Anthony Powell's universally acclaimed epic A Dance to the Music of Time offers a matchless panorama of twentieth-century London. Now, for the first time in decades, readers in the United States can read the books of Dance as they were originally published-as twelve individual novels-but with a twenty-first-century twist: they're available only as e-books. As the fourth book, At Lady Molly's (1957), opens, the heady pleasures of the 1920s have begun...

Embark on a literary journey like no other with "The Shakespearean Odyssey: Prose Adaptations of Shakespeare's Greatest." Dive deep into the rich tapestry of Shakespeare's world, transformed from iconic stagecraft into immersive novel-like prose. From the tragic love of Romeo and Juliet to the mystic shores of The Tempest, each tale is reimagined with vivid detail, offering both seasoned Shakespeare enthusiasts and new readers an unprecedented experience....

Rembrandt is famous for his paintings but not many people know about his personal life. After his wife Saskia died, his life became embroiled in a relationship that would shock the world even today. This short story is about the other side of Rembrandt - officially documented, but few people know of. He was a great artist, but at the same time - could he have been a murderer?On June 18 On June 18, 2003 Hans Benting received a call from Dr Giorgio...

Over the last few decades, character-based criticism has been seen as either naive or obsolete. But now questions of character are attracting renewed interest. Making the case for a broad-based revision of our understanding of character, Character rethinks these questions from the ground up. Is it really necessary to remind literary critics that characters are made up of words? Must we forbid identification with characters? Does character-discussion...

A poetic reckoning with Turkish history, fuelled by mysticism In 1938, in the remote Dersim region of Eastern Anatolia, the Turkish Republic launched an operation to erase an entire community of Zaza-speaking Alevi Kurds. Inspired by those brutal events, and the survival of Kaygusuz's own grandmother, this densely lyrical and allusive novel grapples with the various inheritances of genocide, gendered violence and historical memory as they reverberate...

Clarissa Farrell awakens one morning with the certain knowledge that a friend has died. Was it a coincidental dream or precognition? Investigating the phenomena leads to recognizing more of her own uncanny perceptions. But when a reporter interested in her story turns out to have fraudulent motives, she is left to question all of her new found abilities. Looking ahead, she faces a choice: retreat to her old safe ruts or jettison her middle aged holding...

In Reading To Write, a Novel Way to Write a Novel, Bill Johnson uses detailed reviews of the opening pages of popular novels to guide new writers to a deeper understanding of storytelling.The novels explored in this workbook include Catherine Hyde Ryan's Funeral for Horses, excerpts from Catcher in the Rye, Harlan Coben's Tell No One, The Tin Drum, The Bell Jar, and Lady Chatterly's Lover.Learn to write a novel by reading popular novels!Bill has taught...

Untying Things Together helps to clarify the stakes of the last fifty years of literary and cultural theory by proposing the idea of a sexuality of theory. In 1905, Freud published his Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality, the book that established the core psychoanalytic thesis that sexuality is central to formations of the unconscious. With this book, Eric L. Santner inverts Freud's title to take up the sexuality of theory-or, more exactly,...

Pearl is our heroine Dachshund in the second book of the Dachshund Rescue Series. Pearl's adventures will warm your heart and make you smile. The man who takes her into his heart and home is wealthy. She is one spoiled pup living in the lap of luxury, living the life all Dachshunds were born to live. Join me in this exciting adventure!

After is a collection of short stories written in the post 9/11 era. They include, among others, a man masquerading in firefighter's gear in order to get laid, a network news anchor fretting that his network is the only one not to receive an anthrax threat, a woman who rented an apartment to one of the 9/11 hijackers and a passenger's widow confronted the next day by a confused, upset man at her doorstep, covered in chalky dust and carrying her husband's...