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Paul Forster's Daughter
Reprint of the original, first published in 1861.
Everybody's Here
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Deadweight
It was hailed as the answer to the obesity epidemic; a pill that allows you to eat anything you like and still lose weight. Millions were attracted by the promise of a leaner, fitter body, but there was a fatal and unforeseen flaw in this new panacea. A tiny microbe, lurking within, slowly infects the users. In turn they pass the infection to others with a sneeze, a cough or a simple kiss, and before long tens of millions are infected and turned into mindless, shambling wrecks, with the sole purpose of existing to eat. The virus is rampant, reaching into every corner of the globe. Governments collapse and shut down, unable to contain the outbreak, while the army works hard against the unendi...
King of the Mountain
Eighteen year old King has been in and out of high school and in and out of town ever since his mother's nervous breakdown. When his girlfriend Jana commits suicide he flees again to escape his feelings about her death. The journey takes him to a ski town and a job in a truck-stop cafe run by Maggie, a hard woman who has suffered similar losses of her own. King meets a new girl, Sunny, and begins to carve out a life for himself by becoming one of the best skiers on the mountain. But he can't escape his past and his dangerous skiing brings him into conflict with Denny, the head of the Ski Patrol and Sunny's ex-boyfriend. Once more King turns to flee from his problems--but this time Maggie stands in his way and escape is not so easy.
Eighteenth-Century Geography and Representations of Space
The book is about the influence of geography on literary creation in the eighteenth century. It approaches the subject within the context of the changes that occurred in the way people thought about space and shows how the geographical way of looking at the globe and one's surroundings became one of the main constituents of fictional realism.
Peirce and the Threat of Nominalism
Charles Peirce, the founder of pragmatism, was a thinker of extraordinary depth and range - he wrote on philosophy, mathematics, psychology, physics, logic, phenomenology, semiotics, religion and ethics - but his writings are difficult and fragmentary. This book provides a clear and comprehensive explanation of Peirce's thought. His philosophy is presented as a systematic response to 'nominalism', the philosophy which he most despised and which he regarded as the underpinning of the dominant philosophical worldview of his time. The book explains Peirce's challenge to nominalism as a theory of meaning and shows its implications for his views of knowledge, truth, the nature of reality, and ethics. It will be essential reading both for Peirce scholars and for those new to his work.
De Asylis Graecorum
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Jonathan Swift
The Critical Heritage gathers together a large body of critical sources on major figures in literature. Each volume presents contemporary responses to a writer's work, enabling student and researcher to read the material themselves.
Jonathan Swift
Much has been written of Swift and his principal satires. But one aspect of his art has received surprisingly little attention, namely his satirical deployment of fictions, which more than anything else endeared him to early readers.Jonathan Swift: The Fictions of the Satirist." Against the current tendency to stress the relationship between the work and the life of the man or his age, J.-P. Forster explores how the great Augustan satirist uses various simple fictional devices to produce effects which lend his satires a subtlety that irony and rhetoric could never achieve by themselves. He argues that it is these fictional devices that have allowed his satires to survive the test of time. A close examination of the well-known and not so well-known satires demonstrates that Swift's constant concern with the relationship of text to reader played a crucial role in his choice and handling of fiction. It also suggests that his conception of imagination, more important to an understanding of his work than generally assumed, is as problematic as his conception of reason.
Fall of Man
DS Jim Walsh is an experienced and once brilliant detective who has a tendency to drink far too much. However, what he sees as an innocent habit that doesn't harm anyone but himself and maybe his marriage, is about to cause him some serious problems. Waking up with a pounding head and a mouth as dry as the Sahara after another night on the tiles is nothing new and nothing that a few tablets can't fix. The bigger problem is the dead girl lying in bed next to him. In an instant Jim goes from being the lead detective to the only suspect in a brutal murder he has no recollection of, or motive for. Before long he is on the run, as he desperately works to uncover the truth about what really happen...
