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The Conquest of Canaan
The Conquest of Canaan
Newton Booth Tarkington
¥9.00
Newton Booth Tarkington (July 29, 1869 – May 19, 1946) was an American novelist and dramatist best known for his novels The Magnificent Ambersons and Alice Adams. He is one of only three novelists to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction more than once, along with William Faulkner and John Updike.
The Beautiful Lady
The Beautiful Lady
Newton Booth Tarkington
¥9.00
"The Beautiful Lady", is another of the short novels from Booth Tarkington's early career. It was originally published in two parts, December of 1904 and January of 1905, in "Harper's Magazine", and then as Tarkington's fifth book in May of 1905. As with many of Tarkington's other works, it is a bit too predictable, though in this case that doesn't detract too much from the story. The story appears to sets up a love triangle (or in this case it may be a love square), but it does deviate from that a bit. The story is told from the point of the Italian, Ansolini from Naples, living in Paris who due to being down on his luck is forced into a most embarrassing position of acting as a billboard by shaving his head and having an advertisement for a show placed on the back of his bald head. It is while performing this job, that he nearly meets the "beautiful lady", though he keeps his head down and sees only her feet and the hem of her skirt and hears her lovely voice as it has sympathy for his plight. In fact, Ansolini's feelings are appreciative of her beautiful soul, and not that of romance.
Hamlet
Hamlet
William Shakespeare
¥40.79
New adaptation of 'Hamlet' for a modern black theatrical production. Remember me… Denmark, a Black Empire of modern England, where an intelligent young student discovers the world he once knew has crumbled. Implored to defend what is left of his father’s decaying legacy, Hamlet now faces the greatest moral challenge – to kill or not to kill. Directed by Jeffery Kissoon (RSC, National Theatre, Robert Lepage, Peter Hall and in Peter Brook’s seminal production of The Mahabharata) and adapted with Shakespeare’s text by award-winning playwright Mark Norfolk, this fast-moving version gets straight to the heart of a young man’s dilemma. This first all-black production of Hamlet in Britain makes a striking contribution to the Shakespeare 400 anniversary celebration. For ages 12+
The Underground Man: adapted for the stage
The Underground Man: adapted for the stage
Mick Jackson
¥40.79
A life of fascination, obsession and deep scientific curiosity. William Cavendish-Scott-Bentinck is an eccentric Nottinghamshire aristocrat whose imagination and curiosity know no bounds. This deceptively simple man struggles to come to terms with a world that is teeming with new knowledge, ill-founded opinion and?gossip. Why does he hide himself away? What is his fascination with tunnels? Will he ever unearth the secrets hidden in his memory? In a sequence of events that are often curious and frequently hilarious he reveals moments of surprising perception and wisdom. Nottingham Playhouse and ajtc have combined their talents to co-produce Nick Wood’s stage adaptation of Mick Jackson’s Booker Prize shortlisted novel. The result is a free-flowing, innovative performance which features live music and a specially commissioned score. The Underground Man is a delectable blend of fact and fiction in which the intriguing details of a complex life are richly explored through the vibrant imagination of a gentle soul.
Beasley's Christmas Party
Beasley's Christmas Party
Newton Booth Tarkington
¥9.00
A young newspaperman who has just moved to a new town overhears the wealthy politician in the house next door talking aloud to nonexistent figures. Has David Beasley gone mad, or is his imagination simply greater than his friends and ex-fiancée believe?
Travels Through France And Italy
Travels Through France And Italy
Tobias Smollett
¥40.79
Smollett describes in great detail the natural phenomena, history, social life, economics, diet and morals of the places he visited. Smollett had a lively and pertinacious curiosity, and, as his novels prove, a very quick eye. He foresaw the merits of Cannes, then a small village, as a health-resort, and the possibilities of the Corniche road.
Youth and the Bright Medusa
Youth and the Bright Medusa
Willa Cather
¥9.00
Youth and the Bright Medusa is a collection of short stories by Willa Cather, published in 1920. Several were published in an earlier collection, The Troll Garden. This collection contains the following stories: "Coming, Aphrodite!" a.k.a. "Coming, Eden Bower!" "The Diamond Mine" "A Gold Slipper" "Scandal" "Paul's Case" "A Wagner Matinee" "The Sculptor's Funeral" "A Death in the Desert"
O Pioneers!
O Pioneers!
Willa Cather
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The first of her renowned prairie novels--a story that expresses Cather's conviction that "the history of every country begins in the heart of a man or a woman." When Alexandra Bergson takes over the family farm after her father's death, she falls under the spell of the rich, forbidding Nebraska prairie.
