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The Realm of Prester John
By Robert Silverberg
Robert Silverberg, whose work is well known to science fiction fans, originally published The Realm of Prester John in 1972. The first modern account of the genesis of a great medieval myth—which was perpetuated for centuries by European Christians who looked to Asia and Africa for a strong ruler out of the east—Silverberg’s romantic and fabulous tale is now available in paperback for the first time.
History · World and Comparative History · Asian History · European History · Literature · Creative Nonfiction · Biography · Christianity · Religion
The Golden Dream
Seekers of El Dorado
By Robert Silverberg
One of the most persistent legends in the annals of New World exploration is that of the Land of God. Its mythical site was located over vast areas of South American (and later, North America); it drove some men mad with greed and, often as not, to their deaths.In this amazing history of quest and adventure, Robert Silverberg traces the fate of Old World explorers lured westward by the myth of El Dorado.
History · American History · World and Comparative History · Latin American History · Literature · Colonialism and Decolonization
The Longest Voyage
Circumnavigators in the Age of Discovery
By Robert Silverberg
Robert Silverberg’s The Longest Voyage captures the drama and danger and personalities in the colorful story of the first voyages around the world. In only a century, circumnavigators in small ships charted the coast of the New World and explored the Pacific. Characterized by fierce nationalism, competitiveness, and bloodshed, it was a century much like our own.These
History · World and Comparative History · European History · Literature · Creative Nonfiction
House of Incest
By Anaïs Nin
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Introduction by Allison Pease
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Foreword by Gunther Stuhlmann
“The genesis of House of Incest was in the dream. The keeping of dreams was an important part of that exploration of the unconscious. But I discovered dreams in themselves, isolated, were not always interesting. Very few of them had the complete imagery and tension to arouse others’ interest. They were fragmented. The surrealists delighted in the image themselves. This was satisfying to the painters and to the film-makers.
House of Incest
By Anaïs Nin
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Introduction by Allison Pease
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Foreword by Gunther Stuhlmann
“The genesis of House of Incest was in the dream. The keeping of dreams was an important part of that exploration of the unconscious. But I discovered dreams in themselves, isolated, were not always interesting. Very few of them had the complete imagery and tension to arouse others’ interest. They were fragmented. The surrealists delighted in the image themselves. This was satisfying to the painters and to the film-makers.
From Jail to Jail
By Tan Malaka
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Translation by Helen Jarvis
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Introduction by Helen Jarvis
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Foreword by Harry A. Poeze
From Jail to Jail is the political autobiography of a central though enigmatic figure of the Indonesian Revolution. Variously labeled a communist, Trotskyite, and nationalist, Tan Malaka managed, during the several decades of his political activity, to run afoul of nearly every political group and faction involved in the Indonesian struggle for independence.Malaka
Asian History · Biography, Activists · World and Comparative History · Political Science · Asian Studies · Southeast Asian Studies · Literature · Indonesia
Ghost Towns of the American West
By Robert Silverberg
The story of the American mining frontier can be traced in the ghost towns — from the camps of California’s forty-niners to the twentieth-century ruins in the Nevada desert. They mark an epoch of high adventure, of quick wealth and quicker poverty, of gambling and gun-slinging and hell-raising.
History · American History · Literature · Creative Nonfiction · Western Americana
Good-bye, Son and Other Stories
By Janet Lewis
Lewis’ only collection of short fiction was first published in 1946, but remains as quietly haunting today as it was then. Set in small communities of the upper Midwest and northern California in the ’30s and ’40s, these midcentury gems focus on the quiet cycles connecting youth and age, despair and hope, life and death.
Literary Fiction · Short Stories (single author) · American Literature · Women Authors · Literature
Not Out of Hate
A Novel of Burma
By Ma Ma Lay
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Edited by William H. Frederick
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Translation by Margaret Aung-Thwin
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Introduction by Anna Allott
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Afterword by Robert E. Vore
Ma Ma Lay’s 1955 novel of the marriage between a rural teenager to a powerful Anglophile twenty years her senior, set in prewar Burma, is an engaging drama, finely observed work of social realism, and stirring rejection of Western cultural dominance by Burma’s foremost female author and one of its preeminent voices for change.
Fiction · Asian Literature · Burma · Southeast Asian Studies · Literature
Good-bye, Son and Other Stories
By Janet Lewis
Lewis’ only collection of short fiction was first published in 1946, but remains as quietly haunting today as it was then. Set in small communities of the upper Midwest and northern California in the ’30s and ’40s, these midcentury gems focus on the quiet cycles connecting youth and age, despair and hope, life and death.
Literary Fiction · Short Stories (single author) · American Literature · Women Authors · Literature
Literature and Resistance in Guatemala
Textual Modes and Cultural Politics from El Señor Presidente to Rigoberta Menchú
By Marc Zimmerman
What circumstances lead writers in a poor, multi-ethnic and largely illiterate country to produce a literature that both expresses and affects opposition to the regime? Who are these writers? This study examines these and other questions about the literature of resistance in Guatemala, from the days of Estrada Cabrera up to the events of May and June of 1993.Zimmerman
Literary Criticism, Latin America · Latin American Studies · Literature
Lyrical Liberators
The American Antislavery Movement in Verse, 1831–1865
Edited by Monica Pelaez
Before Black Lives Matter and Hamilton, there were abolitionist poets. In Lyrical Liberators, Monica Pelaez draws on unprecedented archival research to recover, collect, and annotate works by critically acclaimed writers, commercially successful scribes, and minority voices including those of African Americans and women.
Literary Criticism, US · Slavery and Slave Trade · American Civil War · African American Studies · Literature
From Jail to Jail
By Tan Malaka
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Translation by Helen Jarvis
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Introduction by Helen Jarvis
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Foreword by Harry A. Poeze
From Jail to Jail is the political autobiography of a central though enigmatic figure of the Indonesian Revolution. Variously labeled a communist, Trotskyite, and nationalist, Tan Malaka managed, during the several decades of his political activity, to run afoul of nearly every political group and faction involved in the Indonesian struggle for independence.Malaka
Asian History · Biography, Activists · World and Comparative History · Political Science · Asian Studies · Southeast Asian Studies · Literature · Indonesia
Writing an Icon
Celebrity Culture and the Invention of Anaïs Nin
By Anita Jarczok
Before Madonna and her many imitators, there was Anaïs Nin, the diarist, novelist, and provocateur. Jarczok reveals how Nin crafted her personae, which she rewrote and restyled to suit her needs, and how she occupied a singular space in 20th-century culture, as a literary figure, a voice of female sexual liberation, and a celebrity.
Literary Criticism, US · Literary Criticism, Women Authors · Women’s Studies · Literature · Anaïs Nin
Culture and Money in the Nineteenth Century
Abstracting Economics
Edited by Daniel Bivona and Marlene Tromp
Grounded in literary studies and spanning the Americas, India, England, and Scotland, this book explores the relationship between economic concepts and culture in the period, focusing on how economic tropes were abstracted into other discourses in fields as diverse as evolutionary science, business, or literary narrative.
Literary Criticism, UK · Economic History · Literature · Victorian Studies
