Presidents of american fiction

Presidents of American Fiction

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American Presidents and Jerusalem

This study examines the policies of twentieth-century US presidents regarding the status of Jerusalem. It investigates the influence of presidential a

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American Presidents and the United Nations

The book spotlights one of the most creative, complex, and inspirited global institutions ever devised by human beings—the United Nations—and puts i

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American Modernist Fiction

This book addresses five American Modernist novels in light of Lacanian psychoanalytic theory. Deploying his own innovative form of literary analysis,

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Music in African American Fiction

Originally published in 1995, The Music of African American Fiction is a historical analysis of the tradition of representing music in African America

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Contemporary American Science Fiction Film

Contemporary American Science Fiction Film explores and interrogates a diverse variety of popular and culturally relevant American science fiction fil

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Classic American Crime Fiction of the 1920s

A riveting collection of five of the most famous crime novels of the 1920s, presenting anew some of the most admired authors of the era-with insightfu

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Gothic Imagination in Latin American Fiction and Film

Traces how Gothic imagination from the literature and culture of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Europe and twentieth-century US and European film

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Authoritarianism and Class in American Political Fiction

This book analyzes what many critics consider to be the three best examples of modern American political fiction—Robert Penn Warren’s All the King’

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Postwar American Fiction and the Rise of Modern Conservatism

This book presents a new contextualization of the cultural politics of postwar American fiction, arguing that the robust linkage between progressive l

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Politics of Male Friendship in Contemporary American Fiction

How might our friendships shape our politics? This new book examines how contemporary American fiction – from Philip Roth to Dinaw Mengestu – has re

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Politics of Male Friendship in Contemporary American Fiction

How might our friendships shape our politics? This new book examines how contemporary American fiction – from Philip Roth to Dinaw Mengestu â€Â

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American Indian Stories

Serves as a collection of childhood stories, allegorical fiction, and an essay. This book talks about the legends and tales from oral tradition and us

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Contemporary American Fiction: an Introduction to American Fiction Science 1970 - Millard Kenneth

Anotace: Popis edice: Contemporary American Fiction provides an introduction to American fiction since 1970. Offering substantial and detailed interpretations of more than thirty texts by thirty different writers, Millard combines them in an innovative critical st

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Radicals, Volume 1: Fiction, Poetry, and Drama

Perhaps the first of its kind, Radicals is a two-volume collection of writings by American women of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, wit

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Stephen King and American Politics

Stephen King and American Politics examines the complicated political character of King's fiction. From the 1960s to Donald Trump, these works force u

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The President´s Gardens - Mushin Al-Ramili

<p></p><p> One Hundred Years of Solitude meets The Kite Runner in Saddam Hussein's Iraq.</p> <p> "A contemporary tragedy of epic proportions. No author is better placed than Muhsin Al-Ramli, already a star in the Arabic literary scene, to tell this story. I read it in one sitting". Hassan Blasim, winner of the Independent Foreign ...

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Annotated Bibliography of Jazz Fiction and Jazz Fiction Criticism

Albert provides a survey of the impact of jazz on both American and foreign fiction, along with an annotated listing of almost 400 short stories, nove

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Science Fiction Theatre

Contextualizes Science Fiction Theatre within the budding American television industry of the 1950s, as powerful networks and independent producers an

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Post-War Jewish Fiction

In this groundbreaking study, David Brauner explores the representation of Jewishness in a number of works by postwar British and American Jewish writ

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Discovering Fiction Instructor's Manual 1

Authentic North American short stories enhance students' reading skills, language learning, and enjoyment of literature. The Instructor's Manual for Discovering Fiction, Student's Book 1, provides further information about the stories, teaching suggestions, and an answer key.

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Discovering Fiction Instructor's Manual 2

Authentic North American short stories enhance students' reading skills, language learning, and enjoyment of literature. The Instructor's Manual for Discovering Fiction, Student's Book 2, provides further information about the stories, teaching suggestions, and an answer key. In addition, a useful brief synopsis of each story is provided in the Elements of a Short Story ...

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Discovering Fiction Student's Book 2

Authentic North American short stories enhance students' reading skills, language learning, and enjoyment of literature. The stories in this book were chosen for their universal appeal. Among the authors included are Nathaniel Hawthorne, Kate Chopin, Langston Hughes, Ernest Hemingway, and Shirley Jackson. Pre-reading and post-reading activities arouse students' interest...

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Discovering Fiction Student's Book 1

Authentic North American short stories enhance students' reading skills, language learning, and enjoyment of literature. The universal appeal of the stories in this book touches students and makes them think. Among the authors included are O. Henry, William Saroyan, Gwendolyn Brooks, Isaac Asimov, and Sandra Cisneros. Extensive pre-reading activities capture students' in...

