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Great Expectations
by Charles DickensAn abridged version of Great Expectations. The engrossing epic of murder, mystery and money.
Practical Spelling (Grade #2)
by Miller School BooksDesigned to aid students through spelling and handwriting with minimal supervision from the teachers
Climbing to Good English (Grade #2)
by SchoolaidA grammar textbook that will help pupils to study and learn how to read and write effectively.
Dreamer of Dune: The Biography of Frank Herbert
by Brian HerbertA biography of Frank Herbert, author of 'Dune', by his son.
Practical Spelling (Grade #4)
by Miller School BooksThis series of workbooks for grades 2 through 8 is designed to help students gain practice in both spelling and handwriting, with minimal teacher involvement. Each grade has 36 two-page units, with a recommended schedule of one unit per week, and every sixth unit is a review. Each unit is divided into 3 to 5 parts, to help with assigning an amount of lesson practice that will fit your schedule.
The Outlaws on Parnassus
by Margaret KennedyBoth readable and learned, this book takes us through European literature from Homer to Virginia Woolf, pointing out the ways in which a compelling plot makes for a good novel. Kennedy notes that literature is the only art form that is expected to carry a "message." In truth, she says, we read to be entertained, to be swept into another world.
The Writing on the Wall and Other Literary Essays
by Mary MccarthyLiterary criticism that ranges from Shakespeare to Salinger.
Violence in the Black Imagination: Essays and Documents
by Ronald T. TakakiIn "Violence in the Black Imagination", Ronald T. Takaki presents three short novels by major African-American leaders in the nineteenth century: "The Heroic Slave", by Frederick Douglass, the leading black abolitionist; "Blake", by Martin Delany, the father of black nationalism; and "Clotelle", by William Wells Brown, a pioneer of the black novel. The novels are accompanied by substantive essays which provide biographical information on the authors and explore the common theme of their works -- the issue of black revolutionary violence in antebellum America.
Golden Codgers: Biographical Speculations
by Richard EllmannA historical survey of the literary biography, looking at the founding fathers of literary thought.
Literature and Western Man
by J. B. PriestleyA study of the recorded writing of western man, covering not only the Americas, but Russia and much of Asia as well. Encompasses not only the written word but also the origins of print and how movable type changed the written world as we currently know it.
The Air-Conditioned Nightmare
by Henry MillerIn 1939, after ten years as an expatriate, Henry Miller returned to the United States with a keen desire to see what his native land was really like -- to get to the roots of the American nature and experience. He set out on a journey that was to last for three years, visiting many sections of the country and making friends of all descriptions. "The Air-Conditioned Nightmare" is the result of that odyssey.
Silences
by Tillie OlsenThis book is about silences pertaining to literature. Literary criticism from a feminist perspective. Navigating the spaces in the canon where issues of race, class, and gender have been silenced.
What the People Know: Freedom and the Press
by Richard ReevesDiscusses the press and how it does and doesn't work and what needs to happen to improve things.
Gay Cuban Nation
by Emilio BejelWith Gay Cuban Nation, Emilio Bejel looks at Cuba's markedly homoerotic culture through writings about homosexuality, placing them in the social and political contexts that led up to the Cuban Revolution. By reading against the grain of a wide variety of novels, short stories, autobiographies, newspaper articles, and films, Bejel maps out a fascinating argument about the way in which different attitudes toward power and nationalism struggle for an authoritative stance on homosexual issues. Through close readings of writers such as José Martí, Alfonso Hernández-Catá, Carlos Montenegro, José Lezama Lima, Leonardo Padura Fuentes, and Reinaldo Arenas, whose heartbreaking autobiography, Before Night Falls, has enjoyed renewed popularity, Gay Cuban Nation shows that the category of homosexuality is always lurking, ghostlike, in the shadows of nationalist discourse. The book stakes out Cuba's sexual battlefield, and will challenge the homophobia of both Castro's revolutionaries and Cuban exiles in the States.