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Friday, 16 December 2016

Collected Poems By Jack Kerouac


Collected Poems
Title : Collected Poems
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ISBN : 159853193X
Format : Hardcover
Number of Pages : 816




Poetry was at the center of Jack Kerouac s sense of mission as a writer This landmark edition brings together for the first time all Kerouac s major poetic works Mexico City Blues, The Scripture of the Golden Eternity, Book of Blues, Pomes All Sizes, Old Angel Midnight, Book of Haikus along with a rich assortment of his uncollected poems, six published here for the first Poetry was at the center of Jack Kerouac s sense of mission as a writer This landmark edition ...

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Thursday, 15 December 2016

Henna House By Nomi Eve


Henna House
Title : Henna House
Author :
ISBN : 1476740305
Format : ebook
Number of Pages : 320




An evocative and stirring novel about a young woman living in the fascinating and rarely portrayed community of Yemenite Jews of the mid twentieth century, from the acclaimed author of The Family Orchard.In the tradition of Anita Diamant s The Red Tent, Henna House is the enthralling story of a woman, her family, their community, and the rituals that bind them.Nomi Eve s v An evocative and stirring novel about a young woman living in the fascinating and rarely portrayed community of Yemenite Jews of the m...

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The Folks By Ruth Suckow


The Folks
Title : The Folks
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ISBN :
Format : Hardcover
Number of Pages : 727




To those who saw promise in Ruth Suckow s earlier novels this book will justify their confidence in her ability to write major American fiction New York Herald Tribune Books, 1934 A book that, than most others of our time, is deeply bedded in the American scene, that could only have been written by an American, and in our time Saturday Review of Literature, 1934 To those who saw promise in Ruth Suckow s earlier novels this book will justify their confidence in her ability to write major America...

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Wednesday, 14 December 2016

Short Friday and Other Stories including 'Yentl the Yeshiva Boy' By Isaac Bashevis Singer


Short Friday and Other Stories including 'Yentl the Yeshiva Boy'
Title : Short Friday and Other Stories including 'Yentl the Yeshiva Boy'
Author :
ISBN :
Format : Paperback
Number of Pages : 202




A collection of short stories by a miraculous writer who can chill the spine, gorge the senses, and enlighten the heart as he describes a people and a way of life....

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The Power and the Glory By Graham Greene


The Power and the Glory
Title : The Power and the Glory
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ISBN : 0142437301
Format : Paperback
Number of Pages : 222




In a poor, remote section of Southern Mexico, the paramilitary group, the Red Shirts have taken control God has been outlawed, and the priests have been systematically hunted down and killed Now, the last priest is on the run Too human for heroism, too humble for martyrdom, the nameless little worldly whiskey priest is nevertheless impelled toward his squalid Calvary In a poor, remote section of Southern Mexico, the paramilitary group, the Red Shirts have taken control God has been outlawed, and...

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Sunday, 27 November 2016

The Complete Claudine By Colette


The Complete Claudine
Title : The Complete Claudine
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ISBN : 0374528039
Format : Paperback
Number of Pages : 656




Colette, prodded by her first husband, Willy, began her writing career with Claudine at School, which catapulted the young author into instant, sensational success Among the most autobiographical of Colette s works, these four novels are dominated by the child woman Claudine, whose strength, humor, and zest for living make her seem almost a symbol for the life force.Janet Colette, prodded by her first husband, Willy, began her writing career with Claudine at School, which catapulted the young author into ...

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Saturday, 26 November 2016

The Financier (Trilogy of desire, #1) By Theodore Dreiser


The Financier (Trilogy of desire, #1)
Title : The Financier (Trilogy of desire, #1)
Author :
ISBN : 0452008255
Format : Paperback
Number of Pages : 460




A master of literary naturalism, Dreiser is known for his great intensity and keen journalistic eye as he examines real life subjects This powerful novel explores the dynamics of the financial world during the Civil War and after the stock market panic caused by the Great Chicago Fire The first in a trilogy of desire, The Financier tells the story of the ruthlessly d A master of literary naturalism, Dreiser is known for his great intensity and keen journalistic eye as he examines real lif...

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Sunday, 20 November 2016

Love Is a Dog from Hell By Charles Bukowski


Love Is a Dog from Hell
Title : Love Is a Dog from Hell
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ISBN : 0876853629
Format : Paperback
Number of Pages : 312




Poems rising from and returning to Bukowski s personal experiences reflect people, objects, places, and events of the external world, and reflects on them, on their way out and back....

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Woven Stone By Simon J. Ortiz


Woven Stone
Title : Woven Stone
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ISBN : 0816513309
Format : Paperback
Number of Pages : 367




What I do as a writer, teacher, and storyteller is to demystify language, says Simon Ortiz Widely regarded as one of the country s most important Native American poets, Ortiz has led a thirty year career marked by a fascination with language and by a love of his people.This omnibus of three previous works offers old and new readers an appreciation of the fruits of his d What I do as a writer, teacher, and storyteller is to demystify language, says Simon Ortiz Widely regarded as one of the countr...

