The Last Lover

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Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300206887
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book The Last Lover written by Can Xue and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2014-07-01 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: divIn Can Xue’s extraordinary book, we encounter a full assemblage of husbands, wives, and lovers. Entwined in complicated, often tortuous relationships, these characters step into each other’s fantasies, carrying on conversations that are “forever guessing games.” Their journeys reveal the deepest realms of human desire, figured in Can Xue’s vision of snakes and wasps, crows, cats, mice, earthquakes, and landslides. In dive bars and twisted city streets, on deserts and snowcapped mountains, the author creates an extreme world where every character “is driving death away with a singular performance.” Who is the last lover? The novel is bursting with vividly drawn characters. Among them are Joe, sales manager of a clothing company in an unnamed Western country, and his wife, Maria, who conducts mystical experiments with the household’s cats and rosebushes. Joe’s customer Reagan is having an affair with Ida, a worker at his rubber plantation, while clothing-store owner Vincent runs away from his wife in pursuit of a woman in black who disappears over and over again. By the novel’s end, we have accompanied these characters on a long march, a naive, helpless, and forsaken search for love, because there are just some things that can’t be stopped—or helped./DIV

The Conquest of Rome

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 368 pages
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The Tapestry Book

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Total Pages : 514 pages
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Cervantes in Seventeenth-Century England

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Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191561584
Total Pages : 763 pages
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Download or read book Cervantes in Seventeenth-Century England written by Dale B. J. Randall and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2009-01-29 with total page 763 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cervantes in Seventeenth-century England garners well over a thousand English references to Cervantes and his works, thus providing the fullest and most intriguing early English picture ever made of the writings of Spain's greatest writer. Besides references to the nineteen books of Cervantes's prose available to seventeenth-century English readers (including four little-known abridgments), this new volume includes entries by such notable writers as Ben Jonson, John Fletcher, William Wycherley, Aphra Behn, Thomas Hobbes, John Dryden, and John Locke, as well as many lesser-known and anonymous writers. A reader will find, among others, a counterfeiter, a midwife, an astrologer, a princess, a diarist, and a Harvard graduate. Altogether this broad range of writers, famed and forgotten alike, brings to light not only sectarian and political tensions of the day, but also glimpses of the arts-of weaving, singing, acting, engraving, and painting. Even dancing, for there was a dance called the "Sancho Panzo". The volume opens with a wide-ranging Introduction that among other things traces the English reception of both Cervantes's Don Quixote and his Novelas ejemplares, including the part they played in English drama. In the main body of the work, individual items are arranged chronologically by year and, within that framework, alphabetically by author, thus providing little-known seventeenth-century evidence regarding the nature and breadth of British interest in Cervantes in various decades. Thorough annotation helps readers to place individual entries in their historical, social, political, and in some instances religious contexts. The volume includes twenty-nine germane seventeenth-century pictures, an index of references to chapters in Don Quixote, and a full bibliography and index.

The conquest of Rome

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Publisher : Good Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (64 download)

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Download or read book The conquest of Rome written by Matilde Serao and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-12-09 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The conquest of Rome" by Matilde Serao tells of life in turn-of-the-century Roman times. The novel's insights into the social and political temperaments of the times makes for involving reading. Her life as an Italian journalist and novelist is a fascinating one. She was the first woman called to edit an Italian newspaper, Il Corriere di Roma and later Il Giorno.

Vermeer and the Delft School

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Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN 13 : 0870999737
Total Pages : 642 pages
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Download or read book Vermeer and the Delft School written by Walter A. Liedtke and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 2001 with total page 642 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Walter Liedtke, curator of European paintings at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, has assembled a splendid catalog of Vermeer and his artistic milieu. Seven lengthy, well-illustrated chapters (Liedtke wrote five, Dutch art historians Michiel Plomp and Marten Jan Bok wrote the others) describe life in the city of Delft; the painters Carel Fabritius, Leonart Bramer, and others who preceded Vermeer; the careers of Vermeer and De Hooch; the making of drawings and prints in 17th-century Delft; and the collecting of art in the same period. The catalog follows: each painting, print, and drawing accompanied by a lengthy catalog essay. Oversize: 12.25x9.75". c. Book News Inc.

Shakespeare and Lost Plays

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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108843263
Total Pages : 239 pages
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Download or read book Shakespeare and Lost Plays written by David McInnis and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-03-25 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores Shakespeare's plays in their most immediate context: the hundreds of plays known to original audiences, but lost to us.

The Prado. Art Guide

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Publisher : ArgoNowta
ISBN 13 : 8418943416
Total Pages : 296 pages
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The Mirror & the Light

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Publisher : Henry Holt and Company
ISBN 13 : 0805096612
Total Pages : 831 pages
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The Greatest Classics Ever Written

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Publisher : e-artnow
ISBN 13 : 8026895428
Total Pages : 40892 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (268 download)

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Auction Prices Weekly

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Total Pages : 592 pages
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Every Woman's Encyclopaedia

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Total Pages : 738 pages
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Download or read book Every Woman's Encyclopaedia written by and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 738 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Cosmos

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Publisher : Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 0802195261
Total Pages : 144 pages
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Bad Girls and Sick Boys

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Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520919718
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (29 download)

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World's Greatest Classics in One Volume

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Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 28594 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (596 download)

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Interludes

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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European Post-medieval Tapestries and Related Hangings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art

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Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN 13 : 0870994069
Total Pages : 426 pages
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Download or read book European Post-medieval Tapestries and Related Hangings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art written by Edith Appleton Standen and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 1985 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tapestry making flourished in the major centers of western Europe from the fourteenth through the nineteenth centuries. Thousands of tapestries were woven as special commissions for church, crown, and nobility. This publication is a comprehensive catalogue of the Museum's collection of tapestries and allied works made after the Middle Ages.-- Metropolitan Museum of Art website.