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Fabulous Harbors

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Moorcock, Michael, PUBLISHER: Avon Books, Award-winning author Michael moorcock continuously astonishes readers and critics alike with each new literary offering. Revered for his eloquent, lyrical prose, his work is a testament to the emotional power of words. "Fabulous Harbors" is the second of a three-book set, and is a bridge between the novels Blood and The War Amongst the Angels. Comprised of 11 interlocking tales, "Fabulous Harbors" takes the reader by the hand and guides him into and through Moorcock's spectacular expanding multiverse -- a luminously realized, richly layered world of fantastic invention and lovingly drawn characters. Here, in the comfort and peace of Sporting Club Square -- an obscure and perhaps magical corner of London that seems oddly immune to the normal effects of time -- Begg family patriarch Sir Sexton and various family members and friends gather to swap memories, anecdotes and dreams. Come, sit by the fire and listen to the continuing exploits of the brave Sam Oakenhurst, the mysterious and seductive Rose von Bek, old friend and adventure Jerry Cornelius and Elric, the brooding albino prince of ruins, among others. Haunting and compelling, "Fabulous Harbors" is an extraordinary achievement from a true star in the literary firmament.

Des Photos Qui Parlent (Roman Jeunesse, 32) (French Edition)

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Poupart, Jean-Marie, PUBLISHER: La Courte Echelle, About the Roman Jeunesse series: The "Roman Jeunesse series gives advanced readers, aged 9 to 12, a wide range of literary genres: adventure, mystery, suspense, humour, horror and more, with heroes their own age. These finely illustrated, intriguing and moving novels will appeal to all tastes.

Written in Stone: A Story of English Heritage Sites Told

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Sharp, Jill, PUBLISHER: English Heritage, Written in Stone takes a journey around England, visiting sites that have inspired the writers whose works shaped England's literary heritage. The sites vary enormously, from the Jacobean grandeur of Audley End in Essex to the mysterious Neolithic burial monument Wayland's Smithy, and have influenced writers in different ways - some have been the birthplace or home of writers, or places they have visited at significant moments in their creative lives, others have provided an atmosphere or a setting for a literary work and some have even become characters themselves. Certain authors are met frequently on the journey round England, such as Jane Austen and Chaucer, while others are encountered only in passing, but all their works are inspiring and many are of outstanding repute - Shakespeare's plays and sonnets, romantic lyric poems and some great realist novels. When we arrive at Whitby Abbey, Bram Stoker and Dracula are there before us; at Stonehenge we meet Hardy and Tess of the D'Urbervilles, and a veritable round-table of historians, poets and novelists await us at Tintagel.

Notes of a Provincial Wildfowler

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Aksakov, Sergei Timofeevich / Timofeevich-Aksakov, Sergei / Aksakov, S. T., PUBLISHER: Northwestern University Press, The companion volume to his popular Notes on Fishing, Notes of a Provincial Wildfowler is Sergei Aksakov's guide to the bird species of his native Russia. Written in a style that invites comparison to the works of Gilbert White and Thomas Coward, Aksakov's volume combines a naturalist's sensibility with a literary skill that elevates the work beyond ordinary environmental writing. Notes of a Provincial Wildfowler is filled with precise descriptions of the various game that it treats: detailed accounts of the behavior of birds, observations on their life cycles, and lyrical discourses on the habitats -- marsh, water, and forest -- found in the author's home region. Aksakov's deep fondness for his homeland permeates his Notes, and he contrasts a gentleman's affectionate observations on both hunter and hunted (Aksakov's passion for the habits and habitats of his subjects are in stark contrast with his enthusiasm for the shooting and eating of his quarry) with an expertly conveyed atmosphere of personal and national nostalgia. Offering a rich multitude of viewpoints -- philosophical, literary, linguistic, ethnographic, and environmental -- Notes of a Provincial Wildfowler will appeal to a wide audience of readers, from birders to historians to those who relish fine literature.

On Broken Legs: A Shattered Life, a Search for God, a

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Zoba, Wendy Murray, PUBLISHER: NavPress Publishing Group, Through the wilderness of a shattered spirit, award-winning author and journalist Wendy Murray Zoba learns what it feels like to walk with God on broken legs. This beautifully-written literary memoir shows us how personal crises can both shatter and rebuild our faith.

Moby-Dick

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Melville, Herman, PUBLISHER: Dover Publications, A masterpiece of storytelling and symbolic realism, this thrilling adventure and epic saga pits Ahab, a brooding sea captain, against the great white whale that crippled him. More than just the tale of a hair-raising voyage, Melville's riveting story passionately probes man's soul. A literary classic first published in , "Moby-Dick" represents the ultimate human struggle.

