Freedman - Fiction & Literature 1

When Jacob is hired to find lost property, his instinct screams that something stinks. Finn and Victoria bicker while trying to stop a terrorist cell from slaughtering thousands. Ben is being chased……続きを見る

Dickinson knew the Bible well. She was profoundly aware of Christian theology and she was writing at a time when comparative religion was extremely popular. This book is the first to consider Dickin……続きを見る

Haven lives in peace, unlike their celestial neighbor across the galaxy. A father and his young daughter embark on a weekend trip to feel closer to the wife and mother who has journeyed to the dista……続きを見る

Set in California in the early 1980s, A Natural Lizard Activity is narrated by 13-year-old Kim, a sexually awakening boy, who tells his tale with a sharp eye and deadpan humor. Kim moves in with the……続きを見る

Benny Dugan came to live in the shadow of his underworld boss, Red DelGatti. His introverted brother Marion took another direction in life. In this somewhat dark comedy, tragedy strikes affecting al……続きを見る

A World War II era novel about love, betrayal, honor and loss, Divided focuses on a small Austrian town in the tension-filled days between the German retreat and the Russian occupation. A small uni……続きを見る

From the beginning of modern intellectual history to the culture wars of the present day, the experience of assimilating Jews and the idiom of "culture" have been fundamentally intertwined with each……続きを見る

It takes courage to believe in your dreams, and after heartbreaking failures, it takes courage to go on dreaming. Returning to America in the twilight of his life with an old valise, an irascible pa……続きを見る

With refreshing eloquence, James O. Freedman sets down the American ideals that have informed his life as an intellectual, a law professor, and a college and university president. He examines the co……続きを見る

Jewish art has always been with us, but so has a broader canvas of Jewish imaginings: in thought, in emotion, in text, and in ritual practice. Imagining the Jewish God was there in the beginning, as……続きを見る

When Hannah accompanies her husband and small children to Jerusalem for the year, she becomes fascinated with a group of expat women at her son’s daycare, as well as a young Palestinian woman named ……続きを見る

In revealing patterns of you/thou use in Shakespeare's plays, this study highlights striking and significant shifts from one to the other. Penelope Freedman demonstrates that understanding of the im……続きを見る

Increased use of mass transportation in the early twentieth century enabled men and women of different social classes to interact in ways they had not before. Using a cultural studies approach that ……続きを見る

A biting, hilarious literary satire of war, business, and contemporary masculinity, set in the cutthroat-but-ridiculous world of management consulting King of the Mississippi is an incisive, uproari……続きを見る

Alice Stein, a young graduate student living in a vivid and chaotic late-90s East Village, loses her father and grandmother in a single year. In the process of cleaning out her grandmother's Brookly……続きを見る

Winner of the 2020 Eudora Welty Prize Theorists emphasize the necessity of writing aboutーor witnessingーtrauma in order to overcome it. To this critical conversation, Reading Testimony, Witnessing ……続きを見る

An enviable life turned inside out leads to an intense search for financial stability. An explosive criminal encounter changes everything. Indian Summer late October 1965. An unwanted pregnancy driv……続きを見る

'Mia Culpa is often very funny, and sometimes very serious.' DAILY TELEGRAPH 'Engaging stuff.' SUNDAY AGE Sometimes, when I meet someone new and I tell them I'm a writer, they ask 'What do you write……続きを見る

In this poignant tale, a psychologist makes a critical decision with her heart after learning the true identity of a teenage patient, threatening the happiness of everyone she loves. When psychologi……続きを見る

March 2020. Gina Gray returns to the Lake District to share COVID isolation with her oldest friend, Eve. They are joined by Gina’s teenage granddaughter, Freda, who is finding her own home too crowd……続きを見る

New essays on the works and themes of Hesse, one of the most perennially relevant and widely-read German authors. Today, forty years after Timothy Leary's suggestion that hippies read Hermann Hesse ……続きを見る

Today, forty years after Timothy Leary's suggestion that hippies read Hermann Hesse while "turning on," Hesse is once again receiving attention: faced with ubiquitous materialism, war, and ecologica……続きを見る

Marianne Gray is getting married in Glamis Castle and her mother is in a state of superstitious terror. To English lecturer, Gina Gray, Glamis means Macbeth, and Macbeth means weirdness and woe - ba……続きを見る

A disadvantaged kid struggles to rise above his circumstances in a New York Times–bestselling author’s “poignant, honest, and thoroughly memorable” novel (Dorothy Allison, author of Bastard out of C……続きを見る

Selected by Choice as an Outstanding Academic Book of the Year. This innovative cultural critique offers valuable insights into science fiction, thus enlarging our understanding of critical theory. ……続きを見る

An anthology of ten plays embodying the Russian literary movement that began in the late twentieth century. The plays selected for this anthology reflect the issues and styles typical of the new wav……続きを見る

The 1990s was a time for drowning in the genre of grunge music and perfecting the art of slackerdom. At least that’s what it was like for Hunter, growing up in small-town America, the son of a succe……続きを見る

Sometimes Things Just Happen ...They Just Do! Transport yourself to a bygone era, where the absence of cell phones, computers, and social media creates a refreshing simplicity. Step into the shoes o……続きを見る

Daniel Kaplan is a renowned rabbi and a well-known leader of his community. One morning, an Episcopal priest arrives at his door. That priest is the rabbi's son, but the rabbi had no idea that he ha……続きを見る

In het afnemende licht van wat ooit een bruisende metropool was, stond Alex Mercer bovenop de overblijfselen van een verbrijzelde wolkenkrabber, zijn ogen gericht op de horizon. De lucht, geschilder……続きを見る