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The Revolutionary War Lives and Letters of Lucy and Henry Knox
By Phillip Hamilton. 2017
Love and marriage during the Revolutionary War through the letters of Lucy and Henry Knox.In 1774, Boston bookseller Henry Knox…
married Lucy Waldo Flucker, the daughter of a prominent Tory family. Although Lucy’s father was the third-ranking colonial official in Massachusetts, the couple joined the American cause after the Battles of Lexington and Concord and fled British-occupied Boston. Knox became a soldier in the Continental Army, where he served until the war’s end as Washington’s artillery commander.While Henry is well known to historians, his private life and marriage to Lucy remain largely unexplored. Phillip Hamilton tells the fascinating story of the Knoxes’ relationship amid the upheavals of war. Like John and Abigail Adams, the Knoxes were often separated by the revolution and spent much of their time writing to one another. They penned nearly 200 letters during the conflict, more than half of which are reproduced and annotated for this volume.This correspondence—one of the few collections of letters between revolutionary-era spouses that spans the entire war—provides a remarkable window into the couple’s marriage. Placed at the center of great events, struggling to cope with a momentous conflict, and attempting to preserve their marriage and family, the Knoxes wrote to each other in a direct and accessible manner as they negotiated shifts in gender and power relations. Working together, Henry and Lucy maintained their household and protected their property, raised and educated their children, and emotionally adjusted to other dramatic changes within their family, including a total break between Lucy and her Tory family. Combining original epistles with Hamilton’s introductory essays, The Revolutionary War Lives and Letters of Lucy and Henry Knox offers important insights into how this relatable and highly individual couple overcame the war’s challenges.Writing to the World: Letters and the Origins of Modern Print Genres
By Rachael Scarborough King. 2018
Letters played a foundational role in facilitating the rise of print and popularizing new modes of writing in the long…
eighteenth century.In Writing to the World, Rachael Scarborough King examines the shift from manuscript to print media culture in the long eighteenth century. She introduces the concept of the "bridge genre," which enables such change by transferring existing textual conventions to emerging modes of composition and circulation. She draws on this concept to reveal how four crucial genres that emerged during this time—the newspaper, the periodical, the novel, and the biography—were united by their reliance on letters to accustom readers to these new forms of print media.King explains that as newspapers, scientific journals, book reviews, and other new genres began to circulate widely, much of their form and content was borrowed from letters, allowing for easier access to these unfamiliar modes of printing and reading texts. Arguing that bridge genres encouraged people to see themselves as connected by networks of communication—as members of what they called "the world" of writing—King combines techniques of genre theory with archival research and literary interpretation, analyzing canonical works such as Addison and Steele’s Spectator, Samuel Johnson’s Lives of the Poets, and Jane Austen’s Northanger Abbey alongside anonymous periodicals and the letters of middle-class housewives. This original and groundbreaking work in media and literary history offers a model for the process of genre formation. Ultimately, Writing to the World is a sophisticated look at the intersection of print and the public sphere.The Sunday wife
By Cassandra King. 2003
Married for twenty years to the Reverend Benjamin Lynch, a handsome, ambitious minister of the prestigious Methodist church, Dean Lynch…
has never quite adjusted her temperament to the demands of the role of a Sunday wife. When her husband is assigned to a larger and more demanding community in Florida, Dean becomes best friends with Augusta Holderfield, a woman whose good looks and extravagant habits immediately entrance her. As their friendship evolves, Augusta challenges Dean to break free from her traditional role as the preacher's wife. Just as Dean is questioning everything she has always valued, a tragedy occurs, bringing about life changes she could never have imagined.Speaking Out: Lectures and Speeches, 1937-1958
By Albert Camus. 2021
The Nobel Prize winner's most influential and enduring lectures and speeches, newly translated by Quintin Hoare, in what is the…
