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Collection of the Best Works of Graf Leo Tolstoy: [Where Love is There God is Also by Graf Leo Tolstoy/ What Men Live By, and Other Tales by Graf Leo Tolstoy/ Master and Man by Graf Leo Tolstoy]

by Graf Leo Tolstoy ...

Book 1: Discover the transformative power of love with “Where Love Is, There God Is Also by Graf Leo Tolstoy.” Tolstoy's short story follows the humble cobbler Martin, whose life takes a profound turn when he experiences a divine revelation. Filled with themes of compassion and spiritual awakening, this tale invites readers to contemplate the intersection of love, faith, and the divine in the ... Read more

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Book 1: Discover the transformative power of love with “Where Love Is, There God Is Also by Graf Leo Tolstoy.” Tolstoy's short story follows the humble cobbler Martin, whose life takes a profound turn when he experiences a divine revelation. Filled with themes of compassion and spiritual awakening, this tale invites readers to contemplate the intersection of love, faith, and the divine in the
... Read more
Positive Obsession

The Life and Times of Octavia E. Butler

by Susana M. Morris ...

A magnificent cultural biography that charts the life of one of our greatest writers, situating her alongside the key historical and social moments that shaped her work.As the first Black woman to consistently write and publish in the field of science fiction, Octavia Butler was a trailblazer. With her deft pen, she created stories speculating the devolution of the American empire, using it as an ... Read more

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A magnificent cultural biography that charts the life of one of our greatest writers, situating her alongside the key historical and social moments that shaped her work.As the first Black woman to consistently write and publish in the field of science fiction, Octavia Butler was a trailblazer. With her deft pen, she created stories speculating the devolution of the American empire, using it as an
... Read more
And Still I Rise

by Dr Maya Angelou ...

A beautiful and inspiring collection of poetry by Maya Angelou, author of I KNOW WHY THE CAGED BIRD SINGS and 'a brilliant writer, a fierce friend and a truly phenomenal woman' (BARACK OBAMA).'I write about being a Black American woman, however, I am always talking about what it's like to be a human being. This is how we are, what makes us laugh, and this is how we fall and how we somehow, ... Read more

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A beautiful and inspiring collection of poetry by Maya Angelou, author of I KNOW WHY THE CAGED BIRD SINGS and 'a brilliant writer, a fierce friend and a truly phenomenal woman' (BARACK OBAMA).'I write about being a Black American woman, however, I am always talking about what it's like to be a human being. This is how we are, what makes us laugh, and this is how we fall and how we somehow,
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky: The Complete Novels

A Journey Through Russian Literary Masterpieces

by Fyodor Dostoevsky ...

Immerse Yourself in the Mastery of Fyodor Dostoyevsky! Step into the world of one of the greatest literary minds of all time with "Fyodor Dostoyevsky: The Complete Novels Collection." This meticulously curated eBook brings together all of Dostoyevsky's seminal works, offering readers an unparalleled journey through the depths of human psychology and social commentary. This collection includes: ... Read more

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Immerse Yourself in the Mastery of Fyodor Dostoyevsky! Step into the world of one of the greatest literary minds of all time with "Fyodor Dostoyevsky: The Complete Novels Collection." This meticulously curated eBook brings together all of Dostoyevsky's seminal works, offering readers an unparalleled journey through the depths of human psychology and social commentary. This collection includes:
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The Complete Works of Fyodor Dostoyevsky: Novels, Short Stories and Autobiographical Writings

Complete Psychological and Existential Works of 19th-Century Russia

by Fyodor Dostoyevsky ...

Translated by Constance Garnett, C.J. Hogarth, Frederick Whishaw, Ethel Colburn Mayne, John Middleton Murry, S.S. Koteliansky ...

This carefully crafted ebook: "The Complete Works of Fyodor Dostoyevsky: Novels, Short Stories and Autobiographical Writings" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1821-1881) was a Russian novelist, short story writer, essayist, journalist and philosopher. His literary works explore human psychology in the troubled political, social, ... Read more

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This carefully crafted ebook: "The Complete Works of Fyodor Dostoyevsky: Novels, Short Stories and Autobiographical Writings" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1821-1881) was a Russian novelist, short story writer, essayist, journalist and philosopher. His literary works explore human psychology in the troubled political, social,
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Mouth Full of Blood

Essays, Speeches, Meditations

by Toni Morrison ...

