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xi, 381 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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English
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Every family has its own history. Many families carry a tragic past. Like the author's mother, many Poles did not tell their children a complete story of their wartime exploits--of the underground Home Army, the tragedy of the Warsaw Uprising, the civil war against the Communists. Years had to pass before the stories of suffering and heroism could be told. In Family History of Fear, Agata Tuszyńska, one of Poland's most admired poets and cultural...
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Modern Library chronicles volume 34
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xvii, 244 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 22 cm.
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English
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English
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"Co-Winner of the 2006 Etkind Prize, Best Book by a Western Scholar on Russian Literature/Culture, European University at St. Petersburg" "One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2002" Joseph Frank is Professor of Comparative Literature Emeritus at Princeton University and Professor of Comparative Literature and Slavic Languages and Literature Emeritus at Stanford University. Previous volumes of Dostoevsky have received the National Book Critics...
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English
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A memoir of the steamboat era on the Mississippi River before the American Civil War. The first half details a brief history of the river from its discovery by Hernando de Soto in 1541 and describes Twain's career as a Mississippi steamboat pilot, the fulfillment of a childhood dream. The second half of Life on the Mississippi tells of Twain's return, many years after, to travel the river from St. Louis to New Orleans. By then the competition from...
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xvii, 312 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 25 cm
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English
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"The foundations of modern knowledge--philosophy, math, astronomy, geography -- were laid by the Greeks, whose ideas were written on scrolls and stored in libraries across the Mediterranean and beyond. But as the vast Roman Empire disintegrated, so did appreciation of these precious texts. Christianity cast a shadow over so-called pagan thought, books were burned, and the library of Alexandria, the greatest repository of classical knowledge, was destroyed....
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xxii, 312 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
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English
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"Genius. The word connotes an almost unworldly power: the power to create, to grasp universal secrets, even to destroy. As renowned intellectual historian Darrin McMahon explains in Divine Fury, the concept of genius can be traced back to antiquity, when men of great insight were thought to be advised by demons. The modern idea of genius emerged in tension with a growing belief in human equality; contesting the notion that all are created equal, geniuses...
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xxvi, 484 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 20 cm
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English
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In the teeming, disordered, and sexually charged square half-mile centered on London's Covent Garden something extraordinary evolved in the 18th century. It was the world's first creative 'Bohemia'. The nation's most significant artists, actors, poets, novelists, and dramatists lived here. Vic Gatrell recreates this time and place by drawing on a vast range of sources, showing the deepening fascination with 'real life' that resulted in the work of...
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English
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While preserving the narrative structure, & combination of biography, intellectual history & literary criticism of the original, this abridged edition places the works of Dostoevsky in personal, historical & above all ideological context, & provides a biography of the author & a cultural history of 19th century Russia.
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485 pages ; 23 cm
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English
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Culling the best of his monthly column "Stuff I've Been Reading" in The Believer magazine, the bestselling author presents hilarious observations on a vast array of topics, and provides a wide-ranging reader list that serves as a reminder as to why we read.
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xxxiv, 280 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
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English
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In 1925 Janet Flanner began writing a fortnightly 'letter from Paris' for the nascent New Yorker. This is a collection of those letters written in the 1920s and 1930s, one of the most fascinating periods in the city's history.
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xxix, 304 pages ; 25 cm
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English
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"In Only a Voice, George Scialabba examines the chasm between modernity's promise of progress and the sobering reality of our present day through studies of the most influential public intellectuals of our time. In Scialabba's hands, literary criticism becomes a powerful tool for expressing political passion and demonstrating the generative power of argument and an inquisitive mind. Drawing together a diverse group of thinkers, artists, activists,...
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