgrowth of, the Romantic ideology of the nineteenth century. He focuses on the remarkable generation of poets who came to maturity in the years of the First World War and whose works constitute the principal body of poetic Modernism in English.This large historical argument is developed through monographic chapters on the poets which include close readings of their major poems.Comprehensive in scope and sub...
|  | Future Lovecraft
Publication Date: November 22, 2011Decades, centuries and even thousands of years in the future: The horrors inspired by Lovecraft do not know the limits of time…or space. Journey through this anthology of science fiction stories and poems inspired by the works of H.P. Lovecraft. Listen to the stars that whisper and drive a crew mad. Worship the Tloque Nahuaque as he overtakes Mexico City. Slip into the court of the King in Yellow. Walk through the streets of a very altered Venice. Stop to admire the beauty of the flesh-dolls in the window. Fly through space in the shape of a hungry, ...
|  | When I Am Old I Shall Wear Purple: Large Print
Publication Date: January 1, 2010This enchanting collection of writings and photographs evokes the beauty, humor and courage of women living in their later years and tells of the endearing moments of joy-and passion-to be found in the rich and varied world of midlife and beyond. An award-winning anthology that takes a refreshing look at issues of aging in a society that glorifies youth. Over 1.6 million copies of the anthology have been sold across the United States. This groundbreaking collection was one of the first non-clinical and positive books on women and aging, and was written by old...
|  | Rub Out the Words: The Letters of William S. Burroughs 1959-1974
Release Date: February 7, 2012 William S. Burroughs was one of the twentieth century’s most iconoclastic literary and artistic figures, an inimitable writer whose groundbreaking work in novels such as Junky and Naked Lunch forever altered the shape of American culture. Now, in this long anticipated collection, editor Bill Morgan takes readers through Burroughs’ correspondence from the early sixties through the mid-seventies, in more than three hundred letters that document Burroughs’ steady drift away from the Beat circle and that witness an era in which he became the center o...
|  | Novelas Ejemplares I
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|  | The Jeweled Style: Poetry and Poetics in Late Antiquity
Release Date: February 25, 2010In The Jeweled Style, Michael Roberts offers a new approach to the Latin poetry of late antiquity, one centering on an aesthetic quality common to both the literature and the art of the period-the polychrome patterning of words and phrases or of colors and shapes. In Roberts's view, the writer or artist of this period works as a jeweler, carefully setting compositional units in a geometric framework, consistently demonstrating a preference for effects of patterning over realistic representation, and for a unity situated at a higher level than the literal, histo...
|  | Corralled: A Blacktop Cowboys Novel
Release Date: August 3, 2010| Series: Blacktop Cowboys Novel First in a new series about some hard-riding rodeo cowboys...and the women who can rein them in.Sports therapist Lainie Capshaw has been rehabilitating injured cowboys long enough to know that a charming western drawl combined with a fine physical form doesn't mean you fall for the man. So no one is more surprised than Lainie when she finds herself involved with not one, but two different men: Hank Lawson, a bullfighter, and Kyle Gilchrist, a bull rider. Lainie feels guilty about her two-timing, but it doesn't keep her from doubl...
|  | Out of the Storm (Stewart Sisters Trilogy)
Release Date: October 26, 2004| Series: Stewart Sisters Trilogy (Book 3) Southern hospitality can kill you....There's no escaping the sweltering heat when White House correspondent Laurel Stewart arrives in Somersett, South Carolina, and discovers that her best friend -- the vice president's protocol advisor -- has disappeared. As frustrated as she is by Detective Joe Gannon's skepticism regarding her suspicions, Laurel finds his smooth-talking southern ways and brazen bedroom eyes disturbingly, dangerously, seductive.With the homicide rate escalating as fast as the mercury, the last thi...
|  | Deception: A Tale of Pride and Prejudice
Publication Date: March 5, 2010Pride and Prejudice variation. After the ball at Netherfield Fitzwilliam Darcy left Hertfordshire scared ofhis rapidly developing feelings for Elizabeth Bennet. What if another man had appeared in her life, both wealthy and attractive, certain of his affection for her and wishing to marry her? What if in Kent Darcy had met Elizabeth who was practically engaged to another man? How would he have dealt with an unexpected rival and would he face the challenge? ...
|  | Tango (Arabesque)
Publication Date: November 1, 2003| Series: Arabesque Romance Novel. ...
|  | Stardust: A Novel
Publication Date: July 6, 2010Hollywood, 1945. Ben Collier has just arrived from war-torn Europe to find his brother has died in mysterious circumstances. Why would a man with a beautiful wife, a successful movie career, and a heroic past choose to kill himself? Ben enters the uneasy world beneath the glossy shine of the movie business, where politics and the dream factories collide and Communist witch hunts are rendering the biggest star makers vulnerable. Even here, where the devastation of Europe seems no more real than a painted movie set, the war casts long and dangerous shadows. When B...
|  | Coyote's Wife (Ella Clah Novels)
Release Date: February 2, 2010| Series: Ella Clah Novels Ella Clah is no longer an unsure young woman recently returned to the Navajo Reservation from a stint with the FBI; she has found her place in her tribe, her clan, and her family. She has seen the Diné at their worst—and at their best—as they balance the modern era with the traditional Navajo way of life. Ervin Benally, son-in-law of the powerful Navajo businesswoman and politician Abigail Yellowhair, plans to bring satellite telephone service to the Rez. When Benally is attacked and another man is killed, Yello...
|  | Spider-Man: The Next Chapter - Volume 3 (Spider-Man (Graphic Novels))
Publication Date: August 22, 2012| Grade Level: 4 and up...
| | Mediopollito: Cuento Tradicional en Espanol e Ingles/Half-Chicken: A Folktale in Spanish and English
Release Date: August 1, 1995With Mexican inspired artwork and a bilingual text in Spanish and English, the origins of the weather vane come to life when Half-Chicken sets out to explore the world on his one leg, with one eye and wing. ...
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