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  • The Moral Electricity of Print

    Transatlantic Education and the Lima Women's Circuit, 1876-1910

    by Ronald Briggs ...
    Best Nineteenth-Century Book Award Winner, 2018, Latin American Studies Association Nineteenth-Century SectionMoral electricity—a term coined by American transcendentalists in the 1850s to describe the force of nature that was literacy and education in shaping a greater society. This concept wasn't strictly an American idea, of course, and Ronald Briggs introduces us to one of the greatest ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

  • Changes in the Landscape

    Humans and Nature in Nineteenth-Century Latin America

    by Jens Andermann, Ronald Briggs, Gisela Heffes, Aarti S. Madan, Vanesa Miseres, Lizabeth Paravisini-Gebert, Jorge Quintana Navarrete, Catalina Rodríguez, Emmanuel A Velayos Larrabure, Lesley Wylie ...
    Changes in the Landscape is a collection of timely essays that bring the methodologies and commitments of ecocriticism to bear on the study of Latin American literature and cultural production. The book’s eleven chapters, written by some of the leading voices in the field, invite readers to consider how the relationship between humans and nonhuman nature was fundamentally transformed during a ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

  • Latin American Literature in Transition 1800–1870: Volume 2

    Edited by Ana Peluffo, Ronald Briggs ...
    Series series Latin American Literature in Transition
    Latin American Literature in Transition 1800-1870 uses affect as an analytical tool to uncover the countervailing forces that shaped Latin American literatures and cultures during the first six decades of the nineteenth century. Chapters provide perspectives on colonial violence and its representation, on the development of the national idea, on communities within and beyond the nation, and on the ... Read more

    $117.99 CAD

  • The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Other Stories

    by Leo Tolstoy ...
    Translated by Ronald Wilks, Anthony Briggs, David McDuff ...
    This edition includes: The Death of Ivan Ilyich, Happy Ever After, and The Cossacks. Mortality was one of Tolstoy's most persistent themes, and all of the stories in this volume are connected by this preoccupation, along with the author's simultaneous attempt to help us improve our lives. ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

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  • The Gambler and Other Stories

    by Fyodor Dostoyevsky ...
    Translated by Ronald Meyer ...
    The Gambler and Other Stories is Fyodor Dostoyevsky's collection of one novella and six short stories reflecting his own life - indeed, 'The Gambler', a story of a young tutor in the employment of a formerly wealthy Russian General, was written under a strict deadline so he could pay off his roulette debts. This volume includes 'Bobok', the tale of a frustrated writer visiting a cemetery and ... Read more

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  • Netochka Nezvanova

    by Fyodor Dostoyevsky ...
    Netochka Nezvanova - a 'Nameless Nobody' - tells the story of a childhood dominated by her stepfather, Efimov, a failed musician who believes he is a neglected genius. The young girl is strangely drawn to this drunken ruin of a man, who exploits her and drives the family to poverty. But when she is rescued by an aristocratic family, the abuse against Netochka's delicate psyche continues in a more ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Poor Folk and Other Stories

    by Fyodor Dostoyevsky ...
    Translated by David McDuff ...
    With their penetrating psychological insight and their emphasis on human dignity, respect and forgiveness, Dostoyevsky's early short stories contain the seeds of the themes that came to his major novels. Poor Folk, the author's first great literary triumph, is the story of a tragic relationship between an impoverished copy clerk and a young seamstress, told through their passionate letters to each ... Read more

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  • Demons

    by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Joanna Moorhead ...
    Translated by Robert Maguire ...
    Demons, also known as The Possessed or The Devils, is a dark masterpiece that evokes a world where the lines between and good and evil long ago became blurred. This Penguin Classics edition of Fyodor Dostoyevsky's Demons is translated by Robert A. Maguire and edited by Ronald Meyer, with an introduction by Robert L. Belknap.Pyotr Verkhovensky and Nikolai Stavrogin are the leaders of a Russian ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • Notes from Underground and the Double

    by Fyodor Dostoyevsky ...
    Translated by Ronald Wilks ...
    'That sense of the meaninglessness of existence that runs through much of twentieth-century writing - from Conrad and Kafka, to Beckett and beyond - starts in Dostoyevsky's work' Malcolm BradburyAlienated from society and paralysed by a sense of his own insignificance, the anonymous narrator of Dostoyevsky's Notes from Underground tells the story of his tortured life. With bitter irony, he ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • The House of the Dead

    by Fyodor Dostoyevsky ...
    Translated by David McDuff ...
    A searing account of the time Dostoyevsky spent in a Siberian prison camp for his part in a political conspiracy‘Here was the house of the living dead, a life like none other upon earth’In January 1850 Dostoyevsky was sent to a remote Siberian prison camp for his part in a political conspiracy. The four years he spent there, startlingly re-created in The House of the Dead, were the most agonizing ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

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  • Ward No. 6 and Other Stories, 1892-1895

    by Anton Chekhov ...
    Translated by Ronald Wilks ...
    These stories from the middle period of Chekhov's career show him exploring complex, ambiguous and often extreme emotions. Influenced by his own experiences as a doctor, 'Ward No. 6', set in a mental hospital, is a savage indictment of the medical profession. 'The Black Monk', portraying an academic who has strange hallucinations, explores ideas of genius and insanity; in 'Murder', religious ... Read more

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  • The Idiot

    by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Ron Arad ...
    Translated by David McDuff ...
    Dostoyevsky's great novel of suffering and sickness, innocence and greedReturning to St Petersburg from a Swiss sanatorium, the gentle and naïve epileptic Prince Myshkin - the titular 'idiot' - pays a visit to his distant relative General Yepanchin and proceeds to charm the General, his wife, and his three daughters. But his life is thrown into turmoil when he chances on a photograph of the ... Read more

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