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Willa Cather's best known novel is an epic—almost mythic—story of a single human life lived simply in the silence of the southwestern desert.
In 1851 Father Jean Marie Latour comes to serve as the Apostolic Vicar to New Mexico. What he finds is a vast territory of red hills and tortuous arroyos, American by law but Mexican and Indian in custom and belief. In the almost forty years that follow, Latour spreads his faith in the...
In 1851 Father Jean Marie Latour comes to serve as the Apostolic Vicar to New Mexico. What he finds is a vast territory of red hills and tortuous arroyos, American by law but Mexican and Indian in custom and belief. In the almost forty years that follow, Latour spreads his faith in the...
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A Vintage book volume V86
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Vintage Books
Pub. Date
[c1941]
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115 p. 19 cm.
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English
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English
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In these four plays, Jean-Paul Sartre, the great existentialist novelist and philosopher, displays his mastery of the drama. No Exit is an unforgettable portrayal of hell. The Flies is a modern reworking of the Electra-Orestes story. Dirty Hands is about a young intellectual torn between theory and praxis. The Respectful Prostitute is a scathing attack on American racism. 4 plays about an existential portrayal of Hell, the reworking of the Electra-Orestes...
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A Vintage book volume V-468
Publisher
Vintage Books
Pub. Date
©1951
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152 pages ; 19 cm.
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English
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"Whosoever would save his soul shall lose it." This book is an exploration of this law in relation to man's quest for psychological and intellectual certainty in religion and philosophy.
We live in an age of unprecedented anxiety. Spending all our time trying to anticipate and plan for the future and to lamenting the past, we forget to embrace the here and now. We are so concerned with tomorrow that we forget to enjoy today. Drawing from Eastern...
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In the course of his wanderings from a Southern Negro college to New York's Harlem, an American black man becomes involved in a series of adventures. Introduction explains circumstances under which the book was written. Ellison won the National Book Award for this searing record of a black man's journey through contemporary America. Unquestionably, Ellison's book is a work of extraordinary intensity--powerfully imagined and written with a savage,...
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A Vintage book volume V-23
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Vintage Books
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English
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Written during the most flourishing period of D.H. Lawrence's career, 'The Plumed Serpent' is a novel of ritual and romance set in Mexico during the 1920s, a story both beautiful and strange. Kate Leslie, an Irishwoman, is at once repelled and fascinated by the spell of Mexico, homesick and yet unable to leave. With the ancient rites of the lost god Quetzalcoatl, she marries Don Cipriano, an Indian, and becomes wedded not only to him but also to a...
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A Vintage book volume V-149
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English
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Contains the American novelist's greatest short novels: "Spotted Horses," "Old Man," and "The Bear."
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[A Vintage book] volume V-210
Publisher
Vintage Books
Pub. Date
[1962?]
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xxi, 326 p. map. 19 cm.
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English
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English
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"Dramatises the conflict between King Henry VIII and Sir Thomas More. It depicts the confrontation between church and state, theology and politics, absolute power and individual freedom. Throughout the play Sir Thomas More's eloquence and endurance, his purity, saintliness and tenacity in the face of ever-growing threats to his beliefs and family, earn him status as one of modern Drama's greatest tragic heroes."--The Playwrights Database.
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A Vintage book volume V-271
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Vintage Books
Pub. Date
1965, ©1945]
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New ed.
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151 pages.
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English
20) Selected poems
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Vintage Books
Pub. Date
©1965
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vii, 114 pages ; 19 cm.
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English
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Presents over fifty poems by twentieth-century poet Robinson Jeffers, selected from major works published between 1924 and 1963.
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