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Money in American Politics

Concentrating on presidents and cabinet members, from the birth of the US through the Carter administration, this book tells how they and their associ

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Granta Book Of The American Short Story

An anthology of American short fiction written in the last half of the twentieth century with stories by writers such as Eudora Welty, John Cheever an

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Notable American Novelists

Presents biographical sketches and analytical overviews of 145 of the best-known American and Canadian writers of long fiction from the 19th and 20th

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American Supernatural Tales

Offers a collection of weird and frightening American short fiction. This book celebrates the richness of this tradition with chilling contributions f

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Professionals in Western Film and Fiction

Compares the roles of civil professionals in most American Westerns to those in work on the 1910 Mexican Revolution. Included are studies on the Santi

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American Pastoral - Philip Roth

<p>In American Pastoral, Philip Roth gives us a novel of unqualified greatness that is an elegy for all the twentieth century's promises of prosperity, civic order, and domestic bliss. Roth's protagonist is Seymour 'Swede' Levov - a legendary high school athlete, a devoted family man, a hard worker, the prosperous inheritor of his father's Newark glove factory - com...

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An American Marriage - neuveden

Anotace: LONGLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL FICTION, 2019 `A moving portrayal of the effects of a wrongful conviction on a young African-American couple.` - Barack Obama Newlyweds Celestial and Roy are the embodiment of the American Dream. He is a young executive, and she is an artist on the brink of an exciting career. Until one day they are ripped apart by c...

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American & British Studies 6

AMERICAN AND BRITISH STUDIES ANNUAL (ABSA) je odborný recenzovaný časopis založený v roce 2008 na Katedře anglistiky a amerikanistiky Fakulty filozofické Univerzity Pardubice. V současné době vychází jako ročenka zaměřená na široké spektrum témat amerických a britských kulturních a literárních studií. Cílem časopisu je vytvořit vědeckou a publikační základnu nejen v rámc...

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The Complete Fiction - Howard Phillips Lovecraft

Anotace: In the 1920s and '30s, H.P. Lovecraft pioneered a new type of fiction that fused elements of supernatural horror with the concepts of visionary science fiction. Lovecraft's tales of cosmic horror revolutionised modern horror fiction and earned him the reputation of the most influential American writer of weird tales since Edgar Allan Poe. H.P. Lovecraf...

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American Presidency: A Very Short Introduction

The second edition of this Very Short Introduction focuses on the challenges facing American presidents in meeting the high expectations of the positi

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Tasty Tales Level 4 Intermediate American English

The graded readers series of original fiction, adapted fiction and factbooks especially written for teenagers.

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Robinson Crusoe Level 4 Intermediate American English

The graded readers series of original fiction, adapted fiction and factbooks especially written for teenagers.

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Daisy Jones and The Six : Winner of the Glass Bell Award for Fiction - Jenkins Reidová Taylor

Anotace: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - A gripping novel about the whirlwind rise of an iconic 1970s rock group and their beautiful lead singer, revealing the mystery behind their infamous breakup. "I devoured Daisy Jones & The Six in a day, falling head over heels for it. Daisy and the band captured my heart."-Reese Witherspoon (Reese's Book Club x Hello Sun...

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Complete Fiction, The: Hp Love - Howard Phillips Lovecraft

<p>In the 1920s and '30s, H.P. Lovecraft pioneered a new type of weird fiction that fused elements of supernatural horror with the concepts of visionary science fiction. Lovecraft's tales of cosmic horror revolutionized modern horror fiction and earned him the reputation of the most influential American writer of weird tales since Edgar Allan Poe. H.P. Lovecraft: T...

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Running Wild Level 3 Lower-intermediate American English

The graded readers series of original fiction, adapted fiction and factbooks especially written for teenagers.

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Mind Map Level 3 Lower-intermediate American English

The graded readers series of original fiction, adapted fiction and factbooks especially written for teenagers.

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G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century - Gage Beverly

Anotace: When he became director of the FBI in 1924, J. Edgar Hoover was a dazzling wunderkind buzzing with big ideas for reform. He transformed a failing law-enforcement backwater, riddled with scandal, into a modern machine. He believed in the power of the federal government to do great things for the nation and its citizens. He also believed that certain people - many...

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Haunted States of America

The Haunted States of America: Gothic Regionalism in Post-war American fiction focuses on existing regional Gothic strains to examine how the anxietie

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Mourning El Dorado

Looks at how fiction from the American tropics written since 1950 engages with the promise of El Dorado in the age of the Anthropocene. Just as the go

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Leaving Other People Alone

Leaving Other People Alone reads contemporary North American Jewish fiction about Israel/Palestine through an anti-Zionist, diasporic lens.

