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This is Virginia Woolf’s first collection of essays, published in 1925. In them, she attempts to see literature from the point of view of the ‘common reader’ - someone whom she, with Dr Johnson, distinguished from the critic and the scholar. She read, and wrote, as an outsider: a woman set to school in her father’s library, denied the educational privileges of her male siblings - and with no fixed view of what constitutes ‘English literature’. What she produced is an eccentric and unofficial literary and social history from the 14th to the 20th centuries.

The world is increasingly unthinkable, a world of planetary disasters, emerging pandemics, and the looming threat of extinction. In this book, Eugene Thacker suggests that we look to the genre of horror as offering a way of thinking about the unthinkable world. To confront this idea is to confront the limit of our ability to understand the world in which we live - a central motif of the horror genre. In the Dust of This Planet explores these relationships between philosophy and horror.

In this first of a planned five-volume set, David Roy provides a complete and annotated translation of the famous Chin P'ing Mei, an anonymous sixteenth-century Chinese novel that focuses on the domestic life of Hsi-men Ch'ing, a corrupt, upwardly mobile merchant in a provincial town, who maintains a harem of six wives and concubines. This work, known primarily for its erotic realism, is also a landmark in the development of the narrative art form - not only from a specifically Chinese perspective but in a world-historical context.

The year 2010 marks the 100th anniversary of Twain’s death. In celebration of this important milestone, here, for the first time, is Mark Twain’s uncensored autobiography, in its entirety, exactly as he left it. This major literary event offers the first of three volumes and presents Mark Twain’s authentic and unsuppressed voice, brimming with humor, ideas, and opinions, and speaking clearly from the grave, as he intended.

From the author who started it all and New Zealand's original podcast authoress, Tee Morris and Pip Ballantine return to Podiobooks.com with Tales from the Archives, a collection of original steampunk short stories set in the world of their award-winning series, The Ministry of Peculiar Occurrences. Featuring voices familiar and new, Pip and Tee invite you to sample the fantastic world of their shadowy organisation that fights for Queen and Empire against the mysterious and unknown. This volume includes: The Evil that Befell Sampson by Pip Ballantine- Eliza D Braun is a young field agent in ...

Tom Jones is a splendid Hogarthian panorama of 18th-century English life and morals, encompassing both city and country, and comprising some of the greatest comic characters in British literature. First published in 1749, it was an instant success and has gone on to become a classic of its genre. Quite simply, there has never been anything like it.

When Detective Karl Jenkins is assigned to investigate a series of disappearances, obsession and paranoia lead him to cross a line that leaves his partner, and love interest, running for her life. Enjoy our continuously growing universe of interconnected stories all centred around Earth and Clivilius and unravel the mysteries that span centuries. The Clivilius Brothers blend fiction and reality to take you on a mind-bending ride. In this sci-fi thriller you’ll find mystery, drama, action and lots of romance! Witness the birth of a new civilisation and unravel the mysteries of Clivilius. You...

Classical poetry is a genre of poetry. Judging from the number of words in the verse, there are so-called four-character poems, five-character poems, seven-character poems, and miscellaneous poems. This album is the first series of "Ancient Poems", which recites and interprets ancient poems.

Explore the unsettling world of weird narrative with this first volume of Lectures on Weird Fiction. This collection features the first ten transcribed and revised lectures originally delivered live and published individually.

Once Upon a Time...for a Meaningful Discussion. Do the fairy tales we hold dear send messages we find unsettling today? This two-volume collection pulls back the curtain on beloved bedtime classics to uncover what public assumptions they could silently nurture about gender, violence and power. Volume 1 traces six iconic tales’ problematic roots in oral folklore and evolving messages across later literary adaptations.

CrimeWAV.com is a new podcast series of crime short stories by some of today's best contemporary writers in the genre. Call it detective fiction, hard boiled, action, mystery, whatever you want. This is the place for the stories you'll love!

As scholars of African American literature and cultural history, Bennett and McCarthy repeatedly find themselves struck by the number of exciting poets they come across in long-out-of-print collections and forgotten journals, whose work has been neglected and, in some cases, entirely ignored, even by those academic circles devoted to the study of Black poetry. Minor Notes is an excavation initiative that addresses this problem by recovering archival materials from these understudied, though supremely gifted, African American poets of the 19th and 20th centuries.

Leitura completa do livro "A Vida de Charlotte Brontë" de Elizabeth Gaskell (livro exclusivo que veio na caixinha dos assinantes do clube de leitores da Pedra azul editora). Leitura do volume 1 e volume 2 Leitura interativa feita com exclusividade para os sócios do clube Sons da Leitura. Esse livro tem 414 páginas e teremos a leitura completa Esse é o 12º e 13º livro lido pelo clube Sons da Leitura. Para ter acesso a leitura completa , deve assinar o clube. Para acompanhar nossas leituras mensais, deve-se tornar sócio do clube "Sons da Leitura". Informações sobre o clube e ...

Mark Twain, American Humorist examines the ways that Mark Twain’s reputation developed at home and abroad in the period between 1865 and 1882, years in which he went from a regional humorist to national and international fame. In the late 1860s, Mark Twain became the exemplar of a school of humor that was thought to be uniquely American.

Breckinridge Elkins is the roughest, toughest, fastest-shootin', hardest-fightin' feller in the Bear Creek settlement, and probably in the entire Humbolt Mountains. As he travels further from home, he single-handedly takes on outlaws, settles (and starts) feuds and tries his hand at romancing the girls. He also discovers a lot of strange customs among other folks, such as building houses out of boards and wearing clothes that ain't buckskins. Set in Nevada during the late 1800's, this collection of stories is a great rollicking romp through the American frontier as seen through the eyes of one...

If you're reading this, I can guess that you've either lived or worked with dogs. We don't call them man's best friend for nothing. Since the very dawn of civilization, man has shared his life with our canine friends. This is the complete five-book series, a collection of 60 true stories that we hope illustrate just why life is always enhanced by having a dog around.

"Thousand Characters" is a work written with a thousand characters that do not repeat each other. The author is Zhou Xingsi of the Liang Dynasty in the Southern Dynasty. This album is the first series of "Thousand Characters", which recites and interprets this classic of Chinese studies.