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Zayde

Author : Marie-Madeleine Lafayette
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226468445
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (264 download)

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Download or read book Zayde written by Marie-Madeleine Lafayette and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2007-11-01 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Standing at the critical juncture between traditional romance and early novelistic realism, Zayde is both the swan song of a literary tradition nearly two thousand years old and a harbinger of the modern psychological novel. Zayde unfolds during the long medieval struggle between Christians and Muslims for control of the Iberian Peninsula; Madame de Lafayette (1634-93) takes the reader on a Mediterranean tour typical of classical and seventeenth-century romances—from Catalonia to Cyprus and back again—with battles, prophecies, and shipwrecks dotting the crisscrossed paths of the book’s noble lovers. But where romance was long and episodic, Zayde possesses a magisterial architecture of suspense. Chaste and faithful heroines and heroes are replaced here by characters who are consumed by jealousy and unable to love happily. And, unlike in traditional romance, the reader is no longer simply expected to admire deeds of bravery and virtue, but instead is caught up in intense first-person testimony on the psychology of desire. Unavailable in English for more than two centuries, Zayde reemerges here in Nicholas Paige’s accessible and vibrant translation as a worthy representative of a once popular genre and will be welcomed by readers of French literature and students of the European novelistic tradition.

Tea with Grandpa

Author : Barney Saltzberg
Publisher : Roaring Brook Press
ISBN 13 : 1466865377
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)

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Download or read book Tea with Grandpa written by Barney Saltzberg and published by Roaring Brook Press. This book was released on 2014-04-15 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spending time with Grandpa is always fun. Singling, laughing, eating, and playing. And when it's time to say goodbye, It won't be for long because He's never too far away to have tea. In this sweetly simple, rhyming picture book by acclaimed author/artist Barney Saltzberg, a little girl tells us about her daily tea ritual with her grandfather where they sing and laugh and clink their teacups with the help of their computers and a video chat. A Neal Porter Book

Mapping the Middle East

Author : Zayde Antrim
Publisher : Reaktion Books
ISBN 13 : 1780239548
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (82 download)

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Download or read book Mapping the Middle East written by Zayde Antrim and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2018-04-15 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mapping the Middle East explores the many ways people have visualized the vast area lying between the Atlantic Ocean and the Oxus and Indus River Valleys over the past millennium. By analyzing maps produced from the eleventh century on, Zayde Antrim emphasizes the deep roots of mapping in a region too often considered unexamined and unchanging before the modern period. As Antrim argues, better-known maps from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries—a period coinciding with European colonialism and the rise of the nation-state—not only obscure this rich past, but also constrain visions for the region’s future. Organized chronologically, Mapping the Middle East addresses the medieval “Realm of Islam;” the sixteenth- to eighteenth-century Ottoman Empire; French and British colonialism through World War I; nationalism in modern Turkey, Iran, and Israel/Palestine; and alternative geographies in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Vivid color illustrations throughout allow readers to compare the maps themselves with Antrim’s analysis. Much more than a conventional history of cartography, Mapping the Middle East is an incisive critique of the changing relationship between maps and belonging in a dynamic world region over the past thousand years.

Tender Geographies

Author : Joan DeJean
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780231513630
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (136 download)

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Download or read book Tender Geographies written by Joan DeJean and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 1993-12-16 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tender Geographies

The Place of Exile

Author : Juliette Cherbuliez
Publisher : Bucknell University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780838756034
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (56 download)

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Download or read book The Place of Exile written by Juliette Cherbuliez and published by Bucknell University Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At once political institution, lived experience, and discursive figure, exile defined Louis XIV's absolutist France. The Place of Exile connects the movements of both people and books through and around this absolutist territory in order to understand the deliberate construction of real and imagined marginal cultures. Four case studies of everyday, sociable writing called leisure literature guide us through an ever-widening territory of disaffection and alienation, from the center of absolutism at Louis XIV's first court to Europe's international communities of refugees.

