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The Italian American Reader
ISBN: 9780060006679 / Angielski / Miękka / 576 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This anthology -- the first general-reader collection of writing by Italian American authors -- is part manifesto, part Sunday dinner. A gathering of voices old and new, some speak in the accents of another age, some completely contemporary and assured, and all together for the first time. To stand with all the other popular media images we represent, now, at last, one exists in written form, the literature of Italian American life. Inside, there are excerpts from novels, memoirs, short stories, essays, and poems -- by the living and the dead, the famous and the obscure. The excerpts... This anthology -- the first general-reader collection of writing by Italian American authors -- is part manifesto, part Sunday dinner. A gathering ... |
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76,98 zł |
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The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain
ISBN: 9780060751043 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Arranged alphabetically by topic, from Adam to Youth, and culled from his novels, speeches, letters, and conversations, this anthology of quotes is timeless and represents the very essence of Mark Twain -- hilarious, cranky, and insightful. Arranged alphabetically by topic, from Adam to Youth, and culled from his novels, speeches, letters, and conversations, this anthology of quotes is... |
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56,87 zł |
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Four Girls at Cottage City
ISBN: 9780195052428 / Angielski / Twarda / 430 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. This novel, published in 1898, tells the story of four carefree young women, all physically indistinguishable from white women, off for a vacation at a Massachusetts resort - a vacation that ultimately leads to their struggle for salvation and their commitment to Christian service. Combining conventions from spritual autobiography with those of the sentimental novel, the book sets off on an evangelical mission aimed at showing readers how they should live.
This novel, published in 1898, tells the story of four carefree young women, all physically indistinguishable from white women, off for a vacation at ...
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621,81 zł |
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Short Fiction by Black Women, 1900-1920
ISBN: 9780195061956 / Angielski / Twarda / 640 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. The forty-six short stories collected in this volume were originally published in The Colored American Magazine or The Crisis between 1900 and 1920. The Introduction to the collection, written by Elizabeth Ammons, explores the role played by the major black magazines of that period and demonstrates how these two magazines provided the largest secular outlets for short fiction by black women at the turn of the century.
The forty-six short stories collected in this volume were originally published in The Colored American Magazine or The Crisis betwee...
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929,04 zł |
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Sororophobia: Differences Among Women in Literature and Culture
ISBN: 9780195073874 / Angielski / Twarda / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. This book looks at how differences among women have been textually represented at a variety of historical moments and in a variety of cultural contexts, including Victorian mainstream fiction, African-American mulatto novels, late twentieth-century lesbian communities, and contemporary country music. Sororophobia designates the complex and shifting relations between women's attempts to identify with other women and their often simultaneous desire to establish and retain difference. Michie argues for the centrality to feminism of a paradigm that moves beyond celebrations of identity...
This book looks at how differences among women have been textually represented at a variety of historical moments and in a variety of cultural context...
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789,39 zł |
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The Oxford W. E. B. Du Bois Reader
ISBN: 9780195091786 / Angielski / Miękka / 688 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. The Oxford W.E.B. Du Bois Reader encompasses the whole of Du Bois's long and multifaceted writing career, from the 1890s through the early 1960s. The volume selects key essays and longer works that portray the range of Du Bois's thought on such subjects as African American culture, the politics and sociology of American race relations, art and music, black leadership, gender and women's rights, Pan-Africanism and anti-colonialism, and Communism in the U.S. and abroad.
Chronologically, the volume stretches from definitive early essays such as "The Conservation of Races" to later... The Oxford W.E.B. Du Bois Reader encompasses the whole of Du Bois's long and multifaceted writing career, from the 1890s through the early 19...
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437,19 zł |
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Transcendentalism : A Reader
ISBN: 9780195122138 / Angielski / Miękka / 752 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. The transcendentalist movement is generally recognized to be the first major watershed in American literary and intellectual history. Pioneered by Emerson, Thoreau, Orestes Brownson, Margaret Fuller, and Bronson Alcott (among others), Transcendentalism provided a springboard for the first distinctly American forays into intellectual culture: religion and religious reform, philosophy, literature, ecology, and spiritualism. This new collection, edited by eminent American literature scholar Joel Myerson, is the first anthology of the period to appear in over fifty years. Transcendentalism: A...
The transcendentalist movement is generally recognized to be the first major watershed in American literary and intellectual history. Pioneered by Eme...
