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By: Carolyn Jewel
Published by: Carolyn Jewel, Author
Price: $4.99 |
|  Addison O’Henry has no idea magic is real or that the fragile peace between the magekind—humans who can use magic—and demons is about to shatter. All that changes the day she’s abducted by one of the magekind. After a ritual murder goes horribly wrong, Addison ends up with demon-sourced magi... More...
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By: Chancery Stone
Published by: Poison Pixie Publishing
Price: $4.99 |
|  There are hundreds of conventional writers’ guides on the market, but none so scathing, cynical and downright cantankerous as this one.
Forget toadying to publishers or obsessing over return postage; in this insider exposé veteran author, Chancery Stone, spares no-one’s blushes as she strips t... More...
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By: Brian Vickers
Published by: Cambridge University Press
Price: $46.00 |
|  'Counterfeiting' Shakespeare addresses the fundamental issue of what Shakespeare actually wrote, and how this is determined. In recent years his authorship has been claimed for two poems, the lyric 'Shall I die?' and A Funerall Elegye. These attributions have been accepted into certain major edition... More...
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By: Marion Thain
Published by: Cambridge University Press
Price: $32.00 |
|  'Michael Field' (1884–1914) was the pseudonym of two women, the aunt and niece Katharine Bradley and Edith Cooper, who lived and wrote together as 'lovers'. The large oeuvre contains poems, dramas, and a vast diary. Marion Thain recounts the development of a fascinating and idiosyncratic poetic pe... More...
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By: T.E. Hill
Published by: Taylor & Francis Inc
Price: $110.00 |
|  This study contributes to a growing literature on the impact of medieval perceptual theory upon contemporary cultural forms by examining the way late medieval accounts of perception and cognition can illuminate the construction of the subject in Chaucer's long romance, Troilus and Criseyde. The stud... More...
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By: John Ford, Simon Barker
Published by: Taylor & Francis Inc
Price: $34.95 |
|  The last decade has seen a revival of interest in John Ford and especially 'Tis Pity She's a Whore, his tragedy of religious scepticism, incestuous love, and revenge. This text in particular has provided a focus for scholarship as well as being the subject of a number of major theatrical productions... More...
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By: Tijana Stojkovic
Published by: Taylor & Francis Inc
Price: $65.00 |
|  Larkin's poems are often regarded as falling somewhere between the traditional "plain" and the more contemporary "postmodern" categories. This study undertakes a comprehensive linguistic and historical study of the plain style tradition in poetry, its relationship with so-called "difficult" poetry, ... More...
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By: Jason Colavito
Published by: McFarland
Price: $65.00 |
|  Horror fiction stormed the bestseller lists with classics like Rosemary's Baby and The Exorcist, setting the stage for Stephen King's worldwide popularity, but the genre has literary roots going back centuries. This collection provides insight into the way classic horror texts were received, interpr... More...
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By: Rosemary Scanlon McTier
Published by: McFarland
Price: $55.00 |
|  During the nineteenth century, insects became a very fashionable subject of study, and the writing of the day reflected this popularity. However, despite an increased contemporary interest in ecocriticism and cultural entomology, scholars have largely ignored the presence of insects in nineteenth-ce... More...
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By: David Dollenmayer, Veza & Elias Canetti, Karen Lauer
Published by: Other Press
Price: $17.99 |
|  In 1934, Veza Taubner and Elias Canetti were married in Vienna. Elias describes the arrangement to his brother Georges as a "functional" marriage. Meanwhile, an intense intellectual love affair develops between Veza and Georges, a young doctor suffering fromtuberculosis. Four years later, Veza a... More...
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By: Ann Martin, James D. Hardy, Jr.
Published by: McFarland
Price: $45.00 |
|  Vladimir Nabokov, one of the 20th century's greatest novelists, is particularly remembered for his masterpiece Lolita. The present work examines the enduring themes of Lolita and places the novel in its biographical, social, cultural and historical contexts. Of particular interest are questions of l... More...
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By: Amie A. Doughty
Published by: McFarland
Price: $40.00 |
|  Children's literature is an excellent way to educate children, on everything from social behavior and beliefs to attitudes toward education itself. A prevalent aspect of children's literature is the importance of books and reading. In children's literature, books represent adult authority. This book... More...
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By: Mike Resnick, Tony Lewis
Published by: Wildside Press
Price: $4.99 |
|  Mike Resnick's second collection of essays, anecdotes, speeches, and convention reports (not to mention lists and obituaries), written for science fiction fan magazines, includes topics as diverse as Edgar Rice Burroughs, Teddy Roosevelt, My Most Memorable Collecting Experience, Where Do You Get Tho... More...
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By: Alicia Bones
Published by: Hyperink
Price: $2.99 |
|  Gertrude Stein has achieved mythic status in the literary world. Her work has been beloved and besmirched, high on the bestseller list and forgotten entirely, called inaccessible, innovative, insane, and all quality polarities in between.Yet, the question remains: Who was the writer and woman behind... More...
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By: Fiona Kelleghan
Published by: Salem Press
Price: $120.00 |
|  100 Masters of Mystery and Detective Fiction is a response to the growing attention paid to genre fiction in schools and universities. Since Edgar Allan Poe invented the modern mystery story in the mid-19th century, the number of authors writing in this field has steadily grown, as have the appetite... More...
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By: Fiona Kelleghan
Published by: Salem Press
Price: $120.00 |
|  100 Masters of Mystery and Detective Fiction is a response to the growing attention paid to genre fiction in schools and universities. Since Edgar Allan Poe invented the modern mystery story in the mid-19th century, the number of authors writing in this field has steadily grown, as have the appetite... More...
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By: Nick Rennison, Stephen E. Andrews
Published by: A&C Black
Price: $9.09 |
|  Fantasy is one of the most visible genres in popular culture - we see the creation of magical and imagined worlds and characters in every type of media, with very strong fan bases in tow. This latest guide in the successful Bloomsbury Must-Read series covers work from a wide range of authors: Tolkie... More...
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By: Patrice Hannon
Published by: F+W Media, Inc.
Price: $12.44 |
|  You've read Emma. You own Pride & Prejudice. You love Sense and Sensibility. But do you know all there is to know about Jane Austen? Find answers to questions such as: Who was the Irishman who stole her heart?Why was their affair doomed?Which Austen heroine most resembled Jane?Who were the real Eliz... More...
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By: Writer's Digest Editors
Published by: F+W Media, Inc.
Price: $12.50 |
|  Writer's Digest Short Short Story CompetitionThis exclusive collection contains the top twenty-five winning entries of the 12th Annual Writer's Digest Short Short Story competition, including the First-Place winner, "The Callers" by Nicole Lesperance. More...
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By: Jane Smiley
Published by: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
 Pulitzer Prize winner and bestselling novelist Jane Smiley celebrates the novel--and takes us on an exhilarating tour through one hundred of them--in this seductive and immensely rewarding literary tribute.In her inimitable style--exuberant, candid, opinionated--Smiley explores the power of the nove... More...
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