Israel Weissbrem, whose complex themes were taken from the lives of educated and wealthy Jews in Eastern Europe at the end of the nineteenth century and whose writings all but disappeared in the twentieth century, wrote in a vein of melodrama and fantasy, with an ironic and frequently savage wit. His cast of characters is extraordinarily diverse and appears to reflect societal attitudes - somet…
The selections included in this anthology centre on three major aspects of women's writing: reflections on writing and its relation to the public self, the figuration of a female textual identity, and women as agents of history and ideology.
"Lauded internationally upon its publication in 1995 as 'the most complete portrait available in English or French of Surrealism's magister ludi' (New York Times Book Review) and 'the first great biography of André Breton' (Livres Hebdo), Revolution of the Mind is now reissuedd in an updated, extensively revised version incorporating the wealth of new information that has since emerged about B…
Peter Blood is a physician and an English gentleman who becomes a pirate out of a rankling sense of injustice. Barely escaping the gallows after his arrest for treating wounded rebels who were fighting the oppressive King James, Blood flees England and becomes enslaved on a Barbados plantation of buccaneers. When he escapes, no ship sailing the Spanish Main is safe from Blood and his companions…
The story of the British shipe Comass Rose and Saltash and their desperate cat-and-mouse game with Nazi U-boats during World War II
Burdened with the dark, dangerous, and seemingly impossible task of locating and destroying Voldemort's remaining Horcruxes, Harry, feeling alone and uncertain about his future, struggles to find the inner strength he needs to follow the path set out before him