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Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Formats
Description
In this thought-provoking collection of essays, poems, and short reflections, Frederick Joseph explores issues of masculinity and patriarchy from both a personal and cultural standpoint. From fatherhood, and "manning up" to abuse and therapy, he fearlessly and thoughtfully tackles the complex realities of men's lives today and their significance for society, lending his insights as a Black man
Author
Publisher
Clarkson Potter/Publishers
Pub. Date
[1996]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xxv, 710 pages : illustrations, genealogical tables ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Herman Melville's towering achievement stands as a timeless monument to the richness and diversity of nineteenth-century American literature. Employing a singularly American idiom, his immortal masterpiece, Moby-Dick, broke the bounds of the novel as it was then known and understood. But Melville's place in the pantheon of American literature is all the more exceptional given the fact that he remained virtually unknown as a writer throughout the course...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
H. L. Mencken was the most provocative and influential journalist and cultural critic in twentieth-century America. In this volume and a companion, The Library of America presents all six series of Prejudices (1919-1927), the iconoclastic collections that helped blast American literature out of its complacency and into a new age of frankness and maturity. The fantastic linguistic inventiveness, full-bodied humor, and unwaveringly fierce courage of...
Author
Series
Publisher
Canterbury Classics
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
xix, 724 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Edgar Allan Poe was a master of tales of the mysterious and macabre. From the eerie incantations of The Raven to the persistent fright of The Tell-Tale Heart, his stories and poems are unforgettable explorations of the darker side of life that still offer lessons and insight into human behavior today, making them an integral component of just about any library.
Publisher
Salem Press
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
3 volumes (xix, 1084 pages) : illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
This three volume set covers over 215 well-regarded works of the independent and underground genre of graphic novels, summarizing plots and analyzing the works in terms of their literary integrity and overall contribution to the graphic novel landscape
Author
Publisher
Barnes & Noble
Pub. Date
c1992
Physical Desc
x, 1,092 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Synopsis: Edgar Allan Poe is credited with having pioneered the short story, having perfected the tale of psychological horror, and having revolutionized modern poetics. The entirety of Poe's body of imaginative work encompasses detective tales, satires, fables, fantasies, science fiction, verse dramas, and some of the most evocative poetry in the English language. This leather bound omnibus collects all of Poe's fiction and poetry in a single...
Publisher
Ivan R. Dee
Pub. Date
2002
Physical Desc
lv, 509 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
For 90 years "Poetry" has been America's most distinguished magazine of verse. This 90th anniversary anthology may be the most bountiful collection of American poems ever published. It offers a record of poetic achievement as well as some of the vagaries, fads, fashions, and failures of the last 90 years.
Author
Publisher
Marvel Worldwide, Inc., a subsidiary of Marvel Entertainment LLC
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
"A king without a crown! Banished from the throne, a fugitive in his own homeland, T'Challa still can't leave Wakanda without its sworn protector. With a new costume and fresh purpose to match, the Black Panther stalks the streets and shadows of the city that bears his father's name, Birnin T'Chaka. Some people, though, aren't happy with the rumors that he's in town--including the alluring thief called Beisa! Fortunately, some new allies and familiar...
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