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Four Faultless Felons
Four Faultless Felons
G. K. Chesterton
¥40.79
Four Faultless Felons includes The Moderate Murderer, The Honest Quack, The Ecstatic Thief, and The Loyal Traitor. Chesterton's protagonist's faultless crimes include: murder, fraud, theft, and treason. They are motivated by good intentions of course, by altruism and virtues.
The Princess and The Pea and Other Tales
The Princess and The Pea and Other Tales
Hans Christian Andersen
¥40.79
The story tells of a prince who wants to marry a princess, but is having difficulty finding a suitable wife. One stormy night a young woman drenched with rain seeks shelter in the prince's castle. She claims to be a princess, so the prince's mother decides to test their unexpected guest by placing a pea in the bed she is offered for the night. The Princess and The Pea is one of the twenty stories featured in this timeless collection of fairy tales by Hans Christian Andersen.
Creating a Local Historical Book:Fiction and Non-Fiction Genres
Creating a Local Historical Book:Fiction and Non-Fiction Genres
Tyler R. Tichelaar
¥32.62
Does Your City or Region Have a Fascinating Story that needs to be told before it's forgotten? Yes, it does, and you can be the person to write it! In this short text, Tyler Tichelaar, author of My Marquette and The Marquette Trilogy, talks in a conversational format about how he became interested in writing both local history and regional and historical fiction and his research and writing process to bring his books to fruition. Readers of "Creating a Local Historical Book" will learn: ·What kind of research is required ·What counts as research ·Where to do research ·How to organize that research into a book ·How not to go overboard with details ·Finding images and gaining usage permission ·How to make your book stand out from others ·Tips on marketing your history book Tyler R. Tichelaar, Ph.D. and seventh generation Marquette resident, was raised on tales of his hometown's past. His other interests include literary studies ranging from King Arthur to Gothic texts. He is also a professional editor and writing coach who has guided dozens of authors through the treacherous seas of composition. "Our committee would like to honor Tyler with this award in honor of his meticulous research, his enlightened and personal testimony about Marquette and his educational contributions to the preservation of Marquette's history." --The Marquette Beautification & Restoration Committee, presenting Tyler with the Barbara H. Kelly Historic Preservation Award "Tyler Tichelaar speaks from the heart about his love affair with the town of his birth. Join him on a nostalgic tour of one of the great small cities of America." --Karl Bohnak, author of So Cold a Sky: Upper Michigan Weather Stories Learn more at www.MarquetteFiction.com From Modern History Press www.ModernHistoryPress.com
How Dare We! Write:A Multicultural Creative Writing Discourse
How Dare We! Write:A Multicultural Creative Writing Discourse
Sherry Quan Lee
¥56.82
How Dare We! Write: a multicultural creative writing discourse offers a much needed corrective to the usual dry and uninspired creative writing pedagogy. The collection asks us to consider questions, such as "What does it mean to work through resistance from supposed mentors, to face rejection from publishers and classmates, and to stand against traditions that silence you?" and "How can writers and teachers even begin to make diversity matter in meaningful ways on the page, in the classroom, and on our bookshelves?" How Dare We! Write is an inspiring collection of intellectually rigorous lyric essays and innovative writing exercises; it opens up a path for inquiry, reflection, understanding, and creativity that is ultimately healing. The testimonies provide a hard won context for their innovative paired writing experiments that are, by their very nature, generative. --Cherise A. Pollard, PhD, Professor of English, West Chester University of Pennsylvania So-called "creative writing" classes are highly politicized spaces, but no one says so; to acknowledge this obvious fact would be to up-end the aesthetics, cultural politics (ideology) and economics on which most educational institutions are founded How Dare We! Write, a brilliant interventive anthology of essays, breaks this silence. --Maria Damon, Pratt Institute of Art; co-editor of Poetry and Cultural Studies: A Reader How Dare We! Write a collection of brave voices calling out to writers of color everywhere: no matter how lonely, you are not alone; you are one in a sea of change, swimming against the currents. --Kao Kalia Yang, author of The Latehomecomer: A Hmong Family Memoir, and The Song Poet, a 2017 Minnesota Book Award winner How Dare We! Write is a much needed collection of essays from writers of color that reminds us that our stories need to be told, from addressing academic gatekeepers, embracing our identities, the effects of the oppressor's tongue on our psyche and to the personal narratives that help us understand who we are. --Rodrigo Sanchez-Chavarria, writer, spoken word poet/performer and contributing author to A Good Time for the Truth: Race in Minnesota Learn more at http://blog.SherryQuanLee.com From Modern History Press www.ModernHistoryPress.com
The Blue Hotel and Other Stories
The Blue Hotel and Other Stories
Stephen Crane
¥40.79
Three visitors find shelter from a blizzard at Pat Scully's hotel: a nervous New Yorker known as the Swede, a rambunctious Westerner named Bill, and a reserved Easterner called Mr. Blanc. The Swede becomes increasingly drunk, defensive, and reckless. He is later murdered at the bar.
