Category: Literary

By Miriam B. Mandel

ISBN-10: 1571132023

ISBN-13: 9781571132024

ISBN-10: 157113638X

ISBN-13: 9781571136381

Released in 1932, demise within the Afternoon unearths its writer on the peak of his highbrow and stylistic powers. through that point, Hemingway had already gained serious and renowned popularity of his brief tales and novels of the overdue twenties. A mature and self-confident artist, he now risked his profession by way of switching from fiction to nonfiction, from American characters to Spanish bullfighters, from unique and romantic settings to the harsh global of the Spanish bullring, an international that would appear scary or even repellant to people who do not realize it. Hemingway's nonfiction has been denied the eye that his novels and brief tales have loved, a situation this spouse seeks to treatment, breaking new floor by way of employing theoretical and significant methods to a piece of nonfiction. It does so in unique essays that provide an intensive, balanced exam of a fancy, boundary-breaking, and hitherto ignored textual content. the quantity is damaged into sections facing: the composition, reception, and assets of I>Death within the Afternoon; cultural translation, cultural feedback, semiotics, and paratextual concerns; and the problems of artwork, authorship, viewers, and the literary legacy of demise within the Afternoon. The members to the quantity, 4 males and 7 girls, lay to relaxation the stereotype of Hemingway as a macho author whom girls don't learn; and their nationalities (British, Spanish, American, and Israeli) point out that dying within the Afternoon, while it makes a speciality of a specific nationwide paintings, discusses concerns of common concern.Contributors: Miriam B. Mandel, Robert W. Trogdon, Lisa Tyler, Linda Wagner-Martin, Peter Messent, Beatriz Penas Ibáñez, Anthony model, Nancy Bredendick, Hilary Justice, Amy Vondrak, and Keneth Kinnamon..

By Anna Cora Ogden Mowatt Ritchie

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By Susan Vreeland

ISBN-10: 0679604510

ISBN-13: 9780679604518

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It’s 1893, and on the Chicago World’s reasonable, Louis convenience Tiffany makes his debut with a luminous exhibition of cutting edge stained-glass home windows that he hopes will earn him a spot at the overseas creative degree. yet behind the curtain in his big apple studio is the freethinking Clara Driscoll, head of his women’s department, who conceives of and designs the majority of the enduring leaded-glass lamps for which Tiffany will lengthy be remembered. by no means publicly said, Clara struggles together with her hope for creative acceptance and the doubtless insurmountable demanding situations that she faces as a qualified girl. She additionally yearns for romance and companionship, and is dedicated in several how one can 5 males, together with Tiffany, who enforces a strict coverage: He doesn't hire married ladies. eventually, Clara needs to make a decision what makes her happiest—the expert international of her arms or the non-public international of her heart.

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By Heinrich Schneider

ISBN-10: 0548075611

ISBN-13: 9780548075616

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By Muriel Spark

"Long in the past in 1945 the entire great humans in England have been terrible, taking into account exceptions," starts off The women of narrow Means, Dame Muriel Spark's tragic and rapier-witted portrait of a London girls' hostel simply rising from the shadow of global battle II.

just like the might of Teck membership itself―"three occasions window shattered on account that 1940 yet by no means without delay hit"―its woman population do their most sensible to behave as though the area have been again to basic: training elocution, and jostling over suitors and a unmarried Schiaparelli costume. The novel's harrowing finishing finds that the women' giddy literary and amorous peregrinations are hiding a few tragically painful battle wounds.

selected via Anthony Burgess as the most effective smooth Novels within the Sunday Times of London, The ladies of slim Means is a taut and eerily ideal novel via an writer The ny Times has referred to as "one of this century's most interesting creators of comic-metaphysical entertainment."

By S. Chandrasekhar

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By Agatha Christie, James Warwick

By Andre Norton

ISBN-10: 0449232646

ISBN-13: 9780449232644

In a global approximately destroyed by way of a cataclysmic ordinary catastrophe, a tender metalsmith leaves his personal humans to search out the various historic talents and information.

By Wu Ming, Shaun Whiteside

1775—The clash among the British Empire and the yank colonies erupts in all-out warfare. Rebels and loyalists to the British Crown compete for an alliance with the Six international locations of the Iroquois, the main robust Indian confederation, boasting a structure hundreds of thousands of years previous. within the Mohawk River Valley, local americans and colonists have co-existed for generations. yet because the thunder of battle techniques and the us struggles violently into lifestyles, outdated bonds are damaged, acquaintances and households are break up by means of betrayal, and this combined group is riven by way of hatred and resentment. to save lots of his threatened global, the Mohawk conflict leader Joseph Brant units off in a stressed trip that might take him from long island to the salons of Georgian London on the center of the British Empire.