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Mark Twain among the Indians and Other Indigenous Peoples is the first book-length study of the writer’s evolving views regarding the aboriginal inhabitants of North America and the Southern Hemisphere, and his deeply conflicted representations of them in fiction, newspaper sketches, and speeches. Using a wide range of archival materials—including previously unexamined marginalia in books from Clemens’s personal library—Driscoll charts the development of...
| Автор | Kerry Driscoll |
Wenn Alter keine Rolle spielt…Vivian ist fast 20 Jahre jünger als Alexander, dennoch fühlt sie sich stark zu dem attraktiven Mann hingezogen. Als sie eines Tages einen großen Strauß Rosen vor ihrer Haustür findet, kann sie ihrem Verlangen nicht länger widerstehen und der Altersunterschied spielt plötzlich gar keine Rolle mehr!-
| Автор | Camille Bech |
Arnold Schoenberg and Thomas Mann, two towering figures of twentieth-century music and literature, both found refuge in the German-exile community in Los Angeles during the Nazi era. This complete edition of their correspondence provides a glimpse inside their private and public lives and culminates in the famous dispute over Mann’s novel <I>Doctor Faustus</I>. In the thick of the controversy was Theodor Adorno, then a budding philosopher, whose contribution to the...
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Prose fiction, although not always associated with classical antiquity, flourished in the early Roman Empire, not only in realistic Latin novels but also and indeed principally in the Greek ideal romance of love and adventure. Enormously popular in the Renaissance, these stories have been less familiar in later centuries. Translations of the Greek stories were not readily available in English before B.P. Reardon’s first appeared in 1989.Nine complete stories are included here as well...
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This is the first anthology of nature writing that celebrates California, the most geographically diverse state in the union. Readers—be they naturalists or armchair explorers—will find themselves transported to California's many wild places in the company of forty noted writers whose works span more than a century. Divided into sections on California's mountains, hills and valleys, deserts, coast, and elements (earth, wind, and fire), the book contains essays, diary entries, and...
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Henri Michaux defies common critical definition. Critics have compared his work to such diverse artists as Kafka, Goya, Swift, Klee, and Beckett. Allen Ginsberg called Michaux «genius,» and Jorge Luis Borges wrote that Michaux’s work «is without equal in the literature of our time.» This anthology contains substantial selections from almost all of Michaux’s major works, most never before published in English, and allows readers to explore the haunting verbal and pictorial landscape of a...
| Автор | Henri Michaux |
Olivia, a young Scotswoman, takes a trip to India to visit her brother, who is a civil servant. Through her letters, we follow Olivia's ocean voyage to India, her stay in Calcutta, and her visits to outlying posts. The letters are gaily written and offer amusing anecdotes about the journey, the people she meets, and impressions of India on a girl who has barely left Scotland before.
| Автор | Anna Buchan |
Sex mit dem Feind, geil und hemmungslos!Evelina Adler kann ihren politischen Gegenspieler Alexander Kvist nicht ausstehen. Der Hass beruht auf Gegenseitigkeit. Als die beiden eines Abends nach einer Veranstaltung in einer Halle eingesperrt werden, wird es für beide heißer als gedacht. Schon bald überkommt Evelina und Alexander die Geilheit aufeinander und beide geben sich hemmungsloser Lust hin… -
| Автор | Vanessa Salt |
Die mysteriöse Entführung eines kleinen Jungen: Am 07. Februar 1966 wurde der kleine Basse aus seinem Kinderwagen vor einem Laden in Odense entführt und war spurlos verschwunden. Eine der größten Suchaktionen begann, jedoch führten die Zeugenaussagen meist in die Irre, und so hielt einer der merkwürdigsten Entführungsfälle Dänemarks die Öffentlichkeit lange Zeit in Atem…-
| Автор | Frederik Strand |
Hellboy, Mike Mignola’s famed comic book demon hunter, wanders through a haunting and horrific world steeped in the history of weird fictions and wide-ranging folklores. <I>Hellboy's World</I> shows how our engagement with Hellboy's world is a highly aestheticized encounter with comics and their materiality. Scott Bukatman’s dynamic study explores how comics produce a heightened “adventure of...