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Saturday, 12 November 2016

Jan Rap en z'n maat By Yvonne Keuls


Jan Rap en z'n maat
Title : Jan Rap en z'n maat
Author :
ISBN :
Format : Paperback
Number of Pages : 243




Yvonne Keuls schreef een fascinerend verslag van haar ervaringen in een opvangcentrum voor jongeren Geen vriendelijk verhaal, geen mooi verhaal, maar een hard, realistisch verslag van mislukkingen en af en toe succes, van falende instanties politie, GGD, kindertehuizen en zo eerlijk is ze wel van fouten die het team zelf maakte Niets is verzonnen de enige verander Yvonne Keuls schreef een fascinerend verslag van haar ervaringen in een opvangcentrum voor jongeren Geen vriendelijk verhaal, geen mo...

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Friday, 11 November 2016

Under the Volcano By Malcolm Lowry


Under the Volcano
Title : Under the Volcano
Author :
ISBN : 0061120154
Format : Paperback
Number of Pages : 402




Geoffrey Firmin, a former British consul, has come to Quauhnahuac, Mexico His debilitating malaise is drinking, an activity that has overshadowed his life On the most fateful day of the consul s life the Day of the Dead, 1938 his wife, Yvonne, arrives in Quauhnahuac, inspired by a vision of life together away from Mexico and the circumstances that have driven their relat Geoffrey Firmin, a former British consul, has come to Quauhnahuac, Mexico His debilitating malaise is drinking, an activity th...

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Tuesday, 8 November 2016

Rahel Varnhagen By Hannah Arendt


Rahel Varnhagen
Title : Rahel Varnhagen
Author :
ISBN : 080186335X
Format : Paperback
Number of Pages : 388




She was, Hannah Arendt wrote, my closest friend, though she has been dead for some hundred years Born in Berlin in 1771 as the daughter of a Jewish merchant, Rahel Varnhagen would come to host one of the most prominent salons of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries Arendt discovered her writings some time in the mid 1920s, and soon began to reimagine Rahe She was, Hannah Arendt wrote, my closest friend, though she has been dead for some hundred years Born in Berlin in 1771 as the daughter of...

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Monday, 7 November 2016

Daisy Miller By Henry James


Daisy Miller
Title : Daisy Miller
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ISBN : 0141441348
Format : Paperback
Number of Pages : 79




Traveling in Europe with her family, Daisy Miller, an exquisitely beautiful young American woman, presents her fellow countryman Winterbourne with a dilemma he cannot resolve Is she deliberately flouting social conventions in the way she talks and acts, or is she simply ignorant of them When she strikes up an intimate friendship with an urbane young Italian, her flat ref Traveling in Europe with her family, Daisy Miller, an exquisitely beautiful young American woman, presents her fellow countrym...

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Wednesday, 2 November 2016

Mammon Inc. By Hwee Hwee Tan


Mammon Inc.
Title : Mammon Inc.
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ISBN :
Format : Paperback
Number of Pages : 278




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Friday, 14 October 2016

The Last Novel By David Markson


The Last Novel
Title : The Last Novel
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ISBN : 1593761430
Format : Paperback
Number of Pages : 220




In recent novels, which have been called hypnotic, stunning, and exhilarating, David Markson has created his own personal genre In this new work, The Last Novel, an elderly author referred to only as Novelist announces that since this will be his final effort, he has carte blanche to do anything he damned well pleases Pressed by solitude and age, Novelist s pr In recent novels, which have been called hypnotic, stunning, and exhilarating, David Markson has created his own personal genre In...

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Fraulein Schmidt and Mr. Anstruther By Elizabeth von Arnim


Fraulein Schmidt and Mr. Anstruther
Title : Fraulein Schmidt and Mr. Anstruther
Author :
ISBN :
Format : Kindle Edition
Number of Pages : 264




Dear Roger, This is only to tell you that I love you, supposing you should have forgotten it by the time you get to London The letter will follow you by the train after the one you left by, and you will have it with your breakfast the day after to morrow Then you will be eating the marmalade Jena could not produce, and you ll say, What a very indiscreet young woman to Dear Roger, This is only to tell you that I love you, supposing you should have forgotten it by the time you get to London The letter will ...

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Collected Poems and Translations By Ralph Waldo Emerson


Collected Poems and Translations
Title : Collected Poems and Translations
Author :
ISBN : 0940450283
Format : Hardcover
Number of Pages : 640




Ralph Waldo Emerson s brillance as a prose writer has too long overshadowed his remarkable gifts as a poet Collected Poems and Translations gathers both published and unpublished work poems left in manuscript at his death and hitherto available only in drastically edited or specialized scholarly versions to offer all readers for the first time the full range of Emerso Ralph Waldo Emerson s brillance as a prose writer has too long overshadowed his remarkable gifts as a poet Collected Poems and Tr...

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