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by Brian Leaf
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2010
"Brian Leaf has done it again! Just as Defining Twilight did, Defining New Moon continues to help students improve their vocabulary while reading Stephenie Meyer's New Moon."
—Peter Facinelli (Dr. Carlisle Cullen in the Twilight saga movies)
Why is Bella desolate and haggard? Will...
by Andrey Taranov
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
3000-WORD ENGLISH-CZECH VOCABULARYThis book is a learning tool for mastering basic Czech vocabulary. It will help you obtain a solid base in your knowledge of the Czech language. The 3000 words contained in this edition will aid in your understanding of simple phrases and hone your composition skills....
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Reproducing the English Lyric from Tottel to Shakespeare
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2014
In the latter half of the sixteenth century, English poets and printers experimented widely with a new literary format, the printed collection of lyric poetry. They not only investigated the possibilities of working with a new medium, but also wrote metaphors of human reproduction directly into their...
50 Keys to the Success of Twilight
The saga that revolutionized vampire-themed stories
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2015
The secrets behind the publishing phenomenon that shook up the industry, becoming one of the best-selling series of all times. Discover the formula that reinvented vampire stories and managed to awaken millions of people's passion for reading, making them fans of the book and encouraging them to watch the film adaptation.
Figures of Catastrophe
The Condition of Culture Novel
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2016
A bold new vision of the modern English novel
The leading critic Francis Mulhern uncovers a hidden history in the fiction of the past century, identifying a central new genre: the condition of culture novel. Reading across and against the grain of received patterns of literary association,...
Cosmopolitan Minds
Literature, Emotion, and the Transnational Imagination
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2014
During World War II and the early Cold War period, factors such as race, gender, sexual orientation, or class made a number of American writers feel marginalized in U.S. society. Cosmopolitan Minds focuses on a core of transnational writers—Kay Boyle, Pearl S. Buck, William Gardner Smith, Richard Wright,...
Walter Scott's Books
Reading the Waverley Novels
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2017
Scott's Books is an approachable introduction to the Waverley Novels. Drawing on substantial research in Scott's intertextual sources, it offers a fresh approach to the existing readings where the thematic and theoretical are the norm. Avoiding jargon, and moving briskly, it tackles the vexed question...
The Vocabulary of Modern French
Origins, Structure and Function
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2003
The Vocabulary of Modern French provides a fresh insight into contemporary French.
With this book, Hilary Wise offers the first comprehensive overview of the modern French vocabulary: its historical sources, formal organisation and social and stylistic functions.
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Ecstasy and Terror
From the Greeks to Game of Thrones
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2019
This collection of essays exemplifies the range, depth, and erudition that have made Daniel Mendelsohn “required reading for anyone interested in dissecting culture” (The Daily Beast). Here Mendelsohn once again casts an eye at literature, film, television, and the personal essay, filtering his...
THE WRITER AND REALITY
Jane Austen and Her World
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2016
One hundred and ninety nine years ago, in an English country churchyard, a lady was laid to rest who enraptures the hearts of millions around the world today. She was only forty one years old, and had never married, though her thoughts were all of girls in love with love and getting wed; and from...
Language Games
For Parents and Children
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2018
Language Games for Parents and Children by David P Taylor is a collection of language games that you can play with your children to develop their vocabulary, imagination and mastery of words.
Such mastery occurs in the daily interchange between parents and children, but sometimes, when they...
The Book Unbound
Editing and Reading Medieval Manuscripts and Texts
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2004
In The Book Unbound, scholars and editors examine how best to use new technological tools and new methodologies with artefacts of medieval literature and culture. Taking into consideration English, French, Anglo-Norman, and Latin texts from several periods, the contributors examine and re-evaluate...
by SpeedyReads
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2018
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The Prison of Love
Romance, Translation, and the Book in the Sixteenth Century
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2018
The Spanish romance Cárcel de amor blossomed into a transnational and multilingual phenomenon that captivated audiences throughout Europe at a time when literacy was expanding and print production was changing the nature of reading, writing, and of literature itself.
In The Prison of Love,...