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Daily News, Eternal Stories by Jack Lule (Hardcover - Guilford Pubn)
 

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Daily News, Eternal Stories by Jack Lule (Hardcover - Guilford Pubn)
This compelling, often surprising book demonstrates the ways news articles of today draw from age-old tales that have chastened, challenged, entertained, and entranced people since the beginning of time. Through an insightful exploration of actual New York Times articles, award-winning professor and former journalist Jack Lule reveals mythical themes in reporting on topics from hijacking to Huey Newton, from Mother Teresa to Mike Tyson. Beneath the fresh facade of current events, Lule identifies such enduring archetypes as the innocent victim, the good mother, the hero, and the trickster. In doing so, he sheds light on how media coverage shapes our thinking about many of the confounding issues of our day, including foreign policy, terrorism, race relations, and political dissent.

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The Odyssey by Homer (Paperback - Reissue)
 

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The Odyssey by Homer (Paperback - Reissue)
A critically acclaimed translation of the ancient Greek epic poem recounts the story of the Greek hero Odysseus's eventful ten-year voyage home to Ithaca after the end of the Trojan War. Reissue. 25,000 first printing.

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Sarah's Key by Tatiana de Rosnay (Paperback - Reprint)
 

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Sarah's Key by Tatiana de Rosnay (Paperback - Reprint)
On the sixtieth anniversary of the 1942 roundup of Jews by the French police in the Vel d'Hiv section of Paris, American journalist Julia Jarmond is asked to write an article on this dark episode during World War II and embarks on an investigation that leads her to long-hidden family secrets and to the ordeal of Sarah, a young girl caught up in the raid. Reprint. 75,000 first printing.

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Undress Me in the Temple of Heaven by Susan Jane Gilman (Hardcover - Grand Central Pub)
 

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Undress Me in the Temple of Heaven by Susan Jane Gilman (Hardcover - Grand Central Pub)
Traces the author's attempt to travel the world with her friend armed only with the collected works of Nietzsche, an astrology book, and their wits; a misadventure that culminated in astonishing culture shock on the streets of communist China.

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THE COLLECTED AUTOBIOGRAPHIES OF MAYA ANGELOU by Maya Angelou (Hardcover - Modern Library)
 

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THE COLLECTED AUTOBIOGRAPHIES OF MAYA ANGELOU by Maya Angelou (Hardcover - Modern Library)
A single volume omnibus edition featuring Angelou's celebrated autobiographies contains I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Gather Together in My Name, Singin' and Swingin' and Gettin' Merry Like Christmas, The Heart of a Woman, All God's Children Need Traveling Shoes, and A Song Flung Up to Heaven.

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Hamlet by William Shakespeare (Paperback - Subsequent)
 

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Hamlet by William Shakespeare (Paperback - Subsequent)
The editor has carefully revised the Criticism section in order to accommodate the most significant interpretations published in the last twenty-eight years, while continuing to retain the seminal essays of the first edition.

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Shakespeare and Modern Culture by Marjorie Garber (Hardcover - Pantheon Books)
 

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Shakespeare and Modern Culture by Marjorie Garber (Hardcover - Pantheon Books)
"Addressing the continued timeliness of Shakespeare's work, a leading Shakespearean scholar reassesses ten key plays to explore the interconnection between the playwright and the modern world, from the question of intention in The Merchant of Venice to the persistence of difference in Othello. 35,000 first printing."

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The Best American Short Stories 2007 by Stephen King (Paperback - Mariner Books)
 

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The Best American Short Stories 2007 by Stephen King (Paperback - Mariner Books)
The acclaimed annual short fiction series--this year featuring guest editor and grandmaster of the macabre Stephen King--showcases the work of such notable authors as Richard Russo, John Barth, Alice Munro, T. C. Boyle, Mary Gordon, Ann Beattie, Jim Shepard, William Gay, Louis Auchincloss, Kate Walbert, and other notables, from a variety of acclaimed sources. Simultaneous.

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The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer (Paperback - Reissue)
 

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The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer (Paperback - Reissue)
Lively, absorbing, often outrageously funny, Chaucers The Canterbury Tales is a work of genius, an undisputed classic that has held a special appeal for each generation of readers. The Canterbury Tales gather twenty-nine of literature's most enduring (and endearing) characters in a vivid group portrait that captures the full spectrum of medieval society, from the exalted Knight to the humble plowman. A graceful modren translation facing each page of the text allows the contemporary reader to enjoy the fast pace of these selections from The Canterbury Tales with the poetry of the Middle English original always at first hand.

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The Collected Essays of Ralph Ellison by Ralph Ellison (Paperback - Reprint)
 

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The Collected Essays of Ralph Ellison by Ralph Ellison (Paperback - Reprint)
Compiled, edited, and newly revised by Ralph Ellison’s literary executor, John F. Callahan, this Modern Library Paperback Classic includes posthumously discovered reviews, criticism, and interviews, as well as the essay collections Shadow and Act (1964), hailed by Robert Penn Warren as “a body of cogent and subtle commentary on the questions that focus on race,” and Going to the Territory (1986), an exploration of literature and folklore, jazz and culture, and the nature and quality of lives that black Americans lead. “Ralph Ellison,” wrote Stanley Crouch, “reached across race, religion, class and sex to make us all Americans.”

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The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield (Paperback - Reprint)
 

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The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield (Paperback - Reprint)
Having spent six decades creating a series of alternate lives designed to bring her fame and fortune while hiding the truth about her tragic past, reclusive and enigmatic Vida Winter finds herself torn by young Margaret Lea's simple request for the truth about her own birth. A first novel. Reprint.

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Bicycles by Nikki Giovanni (Hardcover - William Morrow & Co)
 

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Bicycles by Nikki Giovanni (Hardcover - William Morrow & Co)
A new collection by the award-winning writer of Love Poems evaluates poignant and tragic experiences from the past decade, from the losses of a mother and sister to the shooting at Virginia Tech, where she works as a professor of English. 50,000 first printing.

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Homage to Catalonia by George Orwell (Paperback - Mariner Books)
 

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Homage to Catalonia by George Orwell (Paperback - Mariner Books)
In 1936 Orwell went to Spain to report on the Civil War and instead joined the fight against the Fascists. This famous account describes the war and Orwell's experiences.

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The Iliad by Homer (Paperback - Reissue)
 

The Iliad by Homer (Paperback - Reissue)

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The Iliad by Homer (Paperback - Reissue)
Robert Fagles, winner of the PEN/Ralph Manheim Medal for Translation and a 1996 Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters presents us with his universally acclaimed modern verse translation of the world's greatest war story. Rage-Goddess, sing the rage of Peleus' son Achilles, murderous, doomed, that cost the Achaeans countless losses, hurling down to the House of Death so many sturdy souls... Thus begins the stirring story of the Trojan War and the rage of Achilles that has gripped listeners and readers for 2,700 years. This timeless poem still vividly conveys the horror and heroism of men and gods wrestling with towering emotions and battling amidst devastation and destruction, as it moves inexorably to its wrenching, tragic conclusion. Renowned classicist Bernard Knox observes in his superb Introduction that although the violence of the Iliad is grim and relentless, it co-exists with both images of civilized life and a poignant yearning for peace. Combining the skills of a poet and scholar, Robert Fagles brings the energy of contemporary language to this enduring heroic epic. He maintains the drive and metric music of Homer's poetry, and evokes the impact and nuance of the Iliad's mesmerizing repeated phrases in what Peter Levi calls "an astonishing performance."

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