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Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels, Graphic Novels, Fiction, Gay & Lesbian, Nonfiction, Literary Criticism & Theory, Politics & Social Sciences, Philosophy, Social Sciences
Size: 223 pages
Free eBook download for Kindle from 26 February 2020 onward
1223 reviews
Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus is the original 1818 'Uncensored' Edition of Frankenstein as first published anonymously in 1818. This original version is much more true to the spirit of the author's original intentions than the heavily revised 1831 edition, edited by Shelley, in part, because of pressure to make the story more conservative. Many scholars prefer the 1818 text to the more common 1831 edition.Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus is a novel written by Mary Shelley about a creature produced by an unorthodox scientific experiment. Shelley started writing the story when she was nineteen, and the novel was published when she was twenty-one. The first edition was published anonymously in London in 1818. Shelley's name appears on the second edition, published in France i...
Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels, Graphic Novels, Fiction, Fiction Classics, Horror, Nonfiction, Literary Criticism & Theory
Size: 220 pages
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The Essential Robert Burns: 500+ Poems and Songs by the National Poet of Scotland
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Genre: Fiction, Anthologies, Fiction Classics, Poetry, Nonfiction, Literary Criticism & Theory
Size: 748 pages
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An astonishingly rich oral epic that chronicles the early history of a Bedouin tribe, the Sirat Bani Hilal has been performed for almost a thousand years. In this ethnography of a contemporary community of professional poet-singers, Dwight F. Reynolds reveals how the epic tradition continues to provide a context for social interaction and commentary. Reynolds’s account is based on performances in the northern Egyptian village in which he studied as an apprentice to a master epic-singer. Reynolds explains in detail the narrative structure of the Sirat Bani Hilal as well as the tradition of epic singing. He sees both living epic poets and fictional epic heroes as figures engaged in an ongoing dialogue with audiences concerning such vital issues as ethnicity, religious orientation, codes of...
Genre: Fiction, Nonfiction, Literary Criticism & Theory, Politics & Social Sciences, Social Sciences
Size: 128 pages
Free eBook download for Kindle from 24 February 2020 onward
5 reviews
Novels, Readers, and Reviewers: Responses to Fiction in Antebellum America
This book describes and characterizes responses of American readers to fiction in the generation before the Civil War. It is based on close examination of the reviews of all novels—both American and European—that appeared in major American periodicals during the years 1840–1860, a period in which magazines, novels, and novel reviews all proliferated. Nina Baym makes uses of the reviews to gain information about the formal, aesthetic, and moral expectations of reviewers. Her major conclusion is that the accepted view about the American novel before the Civil War—the view that the atmosphere in America was hostile to fiction—is a myth. There is compelling evidence, she shows, for the existence of a veritable novel industry and, concomitantly, a vast audience for fiction in the 1840...
Genre: Fiction, History, Americas, Nonfiction, Literary Criticism & Theory
Size: 288 pages
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4 reviews
Island of the Dolls: A Novel (World's Scariest Places Book 4)
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Genre: Fiction, Horror, Nonfiction, Literary Criticism & Theory
Size: 325 pages
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The Self and Its Pleasures: Bataille, Lacan, and the History of the Decentered Subject
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Genre: Professional & Technical, Medicine, Nonfiction, Literary Criticism & Theory, Politics & Social Sciences, Philosophy, Self-Help & Counselling, Psychology
Size: 288 pages
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203 reviews
Written between the years 1917 and 1935, this collection features Lovecraft's trademark fantastical creatures and supernatural thrills, as well as many horrific and cautionary science-fiction themes, that have influenced some of today's writers and filmmakers, including Stephen King, Alan Moore, F. Paul Wilson, Guillermo del Toro, and Neil Gaiman. Included in this volume are "The Case of Charles Dexter Ward", "The Call of Cthulhu," "The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath," "At the Mountains of Madness," "The Shadow Over Innsmouth," "The Colour Out of Space," "The Dunwich Horror," and many more hair-raising tales....
