Books

20+ results found

Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
The committee	St. Germain, Mary S.,Sun Allah Ibrahim,Ṣunʻ Allāh Ibrāhīm	"Sun'allah Ibrahim has been called the Egyptian Kafka. And no wonder, this wry take on Kafka's The Trial revolves around its narrator's attempts to petition successfully the elusive ruling body of hi…	OL11171239W
Trescientas	Juan de Mena,Maxim Kerkhof,Juan De Mena	v, 232 p. ; 20 cm	OL1389765W
William Faulkner	Frederick John Hoffman,Frederick J. Hoffman,Hoffman	A study of Faulkner's fiction, his approach to his characters, his uses of them, and their role in the general strategy of his fiction.	OL15425473W
Shakespeare's poems	H. R. Woudhuysen,Katherine Duncan-Jones,William Shakespeare	Venus and Adonis -- The Rape of Lucrece -- Shorter poems.	OL15736495W
Heroides	Ovid,Kennedy,Arthur Palmer	Index of proper names appended	OL16752749W
Infinite divisions	Eliana S. Rivero,Tey Diana Rebolledo	Given the explosive creativity shown by Chicana writers over the past two decades, this first major anthology devoted to their work is a major contribution to American letters. It highlights the key …	OL17843986W
Haa shuká, our ancestors	Richard Dauenhauer,Nora Dauenhauer,Nora Marks Dauenhauer	Recorded from the 1960s to the present by twelve tradition bearers who were passing down for future generations the accounts of haa shuka, which means our ancestors. Narratives tell of the origin of …	OL18951694W
The shipwrecked sailor	John Louis Foster,Lyla Pinch Brock	A tale, based on a story found in ancient papyrus scrolls, about a shipwrecked sailor who finds fortune when he is befriended by a serpent that is the Prince of the magical island of Punt.	OL19164917W
In translation	Gabrielle Roy,Joyce Marshall	"Gabrielle Roy was one of the most prominent Canadian authors of the twentieth century. Joyce Marshall, an excellent writer herself, was one of Roy's English translators. The two shared a deep and lo…	OL2093146W
Star Wars - The Essential Guide to Alien Species	Ann Margaret Lewis,Helen Keier	Presents a comprehensive overview of all beings from the six Star Wars movies, plus the novels, comics, and video games; and describes their physical characteristics and homeworlds.	OL222799W
El conde Lucanor	Don Juan Manuel	En El conde Lucanor alcanzan culminación y síntesis las tradiciones cuentísticas del mundo oriental y de los predicadores cristianos. La popularidad obtenida por los exempla incluidos en la primera…	OL249192W
Ramayana, a Holy Bible of India	Robert P. Goldman,Sheldon I. Pollock,Vālmīki,Rosalind Lefeber	राहुल मौर्य " पब्लिकेशन अथॉरिटी भारतीय प्रोड्यूसर द्वारा संचालित भारत ,सरकार यूपी"	OL308980W
Imán y la novela histórica de Sender	Francisco Carrasquer	iii-xiii, 302 p. 24 cm	OL3187723W
Poems (Lover's Complaint / Rape of Lucrece / Venus and Adonis / Sonnets)	William Shakespeare	Contains: Lover's Complaint Rape of Lucrece Venus and Adonis Sonnets	OL362670W
Literature and religion in mid-Victorian England	Carolyn Oulton,Carolyn W. de la L'Oulton	"This book places Dickens and Wilkie Collins against such important figures as John Henry Newman and George Eliot in their response to the religious crisis of mid-nineteenth century England. In foreg…	OL5962584W
Get Well Quick!	Rosenbloom,Joseph Rosenbloom	Hundreds of riddles and jokes about getting sick and getting well.	OL773556W
Something About the Author	Hedblad	Volume 93.	OL8471906W
The Selected Prose of Fernando Pessoa	Fernando Pessoa	"Though known primarily as a poet, Fernando Pessoa wrote prose widely, in several languages and in every genre - the novel, short stories, letters, and essays. Drawing from the huge body of work that…	OL847194W
Culturas híbridas	Néstor García Canclini	"El libro es una especie de sociología de la cultura aplicada a América Latina. Aunque los temas son muy concretos, el enfoque del autor tiende a ser filosófico. Tradición y modernidad son los do…	OL850558W
Why we read what we read	John Heath,Lisa Adams	What do weight loss, evil emperors and tales of redemption have in common? We readers have many dirty little secrets—and our bestselling books are spilling them all. We can’t resist conspiratorial cr…	OL8701990W