Routes and Realms

Author : Zayde Antrim
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019022715X
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (92 download)

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Download or read book Routes and Realms written by Zayde Antrim and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Routes and Realms explores the ways in which Muslims expressed attachment to land in formal texts from the ninth through the eleventh centuries. These texts reveal that territories were imagined specifically as homes, cities, and regions and acted as powerful categories of belonging in the early Islamic world.

Broken Strings

Author : Eric Walters
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0735266255
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (352 download)

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Download or read book Broken Strings written by Eric Walters and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2019-09-10 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A violin and a middle-school musical unleash a dark family secret in this moving story by an award-winning author duo. For fans of The Devil's Arithmetic and Hana's Suitcase. It's 2002. In the aftermath of the twin towers -- and the death of her beloved grandmother -- Shirli Berman is intent on moving forward. The best singer in her junior high, she auditions for the lead role in Fiddler on the Roof, but is crushed to learn that she's been given the part of the old Jewish mother in the musical rather than the coveted part of the sister. But there is an upside: her "husband" is none other than Ben Morgan, the cutest and most popular boy in the school. Deciding to throw herself into the role, she rummages in her grandfather's attic for some props. There, she discovers an old violin in the corner -- strange, since her Zayde has never seemed to like music, never even going to any of her recitals. Showing it to her grandfather unleashes an anger in him she has never seen before, and while she is frightened of what it might mean, Shirli keeps trying to connect with her Zayde and discover the awful reason behind his anger. A long-kept family secret spills out, and Shirli learns the true power of music, both terrible and wonderful.

Miriam's Secret

Author : Debby Waldman
Publisher : Orca Book Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1459814274
Total Pages : 110 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (598 download)

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Download or read book Miriam's Secret written by Debby Waldman and published by Orca Book Publishers. This book was released on 2017-10-17 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1930 nine-year-old Miriam travels by train from Brooklyn to her grandparents' farm in upstate New York. Her grandparents are kind, generous people, but they aren't exactly ideal playmates for a lonely girl. When Miriam is not doing homework in the kitchen with Bubby or helping prepare meals for the migrant workers that Zayde hires to help out on the farm, she plays with the barn kittens born just before she arrived. Those kittens are her only friends, until the day Miriam discovers a young girl hiding in the barn. Cissy and her brother, Joe, who's one of Zayde's farm hands, are on the run from an abusive uncle back in Mississippi. Miriam and Cissy hit it off immediately. But their friendship is tested when Miriam is forced to choose between keeping a promise and doing the right thing.

Disenchantment, Skepticism, and the Early Modern Novel in Spain and France

Author : Ann T. Delehanty
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000825264
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book Disenchantment, Skepticism, and the Early Modern Novel in Spain and France written by Ann T. Delehanty and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-12-16 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume examines five early modern novels from the seventeenth century in Spain and France as examples of literature as a form of skeptical inquiry: Cervantes’s Don Quijote, Zayas’s Desengaños amorosos, Scarron’s Roman comique, Cyrano de Bergerac’s L’Autre Monde, and Mme. de Lafayette’s Zayde. These early modern novels encourage readers to take a critical stance toward accepted beliefs, through content that stages multiple encounters with the shockingly unfamiliar as well as through experiments in literary form, especially the interpolated story. At its broadest reach, this study asserts the fundamental value of literature as a means of encouraging discernment, recognizing the illusory, and honing critical acuity. In terms of the particularity of the historical moment, the volume also identifies the early modern novel as uniquely able to represent the conflicting value spheres of early modernity because of its ability to present multiple voices and its fascination with conflicting vantage points. Due to its interdisciplinary nature, Disenchantment, Skepticism, and the Early Modern Novel in Spain and France appeals to literary scholars and intellectual historians of the early modern period in Europe, as well as to advanced undergraduates and postgraduates studying the early novel, intellectual history, and philosophy of literature.

