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By Murasaki Shikibu, Kencho Suematsu. 1974
Written centuries before the time of Shakespeare and Chaucer, The Tale of Genji marks the birth of the novel--and after…
more than a millennium, this seminal work about the life and loves of Prince Genji, master poet, dancer, musician and painter, continues to enchant readers throughout the world.By Ryunosuke Akutagawa. 1952
This collection of short stories includes "In a Grove", a psychologically sophisticated tale about murder, rape, and suicide; "Rashomon", the…
story of a thief scared into honesty by an encounter with a ghoul; and "Kesa and Morito", the story of man driven to kill someone he doesn't hate by a lover whom he doesn't love."There are enough Swiftian touches in Akutagawa to show his hatred of stupidity, greed, hypocrisy, and the rising jingoism of the day. But Akutagawa's artistic integrity kept him from joining his contemporaries in the easy social criticism or naive introspection...What he did was question the values of his society, dramatize the complexities of human psychology, and study, with a Zen taste for paradox, the balance of illusion and reality."--Howard HibbettBy Kathleen Diffley. 2002
Even before the first cannonballs were fired at Fort Sumter, American writers were trying to make creative sense of the…
War Between the States. These thirty-one stories were culled from hundreds that circulated in popular magazines between 1861 and the celebration of the American centennial in 1876. Arranged to echo the sequence of the unfolding drama of the war and Reconstruction, together these short stories constitute an "inadvertent novel," a collective narrative about a domestic crisis that was still ongoing as the stories were being written and published. The authors, who include Louisa May Alcott and Mark Twain, depict the horrors of the battlefield, the suffering in prison camps and field hospitals, and the privations of the home front. In these pages, bushwhackers carry the war to out-of-the-way homesteads, spies work households from the inside, journeying paymasters rely on the kindness of border women, and soldiers turn out to be girls. The stories are populated with nurses, officers, speculators, preachers, slaves, and black troops, and they take place in cities, along the frontier, and on battlefields from Shiloh to Gettysburg. The book opens with a prewar vigilante attack on the Underground Railroad and a Kansas parson in Henry King's "The Cabin at Pharoah's Ford" and concludes with an ex-slave recalling the loss of her remaining son in Twain's "A True Story. " In between are stories written by both women and men that were published in magazines from the South and West as well as the culturally dominant Northeast. Wartime wood engravings highlight the text. Kathleen Diffley's introduction provides literary and historical background, and her commentary introduces readers to magazine authors as well as the deepening disruptions of a country at war. Just as they did for nineteenth-century readers, these stories will bring the war home to contemporary readers, giving shape to a crisis that rocked the nation then and continues to haunt it now.By Gwen Kirkwood. 2012
Shortlisted for the RNA Romantic Comedy Novel Awards 2013 A British romantic comedy by Jane Wenham-Jones, author of 'Perfect Alibis'.…
Laura Meredith never imagined herself appearing on TV- she's too old, too flabby, too downright hormonal, and much too busy holding things together for her son, Stanley, after her husband left her for a younger, thinner replacement. But best friend Charlotte is a determined woman and when Laura is persuaded on to a daytime show to talk about her PMT, everything changes. Suddenly there's a camera crew tracking her every move and Laura finds herself an unlikely star. But as things hot up between her and gorgeous TV director, Cal, they're going downhill elsewhere. While Laura's caught up in a heady whirlwind of beauty treatments, makeovers and glamorous film locations, Charlotte's husband, Roger, is concealing a guilty secret, Stanley's got problems at school, work's piling up, and when Laura turns detective to protect Charlotte's marriage, things go horribly wrong. The champagne's flowing as Laura's prime time TV debut looks set to be a hit. But in every month, there's a "Day Ten" ...By Ira Wood. 2012
As the anti-Vietnam War movement drew to a close, a twenty-six-year-old unknown playwright began an affair with a glamorous older…
