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Hawaiian Legends
William Hyde Rice; Contributions by Mint Editions
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Sodom and Gomorrah
Marcel Proust; Contributions by Mint Editions
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R367
Discovery Miles 3 670
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Early Autumn
Louis Bromfield; Contributions by Mint Editions
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R717
R601
Discovery Miles 6 010
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The Faerie Queene
Edmund Spenser; Contributions by Mint Editions
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R512
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One Brown Girl and ¼ (1909) is a novel by Thomas MacDermot.
Published under his pseudonym Tom Redcam by the All Jamaica
Library, One Brown Girl and ¼ is a tragic story of race and class
set in Jamaica. Understated and ironic, the novel critiques the
social conditions of Jamaica under British colonialism. Through the
character of Liberta Passley, a wealthy woman of mixed racial
heritage, MacDermot sheds light on the disparities between the
island’s black and white communities, crafting a story now
recognized as essential to modern Caribbean literature. “‘I?’
said Liberta Passley, ‘am the most unhappy woman in Kingston.’
She was not speaking aloud, but was silently building up with
unspoken words a tabernacle for her thoughts. She considered now
the very positive assertion in which she had housed this thought,
went again through its very brief and enigmatic terms, and then
deliberately added the further words: ‘and in Jamaica.’”
Despite her beauty, wealth, education, and social standing, Liberta
Passley is unable to feel satisfied. Raised as the only surviving
daughter of a wealthy Englishman and his formerly-enslaved wife,
Liberta feels she must ignore her mother’s side of the family as
a means of rejecting her African roots. Manipulating her father,
she arranges for her Aunt Henrietta, her mother’s only surviving
sister and their loyal housekeeper, to be fired and thrown out.
Thinking she is making a decision for her own good, she unwittingly
welcomes disaster into her life. With a beautifully designed cover
and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of Thomas
MacDermot’s One Brown Girl and ¼ is a classic of English
literature reimagined for modern readers.
Doctor Manette, a prominent French Doctor, must flee Paris in the
midst of the chaos that has ensued in what became known as the
Reign of Terror. Fearing further persecution from his 18 maddening
years of imprisonment in the Bastille of Paris, Doctor Manette
hurriedly leaves France to be with the daughter he's never met.
Opening with the famous lines, "It was the best of times, it was
the worst of times..." Charles Dickens', A Tale of Two Cities is
perhaps one of the most celebrated and popular novels of its time.
Weaving together the narratives of vastly different but equally
profound characters against the backdrop of political revolution
and strife, A Tale of Two Cities is a tale of human perseverance.
Throughout the novel, Charles Dickens is able to portray the
hardships of each social class during the trying times of the
French Revolution in a way that is both profoundly elegant and
heartbreaking at the same time. Becoming known as the perhaps the
epitome of Dickensian writing and style, A Tale of Two Cities
measures the boundaries of human will in the fight for what is
right during a time when that just might cost your life.
Winner of the 1919 Pulitzer Prize, Booth Tarkington's The
Magnificent Ambersons is a grand historical drama and social
history of the United States that follows the story of the Amberson
family's financial decline at the start of the Industrial Age. Once
upon a time in a small-but upscale-Indianapolis town, an American
family built a dynasty. For generations, the Ambersons stood
unchallenged as the most prominent and powerful family in the
region until the turn of the century and the coming of the
industrialists. The Ambersons, now centered on the patriarch's
grandson, George, enter a previously unheard of time in which their
family name holds little value. Unable or perhaps unwilling to
change, George experiences first hand why doing things is better
than simply being things. Professionally typeset with a beautifully
designed cover, this edition of The Magnificent Ambersons is a
classic of American literature, reimagined for modern readers.
Mirroring Nella Larsen's Passing, The Blacker the Berry: A Novel of
Negro Life is the fantastic debut of Wallace Thurman. A Black boy
could get along but a Black girl would never know anything but
sorrow and disappointment. Emma Lou was born black. Abandoned by
her father at birth, she is subjected to skin bleaching by her
mother, hoping to make her child more desirable. Learning that she
is unwanted in white society but also ostracized within her own,
Emma Lou navigates a harsh and unrelenting world as she tries to
come to terms with her life and love herself in the skin she's in.
