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Seattle, with its spectacular natural beauty and rough frontier history, has inspired writers from its earliest days. This anthology spans seven decades and includes fiction, memoirs, histories, and journalism that define the city or use it as a setting, imparting the flavor of the city through a literary prism.Reading Seattle features classics by Horace R. Cayton, Richard Hugo, Betty MacDonald, Mary McCarthy, Murray Morgan, and John Okada as well as more recent works by Sherman Alexie, Lynda...
| Автор | Peter Donahue |
In literatures worldwide, animal fables have been analyzed for their revealingly anthropomorphic views, but until now little attention has been given to the animal tales of China. The complex, competitive relationship between rodents (vilified as thieves of grain) and the felines with whom they are perennially at war is explored in this presentation of Chinese tales about cats and mice. Master translator Wilt Idema situates them in an overview of animal tales in world literature, in the Chinese...
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this book will teach you how to legally improve your credit score and be financially stable. this book has different ways and techniques of improving credit score and being financially stable. this will help credit controllers improve the score.
| Автор | Sadiq A |
In their debut book, renowned genderqueer porn director Nicky Miller takes the reader by the hand into a hazy fog of a magical queer universe. Follow Echoe as she explores the nature of sex, love, and violence, with multiple lovers in a world where anything can happen. A poetic piece about gender fluidity and the beauty of polyamory, written in Miller's signature sharp style. A one-o-a-kind erotic story that will feel like a journey through all the colourful corners of the human soul.
| Автор | Nicky Miller |
"A Manifesto for Literary Studies," writes Marjorie Garber, �is an attempt to remind us of the specificity of what it means to ask literary questions, and the pleasure of thinking through and with literature. It is a manifesto in the sense that it invites strong declarations and big ideas, rather than impeccable small contributions to edifices long under construction.� Known for her timely challenges to the preconceptions and often unquestioned boundaries that...
| Автор | Marjorie Garber |
This pioneering book was the first to recognize Native American oral verse as a vibrant part of North American literature. First published in 1918, its ancient and modern songs were translated by the era's leading scholars and poets. The depth of its authenticity is matched by the scope of its variety, which covers both personal and ceremonial life.All of North America's major tribes are represented here. Traditional poems from people of the Eastern Woodlands, the Southeast, the Great...
| Автор | George W. Cronyn |
Eighteenth-century English literature, art, science, and popular culture exhibited an unprecedented fascination with small male bodies of various kinds. Henry Fielding's Tom Thumb plays drew packed crowds, while public exhibitions advertised male dwarfs as paragons of English masculinity. Bawdy popular poems featured diminutive men paired with enormous women, and amateur scientists anthropomorphized and gendered the «minute bodies» they observed under their fashionable new pocket...
| Автор | Deborah Needleman Armintor |
Metaphysical poetry, a term generally applied to the works of a group of English poets of the seventeenth century, is among the most read and studied verse in English literature, having proved enduringly popular and major influence on many twentieth-century poets. Dramatic and conversational in rhythm and tone, intriguing and complex in theme and idea, metaphysical poetry is also rich in striking and unusual imagery chosen from philosophy, theology, the arts, crafts, and sciences.This modestly...
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Ein Roman aus der schillernden Welt Chinas zur Zeit des Boxeraufstandes. Stanton Ware, ein englischer Major, ist in geheimer Mission unterwegs, um die von den Boxern drohende Gefahr abzuwenden. Begleitet wird er von Zivana, Tochter eines emigrierten russischen Prinzen, einer bildhübschen und hochintelligenten Frau. Aus dem Team zur Erledigung der bisweilen äußerst schwierigen und lebensgefährlichen Rettungsmission wird allmählich ein verliebtes Paar…
| Автор | Барбара Картленд |
Als hätte er nicht schon genug mit seinem Image und den daraus entstandenen Karriereproblemen zu kämpfen, begegnet der kanadische Eishockey-Star Cage Lancaster ausgerechnet auf der Hochzeit seiner Ex-Freundin seiner ersten großen Liebe Alexis nach knapp fünf langen Jahren wieder. Die Freude darüber währt jedoch nur kurz, denn Alexis konfrontiert ihn plötzlich mit einer Wahrheit, die bereits viel zu lange verschwiegen wurde – mit ihrer vierjährigen Tochter Josie, die Cage verdächtig ähnlich...
| Автор | Katie Weber |
Just as a basket’s purpose determines its materials, weave, and shape, so too is the purpose of the essay related to its material, weave, and shape. Editors Elissa Washuta and Theresa Warburton ground this anthology of essays by Native writers in the formal art of basket weaving. Using weaving techniques such as coiling and plaiting as organizing themes, the editors have curated an exciting collection of imaginative, world-making lyric essays by twenty-seven contemporary Native writers...
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In the eyes of mid-twentieth-century white America, “Aiiieeeee!” was the one-dimensional cry from Asian Americans, their singular expression of all emotions—it signified and perpetuated the idea of Asian Americans as inscrutable, foreign, self-hating, undesirable, and obedient. In this anthology first published in 1974, Frank Chin, Jeffery Chan, Lawson Inada, and Shawn Wong reclaimed that shout, outlining the history of Asian American literature and boldly drawing...
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When Flowers of Evil was first published in 1857, the book almost immediately became the subject of an obscenity trial, and for several generations afterward its themes of eroticism, lesbianism, revolt and decay earned the author a reputation for depravity and morbidity. It was not until 1949 that the French courts removed the ban originally imposed on Baudelaire's masterpiece.Today, Flowers of Evil is regarded as the poet's greatest work and perhaps the most influential book of French...
| Автор | Charles Baudelaire |
Durch Zufall treffen der unglückliche Musiker Ben, der drogenabhängige Cagney und die junge Lina, die im Gegensatz zu Ben und Cagney mit Luxusproblemen zu kämpfen hat, aufeinander. Obwohl sich Ben abgrenzen und nichts von seiner schmerzhaften Vergangenheit preisgeben möchte, kommt es, wie es kommen muss: Ben und Lina verlieben sich ineinander. Doch Cagney gefällt das ganz und gar nicht …
| Автор | Aylin Duran |
This elegant edition gathers seven spirited Yuletide fables by Charles Dickens. The heartwarming tales tell of people rescued from their own folly by mysterious strangers — including goblins, ghosts, and other supernatural creatures. In addition to the author's most famous holiday tale, «A Christmas Carol,» this collection features «The Cricket on the Hearth,» «The Chimes,» «The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain,» «The Seven Poor Travellers,» «The Story of the Goblins Who...
| Автор | Charles Dickens |
"I was raised zero-parent," says hormone-addled 17-year-old Junebug Host, «what the newspapers call it when your mother is in prison and the father was just a sperm.»Junebug has been visiting her mother in Ellisville Reformatory for Women ever since she was five years-old, when beauty queen Theresa Host calmly stepped out of their trailer with an axe and inexplicably bludgeoned a neighbor to death. But during the summer of Junebug’s high school graduation—and the summer...
| Автор | Maureen McCoy |
Following the success of 'The Funeral Celebrant's Handbook', Barry H Young OAM has been inspired to write a sequel offering an abundance of choices of poems, prose and prayers to assist practising and aspiring funeral celebrants when planning a funeral. Families who wish to actually participate during the ceremony will also find a great depth of choice in this carefully considered volume which, like 'The Funeral Celebrant's Handbook', is also presented in orderly...
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