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Wait Until Dark
By Karen Robards, Andrea Kane, Mariah Stewart, Linda Anderson. 2001
When the sun goes down, the mood is right -- for heart-pounding romantic suspense! WAIT UNTIL DARK A sizzling, stay-up-all-night…
anthology featuring the national bestselling and award-winning talents of four sensational storytellers! KAREN ROBARDS Danger and desire ignite when Charlotte Bates drives straight into a DEA agent's hot pursuit of a drug smuggler. But when the lawman takes Charlie hostage, an electrifying adventure begins.... ANDREA KANE An architect inherits the house of her dreams -- a mansion by the sea -- only to find that someone will do anything to keep her away.... LINDA ANDERSON When a killer targets her book club friends, a small-town librarian sees a handsome visiting professor in a new light: is he her happy ending? Or a fatal attraction? MARIAH STEWART Coming home to Montana after a stalker's attack, a model finds an old love rekindled and a safe place for healing. Until her attacker finds her....Mahamudra and Related Instructions: Core Teachings of the Kagyu Schools (Library of Tibetan Classics #5)
By Khenchen Rinpoche, Peter Roberts. 2010
The Kagyu school of Tibetan Buddhism began in the eleventh century with such renowned figures as Marpa and Milarepa …
and its seminal meditative traditions are Mahamudra and the six Dharmas of Naropa Mahamudra teachings focus on the cultivation of profound insight into the nature of the mind The Mahamudra texts in this volume include a lucid work by the celebrated master Tsele Natsok Rangdrol and works by the twelfth-century master Shang Rinpoche the great Third Karmapa the Eighth Tai Situ and Drukpa Pema Karpo The volume also contains an inspirational work by Gampopa the Drigung Kagyu root text The Single Viewpoint the Sixth Shamarpa s guide to the six Dharmas of Naropa and finally an overview of tantric practice by Dakpo Tashi Namgyal author of the famous Moonlight of Mahamudra The texts in this volume were selected by the preeminent scholar of the Kagyu school Khenchen Thrangu RinpocheAntología de relatos románticos. San Valentín 2020
By Varios Autores. 2020
Este febrero déjate enamorar con la nueva Antología de relatos románticos de Selecta. Los personajes, las parejas y nuestras historias…
favoritas que nos han acompañado este tiempo, tienen un hueco muy especial en esta recopilación de relatos llenos de amor y pasión. ¡Celebra San Valentín con Selecta! Todos, en algún momento de nuestras vidas, somos tocados por una flecha de Cupido. A veces, con un simple roce, encontramos el amor. Otras, se requiere de un poco más de esfuerzo. Pero, sea como sea, el cosquilleo en el estómago se siente, y eso... eso es lo que importa. ¡Celebra San Valentín con Selecta! Son muchos los personajes secundarios que nos roban un trocito del corazón y nos dejan con ganas de saber qué fue de ellos. También hay muchas parejas de nuestras historias favoritas de las que nos encantaría saber algo más de su vida. Pues todo eso y mucho más es lo que podréis encontrar en esta antología de relatos cortos escritos con cariño, llenos de pasión, sentimiento y dulzura y con un romántico final feliz.The Routledge Companion to World Literature (Routledge Literature Companions)
By David Damrosch, Djelal Kadir, Theo D’haen. 2012
In the age of globalization, the category of "World Literature" is increasingly important to academic teaching and research. The Routledge…
Companion to World Literature offers a comprehensive pathway into this burgeoning and popular field. Separated into four key sections, the volume covers: the history of World Literature through significant writers and theorists from Goethe to Said, Casanova and Moretti the disciplinary relationship of World Literature to areas such as philology, translation, globalization and diaspora studies theoretical issues in World Literature including gender, politics and ethics a global perspective on the politics of World Literature. The forty-eight outstanding contributors to this companion offer an ideal introduction to those approaching the field for the first time, or looking to further their knowledge of this extensive field.Contemporary Literature: The Basics (The Basics)
By Suman Gupta. 2012
‘Contemporary Literature’ is among the most popular areas of literary study but it can be a difficult one to define.…