first English language publication of this collection. Albert Camus (1913-1960) is unsurpassed among writers for a body of work that animates the wonder and absurdity of existence. Speaking Out: Lectures and Speeches, 1938-1958 brings together, for the first time, thirty-four public statements from across Camus's career that reveal his radical commitment to justice around the world and his role as a public intellectual. From his 1946 lecture at Columbia University about humanity's moral decline, his 1951 BBC broadcast commenting on Britain's general election, and his strident appeal during the Algerian conflict for a civilian truce between Algeria and France, to his speeches on Dostoevsky and Don Quixote, this crucial new collection reflects the scope of Camus's political and cultural influence.Ghazals: Translations of Classic Urdu Poetry
By Mir Taqi Mir. 2022
The prolific Mir Taqi Mir (1723–1810), widely regarded as the most accomplished poet in Urdu, composed his ghazals—a poetic form…
of rhyming couplets—in a distinctive Indian style arising from the Persian ghazal tradition. Here, the lover and beloved live in a world of extremes: the outsider is the hero, prosperity is poverty, and death would be preferable to the indifference of the beloved. Ghazals offers a comprehensive collection of Mir’s finest work, translated by a renowned expert on Urdu poetry.Dangerous Women
By Various, George R. R. Martin. 2014
21 original stories of Dangerous Women by top genre writers, brought together in a new anthology edited by George R.…
R. Martin and Gardner Dozois.Intrepid warriors, far-ranging spacewomen, formidable superheroines, hard-living Bad Girls, embattled survivors, private investigators, seductive femmes fatale and haughty queens; as Gardner Dubois writes in his introduction, 'if you want to tie any of these women to the railway tracks, you'll have a real fight on your hands!'This thrilling collection features both standalone tales and familiar worlds and characters, including Joe Abercrombie's Red Country backdrop; Jim Butcher's world of Harry Dresden; Lev Grossman's Magicians; Diana Gabaldon's Outlander series; and a story by Caroline Spector in the Wild Cards shared universe.Return to Westoros in The Princess and the Queen, a new novella from George R. R. Martin about the Dance of Dragons, a bitter civil war that divided the kingdom nearly two centuries before the events of A Game of Thrones.The full list of gripping stories, amazing authors and stellar narrators:- Some Desperado by Joe Abercrombie; Read by Stana Katic- My Heart Is Either Broken by Megan Abbott; Read by Jake Weber- Nora's Song by Cecelia Holland; Read by Harriet Walter- The Hands That Are Not There by Melinda Snodgrass; Read by Jonathan Frakes- Bombshells by Jim Butcher; Read by Emily Rankin- Raisa Stepanova by Carrie Vaughn; Read by Inna Korobkina - Wrestling Jesus by Joe R. Lansdale; Read by Scott Brick- Neighbors by Megan Lindholm; Read by Lee Meriwether- I Know How to Pick 'Em by Lawrence Block; Read by Jake Weber- Shadows for Silence in the Forests of Hell by Brandon Sanderson; Read by Claudia Black- A Queen in Exile by Sharon Kay Penman; Read by Harriet Walter- The Girl in the Mirror by Lev Grossman; Read by Sophie Turner- Second Arabesque, Very Slowly by Nancy Kress; Read by Janis Ian- City Lazarus by Diana Rowland; Read by Scott Brick- Virgins by Diana Gabaldon; Read by Allan Scott-Douglas- Pronouncing Doom by S.M. Stirling; Read by Stana Katic- Name the Beast by Sam Sykes; Read by Claudia Black- Caregivers by Pat Cadigan; Read by Janis Ian- Lies My Mother Told Me by Caroline Spector; Read by Maggi-Meg Reed- Hell Hath No Fury by Sherilynn Kenyon; Read by Jenna Lamia- The Princess and the Queen by George R. R. Martin; Read by Iain Glen(P)2013 Random House AudioNew York Stories (Everyman's Library Pocket Classics)
By Diana Secker Tesdell. 2011
An irresistible anthology of classic tales of New York in the tradition of Christmas Stories, Love Stories, and Stories of…
the Sea. Writers have always been enthralled and inspired by New York City, and their vibrant and varied stories provide a kaleidoscopic vision of the city’s high life, low life, nightlife, and everything in between. From the wisecracking Broadway guys and dolls of Damon Runyon to the glittering ballrooms of Edith Wharton, from the jazz- soaked nightspots of Jack Kerouac and James Baldwin to the starry- eyed tourists in John Cheever and Shirley Jackson to the ambitious immigrants conjured by Edwidge Danticat and Junot Diaz— this is New York in all its grittiness and glamour. Here is the hectic, dazzling chaos of Times Square and the elegant calm of galleries in the Met; we meet Yiddish matchmakers in the Bronx, Haitian nannies in Central Park, starving artists, and hedonistic yuppies—a host of vivid characters nursing their dreams in the tiny apartments, the lonely cafés, and the bustling streets of the city that never sleeps.Those who remain will always remember: an anthology of Aboriginal writing