P.S.1 Symposium: For a Practical Avant-Garde (Research

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Gessen, Keith, PUBLISHER: N+1, Cultural Writing. Art. Literary Criticism. Second printing. A conversation among Mark Greif, Eliza Newman-Saul and Dushko Petrovich, moderated by Keith Gessen, about the genuinely new and progressive--whether it still exists and if so how it is constituted--and whether it can still purposefully be called "avant-garde."

Eccentric Excursions Or, Literary & Pictorial Sketches of

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Woodward, G. M., PUBLISHER: Gale Ecco, Print Editions, The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars.Western literary study flows out of eighteenth-century works by Alexander Pope, Daniel Defoe, Henry Fielding, Frances Burney, Denis Diderot, Johann Gottfried Herder, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, and others. Experience the birth of the modern novel, or compare the development of language using dictionaries and grammar discourses. ++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++Bodleian Library (Oxford)NThe titlepage is engraved. Plates by I. Cruikshank.London: published by Allen & Co., ], iv,]p., plates: ill.; 4

Larenopfer

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Zayas, Alfred / Rilke, Rainer Maria, PUBLISHER: Red Hen Press, Rene Maria Rilke was born in Prague on 4 December and died near Montreux in Switzerland, on 29 December . The foremost lyric German poet of the 20th century, he is remembered primarily for his "Duino Elegies," the "Sonnets to Orpheus," the "Neue Gedichte," the "Buch der Bilder," the "Stundenbuch," and the "Cornet." Although his mature poetry has been translated into many languages, his early poetry remains accessible only in the original German. This translation of the Larenopfer, or offerings to the Lares, the Roman household deities, are songs that Rilke sings to his hometown Prague and to his beloved Bohemia, short poems on the parks, fountains, churches, bridges and palaces of Prague, not forgetting Rabbi Low's legends, the Jewish cemetery, the Thirty Years' War and, of course, young love. This cycle of 90 poems offers the reader a unique view into Rilke's fascinating world, the turn-of-the-century atmosphere of Prague, then the third largest city in the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Here a young German of the ruling bourgeoisie shows great appreciation for contemporary Czech literary works and enthusiasm for the cause of Czech cultural identity. The Larenopfer possesses not only literary merit but is also of considerable sociological and historical interest.

Alternative Perspectives in Assessing Children's Language

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Holland, Kathleen / Bloome, David / Solsken, Judith, PUBLISHER: Praeger, One of the realities of educational practice in the late 20th century is the increasing role of assessment, especially of children's oral and written language. While there are many issues and problems surrounding this assessment, one problem that needs to be addressed is the lack of alternative ways of assessing children's language and literacy for K-12 practitioners. There are many ways to approach the assessment of language and literacy. How one approaches the assessment of oral and written language depends, in large part, on how language is defined and on what purposes language is viewed as serving. In this book, alternative ways of assessing language are based on three different perspectives defining language and its uses: anthropological, socio-psycholinguistic, and literary. Although applying these perspectives to language is not new, only recently have educators and others taken seriously the need for assessment of language to be consistent with the perspectives of language underlying classroom instruction. Simply put, as language education (including reading, writing, and oral language) becomes increasingly based upon anthropological, socio-psycholinguistic, and literary principles, the assessment of language and literacy must also be based upon such principles. This book discusses and illustrates how to reconceptualize assessment in terms of the alternative perspectives outlined here.

Literature and the Marketplace: Romantic Writers and Their

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Rowland, William G., PUBLISHER: University of Nebraska Press, "Literature and the Marketplace" addresses one of the great ironies of nineteenth-century British and American literature: the fact that authors of that era, in voicing their alienation from middle-class readers, paradoxically gave expression to feelings of alienation felt by those same readers. As William G. Rowland Jr. points out, romantic writers "thought of the market as conspiring against 'imagination' (Blake) or 'telling the truth' (Melville)" and consequently felt frustrated with literary institutions. Yet their "frustrations," writes Rowland, "helped to energize romantic work and explain its subsequent and continuing appeal." The book opens with a survey of reading publics in Great Britain and the United States in the early years of the nineteenth century. Rowland then presents individual writers--including Wordsworth, Shelley, Hawthorne, Poe, and Emerson--and their relations to their readers. Finally, Rowland shows how the idea of genius was developed by writers as different as Coleridge, Blake, Whitman, and Dickinson and how that idea evolved as an antidote to the commercial literary marketplace of the nineteenth century. A wide-ranging and provocative book, "Literature and the Marketplace" describes the relations between important British and American authors and the audiences and publishing industries of their era--relations that were troubled, uncertain, and remarkably productive of literature.

