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  • You Don't Say

    Modern American Inhibitions

    by Benjamin DeMott ...
    Series series Classics in Communication and Mass Culture Series
    In this era of political correctness, it is often impossible to say things as one would like. Indeed, certain ways of feeling and talking that were once acceptable are now, in effect, forbidden. Of course, taboos extend further than speech. Social and sexual inhibitions are also evident. Benjamin DeMott argues that the very least a society should do is to try to understand the meaning of its own ... Read more

    $46.71 CAD

  • Supergrow

    Essays and Reports on Imagination in America

    Edited by Benjamin DeMott ...
    Supergrow is a collection of fifteen essays that appeared between 1966 and 1969 in publications such as the American Scholar, the New York Times, Antioch Review, Esquire, and the Saturday Review. Author Benjamin DeMott discusses everything under the sun--music, improving one's sex life, violence in Mississippi, theater, student revolts--but a single theme unifies the material: people ought to use ... Read more

    $96.18 CAD

  • Of Human Bondage

    by W. Somerset Maugham, Maeve Binchy ...
    Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all time"It is very difficult for a writer of my generation, if he is honest, to pretend indifference to the work of Somerset Maugham," wrote Gore Vidal. "He was always so entirely there."Originally published in 1915, Of Human Bondage is a potent expression of the power of sexual obsession and of modern man's yearning for freedom. ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD

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  • America's Urban Crisis and the Advent of Color-Blind Politics

    Education, Incarceration, Segregation, and the Future of the U.S. Multiracial Democracy

    by Grace Lee Boggs, Benjamin DeMott, Erica Frankenberg, Andrew Grant-Thomas, Lani Guinier, Maria Hinojosa, Gary Howard, Colbert I. King, Marc Mauer, Trinh Minh-Ha, Michael Omi, John Telford, Lisa Thurau, Johanna Wald, James J. Zogby, Nell Irvin Painter, Henry Louis Gates Jr., Houston Baker, Bob Herbert, Arthur Levine, Manning Marable, Alvin F. Poussaint, Cornel West, john a. powell ...
    Over 40 years ago the historic Kerner Commission Report declared that America was undergoing an urban crisis whose effects were disproportionately felt by underclass populations. In America's Urban Crisis and the Advent of Color-blind Politics, Curtis Ivery and Joshua Bassett explore the persistence of this crisis today, despite public beliefs that America has become a "post-racial" nation after ... Read more

    $37.09 CAD

  • Sons and Lovers

    by D. H. Lawrence, Dennis Jackson ...
    D. H. Lawrence’s great autobiographical novel paints a provocative portrait of an artist torn between affection for his mother and desire for two beautiful women. Set in the Nottinghamshire coalfields of Lawrence’s own boyhood, the story follows young Paul Morel’s growth into manhood in a British working-class family.Gertrude Morel, Paul’s puritanical mother, concentrates all her love and ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

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  • The Moon and Sixpence

    by William Somerset Maugham ...
    "The Moon and Sixpence" by W. Somerset Maugham is a riveting exploration of artistic passion and unconventional life. Inspired by the life of Paul Gauguin, the novel follows Charles Strickland, who abandons convention to pursue art. Maugham delves into the clash between societal norms and individual freedom, portraying Strickland's tumultuous journey through Europe and Tahiti. With vivid prose and ... Read more

    $3.99 CAD

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  • Kangaroo by D. H. Lawrence (Illustrated)

    by D. H. Lawrence ...
    Series Book 9 - Delphi Parts Edition (D. H. Lawrence)
    This eBook features the unabridged text of ‘Kangaroo’ from the bestselling edition of ‘The Complete Works of D. H. Lawrence’.Having established their name as the leading publisher of classic literature and art, Delphi Classics produce publications that are individually crafted with superior formatting, while introducing many rare texts for the first time in digital print. The Delphi Classics ... Read more

    $1.42 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Women in Love

    by DH Lawrence ...
    First published in the year 1920, the present novel 'Women in Love' was written by DH Lawrence. It is a sequel to his earlier novel The Rainbow (1915), and follows the continuing loves and lives of the Brangwen sisters, Gudrun and Ursula. Gudrun Brangwen, an artist, pursues a destructive relationship with Gerald Crich, an industrialist. Lawrence contrasts this pair with the love that develops ... Read more

    $1.36 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Rainbow (Centaur Classics) [The 100 greatest novels of all time - #77]

    by D. H. Lawrence, Centaur Classics ...
    "The greatest imaginative novelist of our generation." —E. M. Forster"[Lawrence] was a language, a setting, a world entirely of his own… He was, like all true poetry, against tepid living and tepid loves… [giving] full expression to the gestures of passion." —Anaïs Nin"Lawrence is the most Dostoevskian of English novelists, in whose best work conflicting ideological positions are brought into play ... Read more

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  • Utopia

    by Thomas Sir Saint More ...
    Sir Thomas More, son of Sir John More, a justice of the King’s Bench, was born in 1478, in Milk Street, in the city of London. After his earlier education at St. Anthony’s School, in Threadneedle Street, he was placed, as a boy, in the household of Cardinal John Morton, Archbishop of Canterbury and Lord Chancellor. It was not unusual for persons of wealth or influence and sons of good families to ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD

  • Japanese Fairy Tales

    by Yei Ozaki ...
    Series series Children's Classics
    Long, long ago there lived, in Japan a brave warrior known to all as Tawara Toda, or My Lord Bag of Rice. One day he sallied forth in search of adventures, for he had the nature of a warrior and could not bear to be idle. So he buckled on his two swords, took his huge bow, much taller than himself, in his hand, and slinging his quiver on his back started out. ... Read more

    $3.99 CAD

  • Irish Fairy Tales (Illustrated)

    by James Stephens, Arthur Rackham ...
    Irish Fairy Tales is a retelling of ten Irish folktales by the Irish author James Stephens. The English illustrator Arthur Rackham provided interior artwork, including numerous black and white illustrations and sixteen color plates. The stories are set in a wooded, Medieval Ireland filled with larger-than-life hunters, warriors, kings, and fairies. Many stories concern the Fianna and their captain ... Read more

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