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  • Elsa Morante's Politics of Writing

    Rethinking Subjectivity, History, and the Power of Art

    by Claude Cazalé Bérard, Sarah Carey, Flavia Cartoni, Gandolfo Cascio, Francesco Chillemi, Giovanna De Luca, Manuele Gragnolati, Thomas Harrison, Claudia Karagoz, Kenise Lyons, Gaetana Marrone, Daniele Morante, Maria Morelli, Gabrielle Orsi, Lorenzo Salvagni, Hanna Serkowska, Katrin Wehling-Giorgi, Sharon Wood, Giuliana Zagra, Saskia Ziolkowski ...
    Elsa Morante’s Politics of Writing is a collected volume of twenty-one essays written by Morante specialists and international scholars. Essays gather attention on four broad critical topics, namely the relationship Morante entertained with the arts, cinema, theatre, and the visual arts; new critical approaches to her four novels; treatment of body and sexual politics; and Morante’s prophetic ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Resistance, Heroism, Loss

    World War II in Italian Literature and Film

    by Thomas Cragin, Laura A. Salsini, Gabrielle Orsi, Virginia Picchietti, Rebecca Bauman, Angela Boscolo Berto, Gianluca Fantoni, Simonetta Milli Konewko, Barbara Zaczek0 ...
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    In no other country in Europe has national identity been so closely bound to memories of the war. Italy’s Republic was born of World War II, its constitution defined by anti-Fascism, its parties self-identified with national Resistance. Because of their importance to the nation’s identity, the nature and meaning of the war have been the focus of great contention, from 1943 to the present day. In ... Read more

    $38.89 USD

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    Thinking About What Matters

    by Ursula K. Le Guin ...
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    $9.99 USD

  • The Greatest Ghost and Horror Stories Ever Written: volume 2 (30 short stories)

    by M. R. James, E. F. Benson, Ambrose Bierce, Algernon Blackwood, Robert W. Chambers, Walter De La Mare, H. P. Lovecraft, Edgar Allan Poe, Margaret Oliphant, A. M. Burrage, Vernon Lee, John Metcalfe, Vincent O’Sullivan, Clark Ashton Smith, Arthur Machen, Marjorie Bowen, Rudyard Kipling, Guy de Maupassant, Aleister Crowley, Perceval Landon, William Hope Hodgson ...
    Series Book 2 - The Greatest Ghost and Horror Stories Ever Written
    If you were looking for the Holy Bible of the horror anthologies, consider yourself lucky, because you just found it! Cosmic horror, supernatural events, ghost stories, weird fiction, mystical fantasies, occult narratives, this book plunges you into dark domains and brings you face to face with surreal monstrosities. This second volume of “The Greatest Ghost and Horror Stories Ever Written” ... Read more

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  • Short Sicilian Novels

    Novelle Rusticane

    by Giovanni Verga ...
    'Lawrence's translations of Verga's Sicilian short stories are classics in their genre, perfectly capturing their cunning fusion of artlessness, austere detachment and skilfully engineered spontaneity as well as retaining something of that lofty style for which Verga's Italian contemporaries so admired him. For seekers after the truth at the heart of Sicily's enigma, this is required reading.' The ... Read more

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  • The New York Stories of Elizabeth Hardwick

    by Elizabeth Hardwick ...
    Elizabeth Hardwick was one of America’s great postwar women of letters, celebrated as a novelist and as an essayist. Until now, however, her slim but remarkable achievement as a writer of short stories has remained largely hidden, with her work tucked away in the pages of the periodicals—such asPartisan Review, The New Yorker, and The New York Review of Books—in which it originally appeared. This ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Lady Bug, Lady Bug, Fly Away Home

    Women's Stories

    Edited by Allan Forrie ...
    In a literary collection unlike any other, Thistledown Press brings together short fiction by women and about women. Readers interested in women’s perspectives will be drawn in by unique takes on the female experience provided in these ten short stories by Canadian women writers. Fiercely independent career women, sisters who butt heads, children who discover the complexities of adult life for the ... Read more

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  • I Was Trying to Describe What it Feels Like

    New and Selected Stories

    by Noy Holland ...
    "These new and selected stories testify to the fact that there are still fine short story writers out there, doing the hard job of serious literary production in our age of tweets and memes...Holland's language is challenging, elliptical, bristling with sensations and resounding with the interior lives of complicated, recognizable people." —The New York Times Book ReviewIn the twenty years since ... Read more

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  • The Little Virtues

    by Natalia Ginzburg ...
    “As far as the education of children is concerned,” states Natalia Ginzburg in this collection of her finest and best-known short essays, “I think they should be taught not the little virtues but the great ones. Not thrift but generosity and an indifference to money; not caution but courage and a contempt for danger; not shrewdness but frankness and a love of truth; not tact but a love of one’s ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Life in Cardigans

    by Val Fraser ...
    Life in Cardigans is a rich collection of stories each inspired by at least one cardigan and the wearer. From the beautiful hand knitted creation gifted from a special auntie to the mass produced synthetic rag worn only for cleaning and painting, these touching and often funny stories discover worth and meaning in something as ordinary as a cardigan. If you love cardigans you'll be right at home ... Read more

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  • Bag Ladies: Unpacked

    Real Women who have Journeyed Beyond the Baggage of their Past

    by Kimberly A. Cullen, Rachel Renee ...
    Bag Ladies: Unpacked, a stage play by Kimberly A. Cullen, is an exhibit of women's life stories and the baggage we may carry spiritually and emotionally, from past and present crises to generational curses. It depicts how the baggage we carry can be the weight that prevents us from moving forward in life and growing in love. Eventually we start to unpack those emotions and insecurities on the ones ... Read more

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  • Disarm: A Gun Sense Anthology

    Black Heart Has Issues, #2

    by Black Heart Magazine ...
    Series Book 2 - Black Heart Has Issues
    "We cannot get rid of mankind's fleetingly wicked wishes. We can get rid of the machines that make them come true. I give you a holy word: DISARM."–Kurt Vonnegut, Deadeye Dick___As the U.S. continues to simmer with violence, and mass-shootings continue to pile bodies into graves at an alarming rate, it's time to take action.No more "thoughts and prayers."No more fuzzy sentiments.No more excuses.No ... Read more

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