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  • Nathaniel Hawthorne: Collected Novels (LOA #10) Blithedale Romance / Fanshawe / Marble Faun

    The Scarlet Letter / The House of Seven Gables / The Blithedale Romance / Fanshawe / The Marble Faun

    Series Book 2 - Library of America Nathaniel Hawthorne Edition
    The Library of America presents in one giftable collection all 5 of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s world-famous novels—including The House of the Seven Gables and The Scarlet Letter.Written in a richly suggestive style that seems remarkably contemporary, Nathaniel Hawthorne’s novels permeated by his own history as well as America’s.In The House of the Seven Gables, Nathaniel Hawthorne alludes to his ... Read more

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  • Shakespeare's Tragic Skepticism

    Readers of Shakespeare’s greatest tragedies have long noted the absence of readily explainable motivations for some of Shakespeare’s greatest characters: why does Hamlet delay his revenge for so long? Why does King Lear choose to renounce his power? Why is Othello so vulnerable to Iago’s malice? But while many critics have chosen to overlook these omissions or explain them away, Millicent Bell ... Read more

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  • The Cambridge Companion to Edith Wharton

    Edited by Millicent Bell ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    The Cambridge Companion to Edith Wharton offers a series of fresh examinations of Edith Wharton's fiction written both to meet the interest of the student or general reader who encounters this major American writer for the first time and to be valuable to advanced scholars looking for new insights into her creative achievement. The essays cover Wharton's most important novels as well as some of ... Read more

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    Crouchback/Chevalier/Paladin

    Series series The Welsh Guard Mysteries
    None could go against the King of England ... not overtly, anyway.April 1284. As a newly widowed lady-in-waiting to the very pregnant Queen Eleanor of England, Catrin never expected to return to Wales again. She was definitely unprepared to be confronted with murder when she got there-or to find herself face-to-face with Rhys, the childhood friend she lost twenty years before. Rhys had never ... Read more

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  • The Complete Benbow Smith Mysteries

    Fool Errant, Danger Calling, Walk with Care, and Down Under

    Series series The Benbow Smith Mysteries
    Cloak-and-dagger intrigue featuring an eccentric agent for Britain's Foreign Office from the author of the "timelessly charming" Miss Silver mysteries (Charlotte MacLeod).Named after three naval admirals, the enigmatic gentleman spy Benbow Collingwood Horatio Smith detests the sea and loves to indulge his beloved parrot, Ananias, all while protecting the fate of the Western world.Fool Errant: ... Read more

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  • Ursula K. Le Guin: The Complete Orsinia (LOA #281)

    Malafrena / Stories and Songs

    Series Book 1 - Library of America Ursula K. Le Guin Edition
    Library of America gathers for the first time the entire body of work set in the imaginary central European nation of Orsinia—the enchanting, richly imagined historical fiction series written by Hugo, Nebula, and National Book Award winner Ursula K. Le Guin.In a career spanning half a century, Ursula K. Le Guin has produced a body of work that testifies to her abiding faith in the power and art of ... Read more

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  • Those Barren Leaves

    by Aldous Huxley ...
    Those Barren Leaves is a satirical novel by Aldous Huxley, published in 1925. The title is derived from the poem 'The Tables Turned' by William Wordsworth which ends with the words: Enough of Science and of Art; Close up those barren leaves; Come forth, and bring with you a heart That watches and receives. Stripping the pretensions of those who claim a spot among the cultural elite, it is the ... Read more

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  • The Atheist's Bible

    The Most Dangerous Book That Never Existed

    Translated by Lys Ann Weiss ...
    This intellectual history of a rumored book of heresy reveals a persistent undercurrent of atheism from the Middle Ages into the 18th century.In 1239, Pope Gregory IX accused Frederick II, the Holy Roman Emperor, of heresy. Without disclosing evidence of any kind, Gregory announced that Frederick had written a supremely blasphemous book— De tribus impostoribus, or the Treatise of the Three ... Read more

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  • Mark Twain: Collected Tales, Sketches, Speeches, and Essays Vol. 1 1852-1890 (LOA #60)

    by Mark Twain ...
    Series Book 4 - Library of America Mark Twain Edition
    The most comprehensive Mark Twain collection—over 150 short stories, sketches, burlesques, hoaxes, tall tales, speeches, satires, and maxims from America’s greatest humorist.Arranged chronologically and containing many pieces restored to the form in which Twain intended them to appear, this special Library of America volume shows with unprecedented clarity the literary evolution of Mark Twain over ... Read more

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  • Life: A User's Manual

    by Georges Perec ...
    Translated by David Bellos ...
    Series series Verba Mundi International Literature Series
    The renowned French author's modern masterpiece: "one of the great novels of the century . . . on the level of Joyce, Proust, Mann, Kafka, and Nabokov" ( Boston Globe).Structured around a single moment in time—8:00 p.m. on June 23, 1975—Georges Perec's "elaborate jigsaw puzzle of a novel" begins in an apartment block in Paris where, chapter by chapter, room by room, a rich cast of characters is ... Read more

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  • Night and Day

    Night and Day' is a novel by Virginia Woolf, first published in 1919. Woolf, one of the foremost figures of modernist literature, is celebrated for her innovative narrative techniques, psychological insight, and exploration of gender and identity. Written soon after World War I, Night and Day belongs to her early period and reflects a more traditional style before she developed the experimental ... Read more

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  • Dragon's Revenge

    Letty Valdez Mystery #2

    by C.J. Shane ...
    Series Book 2 - Letty Valdez Mysteries
    Finalist for 2019 Best Fiction Mystery-Crime and Finalist for 2019 Best Multi-Cultural Book, NM-AZ Book Awards. When Tucson private detective and Iraq War vet Letty Valdez is hired to investigate a murder, she immediately finds herself targeted by a violent criminal. To find the killer, Letty turns to an old memoir of life in late 19th-century Tucson, Arizona. Clues in the memoir, with a tale of a ... Read more

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