Finally restored to its original state, this is the most authoritative paperback version of Helen Keller's classic now available.<BR>The story of Helen Keller, who triumphed over deafness and blindness and became "a symbol of the indomitable human spirit," is now considered one of the "hundred most ...
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Although Henry Wadsworth Longfellow did not originally write "Evangeline" in French, the beautiful language is perfectly suited for the story, and, in fact, would have been the mother tongue of Evangeline herself.
Wally Lamb, author of the beloved bestselling novels I'VE COME UNDONE and I KNOW THIS MUCH IS TRUE moonlights as a creative-writing teacher at the York Maximum Security Prison for Women in Connecticut. I'LL FLY AWAY is the second collection of his students' works (after I COULDN'T KEEP IT TO MYSELF) ...
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Three children--Roberta, Peter, and Phyllis--use their courage and resourcefulness to stop a train accident and to free their father, wrongfully imprisoned for selling state secrets to the enemy.
<P style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 2.25pt"><I>The Longman Anthology of British Literature</I> is the most comprehensive and thoughtfully arranged text in the field, offering a rich selection of compelling British authors through the ages. </P> <P style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 2.25pt">With its first edition, The <I>L ...
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An American family moves into Canterville Chase, rumored to be a haunted house. But the skeptical Americans do not believe in ghosts--not, that is, until their daughter Virginia disappears after a series of uncanny incidents. Full color.
An immediate success upon its first publication in 1898, Wild Animals I Have Known gave the animal story a new credibility and power as a literary genre. It remains Seton's best-known work Seton's portrayal of nature is a fascinating reflection of his time: Romanticism is tempered by scientific obse ...
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One hundred seventeen gems by Longfellow, Tennyson, Browning, many lesser-known poets. "The Village Blacksmith," "Curfew Must Not Ring Tonight," "Only a Baby Small," dozens more.
A new collection of writings from the members of the author's program in Connecticut's York Correctional Facility features pieces by twenty women who describe the experiences that shaped their lives as well as the lessons they have learned about the power of the written word. By the author of <IT>Co ...
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Challenges the psychoanalytic perspective usually taken to critique Woolf's work, and offers instead a psychobiography that shows how Woolf used her manic depressive illness to probe into the creative process.
A year’s worth of the most powerful, the most startling, the smartest and most astute…<br><br>“Ciudad de la Muerte” by Cecilia Balli, from <i>Texas Monthly</i> <br>“Code of Dishonor” by Clara Bingham, from <i>Vanity Fair<br></i>“Lord of the Drug Ring” ...
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While the Black Death rages through 14th-century Florence, ten people in a country house outside the city pass ten days by telling each other stories. Each person tells one tale on a designated topic each day, making for 100 stories in all. The tales encompass many sides of human nature, from the ri ...
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Anna Leath, the American widow of a Frenchman, discovers that the man she is now engaged to has been the lover of her stepson's fiance, who is also her daughter's governess. This book explores the consequences of acting on one's sexual impulses.
"Civil Disobedience," Thoreau's 1849 essay, justifies his decision to go to jail rather than pay a poll tax that supported the Mexican War. The opening lines are often quoted: "I heartily accept the motto, 'That government is best which governs least'; and I should like to see it acted up to more ra ...
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Writings by twenty-one Nobel laureates from the past quarter century reflect their inspirations, motivations, and passionately held beliefs, from Harold Pinter's reflections on the nature of truth in art and politics, to J. M. Coetzee's allegorical journey through the creative process, to Toni Morri ...
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