This book equips readers with the necessary tools to take an analytical and systematic approach to contemporary texts. The author provides answers to some of the critical questions in the field: What makes a literary text contemporary? Is it possible to have a canon of contemporary literature? How does a reader’s location affect their understanding? How do print, electronic, and audio-visual media impact upon contemporary literature? Which key concepts and themes are most prevalent? Containing diverse illustrative examples and discussing the topics which define our current sense of the contemporary, this is an ideal starting point for anyone seeking to engage critically with contemporary literature.Perspectives by Incongruity: First of the Year
By Benj DeMott. 2012
Diversity and "perspective by incongruity" dene the approach to changing times in this fourth volume of the First of the…
Year series. Insights come from interesting minds in unobvious juxtapositions. First's roster of irreverent and holy! regulars includes Amiri Baraka, Bernard Avishai, Uri Avnery, Chuck D, Diane di Prima, Fr. Rick Frechette, Donna Gaines, Lawrence Goodwyn, Roxane Johnson, W.T. Lhamon Jr., Philip Levine, Kanan Makiya, Bongani Madondo, Greil Marcus, Charles O'Brien, Judy Oppenheimer, Tom Smucker, Fredric Smoler, A.B. Spellman, Scott Spencer, Robert Farris Thompson, Richard Torres, David Waldstreicher, and Armond White.Their angles on history and history in the making are enhanced by contributions from new members of First's family of defamiliarizers such as Peter Brown, Wesley Brown, Mark Dudzic, Robert Hullot-Kentor, and Aram Saroyan.Perspectives by Incongruity touches down in Kashmir, Haiti, South Africa, and Indonesia. There's a vital section devoted to the Arab Spring. But the volume homes in on the U.S.A. as well, digging into race and class structures of feeling (and fantasy). It means to comprehend the Obama era in real time. Music is key to Perspectives by Incongruity's offbeat truth-telling. Contributors sound off on Jay Z and Kanye West, mambo and Afropop, Dylan and Coltrane, Sun Ra and Arcade Fire. First's meaning is (as ever) in the mix.Les orphelins
By Chima Ugokwe. 2020
Les orphelins est une histoire de survie dans un monde inconnu. Bloqués dans un monde sans parents, luttant pour survivre…
et vivre avec l'identité qu'ils désiraient tant, ils s'efforcent de briser les peurs et l'avenir inconnu. Temps difficiles, solitude, manque et futur incertain les pourchassent alors qu'ils s'efforcent jour après jour de découvrir une vie en dehors de la normale. Enfin, ils doivent apprendre à vivre les uns avec les autres et à travailler ensemble en luttant pour leur vie dans ces circonstances.Récits de Noël: Editorial Alvi Books
By Editorial Alvi Books. 2020
Ce livre est une compilation des meilleurs récits de Noël qui se sont qualifiés jusqu'à la finale du premier concours…
littéraire annuel d'Hiver, organisé par l'édition Planeta Alvi et qui s'est terminé officiellement le 20 décembre 2013. Onze des meilleurs participants dans le concours littéraire annuel ont été sélectionnés pour publier cette compilation.Histórias Natalinas: Editorial Alvi Books
By Editorial Alvi Books. 2020
Gosta de escrever e deseja publicar? Quer que o seu relato forme parte de um livro e que teus amigos…
possam comprá-lo e te ver como um escritor? Esta era a oferta tentadora e muito real que os autores desta obra aceitaram para participar no primeiro concurso literário da Editorial Alvi Books. Neste livro, os finalistas só tiveram que escrever sobre "O Natal" em um concurso que foi finalizado no dia 20 de Dezembro de 2013. Esse Natal que alguma vez imaginaram ou que desfrutaram quando eram pequenos, a lembrança dos amigos, da família, de nossos mascotes, das anedotas, do que fomos, somos e seremos...Christmas Stories: Editorial Alvi Books
By Editorial Alvi Books. 2020
Do you like to writing and want to be published? Do you want your story to be part of a…
book and that your friends can buy it and see you become a writer? This was the tempting and very real offer that the authors of this work accepted to participate in the first literary contest of the Alive Planet publishing house. In this book, the finalists only had to write about "Christmas" in a contest that ended on December 20, 2013. Those Christmases that they once imagined or enjoyed when they were little, the memory of friends, of family , of our pets, of the anecdotes, of what we were, are and will be ...Fábulas de un Cuentacuentos: Una colección de cuentos y reflexiones
By Khaled Saeed. 2020
Fábulas de un Cuentacuentoss es un libro de cuentos cortos. Lo que distingue a este libro es el flujo y…
la facilidad con la que el autor lleva a sus lectores a un viaje de sentimientos humanos, una búsqueda de encuentros perspicaces y armoniosos con fenómenos naturales. Si bien cada historia es independiente de la otra, de alguna manera, cuando el lector termina el libro. Todos los cuentos se funden en una experiencia estimulante.The ‘memsahibs’ of the British Raj in India are well-known figures today, frequently depicted in fiction, TV and film. In…
