Willa Cather
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English
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Willa Cather's profound Pulitzer Prize-winning novel is an almost serene World War I story. One of Ours captures the inner depths of ordinary people and delves into their everyday thoughts and lives.
Claude Wheeler is struggling to find direction for his life. Under his parents' wishes, he is studying at a Christian college, but he lacks the devout, pious attitude that comes so easily to his mother. When his father expands the family farm, Claude...
43) Five stories
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Vintage book volume K28
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214 pages ; 19 cm.
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English
50) My mortal enemy
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122 pages
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English
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Myra Henshawes̀ misadventures as her own worst enemy due to greed.
52) Lucy Gayheart
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195 pages ; 21 cm.
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English
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Fervently pursuing the life of an artist, a young music student leaves behind her small midwestern town and comes to know the elation and heartache of a life in the creative world.
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301 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
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English
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Medusa's daughters is a sinister Gothic delight, full of unrepentant witches, ghosts, dryads, and changelings. Goss is an expert guide to the strange codes of fin-de-siécle patriarch and the bold, monstrous women who defied them.
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Presented here is Volume III of our Feminist Literary Classics series, featuring three of the most important feminist novels ever written: “Orlando: A Biography” by Virginia Woolf, “O Pioneers!” by Willa Cather and “So Big” by Edna Ferber.
The first book in this collection is “Orlando: A Biography”, a groundbreaking English novel by Virginia Woolf that explores English history, gender roles and sexual politics in a way few books have...
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Some of the most iconic tales made it into this volume of Fairy Tales for Adults. These stories with universal appeal for generations of all ages bring some of the most memorable characters together. They seem both familiar and mysterious every time one comes in contact with them. The eternal wisdom and charm keeps these stories alive for hundreds of years. This volume includes: Beauty and the Beast, Blue Beard, Cinderella by Charles Perrault, The...
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Español
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Las mujeres se han amado desde siempre. No obstante, las diversas formas del amor sáfico permanecieron ocultas, encriptadas y codificadas hasta prácticamente las primeras décadas del siglo XX. Antes de El pozo de la soledad (1928) de Radclyffe Hall, considerada la primera novela de tema lésbico en lengua inglesa, se habían publicado otros textos de idéntica temática, principalmente poesía. Era extraño, pues, que un género tan extendido y...
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Christmas is a special time of the year. It brings so many memories of happiness, childhood mischief, reflection and forgiveness. This selection of Christmas stories brings some of the best tales from around the world to share the magic, wisdom and love of Christmas Time. The collection includes: The Heavenly Christmas Tree by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, At Christmas Time by Anton Chekhov, A Kidnapped Santa Claus by L. Frank Baum, The Gift of the Magi by...