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The Count of Monte Cristo The Count of Monte Cristo Arnie Jacobson The original CliffsNotes study guides offer a look into critical elements and ideas within classic works of literature. CliffsNotes on The Count of Monte Cristo takes you into a rollicking yarn of … OL10368778W
Degas and the dance Degas and the dance Richard Kendall,Jill DeVonyar,Jill De Vonyar "Known in his lifetime as "the painter of dancers," Edgar Degas has long been recognized as the foremost artist of the ballet. More than half of his vast body of work - created over five decades and … OL12343092W
Cold Earth Cold Earth Sarah Moss A team of six archaeologists from the United States, England, and Scotland assembles at the beginning of the Arctic summer to unearth traces of the lost Viking settlements in Greenland. But as they s… OL14955296W
Vanity fair Vanity fair Mildred R. Bennett This satirical novel of manners will fascinate the careful reader. The story of the various fortunes of two women in 19th-century England is filled with sly irony and tongue-in-cheek humor, yet it of… OL15155328W
CliffsNotes on Fielding's Joseph Andrews CliffsNotes on Fielding's Joseph Andrews Michael B Mavor Ordinarily a moralist writer, in this novel Fielding creates a comedy of romance, by superimposing the positive act of the imagination on the raw material of the real world. It is ultimately both ins… OL15191883W
Irish children's literature and culture Irish children's literature and culture Valerie Coghlan,Keith O'Sullivan "Irish Children's Literature and Culture looks critically at Irish writing for children from the 1980s to the present, examining the work of many writers and illustrators and engaging with major genr… OL15538101W
St. John and the Victorians St. John and the Victorians Wheeler, Michael "The Gospel according to St John, often regarded as the most important of the gospels in the account it gives of Jesus' life and divinity, received close attention from nineteenth-century biblical sc… OL16015117W
The price of glory The price of glory Seth Hunter Captain Nathan Peake survives a ferocious battle on the treacherous seas off Brittany, only to be cast into the even more dangerous waters of post-Revolutionary Paris. There he encounters two of the … OL16298622W
Senses and sins Senses and sins Johannes Vermeer,Jan Steen,Jeroen Giltaij,Peter Hecht,Alexandra Gaba-van Dongen,Adriaen Brouwer,Gerritt Dou,Adriaen van Ostade "This volume provides an overview of the most important of these masters of seventeenth-century Dutch painting. Still capable of holding us spellbound today, the exuberant, erotic, elegant, and enigm… OL1649446W
Examining whiteness Examining whiteness Lúcia Villares "Critics consider Clarice Lispector the leading female writer in the Brazilian literary canon. Her connections with the nation, however, seem to magically disappear as her work is analysed. This para… OL16635688W
English literature from the 19th century through today English literature from the 19th century through today J. E. Luebering As the British empire expanded ever outward, English writers of the 19th and early 20th centuries such as Charles Dickens, T.S. Eliot, and Virginia Woolf turned their gaze inward to matters of ethica… OL16958854W
L'influence de l'histoire contemporaine dans l'¿uvre de Marguerite Yourcenar L'influence de l'histoire contemporaine dans l'¿uvre de Marguerite Yourcenar Mireille Blanchet-Douspis L'influence de l'histoire contemporaine dans l'¿uvre de Marguerite Yourcenar propose de montrer que, loin d'e tre seulement un e crivain classique qui s'inte resse a l'histoire du passe , Marguerit… OL16967190W
The English novel in history, 1700-1780 The English novel in history, 1700-1780 John J. Richetti The English Novel in History 1700-1780 provides students with specific contexts for the early novel in response to a new understanding of eighteenth-century Britain. It traces the social and moral re… OL1830261W
Young artists in Italy at the turn of the millennium Young artists in Italy at the turn of the millennium Roberto Daolio,Alessandra Galasso,Giulio di Gropello,Andrea Pagano di Melito,Sabrina Zannier,Giacinto Di Pietrantonio,Maria Grazia Tolomeo 231 pages : 24 cm OL19045865W
Entre enternidades Entre enternidades Javier Marías "A new, exhilarating collection of critical and personal writings--spanning more than twenty years of work--from the internationally renowned author of The Infatuations and A Heart So White. A Vintag… OL19750145W
Opwaartse drukte Opwaartse drukte Daphne Deckers Columns over het leven van een jong gezin. OL19892710W
Sea of stone Sea of stone Michael Ridpath Oli and Magnus Jonson have spent years trying to escape from the shadows of their past. Raised by their grandparents in Bjarnarhöfn, a remote farmstead in Iceland, the brothers had to endure brutal v… OL20828626W
Russia and the Western Far Right Russia and the Western Far Right Шеховцов Антон Володимирович The growing influence of Russia on the Western far right has been much discussed in the media recently. This book is the first detailed inquiry into what has been a neglected but critically important… OL21301013W
Ben Jonson, John Marston and early modern drama Ben Jonson, John Marston and early modern drama Rebecca Kate Yearling "This book examines the influence of John Marston, typically seen as a minor figure among early modern dramatists, on his colleague Ben Jonson. While Marston is usually famed more for his very public… OL22318763W
To Greet the Sun To Greet the Sun Claus Von Bohlen ONE LIFE. TWO HEROIC ACTS, HALF A CENTURY APART. Otto Eisinger, an elderly German émigré living alone in Brazil, attempts to thwart a pair of armed robbers and is savagely beaten. While he is convale… OL24426992W
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