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Anthologies, Poetry
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Erotic fiction, Anthologies
In an age of hookups and cybersex, who has time for a little romance? For all those who think love's… gone the way of the 8-track tape comes a collection of new gay fiction designed to reignite their belief in love and romance. Follow the travails of a dog walker enchanted with his new client, a restaurant owner who catches the eye of his most loyal customer, a blind date fix-up, and other seekers of the lost flame as they stumble upon romance and a possible chance at love. Showcasing new work from some of today's best-known gay writers, including Trebor Healey, Felice Picano, Joel Derfner, Andrew Holleran, and Greg Herren, the stories in Fool for Love are a funny, sweet, and sometimes wrenching reminder of the joy romance brings to the human heart.
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Drama
The acclaimed Pelican Shakespeare series edited by A R Braunmuller and Stephen Orgel The legendary Pelican… Shakespeare series features authoritative and meticulously researched texts paired with scholarship by renowned Shakespeareans Each book includes an essay on the theatrical world of Shakespeare s time an introduction to the individual play and a detailed note on the text used Updated by general editors Stephen Orgel and A R Braunmuller these easy-to-read editions incorporate over thirty years of Shakespeare scholarship undertaken since the original series edited by Alfred Harbage appeared between 1956 and 1967 With definitive texts and illuminating essays the Pelican Shakespeare will remain a valued resource for students teachers and theater professionals for many years to come For more than seventy years Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world With more than 1 800 titles Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators
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General fiction, Anthologies
A wide range of bestselling and acclaimed writers from masters of noir to literary lights explore… the milieu of drug culture in this eye-opening series New York Journal of Books From Lee Child to William T Vollmann Joyce Carol Oates to Sherman Alexie Eric Bogosian to actor James Franco many of the finest contemporary writers of fiction weigh in on the lure and destruction of drug use society s ambiguous relationship to drug culture and criminal behavior with short stories that are alternately harrowing funny sad or scary but always original and gripping The Cocaine Chronicles edited by Gary Phillips and Jervey Tervalon Contributors include Lee Child Laura Lippman Ken Bruen and Susan Straight Urban gritty and raw noir Harlan Coben The Speed Chronicles edited by Joseph Mattson Contributors include William T Vollmann Sherman Alexie James Franco and Megan Abbott Deserves great praise for the audacity of the topic the depth of the discussion the diversity of voices and plain old good storytelling New York Journal of Books The Heroin Chronicles edited by Jerry Stahl Contributors include Eric Bogosian Lydia Lunch Ava Stander and Gary Phillips An impressive array of writers these tales of chasing the dragon with corollaries often violent and savage will satisfy devotees of noir fiction and outsider are alike Publishers Weekly The Marijuana Chronicles edited by Jonathan Santlofer Contributors include Joyce Carol Oates Lee Child Raymond Mungo and Rachel Shteir Joyce Carol Oates is in a rare class of her own So too are other contributors to this collection including Lee Child and the always enjoyable Raymond Mungo Kirkus Reviews
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Asian history, Anthologies
The Selected Essays of Master Lu Xun collects together his most influential and powerful essays and lectures Critical of… traditional Chinese culture of the superstition and rigid social mores and passionate in his argument for reform his essays from the classic contemplation on Confusion patriarchy What Is Required of Us as Fathers Today to his critique of Chinese identity politics My Mustache are exemplary of Chinese thought society and politics in a transitional historic period
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Anthologies, Buddhism
This volume offers a complete translation of the Samyutta Nikaya The Connected Discourses of the Buddha the third… of the four great collections in the Sutta Pitaka of the Pali Canon The Samyutta Nikaya consists of fifty-six chapters each governed by a unifying theme that binds together the Buddha s suttas or discourses The chapters are organized into five major parts The first The Book with Verses is a compilation of suttas composed largely in verse This book ranks as one of the most inspiring compilations in the Buddhist canon showing the Buddha in his full grandeur as the peerless teacher of gods and humans The other four books deal in depth with the philosophical principles and meditative structures of early Buddhism They combine into orderly chapters all the important short discourses of the Buddha on such major topics as dependent origination the five aggregates the six sense bases the seven factors of enlightenment the Noble Eightfold Path and the Four Noble Truths Among the four large Nikayas belonging to the Pali Canon the Samyutta Nikaya serves as the repository for the many shorter suttas of the Buddha where he discloses his radical insights into the nature of reality and his unique path to spiritual emancipation This collection it seems was directed mainly at those disciples who were capable of grasping the deepest dimensions of wisdom and of clarifying them for others and also provided guidance to meditators intent on consummating their efforts with the direct realization of the ultimate truth The present work begins with an insightful general introduction to the Samyutta Nikaya as a whole Each of the five parts is also provided with its own introduction intended to guide the reader through this vast ocean-like collection of suttas To further assist the reader the translator has provided an extensive body of notes clarifying various problems concerning both the language and the mean
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Anthologies, Psychology, General non-fiction
First published in The New Yorker Solomon tells the story of Peter Lanza the father of Adam… Lanza the Sandy Hook Elementary shooter Read it--it s moving brave and just profoundly human and sad There aren t any answers And that s what makes this all so impossible and Solomon s journalism so essential Salon com Both parents loved Adam Neither parent imagined or wanted their child s horrific end This is why what Peter Lanza did by sharing his story with Andrew Solomon is so important Lanza s story fills important gaps in our understanding of how a beloved child became a killer--and reminds us as a society that we have an obligation to help families and children before they find themselves on irreversible paths of violence Time