By Anne Brewster, Angeline O'Neill, Van Den Berg, Rosemary van den Berg. 2000
Culture and identity, suffering and the triumph of survival thread their way through short stories, poems, legends, song lyrics, essays…
and commentaries in this remarkable anthology of Aboriginal writing. Representing a range of regional and cultural differences, age groups and social circumstances, it is a testimony to the importance of the past in the construction of a better future.Maeve's Times
By Maeve Binchy. 2013
As someone who fell off a chair not long ago trying to hear what they were saying at the next…
table in a restaurant, I suppose I am obsessively interested in what some might consider the trivia of other people's lives.'Maeve Binchy is well-known for her bestselling novels, the most recent of which was A WEEK IN WINTER. But for many years Maeve was a journalist, writing for the IRISH TIMES. From 'The Student Train' to 'Plane Bores' and 'Bathroom Joggers' to 'When Beckett met Binchy', these articles have all the warmth, wit and humanity of her fiction. Arranged in decades, from the 1960s to the 2000s, and including Maeve's first and last ever piece of writing for the IRISH TIMES, the columns also give a fascinating insight into the author herself.With an introduction written by her husband, the writer Gordon Snell, this collection of timeless writing reminds us of why the leading Irish writer was so universally loved.Read by Kate Binchy(p) 2013 Orion Publishing GroupThe Norton Introduction to Literature (Portable Eleventh Edition)
By Kelly J. Mays. 2014
"Powerful, profound and deeply moving, new fiction by Afghan women writers will expand your mind and elevate your heart" ELIF…
SHAFAK"Written in simple, direct prose and offers vivid snapshots of a country beset by war and violence . . . It seems more important than ever to read the work of these courageous writers" Financial Times"My pen is the wing of a bird; it will tell you those thoughts we are not allowed to think, those dreams we are not allowed to dream"A woman's fortitude saves her village from disaster. A teenager explores their identity in a moment of quiet. A petition writer reflects on his life as a dog lies nursing her puppies. A tormented girl tries to find love through a horrific act. A headmaster makes his way to work, treading the fine line between life and death."A precious collection of work, the first and maybe the last of its kind. My Pen Is the Wing of a Bird is a huge accomplishment" MONIQUE ROFFEY, author of The Mermaid of Black ConchMy Pen Is the Wing of a Bird is a landmark collection: the first anthology of short fiction by Afghan women. Eighteen writers tell stories that are both unique and universal - stories of family, work, childhood, friendship, war, gender identity and cultural traditions."This book reminds us that everyone has a story. Stories matter; so too the storytellers. Afghan women writers, informed and inspired by their own personal experiences, are best placed to bring us these powerful insights into the lives of Afghans and, most of all, the lives of women. Women's lives, in their own words - they matter." Lyse Doucet in her IntroductionThis collection introduces extraordinary voices from the country's two main linguistic groups (Pashto and Dari) with original, vital and unexpected stories to tell, developed over two years through UNTOLD's Write Afghanistan project. My Pen Is the Wing of a Bird comes at a pivotal moment in Afghanistan's history, when these voices must be heard.With an Introduction by BBC Chief International Correspondent Lyse Doucet and an Afterword by Lucy HannahABOUT UNTOLD UNTOLD is a writer development programme for marginalised writers in areas of conflict and post-conflict. Afghanistan has millions of Pashto and Dari speakers with little or no local support for creative writing, literary translation, or literary editing. Support for writers has been hampered by cultural norms, free expression issues, chronic instability, and internal displacement. UNTOLD has been working one-to-one with women on their short stories, with English-speaking literary editors and translators working with the writers to realise the potential of their stories for publication both locally and globally in translation.My Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys
