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  • Folktales of Newfoundland (RLE Folklore)

    The Resilience of the Oral Tradition

    by Herbert Halpert, J.D.A. Widdowson ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Folklore
    This collection of Newfoundland folk narratives, first published in 1996, grew out of extensive fieldwork in folk culture in the province. The intention was to collect as broad a spectrum of traditional material as possible, and Folktales of Newfoundland is notable not only for the number and quality of its narratives, but also for the format in which they are presented. A special transcription ... Read more

    $104.99 USD

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  • The Mother Tongue

    English and How it Got that Way

    by Bill Bryson ...
    “Vastly informative and vastly entertaining…A scholarly and fascinating book.” —Los Angeles TimesWith dazzling wit and astonishing insight, Bill Bryson explores the remarkable history, eccentricities, resilience and sheer fun of the English language.From the first descent of the larynx into the throat (why you can talk but your dog can’t), to the fine lost art of swearing, Bryson explores English ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

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  • The Outlandish Companion (Revised and Updated)

    Companion to Outlander, Dragonfly in Amber, Voyager, and Drums of Autumn

    by Diana Gabaldon ...
    Series series Outlander
    Perfect for readers of the bestselling Outlander novels—and don’t miss The Outlandish Companion Volume Two!#1 New York Times bestselling author Diana Gabaldon has captivated millions of readers with her critically acclaimed Outlander novels, the inspiration for the Starz original series. From the moment Claire Randall stepped through a standing stone circle and was thrown back in time to the year ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • The Outlandish Companion Volume Two

    The Companion to The Fiery Cross, A Breath of Snow and Ashes, An Echo in the Bone, and Written in My Own Heart's Blood

    by Diana Gabaldon ...
    Series series Outlander
    Perfect readers of the bestselling Outlander novels—and don’t miss the revised and updated first volume of The Outlandish Companion!More than a decade ago, #1 New York Times bestselling author Diana Gabaldon delighted her legions of fans with The Outlandish Companion, an indispensable guide to all the Outlander books at the time. But that edition was just a taste of things to come. Since that ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • A Secret Vice

    Tolkien on Invented Languages

    by J. R. R. Tolkien ...
    First ever critical study of Tolkien’s little-known essay, which reveals how language invention shaped the creation of Middle-earth and beyond, to George R R Martin’s Game of Thrones.J.R.R. Tolkien’s linguistic invention was a fundamental part of his artistic output, to the extent that later on in life he attributed the existence of his mythology to the desire to give his languages a home and ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Scottish Traditional Tales

    Edited by Alan Bruford, Donald A. Macdonald ...
    All over the world traditional tales used to be told at the fireseide until their place came to be taken by books, newspapers, radio and television. This is an entertaining collection from Scotland, recorded and collected by researchers from the School of Scottish Studies at Edinburgh University over the past fifty years. Taken from a variety of sources, from the Hebridean Gaelic tradition to ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Annotated African American Folktales

    Edited by Henry Louis Gates Jr., Maria Tatar ...
    Series series The Annotated Books
    Winner • NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work (Fiction)Winner • Anne Izard Storytellers’ Choice AwardHoliday Gift Guide Selection • Indiewire, San Francisco Chronicle, and Minneapolis Star-TribuneThese nearly 150 African American folktales animate our past and reclaim a lost cultural legacy to redefine American literature.Drawing from the great folklorists of the past while expanding ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

  • Folktales of England

    by Richard M. Dorson ...
    Series series Folktales of the World
    "The most satisfactory general collection of folktales to come out of England since the advent of modern collection and classification techniques."— Journal of American FolkloreTales of unnatural beings, curses, and ghosts, tall tales, shaggy dog stories—this collection from a renowned British folklorist offers a wide historical range, as well as commentaries. If wonder tales are not as abundant ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Watkins Book of English Folktales

    by Neil Philip ...
    This is a golden treasury of over one hundred English folktales captured in the form they were first collected in past centuries. Read these classic tales as they would have been told when storytelling was a living art – when the audience believed in boggarts and hobgoblins, local witches and will-o’-the-wisps, ghosts and giants, cunning foxes and royal frogs. Find “Jack the Giantkiller”, “Tom Tit ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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  • The Story of Be

    A Verb's-Eye View of the English Language

    by David Crystal ...
    It's the most simple, unassuming, innocent-looking verb: 'to be'. Yet it is jam-packed with more different meanings, forms, and uses than any other English word. As he reveals be's multiple incarnations, David Crystal takes us to the heart of our flexible and changing language. He tells the intriguing story in 26 chapters, each linked to a particular usage. We meet circumstantial be ('how are you? ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • A Kierkegaardian Reading of David Foster Wallace

    by Matthew Campora ...
    This work explores the fiction of David Foster Wallace through frameworks developed by nineteenth century Danish philosopher Soren Kierkegaard to foreground the similarities in their approaches to the problem of irony, as well as in their strategies for overcoming the cynicism they believe it often produces. Kierkegaard's thesis, "The Concept of Irony: With Continual Reference to Socrates" is the ... Read more

    $5.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Cambridge Companion to Alice Munro

    Edited by David Staines ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    This Companion is a thorough introduction to the writings of the Nobel Prize winner Alice Munro. Uniting the talents of distinguished creative writers and noted academics, David Staines has put together a comprehensive, exploratory account of Munro's biography, her position as a feminist, her evocation of life in small-town Ontario, her non-fictional writings as well as her short stories, and her ... Read more

    $28.69 USD