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348,10 zł |
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What Is What Was
ISBN: 9780226773261 / Angielski / Miękka / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-12 dni roboczych. "What Is What Was," Richard Stern's fifth "orderly miscellany," is the first to meaningfully combine his fiction and nonfiction. Stories, such as the already well-known "My Ex, the Moral Philosopher," appear among portraits (of the sort Hugh Kenner praised as "almost the invention of a new genre"): Auden, Pound, Ellison, Terkel, W. C. Fields, Bertrand Russell, Walter Benjamin (in both essay and story), Jung and Freud, Hannah Arendt and Martin Heidegger.
In the book's seven sections are analyses of the Wimbledon tennis tournament as an Anglification machine, of Silicon Valley at its shaky... "What Is What Was," Richard Stern's fifth "orderly miscellany," is the first to meaningfully combine his fiction and nonfiction. Stories, such as the ...
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98,69 zł |
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Tales and Sketches, vol. 1: 1831-1842
ISBN: 9780252069222 / Angielski / Miękka / 752 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Collects the tales of Edgar Allan Poe. This book includes Ms Found in a Bottle, the horrific Berenice, Ligeia (which Poe considered his finest tale), The Murders in the Rue Morgue, and one of his most famous stories, The Fall of the House of Usher.
Collects the tales of Edgar Allan Poe. This book includes Ms Found in a Bottle, the horrific Berenice, Ligeia (which Poe considered his finest tale), ...
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192,19 zł |
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Tales and Sketches, vol. 2: 1843-1849
ISBN: 9780252069239 / Angielski / Miękka / 760 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Collects the tales of Edgar Allan Poe. This book includes Ms Found in a Bottle, the horrific Berenice, Ligeia (which Poe considered his finest tale), The Murders in the Rue Morgue, and one of his most famous stories, The Fall of the House of Usher.
Collects the tales of Edgar Allan Poe. This book includes Ms Found in a Bottle, the horrific Berenice, Ligeia (which Poe considered his finest tale), ...
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192,19 zł |
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No Lonesome Road: Selected Prose and Poems
ISBN: 9780252071577 / Angielski / Miękka / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Rediscovery of one of Appalachia's most important and pioneering literary voices and social justice activists This is the first book to celebrate the life and writing of one of the most charismatic Southern leaders of the middle twentieth century, Don West (1906-1992). West was a poet, a pioneer advocate for civil rights, a preacher, a historian, a labor organizer, a folk-music revivalist, an essayist, and an organic farmer. He is perhaps best known as an educator, primarily as cofounder of the Highlander Folk School in Tennessee and founder of the Appalachian South Folklife Center in West...
Rediscovery of one of Appalachia's most important and pioneering literary voices and social justice activists This is the first book to celebrate the ...
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109,48 zł |
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Go Forth Do Good: Memorable Notre Dame Commencement Addresses
ISBN: 9780268029562 / Angielski / Twarda / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Go Forth and Do Good: Memorable Notre Dame Commencement Addresses brings together twenty-four notable graduation speeches, ranging from the words General Sherman delivered in 1865 to President George W. Bush's remarks in 2001. Also included in this fine collection is a letter sent to 1986 graduates by Mother Teresa and Father Theodore M. Hesburgh's final charge to the graduating class of 1987. Wilson D. Miscamble, C.S.C. provides a delightful introduction that clarifies the importance of the selected speeches, and places them in the context of the history of both Notre Dame and the world. A...
Go Forth and Do Good: Memorable Notre Dame Commencement Addresses brings together twenty-four notable graduation speeches, ranging from the words Gene...
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565,95 zł |
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Seven Types of Adventure Tale : An Etiology of a Major Genre
ISBN: 9780271027296 / Angielski / Miękka / 260 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. From Alexandre Dumas to Raymond Chandler, Martin Green examines adventure stories and their role in spreading the ideology of the modern nation-state. Seven Types of Adventure Tale studies widely read and influential adventure tales of the eighteenth through the twentieth centuries in the respectable literary forms. Some of the authors considered are Dumas, Scott, Defoe, Cooper, Verne, Buchan, Kipling, Twain, and Chandler. These stories, though adapted and copied innumerable times and read in their native languages and in translation throughout the Western world, have been... From Alexandre Dumas to Raymond Chandler, Martin Green examines adventure stories and their role in spreading the ideology of the modern nation-sta... |
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208,16 zł |
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Reading Seattle : The City in Prose
ISBN: 9780295983950 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Seattle, with its spectacular natural beauty and rough frontier history, has inspired writers from its earliest days. This anthology spans seven decades and includes fiction, memoirs, histories, and journalism that define the city or use it as a setting, imparting the flavor of the city through a literary prism. Reading Seattle features classics by Horace R. Cayton, Richard Hugo, Betty MacDonald, Mary McCarthy, Murray Morgan, and John Okada as well as more recent works by Sherman Alexie, Lynda Barry, David Guterson, J. A. Jance, Jonathan Raban, and others. It includes... Seattle, with its spectacular natural beauty and rough frontier history, has inspired writers from its earliest days. This anthology spans seven de... |
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104,32 zł |
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Bright Pages: Yale Writers, 1701-2001
ISBN: 9780300089455 / Angielski / Miękka / 574 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. College years--when ideas collide, literature intrigues and inspires, lasting passions are first fired--can stamp a young writer for life. This extraordinary book contains the work of dozens of writers whose experiences at Yale over the past three centuries exerted a powerful force on their writing lives. Formed and nurtured by the unique intellectual community of the university, writers as diverse as Noah Webster and Gloria Naylor emerged from Yale to make their own fresh contributions to our nation's remarkable literary heritage.
