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Guilty Parties: a Mystery Lover's Companion, 195 Illustrations, 31 in Color
by Ian Ousby
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A lively compendium of information on the mystery/crime genre.
Chapters are organized by chronological periods from the 19th century
to the present, and feature lists, filmographies, biographical
accounts, and a hard-boiled dictionary. Includes 195... ( read more)
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This Is Our Writing
by T F Rigelhof
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Punctuate his title as you like but T.F. Rigelhof considers "This is Our Writing" a declaration, an enquiry and an exclamation. As a writer of half a dozen, a reviewer of dozens upon dozens, and as a reader of a multitude more books, Terry Rigelhof knows... ( read more)
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The Browser's Ecstasy: A Meditation on Reading
by Geoffrey O'brien
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An expansive, learned, and utterly charming reverie on what it means to be lost in a... ( read more)
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King Henry IV: Part 1 (Cliffs Notes) - Study Notes
by J K Lowers
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This popular play entertains and inspires in alternating comic scenes and serious ones and is the birthplace of one of the theater's greatest characters, Sir John Falstaff. Young Prince Hal rebels against his father the king until he must go to the king... ( read more)
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History and the Early English Novel
by Robert Mayer
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Exploration of the meaning of ???history??? and its relevance for the origins of the modern English novel.... ( read more)
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The Classical Plot and the Invention of Western Narrative
by N J Lowe
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How western literature developed the economical plotting still supreme in modern fiction and cinema.... ( read more)
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Poets Talk: Interviews with Robert Kroetsch, Daphne Marlatt, Erin Mouri, Dionne Brand, Marie Annharte Baker, Jeff Derksen, and Fre
by Pauline Butling
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Seven poets of diverse region, gender, sexual orientation, race, and generation; seven poets linked by experiment and opposition. Robert Kroetsch discusses postmodernism's history, Fred Wah talks about ethnic hybridity, and Dionne Brand muses on... ( read more)
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Contributions in Political Science #17: Theodicies in Conflict: A Dilemma in Puritan Ethics and Nineteenth-Century American Literature
by Richard Forrer
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This useful study asserts that a knowledge of two theological traditions, one Puritan and the other rationalistic, can help us understand the work of a number of important authors writing between 1798 and 1860. In the first of these two traditions... ( read more)
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Ab-e Hayat: Shaping the Canon of Urdu Poetry
by Muhammad Husain Azad
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This is a brilliant translation of the Aab-e-hayat (Water of Life), the last classical anthology of Urdu poetry. First published in 1880, it has exerted enormous influence over modern Urdu literary history.... ( read more)
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Dark Humor and Social Satire in the Modern British Novel
by Lisa Colletta
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Literary modernism traditionally focuses on the writings of self-consciously avant-garde writers who attempted to break with literary and aesthetic forms inherited from the nineteenth-century. This view of Modernism has overlooked much of the social... ( read more)
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Neutral Being Between the Sexes: Samuel Johnson's Sexual Politics
by Kathleen Nulton Kemmerer
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Within the context of Johnson's central preoccupation with human happiness, this study examines his attitudes toward women and important issues such as happiness in marriage, domestic violence, prostitution, and education. In particular, it focuses on... ( read more)
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The Power of Eloquence and English Renaissance Literature
by Neil Rhodes
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This book is an ambitious critical investigation of the idea of eloquence as it informs classical and Renaissance thinking about literature.... ( read more)
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God, the Devil, and Harry Potter
by John Killinger
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“The Potter stories, far from being ‘wicked’ or ‘Satanic,’ ... are in fact narratives of robust faith and morality ... “What Ms. Rowling has furnished us, besides what the Brits call ‘a good read,’ and a... ( read more)
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Woman, Your Hour Is Sounding: Continuity and Change in French Women's Great War Fiction, 1914-1919
by Nancy Sloan Goldberg
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Examines more than forty works of fiction written by French women during the Great War to analyze how they voiced their understanding of the war's impact on women.... ( read more)
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The Truth of Ecology: Nature, Culture, and Literature in America
by Dana Phillips
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'The Truth of Ecology is a wide-ranging, polemical appraisal of contemporary environmental thought. Focusing on the new field of ecocriticism from a thoroughly interdisciplinary perspective, this book explores topics as diverse as the history of ecology... ( read more)
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Cliffsnotes on Shakespeare's Henry V - Study Notes
by Jeffery Fisher
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The original CliffsNotes study guides offer expert commentary on major themes, plots, characters, literary devices, and historical background. The latest generation of titles in this series also feature glossaries and visual elements that complement the... ( read more)
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What Mystery Do I Read Next? 2
by Gale Group
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What Mystery Do I Read Next? provides more than 2,500 recommendations that will make selection of just that right mystery quick and easy. Includes eight indexes.... ( read more)
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The Dieter's Guide to Weight Loss During Sex
by Richard Smith
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A humor classic, this tongue-in-cheek diet plan bases calorie counts on sexual activity and charts the exact number of calories burned."You and your friends can read this book aloud while sitting on the beach and shed a combined total of ten thousand... ( read more)
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Homer: The Odyssey (Landmarks of World Literature)
by Jasper Griffin
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This handy guide to The Odyssey introduces students to a text which has been fundamental to literature for nearly 3,000 years. Providing a summary of the poem and examining its structure, Jasper Griffin clearly outlines the unity, values and techniques... ( read more)
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H. P. Lovecraft: Against the World, Against Life
by Michel Houellebecq
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In this prescient work, Michel Houellebecq focuses his considerable analytical skills on H. P. Lovecraft, the seminal, enigmatic horror writer of the early 20th century. Houellebecq’s insights into the craft of writing illuminate both Lovecraft and... ( read more)
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