“She was our conscience. Our seer. Our truth-teller. She was a magician with language, who understood the power of words.****” - Oprah WinfreyA vital non-fiction collection from one of the most celebrated and revered American writersSpanning four decades, these essays, speeches and meditations interrogate the world around us. They are concerned with race, gender and globalisation. The sweep of ... Read more

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“She was our conscience. Our seer. Our truth-teller. She was a magician with language, who understood the power of words.****” - Oprah WinfreyA vital non-fiction collection from one of the most celebrated and revered American writersSpanning four decades, these essays, speeches and meditations interrogate the world around us. They are concerned with race, gender and globalisation. The sweep of
... Read more
The Collected Works of Ernest Hemingway (Annotated)

Enriched Edition. The Old Man and the Sea, The Sun Also Rises, A Farewell to Arms, For Whom the Bell Tolls and many more

by Ernest Hemingway, Nolan Langforde ...

The Collected Works of Ernest Hemingway gathers the fiction and prose of one of modernism's most influential stylists, revealing the disciplined compression, moral ambiguity, and emotional restraint that define his art. Across war stories, expatriate narratives, sporting tales, and meditations on courage, loss, and endurance, Hemingway's famous "iceberg" method gives ordinary gestures profound ... Read more

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The Collected Works of Ernest Hemingway gathers the fiction and prose of one of modernism's most influential stylists, revealing the disciplined compression, moral ambiguity, and emotional restraint that define his art. Across war stories, expatriate narratives, sporting tales, and meditations on courage, loss, and endurance, Hemingway's famous "iceberg" method gives ordinary gestures profound
... Read more
Black Women’s Stories of Everyday Racism

Narrative Analysis for Social Change

by Simone Drake, James Phelan, Robyn Warhol, Lisa Zunshine ...

Black Women’s Stories of Everyday Racism puts literary narrative theory to work on an urgent real-world problem. The book calls attention to African American women’s everyday experiences with systemic racism and demonstrates how four types of narrative theory can help generate strategies to explain and dismantle that racism. This volume presents fifteen stories told by eight midwestern African ... Read more

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Black Women’s Stories of Everyday Racism puts literary narrative theory to work on an urgent real-world problem. The book calls attention to African American women’s everyday experiences with systemic racism and demonstrates how four types of narrative theory can help generate strategies to explain and dismantle that racism. This volume presents fifteen stories told by eight midwestern African
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Toni Morrison's 'Beloved'

Origins

by Justine Tally ...

Series series Routledge Transnational Perspectives on American Literature
This work expands the scope of Morrison’s project to examine the ways and means of memory in the preservation of belief systems passed down from the earliest civilizations (both the Classical Greek and the Ancient Egyptian) as a challenge to the sterility of modernity. Moreover, this research explores the author’s specific use of Foucauldian theory as a vehicle for her narrative, which reclaims ... Read more

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This work expands the scope of Morrison’s project to examine the ways and means of memory in the preservation of belief systems passed down from the earliest civilizations (both the Classical Greek and the Ancient Egyptian) as a challenge to the sterility of modernity. Moreover, this research explores the author’s specific use of Foucauldian theory as a vehicle for her narrative, which reclaims
... Read more
Uncle Tom's Cabin (Illustrated + Audiobook Download Link + Active TOC)

by Harriet Beecher Stowe ...

FEATURES:• Includes beautiful artworks and illustrations• A link of a FREE audio book to download at the end of the book• Active Table of Contents for an easy navigation within the book• Manually coded and crafted by professionals for highest formatting quality and standardsCheck out ngims Publishing's other illustrated literary classics. The vast majority of our books have original illustrations, ... Read more

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FEATURES:• Includes beautiful artworks and illustrations• A link of a FREE audio book to download at the end of the book• Active Table of Contents for an easy navigation within the book• Manually coded and crafted by professionals for highest formatting quality and standardsCheck out ngims Publishing's other illustrated literary classics. The vast majority of our books have original illustrations,
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Notes of a Native Son

by James Baldwin ...

A new edition published on the twenty-fifth anniversary of Baldwin’s death, including a new introduction by an important contemporary writerSince its original publication in 1955, this first nonfiction collection of essays by James Baldwin remains an American classic. His impassioned essays on life in Harlem, the protest novel, movies, and African Americans abroad are as powerful today as when ... Read more

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A new edition published on the twenty-fifth anniversary of Baldwin’s death, including a new introduction by an important contemporary writerSince its original publication in 1955, this first nonfiction collection of essays by James Baldwin remains an American classic. His impassioned essays on life in Harlem, the protest novel, movies, and African Americans abroad are as powerful today as when
... Read more
Begin Again

James Baldwin’s America and Its Urgent Lessons for Today

by Eddie S. Glaude Jr. ...

*THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER*'A simply wonderful book' PHILIPPE SANDS'Begin Again is that rare thing: an instant classic' PANKAJ MISHRA'Incredibly moving and stirring' DIANA EVANSAmerica is at a crossroads.Drawing insight and inspiration from Baldwin's writings, Glaude suggests we can find hope and guidance through an era of shattered promises and... ... Read more

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*THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER*'A simply wonderful book' PHILIPPE SANDS'Begin Again is that rare thing: an instant classic' PANKAJ MISHRA'Incredibly moving and stirring' DIANA EVANSAmerica is at a crossroads.Drawing insight and inspiration from Baldwin's writings, Glaude suggests we can find hope and guidance through an era of shattered promises and...
... Read more
Nobody Knows My Name

More Notes Of A Native Son

by James Baldwin ...

Series series Penguin Modern Classics
'These essays ... live and grow in the mind' James Campbell, IndependentBeing a writer, says James Baldwin in this searing collection of essays, requires 'every ounce of stamina he can summon to attempt to look on himself and the world as they are'. His seminal 1961 follow-up to Notes on a Native Son shows him responding to his times and exploring his role as an artist with biting precision and ... Read more

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'These essays ... live and grow in the mind' James Campbell, IndependentBeing a writer, says James Baldwin in this searing collection of essays, requires 'every ounce of stamina he can summon to attempt to look on himself and the world as they are'. His seminal 1961 follow-up to Notes on a Native Son shows him responding to his times and exploring his role as an artist with biting precision and
... Read more
I Ain't Scared of You

by Bernie Mac ...

A laugh-out-loud humor book from one of the most celebrated comedians, Bernie Mac, the star of Fox's The Bernie Mac Show, winner of the prestigious Peabody Award.The Chicago-bred performer and royal king of the Original Kings of Comedy, Bernie Mac, has won over countless fans of cutting comedy and family humor with an edgy show that tells it like it is but never loses heart. No surprise, Mac has ... Read more

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A laugh-out-loud humor book from one of the most celebrated comedians, Bernie Mac, the star of Fox's The Bernie Mac Show, winner of the prestigious Peabody Award.The Chicago-bred performer and royal king of the Original Kings of Comedy, Bernie Mac, has won over countless fans of cutting comedy and family humor with an edgy show that tells it like it is but never loses heart. No surprise, Mac has
... Read more
EC Comics

Race, Shock, and Social Protest

by Qiana Whitted ...

Series series Comics Culture
2020 Eisner Award for Best Academic/Scholarly WorkEntertaining Comics Group (EC Comics) is perhaps best-known today for lurid horror comics like Tales from the Crypt and for a publication that long outlived the company’s other titles, Mad magazine. But during its heyday in the early 1950s, EC was also an early innovator in another genre of comics: the so-called “preachies,” socially conscious ... Read more

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2020 Eisner Award for Best Academic/Scholarly WorkEntertaining Comics Group (EC Comics) is perhaps best-known today for lurid horror comics like Tales from the Crypt and for a publication that long outlived the company’s other titles, Mad magazine. But during its heyday in the early 1950s, EC was also an early innovator in another genre of comics: the so-called “preachies,” socially conscious
... Read more
Big Book Of Butts (Adult Picture Book: Anaconda Edition)

by Speedy Publishing ...

A protruding posterior is considered attractive by guys for a variety of reasons. Primarily, evolution programmed men to prefer women with wide child-rearing hips, and a big butt represents this ideal mating quality. Plumpness also signifies youthfulness, which is a trait that males prefer. Finally, everyone likes something to hold onto during sex, and a little spanking never hurt either. ... Read more

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A protruding posterior is considered attractive by guys for a variety of reasons. Primarily, evolution programmed men to prefer women with wide child-rearing hips, and a big butt represents this ideal mating quality. Plumpness also signifies youthfulness, which is a trait that males prefer. Finally, everyone likes something to hold onto during sex, and a little spanking never hurt either.
... Read more
The Truth About Awiti

by CP Patrick ...

There is a commonly held belief the tropical storms and hurricanes that form off the coast of West Africa are not natural disasters, but rather they are retaliation by restless spirits impacted by one of the darkest chapters of world history—the trans-Atlantic slave trade.Awiti’s destiny was forever changed the day the slave raiders arrived at her village. She made a life-altering decision with ... Read more

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There is a commonly held belief the tropical storms and hurricanes that form off the coast of West Africa are not natural disasters, but rather they are retaliation by restless spirits impacted by one of the darkest chapters of world history—the trans-Atlantic slave trade.Awiti’s destiny was forever changed the day the slave raiders arrived at her village. She made a life-altering decision with
... Read more
The Bunna Man

Joe Grind Series

by Crystal Evans ...

Series Book 1 - Joe Grind Series
A book about love, lies and deception between two women and the man who stole their hearts and played then both as fools. The never ending story of how a cute face and a smile turn smart women into foolish girls. ... Read more

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A book about love, lies and deception between two women and the man who stole their hearts and played then both as fools. The never ending story of how a cute face and a smile turn smart women into foolish girls.
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Spirit Deep

Recovering the Sacred in Black Women's Travel

by Professor Tisha M. Brooks ...

