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The Faerie Queene
Edmund Spenser; Contributions by Mint Editions
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R512
Discovery Miles 5 120
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Sodom and Gomorrah
Marcel Proust; Contributions by Mint Editions
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R541
R367
Discovery Miles 3 670
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Hawaiian Legends
William Hyde Rice; Contributions by Mint Editions
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R349
R290
Discovery Miles 2 900
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Early Autumn
Louis Bromfield; Contributions by Mint Editions
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R593
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While trying to sleep, a young boy is startled by the North Wind,
who chooses to bring him along as she travels throughout the night.
The duo embark on eye-opening adventures that teach the child
valuable life lessons. Diamond is a young boy who comes from a poor
family. Despite his homelife, he maintains his innocence and
chooses to embrace joy. One night when he's struggling to sleep, he
encounters the sweeping presence of the North Wind. She enjoys the
child's company and allows him to join her on her travels. During
their journey, Diamond discovers the positive and negative effects
of her presence. He realizes she can be a source of support but
also do great harm. In At the Back of the North Wind, George
MacDonald explores spiritual and moral conflict. It's infused with
Christian themes including an allegory for Jesus Christ. The story
addresses a complex topic using a simple narrative and stunning
visuals. With an eye-catching new cover, and professionally typeset
manuscript, this edition of At the Back of the North Wind is both
modern and readable.
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New Amazonia (Paperback)
Elizabeth Burgoyne Corbett; Contributions by Mint Editions
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R196
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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R292
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The Walls of Jericho
Rudolph Fisher; Contributions by Mint Editions
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R466
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Anna Karenina (Hardcover)
Leo Tolstoy; Contributions by Mint Editions
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R912
Discovery Miles 9 120
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"One of the greatest love stories in world literature."-Vladimir
Nabokov "Anna Karenina is a perfect work of art. This novel
contains a humane message that has not yet been heeded in Europe
and that is much needed by the people of the western world."-Fyodor
Dostoevsky "The truth is we are not to take Anna Karenina as a work
of art; we are to take it as a piece of life."-Matthew Arnold
Although love and infidelity are a major themes of Leo Tolstoy's
epic Russian novel Anna Karenina (1877), there is a startling scope
of philosophical and theological insight within the pages of this
monumental work. The pinnacle of the realist novel, the commonplace
lives and frustrations of the characters within Anna Karenina are
woven together in parallel subtexts that ask difficult questions.
The story of the extramarital affair between Anna Karenina and the
young bachelor Count Vronsky is at the center of this complex work
of literature. When Anna's husband discovers the infidelity of his
wife, his primary concern is not the well-being of his marriage,
but his own self-image. The downward spiral of Anna's illicit
behavior is paralleled with the story of Kitty and Konstantin
Levin, who is a wealthy agriculturalist but somewhat socially
clumsy figure. Levin and Kitty's love is unblemished, yet his
struggles with faith and his unrelenting philosophical questioning
paint a profound portrait of internal anguish. This classic novel
examines the depth of the human soul against the backdrop of
19th-century Russia as no other work of literature has done. With
an eye-catching new cover, and professionally typeset manuscript,
this edition of Anna Karenina is both modern and readable.
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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Flame and Shadow (Paperback)
Sara Teasdale; Contributions by Mint Editions
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R229
R189
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Flame and Shadow (1920) is a poetry collection by Sara Teasdale.
The poet's fifth collection, published two years after she won the
1918 Pulitzer Prize, is a masterful collection of lyric poems
meditating on life, death, and the natural world. Somber and
celebratory, symbolic and grounded in experience, Flame and Shadow
revels in the mystery of existence itself. "What do I care, in the
dreams and the languor of spring, / That my songs do not show me at
all?" Content to depict the rhythms of nature, the songs of birds,
and "the silver light after a storm," Teasdale's poetry dissolves
the poet's ego in order to access a deeper well of creative energy:
"For my mind is proud and strong enough to be silent, / It is my
heart that makes my songs, not I." In "There Will Come Soft Rains,"
a poem born from a decade of war and widespread disease, Teasdale
imagines a posthuman world where beauty and harmony continue
despite our disappearance: "Robins will wear their feathery fire /
Whistling their whims on a low fence-wire; And not one will know of
the war..." For Teasdale, a poet who merges an abiding affection
for flora and fauna with a critical distance from human affairs,
the belief in the life of the world, with or without us, is enough.
With a beautifully designed cover and professionally typeset
manuscript, this edition of Sara Teasdale's Flame and Shadow is a
classic work of American poetry reimagined for modern readers.
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The Gods of Pegana (Paperback)
Lord Dunsany; Contributions by Mint Editions
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R191
R157
Discovery Miles 1 570
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The Gods of Pegana (1905) is a short story collection by Lord
Dunsany. Published at the beginning of his career, The Gods of
Pegana would influence such writers as J. R. R. Tolkein, Ursula K.
Le Guin, and H. P. Lovecraft. Recognized as a pioneering author of
fantasy and science fiction, Dunsany is a man whose work, in the
words of Lovecraft, remains "unexcelled in the sorcery of
crystalline singing prose, and supreme in the creation of a
gorgeous and languorous world of incandescently exotic vision."
"Whether the season be winter or whether it be summer, whether it
be morning among the worlds or whether it be night, Skarl still
beateth his drum, for the purposes of the gods are not yet
fulfilled." The Gods of Pegana, Dunsany's debut collection of
stories, contains some of his finest tales of fantasy and
adventure. The Mana-Yood-Sushai created the gods of Pegana before
falling asleep in the middle of Time. The only thing keeping him
from creating new gods and worlds is the drummer Skarl, who can
never cease his playing. In their creator's absence, dozens of
small gods and a thousand local deities have free reign to create
the worlds and realities they want. As they compete to outdo one
another, the order and peace of Pegana hangs in the balance.
Humorous and inventive, Dunsany's tales of high fantasy continue to
delight over a century after they first appeared in print. With a
beautifully designed cover and professionally typeset manuscript,
this edition of Lord Dunsany's The Gods of Pegana is a classic of
Irish fantasy fiction reimagined for modern readers.
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