woman, a feminist activist and acclaimed poet/novelist at the height of her career. What she saw in a neurotic, sexually naïve, poorly educated but very sweet guy was apparent to no one, especially him. Using a wildly self-skewering but oddly sympathetic narrative voice that fulfills The New York Times' assessment of his "special gift for heartwarming comedy," Ira Wood re-imagines his early years with Marge Piercy in a series of chronologically linked essays, never failing to raise the question that few have failed to ask: You're married to Her?With the brazen candor of Toby Young's How to Lose Friends and Alienate People and the wicked lunacy of David Sedaris, Wood tells tales of his first true love, who he told his parents were dead; his disastrous affair with a promiscuous single mother, while he was involved with Piercy; his childhood dependence on speed; and running for public office on a lark-and winning-only to find himself responsible for the government of a small town. Thirty years later he's still married to Her, confident enough to share, and laugh at, what men do when their behavior slips to the level of their self-esteem.Ira Wood is the author of two novels and the co-author, with Marge Piercy, of two highly acclaimed books, a novel and a writing text. His talk show The Lowdown streams on WOMR-FM, a Pacifica network affiliate.By Chieko Irie Mulhern, Koda Rohan. 1985
Rohan Koda's activist heroes and unique literary creations embody lofty ideals and are likely to present readers everywhere with a…
fresh view of the constructive aspects of the Japanese personality in Pagoda Skull & Samurai. Japanese literary history usually classifies Rohan as an idealist writer, and the three stories in the present collection belong to this genre. "The Five-Storied Pagoda," one of Rohan's most well-known works, is a moving account of a misunderstood carpenter who has been inspired to undertake the construction of a pagoda himself. It is not merely a story of individualism, however, for the religious implications of such a task are profound. Such stories in addition to the essays and notes by the translator will prove of interest to the general reader and especially to the reader already familiar with Japanese literature.By Ruthanne Lum Mccunn. 2004
Lalu Nathoy's father called his thirteen-year-old daughter his treasure, his "thousand pieces of gold," yet when famine strikes northern China…
in 1871, he is forced to sell her. Polly, as Lalu is later called, is sold to a brothel, sold again to a slave merchant bound for America, auctioned to a saloonkeeper, and offered as a prize in a poker game. This biographical novel is the extraordinary story of one woman's fight for independence and dignity in the American West.From the Trade Paperback edition.By Maureen Child, Cara Lockwood, Kat Cantrell, Lauren Canan. 2018
Do you love stories with sexy romantic heroes who have it all wealth status and…
incredibly good looks Harlequin Desire brings you all this and more with these three new full-length titles in one collection 2612 RUNAWAY TEMPTATIONTexas Cattleman s Club Bachelor Auctionby Maureen ChildWhen Caleb attends a colleague s wedding the last person he expects to leave with is the runaway bride He offers Shelby a temporary hideout on his ranch But soon the sizzle between them has this wealthy cowboy wondering if seduction will convince her to stay 2613 STRANGER IN HIS BEDThe Masters of Texas by Lauren CananBrooding Texan Wade Masters brings his estranged wife home from the hospital with amnesia This new sensual kind Victoria makes him feel things he never has before But when he discovers the explosive truth will their second chance at love be as doomed as their first 2616 PLAYING MR RIGHTSwitching Places by Kat CantrellCEO Xavier LeBlanc must resist his new employee his inheritance is on the line But there s more to her than meets the eye because she s working undercover to expose fraud at his charity Too bad Xavier is falling faster than her secrets are coming to light BONUS BOOK INCLUDED IN THIS BOX SET No Strings by Cara Lockwood Look for Harlequin Desire s September 2018 Box Set 1 of 2 filled with even more scandalous stories and powerful heroes Join HarlequinMyRewards com to earn FREE books and more Earn points for all your Harlequin purchases from wherever you shopBy Joanne Rock, Cara Lockwood, HelenKay Dimon. 2018
Do you love stories with sexy romantic heroes who have it all wealth status and…
