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Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
©1999.
Language
English
Description
A collection of stories in which people have to make choices. Typical is the story, Three Ravens on a Red Ground, in which a company executive must decide between protecting his workers' jobs or enriching himself by selling to the Japanese.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
1998.
Language
English
Description
Four philosophical novellas which explore our quest for meaning and the mind's ability to escape. In one, a woman loses touch with the physical world by immersing herself in poetry, in another a man discovers history in the bric-a-brac of a motel room.
Author
Publisher
Rosen Central Primary Source
Pub. Date
2004.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Traces the process and influences behind the writing of Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel, Uncle Tom's Cabin, which was published when the nation was torn over the issue of slavery and headed toward Civil War.
Publisher
University of Massachusetts Press
Pub. Date
[1997]
Language
English
Description
This is the First Complete modern edition of The Female Marine, a fictional cross-dressing trilogy originally published between 1815 and 1818. Enormously popular among the New England readers, the tale in various versions appeared in no fewer than nineteen editions over that brief four-year span. This new edition appends three other contemporary accounts of cross-dressing and urban vice which, together with The Female Marine, provide a unique portrayal...