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The Professor and Other Writings

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“[Terry Castle is] the most expressive, most enlightening literary critic at large today.” —Susan SontagFrom one of America’s most brilliant critics and cultural commentators, Terry Castle, comes The Professor and Other Writings: a collection of startling, gorgeously-written autobiographical essays and a new, long-form piece about the devastation and beauty of early love. James Wolcott, ... Read more

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“[Terry Castle is] the most expressive, most enlightening literary critic at large today.” —Susan SontagFrom one of America’s most brilliant critics and cultural commentators, Terry Castle, comes The Professor and Other Writings: a collection of startling, gorgeously-written autobiographical essays and a new, long-form piece about the devastation and beauty of early love. James Wolcott,
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The Professor and Other Writings

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"[Terry Castle is] the most expressive, most enlightening literary critic at large today." —Susan SontagFrom one of America's most brilliant critics and cultural commentators, Terry Castle, comes The Professor and Other Writings: a collection of startling, gorgeously-written autobiographical essays and a new, long-form piece about the devastation and beauty of early love. James Wolcott, ... Read more

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"[Terry Castle is] the most expressive, most enlightening literary critic at large today." —Susan SontagFrom one of America's most brilliant critics and cultural commentators, Terry Castle, comes The Professor and Other Writings: a collection of startling, gorgeously-written autobiographical essays and a new, long-form piece about the devastation and beauty of early love. James Wolcott,
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Clarissa's Ciphers

Meaning and Disruption in Richardson's Clarissa

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As Samuel Richardson's 'exemplar to her sex,' Clarissa in the eponymous novel published in 1748 is the paradigmatic female victim. In Clarissa's Ciphers, Terry Castle delineates the ways in which, in a world where only voice carries authority, Clarissa is repeatedly silenced, both metaphorically and literally. A victim of rape, she is first a victim of hermeneutic abuse. Drawing on feminist ... Read more

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As Samuel Richardson's 'exemplar to her sex,' Clarissa in the eponymous novel published in 1748 is the paradigmatic female victim. In Clarissa's Ciphers, Terry Castle delineates the ways in which, in a world where only voice carries authority, Clarissa is repeatedly silenced, both metaphorically and literally. A victim of rape, she is first a victim of hermeneutic abuse. Drawing on feminist
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Boss Ladies, Watch Out!

Essays on Women, Sex and Writing

by Terry Castle ...

A new collection of essays on literature and sexuality by one of the wittiest and most iconoclastic critics writing today. ... Read more

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A new collection of essays on literature and sexuality by one of the wittiest and most iconoclastic critics writing today.
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Victorine

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Victorine is thirteen, and she can’t get the unwanted surprise of her newly sexual body, in all its polymorphous and perverse insistence, out of her mind: it is a trap lying in wait for her at every turn (and nowhere, for some reason, more than in church). Meanwhile, Victorine’s older brother Costello is struggling to hold his own against the overbearing, mean-spirited, utterly ghastly Hector L ... Read more

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Victorine is thirteen, and she can’t get the unwanted surprise of her newly sexual body, in all its polymorphous and perverse insistence, out of her mind: it is a trap lying in wait for her at every turn (and nowhere, for some reason, more than in church). Meanwhile, Victorine’s older brother Costello is struggling to hold his own against the overbearing, mean-spirited, utterly ghastly Hector L
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The Mysteries of Udolpho

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`Her present life appeared like the dream of a distempered imagination, or like one of those frightful fictions, in which the wild genius of the poets sometimes delighted. Rreflections brought only regret, and anticipation terror.' Such is the state of mind in which Emily St. Aubuert - the orphaned heroine of Ann Radcliffe's 1794 gothic Classic, The Mysteries of Udolpho - finds herself after Count ... Read more

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`Her present life appeared like the dream of a distempered imagination, or like one of those frightful fictions, in which the wild genius of the poets sometimes delighted. Rreflections brought only regret, and anticipation terror.' Such is the state of mind in which Emily St. Aubuert - the orphaned heroine of Ann Radcliffe's 1794 gothic Classic, The Mysteries of Udolpho - finds herself after Count
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A Visit from the Goon Squad

Pulitzer Prize Winner

by Jennifer Egan ...

Narrated by Roxana Ortega ...