By Lorraine Heath, Georgina Gentry, Teresa Bodwell. 2006
Those deep-brimmed Stetsons. Those faded jeans. Cowboys are everything a fantasy man should be--tall, tough, and oh so handsome. In…
these sexy stories, meet three men of the American West who know a thing or two about roping a girl's heart. . . "The Reluctant Hero," Lorraine Heath Sheriff Matthew Knight is the perfect hero for Andrea's next novel. But the outlaw-busting man behind the badge is more complicated than she bargained for. What's a writer to do when she needs a story--or maybe the question is what won't she do? "The Great Cowboy Race," Georgina GentryBoston heiress Henrietta never imagined she would race a horse one thousand miles disguised as a boy--or that she'd have to escape an arranged marriage to expert rider Comanche Jones. "Whispering by Moonlight," Teresa Bodwell Stranded and penniless in a town called Hell Gate, Isabelle has run out of options when gorgeous Lucas Warring rides in like an answered prayer. Willing to do anything, she hires on as his ranch hand during one of the coldest winters ever--and discovers plenty of ways they can keep each other warm. The West has never been wilder. . . Lorraine Heath is a Waldenbooks and USA Today bestselling author, especially known for her emotionally rich and unforgettable historical romances set in Texas. She is a RITA Award winner from Romance Writers of America and has received a Career Achievement award from Romantic Times. In addition to romance, she writes young adult fiction under her own name and the pseudonym Rachel Hawthorne. She lives in Plano, Texas.Music of the Night: from the Crime Writers' Association
By Flame Tree Studio. 2022
The Annual Crime Writers' Association anthology is always a thrilling read, and eagerly anticipated by readers and authors of crime…
and mystery fiction worldwide.Music of the Night is a new anthology of original short stories contributed by Crime Writers' Association (CWA) members and edited by Martin Edwards, with music as the connecting theme. The aim, as always, is to produce a book which is representative both of the genre and the membership of the world&’s premier crime writing association.The CWA has published anthologies of members&’ stories in most years since 1956, with Martin Edwards as editor for over 25 years, during which time the anthologies have yielded many award-winning and nominated stories by writers such as Ian Rankin, Reginald Hill, Lawrence Block, and Edward D. Hoch. Stories by long-standing authors and stellar names sit alongside contributions from relative newcomers, authors from overseas, and members whose work haven&’t appeared in a CWA anthology before.Contents List:Abi Silver – Be PreparedAlison Joseph – A Sharp ThornAndrew Taylor – Wrong NotesAntony M. Brown – The Melody of MurderArt Taylor – Love Me or Leave MeBrian Price – The Scent of an EndingCath Staincliffe – Mix TapeC. Aird – The Last Green BottleChris Simms – TaxiChristine Poulson – Some Other DraculaDavid Stuart Davies – Violin – CEDea Parkin – The Sound and the FuryJason Monaghan – A Vulture Sang in Berkeley SquareKate Ellis – Not a NoteL.C. Tyler – His Greatest HitLeo McNeir – RequiemMartin Edwards – The Crazy Cries of LoveMaxim Jakubowski – Waiting for CorneliaNeil Daws – The Watch RoomPaul Charles – The Ghosts of PeacePaul Gitsham – No More &‘I Love You&’s&’Peter Lovesey – And the Band Played OnRagnar Jónasson – 4x3Shawn Reilly Simmons – A Death in Four PartsVaseem Khan – Bombay BluesFLAME TREE PRESS is the imprint of long-standing independent Flame Tree Publishing, dedicated to full-length original fiction in the horror andsuspense, science fiction & fantasy, and crime / mystery / thriller categories. The list brings together fantastic new authors and the more established; the award winners, and exciting, original voices. Learn more about Flame Tree Press at www.flametreepress.com and connect on social media @FlameTreePressThe first-ever English translation of Rilke&’s landmark poetry cycle, by Vita and Edward Sackville-West – reissued for the first time…
in 90 yearsIn 1931, Virginia and Leonard Woolf&’s Hogarth Press published a small run of a beautiful edition of Rainer Maria Rilke&’s Duino Elegies, in English translation by the writers Vita and Edward Sackville-West. This marked the English debut of Rilke&’s masterpiece, which would eventually be rendered in English over 20 times, influencing countless poets, musicians and artists across the English-speaking world. Published for the first time in 90 years, the Sackville-Wests&’ translation is both a fascinating historical document and a magnificent blank-verse rendering of Rilke&’s poetry cycle. Featuring a new introduction from critic Lesley Chamberlain, this reissue casts one of European literature&’s great masterpieces in fresh light.Zen Roots: The First Thousand Years
