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Read Real Japanese Essays: Contemporary Writings by Popular Authors with CD (Audio)
by Janet (edt) Ashby  Publisher Comments There is a dramatic difference between reading Japanese that is tailored to students, and reading real Japanese that has been written for native speakers. The concocted variety tends to be insipid, flat, stiff, standardized, completely lacking in...
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Finbar's Hotel (Harvest Original)
by Bolger Publisher Comments Since the 1920s Finbar's Hotel has stood proudly on Dublin's quays, but its glory days have long since passed it by. Now it is the haunt of surreptitious priests, prostitutes, and bewildered tourists. Soon its rock-star owner will tear the building down,...
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Night, Again (06 Edition)
by Dinh Publisher Comments ""Night, Again" is fresh, invigorating work. Taken all together, these brief prose pieces have the scope of a fine novel."-"The Philadelphia Inquirer" <P>"Not only are these stories, almost without exception, very strong on purely literary grounds,...
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Under African Skies : Modern African Stories (97 Edition)
by Charles R. Larson Publisher Comments Spanning a wide geographical range, this collection features many of the now prominent first generation of African writers and draws attention to a new generation of writers. Powerful, intriguing and essentially non-Western, these stories will be welcome...
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Anth. of Japanese Lit. (UNESCO Collection of Representative Works: European)
by Donald Keene Publisher Comments The sweep of Japanese literature in all its great variety was made available to Western readers for the first time in this anthology. Every genre and style, from the celebrated No plays to the poetry and novels of the seventeenth century, find a place in...
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Inside and Other Short Fiction: Japanese Women by Japanese Women
by Cathy Layne Publisher Comments Collection of eight short works--"cutting-edge fiction from today's Japanese women writers--"that explores the universal issues of female identity, and deals frankly and explicitly with a broad range of women's experiences. *Foreword by American novelist...
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Two Spanish Picaresque Novels; Lazarillo de Tormes: The Swindler: Lazarillo de Tormes: The Swindler
by Michael Tran Alpert Publisher Comments The two short novels in this volume follow the adventures of two unlikely heroes-delinquent pcaros living by their wits among corrupt priests and prostitutes, beggars and idle gentlemen, thieves, tricksters, and murderers. Lazarillo de Tormes (1554...
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The Paris Review Book for Planes, Trains, Elevators, and Waiting Rooms
by Paris Review Special Offer Two-time National Magazine Awards Nominee, The Paris Review, offers Powell's readers an exclusive subscription offer — the best deal around. Click here for details. The Paris Review has introduced the important writers of the day...
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Loud Sparrows: Contemporary Chinese Short-Shorts (Weatherhead Books on Asia)
by Aili Mu Publisher Comments Extremely short stories-known as short-shorts-have become a global phenomenon, but nowhere have they been embraced as enthusiastically as in mainland China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan. The form's artistic and aesthetic freedoms allow authors to capture the...
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English Sixteenth-Century Verse: An Anthology
by Richard Sylvester Publisher Comments This comprehensive anthology contains selections from the work of twenty-five poets of the sixteenth century. Employing the original, rather than normalized, texts, the volume includes complete, non-excerpted poems by John Skelton, Philip Sidney and...
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Jungfrau and Other Short Stories: The Caine Prize for African Writing 2007
by Mary Watson Publisher Comments The Caine Prize for African Writing is Africa's leading literary prize and is awarded to a short story by an African writer published in English, whether in Africa or elsewhere. Each year the winning story and shortlisted entries are collected and...
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Thicker Than Water Irish Stories
by Gordon Snell Synopsis A collection of 12 coming-of-age stories by Irish and Irish-American writers. They include Maeve Binchy's "When Grania Grows Up"; "Thicker Than Water" by Shane Connaughton; and Helena Mullkern's "Landlocked". Each story conveys the universal longing of...
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Contemporary Jewish Writing in Canada: An Anthology (Jewish Writing in the Contemporary World)
by Michael Greenstein Publisher Comments Contemporary Jewish Writing in Canada brings together important and innovative works from modern Jewish writers living in Canada. This anthology presents a variety of male and female voices, both established and new, some translated from French or...
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Terrestrial Intelligence: International Fiction Now from New Directions
by Barbara Epler Publisher Comments New Directions, the discoverer of the greatest of the great contemporary world writers--such as W. G. Sebald and Roberto Bolano, Inger Christensen and Bei Dao, Victor Pelevin and Javier Marias--now puts them on display in a showcase anthology. <BR>"...
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The Tales of the Heike (Translations from the Asian Classics)
by Burton Watson Synopsis Originally written in the mid-thirteenth century, "The Tales of the Heike" chronicles the epic Genpei war, a civil conflict that marked the end of the power of the Heike clan and changed the course of Japanese history. Featuring a vivid cast of...
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Chairman Mao Would Not Be Amused
by Howard Goldblatt Publisher Comments Chairman Mao Would Not Be Amused is a showcase for 20 writers from the new literary generation in China. Hard-core realism, experimental prose, and black humor; exoticism and eroticism;shocking tales of brutality, tender evocations of love, and...
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New European Poets
by Wayne Miller Publisher Comments A major anthology spanning the diversity of the latest poetry to come out of Europe New European Poets presents the works of poets from across Europe. In compiling this landmark anthology, Wayne Miller and Kevin Prufer enlisted twenty-four regional...
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The Schocken Book of Modern Sephardic Literature
by Ilan Stavans Publisher Comments The expulsion of the Jews from Spain in 1492 gave rise to a series of rich, diverse diasporas that were interconnected through a common vision and "joie de vivre. The exodus took these Sephardim to other European countries; to North Africa, Asia Minor...
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Vintage Book of Modern Indian Literature (01 Edition)
by Amit Chaudhuri Publisher Comments In recent years American readers have been thrilling to the work of such Indian writers as Salman Rushdie and Vikram Seth. Now this extravagant and wonderfully discerning anthology unfurls the full diversity of Indian literature from the 1850s to the...
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The Anansi Reader: Forty Years of Very Good Books
by Lynn Coady Publisher Comments In 1967, then-unknown writers David Godfrey and Dennis Lee founded a small press they grandly named “The House of Anansi,” after an African trickster spider-god. Their goal was to publish groundbreaking new Canadian work in three core genres:...
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