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  • Dearest Brother'

    Lauderdale, Tweedale and Scottish Politics, 1660-1674

    by Maurice Lee ...
    This book provides the first detailed account of the course of Scottish politics in the reign of Charles II. It focuses on the years from 1667 to 1673, when, for the only time in the Restoration era, Scottish political leaders were able to make policy for Scotland with minimal interference from London and with Scottish interests chiefly in mind.The key players were the secretary of state, John ... Read more

    $32.79 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Herman Melville

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Maurice S. Lee ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Best known as the author of Moby-Dick (1851), Herman Melville is one of America's greatest writers. His achievements range from popular novels and experimental fiction to powerful poetry. His works are tragic and funny, impassioned and ironic, obsessed with philosophical seeking and attuned to the details of everyday life. Melville engaged the pressing issues of his day, from economic inequality ... Read more

    $7.19 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

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    Herman Melville

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Maurice S. Lee ...
    Narrated by Danny Campbell ...

    Unabridged

    4 hours 23 min

    Best known as the author of Moby-Dick (1851), Herman Melville is one of America's greatest writers. His achievements range from popular novels and experimental fiction to powerful poetry. His works are tragic and funny, impassioned and ironic, obsessed with philosophical seeking and attuned to the details of everyday life. Melville engaged the pressing issues of his day, from economic inequality ... Read more

    $21.97 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Uncertain Chances

    Science, Skepticism, and Belief in Nineteenth-Century American Literature

    by Maurice S. Lee ...
    The role of chance changed in the nineteenth century, and American literature changed with it. Long dismissed as a nominal concept, chance was increasingly treated as a natural force to be managed but never mastered. New theories of chance sparked religious and philosophical controversies while revolutionizing the sciences as probabilistic methods spread from mathematics, economics, and sociology ... Read more

    $33.59 CAD

  • Overwhelmed

    Literature, Aesthetics, and the Nineteenth-Century Information Revolution

    by Maurice S. Lee ...
    An engaging look at how debates over the fate of literature in our digital age are powerfully conditioned by the nineteenth century's information revolutionWhat happens to literature during an information revolution? How do readers and writers adapt to proliferating data and texts? These questions appear uniquely urgent today in a world of information overload, big data, and the digital humanities ... Read more

    Was $54.99 CAD Now $32.99 CAD

  • Phenomenology and Existentialism

    Edited by Edward N. Lee, Maurice Mandelbaum ...
    Originally published in 1967. Focusing on key philosophers and the tenants of their thought, Phenomenology and Existentialism forms a wide-ranging introduction to two important movements in modern philosophy. Included are essays by Roderick M. Chisholm on Brentano, Aron Gurwitsch on Husserl, E.F. Kaelin on Heidegger, J. Glenn Gray on Heidegger, George L. Kline on Hegel and Marx, James M. Edie on ... Read more

    $30.79 CAD

  • A Reader's Companion to the Short Story in English

    Edited by Erin Fallon, R.C. Feddersen, James Kurtzleben, Maurice A. Lee, Susan Rochette-Crawley ...
    Although the short story has existed in various forms for centuries, it has particularly flourished during the last hundred years. Reader's Companion to the Short Story in English includes alphabetically-arranged entries for 50 English-language short story writers from around the world. Most of these writers have been active since 1960, and they reflect a wide range of experiences and perspectives ... Read more

    $322.92 CAD

  • Uncanny Magazine Issue 37

    November/December 2020

    by Lynne M. Thomas, Michael Damian Thomas, Chimedum Ohaegbu, Ken Liu, Brit. E.B. Hvide, Hal Y. Zhang, Martha Wells, Lee Mandelo, John Wiswell, Maurice Broaddus ...
    Series Book 37 - Uncanny Magazine
    The November/December 2020 issue of Hugo Award-winning Uncanny Magazine.Featuring new fiction by Ken Liu, Hal Y. Zhang, Brit E.B. Hvide, Martha Wells, Lee Mandelo, and John Wiswell. Reprint fiction by Maurice Broaddus. Essays by Meghan Ball, Meg Elison, Michi Trota, and K.A. Doore, poetry by Jane Yolen, Peter Tacy, Brandon O'Brien, Valerie Valdes, and Jennifer Crow, interviews with Ken Liu and Lee ... Read more

    $5.48 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Cambridge Companion to Frederick Douglass

    Edited by Maurice S. Lee ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    Frederick Douglass was born a slave and lived to become a best-selling author and a leading figure of the abolitionist movement. A powerful orator and writer, Douglass provided a unique voice advocating human rights and freedom across the nineteenth century, and remains an important figure in the fight against racial injustice. This Companion, designed for students of American history and ... Read more

    $29.59 CAD

  • The Big Bad Book of Kaiju

    by Tananarive Due, Christopher Golden, Steve Alten, Luke Dumas, Scott Sigler, Ai Jiang, Alma Katsu, Seanan McGuire, Kevin J. Anderson, Maurice Broaddus, Kane Gilmour, Lee Murray, Jeremy Robinson ...
    **A thrilling and cataclysmic collection of city-smashing titans and the desperate coalitions of humanity clinging to survival in the wreckage, from the *New York Times-*bestselling and multiple award-winning editors.Featuring bestselling and award-winning authors such as Tananarive Due, Christopher Golden, Seanan McGuire, Scott Sigler and Steve Alten, author of The Meg.**An explosive collection ... Read more

    $14.39 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Airborne Warfare

    by General James Maurice Gavin ...
    To every member of the 82nd Airborne Division who dropped as part of the American paratroop landings during World War Two, they breathed a little easier knowing their commander "Jumpin' Jim" Gavin would be dropping with them. General Gavin would drop into the fierce fighting along with his men in Sicily, Normandy on D-Day and during the abortive attempt to capture the Rhine bridges during ... Read more

    $6.98 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Poe and the Remapping of Antebellum Print Culture

    by Jerome McGann, Scott Peeples, Jennifer Rae Greeson, Eliza Richards, Maurice Lee, Betsy Erkkila, Leland S. Person, Anna Brickhouse, Leon Jackson ...
    Edgar Allan Poe (1809--1849) has long occupied the position of literary outsider. Dismissed as unrepresentative of the main currents of antebellum culture, Poe commented incisively -- in fiction and nonfiction -- on nationalism, science, materialism, popular taste, and cultural ideology. Opposing the pressure to write nationalistic "American" tales or from a restricted New England perspective, he ... Read more

    $23.19 CAD