recent years, they have also become the focus of extensive scholarship. Less familiar to both academics and the general public, however, are the eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century precursors to the memsahibs of the Victorian and Edwardian era. Yet British women also visited and resided in India in this earlier period, witnessing first-hand the tumultuous, expansionist decades in which the East India Company established British control over the subcontinent. Some of these travellers produced highly regarded accounts of their experiences, thereby inaugurating a rich tradition of women’s travel writing about India. In the process, they not only reported events and developments in the subcontinent, they also contributed to them, helping to shape opinion and policy on issues such as colonial rule, religion, and social reform. This new set in the Chawton House Library Women’s Travel Writing series assembles seven of these accounts, six by British authors (Jemima Kindersley, Maria Graham, Eliza Fay, Ann Deane, Julia Maitland and Mary Sherwood) and one by an American (Harriet Newell). Their narratives – here reproduced for the first time in reset scholarly editions – were published between 1777 and 1854, and recount journeys undertaken in India, or periods of residence there, between the 1760s and the 1830s. Collectively they showcase the range of women’s interests and activities in India, and also the variety of narrative forms, voices and personae available to them as travel writers. Some stand squarely in the tradition of Enlightenment ethnography; others show the growing influence of Evangelical beliefs. But all disrupt any lingering stereotypes about women’s passivity, reticence and lack of public agency in this period, when colonial women were not yet as sequestered and debarred from cross-cultural contact as they would later be during the Raj. Their narratives are consequently a useful resource to students and researchers across multiple fields and disciplines, including women’s writing, travel writing, colonial and postcolonial studies, the history of women’s educational and missionary work, and Romantic-era and nineteenth-century literature. This volume includes two texts, Ann Deane, A Tour Through the Upper Provinces of Hindostan (1823) and Julia Maitland, Letters from Madras (1846).The ‘memsahibs’ of the British Raj in India are well-known figures today, frequently depicted in fiction, TV and film. In…
recent years, they have also become the focus of extensive scholarship. Less familiar to both academics and the general public, however, are the eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century precursors to the memsahibs of the Victorian and Edwardian era. Yet British women also visited and resided in India in this earlier period, witnessing first-hand the tumultuous, expansionist decades in which the East India Company established British control over the subcontinent. Some of these travellers produced highly regarded accounts of their experiences, thereby inaugurating a rich tradition of women’s travel writing about India. In the process, they not only reported events and developments in the subcontinent, they also contributed to them, helping to shape opinion and policy on issues such as colonial rule, religion, and social reform. This new set in the Chawton House Library Women’s Travel Writing series assembles seven of these accounts, six by British authors (Jemima Kindersley, Maria Graham, Eliza Fay, Ann Deane, Julia Maitland and Mary Sherwood) and one by an American (Harriet Newell). Their narratives – here reproduced for the first time in reset scholarly editions – were published between 1777 and 1854, and recount journeys undertaken in India, or periods of residence there, between the 1760s and the 1830s. Collectively they showcase the range of women’s interests and activities in India, and also the variety of narrative forms, voices and personae available to them as travel writers. Some stand squarely in the tradition of Enlightenment ethnography; others show the growing influence of Evangelical beliefs. But all disrupt any lingering stereotypes about women’s passivity, reticence and lack of public agency in this period, when colonial women were not yet as sequestered and debarred from cross-cultural contact as they would later be during the Raj. Their narratives are consequently a useful resource to students and researchers across multiple fields and disciplines, including women’s writing, travel writing, colonial and postcolonial studies, the history of women’s educational and missionary work, and Romantic-era and nineteenth-century literature. This final volume reproduces a text by Mary Sherwood, called The Life of Mrs Sherwood (1854).The ‘memsahibs’ of the British Raj in India are well-known figures today, frequently depicted in fiction, TV and film. In…
