 | Selected Prose of T.S. Eliot
Publication Date: November 10, 1975Thirty-one essays-categorized as “essays in generalization,” “appreciations of individual authors,” and “social and religious criticism”- written over a half century. This volume reveals Eliot’s original ideas, cogent conclusions, and skill and grace in language. Edited and with an Introduction by Frank Kermode; Index. Published jointly with Farrar, Straus & Giroux. ...
 |  | EXPRESSIONS OF HOPE (Helen Steiner Rice Collection)
Publication Date: July 1, 2007| Series: Helen Steiner Rice Collection This new deluxe gift book offers uplifting words for any day of the year-all penned by America's best-loved poet, Helen Steiner Rice. With the timeless theme of Hope you will find just the refreshment you need to get through the day. In addition to the 125 poems, Expressions by Helen Steiner Rice is packaged in a portable, go-anywhere format and includes an appealing full-color interior. ...
|  | Wee Three Kings
Publication Date: September 16, 2012“Though none of them knew it, that night in the chapel was the last time the wee three kings would see the orphanage—and when they saw JW next, it would be years later and halfway around the world.” *** Each Christmas Eve, the main characters of Wee Three Kings miraculously turn from ceramic statues into real little men. Along with their well-meaning—but somewhat clumsy—camel, they have only one evening each year to discover and complete their mission. Their adventure ultimately culminates in a hair-raising battle against...
|  | American Woman: A Novel
Release Date: September 7, 2004On the lam for an act of violence against the American government, 25-year-old Jenny Shimada agrees to care for three younger fugitives whom a shadowy figure from her former radical life has spirited out of California. One of them, the kidnapped granddaughter of a wealthy newspaper magnate in San Francisco, has become a national celebrity for embracing her captors' ideology and joining their revolutionary cell. A thought-provoking meditation on themes of race, identity, and class, American Woman explores the psychology of the young radicals, the intensity of th...
|  | Spence and Lila (Harper Short Novel Series)
Publication Date: June 1988| Series: Harper Short Novel Series This unexpected love story outlines the culture shock of a farm couple in a hi-tech medical world. Lila's two-week stay in the hospital provides the focus for the ways they have loved and cherished each other for 46 years. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title....
|  | It's Just Lola
Publication Date: August 3, 2012Born in1894, youngest daughter of a wealthy Peruvian landowner, Lola was seduced at an early age, disowned and forced to leave her father’s plantation. Twice widowed with three children by age 21, Lola braved a British blockade and German U-boats off the coast of South America in her quest for security and happiness. Lola lived a life of drama and hardship from the Andes to San Francisco, but she never gave up and she never stopped loving. Fear of impending death often impels people to divulge secrets they have guarded for many years. Thus it was that L...
|  | The History of the Lord of the Rings
Publication Date: September 1, 2000J.R.R. Tolkien"s THE LORD OF THE RINGS, now firmly acknowledged as one of the most popular books of the twentieth century, has captivated generations of readers with its completely convincing fantasy. In The History of The Lord of the Rings, the author"s son and literary heir, Christopher Tolkien, examines the creation of that epic from its inception to its finished form. At the core of these books are many early drafts and unpublished passages by Tolkien, which add greatly to a thorough understanding of his masterpiece. Combining his father"...
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| | An Aristotelian theory of comedy,: With an adaptation of the Poetics, and a translation of the 'Tractatus Coislinianus, '
Publication Date: 1969Originally published in 1918. This volume from the Cornell University Library's print collections was scanned on an APT BookScan and converted to JPG 2000 format by Kirtas Technologies.All titles scanned cover to cover and pages may include marks, notations and other marginalia present in the original volume. --This text refers to the Paperback edition....
|  | The Cambridge Companion to English Restoration Theatre (Cambridge Companions to Literature)
Publication Date: May 29, 2000| ISBN-10: 052158812X | ISBN-13: 978-0521588126This rich and varied portrait of drama from 1660 to 1714 provides students with essential information about playwrights, staging and genres in their social and political context. The theater that followed the Restoration of Charles II is revealed in all of its tumult, energy and conflict. Contributors pay attention to major and minor playwrights, the first professional female dramatists, the performance aspects of the drama and the main dramatic genres and themes. ...
