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Persian Nights
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 378

Persian Nights

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1998-02
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  • Publisher: Plume

Chloe, a contented and unliberated wife and mother, follows her physician husband on a visit to Iran. When he is summoned home, she has no choice but to continue on alone.

Orwell
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 268

Orwell

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The Trow City Directory Co.'s, Formerly Wilson's, Copartnership and Corporation Directory of New York City
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 314
The Unknown Orwell and Orwell: The Transformation
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 678

The Unknown Orwell and Orwell: The Transformation

For the first time, these two essential books on George Orwell have been brought together under one cover. The Unknown Orwell describes the first thirty years of Orwell's life—his childhood, the years at Eton and in Burma, and the struggles to become a writer. Orwell: The Transformation carries us forward into the crucial years 1933 to 1937 in which Eric Blair, minor novelist, became George Orwell, a powerful writer with a view, a mission, and a message.

On the Real Side
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 638

On the Real Side

This comprehensive history of black humor sets it in the context of American popular culture. Blackface minstrelsy, Stepin Fetchit, and the Amos 'n' Andy show presented a distorted picture of African Americans; this book contrasts this image with the authentic underground humor of African Americans found in folktales, race records, and all-black shows and films. After generations of stereotypes, the underground humor finally emerged before the American public with Richard Pryor in the 1970s. But Pryor was not the first popular comic to present authentically black humor. Watkins offers surprising reassessments of such seminal figures as Fetchit, Bert Williams, Moms Mabley, and Redd Foxx, looking at how they paved the way for contemporary comics such as Whoopi Goldberg, Eddie Murphy, and Bill Cosby.

The Bloomsbury Group
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 531

The Bloomsbury Group

Additions to the revised edition include an early anonymous newspaper account of Bloomsbury, and observations by Quentin Bell, Beatrice Webb, Gerald Brenan, Christopher Isherwood, Frances Partridge, and others.

Lying Low
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 289

Lying Low

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1998-04-01
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  • Publisher: Penguin

NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST “A nearly flawless performance—a beautifully constructed, elegantly written book, delicate in its perceptions, powerful in its impact.”—New York Times The riveting story of four crucial days in the lives of four people sharing a rambling Victorian house, "lying low" and harboring secrets not meant to be shared Theo Wait, a middle-aged former ballet dancer, and her brother, Anton, have taken in two boarders: beautiful Lynn, who never receives mail or visitors; and energetic and effusive Ouida, a Brazilian student and illegal alien who won't let complicated bureaucratic wrangles and constant fear of deportation taint her vision of America as the land of opportunity. A faked identity, a search for one of the FBI's most wanted escaped prison convicts, and a Brazilian feast that spins out of control kick the plot into high gear. While each of these characters has been plagued by a sense of impending disaster, the terrible thing they've all been fearing comes from an entirely unexpected direction, shattering all of their lives.

The London University Calendar
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 364

The London University Calendar

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1853
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Parliamentary Papers
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 652

Parliamentary Papers

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1849
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Contemporary American Women Writers
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 244

Contemporary American Women Writers

Ann Beattie, Annie Dillard, Maxine Hong Kingston, Toni Morrison, Cynthia Ozick, Grace Paley, Marge Piercy, Anne Redmon, Anne Tyler, and Alice Walker all seem to be especially concerned with narrative management. The ten essays in this book raise new and intriguing questions about the ways these leading women writers appropriate and transform generic norms and ultimately revise literary tradition to make it more inclusive of female experience, vision, and expression. The contributors to this volume discover diverse narrative strategies. Beattie, Dillard, Paley, and Redmon in divergent ways rely heavily upon narrative gaps, surfaces, and silences, often suggesting depths which are lamentably a...