Books

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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
The mysteries of the cities The mysteries of the cities Stephen Thomas Knight "A popular crime genre in the nineteenth century, urban mysteries have largely been ignored ever since. This historical and critical text examines the origins of the innovative genre, which sought to… OL16176134W
The Complete Novels of James Joyce (Dubliners / Finnegans Wake / Portrait of the Artist as a Young … The Complete Novels of James Joyce (Dubliners / Finnegans Wake / Portrait of the Artist as a Young … James Joyce Contains: - [Dubliners](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL86329W/Dubliners) [Sisters](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL15073389W/The_Sisters) [Encounter](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL15073256… OL17485733W
Downtown Canada Downtown Canada Justin D. Edwards "Downtown Canada is a collection of essays that addresses Canada as an urban place. The contributors focus their attention on the writing of Canada's cities - including Vancouver, Toronto, Ottawa, Mo… OL21204893W
Metropolitan lovers Metropolitan lovers Julie Abraham "From the destruction of Sodom to the selling of Gay Street and from Tales of the City to The L Word, urban life and homosexuality have been made inseparable in Western culture. In this book, Julie A… OL2942255W
The street was mine The street was mine Megan E. Abbott "This book considers a recurrent figure in American literature: the solitary white man moving through urban space. The descendent of nineteenth-century frontier and western heroes, the figure reemerg… OL5731713W
Between theater and philosophy Between theater and philosophy Mathew R. Martin "Between Theater and Philosophy studies the aggressive, restless, and critical skepticism of the major city comedies of early modern English dramatists Ben Jonson and Thomas Middleton. The book place… OL7797860W