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In 16th century England many loyal subjects to the crown were asked to make a terrible choice: to follow their monarch or their God. The era was one of unprecedented authoritarianism: England, it seemed, had become a police state, fearful of threats from abroad and plotters at home. This age of terror was also the era of the greatest creative genius the world has ever known: William Shakespeare. How, then, could such a remarkable man born into such...
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Washington Irving (1783-1859) was the first American literary artist to earn his living solely through his writings and the first to enjoy international acclaim. In addition to his long public service as a diplomat, Irving was amazingly prolific: His collected works fill forty volumes that encompass essays, history, travel writings, and multi-volume biographies of Columbus and Washington. But it is Irving's mastery of suspense, characterization, tempo,...
3) Ludovico
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A psychological fictional novel, which recreates Ludovico, a character who narrates in monologues his vision of the world despite having mental limitations due to a hereditary condition of mental damage. "Ludovico" is a novel with which William Castaño-Bedoya surprises us, reaffirming his talents as a recreator of human depth."Ludovico" demonstrates the great impact of frustration and its generalities, and how impotence and fate recreate the absurd...
4) Dictionary of Midwestern Literature, Volume Two: Dimensions of the Midwestern Literary Imagination
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The Midwest has produced a robust literary heritage. Its authors have won half of the nation's Nobel Prizes for Literature plus a significant number of Pulitzer Prizes. This volume explores the rich racial, ethnic, and cultural diversity of the region. It also contains entries on 35 pivotal Midwestern literary works, literary genres, literary, cultural, historical, and social movements, state and city literatures, literary journals and magazines,...
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A un mes, después de la inauguración del Museo Leonora Carrington del Centro de las Artes de San Luis Potosí, en el año 2018 celebramos el "Coloquio: Hilos, rocas y sonidos, una imagen onírica del arte", donde participaron miembros del Cuerpo Académico CAC-UAZ-172 Teoría, historia e interpretación del Arte y profesores del Instituto Potosino de Bellas Artes. En el marco de la firma de convenio celebrado entre dicho Cuerpo Académico y la Dirección...
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"METANOIA GIRLS
Convincing the last hope of the last stage
Consisting the same view in diversity
The great white wall that is becoming beige
Build the diversity into unity
An odds three growth fertile like dandelion
Attract attention like beautiful park
Saving achievement into a million
And running in the silence of the dark
Get marginalization as an ant
Prove the elephant that small ants could kill
Uncountable vitality like the sand
Holding...
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From "Case 121" and "Silver Anniversary" to "Coma," "The Last Serious Man," and "Fogbound," Long Journey Home takes the reader on distinctive, eclectic, winding journeys through the astonishing complexities of devotion, relationships, longing, lust, and love with a dash of detective mysteries tossed in for additional spice.
8) Stumberleap, and other Devon writings: Contributions to the Daily Express and Sunday Express, 191
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Henry Williamson remains best known for his nature stories set in North Devon,Tarka the Otter and Salar the Salmon. His long association with the Daily Express, which supported him from the outset of his literary career, actually began without his knowledge, when his father submitted to the newspaper the letter that the young Henry, then a private with the London Rifle Brigade, had written from the trenches, describing the famous 1914 Christmas Truce...
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Shylock, the Roman explains Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice in light of the Renaissance ethos of ancient Roman honor and the tradition of ancient Rome's festive comedy. This close reading of The Merchant of Venice illuminates Shakespearean comedy generally and provides a basis for understanding the logic of Shakespeare's artistry as a dramatist.
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It is 1967 and Charlene has just graduated from the University of Michigan – without her "Mrs." degree. Her mother recently passed away, and soon afterwards her father fled the silence, to a new home and job on the other side of the state. So Charlene is going "home" to what is now an empty house.Two things will make this long, hot summer bearable: Her father has hired Reeves Valenti – the high school sweetheart she left behind – to help her...