| Автор | Scott Bukatman |
“It's good to have a Goffstein,” said The New York Times Book Review . Here's something even better—twenty-six of M. B. Goffstein’s best-known, and best-loved, books for children and adults. Groundbreaking when first published, and perhaps more resonant today than ever, Goffstein’s work champions the value of simplicity, nature, self-reliance, spiritual connections, and living a creative life. With humor and insight, Goffstein enlarges our world from seemingly small details. With...
| Автор | M. B. Goffstein |
Late Victorian Orientalism is a work of scholarly research pushing forward disciplines into new areas of enquiry. This collection of essays tries to redefine the task of interpreting the East in the nineteenth century taking as a starting point Edward Said’s Orientalism (1978) in order to investigate the visual, fantasised, and imperialist representations of the East as well as the most exemplary translations of Oriental texts. The Victorians envisioned the East in many different modes or...
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Wenn Träume in Erfüllung gehen…Lisa hat genug von ihrem Leben in Skive und bewirbt sich um einen Job in einem Kopenhagener Nachtclub. Das Vorstellungsgespräch läuft gut, und voller Erwartungen und Träume erkundet sie die Stadt. Planmäßig soll sie abends wieder nach Jütland fahren, doch dazu kommt es nicht, denn ehe sie es sich versieht, bekommt sie alles, was ihr Herz begehrt. -
| Автор | Terne Terkildsen |
Este libro es un homenaje al amor, un hijo de la inspiración que solo la llama del amor real puede crear. No permitamos que nada nos quite la dicha de creer: ¡El amor existe!, es luz, es magia, es realidad, es fuerza, es vida. En estos poemas encontrarán melodías, pensamientos y versos infinitos que rinden tributo a lo que necesita este mundo, dosis diarias de amor verdadero.
| Автор | Jorge Tigrero |
Había una vez un lobo, que cuando empezó la primavera y terminaron los rigores invernales, salió de su cueva y se sintió hambriento. Pensó en ir de caza por si encontraba algo de comer. Recorrió el bosque en busca de animales, pero no encontró ninguno, cosa que le puso de mal humor. Llegó a un llano, donde estaba un caballo paciendo sobre la hierba
| Автор | La Fontaine |
From cuisine and martial arts to sex and self-esteem, <i>East Eats West</i> shines new light on the bridges and crossroads where two hemispheres meld into one worldwide “immigrant nation.” In this new nation, with its amalgamation of divergent ideas, tastes, and styles, today's bold fusion becomes tomorrow's classic. But while the space between East and West continues to shrink in this age of globalization, some cultural gaps remain. In this collection...
| Автор | Andrew Lam |
This magisterial work, long awaited and long the subject of passionate speculation, is an unprecedented exploration of modern poetry and poetics by one of America’s most acclaimed and influential postwar poets. What began in 1959 as a simple homage to the modernist poet H.D. developed into an expansive and unique quest to arrive at a poetics that would fuel Duncan’s great work in the 1970s. A meditation on both the roots of modernism and its manifestation in the work of H.D., Ezra Pound, D.H....
| Автор | Robert Duncan |
The history of drama is typically viewed as a series of inert «styles.» Tracing British and American stage drama from the 1880s onward, W. B. Worthen instead sees drama as the interplay of text, stage production, and audience.<br /><br />How are audiences manipulated? What makes drama meaningful? Worthen identifies three rhetorical strategies that distinguish an O'Neill play from a Yeats, or these two from a Brecht. Where <i>realistic</i> theater relies on the...
| Автор | W. B. Worthen |
Mark Twain, who was often photographed with a cigar, once remarked that he came into the world looking for a light. In this new biography, published on the centennial of the writer’s death, Jerome Loving focuses on Mark Twain, humorist and quipster, and sheds new light on the wit, pathos, and tragedy of the author of <i>Adventures of Huckleberry Finn</i>. In brisk and compelling fashion, Loving follows Twain from Hannibal to Hawaii to the Holy Land, showing how the southerner...
| Автор | Jerome Loving |
