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2023.
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This powerful story is told from the collective perspective of the children who were rescued from Czechoslovakia on the eve of World War II, as Hitler's campaign of hatred toward Jews and political dissidents took hold. The narrative starts in 1938 and follows the children as they journey to foster families in England for the duration of the war, return to Prague afterward in an unsuccessful search for their parents, and eventually connect with Nicholas...
2) Replay
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Tantor Media, Inc
Pub. Date
2008
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English
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A time-travel classic in the tradition of Jack Finney's Time and Again, Ken Grimwood's acclaimed novel Replay asks the provocative question: "What if you could live your life over again, knowing the mistakes you'd made before?" Forty-three-year-old Jeff Winston gets several chances to do just that. Trapped in a tepid marriage and a dead-end job, he dies in 1988 and wakes up to find himself in 1963, at the age of eighteen, staring at his dorm room...
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In poetry, there lies a canvas, a blank space to create a universe, where you cannot prepare yourself for any sets of unusual reality. A little imagination to mesmerize, inspiration is a significant different voice from art, philosophy, and religion. Poetry attempts to use consistent abstract thoughts to inspire words, which they fail to articulate. Keith Phillip sees poetry as a window to his own unpredictable self, willing to take risks, risking...
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"The Tenant of Wildfell Hall" is the second and final novel by the English author Anne Brontë. It was first published in 1848 under the pseudonym Acton Bell. Probably the most shocking of the Brontës' novels, it had an instant and phenomenal success, but after Anne's death her sister Charlotte prevented its re-publication. The novel is framed as a series of letters from Gilbert Markham to his friend and brother-in-law about the events leading to...
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"Jovita didn't want to cook and clean like her sisters, and she especially didn't want to wear the skirts her abuela gave her. She wanted to race her brothers and climb the tallest mesquite trees in Rancho Palos Blancos, ride horses, and wear pants! When her father and brothers joined the Cristeros War to fight for the right to practice religion, she wanted to help. She wasn't allowed to fight, but that didn't stop her from observing how her father...
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Maurice, a central text within the gay literary canon, is by far one of the bravest creative works written within the genre of LGBT literature, arguably, it is one of the bravest texts of the early twentieth century. The novel is an essence a BILDUNGSROMAN that traces the emotional development of the eponymous hero as he deals with the repercussions of being homosexual in Edwardian England. Although, written by E.M. Forster, during 1913-19 14, he...
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El tiburón ballena, a pesar de su nombre, no es una ballena sino el pez más grande del mundo. Se conoce como el gigante del mar. Aunque su tamaño es enorme, no es agresivo sino amigable y no ataca al ser humano. Tiene numerosos dientes y… ¡no puede masticar ni morder!
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What is it like to be a student nurse? What are the joys, the stresses, the transcendent moments, the fall-off-your-bed- laughing moments, and the terrors that have to be faced and stared down? And how might nurses, looking back, relate these experiences in ways that bring these memories to life again and provide historical context for how nursing education has changed and yet remained the same? In brave, revealing, and often humorous poetry and prose,...
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La Editorial EAFIT ha exaltado el género epistolar en su colección Rescates y en la Biblioteca Fernando González. Un género que hoy ha perdido su brillo gracias a la inmediatez de los mensajes electrónicos, pero que, traído a nosotros por familiares, amigos y destinatarios memoriosos que nos lo entregan en cartas amarilleadas por el tiempo, podemos mostrar al público más joven con su belleza y la gran significación
que tiene para la historia...
11) Cena de cenizas
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En esta novela hay una torre, una computadora central y hombres acaudalados que ejercen el poder; hay una mujer que accede a la torre sin saber que su sola presencia será suficiente para producir el colapso del oscuro sistema que la torre protege. La trama de Cena de cenizas es compleja, nos hace sentir en un laberinto, en un acertijo cuya única regla parece ser la incongruencia: adversarios que son aliados, maternidades atípicas y contradictorias,...
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Create authentic Heroines for script and film that women of all ages believe in.
Tired of seeing inauthentic Heroine's dressed up in sex costumes and playing a man's role? Done with the Princess that is waiting to be saved by her Prince Charming? Denise Ross has a Master's Degree in Film as it relates to the Heroine's Journey and she will guide you through the feminine journey to create characters that females can and will relate to. Yes, the Heroine's...
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"Honorable Mention for the 2015 René Wellek Prize, American Comparative Literature Association" Rivkah Zim teaches early modern English and comparative literature at King's College London. She is the author of English Metrical Psalms: Poetry as Praise and Prayer, 1535–1601.
Why writing in captivity is a vitally important form of literary resistance
Boethius wrote The Consolation of Philosophy as a prisoner condemned to death for treason, circumstances...
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The first great English poet was the father of English tragedy and the creator of English blank verse. Chaucer and Spenser were great writers and great men: they shared between them every gift which goes to the making of a poet except the one which alone can make a poet, in the proper sense of the word, great. Neither pathos nor humor nor fancy nor invention will suffice for that: no poet is great as a poet whom no one could ever pretend to recognize...
15) Nerissa's Ring
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Nerissa's Ring is the last two words of William Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice.
It is "upside down" because the merchants in the play were on a pilgrimage from Venice to Belmont, the home of the queenly princess, Portia, whose assistant was Nerissa. Shakespeare asserts that one can get from Venice to Belmont either by land or by sea. It turns out Belmonte is an inland town in northeastern Portugal which fits that geography.
Furthermore, today's...
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El panorama más amplio del patrimonio literario universal.
La célebre Historia de la literatura universal es la más completa y lúcida síntesis que existe en castellano sobre las literaturas de todas las épocas, desde sus más remotos orígenes hasta las puertas del siglo XXI. Con una prosa ágil y un sugestivo espíritu crítico, Martín de Riquer y Jose María Valverde ofrecen un análisis profundo de los principales escritores y obras, al...
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The influential and controversial critic takes literary history out of the classroom and into the public
In the field of literary history and theory, Franco Moretti is synonymous with innovation. The cofounder of the Stanford Literary Lab, he brought quantitative methods into the study of the novel, enabling a "distant" reading that uses computation to analyze literary production over centuries. But at the same time, he was also teaching undergraduates...
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Erich Auerbach (1892–1957) was Sterling Professor of Romance Languages at Yale University. He is widely recognized as one of the foundational figures of comparative literature. Edward W. Said (1935–2003) was professor of literature at Columbia University and the author of Orientalism.
The classic book that has taught generations how to read Western literature
More than half a century after its translation into English, Erich Auerbach's Mimesis...
19) Escribir ficción
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Wharton, la primera mujer en recibir el prestigioso Premio Pulitzer y, seguramente, la novelista norteamericana más importante de su generación, publicó en la revista Scribner's a mediados de los años veinte una serie de ensayos dedicados a la técnica, la práctica y el oficio de la creación literaria. Escribir ficción es una brillante aproximación a las claves de la ficción moderna, en el que, con sencillez y rigor, desgrana técnicas y...
20) Pasadizos
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Entre un libro y otro libro, entre una obra de arte y otra, entre los conceptos estéticos y los literarios, existen pasadizos; pasajes subterráneos conocidos unas veces, secretos en la mayoría.
Este ensayo toma la forma de una linterna, para abrirse paso por esos corredores. Dice Paul De Man en Visión y ceguera que "la modernidad existe en la forma de un deseo de borrar todo lo que vino antes, con la esperanza de llegar a un punto final que pueda...
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