Maximus The Legend
Maximus The Legend

Author: Karen Leaf

Publisher: Karen Leaf

Published: 2004-06-13

Total Pages: 302

ISBN-13:

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The perfect audio book for those who love action, adventure, suspense and mystery told through a passionate narrative Go on a quest that will tantalize your senses. As you listen to “Maximus the Legend” you will be captivated by the many twists and turns that this narrative takes you through. Several moments of the main characters life are based on a true story while the remainder of his tale is generated from the exaggerated fictional creativity of the author. Maximus the Legend is an epic saga of tragedy, triumph, vengeance and a constant battle between a search for peace and a desire for ultimate revenge. Several characters lives become touched by the existence of Maximus and they are drawn together into a deep and lasting friendship as they each desperately endeavor to seek out Maximus in the hope of helping him find peace and a way to come home and find the life and family that he never knew could exist.

Notebooks: 1936-1947
Notebooks: 1936-1947

Author: Victor Serge

Publisher: New York Review of Books

Published: 2019-04-09

Total Pages: 673

ISBN-13: 1681372703

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Available for the first time, Victor Serge's intimate account of the last decade of his life gives a vivid look into the Franco-Russian revolutionary's life, from his liberation from Stalin's Russia to his "Mexico Years," when he wrote his greatest works. In 1936, Victor Serge—poet, novelist, and revolutionary—left the Soviet Union for Paris, the rare opponent of Stalin to escape the Terror. In 1940, after the Nazis marched into Paris, Serge fled France for Mexico, where he would spend the rest of his life. His years in Mexico were marked by isolation, poverty, peril, and grief; his Notebooks, however, brim with resilience, curiosity, outrage, a passionate love of life, and superb writing. Serge paints haunting portraits of Osip Mandelstam, Stefan Zweig, and “the Old Man” Trotsky; argues with André Breton; and, awaiting his wife’s delayed arrival from Europe, writes her passionate love letters. He describes the sweep of the Mexican landscape, visits an erupting volcano, and immerses himself in the country’s history and culture. He looks back on his life and the fate of the Revolution. He broods on the course of the war and the world to come after. In the darkest of circumstances, he responds imaginatively, thinks critically, feels deeply, and finds reason to hope. Serge’s Notebooks were discovered in 2010 and appear here for the first time in their entirety in English. They are a a message in a bottle from one of the great spirits, and great writers, of our shipwrecked time.

Northrop Frye's Notebooks for Anatomy of Critcism
Northrop Frye's Notebooks for Anatomy of Critcism

Author: Northrop Frye

Publisher:

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 488

ISBN-13:

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Northrop Frye's Anatomy of Criticism (1957) is widely regarded as a masterpiece of literary theory. The product of years of reading and reflection, the book's value extends far beyond its impact on criticism as a whole; ultimately, it must be viewed as a synoptic defense of liberal learning by one of the twentieth century's most distinguished critics. In this, the twenty-third volume of the Collected Works, editor Robert D. Denham presents the notebooks to the Anatomy, blue-prints, as it were, for Frye's comprehensive account of literary conventions. Composed from the late 1940s to 1956, the notebooks document the struggle Frye underwent to provide a structure for his work. This involved incorporating previously published essays and developing new material that would maintain the continuity of his argument. This fully annotated volume contains seventeen holograph notebooks, each illuminating some aspect of the grand structure that eventually emerged. Altogether, the notebooks offer an intimate picture of Frye's working process and a renewed appreciation for his magisterial accomplishment.

HarperCollins Treasury of Picture Book Classics
HarperCollins Treasury of Picture Book Classics

Author: Various

Publisher: Harper Collins

Published: 2002-10-15

Total Pages: 461

ISBN-13: 0060080949

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From early, beloved classics such as Goodnight Moon and Harold and the Purple Crayon to such recent treasures as If You Give a Mouse a Cookie and Pete's a Pizza, this collection assembles twelve of the greatest picture books ever published. Parents can share the joy of introducing young children to many timeless favorites that have already enchanted millions of readers. This volume offers a wonder-filled opportunity for preschoolers and families to own and share "the best of the best." All royalties for HarperCollins Treasury of Picture Book Classics: A Child's First Collection will be donated to First Book, a national nonprofit organization whose mission is to give children from low-income families the opportunity to read and own their own new books. The primary goal of First Book is to work with existing literacy programs to distribute new books to children who, for economic reasons, have little or no access to books. In this way, First Book effectively leverages the heroic efforts of local tutoring, mentoring, and family literacy organizations as they work to reach children who need help the most. First Book distributes millions of books to hundreds of thousands of children nationwide each year. For more information on First Book, please visit www.firstbook.org.

The Notebooks of Robert Frost
The Notebooks of Robert Frost

Author: Robert Frost

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Published: 2007-01-01

Total Pages: 415

ISBN-13: 0674034678

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During his lifetime, Robert Frost notoriously resisted collecting his prose--going so far as to halt the publication of one prepared compilation and to "lose" the transcripts of the Charles Eliot Norton Lectures he delivered at Harvard in 1936. But for all his qualms, Frost conceded to his son that "you can say a lot in prose that verse won't let you say," and that the prose he had written had in fact "made good competition for [his] verse." This volume, the first critical edition of Robert Frost's prose, allows readers and scholars to appreciate the great American author's forays beyond poetry, and to discover in the prose that he did make public--in newspapers, magazines, journals, speeches, and books--the wit, force, and grace that made his poetry famous. The Collected Prose of Robert Frost offers an extensive and illuminating body of work, ranging from juvenilia--Frost's contributions to his high school Bulletin--to the charming "chicken stories" he wrote as a young family man for The Eastern Poultryman and Farm Poultry, to such famous essays as "The Figure a Poem Makes" and the speeches and contributions to magazines solicited when he had become the Grand Old Man of American letters. Gathered, annotated, and cross-referenced by Mark Richardson, the collection is based on extensive work in archives of Frost's manuscripts. It provides detailed notes on the author's habits of composition and on important textual issues and includes much previously unpublished material. It is a book of boundless appeal and importance, one that should find a home on the bookshelf of anyone interested in Frost.

General George E. Pickett in Life and Legend
General George E. Pickett in Life and Legend

Author: Lesley J. Gordon

Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press

Published: 2002-08-01

Total Pages: 294

ISBN-13: 9780807854273

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A critical biography of the best known and least accurately understood Civil War general, including the legends perpetrated by his widow, LaSalle Corbell Pickett.