| | Vinland Sagas the Norse Discovery of Ame
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|  | French Verse-Art: A Study
Publication Date: April 14, 2011This 1980 book is designed to help university students to master the technicalities and techniques of French verse. The author assumes that part of the difficulty encountered by readers derives from the need to approach French verse through English verse; this book undertakes, therefore, a differentiation of the two verse traditions. Dr Scott's concern is to provide the groundwork of a terminology, to discuss the origins and implications of that terminology, and to show how terminological knowledge can be translated into critical speculation about poetry. Afte...
| | The Twelve and the Scythians
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|  | A Necklace of Bees: Selected Poems
Publication Date: January 1, 1992Poetry. Osip Mandelstam was born in 1891. Professor Donald Rayfield, in his notes to Chapter 42 and the Goldfinch by Nadezhda and Osip Mandelstam, wrote that Mandelstam's "poetry of the thirties, almost all unpublished in his own lifetime, marks him as arguably the greatest Russian poet this century." He died in a Siberian transit camp in 1938. Elaine Feinstein, in her foreword to A NECKLACE OF BEES, writes that "Maria Enzensberger has chosen not only early poems where Mandelstam is grateful for the quiet joy of being alive, but later poems which have the 'fl...
| | Editing Yeats Poems: A Reconsideration
Publication Date: January 1990| ISBN-10: 031203203X | ISBN-13: 978-0312032036This book deals with editing Yeats' poems and is a companion to the revised edition of W.B.Yeats "The Poems - A New Edition". It outlines the complex problems facing an editor of Yeats' poetry and explains the solutions adopted in the new text. Manuscript materials are drawn on extensively, including some which have recently come to light in the Scribner archives at the Univeristy of Texas and at Princeton University. Compared with the first edition of this volume, there is an additional chapter on the order of ...
|  | Trt Rainn Agus Ahhran (Irish Edition)
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|  | Sympathy and India in British Literature, 1770-1830 (Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and Cultures of Print)
Release Date: July 5, 2011| ISBN-10: 0230233392 | ISBN-13: 978-0230233393India exerted a powerful grip over the imagination of British authors during the Romantic period. But what was the true nature of their engagement with the Subcontinent? This study argues that depictions of India had to come to terms with India's strangeness and distance from Britain, as well as the aesthetic requirements of European culture. ...
|  | Journeys of Simplicity: Traveling Light with Thomas Merton, Basho, Edward Abbey, Annie Dillard & Others
Publication Date: October 1, 2007Where do our journeys take us?What do we leave behind?What do we carry with us?How do we find our way?You are invited to consider a more graceful way of traveling through life. With arresting clarity, Journeys of Simplicity offers vignettes of forty travelers and the few, ordinary things they carried with them--from place to place, from day to day, from birth to death.Edward Abbey, Nellie Bly, Raymond Carver, Dorothy Day, Marcel Duchamp, Dolores Garcia, Emma "Grandma" Gatewood, Mohandas Gandhi, Peter Matthiessen, William Least Heat Moon, John Muir, Robert Pir...
|  | Final Theory: A Novel
Publication Date: June 3, 2008A Spellbinding Thriller about a Science HistoryProfessor on the Run for his Life and an Unpublished Einstein Theory that Could Change the World Debut novelist Mark Alpert brings one of the most explosive books of 2008, seamlessly weaving current issues of science, history, and politics with white-knuckle chases. David Swift, a professor at Columbia University, is called to the hospital to comfort his mentor, a physicist who's been brutally tortured. Before dying, the old man wheezes "Einheitliche Feldtheorie." The Theory of Everything. The Destroyer of Worlds. C...
|  | Loaded Dice: A Tony Valentine Novel
Release Date: January 25, 2005When Tony Valentine, a master at catching casino cheaters, jets to Las Vegas to look for his missing son, he lands in the middle of a dangerous turf war between rival casinos. Valentine’s longtime pal then taps him to figure out how an amateur won $25,000 at his blackjack tables. But the job is full of land mines. For starters, the suspect bears a strong resemblance to his late wife. Upping the ante, a dead stripper is found with Valentine’s calling card–and her grief-stricken policeman boyfriend is vowing revenge.Yet in a city where barracudas...
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