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  • Castaway Tales

    From Robinson Crusoe to Life of Pi

    by Christopher Palmer ...
    A wide-ranging and appreciative literary history of the castaway tale from Defoe to the presentEver since Robinson Crusoe washed ashore, the castaway story has survived and prospered, inspiring a multitude of writers of adventure fiction to imitate and adapt its mythic elements. In his brilliant critical study of this popular genre, Christopher Palmer traces the castaway tales' history and changes ... Read more

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  • Napoleon (Summarized Edition)

    Enriched edition. From Corsican Origins to Exile on St. Helena: A Historical Biography of the French Emperor—European Conquests, Military Genius, Personality, Legacy

    by Alexandre Dumas, Christopher Palmer, Christopher Palmer ...
    Translated by John B. Larner ...
    In Napoleon, Alexandre Dumas crafts a brisk yet panoramic life of the Emperor, tracing Bonaparte's rise from Corsican outsider to architect of Empire and his eclipse on St Helena. Written in the energetic cadence of the feuilleton, the book fuses documentary extracts and novelistic tableaux—Austerlitz gleams, Moscow burns, the Hundred Days race. Dumas balances campaign narrative with civic ... Read more

    $1.99 USD

  • Renaissance in Italy (Summarized Edition)

    Enriched edition. Italian Renaissance politics, humanist learning, Medici art patronage, and the road from despotism to the Counter-Reformation

    by John Addington Symonds, Christopher Palmer, Christopher Palmer ...
    In seven volumes—The Age of the Despots; The Revival of Learning; The Fine Arts; Italian Literature I–II; The Catholic Reaction I–II—Symonds surveys the Italian Renaissance as a movement of bold statecraft, recovered letters, and new artistic vision. He blends biography with cultural analysis, quoting chronicles and treatises while linking city politics to philology, painting, and style. In ... Read more

    $1.99 USD

  • Queen Margot (Summarized Edition)

    Enriched edition. Noblewomen's Intrigue and Romance in 16th-Century Paris amid the Catholic-Protestant Wars and the Perils of French Court Politics

    by Alexandre Dumas, Christopher Palmer, Christopher Palmer ...
    Queen Margot opens amid the fraught wedding of Marguerite de Valois and Henry of Navarre, a fragile truce that precedes the St. Bartholomew's Day massacre. Dumas stages the Valois court as a theater of poison, daggers, and dossiers: Catherine de' Medici's machinations, the wary cunning of Navarre, and the perilous tenderness between the Protestant La Mole and the Catholic Coconnas. With feuilleton ... Read more

    $1.99 USD

  • Psychological Warfare (Summarized Edition)

    Enriched edition. White, Gray, and Black Propaganda from WWII to the Cold War and Today: Audience Analysis, Media, Timing, and Ethical Restraint

    by Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger, Christopher Palmer, Christopher Palmer ...
    Psychological Warfare distills the theory and practice of influencing minds in war with the clarity of a manual and the breadth of history. Linebarger distinguishes white, gray, and black propaganda; explains audience analysis, message design, timing, and media from leaflets to radio; and tests them against World War II and early Cold War cases. Lucid and unsentimental, the book helped codify ... Read more

    $1.99 USD

  • Tarr (Summarized Edition)

    Enriched edition. Expatriate Artists in Pre-War Paris: A Vorticist Comedy of Ego, Will, and Anti-Bourgeois Art

    by Wyndham Lewis, Christopher Palmer, Christopher Palmer ...
    Tarr, set amid the expatriate art circles of pre-war Paris, follows the sardonic English painter Frederick Tarr and his violent counterfigure, the German bohemian Otto Kreisler, in a comedy of manners that becomes a ruthless examination of ego, will, and the obligations of art. Lewis's prose is angular and facet-cut, deploying caricature and paradox to satirize both bohemia and bourgeois sentiment ... Read more

    $1.99 USD

  • Sons and Lovers (Summarized Edition)

    Enriched edition. Modernist coming‑of‑age in a Nottinghamshire mining town—Oedipal mother‑son bonds, desire, and class struggle in the shadow of the coalfields

    by D. H. Lawrence, Christopher Palmer, Christopher Palmer ...
    Sons and Lovers (1913) traces Paul Morel's coming-of-age in a Nottinghamshire mining community, mapping the psychic debts he owes to his gifted, thwarted mother, Gertrude, and the fractures in her marriage to the volatile miner Walter. Lawrence fuses naturalist social detail—the pit, domestic privation, class aspiration—with lyrical landscape writing and probing free indirect narration. The novel ... Read more

    $1.99 USD

  • Society in America (Summarized Edition)

    Enriched edition. An 1830s transatlantic inquiry into Jacksonian democracy, slavery, women's rights, religion, education, press, courts, and political economy

    by Harriet Martineau, Christopher Palmer, Christopher Palmer ...
    Society in America (Vol. 1 & 2) offers an empirically grounded survey of the United States in the 1830s, blending travel narrative with analysis. Martineau tests constitutional principles against practice, treating representative government, the judiciary, religious pluralism, education, the press, and political economy. With a sharp focus on slavery and the civil status of women, her clear prose ... Read more

    $1.99 USD

  • Daddy's Bunny Ears of Love

    by Christopher Palmer ...
    In a cozy burrow at the edge of a wildflower meadow, Benny Bunny grows up wrapped in love-especially from his devoted Daddy Bunny. From feeding and diaper changes to doctor visits and first days of school, Daddy Bunny is always there with comfort, care, and a special reminder: their bunny ears are shaped like hearts, a quiet symbol of love that's always present, even when they're apart.As Benny ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Black Tulip (Summarized Edition)

    Enriched edition. Tulip Mania in 17th-century Netherlands: political intrigue, cultural rivalry, a daring prison escape, and a high-stakes gardening contest.

    by Alexandre Dumas, Christopher Palmer, Christopher Palmer ...
    Set against the Dutch "Rampjaar" of 1672 and the lynching of the De Witt brothers, The Black Tulip entwines political terror with a horticultural quest. Cornelius van Baerle, wrongfully imprisoned in Loevestein, and Rosa Gryphus, the jailer's daughter, guard the fragile bulbs that may win Haarlem's prize for the first black tulip, while envious Isaac Boxtel plots theft. Dumas fuses the historical ... Read more

    $1.99 USD

  • Queen Margot (Summarized Edition)

    Enriched edition. Valois court intrigue amid the French Wars of Religion—Catherine de' Medici's plots, a perilous marriage, and the St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre.

    by Alexandre Dumas, Christopher Palmer, Christopher Palmer ...
    Set amid the French Wars of Religion, Queen Margot tracks the politicized marriage of Marguerite de Valois to the Huguenot Henry of Navarre and the carnage of the St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre. Dumas fuses court conspiracy—Catherine de' Medici's maneuvers, secret corridors, poison phials—with the romance of La Mole and Coconnas. Written in the swift, cliff‑hung cadence of the feuilleton yet ... Read more

    $1.99 USD

  • Castaway Tales

    From Robinson Crusoe to Life of Pi

    by Christopher Palmer ...
    Series series Early Classics of Science Fiction
    Ever since Robinson Crusoe washed ashore, the castaway story has survived and prospered, inspiring a multitude of writers of adventure fiction to imitate and adapt its mythic elements. In his brilliant critical study of this popular genre, Christopher Palmer traces the castaway tales' history and changes through periods of settlement, violence, and reconciliation, and across genres and languages. ... Read more

    $15.99 USD