From the galaxy of authors Yale has produced, J. D.... College years--when ideas collide, literature intrigues and inspires, lasting passions are first fired--can stamp a young writer for life. This extrao...
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297,82 zł |
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The Magnificent Activist
ISBN: 9780306809545 / Angielski / Miękka / 640 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Thomas Wentworth Higginson is little known today, but during his own lifetime his remarkable activism put him at the very heart of the pivotal social movements reshaping America for the nineteenth century and beyond. Born in Cambridge, he was a fervent abolitionist, running guns to anti-slavery settlers and financing John Brown's raid. During the Civil War, he commanded the first black unit to fight for the Union, and their achievements (publicized in his classic Army Life in a Black Regiment) opened the way for further black enlistment. He also championed women's rights for...
Thomas Wentworth Higginson is little known today, but during his own lifetime his remarkable activism put him at the very heart of the pivotal ...
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112,73 zł |
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The Nick Tosches Reader
ISBN: 9780306809699 / Angielski / Miękka / 624 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Newsday has said that Nick Tosches "casts brilliant black light." The San Diego Reader has said that "Tosches's best sentences uncoil like rattlesnakes and strike with a venom that spreads poison through all the little Sunday-school ideas you've held dear." And Rolling Stone has said that "Tosches can write like a wild rockabilly raveup. He can be elegant as a slow blues." The Nick Tosches Reader is the author's own selection of his best work over the past thirty years, including fiction, poetry, interviews, rock writing, investigative journalism, and criticism....
Newsday has said that Nick Tosches "casts brilliant black light." The San Diego Reader has said that "Tosches's best sentences uncoil li...
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104,75 zł |
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Long Life: Essays and Other Writings
ISBN: 9780306814129 / Angielski / Miękka / 120 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Poets must read and study, but also they must learn to tilt and whisper, shout, or dance, each in his or her own way, or we might just as well copy the old books. But, no, that would never do, for always the new self swimming around in the old world feels itself uniquely verbal. And that is just the point: how the world, moist and bountiful, calls to each of us to make a new and serious response. That's the big question, the one the world throws at you every morning. 'Here you are, alive. Would you like to make a comment?' This book is my comment.--from the Foreword.
Poets must read and study, but also they must learn to tilt and whisper, shout, or dance, each in his or her own way, or we might just as well copy th...
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64,89 zł |
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Off Ramp: Adventures and Heartache in the American Elsewhere
ISBN: 9780312424886 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. In his unique, funny, and haunting reports from "Elsewhere," Hank Stuever records the odd and touching realities of modern life in everyday places. Elsewhere might be revealed in the tract-house adventures of a home-decor reality show, at a discount funeral home in a strip mall, or in the story of an armed man named Honey Bear in the hunt for his beloved but now missing sleeper sofa which he left in a store unit. Off Ramp shows us America through the humorous gaze of Hank Stuever, who finds beauty in the midst of the most unlikely and invisible lives and places.
In his unique, funny, and haunting reports from "Elsewhere," Hank Stuever records the odd and touching realities of modern life in everyday places. El...
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96,81 zł |
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Walker Percy: A Bibliography
ISBN: 9780313277092 / Angielski / Twarda / 69 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. A bibliography of philosopher and author ("Love in the Ruins," "The Message in the Bottle," etc.), Walker Percy, including information on separate publications, first appearace contributions to books, first appearance contributions to periodicals, interviews and published comments. This is a handy reference for collectors and students of his work.
A bibliography of philosopher and author ("Love in the Ruins," "The Message in the Bottle," etc.), Walker Percy, including information on separate ... |
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253,13 zł |
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