The Tin Horse

Author : Janice Steinberg
Publisher : Random House Digital, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 0679643745
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (796 download)

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Download or read book The Tin Horse written by Janice Steinberg and published by Random House Digital, Inc.. This book was released on 2013 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A rich multigenerational story about the intense, often fraught bond sisters share and the dreams and sorrows that lay at the heart of the immigrant experience. It has been more than sixty years since Elaine Greenstein's twin sister, Barbara, ran away, cutting off contact with her family forever. While sifting through old papers as she prepares to move to Rancho Mañana, Elaine is stunned to find a possible hint to Barbara's whereabouts. It pushes her to confront the fierce love and bitter rivalry of their youth during the 1920s and '30s, in the Los Angeles Jewish neighborhood of Boyle Heights.

Yasemin and Nirmala: A Tale of Two Teens

Author : Kamakshi P. Murti
Publisher : Leadstart Publishing Pvt Ltd
ISBN 13 : 9356674698
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (566 download)

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Download or read book Yasemin and Nirmala: A Tale of Two Teens written by Kamakshi P. Murti and published by Leadstart Publishing Pvt Ltd. This book was released on with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It’s difficult enough being a teenage girl. Add to that being an immigrant, and then having a disability as well. That’s life for both Yasemin and Nirmala. They struggle with what they perceive as their ‘unfinished’ bodies – Yasemin lost her arm in a car accident and Nirmala was born with cerebral palsy. When the end-of-the-year performance "Seussical the Musical" approaches, the two girls desperately want to take part, but are afraid they will be rejected and laughed at. However, as their bond grows, they discover their potential and overcome their fears. Together, they learn they are unstoppable. This story offers a glimpse into the challenges of teen life in today’s immigrant societies. A diverse cast of characters offers a wide array of perspectives into the complex journey towards adulthood. While everyone is born different, our dreams unite us.

Breaking Point (Midnight Falls 4)

Author : Lynn Hagen
Publisher : Siren-BookStrand
ISBN 13 : 1646378490
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (463 download)

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Download or read book Breaking Point (Midnight Falls 4) written by Lynn Hagen and published by Siren-BookStrand. This book was released on 2023-12-25 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: [Siren Publishing: The Lynn Hagen ManLove Collection: Erotic Romance, Contemporary, Alternative, Paranormal, Shape-shifters, Suspense, MM, HEA] When a handsome guy walks into the vet office where Zayde works as a vet tech, he’s floored at just how gorgeous the stranger is. Then Denali Davis asks him out on a date and Zayde is thrilled. Their first date is simply perfect, until Zayde finds out that Denali isn’t even human. How did he find out? Denali flat-out shows him. From the moment they met Deputy Denali Davis knows Zayde is his mate. He brings his cat to the clinic when Chloe isn’t acting herself, and now he has a date with Zayde. Denali is excited because Zayde is such a stunning man. Only, a soul-sucking demon is determined to ruin those plans. Worse, the demon’s brother is gunning for Denali, sending him into a world of pain. When not even the demon warrior Phoenix can heal him, Denali knows he’s in trouble. Lynn Hagen is a Siren-exclusive author.

Rules for Ghosting

Author : Shelly Jay Shore
Publisher : Dell
ISBN 13 : 0593723945
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (937 download)

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Download or read book Rules for Ghosting written by Shelly Jay Shore and published by Dell. This book was released on 2024-08-20 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To save his family's failing funeral home—and his own chance at a queer love story—a reluctant clairvoyant must embrace the gift he long ignored in this poignant and tender debut. “Part romance, part ghost story, part Jewish family epic, Rules for Ghosting is a meditation on life, death, and healing that is at turns bitingly funny and deeply moving. Shelly Jay Shore is an immense talent.”—Anita Kelly, author of Love & Other Disasters Ezra Friedman sees ghosts, which made growing up in a funeral home complicated. It might have been easier if his grandfather’s ghost didn’t give him scathing looks of disapproval as he went through a second, HRT-induced puberty, or if he didn’t have the pressure of all those relatives—living and dead—judging every choice he makes. It’s no wonder that Ezra runs as far away from the family business as humanly possible. But when the floor of his dream job drops out from under him and his mother uses the family Passover seder to tell everyone she’s running off with the rabbi’s wife, Ezra finds himself back in the thick of it. With his parents’ marriage imploding and the Friedman Family Memorial Chapel on the brink of financial ruin, Ezra agrees to step into his mother’s shoes and help out . . . which means long days surrounded by ghosts that no one else can see. And then there’s his unfortunate crush on Jonathan, the handsome funeral home volunteer . . . who just happens to live downstairs from Ezra’s new apartment . . . and the appearance of the ghost of Jonathan’s gone-too-soon husband, Ben, who is breaking every spectral rule that Ezra knows. Because Ben can speak. He can move. And as Ezra tries to keep his family together and his heart from getting broken, he realizes that there’s more than one way to be haunted—and more than one way to become a ghost.

