 | Perelandra (Scribner Classics)
Publication Date: October 1, 1996| Series: Scribner ClassicsWritten during the dark hours immediately before and during the Second World War, C. S. Lewis's Space Trilogy, of which Perelandra is the second volume, stands alongside such works as Albert Camus's The Plague and George Orwell's 1984 as a timely parable that has become timeless, beloved by succeeding generations as much for the sheer wonder of its storytelling as for the significance of the moral concerns. For the trilogy's central figure, C. S. Lewis created perhaps the most memorable character of his career, the brilliant, clea...
 |  | The Splendor of Silence: A Novel
Release Date: September 18, 2007When Sam Hawthorne, a twenty-five-year-old U.S. Army captain, arrives at the princely state of Rudrakot in May of 1942, it is on a personal quest to find his missing brother. But Sam's mission is soon threatened by the unlikeliest of sources -- he falls hopelessly in love with Mila, daughter of the local political agent. And Mila, unexpectedly attracted to Sam, finds herself torn between loyalty to her family and the man she loves. A sweeping and poignant story of forbidden love, The Splendor of Silence opens twenty-one years later with Olivia, Sam's daughte...
|  | Under the Witness Tree
Publication Date: October 1, 2004After inheriting an old plantation house from an aunt she didn’t know existed, Dhari Weston heads 800 miles south to see the place and meets intriguing Dr. Erin Hughes, a local history professor with a passion for old houses. Dhari’s life is complicated enough without meeting such an attractive and intelligent woman: Her mother needs her, her father relies on her and her girlfriend worries her. But when Erin finds old letters and a diary, Dhari knows she can’t leave until she finds out the truth . . .Marianne K. Martin is the best-selling au...
|  | On Any Given Sunday
Publication Date: January 15, 2001This is a novel about football-professional, that is-in something of the way, say, Bernard Malamud's The Natural is a novel about baseball. In it you can discover the essence, the truth of the warzone the players inhabit that can only be invoked by Pat Toomay, a man who was there."Pat Toomay, for many years a lineman with the Cowboys and the Raiders, has mixed fact and fiction to produce a story that will make every armchair quarterback laugh and wince-and worry at his exposition of 'the game's' most insidious reality: the prospect-on any given Sunday-of a f...
|  | The Dipper
Publication Date: April 30, 1997In the depths of Dartmoor, Quentin and Clemmie Halliwell know that the onset of old age threatens their life together at The Grange. Phyllida Makepeace feels secure in her marriage to Alistair, but when a deep sorrow strikes them, she discovers that no one is untouched by human frailty. Claudia and Jeff Maynard seem the perfect couple. But they are hiding from the truth and Claudia is about to realise the shattering effects of denial. Turning to one another in their time of need, these friends and neighbours learn those vital lessons in how to love, forgive an...
|  | Vampires, Burial, and Death: Folklore and Reality
Publication Date: July 25, 1988In this engrossing book, Paul Barber surveys centuries of folklore about vampires and offers the first scientific explanation for the origins of the vampire legends. From the tale of a sixteenth-century shoemaker from Breslau whose ghost terrorized everyone in the city, to the testimony of a doctor who presided over the exhumation and dissection of a graveyard full of Serbian vampires, his book is fascinating reading. ...
|  | The Concise Oxford Companion to Classical Literature (Oxford Paperback Reference)
Publication Date: June 17, 1993| ISBN-10: 0192827081 | ISBN-13: 978-0192827081| Edition: Subsequent Based on the highly praised second edition of The Oxford Companion to Classical Literature, this is the only concise guide to ancient Greek and Roman literature available in paperback. Complete with translations of all Greek and Latin words, it is ideal for anyone interested in the classical world and its literary heritage. In addition to accounts of the lives and works of key authors, entries on important characters, plot summaries, and details of the development of such literary forms as...
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|  | The Conference of the Birds (Penguin Classics)
Release Date: July 3, 1984| Series: Penguin Classics The acclaimed translation of a magnificent work of Persian poetry—now updated with new materialComposed in the twelfth century in northeastern Iran, Farid Attar’s great mystical poem is among the most significant of all works of Persian literature. A marvelous, allegorical rendering of the Islamic doctrine of Sufism, it describes the pilgrimage of the world’s birds in search of their ideal king, the Simorgh bird, and the arduous journey they take to reach him. This masterly translation preserves the poem’s rhymed co...
|  | Gypsy Cante: Deep Song of the Caves (Spanish and English Edition)
Publication Date: January 1, 2001Over centuries, Andalusian Gypsies developed cante jondo, or deep song, which grew from the experience of exile and marginalization. Although flamenco music enjoys wide popularity today, the words of the songs are often lost in the passion of the performance, or because they are sung in dialect. This is a bilingual sampling of the lyrics and brief commentaries by aficionados. ...