Genre: Crime, Thriller & Mystery, Thrillers, Fiction, Horror, Short Stories, Nonfiction, Literary Criticism & Theory
Size: 1343 pages
Free eBook download for Kindle from 23 February 2020 onward
1 review
Franz Kafka: The Complete Novels
This book contains the complete novels of Franz Kafka in the chronological order of their original publication.- The Trial- The Castle- Amerika...
Genre: Fiction, Short Stories, Nonfiction, Literary Criticism & Theory, Politics & Social Sciences, Philosophy
Size: 442 pages
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The Complete Confucius: The Analects, The Doctrine Of The Mean, and The Great Learning
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Genre: Nonfiction, Literary Criticism & Theory
Size: 162 pages
Free eBook download for Kindle from 23 February 2020 onward
5 reviews
DESCRIPTIONWhilst carrying out extensive research into the world of children’s books, covering nearly one thousand stories, I have discovered amongst their pages widespread distortion of Christian truth, such that would confuse the issues of good and evil and affect both family life and society in profound ways. Despite advancing technology, books are as much in demand as ever, with young readers greatly influenced by their fictional friends. Over several years, as a teacher, school-governor and mother, I have gathered together the evidence into a thorough but easy-to-read review entitled “Secret Messages”.Considering the materialistic age we live in, it is surprising how many stories have a “religious” setting, with supernatural powers, rituals and values which are far from Chri...
Genre: Fiction, Nonfiction, Literary Criticism & Theory, Parenting & Families, Literature Guides, Religion & Spirituality, Christianity
Size: 265 pages
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Poetry in Speech: Orality and Homeric Discourse (Myth and Poetics)
Applying linguistic theory to the study of Homeric style, Egbert J. Bakker offers a highly innovative approach to oral poetry, particularly the poetry of Homer. By situating formulas and other features of oral style within the wider contexts of spoken language and communication, he moves the study of oral poetry beyond the landmark work of Milman Parry and Albert Lord.One of the book's central features, related to the research of the linguist Wallace Chafe, is Bakker's conception of spoken discourse as a sequence of short speech units reflecting the flow of speech through the consciousness of the speaker. Bakker shows that such short speech units are present in Homeric poetry, with significant consequences for Homeric metrics and poetics. Considering Homeric discourse as a speech process r...
Genre: Fiction, Nonfiction, Literary Criticism & Theory
Size: 256 pages
Free eBook download for Kindle from 23 February 2020 onward
4 reviews
James Fenimore Cooper: The Complete Novels
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Genre: Fiction, Anthologies, Fiction Classics, Nonfiction, Literary Criticism & Theory, Politics & Social Sciences, Social Sciences, Education & Reference, Foreign Languages
Size: 21.36 mb
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German radicals of the 1960s announced the death of literature. For them, literature both past and present, as well as conventional discussions of literary issues, had lost its meaning. In The Institution of Criticism, Peter Uwe Hohendahl explores the implications of this crisis from a Marxist perspective and attempts to define the tasks and responsibilities of criticism in advanced capitalist societies. Hohendahl takes a close look at the social history of literary criticism in Germany since the eighteenth century. Drawing on the tradition of the Frankfurt School and on Jürgen Habermas's concept of the public sphere, Hohendahl sheds light on some of the important political and social forces that shape literature and culture. The Institution of Criticism is made up of seven essays origina...
Genre: Fiction, History, Europe, Nonfiction, Literary Criticism & Theory, Politics & Social Sciences, Philosophy
Size: 287 pages
Free eBook download for Kindle from 22 February 2020 onward
Building a National Literature: The Case of Germany, 1830–1870
Building a National Literature boldly takes issue with traditional literary criticism for its failure to explain how literature as a body is created and shaped by institutional forces. Peter Uwe Hohendahl approaches literary history by focusing on the material and ideological structures that determine the canonical status of writers and works. He examines important elements in the making of a national literature, including the political and literary public sphere, the theory and practice of literary criticism, and the emergence of academic criticism as literary history. Hohendahl considers such key aspects of the process in Germany as the rise of liberalism and nationalism, the delineation of the borders of German literature, the idea of its history, the understanding of its cultural funct...
