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61) Romantic Reverie
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"Romantic Reverie: 13 Love Stories" is an enchanting collection of heartfelt tales that transport readers to a world where love knows no boundaries. In this captivating anthology, each story unfolds like a delicate petal, revealing unique and unforgettable love stories that span across time, place, and circumstance.From the sun-kissed beaches of a tropical paradise to the bustling streets of a bustling metropolis, "Romantic Reverie" sweeps readers...
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This assortment of quick-read pieces is perfect for those with busy lifestyles, small attention spans, for those who love short stories, poems, monologues, or for those who just love reading and want to add another book to their collection. The works in this book are all unique and grab you in right away. Some will jerk your tears, while others will make you want to scream out in anger; this really is a rollercoaster of literary works and will surprise...
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As the Great War raged along in 1916, Wells turned his prophetic eye towards the future. Topics considered include the law, the media, the new map of Europe, the roles of the United States, Russia, and France, the outlook for Germany, the "white man's burden," and the prospects for European socialism.
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Collected here are all of Lucian's major works. This includes his satires, dialogues, apologias, essays, and proto-novels. Lucian's sharp wit and searing criticisms are heightened by his exacting and eloquent style. He could move effortlessly from the bawdy to the supremely sophisticated, touching on all strata of the ancient intellect. His extensive traveling across Europe further influenced and developed his writing. Lucian's eccentric prose pieces...
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Edited by Shelly Oria-author and editor of Indelible in the Hippocampus-this explosive, intersectional collection of essays, fiction, poems, plays, and more, explores the universality of human reproductive experiences, as well as their distinct individuality.
Twenty-eight contributors examine issues both timely and, somehow, timeless: policing of women's bodies, the choice to live child-free lives, the lack of access to reproductive health, the misogyny,...
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This 1910 collection of essays on literature, history, and culture by the distinguished English poet includes the title essay as well as "Percy and Goldsmith," "Mr. Craddock of Gumley," "Sir John Hawkins, Knight," "Laureate Whitehead," "Lyttleton as a Man of Letters," "Chambers the Architect," "The Oxford Thackeray," and others.
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A labor of love taking much of Burton's life to write and revise, "The Anatomy of Melancholy" is an expansive, informative, and eccentric work of genius first published in 1621. Burton was an English churchman and a scholar, and his depth and breadth of knowledge is readily apparent in this inexhaustible book. Through the frame of a medical treatise, Burton begins with melancholy and slowly deals with various mental states, frequently digressing with...
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La peor consecuencia del exilio es acaso la condena a vivir en el pasado. A añorar personas y circunstancias que ya no son como eran. A pensar incesantemente en un regreso que el paso del tiempo va volviendo impracticable. En esta novela a la vez vigorosa y sutil, Shenaz Patel presenta con empatía la condición de los desterrados de las islas Chagos, en el océano Índico, a través de la mirada de tres personajes memorables: Charlesia, la rebelde...
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Carrasquilla, afirma Mr. Thompson (el crítico inglés inventado por Jorge Zalamea), es un "escritor en puja con la vida, acepta su misión de creador alegremente, como un dios benévolo que, aparte de no tomarse a sí mismo muy en serio, no acierta a escandalizarse demasiado de los defectos de sus criaturas [...]. Esta alegría de Carrasquilla es el primer secreto de su profunda humanidad y de la universalidad de sus criaturas". Los cuentos que componen...
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¿Te gustaría liberarte de los pensamientos que te limitan, te angustian o te hacen sufrir? ¿Quieres aprender a crear nuevos pensamientos que te inspiren, te motiven y te llenen de energía? ¿Te interesa conocer cómo la destrucción y la creación de tus pensamientos más profundos pueden transformar tu realidad?Si la respuesta es sí, este libro es para ti. En él, el autor te propone un método revolucionario para cambiar tu forma de pensar...
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Butler's first book, published in 1863, is a lively compilation of letters that he sent to his family while working as a sheep farmer in New Zealand for several years. Financed and edited into book form by Butler's father, it is a spirited account of Butler's experiences on the frontier. This volume also includes nineteen early essays on such varied topics as Darwin's "Origins of Species." "The Tempest," English cricketeers, the Italian priesthood,...
73) Not Yet Human
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"A concise statement of a principle; a terse formulation of a truth or sentiment." That's an aphorism, says Merriam-Webster's online dictionary. There are 750 of them in Not Yet Human! David L. Laing's mind overflows with images and ideas. Often that boundless creativity manifests as drawings, sometimes as articles, occasionally as novels. Most recently, hundreds of aphorisms have gushed forth, enough to fill four books. This is the first. The series...
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Outlaw bikers and 1%er motorcycle clubs have always carefully guarded their privacy, however in recent years more and more books have come to be written by and about outlaw bikers, the lifestyle, and the realities of life inside the patched motorcycle club world. This anthology brings together some of the best authors in the world, who have recently written about motorcycle clubs, outlaw bikers and the biker culture. It features excerpts from internationally...
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This book is a collection of nonfiction essays by Richard Maibaum commenting and reflecting on his thoughts about Broadway and Hollywood, particularly ideas about writing, story development, and the significance of characters. It reflects forty years of thinking on the subject, from the late 1940s through late 1980s, shortly before his passing.
It is the closest thing to a textbook that a writer of his stature and, as busy as he always was, could...
76) Mere Malarkey
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In 2019, Alan Good was, given a blogging account at Neutral Spaces, an ad-free website for independent writers, which prompted him to write in a new style, more personal, less polished. Mere Malarkey collects his Neutral Spaces pieces along with essays and reviews that appeared in Timothy McSweeney's Internet Tendency, Bookslut, and Atticus Review, as well as a handful of previously unpublished essays. From the impact of ska on his literary development,...
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Sounding the Whale is Christopher Sten's comprehensive account of his own close encounter with Moby-Dick. Originally a long, self-contained chapter in The Weaver-God, He Weaves: Melville and the Poetics of the Novel, just published by Kent State University Press, this chapter-by-chapter study of Moby-Dick evolved as a book within a book. Sten argues that Melville not only was familiar with the traditional forms of narrative but that he refined them...
78) Tierra nueva
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En Tierra nueva de Mario Escobar Velásquez, reencontramos al escritor ya conocido en otros libros suyos como En las lindes del bosque e Historias de animales, aparecen de nuevo sus dotes de observador minucioso y su talento descriptivo, capaces de retratar de manera inolvidable a las gentes, a los animales y el paisaje del Urabá de mediados del siglo XX.
El lenguaje de Mario Escobar, con sus modos tan propios, se pega al lector como las caricias...
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Set in the imaginary Igbo village, Iwu, this play tries the lowest fathoms of lunacy, and from there surveys a sane world; mocks the sanity of common-minded folk and quakes the strongholds of Time-weathering Customs! A comedy to our best, Forewarning to every beast; But lest we give too much away, We hold our peace, as ancients say!
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Written in the form of intimate letters, this 1915 collection covers a wide range of literary subjects, including Edgar Allan Poe, John Milton, the legend of Faust, Nietzsche, J. M. Barrie, Swinburne, Kipling, John Galsworthy, George Meredith, Anatole France, journalism, satire, mystics and pessimists, "A Publisher's Book Trade Dinner," and "On the Wisdom of Doing Nothing."
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