Series series Studies in Religion and Culture
What would it mean for American and African American literary studies if readers took the spirituality and travel of Black women seriously? With Spirit Deep: Recovering the Sacred in Black Women’s Travel, Tisha Brooks addresses this question by focusing on three nineteenth-century Black women writers who merged the spiritual and travel narrative genres: Zilpha Elaw, Amanda Smith, and Nancy Prince. ... Read more

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What would it mean for American and African American literary studies if readers took the spirituality and travel of Black women seriously? With Spirit Deep: Recovering the Sacred in Black Women’s Travel, Tisha Brooks addresses this question by focusing on three nineteenth-century Black women writers who merged the spiritual and travel narrative genres: Zilpha Elaw, Amanda Smith, and Nancy Prince.
... Read more
The Haverford Discussions

A Black Integrationist Manifesto for Racial Justice

Edited by Michael Lackey ...

In the late sixties and early seventies, black separatist movements were sweeping across the United States. This was the era of The Autobiography of Malcolm X, Stokely Carmichael's and Charles Hamilton's Black Power, and Eldridge Cleaver's Soul on Ice. In 1969 a group of distinguished African American intellectuals met at Haverford College in order to devise strategies to dissuade young blacks ... Read more

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In the late sixties and early seventies, black separatist movements were sweeping across the United States. This was the era of The Autobiography of Malcolm X, Stokely Carmichael's and Charles Hamilton's Black Power, and Eldridge Cleaver's Soul on Ice. In 1969 a group of distinguished African American intellectuals met at Haverford College in order to devise strategies to dissuade young blacks
... Read more
American Trickster

Trauma, Tradition and Brer Rabbit

by Emily Zobel Marshall ...

Our fascination with the trickster figure, whose presence is global, stems from our desire to break free from the tightly regimented structures of our societies. Condemned to conform to laws and rules imposed by governments, communities, social groups and family bonds, we revel in the fantasy of the trickster whose energy and cunning knows no bounds and for whom nothing is sacred.One such ... Read more

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Our fascination with the trickster figure, whose presence is global, stems from our desire to break free from the tightly regimented structures of our societies. Condemned to conform to laws and rules imposed by governments, communities, social groups and family bonds, we revel in the fantasy of the trickster whose energy and cunning knows no bounds and for whom nothing is sacred.One such
... Read more
The Empire Abroad and the Empire at Home

African American Literature and the Era of Overseas Expansion

by John Cullen Gruesser ...

In The Empire Abroad and the Empire at Home, John Cullen Gruesser establishes that African American writers at the turn of the twentieth century responded extensively and idiosyncratically to overseas expansion and its implications for domestic race relations. He contends that the work of these writers significantly informs not only African American literary studies but also U.S. political history ... Read more

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In The Empire Abroad and the Empire at Home, John Cullen Gruesser establishes that African American writers at the turn of the twentieth century responded extensively and idiosyncratically to overseas expansion and its implications for domestic race relations. He contends that the work of these writers significantly informs not only African American literary studies but also U.S. political history
... Read more
Experimental Subjectivities in Global Black Women's Writing

Race and Narrative Innovation

Edited by Professor Sheldon George, Professor Jean Wyatt ...

Series series Bloomsbury Studies in Global Women’s Writing
In what innovative ways do novels by diasporic Black women writers experiment with the representation of Black subjectivity? This collection explores the inventiveness of contemporary Black women writers – Black British, African, Caribbean, African American – who remake traditional understandings of blackness. As the title word “experimental” signals, these essays foreground the narrative form and ... Read more

$59.38 NZD

In what innovative ways do novels by diasporic Black women writers experiment with the representation of Black subjectivity? This collection explores the inventiveness of contemporary Black women writers – Black British, African, Caribbean, African American – who remake traditional understandings of blackness. As the title word “experimental” signals, these essays foreground the narrative form and
... Read more
The Rise of the African Novel

Politics of Language, Identity, and Ownership

by Mukoma Wa Ngugi ...

Series series African Perspectives
The Rise of the African Novel is the first book to situate South African and African-language literature of the late 1880s through the early 1940s in relation to the literature of decolonization that spanned the 1950s through the 1980s, and the contemporary generation of established and emerging continental and diaspora African writers of international renown.Calling it a major crisis in African ... Read more

$48.90 NZD

The Rise of the African Novel is the first book to situate South African and African-language literature of the late 1880s through the early 1940s in relation to the literature of decolonization that spanned the 1950s through the 1980s, and the contemporary generation of established and emerging continental and diaspora African writers of international renown.Calling it a major crisis in African
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