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10 hours 7 min

PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE WINNER • With music pulsing on every page, this startling, exhilarating novel of self-destruction and redemption “features characters about whom you come to care deeply as you watch them doing things they shouldn't, acting gloriously, infuriatingly human” (The Chicago Tribune).One of the New York Times’s 100 Best Books of ... Read more

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PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE WINNER • With music pulsing on every page, this startling, exhilarating novel of self-destruction and redemption “features characters about whom you come to care deeply as you watch them doing things they shouldn't, acting gloriously, infuriatingly human” (The Chicago Tribune).One of the New York Times’s 100 Best Books of
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The Italian

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Set against the backdrop of the Inquisition, this Gothic romance from British novelist Ann Radcliffe is sure to please fans of the genre. Protagonists Vincentio di Vivaldi and Ellena di Rosalba fall in love at first sight and attempt to escape the siege of religious persecution and marry. Will they succeed, or will their romance fall prey to the hysteria and senseless destruction that defines the ... Read more

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Set against the backdrop of the Inquisition, this Gothic romance from British novelist Ann Radcliffe is sure to please fans of the genre. Protagonists Vincentio di Vivaldi and Ellena di Rosalba fall in love at first sight and attempt to escape the siege of religious persecution and marry. Will they succeed, or will their romance fall prey to the hysteria and senseless destruction that defines the
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The Castle of Otranto

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In a remote Italian castle, the heir to the lordship of Otranto meets a tragic fate when a massive helmet falls from the sky and crushes him on his wedding day. This mysterious event sets off a chain of supernatural occurrences and sinister schemes as the tyrannical Lord Manfred, desperate to maintain his grip on power, seeks to secure the castle and its fortunes.Horace Walpole's The Castle of ... Read more

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In a remote Italian castle, the heir to the lordship of Otranto meets a tragic fate when a massive helmet falls from the sky and crushes him on his wedding day. This mysterious event sets off a chain of supernatural occurrences and sinister schemes as the tyrannical Lord Manfred, desperate to maintain his grip on power, seeks to secure the castle and its fortunes.Horace Walpole's The Castle of
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The Monk

Exploring the Depths of Human Desires and Dark Consequences

by M. G. Lewis ...

Published in 1796, M.G. Lewis'Äôs 'The Monk' stands as a seminal work of Gothic fiction, weaving a complex tapestry of intrigue, passion, and religious ambivalence. The narrative follows the tragic figure of Ambrosio, a pious monk whose descent into depravity is orchestrated by the machinations of a mysterious figure. Lewis employs rich, evocative prose interlaced with sensuous imagery and an ... Read more

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Published in 1796, M.G. Lewis'Äôs 'The Monk' stands as a seminal work of Gothic fiction, weaving a complex tapestry of intrigue, passion, and religious ambivalence. The narrative follows the tragic figure of Ambrosio, a pious monk whose descent into depravity is orchestrated by the machinations of a mysterious figure. Lewis employs rich, evocative prose interlaced with sensuous imagery and an
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The Romance of the Forest - Illustrated

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by Ann Radcliffe ...

Original text of the first edition, unabridged and carefully revised, and supplemented by numerous contemporary illustrations from early editions. "Adeline, a young orphan, by mysterious ways comes into the care of Pierre de la Mottes, an impoverished nobleman who is fleeing the long arm of the law with his family. In a secluded, dilapidated abbey in the middle of a dark forest, the refugees find ... Read more

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Original text of the first edition, unabridged and carefully revised, and supplemented by numerous contemporary illustrations from early editions. "Adeline, a young orphan, by mysterious ways comes into the care of Pierre de la Mottes, an impoverished nobleman who is fleeing the long arm of the law with his family. In a secluded, dilapidated abbey in the middle of a dark forest, the refugees find
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The Female Quixote

by Charlotte Lennox ...

Beautiful and independent, Arabella has been brought up in rural seclusion by her widowed father. Devoted to reading French romances, the sheltered young woman imagines all sorts of misadventures that can befall a heroine such as herself. As she makes forays into fashionable society in Bath and London, many scrapes and mortifications ensue - all men seem like predators wishing to ravish her, she ... Read more

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Beautiful and independent, Arabella has been brought up in rural seclusion by her widowed father. Devoted to reading French romances, the sheltered young woman imagines all sorts of misadventures that can befall a heroine such as herself. As she makes forays into fashionable society in Bath and London, many scrapes and mortifications ensue - all men seem like predators wishing to ravish her, she
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