 | The Situation and the Story: The Art of Personal Narrative
Publication Date: October 11, 2002| ISBN-10: 0374528586 | ISBN-13: 978-0374528584| Edition: 1st A guide to the art of personal writing, by the author of Fierce Attachments and The End of the Novel of LoveAll narrative writing must pull from the raw material of life a tale that will shape experience, transform event, deliver a bit of wisdom. In a story or a novel the "I" who tells this tale can be, and often is, an unreliable narrator but in nonfiction the reader must always be persuaded that the narrator is speaking truth.How does one pull from one's own boring, agitated self the truth-s...
 |  | Trying
Publication Date: July 23, 2008Drama / lm, 1f / InteriorTrying is a two-character play based on the author's experience during1967-1968 when she worked for Francis Biddle at his home in Washington,D.C. Judge Biddle had been Attorney General of the United States underFranklin Roosevelt. After the war, President Truman named him Chief Judgeof the American Military Tribunal at Nuremberg. The play is about a youngCanadian girl and an old, Philadelphia aristocrat, "trying" to understandeach other in what Biddle knows is the final year of his life. ...
|  | The Mixquiahuala Letters
Release Date: March 18, 1992Focusing on the relationship between two fiercely independent women--Teresa, a writer, and Alicia, an artist--this epistolary novel was written as a tribute to Julio Cortázar's Hopscotch and examines Latina forms of love, gender conflict, and female friendship. Ana Castillo's groundbreaking first novel, The Mixquiahuala Letters, received an American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation and is widely studied as a feminist text on the nature of self-conflict. ...
|  | A Sister Carrie Portfolio
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|  | Go the Distance: From Disney's Hercules
Release Date: June 28, 1997The fourth in a popular series of songbook companions to Disney's recent animated motion pictures contains the complete lyrics to the irresistibly zany theme song from Hercules and full-color artwork. 25,000 first printing." ...
|  | White Stains & The Nameless Novel: Flowers of Eros and Evil
Publication Date: October 31, 2008White Stains remains Aleister Crowley s most infamous work, his attempt at taking the Satanic/erotic decadencee of Baudelaire and ramping it up to new extremes of degradation, sexual depravity and demonic frenzy. Revelling in filth, Crowley includes odes to sodomy, fellatio, cunnilingus, analingus, rape, lesbianism, impotence, venereal disease, bestiality, sado-masochism, coprophilia, necrophila, blasphemy and devil-worship in this staggering, over-the-top compendium of eros and evil. This new edition of White Stains also includes Crowley s rare later volume...
|  | Vampire Clans
Publication Date: September 6, 2008For centuries the Montare and Corala Clans have co-existed in relative peace. The war, which previously raged for three millennia, came to an anti-climactic end with the simplest of actions; pen and paper. The Diurnal Clans, led by Montare, had begun a campaign of unity; to unite not only the vampire world, but the human one as well. But a recent epidemic had led some within the vampire world to believe that action to be unsanctioned by the Gods. A virus, unlike anything ever seen, had begun to sweep through the Clans, felling the greatest of them. As the p...
|  | Little Vampire Gets a Surprise
Publication Date: July 31, 1993The seventh title in THE LITTLE VAMPIRE series in which Tony and his vampire friends uncover more of the sinister truth about the mysterious Igno von Rant. Also available in paperback priced at 3.50, ISBN 0 7500 1406 7. ...
|  | Bearers of the Black Staff: Legends of Shannara
Release Date: July 26, 2011| Series: Legends of Shannara NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERFive hundred years have passed since the devastating demon-led war tore apart the United States and nearly exterminated humankind. Those who escaped the carnage were led to sanctuary in an idyllic valley, its borders warded by powerful magic against the horrors beyond. But the cocoon of protective magic surrounding the valley has now vanished. When Sider Ament, the only surviving descendant of the Knights of the Word, detects unknown predators stalking the valley, he fears the worst. And when expert Trackers fi...
|  | When the Wind Blows
Publication Date: April 1, 2000Frannie O'Neill is a young and talented veterinarian living in Colorado. Plagued by the mysterious murder of her husband, David, a local doctor, Frannie throws herself into her work. It is not long before another bizarre murder occurs and Kit Harrison, a troubled and unconventional FBI agent, arrives on her doorstep. Late one night, near the woods of her animal hospital, Frannie stumbles upon a strange, astonishing phenomenon that will change the course of her life forever....Her name is Max.With breathtaking energy, eleven-year-old Max leads Frannie and Kit to...
|  | Behind the Pine Curtain
Publication Date: June 1, 2006Jacqueline Keys was ostracized from her small hometown of Pine Springs, Texas when she was seventeen, sent away because she was gay. Her family was the largest employer in the county, owning Pine Springs Lumber, and her father was mayor of this small town. Her mother could not accept the fact that her only child was gay, could not tolerate the gossip about her family. So, with a hundred dollars in her pocket and a one-way bus ticket out of town, Jacqueline was told not to come back until she had come to her senses. And that included being prepared to marry the s...
