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First published in 1799, Charles Brockden Brown's "Edgar Huntly, Or Memoirs of a Sleep Walker" is the story of its title character, who upon learning of the death of the brother of his friend and love interest, Mary Waldegrave, visits where he died in the woods in rural Pennsylvania. There he discovers a man, Clithero, a servant from a nearby farm, suspiciously lurking about near the scene of Waldegrave's murder. Suspecting Clithero, Edgar begins...
26) The Confessions
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Confessions, by St. Augustine, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics:
• New introductions commissioned from todays top writers and scholars
• Biographies of the authors
• Chronologies of contemporary...
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The renowned poet’s classic collection of free verse exploring the lives of colorful characters in a fictional American small town.
In 1914, Edgar Lee Masters began writing a series of poems inspired by his early life in Western Illinois. These poems, which appeared in the St. Louis literary journal Reedy’s Mirror, were later published in book form as the Spoon River Anthology.
Innovative in both conception...Author
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Library of America volume 216
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Library of America
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c2011.
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851 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
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English
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Presents a collection of four novels, four short stories, and other writings, including a speech and letters.
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In The Persian Expedition, Xenophon, a young Athenian noble who sought his destiny abroad, provides an enthralling eyewitness account of the attempt by a Greek mercenary army - the Ten Thousand - to help Prince Cyrus overthrow his brother and take the Persian throne. When the Greeks were then betrayed by their Persian employers, they were forced to march home through hundreds of miles of difficult terrain - adrift in a hostile country and under constant...
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Vanishing Horizons
Pub. Date
2021.
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87 pages : illustrations, photographs ; 23 cm
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English
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"Herbs, cats, poems and stories bring charm, knowledge, and clarity through the person of Teresa de Jesus Berlinda Vigil. Enjoy a ride with Teresa through the llanos and La Sierra of the San Luis land grant to learn some of the medicinal herbs used by the people for centuries. Enjoy her storytelling prowess with "Los Gatos de la Calle Costilla." See her tell about the herbs in a video produced by Las Mujeres Valientes on U-Tube. Her talk is transcribed...
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Golden Books, an imprint of Random House Children's Books, a division of Random House, LLC
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[2015]
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215 pages : color illustrations ; 21 cm
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English
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A Christmas collection offers illustrated versions of The Night before Christmas, the original Bible story, The Twelve Days of Christmas, The Nutcracker, and a holiday alphabet along with modern tales of a puppy, a baby, an elf, and bears.
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"In the aftermath of a messy divorce, Frances Kai-Hwa Wang writes in the hope of beginning to build a new life with four children, bossy aunties, unreliable suitors, and an uncertain political landscape. The lyric essays in You Cannot Resist Me When My Hair Is in Braids deftly navigate the space between cultures and reflect on lessons learned from both Asian American elders and young multiracial children, punctuated by moments rich with cultural and...
37) The idiot
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The title is an ironic reference to the central character of the novel, Prince (Knyaz) Lev Nikolayevich Myshkin, a young man whose goodness, open-hearted simplicity and guilelessness lead many of the more worldly characters he encounters to mistakenly assume that he lacks intelligence and insight. In the character of Prince Myshkin, Dostoevsky set himself the task of depicting "the positively good and beautiful man."The novel examines the consequences
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Washington Square Press
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2005.
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xxiii, 327 pages ; 21 cm
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When it was first published in 1970, The Black Woman introduced readers to an astonishing new wave of voices that demanded to be heard. In this groundbreaking volume of original essays, poems, and stories, a chorus of outspoken women-many who would become leaders in their fields: bestselling novelist Alice Walker, poets Audre Lorde and Nikki Giovanni, writer Paule Marshall, activist Grace Lee Boggs, and musician Abbey Lincoln among them-tackled issues...
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In ancient Rome, Seneca the Younger rose to power as a politician and statesman during the middle of his life. After being exiled by Emperor Caligula, he was finally welcomed back to Rome as Nero's minister. He gained significant wealth, though Seneca often despised his own standing because of his personal philosophy. At the end of his life, Seneca wrote a number of letters to the Roman governor of Sicily. From this collection of letters comes "Letters...
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