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Faust; a Tragedy, Translated from the German of Goethe

Perhaps some apology ought to be given to English scholars, that is, those who do not know German, (to those, at least, who do not know what sort of a thing Faust is in the original,) for offering...

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Bab Ballads and Savoy Songs (Kindle Edition)

'Twas on the shores that round our coast From Deal to Ramsgate span, That I found alone, on a piece of stone, An elderly naval man.His hair was weedy, his beard was long, And weedy and long was he,...

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PPPPPP: Poems Performances Pieces Proses Plays Poetics

Kurt Schwitters' stated goal was to "erase the boundaries between the arts." This collection, culled from the five-volume German edition of Schwitters' writings, introduces the total work of art that...

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Gateways to Forever: The Story of the Science-Fiction Magazines, 1970-1980 (Liverpool University Press - Liverpool Science Fiction Texts & Studies) (Vol. III)

In the 1970s science fiction exploded into the popular consciousness, appearing everywhere along the cultural spectrum—from David Bowie’s alien stage persona to the massively successful global...

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Jane Eyre (Barnes & Noble Classics)

Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Bronte, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship,...

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War and the Iliad

Simone Weil's essay on Homer is one of the uncompromising mystic moralist's most famous and powerful works — a reading of Homer which is also a nightmare vision of war as a machine in which all...

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Life on the Mississippi (Twelve-Point Series)

It's Time to Rediscover the Wonderful Books We All Cherish."The Mississippi is well worth reading about. It is not a commonplace river but on the contrary is in all ways remarkable."-- Mark...

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An Outcast of the Islands (Transaction Large Print Books)

Willems, a company clerk, betrays the trust of his employers and finds himself publicly shamed. Starting afresh in a trading post, he is ironically at the mercy of others' dishonesty. Manufacturer:...

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Lyrics of the Hearthside

Publisher: New York : Dodd, Mead and company Publication date: 1899 Subjects: American poetry -- African American authors American literature -- African American authors Notes: This is an OCR...

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Oscar Wilde's Vera; Or, the Nihilist (Studies in British Literature)

A critical edition that sets out the final version of "Vera", Wilde's first performed play, as it was presented at its premiere on August 20, 1883, at the Union Square Theater in New York...

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Meditations on America: John D. MacDonald's Travis McGee Series and Other Fiction

Meditations on America explores John D. MacDonald's Travis McGee series, with special emphasis on MacDonald's examination of the conflicts and joys of twentieth-century American cutlure and...

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Dark Matter: Shedding Light on Philip Pullman's Trilogy, His Dark Materials

"My books are about killing God." So declares Philip Pullman, the award-winning author of the bestselling His Dark Materials trilogy of fantasy novels: The Golden Compass, The Subtle Knife and The...

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Black Writers Interpret the Harlem Renaissance (The Harlem Renaissance, 1920-1940)

One of the most interesting features of the Harlem Renaissance was the degree to which black writers and poets were involved in promoting and analyzing their own literary movement. One of its...

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The Chekhovian Intertext: Dialogue with a Classic

In The Chekhovian Intertext Lyudmila Parts explores contemporary Russian writers’ intertextual engagement with Chekhov and his myth. She offers a new interpretative framework to explain the role...

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The Meridian: Final Version-Drafts-Materials (Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics)

Originally presented as a speech to the German Academy for Language and Poetry on the occasion of Celan's acceptance of the Georg Büchner Prize for literature, The Meridian is one of, if not the...

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