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EXTRACTS FROM ADAM S DIARY (1904) and EVE S DIARY (1906) are
essentially send-ups of the scripture, in which Twain parodied
Genesis, the parables of creation and original sin, and Eve s role
in the fall of humankind. In EXTRACTS FROM ADAM S DIARY, published
with Fred Strothmann s humorous cartoons of supposedly ancient
stone carvings on every left-hand page, Twain playfully established
Niagara Falls Park as the setting of the Garden of Eden, the
honeymoon capital of the world. EVE S DIARY, accompanied by the
stunning line drawings of Lester Ralph, was Twain s moving eulogy
to his wife, Livy, who died the previous year. The grief-stricken
Samuel Clemens, in a letter to his brother-in-law, Charles Langdon,
wrote: I am a man without a country. Wherever Livy was that was my
country. Similarly Adam s tribute to Eve at the end of Eve s Diary
reads, Wheresoever she was, there was Eden. Eve s story is tender
throughout and focuses on the more humorous aspects of Adam and Eve
s relationship and eventual marriage. Like Adam s story it lacks
the darker implications of the other biblical pieces Twain wrote
during the last decade of his life.
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The Dead (Paperback)
James Joyce; Edited by Thomas Fasano
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R300
Discovery Miles 3 000
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Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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The Dead is one of the twentieth centurys most beautiful pieces of
short literature. Taking his inspiration from a family gathering
held every year on the Feast of the Epiphany, Joyce pens a story
about a married couple attending a Christmas-season party at the
house of the husbands two elderly aunts. A shocking confession made
by the husbands wife toward the end of the story showcases the
power of Joyces greatest innovation: the epiphany, that moment when
everything, for character and reader alike, is suddenly clear.
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The Arean Wall
Thomas Fasano
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R337
Discovery Miles 3 370
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Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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Gertrude (Paperback)
Hermann Hesse; Translated by Adele Guggenheimer Lewisohn; Introduction by Thomas Fasano
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R318
Discovery Miles 3 180
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In this novel about music, love, and creativity, Hermann Hesse
weaves a tale of loss and redemption. Kuhn, the sensitive narrator,
disabled in an accident as a young man, has become a renowned
composer. He is drawn to a beautiful, mysterious singer named
Gertrude and becomes engulfed in an enduring passion for her. But
because he fears her sympathy, he ends up losing her to his friend
and singer, Muoth. Kuhn becomes inextricably involved in their
ill-fated marriage and is almost destroyed -- but eventually he
finds his redemption through his art and the completion of his
opera.
Featuring 30 of the greatest short stories from the most
distinguished writers in the American short-story tradition, this
new anthology begins with Washington Irving's tale "Rip Van Winkle"
and ranges across more than one hundred years of storytelling,
concluding with F. Scott Fitzgerald's classic, "Winter Dreams."
Other selections include Poe's "The Fall of the House of Usher,"
Melville's "Bartleby, The Scrivener," Harte's "The Luck of Roaring
Camp," "To Build a Fire," by Jack London, "The Middle Years" by
Henry James, plus stories by Mark Twain, Sarah Orne Jewett, Charles
Chesnutt, Kate Chopin, Stephen Crane, Willa Cather, Ambrose Bierce,
Theodore Dreiser, and others. Perfect for classroom use, this
outstanding collection of short stories will also prove popular
with fiction readers everywhere.
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