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To remember the 200th anniversary of Jane Austen's death, this Memoir, first published in 1871, has been republished in 2017 with editorial annotations and illustrations.

First published in 1928, this Canadian classic describes the lives of the people that make up an isolated fishing community on the fictional island of Rockbound, off Nova Scotia. The book is set just before the start of the First World War, in the opening years of the twentieth century. This novel may be described as being of its time, but it still evokes the eternal battle between humans and their environment: the struggle of the fishermen to survive working in the harsh seas in order to earn their livings. Frank Parker Day (1881-1951) was a native of Nova Scotia and would have been able to draw on his own life experience to describe the island of Rockbound and its inhabitants.

This novella, first published in 1888, was the final and arguably the finest work by German writer, Theodor Storm. Combining both realism and the supernatural, The Rider on the White Horse is full of symbolism and superstition. Here, humankind must battle against the forces of nature, a struggle embodied by the image of the phantom-like rider and his white horse galloping into the waves. This is a tale of a man from the North German fenlands who tries to tame not only the natural world but also the reactionary ideas and ingrained superstitions of his neighbors. Storm uses narrative framing, stories within stories, to move across time and conventional boundaries to explore different aspects of how we see ourselves, each other, and our relationship with our environment. The main narrative focuses on Hauke Haien, his dramatic encounters with the sea and his obsessive mission to protect the low-lying land, a quest that leads him into the realm of science and mathematics. There is a sense that superstition is under scrutiny by reason, yet an underlying uneasiness remains in the imagery that permeates the text: the incessant screaming and shrieking of the gulls, the roar of the waves, the constant reference to eyes with the "burning eyes" of the white-horse rider, and the inquiring gaze of the old schoolteacher. Nature is portrayed as wild, unpredictable, and disconcerting, while the community is always mindful of its destructive powers.

Ce livre est un recueil de neuf nouvelles policières, écrites par Maurice Leblanc, qui constituent les premières aventures d'Arsène Lupin. La première nouvelle du recueil, "L'arrestation d'Arsène Lupin", est publiée en juillet 1905 dans le journal Je sais tout. Il s'agit de la première nouvelle mettant en ¿uvre Arsène Lupin. Celle-ci ayant rencontré un réel succès, Maurice Leblanc est encouragé à écrire la suite par son éditeur. Or, comme l'auteur est perplexe sur la façon de poursuivre les aventures d'un héros qui vient d'être coffré, l'éditeur lui suggère de le faire évader. La saga du gentleman-cambrioleur est née. Plusieurs nouvelles paraissent dans Je sais tout, à intervalles irréguliers, jusqu'en 1907, avant d'être regroupées dan ce volume, lui-même publié en 1907.

A multi-genre anthology of artistic works ranging from poetry to creative fiction and non-fiction, from drama to photography. This was inspired by the experience of displacement, with a focus on the migration of "large aggregates of humanity". Most of the contributors are themselves immigrants or refugees, offering an authenticity and truthfulness.

Helena Broder fled from Nazi Vienna to Chile. Her great-grand-daughter, poet, novelist, and human rights activist Marjorie Agosin, takes us on a journey through time and space, and across thresholds between life, death and dreams, to discover her great-grandmother's lost voice.

All caregivers are called upon to recognize both the pain and beauty in this world and to help move society towards an "Ideal City". Beauty is the aesthetic by which healers can care for their patients.

This book was first published in 1925 and was intended to be a dictionary of first world war slang. In the 1920s, "the war to end all wars" was still fresh in everyone's minds and the authors were commissioned to capture the combatants' sayings and expressions.

This book gathers a collection of multidisciplinary essays written by distinguished scholars, visual artists, and writers. The common thread of these essays addresses the ways in which fiber arts have enriched and empowered the lives of women throughout the world.

In "Sentiment", Vincent O'Sullivan looks inside the lives of a group of middle-class English people just before the start of the first world war. The story centres around the love affairs of four young people and how they interact. O'Sullivan picks apart his characters' cares and concerns.

The sixteen essays in this book are by writers from diverse parts of the world recalling their experiences and emotions of what is meant by the concept of Home.

Emmeline Pankhurst's autobiography gives the reader an insight into the struggle to get votes for women. The biography does not hold back on details of the appalling treatment that suffragettes endured from the authorities.

In this book Wallas presentan early model of the creative process. Wallas argues that creative insights and illuminations may be explained by a process consisting of four stages.

The Suffragette Derby of 1913: a woman sacrifices her life for her cause, but what of the man who feels responsible for killing her? This novel was inspired by the life of royal jockey Herbert 'Bertie' Jones, his rise to fame, his tragic collision with Emily Wilding Davison 100 years ago, and the dramatic events that followed.