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Our Vampires, Ourselves

by Nina Auerbach ...

This "vigorous, witty look at the undead as cultural icons in 19th- and 20th-century England and America" examines the many meanings of the vampire myth ( Kirkus Reviews).From Byron's Lord Ruthven to Anne Rice's Lestat to the black bisexual heroine of Jewelle Gomez's The Gilda Stories, vampires have taken many forms, capturing and recapturing our imaginations for centuries. In Our Vampires, ... Read more

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This "vigorous, witty look at the undead as cultural icons in 19th- and 20th-century England and America" examines the many meanings of the vampire myth ( Kirkus Reviews).From Byron's Lord Ruthven to Anne Rice's Lestat to the black bisexual heroine of Jewelle Gomez's The Gilda Stories, vampires have taken many forms, capturing and recapturing our imaginations for centuries. In Our Vampires,
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Forbidden Journeys

Fairy Tales and Fantasies by Victorian Women Writers

Edited by Nina Auerbach, U. C. Knoepflmacher ...

This "darkly entertaining" story collection is "a significant contribution to nineteenth-century cultural history, and especially feminist studies" ( United Press International).In the 1870s and 1880s, children's literature saw some astonishingly bold and innovative writing by women authors. As these eleven dark and wild stories demonstrate, fairy tales by Victorian women constitute a distinct ... Read more

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This "darkly entertaining" story collection is "a significant contribution to nineteenth-century cultural history, and especially feminist studies" ( United Press International).In the 1870s and 1880s, children's literature saw some astonishingly bold and innovative writing by women authors. As these eleven dark and wild stories demonstrate, fairy tales by Victorian women constitute a distinct
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Our Vampires, Ourselves

by Nina Auerbach ...

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7 hours 21 min

Nina Auerbach shows how every age embraces the vampire it needs, and gets the vampire it deserves. Working with a wide range of texts, as well as movies and television, Auerbach locates vampires at the heart of our national experience and uses them as a lens for viewing the last two hundred years of Anglo-American cultural history.“[Auerbach] has seen more Hammer movies than I (or the monsters) ... Read more

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Nina Auerbach shows how every age embraces the vampire it needs, and gets the vampire it deserves. Working with a wide range of texts, as well as movies and television, Auerbach locates vampires at the heart of our national experience and uses them as a lens for viewing the last two hundred years of Anglo-American cultural history.“[Auerbach] has seen more Hammer movies than I (or the monsters)
... Read more

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Nature, Politics, and the Arts

Essays on Romantic Culture for Carl Woodring

by Nina Auerbach, John Clubbe, Carl Dawson, William Theodore de Bary, George H. Gilpin, William Carl Gilpin, Jonathan Gross, Regina Hewitt, Steven E. Jones, Marsha Manns, Martin Meisel, Morton D. Paley, Robert L. Patten, Donald H. Reiman, Ben P. Robertson, Robert M. Ryan, G. Thomas Tanselle, Carol Kyros Walker, Elizabeth Kowaleski Wallace, Anne K. Mellor ...

This interdisciplinary book honors Columbia professor and New York intellectual Carl Woodring. Chapters on Romantic and Victorian literary culture written by leading scholars in the field join in conversation with Woodring’s teachings on literature and visual art and his commentaries on American culture. A multiple-authored chapter of postscripts on the aesthetic range of Woodring’s intellectual ... Read more

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This interdisciplinary book honors Columbia professor and New York intellectual Carl Woodring. Chapters on Romantic and Victorian literary culture written by leading scholars in the field join in conversation with Woodring’s teachings on literature and visual art and his commentaries on American culture. A multiple-authored chapter of postscripts on the aesthetic range of Woodring’s intellectual
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Forbidden Journeys

Fairy Tales and Fantasies by Victorian Women Writers

by Nina Auerbach, U. C. Knoepflmacher ...

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13 hours 53 min

As these eleven dark and wild stories demonstrate, fairy tales by Victorian women constitute a distinct literary tradition, one startlingly subversive of the society that fostered it. From Anne Thackeray Ritchie’s adaptations of “The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood” to Christina Rossetti’s unsettling antifantasies in Speaking Likenesses, these are breathtaking acts of imaginative freedom, by turns ... Read more

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As these eleven dark and wild stories demonstrate, fairy tales by Victorian women constitute a distinct literary tradition, one startlingly subversive of the society that fostered it. From Anne Thackeray Ritchie’s adaptations of “The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood” to Christina Rossetti’s unsettling antifantasies in Speaking Likenesses, these are breathtaking acts of imaginative freedom, by turns
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Hungry Hill

by Daphne du Maurier ...

Series Book 115 - Virago Modern Classics
FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF REBECCA'Daphne du Maurier has no rival' SUNDAY TELEGRAPH'du Maurier is a magician, a virtuouso' GOOD HOUSEKEEPING'A storyteller of cunning and genius' SALLY BEAUMAN'I tell you your mine will be in ruins and your home destroyed and your children forgotten . . . but this hill will be standing still to confound you.' So curses M... ... Read more

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FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF REBECCA'Daphne du Maurier has no rival' SUNDAY TELEGRAPH'du Maurier is a magician, a virtuouso' GOOD HOUSEKEEPING'A storyteller of cunning and genius' SALLY BEAUMAN'I tell you your mine will be in ruins and your home destroyed and your children forgotten . . . but this hill will be standing still to confound you.' So curses M...
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Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius

by Niccolo Machiavelli ...