|  | Catullus and His Renaissance Readers
Publication Date: April 8, 1993| ISBN-10: 0198148828 | ISBN-13: 978-0198148821This is the first general study of the fortunes of Catullus in the Renaissance. After a brief introduction tracing the transmission of the poet from antiquity to the middle of the fifteenth century, the book follows his reception and interpretation by editors, commentators, university lecturers, and poets from the first edition (1472) through the sixteenth century. The focus is on Catullus but also on his Renaissance readers. Their text and interpretations not only influenced the ways in which later generations...
|  | The Poetry of Evan Boland: A Postcolonial And Subaltern Reading (Irish Research)
Publication Date: August 15, 2007| ISBN-10: 1933146230 | ISBN-13: 978-1933146232This monograph is an original and important contribution to the growing body of critical studies devoted to one of Ireland s major living poets: Eavan Boland (see Haberstroh 1996; Hagen & Zelman 2005). It details the controversies that were prompted by the inclusion of Ireland in a postcolonial framework and then tests the application of an array of cogent theories and concepts to Boland s work. In an attempt to explore the richness and complexity of her poetry, Villar Argáiz discusses the contradictory ...
|  | Manzovo: Place of the Elephants
Publication Date: September 15, 2008Nestled like a rare jewel in the inhospitable but alluring Zambezi Valley, Mana Pools provides the early setting for the episodic story of Manzovo - place of the elephants.Thandi, now at the height of her prime, is the astute and respected matriarchal head of a herd of elephants. She gives birth to Lesedi—the last of her five calves—and thus begins their sweeping journey through the bushveld and across the open vistas of southern Africa.While the herd has to deal with their brushes with predators, farmers, poachers and culling gangs alike, th...
| | At the Sign of the Star
Publication Date: September 25, 2002| ISBN-10: 374404585The tale of a bookseller's daughterMeg Moore is the motherless and only child of a bookseller with a thriving business in Restoration London-and that makes her an heiress. She knows that someday she will have her pick of suitors, and that with the right husband she can continue in the book trade and be friends with wits and authors, as her father is. But Mr. Moore's unexpected marriage throws all Meg's dreams into confusion. Meg resists the overtures and edicts of her stepmother with a cleverness equaled only by her fierceness, but in...
|  | At War with the Word
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|  | The Culture of Joyce's Ulysses (New Directions in Irish and Irish American Literature)
Release Date: December 21, 2010| Series: New Directions in Irish and Irish American Literature Reading James Joyce’s Ulysses with an eye to the cultural references embedded within it, R. Brandon Kershner interrogates modernism's relationship to popular culture and literature. Addressing newspapers and “light weeklies” in Ireland, this book argues that Ulysses reflects their formal innovations and relationship to the reader. Ultimately, Kershner offers a corrective to formal approaches to popular literary genres, broadening the spectrum of methodologies to incorpor...
|  | Shadow and Light: A Novel
Release Date: March 31, 2009Berlin, between the two world wars. When an executive at the renowned Ufa film studios is found dead floating in his office bathtub, it falls to Nikolai Hoffner, a chief inspector in the Kriminalpolizei, to investigate. With the help of Fritz Lang (the German director) and Alby Pimm (leader of the most powerful crime syndicate in Berlin), Hoffner finds his case taking him beyond the world of film and into the far more treacherous landscape of Berlin’s sex and drug trade, the rise of Hitler’s Brownshirts (the SA), and the even more astonishing attempts ...
|  | Birmingham Noir
Publication Date: April 24, 2003For fans of gritty British crime drama, here's a collection of 23 stories set in and around Birmingham. Like the Los Angeles of Raymond Chandler or James Ellroy, Birmingham is industrial and multicultural, the ideal setting for noir fiction. These stories, by both newcomers and veterans (including John Harvey, whose Charlie Resnick series was set in Birmingham), demonstrate that it is possible to work almost infinite variations on a theme. They are all set in the same locale, with the same general theme, but each is unique. It's not just a matter of style, tho...
|  | Full Moon Soup
Publication Date: September 1, 2009| Age Level: 5 and up | Grade Level: K and up Something strange is going on here! Children will really have to keep their eyes open if they want to see all the weird and wacky goings-on at the Hotel Splendide. That’s because the full moon seems to be having a peculiar effect on the hotel’s guests and staff: a portrait is being very rude, the maid’s getting sucked up by a vacuum cleaner, and the sausages have grown feet! Every spread provides a deliciously open, comic view of the hijinks, while the rhyming text directs kids’ attention...
|  | Creepy Riddles (Easy-to-Read, Puffin)
Release Date: August 21, 2000| Age Level: 6 and up | Grade Level: 1 and up...
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