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Unsaid is a collection of short stories tied together by a common theme: loss. Everyone has a different way to deal with loss, whether it's ignoring it, fighting against it, or accepting it. These stories give a humorous peak into different ways of coping with a broken relationship, an empty nest, and the death of a loved one. Some situations will make you laugh and some will cause you to shake your head. All the stories have characters and problems...
12) Iluminaciones
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Iluminaciones es una guía por el pensamiento y el arte. Obras maestras que iluminan nuestros días y tejen nuestros recuerdos. Pedro G. Cuartango, uno de los últimos sabios de nuestro tiempo, nos lleva de la mano para confirmar que, como dijo Paul Klee, el arte no reproduce aquello que es visible, sino que hace visible aquello que no lo es. Una lectura que nos aporta el consuelo de la belleza, la sensibilidad y la emoción.
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The AUDACIOUS WOMEN anthology highlights creative work that embraces the concept of women fully occupying their space, having agency, and trailblazing the roads for more powerful futures. Smart and celebratory, these works of poetry, fiction, plays, and creative non-fiction showcase work that makes us laugh, cry, and think deeply about the ways women come to the world, embracing women with three-dimensionality and diversity in literature. A blend...
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Tolkien's magnificent mythology that began in The Silmarillion and culminated in The Lord of the Rings had its origin in Celtic, Finnish, Greek, and Norse myths that he loved, but also in accounts of the Bible, which he, as a practicing Christian, knew well. Tolkien's tales illustrate, and are illuminated by, themes such as creation, the fall, providence, sacrifice, redemption, and judgment that he drew from Jewish and Christian scriptures. Understanding...
15) Jump Start
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Focusing on the combined task of our mind and body, together with social and historical aspects, understanding who we are seems to be an ever-challenging task.
With the rise of technology and time constraints, lifestyle activities and even gaps in some of the educational practices – learning who we are has become more complex.
This book has been intended as a review of some of the most fundamental principles involving our interactions with the...
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L'histoire de l'humanité, jusqu'à très récemment, a été une vaste entreprise d'archivage-une lutte contre la faillibilité de la mémoire humaine et les mâchoires oblitératrices de l'Histoire. Or, depuis quelques décennies, nous nous sommes dotés de technologies nous permettant de ne plus jamais oublier, voire de ne plus pouvoir oublier. Pourtant notre mémoire collective semble de plus en plus dispersée, de moins en moins enracinée. Et...
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Suzanne, Jasimine and Becky are at the House of Romance for an international competition. The most beautiful and talented women in the world have arrived and the competition is fierce. One of these three competitors has a big secret, and two of these women fall in love with one another and the secret will be very important to the future of the relationship.
"A wonderful read and what an imagination on the part of the author." JoAnn, Richmond, VA
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I've amassed a collection of short stories over the past many years, and I've chosen the best of the batch. Some stories are sad, some will make you laugh, others are simply entertaining, and some are highly informative. I hope you'll enjoy reading as much as I've enjoyed writing. Includes, "My Escape from the Psychiatric Unit," "Get Out Of My Grape Factory," and "Jill's Job." Twenty-five plus stories!
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Como una ventana indiscreta, las cartas de Jane Austen a su hermana Cassandra proporcionan una mirada fascinante sobre la vida de la autora. Relaciones amorosas, ocasiones mundanas, visitas a vecinos, salidas al teatro: minúsculos detalles cotidianos que nos desvelan la faceta más íntima del mundo de Austen y nos ayudan a reconstruir la persona-lidad de una de las autoras más impor-tantes de la historia de la literatura. En esta original selección...
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Casi cuatro décadas después de su muerte, aparece, en el sótano del Instituto Italiano de Cultura de Nueva York, una cinta que contiene una de las últimas entrevistas que Pasolini concedió, en 1969. Una larga conversación en la que, con un estilo afilado e implacable, el escritor, el crítico, el pensador se abren en canal y se desnudan, sin evitar las provocaciones, los temas escabrosos: Dios, el sexo, la religión, la adhesión al marxismo,...
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