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  • Peixe-elétrico #01

    Piglia

    Series Book 1 - Peixe-elétrico
    Nesta edição de Peixe-elétrico: Os livros da minha vida – Ricardo Piglia O autor organiza neste ensaio alguns aspectos de suas memórias a partir dos livros que teriam lhe marcado de forma bastante particular, sobretudo até a sua juventude. Lançando mão do sempre presente Emilio Renzi, o autor de "Respiração artificial" engenhosamente mostra que se há algo de sua vida que pode ser retomado, é a ... Read more

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  • The Academic Book of the Future

    This book is open access under a CC-BY licence. Part of the AHRC/British Library Academic Book of the Future Project, this book interrogates current and emerging contexts of academic books from the perspectives of thirteen expert voices from the connected communities of publishing, academia, libraries, and bookselling. ... Read more

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  • e-mood - numero 7

    by AA.VV. ...
    e-mood è un magazine bimestrale in ebook nato dalla collaborazione tra l’agenzia letteraria Thèsis Contents e l’editore digitale goWare. Offre ai lettori digitali narrazioni dal e del mondo contemporaneo, approfondimenti critico-letterari con un occhio attento all’attualità, al costume, alla politica ed all’economia al tempo dell’andata al digitale.In questo numero 7:Sentieri profumati di ... Read more

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  • Telling Time: Resisting the Apocalypse in American AIDS Novels, 1982-1992

    by Lisa Frieden ...
    Telling Time is a scholarly book that explores how novelists wrote about AIDS during the first decade of the epidemic, when HIV and AIDS were considered death sentences and most often associated with homosexuality and the gay community. The book explores the different narrative strategies used by novelists to represent the temporality of AIDS, looking at Paul Reed’s Facing It: a Novel of AIDS, ... Read more

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  • The Dance Of The Words

    Series series Creative writing
    A story in essay form that compares readers that go from book to book that tell other readers about what books they have read, to bees that go from flower to flower and leave traces of pollen as they go.-For wherever a writer has left words on a page readers are sure to follow. ... Read more

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  • The Reading Group Insider

    Book Club "Buzz Books," Resources, and Ideas for Great Reading and Meeting

    The Reading Group Insider is a valuable resource for everything you need to know about reading groups.If you are looking for ideas to enhance your current group's experiences, interested in joining a reading group, or starting one of your own, the suggestions within The Reading Group Insider will get you started on the right path. This is the place to find excerpts to browse for help with choosing ... Read more

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  • Interpretive Conventions

    The Reader in the Study of American Fiction

    In Interpretive Conventions, Steven Mailloux provides a general introduction to reader-response criticism while developing his own specific reader-oriented approach to literature. He examines five influential theories of the reading process—those of Stanley Fish, Jonathan Culler, Wolfgang Iser, Norman Holland, and David Bleich. He goes on to argue the need for a more comprehensive reader-response ... Read more

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  • How Mark Twain Invented Stories From His Names

    by Steven Green ...
    This book is an anthology containing sections named after various authors. All of the authors possessed secret knowledge on how to invent detail that they inserted in their stories. The book was named after Mark Twain because his contributions were significant. Other authors include Robert Louis Stevenson, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Agatha Christie. The book focuses on the techniques used to ... Read more

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  • Story Detergent

    by Adam Martin ...
    A personal "how to" book on writing. A quick read comprised of the author's personal notes on story structure. Inspired by reading several independent novels and plays that suffer from the same pool of structural errors that are easy to fix. Also contains diagrams designed to help authors structure scenes or stories for any writing medium: short stories, novels, stage plays, screenplays, graphic ... Read more

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  • Penguin Classics

    A Complete Annotated Listing

    by Penguin Books ...
    A Complete Annotated ListingMore than 1,500 titles in printAuthoritative introductions and notes by leading academics and contemporary authorsUp-to-date translations from award-winning translatorsReaders guides and other resources available onlinePenguin Classics on air online radio programs ... Read more

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  • Aspiring Author Write Your Book Generate Income Leave A Legacy Where Do I Start

    Feeling overwhelmed? Wanting to write a book but not knowing where to start?Money problems? Trying to find a way to supplement your income due to a layoff and cut in pay?Lack of confidence? Not showing your brilliance thinking there is too much competition in the marketplace?This book covers tips for the aspiring author. It teaches how to select your ideal audience, how to arrange vital steps to ... Read more

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  • A Century of Dystopia volume 1 - Introduction

    Series Book 1 - A Century of Dystopia
    A Century of DystopiaIn A Century of Dystopia, author Steve Shahbazian looks at seven literary dystopian novels: We by Yevgeny Zamyatin; Brave New World by Aldous Huxley; Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell; A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess; High Rise by J.G. Ballard, The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood and his own Green and Pleasant Land.In this work, he analyses the ways in ... ... Read more