Melvilles Moby Dick

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Bickman, Martin, PUBLISHER: Modern Language Association of America, Now at seventy-three volumes, this popular MLA series (ISSN ) addresses a broad range of literary texts. Each volume surveys teaching aids and critical material and brings together essays that apply a variety of perspectives to teaching the text. Upper-level undergraduate and graduate students, student teachers, education specialists, and teachers in all humanities disciplines will find these volumes particularly helpful.

Simon Et Le Soleil D'Ete

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Tibo, Gilles, PUBLISHER: Livres Toundra, Simon, the little boy with impossible dreams, has charmed children around the world. Simon books have appeared in Japanese, Chinese, Norwegian, Spanish, as well as French and English, have won the Governor General's Literary Award for Children's Illustration in Canada and the Owl Prize in Japan, and were chosen for the prestigious Illustrators Exhibit in Bologna, Italy.

Resisting Representation

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Scarry, Elaine, PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press, Renowned scholar Elaine Scarry's book, The Body in Pain, has been called by Susan Sontag "extraordinary...large-spirited, heroically truthful." The Los Angeles Times called it "brilliant, ambitious, and controversial." Now Oxford has collected some of Scarry's most provocative writing. This collection of essays deals with the complicated problems of representation in diverse literary and cultural genres--from her beloved sixth-century philosopher Boethius, through the nineteenth-century novel, to twentieth-century advertising. qWe often assume that all areas of experience are equally available for representation. On the contrary, these essays present discussions of experiences and concepts that challenge, defeat, or block representation. Physical pain, physical labor, the hidden reflexes of cognition and its judgments about the coherence or incoherence of the world are all phenomena that test the resources of language. Using primarily literary sources (works by Hardy, Beckett, Boethius, Thackeray, and others), Scarry also draws on painting, medical advertising, and philosophic dialogue to probe the limitations of expression and representation. Resisting Representation celebrates language. It looks at the problematic areas of expression not at the moment when representation is resisted, but at the moment when that resistance is at last overcome, thus suggesting a domain of plenitude and inclusion.

From Literal to Literary: The Essential Reference Book for

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Adams, James R. / Bonner, Hannah, PUBLISHER: Rising Star Press, Over 150 Biblical metaphors are examined in an effort to reveal the insights of the scriptures to the skeptic as well as the conventional Christian. The volume includes an index to Hebrew and Greek words, an index of Bible citations and a pronunciation guide for transliterated Hebrew and Greek words.

Old Filth

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Gardam, Jane, PUBLISHER: Europa Editions, "Jane Gardam's beautiful, vivid and defiantly funny novel is a must.""The Times" "Gardam's superb new novel is surely her masterpiece... one of the most moving fictions I have read in years... This is the rare novel that drives its readers forward while persistently waylaying and detaining by the sheer beauty and inventiveness of it style.""The Guardian" "The Whitbread winner scores again with a compelling novel based, in part, on the early life of Rudyard Kipling.""Time Out" Sir Edward Feathers has progressed from struggling young barrister to wealthy expatriate lawyer to distinguished retired judge, living out his last days in comfortable seclusion in Dorset. The engrossing and moving account of his life, from birth in colonial Malaya, to Wales, where he is sent as a "Raj orphan," to Oxford, his career and marriage, parallels much of the 20th century's torrid and twisted history. "Old Filth" was nominated for the Orange Prize. Jane Gardam lives with her husband and three children in England. She has won Katherine Mansfield Award, the PEN Macmillan Silver Pen Award, the Whitbread Novel Award (twice), and has been shortlisted for the Booker Prize. She was recently awarded the Heywood Hill Literary Prize in recognition of a distinguished literary career.

People, a Collection of Poetry

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Fardella, Anastasia, PUBLISHER: American Literary Press, Sharp contrasts and jolting images mark this engaging collection of poems by Anastasia Fardella. This young poet captures in words and photographs the paradoxically isolating commonalities of human struggle. The inner turmoil whispered throughout her work, contrasted with sometimes contented expressions on the faces of her photo subjects, challenge readers to take a deeper and harder look at their own facades.

Apulei Metamorphoseon Libri XI

 Maaike Zimmerman Apulei Metamorphoseon Libri XI (Oxford Classical Texts) oxford u.p NUOVO Zimmerman presents a new edition of Apuleius' Metamorphoses, which was written in the second century AD and is the only ancient Latin novel to survive in its entirety. In establishing her new text edition, Zimmerman has built on important recent research on the language and style of the literary artist Apuleius.

