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Professor Pinkleton's Secret Seminar
Owing to some extravagant expenditures, Professor Peter J. Pinkleton is forced to moonlight as a cashier in a Still Fresh Supermarket where he eventually finds himself conducting an informal seminar on Madame Bovary for a motley collection of employees, including a Vietnam vet, a redneck meat cutter, an elder in the Mt. Zion Baptist Church, and a Dominican deli worker in search of her soul-mate. An unsuccessful bid for promotion and an escalating feud with his department chair have grown into a serious obsession. His elderly father has just been admitted to Perplexus Senior Living for the Cognitively Impaired in the early stages of dementia. He has good reason to suspect, on the basis of evidence found in her nightstand, that his wife has is having an affair. Angered by a recent confrontation, his grandson plants a bag of marijuana in Pinkleton's office and sends an anonymous tip to the campus police. And now his brother's Russian Internet bride, disillusioned with her match, has begun to aggressively pursue him. It has not been a good year. And it's going to get worse . . .
The Fein Story Behind the Pictures
With his camera and his unconventional knack for communicating through news pictures, photographer Nat Fein, captured the soul of New York city during an era that helped define the twentieth century. A compilation of short stories, historical accounts, and 118 photos with descriptions, will offer insight into these remarkable and compelling images. Fein was an inventive press photographer at the New York Herald Tribune from 1933 to 1966. He photographed such icons as Albert Einstein, Ty Cobb, Queen Elizabeth, and Harry S. Truman. He carried the distinction of having taken the most celebrated photograph in sports history as his dramatic Babe Ruth image was the first sports picture to win a Pulitzer Prize. Biographical elements help illustrate his extraordinary life. From his brush with death when gangster Legs Diamond attempted to murder him, to that fateful day at Yankee Stadium when he photographed the dying Babe Ruth.
Displacements of Power
Written anonymously around 1460 for the Burgundian court of Philippe le Bon, the Cent nouvelles nouvelles fits loosely within the traditions of Boccaccio and Chaucer, but also reflects in subtle ways the tastes, preoccupations, and fascinations of the fifteenth-century audience for whom it was intended. Seven of the most interesting and problematic nouvelles have been selected for this study.
New Sinn Féin
Containing interviews with key figures, such as Gerry Adams and Martin McGuinness, The New Sinn Féin is essential reading for anyone with an interest in Irish politics, and the republican movement in particular.
Chaucer
"Eleven essays that explore how modern scholarship interprets Chaucer's writings"--Provided by publisher.
The Hidden Child
*An International Bestseller from the author of People Like Us, shortlisted for the RSL Christopher Bland Prize and the RNA Historical Romantic Novel Award 2021* From the outside, Eleanor and Edward Hamilton have the perfect life, but they're harbouring a secret that threatens to fracture their entire world. London, 1929. Eleanor Hamilton is a dutiful mother, a caring sister and an adoring wife to a celebrated war hero. Her husband, Edward, is a pioneer in the eugenics movement. The Hamiltons are on the social rise, and it looks as though their future is bright. When Mabel, their young daughter, begins to develop debilitating seizures, they have to face an uncomfortable truth: Mabel has epil...
The Full Pomegranate
Translations of selected poems by the Yiddish writer, covering the entire breadth of his career. Yiddish writer Avrom Sutzkever (19132010) was described by the New York Times as the greatest poet of the Holocaust. Born in present-day Belarus, Sutzkever spent his childhood as a war refugee in Siberia, returned to Poland to participate in the interwar flourishing of Yiddish culture, was confined to the Vilna ghetto during the Nazi occupation, escaped to join the Jewish partisans, and settled in the new state of Israel after the war. Personal and political, mystical and national, his body of work, including more than two dozen volumes of poetry, several of stories, and a memoir, demonstra...
François Villon Revisited
"Francois Villon, one of the greatest lyric poets of the late Middle Ages, lived on the margins of French society and died in obscurity. The details of Villon's life, including his disappearance after being exiled from Paris, are a puzzle that has occupied scholars throughout the twentieth century. His poems are rife with historical and personal references that were probably only meaningful to a select audience when they were written and are only explicable through supposition today. Fein suggests that a certain degree of uncertainty must be accepted by the student of Villon. In Francois Villon he directs his readers' attention to the "discernible patterns of language and images, changing vo...
