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  • The Book of the Prophecies of Isaiah (New Edition)

    by John Edgar Mcfadyen ...
    INTRODUCTIONI. Origin and Arrangement of the Book of IsaiahII. The Political Conditions of Isaiah's TimeIII. Moral and Social Conditions of Isaiah's TimeIV. Isaiah the ManV. Isaiah as a WriterVI. Literary Problems of the Book of IsaiahVII. ANALYSIS OF CHAPTERS 1-39.VIII. ChronologyTHE BOOK OF THE PROPHET ISAIAHPROPHECIES CONCERNING JUDAH AND ISRAEL (Chaps. 1-12)</strong... ... Read more

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  • Fatheralong

    A Meditation on Fathers and Sons, Race and Society

    by John Edgar Wideman ...
    The reissued classic from “master of language” (The New York Times) John Edgar Wideman—a “superb” (The New York Times Book Review) memoir in five essays about fathers, and Wideman's vexed relationship with his own.An essential chronicler of Black American experience for over half a century, John Edgar Wideman has been hailed as one of the most important and influential writers of his generation. ... Read more

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  • Philadelphia Fire

    A Novel

    by John Edgar Wideman ...
    One of John Wideman’s most ambitious and celebrated works, the lyrical masterpiece and PEN/Faulkner winner inspired by the 1985 police bombing of the West Philadelphia row house owned by black liberation group Move.In 1985, police bombed a West Philadelphia row house owned by the Afrocentric cult known as Move, killing eleven people and starting a fire that destroyed sixty other houses. At the ... Read more

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  • The Rise of Deathwatch (Annotated)

    Enriched Edition. A Journey Through Gothic Horror: Explore 19th Century Dark Romance and Haunting Victorian Mysteries

    by Horace Walpole, William Thomas Beckford, Eliza Parsons, William Godwin, Ann Radcliffe, Matthew Gregory Lewis, Charles Brockden Brown, Jane Austen, Mary Shelley, Thomas Love Peacock, Edgar Allan Poe0, John William Polidori1, Washington Irving2, Charles Robert Maturin3, James Hogg4, Victor Hugo5, Frederick Marryat6, Nikolai Gogol7, Charlotte Brontë8, Emily Brontë9, James Malcolm Rymer0, Thomas Peckett Prest1, Nathaniel Hawthorne2, George Eliot3, Wilkie Collins4, Robert Louis Stevenson5, Charles Dickens6, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu7, Arthur Conan Doyle8, Oscar Wilde9, Guy de Maupassant0, Anna Katharine Green1, Charlotte Perkins Gilman2, Arthur Machen3, George MacDonald4, John Meade Falkner5, H. G. Wells6, Richard Marsh7, Henry James8, Bram Stoker9, W. W. Jacobs0, Robert Hugh Benson1, Gaston Leroux2, Théophile Gautier3, William Hope Hodgson4, Grant Allen5, Bennett Alderwyn1 ...
    Translated by Samuel Henley7, Isabel F. Hapgood8, C. J. Hogarth9 ...
    The Rise of Deathwatch traces the evolution of Gothic and uncanny literature from its eighteenth-century origins to fin-de-siècle and early modern transformations. Its range extends from castle romance, terror fiction, and philosophical nightmare to detective mystery, imperial adventure, psychological realism, and proto-science fiction. Haunted inheritances, forbidden knowledge, doubles, revenants ... Read more

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  • The Homewood Trilogy

    by John Edgar Wideman ...
    From “master of language” (The New York Times) John Edgar Wideman, a reissue of the revered trilogy that launched his career—two novels and story collection all set in Wideman’s own hometown.Damballah, Hiding Place, and Sent for You Yesterday provide a stunning introduction to the uncompromising work of John Edgar Wideman, whose literary achievements have inspired The New York Times to name him ... Read more

    $34.99 CAD

  • Sanctuary

    The Preservation Issue

    by Peter Straub, Martine Bellen, Rick Moody, Mei-mei Berssenbrugge, Mary Caponegro, Brian Evenson, Peter Gizzi, Robert Kelly, Ann Lauterbach, Howard Norman, Karen Russell, Joanna Scott, David Shields, John Edgar Wideman, Diane Ackerman, Dinaw Mengestu ...
    Series Book 70 - Conjunctions
    Exploring the myriad ways in which we go about preserving what might otherwise be forfeited.Whether trained specialists or lay people who care about something, preservationists come from every stratum of life. The archivist, the linguist, the local town historian. The paleontologist, the heirloom seed-saver, the family photographer, the Monuments Men. Old two-by-two Noah and taxonomist Linnaeus. ... Read more

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  • The Complete Harvard Classics - ALL 71 Volumes