The White Ship
The White Ship
H.P. Lovecraft
¥9.00
"The White Ship" is a short story written by H.P. Lovecraft. It was first published in The United Amateur (Volume 19) #2, November 1919. A lighthouse keeper named Basil Elton engages upon a peculiar fantasy in which a bearded man piloting a mystical white ship is found sailing upon a bridge of moonlight. Elton joins the bearded man on this ship, and together they explore a mystical chain of islands unlike anything that can be found on Earth.
Creating Capital: Money-making as an aim in business
Creating Capital: Money-making as an aim in business
Frederick L. Lipman
¥40.79
The object of this paper is to discuss money-making; to examine its prevalence as an aim among people generally and the moral standards which obtain among those who consciously seek to make money. The desire to make money is common to most men. Stronger or weaker, in some degree it is present in the mind of nearly every one. Now, how far does this desire grow to be an aim or object in our lives, and to what extent is such an aim a worthy one?
The Shadow Over Innsmouth
The Shadow Over Innsmouth
H.P. Lovecraft
¥8.98
The story describes of a strange hybrid race, half-human and half an unknown creature that resembles a cross between a fish and frog, that dwells in the seaside village of Innsmouth (formerly a large town, but lately fallen into disrepair). The townspeople worship Cthulhu and Dagon, a Philistine deity incorporated into the Cthulhu Mythos.
The Metamorphoses
The Metamorphoses
Apuleius
¥40.79
The Metamorphoses, or The Golden Ass, is the only Ancient Roman novel to survive in its entirety. The protagonist of the novel is called Lucius. At the end of the novel, he is revealed to be from Madaurus, in ancient Algeria, the hometown of Apuleius himself. The plot revolves around the protagonist's curiosity and insatiable desire to see and practice magic. While trying to perform a spell to transform into a bird, he is accidentally transformed into an ass. This leads to a long journey, literal and metaphorical, filled with in-set tales. He finally finds salvation through the intervention of the goddess Isis, whose cult he joins.
Medusa's Coil
Medusa's Coil
H.P. Lovecraft
¥9.00
"Medusa's Coil" is a short story by H. P. Lovecraft and Zealia Bishop. It was first published in Weird Tales magazine in January 1939, two years after Lovecraft's death. The story concerns the son of an American plantation owner who brings back from Paris a new wife. It mixes elements of Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos with the ancient Greek myth of Medusa, but it has also been noted for its racist aspects.
The Women's Festival
The Women's Festival
Aristophanes
¥40.79
Today the women at the festival are going to kill me for insulting them!' This bold statement by Euripides is the absurd premise upon which the whole play depends. The women are incensed by his plays' portrayal of the female sex as mad, murderous, and sexually depraved, and they are using the festival of the Thesmophoria (an annual fertility celebration dedicated to Demeter) as an opportunity to debate a suitable choice of revenge.
The Festival
The Festival
H.P. Lovecraft
¥9.00
"The Festival" is a short story by H. P. Lovecraft written in October 1923 and published in the January 1925 issue of Weird Tales. The story is set at Christmas time: "It was the Yuletide, that men call Christmas though they know in their hearts it is older than Bethlehem and Babylon, older than Memphis and mankind." An unnamed narrator is making his first visit to Kingsport, Massachusetts, an "ancient sea town where my people had dwelt and kept festival in the elder time when festival was forbidden; where also they had commanded their sons to keep festival once every century, that the memory of primal secrets might not be forgotten."