The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Second Annual Collection

Author : Gardner Dozois
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1250064422
Total Pages : 705 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Second Annual Collection written by Gardner Dozois and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2015-07-07 with total page 705 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The thirty-six stories in this collection imaginatively take us far across the universe, into the very core of our beings, to the realm of the gods, and the moment just after now"--Page 4 of cover.

German Tragedy in the Age of Enlightenment

Author : Robert R. Heitner
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 490 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book German Tragedy in the Age of Enlightenment written by Robert R. Heitner and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1963 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Novel: An Alternative History, 1600-1800

Author : Steven Moore
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1623567408
Total Pages : 548 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (235 download)

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Download or read book The Novel: An Alternative History, 1600-1800 written by Steven Moore and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2013-08-29 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Christian Gauss Award for excellence in literary scholarship from the Phi Beta Kappa Society Having excavated the world's earliest novels in his previous book, literary historian Steven Moore explores in this sequel the remarkable flowering of the novel between the years 1600 and 1800-from Don Quixote to America's first big novel, an homage to Cervantes entitled Modern Chivalry. This is the period of such classic novels as Tom Jones, Candide, and Dangerous Liaisons, but beyond the dozen or so recognized classics there are hundreds of other interesting novels that appeared then, known only to specialists: Spanish picaresques, French heroic romances, massive Chinese novels, Japanese graphic novels, eccentric English novels, and the earliest American novels. These minor novels are not only interesting in their own right, but also provide the context needed to appreciate why the major novels were major breakthroughs. The novel experienced an explosive growth spurt during these centuries as novelists experimented with different forms and genres: epistolary novels, romances, Gothic thrillers, novels in verse, parodies, science fiction, episodic road trips, and family sagas, along with quirky, unclassifiable experiments in fiction that resemble contemporary, avant-garde works. As in his previous volume, Moore privileges the innovators and outriders, those who kept the novel novel. In the most comprehensive history of this period ever written, Moore examines over 400 novels from around the world in a lively style that is as entertaining as it is informative. Though written for a general audience, The Novel, An Alternative History also provides the scholarly apparatus required by the serious student of the period. This sequel, like its predecessor, is a “zestfully encyclopedic, avidly opinionated, and dazzlingly fresh history of the most 'elastic' of literary forms” (Booklist).

Secrets in the Suitcase

Author : Molly Greenberg
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1477282092
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (772 download)

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Download or read book Secrets in the Suitcase written by Molly Greenberg and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2012 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Molly Greenberg, was born on December 22, 1924, in an Eastern European Jewish shtetl called Skala Podolska in Poland. An orphan by age three, she was raised in poverty by five older siblings. Her world was shattered on September 17, 1939, when the Soviet army seized control of Skala. This was the beginning of the end of a flourishing Jewish community. By the end of July 1942, the German military was in control of the area. Molly survived by pretending she was Mary, a non-Jew. She lived in constant fear of discovery and extermination. By the end of World War II, only one hundred and fifty out of two thousand Skala Jews survived. Molly married another survivor. In January 1949, following a few years in a displaced persons camp (where a daughter was born), they came to America to start a new life. In December 1950, another daughter was born. Growing up in Brooklyn, her children were only told that the Nazis murdered their father's father, his sister, and their mother's entire family. This part of Molly's life was off limits—too painful to talk about. When she entered her sixties, during a senior writing class, Molly finally faced her painful past. This book is about her life, in her own words. Her ability to survive and thrive serves as an inspiration to us all. The stories were found in a long-forgotten case, hence the title, Secrets in the Suitcase.