incredibly good looks Harlequin Desire brings you all this and more with these three new full-length titles in one collection 2611 KEEPING SECRETS Billionaires and Babiesby Fiona BrandBillionaire Damon Smith s sexy assistant shared his bed and then vanished for a year Now she s returned with his infant daughter Can he work through the dark secrets Zara s still hiding and claim the family he never knew he wanted 2614 ONE NIGHT SCANDAL The McNeill Magnatesby Joanne RockActress Hannah must expose the man who hurt her sister Sexy rancher Brock has clues but amnesia means he can t remember them or his one night with her Still he pursues her with a focus she can t resist What happens when he finds out everything 2615 THE RELUCTANT HEIR The Jameson Heirsby HelenKay DimonOld-money heir Carter Jameson has a family who thrives on deceit He s changing that by finding the woman who knows devastating secrets about his father The problem He wants her maybe more than he wants redemption And what he thinks she knows is nothing compared to the truth BONUS BOOK INCLUDED IN THIS BOX SET No Strings by Cara Lockwood Look for Harlequin Desire s September 2018 Box Set 2 of 2 filled with even more scandalous stories and powerful heroes Join HarlequinMyRewards com to earn FREE books and more Earn points for all your Harlequin purchases from wherever you shopBy Graeme Davis. 2018
The most spine-tingling suspense stories from the colonial era—including Washington Irving, Nathaniel Hawthorne, James Fenimore Cooper, Edgar Allan Poe, Henry…
James, and H. P. Lovecraft—are presented anew to the contemporary reader. This stunning anthology of classic colonial suspense fiction plunges deep into the native soil from which American horror literature first sprang. While European writers of the Gothic and bizarre evoked ruined castles and crumbling abbeys, their American counterparts looked back to the Colonial era’s stifling religion and its dark and threatening woods. Today the best-known tale of Colonial horror is Washington Irving’s “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow,” although Irving’s story is probably best-known today from various movie versions it has inspired. Colonial horror tales of other prominent American authors—Nathaniel Hawthorne and James Fenimore Cooper among them—are overshadowed by their bestsellers and are difficult to find in modern libraries. Many other pioneers of American horror fiction are presented afresh in this breathtaking volume for today’s reading public. Some will have heard the names of Increase and Cotton Mather in association with the Salem witch trials, but will not have sought out their contemporary accounts of what were viewed as supernatural events. By bringing these writers to the attention of the contemporary reader, the book will help bring their names—and their work—back from the dead. Featuring stories by Cotton Mather, Washington Irving, Nathaniel Hawthorne, James Fenimore Cooper, Edgar Allan Poe, Henry James, H. P. Lovecraft, and many more.By Sara Orwig, Joanne Rock, Sarah M. Anderson. 2018
Do you love stories with sexy romantic heroes who have it all wealth status and…
incredibly good looks Harlequin Desire brings you all this and more with these three new full-length titles in one collection 2600 THE FORBIDDEN BROTHER The McNeill Magnatesby Joanne RockReclusive rancher Cody McNeill refuses to let photographer Jillian Ross onto his land but then a chance encounter at a bar leads to an explosive night Now he can t let her go even after he learns that she meant to seduce his twin brother 2602 HIS ENEMY S DAUGHTER First Family of Rodeoby Sarah M AndersonPete Wellington s father lost the family rodeo business in a poker game years ago The owner s beautiful daughter Chloe holds the reins now so it s time to go undercover and steal it back But what happens if the sexy businesswoman steals his heart instead 2601 THE RANCHER S HEIRBillionaires and Babies by Sara OrwigWealthy rancher Noah Grant has returned to Texas to fulfill a promise but what he finds is the woman he once loved hiding the baby he s never known Can he and Camilla overcome what tore them apart and find a way to forever Look for Harlequin Desire s July 2018 Box Set 2 of 2 filled with even more scandalous stories and powerful heroes Join HarlequinMyRewards com to earn FREE books and more Earn points for all your Harlequin purchases from wherever you shopBy Janice Maynard, Joss Wood, Karen Booth. 2018
Do you love stories with sexy romantic heroes who have it all wealth status and…
incredibly good looks Harlequin Desire brings you all this and more with these three new full-length titles in one collection 2599 SECRET TWINS FOR THE TEXAN Texas Cattleman s Club The Impostorby Karen BoothDani left town after the rancher broke her heart but now she s back with twin boys who look just like him Given his secrets he knows better than to fall in love but their chemistry can t be denied Will the truth destroy everything 2603 FRIENDSHIP ON FIRELove in Boston by Joss WoodJules wrote off her former best friend when he left years ago Now he s back and demanding she pretend to be his fianc e to protect his business She agrees to help but that s only because she wants to take it from fake to forever 2604 ON TEMPORARY TERMSHighland Heroes by Janice MaynardLawyer Abby Hartman is falling hard for wealthy Scotsman Duncan Stewart but when she learns his present is tied to a secret from her past can she prove her innocence and convince him what they share is real Look for Harlequin Desire s July 2018 Box set 1 of 2 filled with even more scandalous stories and powerful heroes Join HarlequinMyRewards com to earn FREE books and more Earn points for all your Harlequin purchases from wherever you shopBy Annie Burrows, Bronwyn Scott, Eleanor Webster. 2018