Delphi Complete Works of Radclyffe Hall (Illustrated)
Delphi Complete Works of Radclyffe Hall (Illustrated)
Radclyffe Hall
¥20.36
Radclyffe Hall’s 1928 novel “The Well of Loneliness” caused a publishing scandal in 1928 and is now recognised as the first overt lesbian novel in English literature. Hall was also awarded prestigious literary prizes for the novel “Adam’s Breed” and she produced a large body of accomplished verse. For the first time in publishing history, this comprehensive eBook presents Hall’s complete works, with numerous illustrations, rare texts, informative introductions and the usual Delphi bonus material. (Version 1) * Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Hall’s life and works * Concise introductions to the novels and other texts * ALL 7 novels, with individual contents tables * Images of how the books were first printed, giving your eReader a taste of the original texts * Excellent formatting of the texts * The rare short story collection MISS OGILVY FINDS HERSELF, first time in digital print * Special chronological and alphabetical contents tables for the poetry * Easily locate the poems you want to read * Scarce poetry collections, available in no other edition * A bonus biography - discover Hall’s literary life * Scholarly ordering of texts into chronological order and literary genres Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to browse through our range of exciting titles Please note: no known copies of the posthumous Italian poetry collection RHYMES AND RHYTHMS are available at the time of publication. Once the text becomes available, it will be added to the collection as a free update. CONTENTS: The Novels THE FORGE THE UNLIT LAMP A SATURDAY LIFE ADAM’S BREED THE WELL OF LONELINESS THE MASTER OF THE HOUSE THE SIXTH BEATITUDE The Short Story Collection MISS OGILVY FINDS HERSELF The Poetry Collections INTRODUCTION TO THE POETRY OF RADCLYFFE HALL TWIXT EARTH AND STARS A SHEAF OF VERSES POEMS OF THE PAST & PRESENT SONGS OF THREE COUNTIES AND OTHER POEMS THE FORGOTTEN ISLAND The Poems LIST OF POEMS IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER LIST OF POEMS IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER The Biography A SHORT BIOGRAPHY OF RADCLYFFE HALL by Gill Rossini Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to browse through our range of exciting titles
The Last Chronicle of Barset
The Last Chronicle of Barset
Anthony Trollope
¥40.79
The Archdeacon, although allowing that Grace is a lady, doesn't think her of high enough rank or wealth for his widowed son; his position is strengthened by the Reverend Mr Crawley's apparent crime. Almost broken by poverty and trouble, the Reverend Mr Crawley hardly knows himself if he is guilty or not; fortunately, the mystery is resolved just as Major Grantly's determination and Grace Crawley's own merit force the Archdeacon to overcome his prejudice against her as a daughter-in-law.
