Shaughnessy - Fiction & Literature 1

Helen Garner moves into a letterbox. Dead bats rain from the sky. A woman offers Lou Reed her last cigarette at a suburban bus stop. In fifty piercing stories, Salt City Runaway introduces a cast of……続きを見る

Love them or hate them, we've all had first dates. From the first blush of romance to the slamming of a door, nothing can captureーor repelーour hearts so fully. Do we swoon with desire? Hope for te……続きを見る

Space City 6 is a collection of short stories from the weird to the wonderful, all with a Houston flair. We begin with the birth of Houston in a mosquitoーand alligator-peopleーinfested swamp where ……続きを見る

In this dystopian tale of a near-future society increasingly threatened by all-consuming AI, a scientist mother and her disabled son rebel against the corporate larceny of their selves, by an award-……続きを見る

In 2008, Tsinghua University of Beijing acquired a corpus of manuscripts written on bamboo slips from China’s Warring States period (c. 300 BCE) and established the Research and Conservation Center ……続きを見る

In July of 2008, Tsinghua University recovered a batch of Warring States bamboo slips from abroad. These were referred to as the Bamboo slips collected by Tsinghua University, i.e., the Tsinghua Man……続きを見る

The Classic of Poetry (Shijing), also known as the “Mao Poetry” (Mao Shi), is the oldest existing collection of poetry in China, or indeed anywhere in the world. As a fountainhead of the Chinese lit……続きを見る

The Long Devotion is a collection of poems, essays, and writing prompts that celebrates motherhood and creates a space, as poet Molly Spencer has written, to “tell an unlovely truth about family lif……続きを見る

This interdisciplinary study explores devised performance and practice research at the intersection of the cognitive sciences and arts. It interrogates relationships between epistemology and cogniti……続きを見る

Focuses on David Garrick and the leading actors of his company at Drury Lane. This book tells how, in their time, Garrick, Macklin and Woffington were as famous for their achievements on the stage a……続きを見る

Focuses on David Garrick and the leading actors of his company at Drury Lane. This book tells how, in their time, Garrick, Macklin and Woffington were as famous for their achievements on the stage a……続きを見る

Focuses on David Garrick and the leading actors of his company at Drury Lane. This book tells how, in their time, Garrick, Macklin and Woffington were as famous for their achievements on the stage a……続きを見る

A woman runs from a cult leader. A man watches a crowd carry a baby into the woods. A boy makes a childhood friend who is much older than she appears. The forty pieces in this book unite two creativ……続きを見る

Considers what unearthed documents reveal about the creation and transmission of knowledge in ancient China. Archaeological discoveries over the past one hundred years have resulted in repeated call……続きを見る

Spanning twenty years and five collections, Brenda Shaughnessy’s Liquid Flesh: New & Selected Poems introduces new readers to one of America’s most audacious and thrilling poets. Since debuting with……続きを見る

This latest book of short stories is an eclectic mix, a boy's encounter with the Black and Tans, actions of a member of Hitler's Youth Movement, a puny chap who thought he had a look of Clarke Gable……続きを見る

Jer's connection to his life and friends is becoming more tenuous as his preoccupation with his fairy encounters becomes an obsession. The mysterious changes within him have accelerated, and as his ……続きを見る

The award-winning poet weaves a tapestry of literary heritage and intimate reflection as she pays tribute to women artists and mentors, and circles the ongoing mysteries of friendship, love, art, an……続きを見る

Contents: 1. Use Preview To See Table of Contents Inside Also available: The Complete Harvard Classics Collection (51 Volumes + The Harvard Classic Shelf Of Fiction) 50 Masterpieces You Have To Read……続きを見る

“Brenda Shaughnessy’s poems bristle with imperatives: ‘confuse me, spoon-feed me, stop the madness, decide.’ There are more direct orders in her first few pages than in six weeks of boot camp...Only……続きを見る

"Shaughnessy's particular genius . . . is utterly poetic, but essayistic in scope."-The New Yorker "Brenda Shaughnessy's work is a good place to start for any passionate woman feeling daunted by poe……続きを見る

"A heady, infectious celebration."-The New Yorker "Shaughnessy's voice is smart, sexy, self-aware, hip . . . consistently wry, and ever savvy."-Harvard Review Brenda Shaughnessy's heartrending third……続きを見る

In recent years, three ancient manuscripts relating to the Yi jing (I Ching), or Classic of Changes, have been discovered. The earliestーthe Shanghai Museum Zhou Yiーdates to about 300 B.C.E. and sh……続きを見る

The untold story behind Edgar Allan Poe's "The Tell-Tale Heart." Edgar Allan Poe’s cat, Cattarina, mistakes a glass eye for a plaything and unwittingly pulls them into a crime even the constable can……続きを見る

The untold story behind Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Black Cat.” Fresh from her Glass Eye Killer adventure, Cattarina is once again thrust into mystery when she makes a ghastly discovery – a dead black ca……続きを見る

A pair of NIghtmares have run away from home, the Underworld of Hades.It's time to create a love match for other Nightmare paired siblings to feed. The rancher didn't know what hit him when the new ……続きを見る

Several issues come to light at the same moment. Poseidon wants a son. Hades has demon children in need of a steadying influence in their lives and Epona, goddess of horses and fertility is just now……続きを見る

Twins, separated at nine years old, their world torn apart. Decades later they meet at a jump off. Their Nightmares recognized the twins and their need to reconnect. This heartwarming tale is of a f……続きを見る

This Element addresses the question of what Shakespeare in contemporary performance is about, and whether it really is, as it may claim to be, about Shakespeare. Far from charting a smooth journey f……続きを見る

This book is about joint intelligence in action. It brings together scholarship in performance studies, cognitive science, sociology, literature, anthropology, psychology, architecture, philosophy a……続きを見る