Her Voice Will be on the Side of Right: Gender and Power in Women's Antebellum Antislavery Fiction
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Decades before the Civil War, the free American public was gripped by increasingly acrimonious...
The Secret Agent's Bedside Reader: A Compendium of Spy Writing
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Espionage fact and fiction collide in this thrilling compendium of spy writing, where you'll fi nd...
Mary Shelley
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In the summer of 1816, aged nineteen, Mary Shelley wrote Frankenstein. A pioneering work of science...
Critical Muslim 04: Pakistan?
Ziauddin Sardar and Robin Yassin-Kassab
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Ziauddin Sardar questions the question mark that is always placed in front of Pakistan, Robin...
Insomniac Dreams: Experiments with Time
Vladimir Nabokov and Gennady Barabtarlo
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Nabokov's dream diary, published for the first time--and placed in biographical and literary context...
biography psychology
Beastly Journeys: Travel and Transformation at the Fin de Siecle
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Bats, beetles, wolves, butterflies, bulls, panthers, apes, leopards and spiders are among the...
Strange Breed: New Canadian Comedy
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In late 2014, in a commanding and condemning voice that brooked no argument, a devastating edict was...
The Big Rock Candy Mountain
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Bo Mason, his wife, Elsa, and their two boys live a transient life of poverty and despair. Drifting...
The President's Gardens
Muhsin Al-Ramli and Luke Leafgren
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One Hundred Years of Solitude meets The Kite Runner in Saddam Hussein's Iraq. "A contemporary...
Conversations With Friends
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A sharply intelligent novel about friendship, lust, jealousy, and the unexpected complications of...
Literary Fiction