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  • Constructed Reader, Real Emotion

    "Reader" undergoes an unexpectedly personal experience when trying to understand an essay by Mary McCarthy. Instead of logically battling McCarthy’s claim that there’s such a thing as universal Truth, Reader finds herself _emotionally_ debating the idea. As a professional editor, Reader comes out of this experience with a realization about a key skill that all editors should possess. ... Read more

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  • The Sweet Spot: Pulp Fiction and Modern Romance

    This essay by award-winning author Nicola R. White explores the relationship between hardboiled or "pulp" ficiton and the modern romance novel. ... Read more

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  • The Pigeon With Broken Legs: Modern Classics Children Story

    by Deepak Gupta ...
    Every book doesn't have the message because every book is itself the message.The Pigeon With Broken Legs is the life changing, extraordinary story of Rohan, a fourteen years old boy and his father. From the Author of The Girl With No Dreams, this time the author will leave his readers with the new question of life.A picture expresses a thousand words, but a book tells more than that. ... Read more

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  • Che te ne fai di un cielo senza stelle?

    by Alessio Poeta ...
    Che cosa diavolo fai se scopri che il tuo fidanzato va a letto con un altro uomo conosciuto in palestra?E cosa pensi di quelli che ti chiedono rispetto mentre “WhatsAppano” con altri uomini?E’ giusto, nella vita, non dare seconde chance a nessuno?Questi sono i dubbi di Valerio. Di Valerio Falabella, un ragazzo romano che dal giorno alla notte perde tutto. Ma proprio tutto. Tranne la dignità, le ... Read more

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  • Becoming Bestsellers: John Grisham and Danielle Steel (Sample from Chapter 2 of THE BESTSELLER CODE)

    This sneak peek teaser - featuring literary giants John Grisham and Danielle Steele - from Chapter 2 of The Bestseller Code, a groundbreaking book about what a computer algorithm can teach us about blockbuster books, stories, and reading, reveals the importance of topic and theme in bestselling fiction according to percentages assigned by what the authors refer to as the “bestseller-ometer. ... Read more

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  • Mediaphilism

    The Film, Book, Game and Cultural Critiques of an Unabashed Nerd

    by Ryan Somma ...
    Collected here are the best of 10 years' worth of essays from ideonexus.com reviewing films, books, games, and culture from the perspective of a nerd in love with science and wonder. ... Read more

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  • The eBook Insider

    The eBook Insider is the ultimate readers’ resource for choosing great books. The perfect first stop to make along the way as you fill your e-reader with the books that you’ll want to have in your library and recommend to friends. It’s the place to find out what some of your favorite authors are reading and recommending, including Dan Brown, Nora Ephron, Carl Hiaasen, Alexander McCall Smith, Chuck ... Read more

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  • Necessary Luxuries

    Books, Literature, and the Culture of Consumption in Germany, 1770–1815

    by Matt Erlin ...
    Series series Signale: Modern German Letters, Cultures, and Thought
    The consumer revolution of the eighteenth century brought new and exotic commodities to Europe from abroad—coffee, tea, spices, and new textiles to name a few. Yet one of the most widely distributed luxury commodities in the period was not new at all, and was produced locally—the book. In Necessary Luxuries Matt Erlin considers books and the culture around books during this period, focusing ... Read more

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  • Writing A Page-Turner

    Elizabeth Bailey presents the five editing maxims you need to know to create a page-turner:• Cut to the chase• Stay in the character’s head• Leave out the waffle• Keep it simple• Trust your readerIn this essential guide for new authors, Bailey and Dawson set out the hard truths that will make your book better and save you money and time on editing. ... Read more

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  • エモーショナル・レスキューの憂鬱

    米澤穂信『犬はどこだ』論

    by 仲俣暁生 ...
    米澤穂信の長編小説『犬はどこだ』を論じた評論。(初出「ユリイカ」2007年4月号) ... Read more

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  • Bandits in Print

    "The Water Margin" and the Transformations of the Chinese Novel

    Bandits in Print examines the world of print in early modern China, focusing on the classic novel The Water Margin (Shuihu zhuan). Depending on which edition a reader happened upon, The Water Margin could offer vastly different experiences, a characteristic of the early modern Chinese novel genre and the shifting print culture of the era.Scott W. Gregory argues that the traditional novel is best u ... Read more

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  • Mood - Numero 3

    “Mood” è un magazine in ebook, nato dalla collaborazione tra l’agenzia letteraria Thèsis Contents e l’editore digitale goWare. Il suo scopo è quello di offrire ai lettori digitali narrazioni dal, e del, mondo contemporaneo, approfondimenti critico-letterari con un occhio attento all’attualità, al costume, alla politica e all’economia al tempo dell’andata al digitale.In questo numero 3:“St Aubyn ... Read more

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