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Author: Gale Marie Vanderpol
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Published: 2010-10-30
Total Pages: 129
ISBN-13: 1456806866
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWilliam Faulkner once said, "To understand the South one must be born in it." My goal is to bring a bit of my world into yours. A world full of wonder, laughter, guilt and imagination. And to bring these mad characters to life in their own magical way. After all, just like beauty, madness is in the eye of the beholder.
Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
Publisher: Canongate Books
Published: 2010-07-01
Total Pages: 771
ISBN-13: 1847675220
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDriven to the South Seas by ill health, Stevenson could not close his eyes to the impact of colonialism, the ‘stirabout of epochs and races, barbarisms and civilisations, virtues and crimes’. Setting his imaginative writings within the social and political contexts of his letters and essays from the South Seas, reveals the deepening and broadening of Stevenson’s genius and his growing awareness of and anger at white exploitation. It was a society in which his love of adventure, his awareness of the extremes of human nature, and his fascination with good and evil, could find full release. Tales of the South Seas gathers together all of Stevenson’s South Sea fiction and a selection of prose and letters provides not only a vivid portrait of a colourful and exotic world, but also a full and rounded picture of a superb writer at the height of his powers.
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Published: 1973
Total Pages: 206
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Author: James Barbour
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2016-03-31
Total Pages: 535
ISBN-13: 1317270444
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFirst published in 1986. This outstanding collection of major essays by some of America’s finest literary scholars and critics provides students of American literature with a unique perspective of America’s Romantic literature. Some of these essays make connections between authors or define Romanticism in terms of one of the works; others address major issues during the period; others offer a framework for specific works; and, finally, some give interpretations for the reader. All of the essays offer distinctive voices that will engage students in this rich and memorable period of American literature.
Author: Edgar Allan Poe
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 770
ISBN-13: 9780252069239
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCollects the tales of Edgar Allan Poe. This book includes Ms Found in a Bottle, the horrific Berenice, Ligeia (which Poe considered his finest tale), The Murders in the Rue Morgue, and one of his most famous stories, The Fall of the House of Usher.
Author: Glen Cook
Publisher: Tor Books
Published: 2008-06-10
Total Pages: 673
ISBN-13: 1466831111
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMarching south after the ghastly battle at the Tower of Charm, the Black Company is hounded by shadowy figures every inch of the way. The game is on: the Company versus the Shadowmasters, deadly creatures that deal in darkness and sorrow. When hope dies, there's still survival. And there's still the Black Company. The Book of the South is the second omnibus of novels from one of the greatest fantasy epics of our age, Glen Cook's Black Company series—collecting Shadow Games, Dreams of Steel, and The Silver Spike. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Author: Gonzalo Araoz
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2020-09-25
Total Pages: 211
ISBN-13: 1848881002
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume collects a series of writings exploring the notion, the experience and the representation of madness from different disciplinary perspectives and in different cultural contexts.
Author: Ike Oguine
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2023-12-01
Total Pages: 217
ISBN-13: 1803288426
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIke Oguine's debut novel, A Squatter's Tale is a dark and bold story about the life of a Nigerian business man living in exile in America. Obi does not shy away from his flaws. Dishonest, offensive, arrogant - he moves through life caring little about the people around him. Yet when his uncle comes to visit from America, showering him with gifts and selling him tales of a new life, Obi is determined to follow him. After buying a one-way ticket, he quickly realises that neither his uncle nor America are quite what they promised to be. Fast-paced and defiant, A Squatter's Tale is an honest insight into the experiences of a Nigerian man living in 1990s America. 'Few people have read this hilarious novel but one read is all you need to become a fan.' Guardian
Author: Jennifer L. Lambe
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Published: 2016-12-22
Total Pages: 345
ISBN-13: 1469631032
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOn the outskirts of Havana lies Mazorra, an asylum known to--and at times feared by--ordinary Cubans for over a century. Since its founding in 1857, the island's first psychiatric hospital has been an object of persistent political attention. Drawing on hospital documents and government records, as well as the popular press, photographs, and oral histories, Jennifer L. Lambe charts the connections between the inner workings of this notorious institution and the highest echelons of Cuban politics. Across the sweep of modern Cuban history, she finds, Mazorra has served as both laboratory and microcosm of the Cuban state: the asylum is an icon of its ignominious colonial and neocolonial past and a crucible of its republican and revolutionary futures. From its birth, Cuban psychiatry was politically inflected, drawing partisan contention while sparking debates over race, religion, gender, and sexuality. Psychiatric notions were even invested with revolutionary significance after 1959, as the new government undertook ambitious schemes for social reeducation. But Mazorra was not the exclusive province of government officials and professionalizing psychiatrists. U.S. occupiers, Soviet visitors, and, above all, ordinary Cubans infused the institution, both literal and metaphorical, with their own fears, dreams, and alternative meanings. Together, their voices comprise the madhouse that, as Lambe argues, haunts the revolutionary trajectory of Cuban history.
Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2008-05-08
Total Pages: 297
ISBN-13: 0191021407
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe literary world was shocked when in 1889, at the height of his career, Robert Louis Stevenson announced his intention to settle permanently on the Pacific island of Samoa. His readers were equally shocked when he began to use the subject material offered by his new environment, not to promote a romance of empire, but to produce some of the most ironic and critical treatments of imperialism in nineteenth-century fiction. In these stories, as in his work generally, Stevenson shows himself to be a virtuoso of narrative styles: his Pacific fiction includes the domestic realism of `The Beach at Falesé, the folktale plots of `The Bottle Imp' and `The Isle of Voices', and the modernist blending of naturalism and symbolism in The Ebb-Tide. But beyond their generic diversity the stories are linked by their concern with representing the multiracial society of which their author had become a member. In this collection - the first to bring together all his shorter Pacific fiction in one volume - Stevenson emerges as a witness both to the cross- cultural encounters of nineteenth-century imperialism and to the creation of the global culture which characterizes the post-colonial world. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.
