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An indispensable reference for scholars and students of eighteenth-century English literature This addition to the celebrated Wiley Blackwell Keywords series explores the meanings of fifty-eight of the most important words in British literature of the period 1640-1789. Professor DeMaria focuses on words used with frequency and urgency throughout the works of most major and several minor writers of the British Neoclassical era, with the occasi...

A great Italian-American saga that covers 60 years and three generations of the Adamo family, "Sons and Brothers" is set against a backdrop of history from the Great Blizzard of 1888 to the end of World War II.

An indispensable reference for scholars and students of eighteenth-century English literature This addition to the celebrated Wiley-Blackwell Keywords series explores the meanings of fifty-eight of the most important words in British literature of the period 1640-1789. Professor DeMaria focuses on words used with frequency and urgency throughout the works of most major and several minor writers of the British Neoclassical era, with the occasi...

Hone your creative writing skills with this best-selling, portable little handbook! Ideal for all levels of writing from introductory to advanced, THE COLLEGE HANDBOOK OF CREATIVE WRITING, Fourth Edition, covers all the necessary fundamentals for creative writing in the genres of fiction, poetry, and drama. Exploring theme, setting, characters, plot, point of view, tone, style, description, dialogue, thoughts, time, images, and sounds, the han...

How to steward your body well Beloved, I pray that you may prosper in all things and be in health, just as your soul prospers. (3 John 2) Are you caught in a tug-of-war between pursuing a healthier lifestyle and settling for average? Did you know that you can build a better you by making a series of simple daily choices? Join Dr. Bob DeMaria as he offers 35 years of professional medical expertise and solid Scriptural insight to help improve yo...

A NOVEL ABOUT A SECRET PROJECT TO LOCATE A PARALLEL PLANET WHICH SOME EARTH PEOPLE MIGHT USE AS A SPACE LIFEBOAT. IN A MULTI-DIMENASIONAL UNIVERSE SUCH A PLANET MIGHT EXIST AND MIGHT ALSO BE A PLACE WHERE A UTOPIAN SOCIETY COULD EXIST. A SMALL GROUP OF SCIENTISTS PURSUE THE MISSION AND DISCUSS THE IDEAS INVOLVED. THE SUSPENSE IS THRILLING AND THE IDEAS ARE BRILLIANT.

These are the memoirs of an American writer who has spent almost fifty years in the village of Deya on the island of Mallorca in Spain. Deya has long been referred to as an "Artist Colony." Many of the artists settled in this village after WW II, after studying art in Europe. At first they settled in Paris, and then later moved to Spain because it was less expensive. This group of American Artists is now a story of the past, since most of them...

A novel based on true events in World War II. A tail gunner in a B-17 is listed as "missing in action" after his plane, a B-17 Flying Fortress with a crew of ten is shot down over German-occupied Holland. He is taken in by the Dutch underground and becomes part of a large plan to save pilots by moving them towards the Rhine and getting them across where allied troops are in control. For six months he must play the part of a deaf-mute Dutchman....

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Although the Dictionary is primarily a philological work, DeMaria shows how it also serves literary, moral, and educational purposes. By analysing the content of the 116, 000 illustrative quotations used by Johnson, the author illuminates the major themes of the book: knowledge and ignorance, truth and probabiity, learning and education, language, religion, and morality.

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An autobiographical account of the author's childhood from birth until highschool graduation at the age of 17. He began Columbia College the year WW II ended, 1945, a month after the first atom bomb was dropped on Hiroshima.

A Companion to British Literature is a comprehensive guide to British literature and the contexts and ideas that have shaped and transformed it over the past thirteen centuries. Its four volumes cover literature from all periods and places in Britain and demonstrate the wide variety of approaches to studying the subject. Featuring a broad range of expert contributors, including distinguished academics and rising stars, the Companion examines t...

Spanning the period from the British Civil War to the French Revolution, the fourth edition of this successful anthology brings together an exceptional range of literature, including many works by women writers of the period, selections of literature from private and public life, and sources from letters to political ballads. Maintaining the volume's enduring commitment to what were once referred to as 'marginal' authors, the new edition also ...

Designed to complement DeMaria's textbook " British Literature 1640-1789: An Anthology , " this critical reader contains seventeen essays by sixteen contemporary literary critics and covers the full range of works printed in the anthology.

This concise collection of poetry from 1660-1789 offers readers authoritative texts of the central works of the age. Provides readers with authoritative texts of key poems from 1660-1789. Focuses on those works most widely taught at schools and universities. Offers students an accessible digest of the poetry of the period. Demonstrates the range of poetry written between the restoration of the monarchy and the beginnings of the Romantic movement.

This concise collection of poetry from 1660-1789 offers readers authoritative texts of the central works of the age. Provides readers with authoritative texts of key poems from 1660-1789. Focuses on those works most widely taught at schools and universities. Offers students an accessible digest of the poetry of the period. Demonstrates the range of poetry written between the restoration of the monarchy and the beginnings of the Romantic movement.

Daily gems to revolutionize your health!Beloved, I pray that you may prosper in all things and be in health, just as your soul prospers. (3 John 2)Are you caught in a tug-of-war between pursuing a healthier lifestyle and settling for average? Did you know that you can build a better you by making a series of simple daily choices?In these...

To the young Catullus Rome was a golden nightmare. Vast and teeming, viciously corrupt, this center of the crumbling Republic was also the setting for his own self-destroying search for perfection in love. For in Rome reigned Clodia...the Lesbia of his poems -- enigmatic, beautiful, depraved.This is the story of Catullus's metamorphosis from a bright-haired, romantic youth into a man ill and embittered at the age of thirty. It is also the stor...

Carnival of Angels is a novel about the human condition, about love, about the old dichotomy between the body and the soul. It is an exciting narrative with metaphysical overtones and an intricate fabric of symbols. It is a story of Mario, more the old Hamlet than the new angry young man.In his last year at the University on Morningside Heights Mario rebels against the gray academic surroundings, the conformity and sterile intellectuality. He ...