Genre: Fiction, History, Europe, Nonfiction, Literary Criticism & Theory
Size: 373 pages
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John Banvilles works waver indecisively between modernism and postmodernism. This study offers a hitherto unexplored vista on his works and argues that Banville is a post-/modern pastoralist. The pastoral lens opens new vistas to Banville's central concerns: the collusion of ethics and aesthetics, self-identification in narrative, and the topography of the troubled mind. Banvilles characters harbour an Arcadia of the unconscious conditioned by a subtext of nostalgia. Caught in a crisis, his characters explore, subvert and transform the pastoral mode into an ambiguous quest for a stable self....
Genre: Fiction, Nonfiction, Literary Criticism & Theory
Size: 223 pages
Free eBook download for Kindle from 22 February 2020 onward
The Other Side of the Story: Structures and Strategies of Contemporary Feminist Narratives
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Genre: Fiction, Nonfiction, Literary Criticism & Theory
Size: 184 pages
Free eBook download for Kindle from 22 February 2020 onward
4 reviews
Dirty Work Ian Rankin and John Rebus Book-by-Book
The unauthorised and ambitiously defintive guide to Ian Rankin and John Rebus...NOW INCLUDING 'EVEN DOGS IN THE WILD'!In 1987 Ian Rankin published the first John Rebus book; even he didn't know what he was unleashing. Nearly thirty years later Rankin and Rebus are the kings of crime fiction, but they are more than that. The books are cultural history of Scotland too.This is the all-purpose handbook to the John Rebus universe. Contained in this volume is everything you could reasonably want to know about the books, their creation and the characters within them, from the birth of the character to the old man staring retirement in the face.The book will answer such questions as: why is Rankin obsessed with Saabs? Why doesn't Siobhan Clarke age but perhaps more importantly it will get to the ...
Genre: Crime, Thriller & Mystery, Fiction, Nonfiction, Literary Criticism & Theory, Crime Fiction
Size: 200 pages
Free eBook download for Kindle from 21 February 2020 onward
The Letters of William Cullen Bryant: Volume V, 1865–1871
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Genre: Nonfiction, Literary Criticism & Theory
Size: 564 pages
Free eBook download for Kindle from 21 February 2020 onward
4 reviews
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Genre: Nonfiction, Literary Criticism & Theory, Children's eBooks, Fairy Tales, Folk Tales & Myths, Science Fiction & Fantasy, Fairy Tales
Size: 7042 pages
Free eBook download for Kindle from 20 February 2020 onward
4 reviews
Hit the Road Jack: A wickedly suspenseful serial killer thriller (Jack Ryder Book 1)
New series from the Amazon Bestselling author Willow Rose. Ben is supposed to be in school. It's Monday morning but his parents are still asleep after a night of heavy drinking. Ben Waits patiently, even though he knows he is missing out on today's field trip to the zoo. But, when his black Labrador suddenly runs upstairs and comes down with a finger in his mouth, Ben knows he's not making it to school today at all. Detective Jack Ryder is chaperoning his kids' field trip when he gets the call from the head of the Cocoa Beach Police Department. A body has been found and they need his help. Soon, Jack finds himself up against a killer, a predator who ruthlessly chases women and kills them so they can never leave him. The case soon causes serious consequences for him and his family once ...