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|  | Last Gunfighter: Hell Town
Release Date: October 1, 2007| Series: Last Gunfighter Buckskin, Nevada, was once a boomtown, then died a peaceful death. But when a fresh vein of silver is struck, Morgan lets himself get pinned with a tin badge at the worst possible time. It's not the crooked gamblers, the petty swindlers, or the stray murderer or two that will give Morgan problems. Instead, the governor sends his militia unbidden, an iron fisted military commander has an agenda of his own, and an outlaw gang decides the time is ripe for an all-out assault on Buckskin. Now, to put out the fire that's stoking a murderous ca...
|  | Anton Chekhov's Short Stories (Norton Critical Editions)
Publication Date: April 17, 1979| ISBN-10: 0393090027 | ISBN-13: 978-0393090024| Edition: 1st The thirty-four stories in this volume span Chekhov’s creative career.They present a wide spectrum of comic and serious themes and a variety of techniques. (His short novels, available in another Norton volume, Seven Short Novels by Chekhov, have been omitted.) Two of the stories have been translated for this edition by Professor Matlaw; the other translations, by Constance Garnett, Ivy Litvinov, and Marian Fell, have been revised in accordance with contemporary usage. Footnotes have been...
|  | Dionysalexandros: Essays on Aeschylus And His Fellow Tragedians in Honour of Alexander F. Garvie
Publication Date: December 1, 2006| ISBN-10: 1905125135 | ISBN-13: 978-1905125135In 17 original essays, a distinguished international cast considers the text, interpretation and cultural context of Greek tragedy. There are detailed studies of single plays, of major themes in each of the three tragedians, of modern approaches to tragic text and interpretation, and of the genre's social, political and religious background. Some of tragedy's most distinguished interpreters here present their latest work, and pay tribute to the scholarly achievements of the volume's honorand, Professor A F G...
|  | Women in the Age of Shakespeare
Publication Date: December 14, 2009| ISBN-10: 0313343047 | ISBN-13: 978-0313343049Like the other entries in this fascinating series, Women in the Age of Shakespeare shows the influence of the world William Shakespeare lived in on the worlds he created for the stage, this time by focusing on women in the Elizabethan and Jacobean eras in general and in Shakespeare's works in particular.Women in the Age of Shakespeare explores the ancient and medieval ideas that Shakespeare drew upon in creating his great comedic and tragic heroines. It then looks at how these ideas intersected with the liv...
|  | The Ethics of Modernism: Moral Ideas in Yeats, Eliot, Joyce, Woolf and Beckett
Publication Date: July 16, 2009| ISBN-10: 0521116287 | ISBN-13: 978-0521116282| Edition: 1 What was the ethical perspective of modernist literature? How did Yeats, Eliot, Joyce, Woolf and Beckett represent ethical issues and develop their moral ideas? Lee Oser argues that thinking about human nature restores a perspective on modernist literature that has been lost. He offers detailed discussions of the relationship between ethics and aesthetics to illuminate close readings of major modernist texts. For Oser, the reception of Aristotle is crucial to the modernist moral project, which he d...
|  | Les Bijoux de la Castafiore (Tintin) (French Edition)
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|  | Beowulf and Other Stories: A New Introduction to Old English, Old Icelandic and Anglo-Norman Literatures (2nd Edition)
Publication Date: September 24, 2011| ISBN-10: 1408286033 | ISBN-13: 978-1408286036| Edition: 2Beowulf & Other Stories was first conceived in the belief that the study of Old English – and its close cousins, Old Icelandic and Anglo-Norman – can be a genuine delight, covering a period as replete with wonder, creativity and magic as any other in literature.Beowulf & Other Stories captures the fire and bloodlust of the great epic, Beowulf, and the sophistication and eroticism of the Exeter Riddles. Fresh interpretations give new ...
|  | Wicked Game
Release Date: May 13, 2008 LATE NIGHT RADIO YOU CAN SINK YOUR TEETH INTORecovering con artist Ciara Griffin is trying to live the straight life, even if it means finding a (shudder!) real job. She takes an internship at a local radio station, whose late-night time-warp format features 1940s blues, '60s psychedelia, '80s goth, and more, all with an uncannily authentic flair. Ciara soon discovers just how the DJs maintain their cred: they're vampires, stuck forever in the eras in which they were turned. Ciara's first instinct, as always, is to cut and run. But communications giant Skywave wa...
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