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Lost Russia: Photographing the Ruins of Russian Architecture
William Brumfield
Duke University Press
, 1995
Sad but poinent
This book not only met my expectations, but exceeded them. The author took me to places i will never get to see, as well as provide me amazing pictures of these sites for my artistic reference library. as well as explaining about the sites themselves. Most saddeinig is ...
Lost Shores, Forgotten Peoples: Spanish Explorations of the South East Maya Lowlands (Latin America in ...
Duke University Press
, 2000
Long after the Aztecs and the Incas had become a fading memory, a Maya civilization still thrived in the interior of Central America. Lost Shores, Forgotten Peoples is the first collection and translation of important seventeenth-century narratives about Europeans travelling across the great ?Ocean Sea? and encountering a people who had ...
Forgotten Readers: Recovering the Lost History of African American Literary Societies (New Americanists)
Elizabeth McHenry
Duke University Press
, 2002
Over the past decade the popularity of black writers including E. Lynn Harris and Terry McMillan has been hailed as an indication that an active African American reading public has come into being. Yet this is not a new trend; there is a vibrant history of African American literacy, literary associations, and book clubs. Forgotten Readers ...
The Lost Duke of Wyndham (Two Dukes of Wyndham, Book 1)
Julia Quinn
Avon
, 2008
Julia Quinn's got her touch back and more!
Honestly, it's more like a 4.5 star book than a full 5 stars- but there doesn't seem to be half-star grades here. I don't know where to begin or what exactly to focus on when reviewing this book. I just want to say that it seems like JQ's finally brought something ...
Machine Art and Other Writings: The Lost Thought of the Italian Years
Ezra Pound
Duke University Press
, 1996
Machine Art and Other Writings presents previously unpublished and rare writings by one of the literary giants of the modernist period, Ezra Pound. Written from the late 1920s to the early part of the 1940s, these essays, selected by Maria Luisa Ardizzone and including ?Machine Art,? ?How To Write,? ?European Paideuma,? and ?Pragmatic ...
The Ruins of Allegory: Paradise Lost and the Metamorphosis of Epic Convention
Catherine Martin
Duke University Press
, 1998
In this reexamination of the allegorical dimensions of Paradise Lost , Catherine Martin presents Milton?s poem as a prophecy foretelling the end of one culture and its replacement by another. She argues that rather than merely extending the allegorical tradition as defined by Augustine, Dante, and Spenser, Milton has written a meta-allegory that ...
A King's Story - The Memoirs of the Duke of Windsor
Edward Windsor
,
Duke of Windsor
, ...
Trafalgar Square Publishing
, 1998
Fascinating historical document and surprisingly good read
The Duke of Windsor wrote this book in the 1950s while living in Paris. Reading it you begin to get some sense that for all his faults here was an individual of extraordinary personal charm. It was certainly a singular life. Here was a boy who was led to believe he ...
That Affair Next Door and Lost Mans Lane
Anna Green
Duke University Press
, 2003
Anna Katharine Green was the most famous and prolific writer of detective fiction in the United States prior to Dashiell Hammett. Her first novel, The Leavenworth Case, was the bestseller of 1878. Green is credited with a number of ?firsts? within the mystery genre, including the gentleman murdered as he makes out his will and the icicle as ...
The Adventures of Duke and Tom: The Lost Treasure of Panic Island
Derrick Alyn Smith
AuthorHouse
, 2008
The Adventures of Duke and Tom: The Lost Treasure of Panic Island is a coming of age book for the two friends Duke and Tom. This is a fun book filled with all the things young readers are sure to enjoy. Pirates, damsels in distress, heroes, and have of course, treasure. This story is full of surprises and fun, from the first page to the last. ...
The Lost Duke of Wyndham
Julia Quinn
Books on Tape
, 2008
An historical romance about a highwayman, a soldier and a rogue. Set in Great Britain, When Jack Audley lands in the life of Grace Eversleigh, it is a break from the routine. But if he is really the duke of Wyndham, his is the one man she never marry.
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