Wilde's Women: How Oscar Wilde Was Shaped by the Women He Knew by Eleanor Fitzsimons
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Category: Literary Studies
Hailed as a gay icon and pioneer of individualism, Oscar Wilde's insistence that 'there should be no law for anybody' made him a staunch defender of gender equality. Throughout his life from his relationship with his extraordinary mother Jane and the tragedy of his sister Isola's early death to his acco ...Show more
Wild Mercy: Living the Fierce and Tender Wisdom of the Women Mystics by Mirabai Starr
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Category: Literary Studies
The feminine mystic is one who gathers the pain of the world into her arms and transmutes it with "wild mercy"--a merging of fierce courage with the unstoppable forces of forgiveness, compassion, and love. And she is needed now more than ever. "Women across cultural boundaries are rising with our echoin ...Show more
Eloquent Rage - A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower by Brittney Cooper (Contribution by)
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Category: Literary Studies
Rebecca Solnit,The New Republic: "Funny, wrenching, pithy, and pointed." Roxane Gay: "I encourage you to check outEloquent Rage out now." Joy Reid,Cosmopolitan:"A dissertation on black women's pain and possibility." America Ferrera:"Razor sharp and hilarious. There is so much about her analysis that I ...Show more
Nobody's Victim: The Fight Against Psychos, Pervs and Trolls by Carrie Goldberg
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Category: Literary Studies | Reading Level: near fine
An unflinching look at a hidden world most people don't know exists-one of stalking, blackmail, and sexual violence, online and off-and the incredible story of how one lawyer turned her own hell into a revolution. "We are all a moment away from having our life overtaken by somebody hell-bent on our dest ...Show more
American Primitive by Mary Oliver
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Category: Literary Studies
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry Her most acclaimed volume of poetry, American Primitive contains fifty visionary poems about nature, the humanity in love, and the wilderness of America, both within our bodies and outside. "American Primitive enchants me with the purity of its lyric voice, the ...Show more
How to Write a Page-Turner - Craft a Story Your Readers Can't Put Down by Jordan Rosenfeld
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Category: Literary Studies
Infuse Your Fiction with the Powerful Tug of Tension Tension is the heart of conflict, the backbone of uncertainty, the hallmark of danger. It keeps readers guessing and characters on their toes. When you've got tension in place, stories leave readers breathless and wanting more. When it's missing, sce ...Show more
Silliness - A Serious History by Peter Timms
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Category: Literary Studies
Silliness is to be savoured. It exposes the cracks in our reasoning, raising a gleeful two-finger salute to convention and common sense. In a world awash with stupidity and cruel politics, silliness is childish, anarchic, mischievous, rude and sometimes shocking. But it's not new. This delightful yet i ...Show more
Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower by Brittney Cooper
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Category: Literary Studies
An Emma Watson "Our Shared Shelf" Selection for November/December 2018 *NAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2018 BY:The New York Public Library*Mashable* The Atlantic*Bustle*The Root *NPR* Fast Company("10 Best Books for Battling Your Sexist Workplace") Roxane Gay: "I encourage you to check outEloquent Rage out now." ...Show more
Why You Should Read Children's Books, Even Though You Are So Old and Wise by Katherine Rundell
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Category: Literary Studies | Reading Level: 4 Non Fiction
Katherine Rundell - Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, and prize-winning author of five novels for children - explores how children's books ignite, and can re-ignite, the imagination; how children's fiction, with its unabashed emotion and playfulness, can awaken old hungers and create new perspectives ...Show more
Somewhere Becoming Rain: Collected Writings on Philip Larkin by Clive James
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Category: Literary Studies | Reading Level: near fine
Clive James is a life-long admirer of the work of Philip Larkin. Somewhere Becoming Rain gathers all of James's writing on this towering literary figure of the twentieth century, together with extra material now published for the first time.The greatness of Larkin's poetry continues to be obscured by th ...Show more
The Romantic Period by Stephen Greenblatt
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Category: Literary Studies
The most trusted anthology for complete works and helpful editorial apparatus. The Tenth Edition supports survey and period courses with NEW complete major works, NEW contemporary writers, and dynamic and easy-to-access digital resources. NEW video modules help introduce students to literature in multip ...Show more
Books That Saved My Life by MICHAEL MCGIRR
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Category: Literary Studies
Great literature is thrilling. It will feed your hungry mind and take your heart on a journey. It will help you on the wonderful path to one of life's most elusive and hard-won freedoms, freedom from the ego.Here is a book about the sheer joy of living, exploring forty texts that can enrich us in all ma ...Show more