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  • Manual of English Grammar and Composition

    by J. Nesfield ...
    This scarce book contains an incredibly detailed treatise on the grammar of the English language. Manual of English Grammar and Composition is readily accessible, making it the perfect book for both teachers and students of English, as well as a great addition to any collection of antiquarian linguistic literature. Containing a level of detail and insight often unparalleled in modern grammar texts ... Read more

    $10.69 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Representing Childhood and Atrocity

    Edited by Victoria Nesfield, Philip Smith ...
    Examines the ways in which writers and artists have attempted to address children's experience of atrocity.Atrocity presents a problem to the writer of children's literature. To represent events of such terrible magnitude and impersonal will as the Holocaust, the transatlantic slave trade, or the Rwandan genocide such that they fit into a three-act structure with a comprehensible moral and a happy ... Read more

    $42.89 CAD

  • The Struggle for Understanding

    Elie Wiesel's Literary Works

    Edited by Victoria Nesfield, Philip Smith ...
    Series series SUNY series in Contemporary Jewish Literature and Culture
    An in-depth look at Elie Wiesel's writings, from his earliest works to his final novels.Elie Wiesel (1928–2016) was one of the most important literary voices to emerge from the Holocaust. The Nazis took the lives of most of his family, destroyed the community in which he was raised, and subjected him to ghettoization, imprisonment in Auschwitz and Buchenwald, and a death march. It is remarkable ... Read more

    $42.89 CAD

  • The Secret Lore of London

    The city's forgotten stories and mythology

    by John Matthews, Nigel Pennick, Caroline Wise, Caitlín Matthews, Carol Clancy, R.J. Stewart, Bernard Nesfield-Cookson, Gareth Knight, Robert Stephenson, Geraldine Beskin, Chesca Potter, William Stukeley, Lewis Spence, Harold Bayley, Alan V. Insole, Ross Nichols ...
    With a foreword by Iain Sinclair.London is an ancient city, whose foundation dates back literally thousands of years into the legendary prehistory of these islands. Not surprisingly it has accumulated a large number of stories, both historic and mythical, during this period, many of which, though faithfully recorded at the time, have lain almost forgotten in dusty libraries throughout the city.The ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD

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    A Very Short Introduction

    by Robert Eaglestone ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Contemporary fiction is a wide and diverse field, now global in dimension, with an enormous range of novels and writers that continues to grow at a fantastic speed. In this Very Short Introduction, Robert Eaglestone provides a clear and engaging exploration of the major themes, patterns, and debates of contemporary fiction. From genre, form, and experimentalism to the legacies of modernism and ... Read more

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  • The Cambridge Companion to Thomas Pynchon

    Edited by Inger H. Dalsgaard, Luc Herman, Brian McHale ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    The most celebrated American novelist of the past half-century, an indispensable figure of postmodernism worldwide, Thomas Pynchon notoriously challenges his readers. This Companion provides tools for meeting that challenge. Comprehensive, accessible, lively, up-to-date and reliable, it approaches Pynchon's fiction from various angles, calling on the expertise of an international roster of ... Read more

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  • The White Goddess

    by Robert Graves ...
    This labyrinthine and extraordinary book, first published more than fifty years ago, was the outcome of Graves's vast reading and curious research into strange territories of folklore, mythology, religion and magic. Erudite and impassioned, it is a scholar-poet's quest for the meaning of European myths, a polemic about the relations between man and woman, and also an intensely personal document in ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • The Implicated Subject

    Beyond Victims and Perpetrators

    by Michael Rothberg ...
    Series series Cultural Memory in the Present
    When it comes to historical violence and contemporary inequality, none of us are completely innocent. We may not be direct agents of harm, but we may still contribute to, inhabit, or benefit from regimes of domination that we neither set up nor control. Arguing that the familiar categories of victim, perpetrator, and bystander do not adequately account for our connection to injustices past and ... Read more

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  • Of Fear and Strangers

    A History of Xenophobia

    by George Makari ...
    **Winner of the International Psychoanalytical Association's 2023 Elisabeth Young-Bruehl Prejudice AwardA Bloomberg Best Nonfiction Book of 2021A startling work of historical sleuthing and synthesis, Of Fear and Strangers reveals the forgotten histories of xenophobia—and what they mean for us today.**By 2016, it was impossible to ignore an international resurgence of xenophobia. What had happened? ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

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  • Freemasonry: SONS OF THE WIDOW

    by Mark Naples ...
    FIRST written more than 10 years ago, Sons of the Widow has been updated to take account of new developments in Freemasonic research – but its general theme remains unaltered. Modern day Freemasons persistently maintain that Freemasonry is not a secret organisation, but an organisation with secrets. In recent years the organisation has 'opened up' to the inquisitive outside world in a manner which ... Read more

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    New Conversations with CBC Radio's Eleanor Wachtel

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    Interviews with Isabel Allende, Martin Amis, John Berger, Harold Bloom, E.L. Doctorow, Amitav Ghosh, Kazuo Ishiguro, Jamaica Kincaid, Oliver Sacks, Carol Shields, Jeanette Winterson and more. ... Read more

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  • Thames

    The Biography

    by Peter Ackroyd ...
    In this perfect companion to London: The Biography, Peter Ackroyd once again delves into the hidden byways of history, describing the river's endless allure in a journey overflowing with characters, incidents, and wry observations. Thames: The Biography meanders gloriously, rather like the river itself. In short, lively chapters Ackroyd writes about connections between the Thames and such ... Read more

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