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  • The Waste Land

    by Grover Smith ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: T. S. Eliot
    In this study, first published in 1983, Professor Smith makes the argument that although The Waste Land is analogous in form to a musical composition that it is actually made of its literary echoes. He calls these a ‘music of allusions’ and shows the resemblance of this music in its evocativeness to the technique of Mallarmé and the French symbolists. Smith also comments extensively on Eliot’s ... Read more

    $73.99 CAD

  • Low Taxes and Small Government

    Sam Brownback’s Great Experiment in Kansas

    by Michael A. Smith, Robert J. Grover, Rob Catlett ...
    Sam Brownback was the first modern-day conservative to be elected governor of Kansas, the culmination of a rightward shift in the state's often-dominant Republican Party. This book is a detailed case study of the policies implemented over his two terms as governor, paying particular attention to the impact on state government and services, the economy, public education, and the business ... Read more

    $120.99 CAD

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    Announcing the Continuation of US Neutrality

    by Grover Cleveland ...
    Narrated by Michael Jerod Smith ...

    Unabridged

    4 min

    In times of turmoil, the American people often turn to the President of the United States for clarification. One such time of turmoil came during the Spanish occupation of Cuba, when growing resentment toward the Spanish fueled pro-Cuban sentiments on domestic soil. Opting to take a more neutral standpoint, President Cleveland said that Americans were to remain neutral during this time of crisis ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Message Regarding the Financial Crisis

    by Grover Cleveland ...
    Narrated by Michael Jerod Smith ...

    Unabridged

    4 min

    One of the first things that Grover Cleveland addressed after a whole term away from office was the financial crisis that America seemed to be heading toward. In this message regarding the financial crisis, President Cleveland addressed the concerns of the nation, but focusedespecially on the American people. He addresses that the looming depression would impact every person in the country, and ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Autobiography of Mark Twain, Vol. 3

    by Mark Twain ...
    Narrated by Grover Gardner ...

    Unabridged

    24 hours 56 min

    The surprising final chapter of a great American lifeWhen the first volume of Mark Twain’s uncensored Autobiography was published in 2010, it was hailed as an essential addition to the shelf of his works and a crucial document for our understanding of the great humorist’s life and times. This third and final volume crowns and completes his life’s work. Like its companion volumes, it chronicles ... Read more

    $41.95 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • The Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms

    by Chris Baldick ...
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    The bestselling Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms provides clear and concise definitions of the most troublesome literary terms, from abjection to zeugma. It is an essential reference tool for students of literature in any language. Now expanded and in its fourth edition, it includes increased coverage of new terms from modern critical and theoretical movements, such as feminism, schools of ... Read more

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  • The Waste Land (Annotated)

    by T.S. Eliot ...
    "The Waste Land", by T.S. Eliot, is conclusively regarded as "one of the most important poems of the 20th century" and a central text in Modernist poetry. Published in 1922, the 434-line poem first appeared in the United Kingdom in the October issue of The Criterion and in the United States in the November issue of The Dial. It was published in book form in December 1922. Among its famous phrases ... Read more

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  • T. S. Eliot

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