Being Sherlock - A Sherlockian's Stroll Through the Best Sherlock Holmes Stories by Ashley D. Polasek
$48.99 AUD
Category: Literature
Being Sherlock shares the best collection of Sherlock Holmes stories fans have never had, until now. Shared by Sherlockian Ashley D. Polasek, she nimbly sets the stage for each story and shares interesting Sherlockian tidbits about the incredible evolution of this iconic character. Famous former and cur ...Show more
Fairy Tales for the Disillusioned: Enc.. by Gretchen Schultz; Lewis Seifert
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Category: Literature | Series: Oddly Modern Fairy Tales Ser.
A newly translated collection of subversive French fairy tales by writers from the Belle poqueThe wolf is tricked by Red Riding Hood into strangling her grandmother and is subsequently arrested. Sleeping Beauty and Cinderella do not live happily ever after. And the fairies are saucy, angry, and capricio ...Show more
Film Genre: The Basics by Barry Keith Grant
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Category: Literature
Offering an accessible introduction to the study of film genres and genre films, this book examines the use of genre in cinema from its beginnings to the present day. - Accessibly and expertly written for undergraduate students by the leading scholar on film genre, Barry Keith Grant, who has written and ...Show more
Insomniac Dreams: Experiments With Time by Vladimir Nabokov; Gennady Barabtarlo (Commentaries by, Editor)
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Category: Literature
Nabokov's dream diary--published for the first time On October 14, 1964, Vladimir Nabokov, a lifelong insomniac, began a curious experiment. Over the next eighty days, immediately upon waking, he wrote down his dreams, following the instructions in An Experiment with Time by British philosopher John Du ...Show more
Josephus's the Jewish War - A Biography by Martin Goodman
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Category: Literature | Series: Lives of Great Religious Bks.
An essential introduction to Josephus's momentous war narrativeThe Jewish War is Josephus's superbly evocative account of the Jewish revolt against Rome, which was crushed in 70 CE with the siege of Jerusalem and the destruction of the Temple. Martin Goodman describes the life of this book, from its com ...Show more
Lectures on Shakespeare by W. H. Auden; Arthur C. Kirsch (Editor)
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Category: Literature | Series: Princeton Classics Ser.
From one of the great modern writers, the acclaimed lectures in which he draws on a lifetime of experience to take the measure of Shakespeare's plays and sonnets "W. H. Auden, poet and critic, will conduct a course on Shakespeare at the New School for Social Research beginning Wednesday. Mr. Auden . . . ...Show more
Packing My Library - An Elegy and Ten Digressions by Alberto Manguel
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Category: Literature | Reading Level: very good
A best-selling author and world-renowned bibliophile meditates on his vast personal library and champions the vital role of all libraries. In June 2015 Alberto Manguel prepared to leave his centuries-old village home in France's Loire Valley and reestablish himself in a one-bedroom apartment on Manhatta ...Show more
Savage Tales - The Writings of Paul Gauguin by Linda Goddard
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Category: Literature
An original study of Gauguin's writings, unfolding their central role in his artistic practice and negotiation of colonial identityAs a French artist who lived in Polynesia, Paul Gauguin (1848-1903) occupies a crucial position in histories of European primitivism. This is the first book devoted to his w ...Show more
Shakespeare and the Folktale - An Anthology of Stories by Charlotte Artese
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Category: Literature
An international collection of the traditional tales that inspired some of Shakespeare's greatest playsShakespeare knew a good story when he heard one, and he wasn't afraid to borrow from what he heard or read, especially traditional folktales. The Merchant of Venice, for example, draws from "A Pound of ...Show more
Sounds by Wassily Kandinsky; Elizabeth R. Napier
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Category: Literature
A dazzling yet little-known artist's book that distills the painter's seminal interests in abstraction and the unity of the arts Wassily Kandinsky (1866-1944) was a Russian pioneer of abstract painting whose work has influenced generations of artists. His Sounds (Kl nge) of 1912 is one of the earliest, ...Show more
The Book of Greek and Roman Folktales, Legends, and Myths by William Hansen (Introduction by, Edited and Translated by)
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Category: Literature
The first anthology to present the entire range of ancient Greek and Roman stories--from myths and fairy tales to jokes Captured centaurs and satyrs, incompetent seers, people who suddenly change sex, a woman who remembers too much, a man who cannot laugh--these are just some of the colorful characters ...Show more
The Short Story of the Novel: A Pocket Guide to Key Genres, Novels, Themes and Techniques by Henry Russell
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Category: Literature
The Short Story of the Novel is a new and innovative introduction to the best works of fiction from the last 500 years. Simply constructed, the book explores 60 key novels from The Tale of Genji to My Brilliant Friend.In addition to enjoyable descriptions of the novels and concise explanations of why th ...Show more
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