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  • L'écrivain de la famille

    À sept ans, Edouard écrit son premier poème. Trois rimes pauvres qui vont le porter aux nues et faire de lui l’écrivain de la famille. Mais à neuf, il découvre le sens de « déchéance ». Les mots ne lui viennent plus.Les années passent. Il assiste à la lente décomposition de sa famille et court toujours derrière l’amour que son poème, autrefois, suscita. Il écrit, écrit mais le destin que les ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Unmaking Sex

    The Gender Outlaws of Nineteenth-Century France

    During the nineteenth century, words like 'intersex' and 'trans' had not yet been invented to describe individuals whose bodies, or senses of self, conflicted with binary sex. But that does not mean that such people did not exist. In nineteenth-century France, case studies filled medical journals, high-profile trials captured headlines, and doctors staked their reputations on sex determinations ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

  • Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors

    by Susan Sontag ...
    Susan Sontag's celebrated essays on cancer and AIDS now available in one volume.In 1978, Sontag wrote Illness as Metaphor, a classic work described by Newsweek as "one of the most liberating books of its time." A cancer patient herself when she was writing the book, Sontag shows how the metaphors and myths surrounding certain illnesses, especially cancer, add greatly to the suffering of patients ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Our Riches

    Translated by Chris Andrews ...
    The powerful English debut of a rising young French star, Our Riches is a marvelous, surprising, hybrid novel about a beloved Algerian bookshopA Library Journal Best Book of the YearFinalist for the PEN Translation PrizeWinner of the French American Foundation PrizeOur Riches celebrates quixotic devotion and the love of books in the person of Edmond Charlot, who at the age of twenty founded Les ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Fortean Influence on Science Fiction

    Charles Fort and the Evolution of the Genre

    Series Book 73 - Critical Explorations in Science Fiction and Fantasy
    Charles Fort was an American researcher from the early twentieth century who cataloged reports of unexplained phenomena he found in newspapers and science journals. A minor bestseller with a cult appeal, Fort's work was posthumously republished in the pulp science fiction magazine Astounding Stories in 1934. His idiosyncratic books fascinated, scared, and entertained readers, many of them authors ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • How to Reread a Novel

    by Matthew Clark ...
    A novel is among the most intricate of human creations, the result of thousands of choices and decisions. In How to Reread a Novel, Matthew Clark explicates the intricacies of fiction writing through practical analysis of the resources of narration, demystifying some of the tools novelists use to build worlds.Drawing on classical philology, the rhetorical tradition, and recent approaches to ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Leonardo Sciascia e la funzione sociale degli intellettuali

    Leonardo Sciascia e la funzione sociale degli intellettuali raccoglie traduzioni di tre scritti già apparsi su riviste scientifiche anglofone – L'onore, il qualunquismo e l'essenzialismo ne L'antimonio di Sciascia, Sciascia e La scomparsa di Majorana e De L'Affaire Moro e della (ri)scrittura della storia – oltre ad una approfondita introduzione che fornisce una visione d'insieme dei risultati ... Read more

    $14.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • In This World of Ultraviolet Light

    Stories

    by Raul Palma ...
    "These are new Cubans. Twenty-first-century Marielitos. Balseros, as the bartender had referred to them. I know, because my mom tells me that these are the kinds of Cubans I need to stay away from."In eight captivating stories, In This World of Ultraviolet Light—winner of the 2021 Don Belton Prize—navigates tensions between Cubans, Cuban Americans, and the larger Latinx community. Though these ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • The Lowell Experiment

    Public History in a Postindustrial City

    by Cathy Stanton ...
    In the early nineteenth century, Lowell, Massachusetts, was widely studied and emulated as a model for capitalist industrial development. One of the first cities in the United States to experience the ravages of deindustrialization, it was also among the first places in the world to turn to its own industrial and ethnic history as a tool for reinventing itself in the emerging postindustrial ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Chaucer's People: Everyday Lives in Medieval England

    by Liza Picard ...
    The Middle Ages re-created through the cast of pilgrims in The Canterbury Tales.Among the surviving records of fourteenth-century England, Geoffrey Chaucer’s poetry is the most vivid. Chaucer wrote about everyday people outside the walls of the English court—men and women who spent days at the pedal of a loom, or maintaining the ledgers of an estate, or on the high seas. In Chaucer’s People, Liza ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • Great Books

    by David Denby ...
    ***NATIONAL BESTSELLER* “**A lively adventure of the mind...The tone of the prose...is one of unqualified enthusiasm: energy, vigor, intellectual curiosity, and what might be called an ecstasy of imaginative journalism.” —The New York Times Book ReviewAt the age of forty-eight, writer and film critic David Denby returned to Columbia University and re-enrolled in two core courses in Western ... Read more

    $0.99 USD

  • Yevtushenko: Selected Poems

    This volume contains a selection of early works by Yevgeny Alexandrovich Yevtushenko who blazed a trail for a generation of Soviet poets with a confident poetic voice that moves effortlessly between social and personal themes. ‘Zima Junction’ vividly describes his idyllic childhood in Siberia and his impressions of home after a long absence in Moscow. Private moments are captured in ‘Waking’, on ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Language and Translation in Postcolonial Literatures

