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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “judith mayne”
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  • Now, Voyager

    by Olive Higgins Prouty, Judith Mayne ...
    Series series Femmes Fatales
    The iconic American melodrama that inspired the 1943 cult classic film starring Bette Davis. "Charlotte Vale a timeless and very sophisticated Cinderella." —Patricia Gaffney, New York Times bestselling author"Don't let's ask for the moon! We have the stars!"The film Now, Voyager concludes with these famous words, which reaffirmed Bette Davis's own stardom and changed the way Americans smoked ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Women's Barracks

    by Tereska Torres, Judith Mayne ...
    Series series Femmes Fatales
    This novel—based on the author's real-life experiences—is credited as the first candidly lesbian novel, originally published in 1950, that “scandalized mid-century America” (The New York Times).As the Blitz rains down over London, taboos are broken, affairs start and stop, and hearts are won and lost.This account of life among female Free French soldiers in a London barracks during World War II ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Cinema and Spectatorship

    by Judith Mayne ...
    Series series Sightlines
    Cinema and Spectatorship is the first book to focus entirely on the history and role of the spectator in contemporary film studies. While 1970s film theory insisted on a distinction betweeen the cinematic subject and film-goers, Judith Mayne suggests that a very real friction between "subjects" and "viewers" is in fact central to the study of spectatorship.In the book's first section Mayne ... Read more

    $79.99 CAD

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    by Olive Higgins Prouty ...
    Series series Femmes Fatales
    This pulp classic of motherhood and money introduced the immortal character portrayed on film by Barbara Stanwyck and Bette Midler—"a feminist gem" (Michael Bronski).An ambitious woman from working-class roots, Stella sets her sights on marrying rich—and hits a bullseye. But her unshakable crudeness becomes too much for her husband. When he leaves her, she keeps their daughter Laurel. And now ... Read more

    $14.39 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Spring Fire

    by Vin Packer ...
    Series series Lesbian Pulp Classics
    There was a girl named Leda who was Queen of the campus. There was a girl called Mitch who desperately wanted to be loved. Suddenly, they belonged to each other. Not since The Well of Loneliness has there been such an honest, provocative novel on a theme too important to keep from the light.This classic lesbian pulp novel about the forbidden love between two college girls is often considered by ... Read more

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  • The Price of Salt

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    by Patricia Highsmith ...
    Series series Lesbian Pulp Classics
    • First Digital Edition• Grier Rating: A***• Digitized from rare pulp editionIn Patricia Highsmith's The Price of Salt, Therese is nineteen and working in a department store during the Christmas shopping season. She dates men, although not with real enthusiasm. One day a beautiful older woman comes over to her counter and buys a doll. As the purchase is a C.O.D. order, Therese makes a mental note ... Read more

    $6.28 CAD

  • The Color Purple

    by Alice Walker ...
    Series series The Color Purple Collection
    The Pulitzer Prize– and National Book Award–winning novel is now a new, boldly reimagined film from producers Oprah Winfrey and Steven Spielberg, starring Taraji P. Henson, Danielle Brooks, and Fantasia Barrino.A PBS Great American Read Top 100 PickCelie has grown up poor in rural Georgia, despised by the society around her and abused by her own family. She strives to protect her sister, Nettie, ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Gone Girl

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    by Gillian Flynn ...
    **#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The “mercilessly entertaining” (Vanity Fair) instant classic “about the nature of identity and the terrible secrets that can survive and thrive in even the most intimate relationships” (Lev Grossman, Time “One of the Best Books of the Decade”)—now featuring never-before-published deleted scenesTHE NEW YORK TIMES’S BEST THRILLER OF THE CENTURY • ONE OF TIME'S 100 ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

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  • Go Set a Watchman

    A Novel

    by Harper Lee ...
    #1 New York Times Bestseller“Go Set a Watchman is such an important book, perhaps the most important novel on race to come out of the white South in decades." — New York TimesA landmark novel by Harper Lee, set two decades after her beloved Pulitzer Prize–winning masterpiece, To Kill a Mockingbird.Twenty-six-year-old Jean Louise Finch—“Scout”—returns home to Maycomb, Alabama from New York City to ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

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  • The Complete Idiot's Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism

    by Steven J. Venturino PhD ...
    From Plato to Freud to ecocriticism, the book illustrates dozens of stimulating-and sometimes notoriously complex-perspectives for approaching literature and film. The book offers authoritative, clear, and easy-to-follow explanations of theories that range from established classics to the controversies of current theory. Each chapter offers a conversational, step-by-step explanation of a single ... Read more

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  • How To Be Gay

    by David M. Halperin ...
    A pioneer of LGBTQ studies dares to suggest that gayness is a way of being that gay men must learn from one another to become who they are. The genius of gay culture resides in some of its most despised stereotypes—aestheticism, snobbery, melodrama, glamour, caricatures of women, and obsession with mothers—and in the social meaning of style. ... Read more

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  • Circus: A Story from Circus

    by Claire Battershill ...
    The CBC Literary Award–winning title story from Claire Battershill’s debut collection, winner of the Canadian Authors Association Emerging Writer Award, and a finalist for the Canadian Authors Association Emerging Writer Award and the PEN International / New Voices Award.For as long as Susan can remember, the circus has been part of her family’s DNA – her mother was a gifted contortionist, and her ... Read more

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