recent years, they have also become the focus of extensive scholarship. Less familiar to both academics and the general public, however, are the eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century precursors to the memsahibs of the Victorian and Edwardian era. Yet British women also visited and resided in India in this earlier period, witnessing first-hand the tumultuous, expansionist decades in which the East India Company established British control over the subcontinent. Some of these travellers produced highly regarded accounts of their experiences, thereby inaugurating a rich tradition of women’s travel writing about India. In the process, they not only reported events and developments in the subcontinent, they also contributed to them, helping to shape opinion and policy on issues such as colonial rule, religion, and social reform. This new set in the Chawton House Library Women’s Travel Writing series assembles seven of these accounts, six by British authors (Jemima Kindersley, Maria Graham, Eliza Fay, Ann Deane, Julia Maitland and Mary Sherwood) and one by an American (Harriet Newell). Their narratives – here reproduced for the first time in reset scholarly editions – were published between 1777 and 1854, and recount journeys undertaken in India, or periods of residence there, between the 1760s and the 1830s. Collectively they showcase the range of women’s interests and activities in India, and also the variety of narrative forms, voices and personae available to them as travel writers. Some stand squarely in the tradition of Enlightenment ethnography; others show the growing influence of Evangelical beliefs. But all disrupt any lingering stereotypes about women’s passivity, reticence and lack of public agency in this period, when colonial women were not yet as sequestered and debarred from cross-cultural contact as they would later be during the Raj. Their narratives are consequently a useful resource to students and researchers across multiple fields and disciplines, including women’s writing, travel writing, colonial and postcolonial studies, the history of women’s educational and missionary work, and Romantic-era and nineteenth-century literature. This second volume includes two texts, Harriet Newell, Memoirs of Mrs Harriet Newell (1815) and Eliza Fay, Original Letters from India (1817).Coventry: Essays
By Rachel Cusk. 2019
A selection of her non-fiction writings that offer both new insights on the themes at the heart of her fiction…
and forge a startling critical voice on some of our most personal, social and artistic questions. Coventry encompasses memoir, cultural criticism and writing about literature, with pieces on family life, gender, politics, D.H. Lawrence, Francoise Sagan and Elena Ferrante. Named for an essay in Granta (“Every so often, for offences actual or hypothetical, my mother and father stop speaking to me. There’s a funny phrase for this phenomenon in England: it’s called being sent to Coventry”), this collection is pure Cusk and essential reading for our age: fearless, unrepentantly erudite and dazzling to behold.The Cambridge Guide to Homer
By Casey Dué, Robert Lamberton, Corinne Ondine Pache, Susan Lupack. 2020
From its ancient incarnation as a song to recent translations in modern languages, Homeric epic remains an abiding source of…
inspiration for both scholars and artists that transcends temporal and linguistic boundaries. The Cambridge Guide to Homer examines the influence and meaning of Homeric poetry from its earliest form as ancient Greek song to its current status in world literature, presenting the information in a synthetic manner that allows the reader to gain an understanding of the different strands of Homeric studies. The volume is structured around three main themes: Homeric Song and Text; the Homeric World, and Homer in the World. Each section starts with a series of 'macropedia' essays arranged thematically that are accompanied by shorter complementary 'micropedia' articles. The Cambridge Guide to Homer thus traces the many routes taken by Homeric epic in the ancient world and its continuing relevance in different periods and cultures.The ‘memsahibs’ of the British Raj in India are well-known figures today, frequently depicted in fiction, TV and film. In…