Στα β?θη τη? τ?φρου
Στα β?θη τη? τ?φρου
Φλωρίνα Αλεξανδροπούλου
¥84.20
Η ζω? απ? την πρ?τη μ?ρα που γεννηθ?καμε, ε?ναι μια αν?βαση στο βουν? που ποτ? δεν σταματ? να μα? εκπλ?σσει. ?λοι μα? μπορο?με μια μ?ρα να γ?νουμε πρωταγωνιστ?? μ?σα απ? κ?ποια αληθιν? ιστορ?α, ακ?μη και π?σω απ? ?να παρ?ξενο παραμ?θι. Καθ?? ?μω? απογαλακτιζ?μαστε με π?θο? για να τη ζ?σουμε ?ντονα, τα λ?θη ?ρχονται να ακολουθ?σουν δ?πλα μα?, με τη μν?μη πολλ?? φορ?? να γ?νεται φ?λη των τ?ψε?ν μα?. Η ζω? ε?ναι ?να μεγ?λο βιβλ?ο που γρ?φεται με χρ?ματα, ?να ταξ?δι με παρελθ?ν, παρ?ν και μ?λλον, και εκε? μ?σα θα υπ?ρξουν πολλ? ακ?μη ν?α κεφ?λαια. Το καλ?τερο ?μω? κεφ?λαιο μπορε? να γραφτε? ανο?γοντα? τι? σκουριασμ?νε? π?λε? του μυαλο? μα?, ?χοντα? αποκτ?σει τι? αν?λογε? εμπειρ?ε? με τα αυτι? μα? και τα μ?τια μα? ανοιχτ?. Σ’ αυτ? το βιβλ?ο θα γνωρ?σουμε την Ανν?τα Αρμ?νη, ?να νεαρ? κορ?τσι που τρ?βηξε την προσοχ? μα?, καθ?? περπατο?σε στον δ?σβατο δρ?μο τη?. Θα βι?σουμε ?να μελαν? χρ?μα στο ταξ?δι τη?, κοντ? στα πρ?τα κεφ?λαια τη? ζω?? τη?, με πολλ? μυστικ? που θα μα? αγγ?ξουν παθιασμ?να. Μαζ? τη? θα ανακαλ?ψουμε μερικ? σπουδα?α πρ?γματα μ?σα σε μερικ?? και μ?νο λ?ξει?: εμπιστοσ?νη, ελευθερ?α, ελπ?δα, αγ?πη, ζω? και π?νω απ? ?λα δικαιοσ?νη. Λ?ξει? που θα τι? κρατ?σουμε στην ψυχ? μα? προστατευμ?νε? για π?ντα, καθ?? ανο?ξαμε την καρδι? τη? και συναντ?σαμε σκι?? του μυαλο? τη? να μ?χονται με τη φωτι?. Τ?τε που ?λοι μαζ? ανακαλ?ψαμε π?σω απ? ?να πληγωμ?νο ?σ’ αγαπ?? τι ?ταν τελικ? αυτ? που ?ψαχνε απελπισμ?να να ζ?σει αυτ? η γυνα?κα, π?τε στο φω? του ?λιου και π?τε στο σκοτ?δι τη? τ?φρου.
The Disinterment
The Disinterment
H.P. Lovecraft
¥9.00
Fist published in 1935, "The Disinterment" is a short horror story by H.P. Lovecraft.
Beyond the Wall of Sleep
Beyond the Wall of Sleep
H.P. Lovecraft
¥9.00
"Beyond the Wall of Sleep" is a science fiction short story by American writer H. P. Lovecraft, written in 1919 and first published in the amateur publication Pine Cones in October 1919. An intern in a mental hospital relates his experience with Joe Slater, an inmate who died at the facility a few weeks after being confined as a criminally insane murderer. He describes Slater as a "typical denizen of the Catskill Mountain region, who corresponds exactly with the 'white trash' of the South", for whom "laws and morals are nonexistent" and whose "general mental status is probably below that of any other native American people".
El Ni?o de Guzmán
El Ni?o de Guzmán
Emilia Pardo Bazán
¥9.00
El ni?o de Guzmán narra una historia costumbrista.Pedro, un joven espa?ol que ha sido educado en el extranjero en las buenas maneras del continente y con una gran nostalgia de su país. Es el típico joven de mundo. Fue educado por un fraile irlandés fascinado por una Espa?a irreal ( La de la Gaviota de Faber).
The Pale
The Pale
Clare Rhoden
¥48.97
The Outside can be a dangerous place. But so can the inside. It’s been years since the original cataclysm, but life has been structured, peaceful, and most of all uneventful in the Pale. The humachine citizens welcome the order provided by their ruler, the baleful Regent. However, when one of their own rescues a human boy, Hector, from ravenous ferals on the Outside, their careful systems are turned upside down. As Hector grows more and more human-strange, the citizens of the Pale grow uneasy. What will happen when the Outside tries to get in?
Wanderers No More
Wanderers No More
Michelle Saftich
¥48.97
The war may be over, but the fight to belong is just beginning. Left homeless, starving, and almost killed by the Second World War, the Saforo family are refugees fleeing Italy for a better life. The shores of Australia are calling to them and they head off, packing dreams of jobs, a home and … soccer. But from the moment they get off the boat, adapting to the Australian way of life is harder than it seems. Their family doesn’t speak right, eat right or even look right. As they struggle to build a simple life against the backdrop of 1950s racism, they start to wonder if they will be outsiders forever. A true family affair, Wanderers No More will make you laugh, remind you of your family, and warm your heart.