Genre: Arts & Photography, Dance, Fashion, Film & Video, Music, Photography, Pop Culture, Television, Biography & True Accounts, Arts & Literature, Ethnic, Historical, Leaders & Notable People, Memoirs, Professionals & Academics, Reference & Collections, Travel, Business & Finance, Business Life, Economics, Finance, Industries & Professions, Investing, Marketing & Sales, Personal Finance, Reference, Small Business & Entrepreneurship, Children's eBooks, Arts, Music & Photography, Computers & Internet, Science, Nature & How It Works, Sport & Outd
Size: 454 pages
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Literary Transcendentalism: Style and Vision in the American Renaissance
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Genre: Fiction, History, Americas, Nonfiction, Literary Criticism & Theory
Size: 336 pages
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5 reviews
The Complete Fiction of H. P. Lovecraft
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Genre: Nonfiction, Literary Criticism & Theory
Size: 1344 pages
Free eBook download for Kindle from 20 February 2020 onward
4 reviews
50 Masterpieces you have to read before you die vol: 1
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Genre: Nonfiction, Literary Criticism & Theory
Size: 28706 pages
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Contemporary Nordic Literature and Spatiality (Geocriticism and Spatial Literary Studies)
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Genre: Nonfiction, Literary Criticism & Theory
Size: 307 pages
Free eBook download for Kindle from 20 February 2020 onward
9 reviews
Leo Tolstoy: The Complete Novels and Novellas
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Genre: Arts & Photography, Art, Fiction, Anthologies, Drama, Nonfiction, Literary Criticism & Theory, Poetry, Drama & Criticism
Size: 2566 pages
Free eBook download for Kindle from 19 February 2020 onward
4 reviews
The Brontë Sisters: The Complete Novels
Here you will find the complete novels of the Brontë Sisters:- Agnes Grey, by Anne Brontë- The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, by Anne Brontë- Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë- Shirley, by Charlotte Brontë- Villette, by Charlotte Brontë- The Professor, by Charlotte Brontë- Wuthering Heights, by Emily Brontë...
Genre: Fiction, Anthologies, Drama, Nonfiction, Literary Criticism & Theory, Poetry, Drama & Criticism
Size: 1548 pages
Free eBook download for Kindle from 19 February 2020 onward
5 reviews
Henry James: The Complete Collection
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Genre: Biography & True Accounts, Specific Groups, Business & Finance, Industries & Professions, Fiction, Anthologies, Drama, Nonfiction, Literary Criticism & Theory, Travel, Continental Europe, United States, Poetry, Drama & Criticism
Size: 13583 pages
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1179 reviews
William Shakespeare: The Complete Works (Illustrated)
This collection gathers together the works by William Shakespeare in a single, convenient, high quality, and extremely low priced Kindle volume!The ComediesA Midsummer Night's DreamAll's Well That Ends WellAs You Like ItLove’s Labour ’s LostMeasure for MeasureMuch Ado About NothingThe Comedy of ErrorsThe Merchant of VeniceThe Merry Wives of WindsorThe Taming of the ShrewThe Two Gentlemen of VeronaTwelfth Night; or, What you willThe RomancesCymbelinePericles, Prince of TyreThe TempestThe Winter's TaleThe TragediesKing LearRomeo and JulietThe History of Troilus and CressidaThe Life and Death of Julius CaesarThe Life of Timon of AthensThe Tragedy of Antony and CleopatraThe Tragedy of CoriolanusThe Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of DenmarkThe Tragedy of MacbethThe Tragedy of Othello, the Moor o...
Genre: Arts & Photography, Stage & Theatre, Fiction, Anthologies, Drama, Poetry, Nonfiction, Literary Criticism & Theory
Size: 5185 pages
Free eBook download for Kindle from 18 February 2020 onward
879 reviews
Considered lurid and shocking by mid-19th-century standards, Wuthering Heights was initially thought to be such a publishing risk that its author, Emily Brontë, was asked to pay some of the publication costs.Wuthering Heights is a wild, passionate story of the intense and almost demonic love between Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff, a foundling adopted by Catherine’s father. After Mr Earnshaw’s death, Heathcliff is bullied and humiliated by Catherine’s brother Hindley and wrongly believing that his love for Catherine is not reciprocated, leaves Wuthering Heights, only to return years later as a wealthy and polished man. He proceeds to exact a terrible revenge for his former miseries. The action of the story is chaotic and unremittingly violent, but the accomplished handling of a co...
Genre: Fiction, Anthologies, Drama, Nonfiction, Literary Criticism & Theory, Poetry, Drama & Criticism
Size: 178 pages
Free eBook download for Kindle from 18 February 2020 onward