Black Beauty

ISBN: , SKU: , PUBLISHER: Modern Pub, Young readers will be eager to sample the literary genius in the Treasury of Illustrated Classics series. Short, concise chapters in each of the 12 1-c illustrated titles will keep them in anticipation of the adventure built into every beloved tale. Each must-have title is as engaging for first-time readers as those revisiting their favorite stories Hardcover editions and charmingly illustrated covers add to their appeal.

Eccentric Excursions Or, Literary & Pictorial Sketches of

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Woodward, G. M., PUBLISHER: Gale Ecco, Print Editions, The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars.Western literary study flows out of eighteenth-century works by Alexander Pope, Daniel Defoe, Henry Fielding, Frances Burney, Denis Diderot, Johann Gottfried Herder, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, and others. Experience the birth of the modern novel, or compare the development of language using dictionaries and grammar discourses. ++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++Harvard University Houghton LibraryNWith an engraved titlepage. Plates by I. Cruikshank. Printed from the same setting of type as the edition. In this edition, p.6 last line ends: "Lavater studied."London: published by Allen & co., ], iv,]p., plates; 4

Classical Music for Everybody

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Sethna, Dhun H., PUBLISHER: Fitzwilliam Press, For those who seek guidance in introducing themselves to classical music, this popular, painless guide to the major styles and most popular works of the Baroque through Impressionist periods leads the reader into this rich music from three vantage points: a discussion of instrument families and standard forms, a timetable of stylistic eras, and an exploration of the ways in which literary themes appear in the music.

Shakespeare's Othello

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Bloom, Harold, PUBLISHER: Riverhead Books, The exciting new series that began in Fall with "Macbeth," "A Midsummer Night's Dream," and "Henry IV" continues... "Negative charisma is an odd endowment; Iago represents it uniquely in Shakespeare, and most literary incarnations of it since owe much to Iago." - Harold Bloom Each edition in the Harold Bloom Shakespeare series will include the full text of the play, with editorial revisions and commentary by Harold Bloom.

Anne Of Green Gables

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: L. M. Montgomery, PUBLISHER: Modern Publishing, Young readers will be eager to sample the literary genius in the Treasury of Illustrated Classics series. Short, concise chapters in each of the 12 1-c illustrated titles will keep them in anticipation of the adventure built into every beloved tale. Each must-have title is as engaging for first-time readers as those revisiting their favorite stories Hardcover editions and charmingly illustrated covers add to their appeal.

Live and Learn: Perspectives on the Questing Spirit

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Lawson, Robert F. / Lawson, Carol S., PUBLISHER: Swedenborg Foundation, Live & Learn: Perspectives on the Questing Spirit explores the trait that makes our species stand out: a desire to find answers. From the confessions of a professional student to the search for the miraculous, this collection of essays, short stories, poetry, and art wrestles with the question of what brings forth a questing spirit.This latest Chrysalis Reader looks at how learning and teaching take place, as experienced in, and sometimes in spite of, the classroom. A teacher learns a truth from what becomes for him an absurdity -- the assigning of grades. A Midwestern community is forever changed by the courage of one student. A writer learns how to give the perfect dinner party by dining with the John Dos Passos family.Symbiotic relationships between living and learning take readers on a literary pilgrimage to Virginia Woolf's neighborhood where, at an abandoned railway station, the significance of a diary entry brings a writer's past into emotional focus. A humorist examines her disastrous early marriage to a sailor. A professional juggler adroitly handles the theoretical issues of multiple intelligences as played out in the business community.As with earlier Chrysalis Reader volumes, Live & Learn: Perspectives on the Questing Spirit is a literary smorgasbord, which may present readers with answers to some perennial questions: What aspects of the learning process are universal, and which are individual? How do we foster lifelong learning? Why do we ask "Why"?Carol Lawson, former executive editor of the American Birding Association Field Notes and Birding magazines, is series editor of the Chrysalis Reader. Robert Lawson, a poet, former editor for Simon and Schuster, and co-author forMacmillan Computer Publishing, is a freelance editor. As editors of the Chrysalis Reader, Carol S. Lawson & Robert F. Lawson present a new spiritual theme in each annual publication. Richly illustrated, original stories, poems, and essays offer an insightful, literary perspective on the place of Swedenborgian thought within a diversity of spiritual traditions.

Shining at the Bottom of the Sea

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Marche, Stephen, PUBLISHER: Riverhead Books, aMay be the most exciting mash-up of literary genres since David Mitchellas Cloud Atlas.a("The New York Times Book Review") "Shining at the Bottom of the Sea" is a vibrant evocation of a fictional country, Sanjaniaafrom the birth pangs of its first settlers and their hardy vernacular, to its revolutionary years, and all the way to the present diasporaaall told through Stephen Marcheas innovative and accomplished writing style.

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