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Anthologies
Vergil Aeneid 8 is part of a new series of commentaries on the Aeneid Each volume adapts with… extensive revisions and additions the commentaries of T E Page 1884 1900 and is edited by a scholar of Roman epic The present volume offers the Latin text of Book 8 along with maps extensive notes and commentary designed to meet the needs of intermediate students of Latin A two-volume edition of the entire Aeneid designed to meet the needs of advanced students will be derived from the series
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Literature biography, Anthologies, Criticism
A prominent and prolific Italian writer Natalia Ginzburg 1916-1991 is known for her novels plays … short stories and essays This collection brings together for an English-speaking audience a variety of critical perspectives on Ginzburg s work The essays all by North American scholars examine the author s entire production The topics examined include Ginzburg s struggle to define herself as a woman a writer and an intellectual her interpretation of the relationship between historical events and private lives her reflections on the women s movement and the changing nature of the family and her mastery of a distinctly personal writing style What emerges here is a nuanced and complex portrait of Ginzburg and her work The reader is given a sense of the importance of her contribution not only as a writer but as a witness to the events of the twentieth century The volume also includes a chronology a bibliography and translations of some of Ginzburg s lesser-known writings including three articles a poem and a one-act play
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Historical biography, Anthologies, Criticism
Italian poet novelist literary critic and translator Cesare Pavese 1908-1950 is generally recognized as one of… the most important writers of his period Between the years 1929 and 1933 Pavese enjoyed a rich correspondence with his Italian American friend the musician and educator Antonio Chiuminatto 1904-1973 The nature of this correspondence is primarily related to Pavese s thirst to learn about American culture its latest books its most significant contemporary writers as well as its slang This volume presents an annotated edition of Pavese and Chiminatto s complete epistolary exchange Mark Pietralunga s brilliant introduction provides historical and cultural context for the letters and traces Pavese s early development as a leading Americanist and translator The volume also includes an appendix of Chiuminatto s detailed annotations and thorough explanations of colloquial American terms and slang drawn from the works of Sinclair Lewis Sherwood Anderson and William Faulkner A lively and illuminating exchange this collection ultimately corroborates critical opinion that America was the igniting spark of Pavese s literary beginnings as a writer and translator
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Anthologies, Science and technology, General non-fiction
THIS VOLUME contains a selection of articles by Fellows of the Royal Society of Canada on subjects of general cultural… interest The majority of the papers were presented at the annual meeting of the Society in 1956 but for the first time in the history of the Society they are being issued in a volume available to the general public instead of being restricted to the Society s Transactions It has long been a cause for regret to many who were aware of the stimulating and authoritative nature of many Royal Society papers on generalized topics that they were not readily available to the general reader This volume is an effort on the part of the Society to broaden its influence to share with educated readers everywhere the contributions which its Fellows make to literary and scientific thought Authors and articles are as follows Pierre Daviault Fran ais et anglais du Canada Desmond Pacey The Canadian writer and his public 1882-1952 Northrop Frye Preface to an uncollected anthology Jacques Rousseau L Indien de la for t bor ale l ment de la formation cologique W H Watson Perspective towards the future in physics Vincent Bladen Some reflection on the classical literature of political economy T A Goudge Progress and evolution J S Thomson The existential philosophy Pierre Dansereau Language communication and culture Henry Alexander Breaking the language barrier Jean-Charles Falardeau L Importance des langues secondes et les sciences de l homme
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Drama, Criticism, Arts and entertainment
This is the first book to survey comprehensively the field of Elizabethan and Jacobean citizen comedy Most studies of… the period focus on major authors this one follows recurring themes and motifs through a variety of plays by many authors from the moralizing comedies of the boys companies Professor Leggatt provides not only a fresh perspective on familiar plays by such figures as Jonson Middleton and Dekker but also a new look at a number of neglected comedies some by unfamiliar authors some by major authors working together Standard figures the usurer the prodigal and the prostitute and standard plots notably intrigues based on money or sex or both are traced to show the changes that occur in apparently stereotyped material at the hands of individual authors The result is to display the range and internal variety of a genre that too often is seen as all of a piece and to show the different ways in which social thinking can interact with the demands and comic form This book will interest students of Renaissance English drama both for its treatment of a neglected type of play and for its comments on individual citizen comedies Those who are concerned with drama as a vehicle for social commentary will find many points for discussion
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Anthologies
"[A] terrific and surprising collection of tales by a diverse group of writers . . . Count on them to… transport you." —USA Today The Best American Short Stories 2017 will be edited by Meg Wolitzer, who is "almost crushingly insightful; she doesn't just mine the contemporary mind, she seems to invade it" (San Francisco Chronicle), making her the perfect person to helm this literary time capsule of a collection.