recent years, they have also become the focus of extensive scholarship. Less familiar to both academics and the general public, however, are the eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century precursors to the memsahibs of the Victorian and Edwardian era. Yet British women also visited and resided in India in this earlier period, witnessing first-hand the tumultuous, expansionist decades in which the East India Company established British control over the subcontinent. Some of these travellers produced highly regarded accounts of their experiences, thereby inaugurating a rich tradition of women’s travel writing about India. In the process, they not only reported events and developments in the subcontinent, they also contributed to them, helping to shape opinion and policy on issues such as colonial rule, religion, and social reform. This new set in the Chawton House Library Women’s Travel Writing series assembles seven of these accounts, six by British authors (Jemima Kindersley, Maria Graham, Eliza Fay, Ann Deane, Julia Maitland and Mary Sherwood) and one by an American (Harriet Newell). Their narratives – here reproduced for the first time in reset scholarly editions – were published between 1777 and 1854, and recount journeys undertaken in India, or periods of residence there, between the 1760s and the 1830s. Collectively they showcase the range of women’s interests and activities in India, and also the variety of narrative forms, voices and personae available to them as travel writers. Some stand squarely in the tradition of Enlightenment ethnography; others show the growing influence of Evangelical beliefs. But all disrupt any lingering stereotypes about women’s passivity, reticence and lack of public agency in this period, when colonial women were not yet as sequestered and debarred from cross-cultural contact as they would later be during the Raj. Their narratives are consequently a useful resource to students and researchers across multiple fields and disciplines, including women’s writing, travel writing, colonial and postcolonial studies, the history of women’s educational and missionary work, and Romantic-era and nineteenth-century literature. This volume includes 2 texts, Jemima Kindersley, Letters from the Island of Teneriffe, Brazil, the Cape of Good Hope, and the East Indies (1777) and Maria Graham, Journal of a Residence in India (1812).Fires: Essays, Poems, Stories (Vintage Contemporaries)
By Raymond Carver. 1985
More than sixty stories, poems, and essays are included in this wide-ranging collection by the extravagantly versatile Raymond Carver. Two…
of the stories—later revised for What We Talk About When We Talk About Love—are particularly notable in that between the first and the final versions, we see clearly the astounding process of Carver&’s literary development.La muerte en Venecia (Destinolibro Ser. #Vol. 18)
By Thomas Mann. 2020
Junto a La montaña mágica, La muerte en Venecia es la obra más conocida de Thomas Mann. Una hermosa reflexión…
estética acerca de la pasión, el amor ideal y la belleza. El propio Thomas Mann advierte que esta novela trata sobre «la pasión como desequilibrio y degradación». Gustav Aschenbach, «arroyo de cenizas» en alemán, es un escritor maduro que goza de reconocimiento. Llega a Venecia en busca de inspiración, pero también de llenar sus días con reflexiones estéticas en un entorno idílico. En el hotel coincide con Tadzio, un joven de polaco que se encuentra de vacaciones con su familia. El muchacho se convierte en objeto de deseo y adoración; un amor ideal e imposible basado en la contemplación estética y que llevará a Aschenbach a renunciar a todo, incluso a sí mismo. «Hay, entre los resquicios de esa historia, un abismo que ella dejaentrever y que inmediatamente identificamos en nosotros mismos.»Manuel VicentFamily Trouble: Memoirists on the Hazards and Rewards of Revealing Family
By Joy Castro. 2013
Whenever a memoirist gives a reading, someone in the audience is sure to ask: How did your family react? Revisiting…
our pasts and exploring our experiences, we often reveal more of our nearest and dearest than they might prefer. This volume navigates the emotional and literary minefields that any writer of family stories or secrets must travel when depicting private lives for public consumption.Essays by twenty-five memoirists, including Faith Adiele, Alison Bechdel, Jill Christman, Judith Ortiz Cofer, Rigoberto González, Robin Hemley, Dinty W. Moore, Bich Minh Nguyen, and Mimi Schwartz, explore the fraught territory of family history told from one perspective, which, from another angle in the family drama, might appear quite different indeed. In her introduction to this book, Joy Castro, herself a memoirist, explores the ethical dilemmas of writing about family and offers practical strategies for this tricky but necessary subject.A sustained and eminently readable lesson in the craft of memoir, Family Trouble serves as a practical guide for writers to find their own version of the truth while still respecting family boundaries.