Narrated by Digital Voice Martin G ...

Unabridged

13 hours 3 min

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.This essay explores how cities are founded and what determines their long-term success, using Rome as the central example of enduring greatness. It argues that cities emerge either from local populations uniting for security or from outsiders such as colonists, rulers, or migrating peoples. Those founded freely and out of necessity—rather than imposed ... Read more

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This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.This essay explores how cities are founded and what determines their long-term success, using Rome as the central example of enduring greatness. It argues that cities emerge either from local populations uniting for security or from outsiders such as colonists, rulers, or migrating peoples. Those founded freely and out of necessity—rather than imposed
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The Flight Of The Falcon

by Daphne du Maurier ...

Series Book 18 - Virago Modern Classics
'She wrote exciting plots, she was highly skilled at arousing suspense' GUARDIAN'Daphne du Maurier is an excellent storyteller' KIRKUS REVIEWS'One of the last century's most original literary talents' DAILY TELEGRAPHAs a tour guide, Armino Fabbio leads a pleasant, if uneventful life - until he becomes circumstantially involved in the death of a peasant in Rome. The woman, he gradually lear... ... Read more

$11.99 CAD

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'She wrote exciting plots, she was highly skilled at arousing suspense' GUARDIAN'Daphne du Maurier is an excellent storyteller' KIRKUS REVIEWS'One of the last century's most original literary talents' DAILY TELEGRAPHAs a tour guide, Armino Fabbio leads a pleasant, if uneventful life - until he becomes circumstantially involved in the death of a peasant in Rome. The woman, he gradually lear...
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Mary Anne

by Daphne du Maurier ...

Series Book 118 - Virago Modern Classics
'This novel catches fire' NEW YORK TIMESDISCOVER THIS THRILLING STORY OF DESIRE AND AMBITION FROM THE AUTHOR OF REBECCAMen did as they pleased, and women suffered for it. There was only one way to beat them, and that was to match your wits against theirs and come out the winner.Raised in the squalid backstreets of Regency London, Mary Anne Clarke develops a sharp wit and a ruthless ambition. With ... Read more

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'This novel catches fire' NEW YORK TIMESDISCOVER THIS THRILLING STORY OF DESIRE AND AMBITION FROM THE AUTHOR OF REBECCAMen did as they pleased, and women suffered for it. There was only one way to beat them, and that was to match your wits against theirs and come out the winner.Raised in the squalid backstreets of Regency London, Mary Anne Clarke develops a sharp wit and a ruthless ambition. With
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The Glass-Blowers

by Daphne du Maurier ...

Series Book 124 - Virago Modern Classics
FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF REBECCA'She wrote exciting plots . . . a writer of fearless originality' GUARDIAN**'This French Revolution epic is an overlooked classic' MELISSA KATSOULIS, THE TIMES'No other popular writer has so triumphantly defied classification . . . ' MARGARET FORSTER'Perhaps we shall not see each other again. I will write to you, though, a... ... Read more

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FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF REBECCA'She wrote exciting plots . . . a writer of fearless originality' GUARDIAN**'This French Revolution epic is an overlooked classic' MELISSA KATSOULIS, THE TIMES'No other popular writer has so triumphantly defied classification . . . ' MARGARET FORSTER'Perhaps we shall not see each other again. I will write to you, though, a...
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The King's General

The thrilling historical romance from the bestselling author of REBECCA

by Daphne du Maurier ...

Series Book 127 - Virago Modern Classics
DISCOVER THE DU MAURIER DARK ROMANCE COLLECTION**'A great gothic writer' KATE MOSSE'A writer of fearless originality' GUARDIAN**'The indisputable queen of the sophisticated literary thriller and historical romance' LAURA SHEPPERSON'She is in a league of her own . . . majestic, terrifying and beautiful' CAMILLA GRUDOVA***'*Feared and hated by friend and ... ... Read more

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DISCOVER THE DU MAURIER DARK ROMANCE COLLECTION**'A great gothic writer' KATE MOSSE'A writer of fearless originality' GUARDIAN**'The indisputable queen of the sophisticated literary thriller and historical romance' LAURA SHEPPERSON'She is in a league of her own . . . majestic, terrifying and beautiful' CAMILLA GRUDOVA***'*Feared and hated by friend and ...
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The Scapegoat

by Daphne du Maurier ...

Series Book 9 - Virago Modern Classics
THE CLASSIC THRILLER FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF REBECCA'What a magnificent thriller this is' NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW'She wrote exciting plots . . . a writer of fearless originality' GUARDIAN'Tinged with nightmare' TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT'He turned and stared at me and I at him, and I realised, with a strange sense of shock and fear and nause... ... Read more

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THE CLASSIC THRILLER FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF REBECCA'What a magnificent thriller this is' NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW'She wrote exciting plots . . . a writer of fearless originality' GUARDIAN'Tinged with nightmare' TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT'He turned and stared at me and I at him, and I realised, with a strange sense of shock and fear and nause...
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