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Fantasy, Anthologies
Over the past three decades the most adventurous practitioners of the literary arts of science fiction fantasy … and horror have been transforming those genres into something all but unrecognizable In Conjunctions game-changing New Wave Fabulists issue guest editor Peter Straub has put together an anthology of innovative literary reinventions of traditional pulp forms Contributors range from Jonathan Lethem to Neil Gaiman from John Crowley to Kelly Link from Elizabeth Hand to China Mi ville Gary K Wolfe and John Clute contribute essays on the ongoing evolution of genre while the brilliant cartoonist Gahan Wilson has created the cover and original frontispieces for each story
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General fiction, Suspense and thrillers, Drama
Two of Tennessee Williams s most revered dramas in a single paperback edition for the first time Orpheus Descending… is a love story a plea for spiritual and artistic freedom as well as a portrait of racism and intolerance When charismatic drifter Valentine Xavier arrives in a Mississippi Delta town with his guitar and snakeskin jacket he becomes a trigger for hatred and a magnet for three outcast souls storekeeper Lady Torrance lewd vagrant Carol Cutrere and religious visionary Vee Talbot Suddenly Last Summer described by its author as a short morality play has become one of his most notorious works due in no small part to the film version starring Elizabeth Taylor Katharine Hepburn and Montgomery Clift that shocked audiences in 1959 A menacing tale of madness jealousy and denial the horrors in Suddenly Last Summer build to a heart-stopping conclusion With perceptive new introductions by playwright Martin Sherman -- he reframes Orpheus Descending in a political context and explores the psychology and sensationalism surrounding Suddenly Last Summer -- this volume also offers Williams s related essay The Past the Present and the Perhaps and a chronology of the playwright s life and works
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Anthologies, Criticism, Customs and cultures
This Modern Library Paperback Classics edition combines the two most important African American slave narratives into one volume Frederick… Douglass s Narrative first published in 1845 is an enlightening and incendiary text Born into slavery Douglass became the preeminent spokesman for his people during his life his narrative is an unparalleled account of the dehumanizing effects of slavery and Douglass s own triumph over it Like Douglass Harriet Jacobs was born into slavery and in 1861 she published Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl now recognized as the most comprehensive antebellum slave narrative written by a woman Jacobs s account broke the silence on the exploitation of African American female slaves and it remains crucial reading These narratives illuminate and inform each other This edition includes an incisive Introduction by Kwame Anthony Appiah and extensive annotations
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Drama
The Persians is an Athenian tragedy by the ancient Greek playwright Aeschylus First produced in 472 BC it… is the oldest surviving play in the history of theatre It dramatises the Persian response to news of their military defeat at the Battle of Salamis 480 BC which was a decisive episode in the Greco-Persian Wars as such the play is also notable for being the only extant Greek tragedy that is based on contemporary events
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Anthologies
A collection of witty and incisive articles by one of the twentieth century s most remarkable literary voicesHere and there… now and then an article by Bel Kaufman bestselling author of Up the Down Staircase would appear in a newspaper or magazine In these magazine articles Kaufman wrote about subjects of the day and shared interesting or amusing experiences always with keen observations from her long life She reminisced about her early childhood in Odessa addressed an open letter to Baby Boomers on the subject of aging and pondered the loss of civility in modern culture Now for the first time Kaufman selects her favorite essays from several decades--dating back to 1967--and places them side-by-side in this funny irreverent and wonderfully entertaining collection
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Anthologies
West s acclaimed account of a pivotal moment in twentieth century history--now available as an ebookWest s exceptional observational skills… shine in her coverage of the Nuremburg trialsSent to cover the war crimes trials at Nuremberg for the New Yorker Rebecca West brought along her inimitable skills for understanding a place and its people In these accomplished articles West captures the world that sprung up to process the Nazi leaders from the city s war-torn structures to the courtroom security measures no detail is left out West s unparalleled grasp on human motivations and character offers particular insight into the judges prosecutors and of course the defendants themselves This remarkable narrative captures the social and political ramifications of a world recovering from the divisions of war As engaging as it is informative this collection represents West s finest hour as a reporter
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Multi-cultural fiction, Family stories, General fiction, Drama
Prospero s Daughter is a brilliantly conceived retelling of Shakespeare s The Tempest set in a remote corner of the… author s native Trinidad during the height of tensions between Trinidadians and British Colonial rule Above all it is the story of a boy and a girl who form an unlikely and forbidden alliance to uncover a terrible secret