6 Γυνα?κε? που Γο?τευσαν τον Ηρ?δοτο
6 Γυνα?κε? που Γο?τευσαν τον Ηρ?δοτο
Κωνσταντίνος Δεληγιώργης
¥63.19
Το παρ?ν εγχε?ρημα αποτελε? τη λογοτεχνικ? ??ψη? τη? διδακτορικ?? διατριβ?? μου με επ?κεντρο τη γυναικε?α παρουσ?α στην Ιστορ?α του Ηροδ?του. Μπροστ? μα? υποκλ?νονται και συστ?νονται ?ξι γυνα?κε? στολισμ?νε? με ιδια?τερα, ξεχωριστ? χαρακτηριστικ?, οι οπο?ε? κερδ?ζουν τη δικ? του? θ?ση μ?σα στι? πολυ?ριθμε? σελ?δε? του ?ργου του Αλικαρνασσ?α ιστορικο?. Θα μ?θουμε λεπτομ?ρειε? για την πορε?α ?σο και για τη ζοφερ?, συχν?, δρ?ση του?. Καθ?? ξετυλ?γεται το κουβ?ρι τη? διαδρομ?? του?, αναδ?ει κ?ποιε? φορ?? χαρ?, ευφυ?α, π?νο ? ηρωισμ?. Αναπ?φευκτα ?λε? θα τοποθετηθο?ν δ?πλα σε ?λλε? δι?σημε? θηλυκ?? φιγο?ρε? τη? αρχα?α? Ελληνικ?? γραμματε?α?, σε μια προσπ?θεια να εξαχθο?ν πολ?τιμα συμπερ?σματα για τη γυναικε?α συμπεριφορ? σε πανανθρ?πινο πλα?σιο. ?ξι γυνα?κε?, ?ξι ιστορ?ε?? προσφ?ρουν αφορμ? για σκ?ψη και προβληματισμ?, με τη συνειδητοπο?ηση ?τι το παρελθ?ν, ακ?μη και αν ε?ναι πολ? μακριν?, ε?ναι π?ντοτε και κατ’ επαν?ληψη παρ?ν.
The Letters of Cassiodorus
The Letters of Cassiodorus
Cassiodorus
¥8.09
A condensed translation of the Variae Epistolae of Magnus Aurelius Cassiodorus Senator. According to Wikipedia: "Flavius Magnus Aurelius Cassiodorus Senator (c. 485 – c. 585), commonly known as Cassiodorus, was a Roman statesman and writer, serving in the administration of Theoderic the Great, king of the Ostrogoths. Senator was part of his surname, not his rank."
Crotchet Castle
Crotchet Castle
Thomas Love Peacock
¥40.79
In one of those beautiful valleys, through which the Thames not yet polluted by the tide, the scouring of cities, or even the minor defilement of the sandy streams of Surrey rolls a clear flood through flowery meadows, under the shade of old beech woods, and the smooth mossy greensward of the chalk hills which pour into it their tributary rivulets, as pure and pellucid as the fountain of Bandusium, or the wells of Scamander, by which the wives and daughters of the Trojans washed their splendid garments in the days of peace, before the coming of the Greeks...
Lost Illusions
Lost Illusions
Honore de Balzac
¥40.79
Lucien Chardon, the son of a lower middle-class father and an impoverished mother of remote aristocratic descent, is the pivotal figure of the entire work. Living at Angouleme, he is impoverished, impatient, handsome and ambitious. His widowed mother, his sister Eve and his best friend, David Sechard, do nothing to lessen his high opinion of his own talents, for it is an opinion they share.
A francia f?n?k
A francia f?n?k
Anne Fraser
¥18.56
A francia f?n?k
Egy kis mennyország
Egy kis mennyország
Margaret Way
¥18.56
Egy kis mennyország
Beszélgetések a függ?ségr?l - Demetrovics Zsolttal
Beszélgetések a függ?ségr?l - Demetrovics Zsolttal
Révai Gábor
¥57.31
Beszélgetések a függ?ségr?l - Demetrovics Zsolttal
Szélhámos Budapest
Szélhámos Budapest
Kondor Vilmos
¥74.56
Szélhámos Budapest
LoveClub
LoveClub
Lakatos Levente
¥74.56
LoveClub
A hercegn? naplója: Találkozás ?nmagammal
A hercegn? naplója: Találkozás ?nmagammal
Carrie Fisher
¥74.56
A hercegn? naplója: Találkozás ?nmagammal
Megvásárolt barátn?
Megvásárolt barátn?
Annie West
¥20.11
Megvásárolt barátn?
Júlia kül?nszám 75. k?tet
Júlia kül?nszám 75. k?tet
Carole Mortimer, Lynne Graham, Sophie Pembroke, Cat Schield
¥46.03
Júlia kül?nszám 75. k?tet
Jó emberek
Jó emberek
Arturo Pérez-Reverte
¥69.73
Jó emberek
Romana 601. - Egyszer már elhagytál
Romana 601. - Egyszer már elhagytál
Claire Baxter
¥20.11
Romana 601. - Egyszer már elhagytál