Do you dream of wicked rakes gorgeous Highlanders muscled Viking warriors and rugged Wild West cowboys Harlequin…
Historical brings you three new full-length titles in one collection THE CAPTAIN CLAIMS HIS LADYBrides for Bachelorsby Annie Burrows Regency Shy and clumsy debutante Lizzie Hutton meets devastatingly handsome Captain Harry Bretherton who takes a surprising interest in her If only it weren t for the secrecy around his dark past AWAKENED BY THE PRINCE S PASSIONRussian Royals of Kubanby Bronwyn Scott Regency In London with no memory of her past Princess Dasha must trust in Ruslan Pisarev he becomes her protector confidant even her lover Can he claim her forever when she finds out the truth of her identity HER CONVENIENT HUSBAND S RETURNby Eleanor Webster Regency Beth s long-absent husband has finally returned as lord of the estate She s wary of the marriage bed for fear of passing on her blindness to an heir And yet her heart pounds whenever Ren s near Look for Harlequin Historical s August 2018 Box set 2 of 2 filled with even more timeless love storiesBy Yvonne Lindsay, Janice Maynard, HelenKay Dimon. 2018
Do you love stories with sexy romantic heroes who have it all wealth status and…
incredibly good looks Harlequin Desire brings you all this and more with these three new full-length titles in one collection 2595 HIS HEIR HER SECRETHighland Heroes by Janice MaynardWhen a fling with sexy Scotsman Brody Stewart leaves Cate Everett pregnant he s willing to marry her only for the baby s sake No messy emotional ties required But when Cate makes it clear she wants his heart or nothing this CEO better be prepared to risk it all 2597 REUNION WITH BENEFITSThe Jameson Heirsby HelenKay DimonA year ago lies and secrets separated tycoon Spence Jameson from analyst Abby Rowe Now thrown together again at work they can barely keep it civil Until one night at a party leaves her pregnant and forces Spence to uncover the truths they ve both been hiding 2598 TANGLED VOWSMarriage at First Sightby Yvonne LindsayTo save her company Yasmin Carter agrees to an arranged marriage to an unseen groom The last things she expects is to find her business rival at the altar But when they discover their personal lives were intertwined long before this will their unconventional marriage survive Look for Harlequin Desire s June 2018 Box set 1 of 2 filled with even more scandalous stories and powerful heroes Join HarlequinMyRewards com to earn FREE books and more Earn points for all your Harlequin purchases from wherever you shopBy Maureen Child, Andrea Laurence, Joss Wood. 2018
Do you love stories with sexy romantic heroes who have it all wealth status and…
incredibly good looks Harlequin Desire brings you all this and more with these three new full-length titles in one collection 2593 BILLIONAIRE S BARGAINBillionaires and Babiesby Maureen ChildWhen billionaire Adam Quinn becomes a baby s guardian overnight he needs help And his former sister-in-law is the perfect woman to provide it She s kind loving and she knows kids The only complication is the intense attraction he s always tried to deny 2594 THE NANNY PROPOSALTexas Cattleman s Club The Impostorby Joss WoodKasey has been Aaron s virtual assistant for eight months all business and none of the pleasure they once shared But the salary he offers her to move in and play temporary nanny to his niece is too good to pass up as long as she can resist temptation 2596 ONE UNFORGETTABLE WEEKENDMillionaires of Manhattan by Andrea LaurenceWhen an accident renders heiress Violet an amnesiac she forgets about her hookup with Aidan and almost marries the wrong man But when the bar owner unexpectedly walks back into her life she remembers everything including that he s the father of her child Look for Harlequin Desire s June 2018 Box set 2 of 2 filled with even more scandalous stories and powerful heroes Join HarlequinMyRewards com to earn FREE books and more Earn points for all your Harlequin purchases from wherever you shopBy Joanne Rock, Fiona Brand, Cara Lockwood, HelenKay Dimon. 2018
Do you love stories with sexy, romantic heroes who have it all—wealth, status, and incredibly good looks? Harlequin® Desire brings…
