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“rachel brownstein”

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  • Tragic Muse

    Rachel of the Comedie-Francaise

    by Rachel Brownstein ...
    Rachel Felix (1821-58), the homely daughter of poor Jewish peddlers, was the first stage actress to achieve international stardom - and the last person one would have expected to resurrect the cultural patrimony of France. Yet her passionate, startling performances of the works of Racine and Corneille saved them from almost certain obsolescence after the fall of Napoleon (who had relished ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD

  • Why Jane Austen?

    by Rachel Brownstein ...
    From the first publication of Pride and Prejudice to recent film versions of her life and work, Jane Austen has continued to provoke controversy and inspire fantasies of peculiar intimacy. Whether celebrated for her realism, proto-feminism, or patrician gentility, imagined as a subversive or a political conservative, Austen generates passions shaped by the ideologies and trends of her readers' ... Read more

    $36.79 CAD

  • American Born

    An Immigrant's Story, a Daughter's Memoir

    by Rachel M. Brownstein ...
    An incisive memoir of Rachel M. Brownstein’s seemingly quintessential Jewish mother, a resilient and courageous immigrant in New York.When she arrived alone in New York in 1924, eighteen-year-old Reisel Thaler resembled the other Yiddish-speaking immigrants from Eastern Europe who accompanied her. Yet she already had an American passport tucked in her scant luggage. Reisel had drawn her first ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

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    The Extraordinary Young Women of the First Official Jewish Transport to Auschwitz

    by Heather Dune Macadam ...
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  • In the Darkroom

    by Susan Faludi ...
    A Pulitzer Prize winner's memoir of her search for her enigmatic father is "an absolute stunner . . . probing, steel-nerved, moving in ways you'd never expect" ( New York Times)."In the summer of 2004 I set out to investigate someone I scarcely knew, my father. The project began with a grievance, the grievance of a daughter whose parent had absconded from her life. I was in pursuit of a scofflaw, ... Read more

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  • The Real Jane Austen

    A Life in Small Things

    by Paula Byrne ...
    "A vivacious portrait. . . . Byrne's Austen emerges as a worldly woman, profoundly enmeshed in a wider world than she's often acknowledged to occupy. This is an Austen with a sense for the political as well as for the finer points of sensibility—and one who will be unfamiliar (though never unrecognizable) to many readers." — Publishers WeeklyIn The Real Jane Austen, acclaimed literary biographer ... Read more

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  • Jane Austen

    A Life

    by Carol Shields ...
    With the same sensitivity and artfulness that are the trademarks of her award-winning novels, Carol Shields explores the life of a writer whose own novels have engaged and delighted readers for the past two hundred years. In Jane Austen, Shields follows this superb and beloved novelist from her early family life in Steventown to her later years in Bath, her broken engagement, and her intense ... Read more

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  • A Jane Austen Education

    How Six Novels Taught Me About Love, Friendship, and the Things That Really Matter

    by William Deresiewicz ...
    An eloquent memoir of a young man's life transformed by literature.In A Jane Austen Education, Austen scholar William Deresiewicz turns to the author's novels to reveal the remarkable life lessons hidden within. With humor and candor, Deresiewicz employs his own experiences to demonstrate the enduring power of Austen's teachings. Progressing from his days as an immature student to a happily ... Read more

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  • World of Our Fathers

    The Journey of the East European Jews to America and the Life They Found and Made

    by Irving Howe ...
    The National Book Award–winning, New York Times–bestselling history of Yiddish-speaking immigrants on the Lower East Side and beyond.In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, two million Jewish immigrants poured into America, leaving places like Warsaw or the Russian shtetls to pass through Ellis Island and start over in the New World. This is a "brilliant" account of their stories ( ... Read more

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  • Jane Austen For Dummies

    by Joan Elizabeth Klingel Ray ...
    Explains Austen's methods, motivations, and moralsThe fun and easy way(r) to understand and enjoy Jane AustenWant to know more about Jane Austen? This friendly guide gives the scoop on her life, works, and lasting impact on our culture. It chronicles the events of her brief life, examines each of her novels, and looks at why her stories - of women and marriage, class and money, scandal and ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • The Story of Yiddish

    How a Mish-Mosh of Languages Saved the Jews

    by Neal Karlen ...
    "An interesting and quirky and sometimes irreverent look at how the Yiddish language has survived all over the world." — Jerusalem PostYiddish—an oft-considered "gutter" language—is an unlikely survivor of the ages, much like the Jews themselves. Its survival has been an incredible journey, especially considering how often Jews have tried to kill it themselves. Underlying Neal Karlen's unique, ... Read more

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  • How to Suppress Women's Writing

    by Joanna Russ ...
    Are women able to achieve anything they set their minds to? In How to Suppress Women’s Writing, award-winning novelist and scholar Joanna Russ lays bare the subtle—and not so subtle—strategies that society uses to ignore, condemn, or belittle women who produce literature. As relevant today as when it was first published in 1983, this book has motivated generations of readers with its powerful ... Read more

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