    Multilingual Contexts, Translational Texts

    Edited by Simona Bertacco ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures
    This collection gathers together a stellar group of contributors offering innovative perspectives on the issues of language and translation in postcolonial studies. In a world where bi- and multilingualism have become quite normal, this volume identifies a gap in the critical apparatus in postcolonial studies in order to read cultural texts emerging out of multilingual contexts. The role of ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • El insomnio de Bolívar

    Cuatro consideraciones intempestivas sobre América Latina en el siglo XXI

    by Jorge Volpi ...
    Una inteligente reflexión sobre el presente y el futuro de América Latina, ganadora del II Premio Debate-Casa de América.«Fue en España, para ser más preciso en Salamanca, apabullado por las centenarias piedras de Villamayor, frente a las severas estatuas de fray Luis de León y Unamuno, o al menos ante sus nombres inscritos en camisetas, afiches y llaveros, donde descubrí que yo era ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The House of Mirth

    by Edith Wharton ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    Since its publication in 1905 The House of Mirth has commanded attention for the sharpness of Wharton's observations and the power of her style. Its heroine, Lily Bart, is beautiful, poor, and unmarried at 29. In her search for a husband with money and position she betrays her own heart and sows the seeds of the tragedy that finally overwhelms her. The House of Mirth is a lucid, disturbing ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • The Signs of James Bond

    Semiotic Explorations in the World of 007

    This book is an analysis of the most significant elements that compose the "Bond formula," such as names, binary oppositions and narrative patterns. It tackles Ian Fleming's novels as well as the 22 films of the Eon Productions series and follows the evolution of certain determining features (paradigms) from the text to the screen, to determine their function within the narration. This study ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Five Comedies

    by Carlo Goldoni ...
    Series series Lorenzo Da Ponte Italian Library
    One of the first and most important Italian playwrights to move away from the commedia dell’arte tradition of improvisation, Carlo Goldoni (1707–1793) wrote more naturalistic “comedies of character” that featured the dialect and situations of everyday life in Venice.Five Comedies collects a selection of Goldoni’s finest plays, annotated and translated into English: The New House, The Coffee House, ... Read more

    $74.99 USD

  • Levelek nélkül

    Egy kelet-magyarországi kisvárosban egyszer csak ledobják a fák tavaszi leveleiket. Mi történhetett: természeti katasztrófa vagy emberi mulasztás? Hogyan lehet tovább élni a hétköznapokat a megváltozott körülmények között? Koroknai János, a városi gimnázium magyartanára nyomozni kezd a rejtély után. A közeli idősotthon, a tantermek és a barátai háza között ingázik a város utcáin, s eközben ... Read more

    $13.90 USD

  • The Angry Years

    by Colin Wilson ...
    What were the achievements of the ’angry’ writers who emerged in the fifties?Historically, they gave birth to the satire movement of the 1960s-Beyond theFringe, That Was the Week that Was and Private Eye. Their satire andirreverence aroused enthusiasm in man, and a new ‘anti-Establishment’ mooddeveloped from Look Back in Anger and The Outsider. All literary movementsacquire enemies, but the Angry ... Read more

    $6.49 USD $4.99 USD

  • The War Against Cliche

    Essays and Reviews 1971-2000

    by Martin Amis ...
    Series series Vintage International
    **NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER • In this virtuosic, career-spanning collection, Martin Amis, "one of the most gifted novelists of his generation” (TIME), takes on James Joyce and Elvis Presley, Nabokov and English football, Jane Austen and Penthouse Forum, William Burroughs and Hillary Clinton, and more."[Written] with intelligence and ardor and panache.... Speaks not just to a ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Languages of the World

    This third edition of Kenneth Katzner's best-selling guide to languages is essential reading for language enthusiasts everywhere. Written with the non-specialist in mind, its user-friendly style and layout, delightful original passages, and exotic scripts, will continue to fascinate the reader. This new edition has been thoroughly revised to include more languages, more countries, and up-to-date ... Read more

    $71.99 USD

  • Phoenix Extravagant

    by Yoon Ha Lee ...
    Dragons. Art. Revolution.Gyen Jebi isn’t a fighter, or a subversive. They just want to paint.One day they’re jobless and desperate; the next, Jebi finds themself recruited by the Ministry of Armor to paint the mystical sigils that animate the occupying government’s automaton soldiers.But when Jebi discovers the depths of the Razanei government’s horrifying crimes—and the awful source of the ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Time Was Soft There

    A Paris Sojourn at Shakespeare & Co.

    by Jeremy Mercer ...
    "Some bookstores are filled with stories both inside and outside the bindings. These are places of sanctuary, even redemption---and Jeremy Mercer has found both amid the stacks of Shakespeare & Co."---Paul Collins, author of Sixpence House: Lost in a Town of BooksIn a small square on the left bank of the Seine, the door to a green-fronted bookshop beckoned. . . .With gangsters on his tail and his ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Chekhov: The Essential Plays

    The Seagull, Uncle Vanya, Three Sisters & The Cherry Orchard

    by Anton Chekhov ...
    Translated by Michael Heim ...
    Because Chekhov’s plays convey the universally recognizable, sometimes comic, sometimes dramatic, frustrations of decent people trying to make sense of their lives, they remain as fresh and vigorous as when they were written a century ago. Gathered here in superb new renderings by one of the most highly regarded translators of our time—versions that have been staged throughout the United States, ... Read more

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