you all this and more with these three new full-length titles in one collection! #2611 KEEPING SECRETS Billionaires and Babiesby Fiona BrandBillionaire Damon Smith’s sexy assistant shared his bed and then vanished for a year. Now she’s returned—with his infant daughter! Can he work through the dark secrets Zara’s still hiding and claim the family he never knew he wanted?#2614 ONE NIGHT SCANDAL The McNeill Magnatesby Joanne RockActress Hannah must expose the man who hurt her sister. Sexy rancher Brock has clues, but amnesia means he can’t remember them—or his one night with her! Still, he pursues her with a focus she can’t resist. What happens when he finds out everything? #2615 THE RELUCTANT HEIR The Jameson Heirsby HelenKay DimonOld-money heir Carter Jameson has a family who thrives on deceit. He’s changing that by finding the woman who knows devastating secrets about his father. The problem? He wants her, maybe more than he wants redemption. And what he thinks she knows is nothing compared to the truth…BONUS BOOK INCLUDED IN THIS BOX SET!No Strings by Cara Lockwood.Look for Harlequin® Desire’s September 2018 Box Set 2 of 2, filled with even more scandalous stories and powerful heroes!Join HarlequinMyRewards.com to earn FREE books and more. Earn points for all your Harlequin purchases from wherever you shop.By Robert E. Hegel, Lo Kuan-Chung, C. H. Brewitt-Taylor. 2002
The Romance of the Three Kingdoms is Lo Kuan-chung's retelling of the events attending the fall of the Han Dynasty…
in 220 A.D., one of the most tumultuous and fascinating periods in Chinese history. It is an epic saga of brotherhood and rivalry, of loyalty and treachery, of victory and death. As important for Chinese culture as the Homeric epics have been for the West, this fourteenth-century masterpiece continues to be loved and read throughout China as well as in Japan, Korea, and Vietnam.By Richard Blaker. 1973
This fascinating novel reconstructs the story of Will Adams, a native of Gillingham, in Kent, England, and his voyage to…
Japan in the seventeenthcentury. His knowledge of seafaring vessels at the time causes him to be taken into the favor of the shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu and,in time,to become recognized as the founder of the Japanese navy. Adams was one of the most picturesque anddaring of Britain's maritime traders, and this depiction of him as the first Englishman to settle in what was then a hostile country is written not only with distinction but also with an imaginative grasp that takes it right out ofthe class of the ordinary historical novel. It is an epic tale of strange adventures, and it creates an atmosphere of rare and haunting quality. In its understanding of the Japanese mind it is hardly less than remarkable.Will Adams died in Japan in the spring of 1620 and is buried at Yokosuka. Every year aceremony is still held to commemorate the anniversary of his death. There is also a memorial to him at Ito,in Shizuoka Prefecture, as well as one at his birthplace in England. In view of the importance of Japan in the present world picture, this republication of Richard Blaker's splendid novel will no doubtbe a welcome event to all discerning readers.By Gwen Kirkwood. 2012
Foreword by KATIE FFORDE Contributors include Writers: Frederick Forsyth, Ian Rankin, Jilly Cooper & Jill Mansell Publishers: Harper Collins, Hodder…
Headline, Simon & Schuster Journalists: Miles Kington, Michael Bywater, Robert Crampton Agents: Teresa Chris, Simon Trewin, Jonathan Lloyd & Jane Judd Wannabe a Writer? This hilarious, informative guide to getting into print, is a must-have for anyone who's ever thought they've got a book in them. Where do you start? How do you finish? And will anyone ever publish it when you have? Drawing on her own experiences as a novelist and journalist, Writing Magazine's Agony Aunt Jane Wenham-Jones takes you through the minefield of the writing process, giving advice on everything from how to avoid Writer's Bottom to what to wear to your launch party. Including hot tips from authors, agents and publishers at the sharp end of the industry, Wannabe a Writer? tells you everything you ever wanted to know about the book world - and a few things you didn't...By Robert Hegel, Lo Kuan, C H Brewitt. 2002
The Romance of the Three Kingdoms is Lo Kuan-chung's retelling of the events attending the fall of the Han Dynasty…
in 220 A.D., one of the most tumultuous and fascinating periods in Chinese history. It is an epic saga of brotherhood and rivalry, of loyalty and treachery, of victory and death. As important for Chinese culture as the Homeric epics have been for the West, this fourteenth-century masterpiece continues to be loved and read throughout China as well as in Japan, Korea, and Vietnam.