The Best American Mystery Stories 1999 (Serial)

The Best American Mystery Stories 1999 (Serial) By Ed McBain, Lawrence Block, Gary Krist, Kristin Kilian, Otto Penzler
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin 1999-11-22 | ISBN: 0618013547 | Language English |
Audio Cassette in MP3 32 kbps | 276 MB


In its brief existence, THE BEST AMERICAN MYSTERY STORIES has firmly established itself as a peerless suspense anthology. Marking the series' debut in audio with seven selected stories and an introduction by guest editor Ed McBain, this collection features such literary luminaries as John Updike, Lawrence Block, Joyce Carol Oates, and Brendan DuBois. The 1999 audio edition is a spectacular showcase for the high quality and broad diversity of the year's finest suspense, crime and mystery writing.
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Steve Berry - The Alexandria Link

Steve Berry - The Alexandria Link
Publisher: Ballantine Books | 2007-11-27 | ISBN: 0345485769 | PDF |
512 pages | 5.61 MB


Cotton Malone retired from the high-risk world of elite operatives for the U.S. Justice Department to lead the low-key life of a rare-book dealer. But his quiet existence is shattered when he receives an anonymous e-mail: “You have something I want. You’re the only person on earth who knows where to find it. Go get it. You have 72 hours. If I don’t hear from you, you will be childless.”
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A Room With a View

A Room With a View : A Novel By E.M. Forster
Publisher: Bantam Classics (July 1, 1988) | ISBN-10: 0553213237 | ENG |
PDF | 240 Pages | 490 KB


A Room with a View is a 1908 novel by English writer E. M. Forster, about a young woman in the repressed culture of Edwardian England. Set in Italy and England, the story is both a romance and a critique of English society at the beginning of the 20th century. Merchant-Ivory produced an award-winning film adaptation in 1985.
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MESSAGE IN A BOTTLE

MESSAGE IN A BOTTLE
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING ROMANCE FICTION NOVEL
Mass Market Paperback: 384 pages I Publisher: Warner Vision I (January 1, 1999) I
Language: English I ISBN: 0446606812


If you thought The Notebook was a tearjerker, get out the hankies, pull up a chair, and get ready to have your heart monkey-wrenched by Nicholas Sparks's second star-crossed love story, Message in a Bottle. When Theresa Osborne takes a much-needed summer holiday at Cape Cod, she finds a lot more than a break from the hustle and bustle. On an early-morning jog along Cape Cod Bay, she comes across a corked bottle with a scrolled-up message inside that reads, "My Dearest Catherine, I miss you, my darling, as I always do, but today is especially hard because the ocean has been singing to me, and the song is that of our life together..."
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The Making of Racial Sentiment: Slavery and the Birth of The Frontier Romance

The Making of Racial Sentiment:
Slavery and the Birth of The Frontier Romance By Ezra Tawil

Publisher: Cambridge University Press 2006 | 256 Pages |
ISBN: 0521865395 | PDF | 1 MB

The frontier romance, an enormously popular genre of American fiction born in the 1820s, helped redefine 'race' for an emerging national culture. Ezra Tawil argues that the novel of white-Indian conflict provided authors and readers with an apt analogy for the problem of slavery. By uncovering the sentimental aspects of the frontier romance, Tawil redraws the lines of influence between the 'Indian novel' of the 1820s and the sentimental novel of slavery, demonstrating how Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin ought to be reconsidered in this light. This study reveals how American literature of the 1820s helped form modern ideas about racial differences.
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Love and Marriage in the Novels of Jane Austen

Love and Marriage in the Novels of Jane Austen by Anne Crippen Ruderman
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers | ISBN: 0847681017 | (1990) 2009 |
PDF | 330 pages | 12 Mb


This is the dissertation version (later published as the book) of Anne Crippen-Ruderman's wonderful examination of the relationships between the men and women of Jane Austen's novels in their attempts to attain happiness while preserving their dignity. Crippen-Ruderman's thinking has been profoundly and beneficially shaped by her teachers, Saul Bellow, David Grene, and especially Allan Bloom.
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World Historical Fiction: An Annotated Guide to Novels for Adults and Young Adults