Professionally typeset with a beautifully designed cover, this
edition of The Blacker the Berry: A Novel of Negro Life is a
reimagining of a Harlem Renaissance staple for the modern reader.
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Carmilla (Paperback)
Joseph Sheridan Lefanu; Contributions by Mint Editions
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R162
R133
Discovery Miles 1 330
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Carmilla (1872) is a novella by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu. Published
twenty-six years before Bram Stoker's Dracula, Le Fanu's work of
Gothic horror and mystery is considered an important early entry in
the genre of vampire fiction. Recorded in the casebook of Dr.
Hesselius, a medical professional with a detective's sensibility,
is the story of Laura, a teenager bearing a strange secret. Raised
in a castle by her father, a widower who recently concluded his
career in service to the Austrian Empire, Laura has been haunted
since her youth, when she was visited at night by a beautiful,
spectral woman. Now eighteen, she awaits the visit of Bertha
Rheinfelt, a niece of her father's friend. When Bertha dies
mysteriously, however, and when a girl named Carmilla is brought to
the castle under strange circumstances, Laura fears that the past
has come full circle. But she soon overcomes her mournful state,
growing close with Carmilla. But the girl's behavior soon proves
unsettling. Carmilla is prone to sleepwalking, sleeps through the
day, declines to participate in prayers, and makes romantic
overtures to Laura. She begins to be haunted by strange and violent
dreams, waking one night to discover Carmilla at the foot of her
bed, and bite marks along her neck. Her father intervenes, taking
her to a local village. On the way, they meet Bertha's uncle, who
shares the chilling details of her fate. It becomes clear that
Carmilla, whoever she is, is far from the innocent young girl she
claims to be. With a beautifully designed cover and professionally
typeset manuscript, this edition of Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu's
Carmilla is a classic of Irish literature reimagined for modern
readers.
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New Amazonia (Paperback)
Elizabeth Burgoyne Corbett; Contributions by Mint Editions
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R162
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New Amazonia: A Foretaste of the Future (1889) is a novel by
Elizabeth Burgoyne Corbett. In June 1889, British novelist and
President of the Women's National Anti-Suffrage League Mary Augusta
Ward published her reactionary essay "An Appeal Against Female
Suffrage" in The Nineteenth Century. In response, Corbett penned
New Amazonia, a feminist utopian novel which depicts the emergence
of an advanced society of women in the not-so-distant future. While
little is known about Corbett, her surviving novels and stories
suggest she was a passionate campaigner for women's suffrage in an
era of conservative politics and traditional values. "'This country
is New Amazonia. A long time ago it was called Erin by some, but
Ireland was the name it was best known by. It used to be the scene
of perpetual strife and warfare. Our archives tell us that it was
subjugated by the warlike English, and that it suffered for
centuries from want and oppression.'" Having fallen asleep for
hundreds of years, a Victorian man and woman emerge to a vastly
different world. Following a devastating war between Britain and
Ireland, the British repopulated their colony with women deemed to
be surplus. On New Amazonia, these women came to control all
aspects of government and culture, leading to the eradication of
corruption and oppression. Scientifically advanced, the Amazonians
have developed a technique for strengthening the human body and
increasing the lifespan of women by hundreds of years. Mesmerized
by what she finds in this fascinating new world, the narrator
records her reactions alongside those of her male counterpart, who
remains openly hostile to the Amazonians throughout. For its
depiction of an advanced matriarchal society and celebration of
feminist ideals, New Amazonia: A Foretaste of the Future remains an
important early work of utopian science fiction. With a beautifully
designed cover and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition
of Elizabeth Burgoyne Corbett's New Amazonia: A Foretaste of the
Future is a classic of feminist utopian fiction reimagined for
modern readers.
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The Walls of Jericho
Rudolph Fisher; Contributions by Mint Editions
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The Walls of Jericho
Rudolph Fisher; Contributions by Mint Editions
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