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In the Upper Country: LONGLISTED FOR THE WALTER SCOTT PRIZE FOR HISTORICAL FICTION 2024 - Kai Thomas

<p>WINNER OF THE ATWOOD GIBSON WRITERS' TRUST FICTION PRIZE 2023SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2023 AMAZON CANADA FIRST NOVEL AWARD COSMOPOLITAN'S 10 BEST HISTORICAL FICTION BOOKS OF 2023'Fresh and propulsive . . . a veneration of those whose tales are often forgotten' New York Times'A mesmerizing, lyrical testament to the power of storytelling' Atwood Gibson Writer's Trust Fi...

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Amazing Young Sports People Level 1 Beginner/Elementary American English

The graded readers series of original fiction, adapted fiction and factbooks especially written for teenagers.

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Little Trouble in Amsterdam Level 2 Elementary/Lower-intermediate American English

The graded readers series of original fiction, adapted fiction and factbooks especially written for teenagers.

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Team of Rivals

Offers a study of one of the most legendary American Presidents in history. This title offers Barack Obama the model for his presidency, showing how A

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Understanding Colson Whitehead

In 2020 Colson Whitehead became the youngest recipient of the Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction. Although Whitehead's widely divergent bo

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Agonies of Empire

Michael Cox outlines the ways in which five American Presidents from Clinton to Biden have addressed their predecessors' legacies while dealing with a

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Measure of a Man

A memoir from Holocaust survivor Martin Greenfield. He came face to face with 'Angel of Death' Dr Joseph Mengele in Auschwitz, where his family were all murdered, but went on to become a master tailor to many American Presidents.

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Transatlantic: Based on a true story, utterly gripping and heartbreaking World War 2 historical fiction - Orringer Julie

Anotace: 1940, France. In the middle of a devastating war, how many lives can you save?Varian Fry, a young American journalist, arrives in Marseille armed only with three thousand dollars and a list of writers, thinkers and artists he hopes to rescue - so long as the Nazis don`t get to them first.With borders closing around him, Varian tries to track down those on his li...

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Transatlantic: Based on a true story, utterly gripping and heartbreaking World War 2 historical fiction - Julie Orringer

<p>1940, France. In the middle of a devastating war, how many lives can you save?Varian Fry, a young American journalist, arrives in Marseille armed only with three thousand dollars and a list of writers, thinkers and artists he hopes to rescue - so long as the Nazis don't get to them first.With borders closing around him, Varian tries to track down those on his lis...

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Killers of the Flower Moon

A masterpiece of narrative non-fiction, set around an American crime and the birth of the FBI, a thrilling investigative account of a forgotten moment

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Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas

Machado de AssisÂ’s iconic novel, now considered a progenitor of twentieth-century South American fiction, is finally rendered as a stunningly modern

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The Bastard of Istanbul (0241972906)

Kniha - autor Elif Shafak, 364 stran, anglicky, brožovaná bez přebalu matná From the backlist of Elif Shafak, author of The Architect's Apprentice, The Bastard of Istanbul is a tale of an extraordinary family curse and was longlisted for the 2008 Orange Fiction Prize. One rainy afternoon in Istanbul, a woman walks into a doctor's surgery. 'I need to have an abortion', s...

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The Colossus of New York (0708898769)

Kniha - autor Colson Whitehead, 158 stran, anglicky, brožovaná bez přebalu matná In a dazzlingly original work of non-fiction, the Pulitzer-Prize winning author of The Underground Railroad recreates the exuberance, the chaos, the promise, and the heartbreak of New York. Here is a literary love song that will entrance anyone who has lived in - or spent time - in the grea...

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Tales of the Supernatural Level 3

Award-winning original fiction for learners of English. At seven levels, from Starter to Advanced, this impressive selection of carefully graded readers offers exciting reading for every student's capabilities. Six stories about a world we cannot explain. A film star discovers the dangers of dancing with a stranger. A man comes face-to-face with his father's history. An ...

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The Troublesome Offspring of Cardinal Guzman - de Bernieres Louis

Anotace: The third part of a trilogy, following "The War of Don Emmanuel`s Nether Parts", which won the Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best First Fiction. The author expands his panorama of South American life with a story full of quizzical events, where farce and tragedy interbreed.

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The Invention of Wings - Kidd Sue Monk

<p>The No. 1 New York Times bestseller from the author of THE SECRET LIFE OF BEES From the celebrated author of the international bestseller The Secret Life of Bees comes an extraordinary novel about two exceptional women. Sarah Grimké is the middle daughter. The one her mother calls difficult and her father calls remarkable. On Sarah's eleventh birthday, Hetty 'Han...

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