Lynda G. Adamson “World Historical Fiction: An Annotated Guide to Novels for Adults and Young Adults"
Oryx Press | 1998-10-21 | ISBN: 1573560669 | 736 pages |
HTML | 2,36 MB


This book and its complement (American Historical Fiction) fill a gap in the bibliographic reference shelf by identifying historical novels for both adult and young adult readers. World Historical Fiction contains over 6,000 novels set outside the U.S.. The newest titles, as well as old favorites, are covered and books that are appropriate for young adults are indicated. Each volume is indexed by author, title, genre, subject, and geographic setting for ease of reference.
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Disorienting Fiction: The Autoethnographic Work of Nineteenth-Century British Novels

Disorienting Fiction: The Autoethnographic Work of Nineteenth-Century
British Novels

Princeton University Press | 2005 | ISBN: 0691095558 | Pages: 328 | PDF | 5.36

This book gives an ambitious revisionist account of the nineteenth-century British novel and its role in the complex historical process that ultimately gave rise to modern anthropology's concept of culture and its accredited researcher, the Participant Observer. Buzard reads the great nineteenth-century novels of Charles Dickens, Charlotte Bronte, George Eliot, and others as "metropolitan autoethnographies" that began to exercise and test the ethnographic imagination decades in advance of formal modern ethnography--and that did so while focusing on Western European rather than on distant Oriental subjects.
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The Novels of Erich Maria Remarque: Sparks of Life

Brian O. Murdoch, «The Novels of Erich Maria Remarque: Sparks of Life»
Camden House Inc. | ISBN: 1571133283 | 2006 | PDF | 259 pages | 1.49 MB

Erich Maria Remarque is a writer of great popularity who has rightly been described as a "chronicler of the twentieth century." He is both a German writer and a genuinely international one. Although he spent much of his life in exile from Germany, most of his novels reflect its twentieth-century history: the two world wars and the Weimar and Nazi regimes, and especially their effects on the individual. His portrayals of the lives of refugees from Nazi Germany are especially vivid.
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British Identities, Heroic Nationalisms, And The Gothic Novel, 1764-1824

British Identities, Heroic Nationalisms, And The Gothic Novel, 1764-1824
304 pages | Palgrave Macmillan (October 4, 2002) | ISBN: 033397171X |
PDF | 1 Mb


British Identities, Heroic Nationalisms, and the Gothic Novel, 1764-1824 considers three interlocking developments of this period: the emergence of the Gothic novel at a time when national upheavals required the construction of a new nationalist identity, the Gothic novel's redefinition of heroes and heroism in that nationalist debate, and changes within class and gender as well as audience and author relations. The scope of this study extends beyond the confines of the novel proper to include chapbooks and illustrated reactions.
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Atonement: A Novel: Ian McEwan

Atonement: A Novel: Ian McEwan
Nan A. Talese | ISBN: 0385503954 | 2002-03-12 | PDF (OCR) |
351 pages | 1.82 Mb


On the hottest day of the summer of 1935, thirteen-year-old Briony Tallis sees her older sister Cecilia strip off her clothes and plunge into the fountain in the garden of their country house. Watching Cecilia is their housekeeper's son Robbie Turner, a childhood friend who, along with Briony's sister, has recently graduated from Cambridge. Read more

Dune The Novel by Frank Herbert

Dune The Novel by Frank Herbert
Chilton Books | 1965 | English | ISBN: N/A | Science & Fiction Novel |
345 Pages | PDF | 3.14 MB


Dune is a novel written by Frank Herbert and published in 1965. A joint winner of the 1966 Hugo Award and the winner of the first Nebula Award for Best Novel, Dune is popularly considered one of the greatest science fiction novels of all time, is frequently cited as the best-selling science fiction novel in history.
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