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  • Jacob's Cane

    A Jewish Family's Journey from the Four Lands of Lithuania to the Ports of London and Baltimore; A Memoir in Five Generations

    by Elisa New ...
    Drawn to an image of her great-grandfather's ornately carved cane, scholar Elisa New embarked on a journey to discover the origins of her precious family heirloom. Treading back across the paths of her ancestors, she travels from Baltimore to the Baltic to London in order to find and understand an immigrant world profoundly affected by modern German culture, from the Enlightenment through the ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • New England Beyond Criticism

    In Defense of America�s First Literature

    by Elisa New ...
    Series series Wiley-Blackwell Manifestos
    NEW ENGLAND BEYOND CRITICISM“Elisa New’s book is a remarkable achievement. It is very rare that a critic manages to ask what seem exactly the right questions, then to answer them in a lively, brilliant, evocative, and supremely intelligent prose.”Charles F. Altieri, University of California“Elisa New is a refreshing voice among critics and historians of literature. She has a keen sense of the ... Read more

    $29.00 USD

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  • Remember Us

    My Journey from the Shtetl Through the Holocaust

    by Vic Shayne, Martin Small ...
    A New York Times Best Seller!Remember Us is a look back at the lost world of the shtetl: a wise Zayde offering prophetic and profound words to his grandson, the rich experience of Shabbos, and the treasure of a loving family. All this is torn apart with the arrival of the Holocaust, beginning a crucible fraught with twists and turns so unpredictable and surprising that they defy any attempt to ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Japanese Haiku

    Its Essential Nature and History

    by Kenneth Yasuda ...
    This is the most authoritative and concise book on Japanese haiku available: what it is, how it developed, and how it is practiced in both Japanese and English.While many haiku collections are available to Western readers, few books combine both translated haiku with haiku written originally in English, along with an analysis of individual poems and of the haiku form itself. Written by a leading ... Read more

    $6.29 USD

  • Anne Frank's Tales from the Secret Annex

    A Collection of Her Short Stories, Fables, and Lesser-Known Writings, Revised Edition

    by Anne Frank ...
    Hiding from the Nazis in the "Secret Annexe" of an old office building in Amsterdam, a thirteen-year-old girl named Anne Frank became a writer. The now famous diary of her private life and thoughts reveals only part of Anne's story, however. This book completes the portrait of this remarkable and talented young author.Tales from the Secret Annex is a complete collection of Anne Frank's lesser ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • Metamorphoses

    by A. D. Melville ...
    Translated by E. J. Kenney ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    The modern, unacademic idiom of A.D. Melville's translation opens the way to a fresh understanding of Ovid's unique and elusive vision of reality. ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • Orlando Furioso

    by Ludovico Ariosto ...
    Translated by Guido Waldman ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    `I sing of knights and ladies, of love and arms, of courtly chivalry, of courageous deeds.' So begins Ariosto's Orlando Furioso (1532), the culmination of the chivalric legends of Charlemagne and the Saracen invasion of France. It is a brilliantly witty parody of the medieval romances, and a fitting monument to the court society of the Italian Renaissance which gave them birth. This unabridged ... Read more

    $11.39 USD

  • Rosa's Child

    The True Story of one Woman's Quest for a Lost Mother and a Vanished Past

    by Jeremy JOSEPHS ...
    Born in Germany in 1936, three year old Susi Bechhofer and her twin sister Lotte were among thousands of children evacuated on the now famous Kindertransport as the country fell into the cruel grip of Nazism. Adopted by the Manns, a childless Welsh Baptist minister and his wife on their arrival in Britain, the two girls were given a new identity in an attempt to erase all traces of their previous ... Read more

    $3.18 USD

  • Sidney's 'The Defence of Poesy' and Selected Renaissance Literary Criticism

    by Gavin Alexander ...
    Controversy raged through England during the 1570-80s as Puritans denounced all manner of games & pastimes as a danger to public morals. Writers quickly turrned their attention to their own art and the first & most influential response came with Philip Sidney's Defense. Here he set out to answer contemporary critics &, with reference to Classical models of criticism, formulated a manifesto for ... Read more

    $12.79 USD

  • The Descent of Alette

    by Alice Notley ...
    Series series Penguin Poets
    In The Descent of Alette, Alice Notley presents a feminist epic, a bold journey into the deeper realms. Alette, the narrator, finds herself underground, deep beneath the city, where spirits and people ride endlessly on subways, not allowed to live in the world above. Traveling deeper and deeper, she is on a journey of continual transformation, encountering a series of figures and undergoing ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Elegy

    by David Kennedy ...
    Series series The New Critical Idiom
    Grief and mourning are generally considered to be private, yet universal instincts. But in a media age of televised funerals and visible bereavement, elegies are increasingly significant and open to public scrutiny. Providing an overview of the history of the term and the different ways in which it is used, David Kennedy:outlines the origins of elegy, and the characteristics of the genreexamines ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • They Were Just People

    Stories of Rescue in Poland During the Holocaust

    by Bill Tammeus, Jacques Cukierkorn ...
    Hitler’s attempt to murder all of Europe’s Jews almost succeeded. One reason it fell short of its nefarious goal was the work of brave non-Jews who sheltered their fellow citizens. In most countries under German control, those who rescued Jews risked imprisonment and death. In Poland, home to more Jews than any other country at the start of World War II and location of six German-built death camps ... Read more

    $18.69 USD