By Red Pine. 2020
Including nine new translations from the first thousand years of Zen, this collection of sacred Buddhist texts with refreshed commentary…
is made to be carried with you Dating from the middle of the second century B.C. to the middle of the ninth century A.D., Zen Roots includes the Heart, Diamond, and Platform sutras; selections from the Vimalakirti and Lankavatara sutras; Bodhidharma's Principles & Practice; Sengcan's Trusting the Mind; Yongjia&’s Song of Enlightenment; and Huangbo's Transmission of the Mind.These translations are accompanied by introductions and enough notes to explain what needs explaining but not so many as to get in the way. Zen Roots is the perfect companion for travel, to accompany one to the higher elevations, or just to read in the backyard.El sí de las niñas
By Leandro Fernández de Moratín. 2022
La obra maestra de Leandro Fernández de Moratín y una de las piezas de teatro más importantes de la Ilustración…
española. El sí de las niñas, la más conocida de las comedias neoclásicas, narra, con estricta sujeción a los principios de unidad de acción, espacio y tiempo, la disolución del compromiso de matrimonio entre don Diego y Francisca, que está enamorada de un tercero. Crítica con la educación que se daba a las jóvenes en los conventos y con la costumbre de los matrimonios arreglados, esta comedia es, en su ligereza, un verdadero compendio del pensamiento ilustrado.The Language of Literature: World Literature (Language of Literature)
By McDougal-Littell Publishing Staff. 2006
A selection of literature; formal and integrated assessment in literary analysis, reading, and writing; and integrated technology, including audio, video,…
computer, and Internet resources, makes literature accessible to students of all learning styles.Blues for Cannibals: The Notes from Underground
By Charles Bowden. 2018
Cultivated from the fierce ideas seeded in Blood Orchid, Blues for Cannibals is an elegiac reflection on death, pain, and…
a wavering confidence in humanity’s own abilities for self-preservation. After years of reporting on border violence, sex crimes, and the devastation of the land, Bowden struggles to make sense of the many ways in which we destroy ourselves and whether there is any way to survive. Here he confronts a murderer facing execution, sex offenders of the most heinous crimes, a suicidal artist, a prisoner obsessed with painting portraits of presidents, and other people and places that constitute our worst impulses and our worst truths. Painful, heartbreaking, and forewarning, Bowden at once tears us apart and yearns for us to find ourselves back together again.Dreaming again
By Jack Dann. 2008
35 new stories celebrating the wild side of Australian fantasy writing. Welcome to the energy, invention and imagination of Australia's…
finest writers of speculative fiction - from acclaimed international bestsellers to the freshest new voices. Contributors include John Birmingham, Trudi Canavan, Isobelle Carmody, Paul Collins, Cecilia Dart-Thornton, Sara Douglass, Garth Nix and many more, plus a previously unpublished story from the late great A. Bertram Chandler.In this collection of personal essays, women music writers pay tribute to female country artists from June Carter Cash and…
Dolly Parton to Taylor Swift.Part history, part confessional, and part celebration of country music and the women who make it, Woman Walk the Line is an intimate collection of essays from some of America’s most intriguing women writers. It celebrates how these groundbreaking musicians have provided pivot points, important truths, and doses of courage for women at every stage of their lives. It explores the many ways in which music can transform not just the person making it, but also the listener.Rosanne Cash eulogizes June Carter Cash. A seventeen-year-old Taylor Swift considers the golden glimmer of another precocious superstar, Brenda Lee. The music of Patty Griffin is a balm for a post-9/11 survivor on the run. Emmylou Harris offers a gateway through paralyzing grief. And Lucinda Williams proves that greatness is where you find it.Elsewhere in this wide-ranging anthology, acclaimed historian Holly George Warren captures the spark of rockabilly sensation Wanda Jackson; Entertainment Weekly’s Madison Vain considers Loretta Lynn’s girl-power anthem “The Pill”; and rocker Grace Potter embraces Linda Ronstadt’s unabashed visual and musical influence.