    The Five Foot Shelf & The Shelf of Fiction: The Famous Anthology of the Greatest Works of World Literature

    by Benjamin Franklin, John Woolman, William Penn, Plato, Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, Francis Bacon, John Milton, Thomas Browne, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Robert Burns, Saint Augustine, Thomas à Kempis, Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Aristophanes, Marcus Tullius Cicero, Pliny the Younger, Adam Smith, Charles Darwin, Plutarch, Virgil, Miguel de Cervantes, John Bunyan, Izaak Walton, Aesop, Wilhelm Grimm, Jacob Grimm, Hans Christian Andersen, John Dryden, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, David Garrick, Oliver Goldsmith, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Robert Browning, George Gordon Byron, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Christopher Marlowe, Dante Alighieri, Alessandro Manzoni, Homer, Richard Henry Dana, Edmund Burke, John Stuart Mill, Thomas Carlyle, Pedro Calderón de la Barca, Pierre Corneille, Jean Racine, Molière, Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, Friedrich von Schiller, Philip Sidney, Ben Jonson, Abraham Cowley, Joseph Addison, Richard Steele, Jonathan Swift, Daniel Defoe, Samuel Johnson, Sydney Smith, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Hazlitt, Leigh Hunt, Charles Lamb, Thomas De Quincey, Thomas Babington Macaulay, William Makepeace Thackeray, John Ruskin, Robert Louis Stevenson, Edgar Alan Poe, Henry David Thoreau, James Russell Lowell, Michael Faraday, Hermann Ludwig Ferdinand von Helmholtz, Simon Newcomb, Archibald Geikie, Benvenuto Cellini, Michel de Montaigne, Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve, Ernest Renan, Immanuel Kant, Giuseppe Mazzini, Herodotus, Tacitus, Francis Drake, Philip Nichols, Francis Pretty, Walter Bigges, Edward Haies, Walter Raleigh, René Descartes, Voltaire, Jean Jacques Rousseau, Thomas Hobbes, Jean Froissart, Thomas Malory, William Henry Harrison, Niccolo Machiavelli, William Roper, Thomas More, Martin Luther, John Locke, George Berkeley, Hippocrates, Ambroise Paré, William Harvey, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Joseph Lister, Louis Pasteur, William Shakespeare, Thomas Dekker, Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher, John Webster, Philip Massinger, Blaise Pascal, Charles W. Eliot, William A. Neilson, Henry Fielding, Laurence Sterne, Jane Austen, Walter Scott, Charles Dickens, George Eliot, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Washington Irving, Bret Harte, Mark Twain, Edward Everett Hale, Henry James, Victor Hugo, Honoré Balzac, George Sand, Alfred de Musset, Alphonse Daudet, Gottfried Keller, Guy de Maupassant, Theodor Storm, Theodor Fontane, Leo Tolstoy, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Ivan Turgenev, Juan Valera, Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, Alexander L. Kielland ...
    The original Harvard Classics Collection contains 51 volumes of the essential works of world literature, showing the progress of man from antics to modern age. In this edition, the original collection is supplemented with the 20 volume Harvard Shelf of Fiction, a selection of the greatest works of fiction. Content: The Harvard Classics: V. 1: Franklin, Woolman & Penn V. 2: Plato, Epictetus & ... Read more

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  • The Vampire in Europe: A Critical Edition

    by John Edgar Browning ...
    THE VAMPIRE, His Kith and Kin examined the reasons for the old belief in Vampirism, its growth and dissemination in many lands, and its crystallization into a permanent and determinate legend. This new volume, The Vampire in Europe, uniform with the other, deals with the subject from a historical point of view and presents the evidence which gave rise to the theories. This evidence, drawn from ... Read more

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  • The Vampire, His Kith and Kin: A Critical Edition

    by John Edgar Browning ...
    In all the dark pages of the supernatural there is no more terrible tradition than that of the Vampire, a pariah even among demons. Foul are his ravages; gruesome and seemingly barbaric are the ancient and approved methods by which folk rid themselves of this hideous pest. The tradition is world-wide and of the greatest antiquity. How did it arise? How did it spread? Does it indeed contain some ... Read more

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  • Brothers and Keepers

    A Memoir

    by John Edgar Wideman ...
    “A rare triumph” (The New York Times Book Review), this powerful memoir about the divergent paths taken by two brothers is a classic work from one of the greatest figures in American literature: a reflection on John Edgar Wideman’s family and his brother’s incarceration—a classic that is as relevant now as when originally published in 1984.A “brave and brilliant” (The Philadelphia Inquirer) ... Read more

    $19.50 CAD

  • Cressy and Poictiers

    by John G. Edgar ...
    Cressy and Poictiers is a work of historical fiction concerning Edward, the Black Prince. ... Read more

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  • Look for Me and I'll Be Gone

    Stories

    by John Edgar Wideman ...
    *A Wall Street Journal Top 10 Best Book of the Year*From John Edgar Wideman, a modern “master of language” (The New York Times Book Review), comes a stunning story collection that spans a range of topics from Michael Jordan to Emmett Till, from childhood memories to the final day in a prison cell.In Look For Me and I’ll Be Gone, his sixth collection of stories, John Edgar Wideman imbues with ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

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