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Author: brendan dubois book title: The lights at crawford hills twenty years ago, in eqmm’s february 1986 department Of first Stories, brendan dubois began his career as a published fiction writer. in The years since, he’s twice won The shamus award, been nominated three times for The edgar, and had a story selected for Best American mystery Stories Of The Century. he has 80 Short Stories to his credit and he’s a celebrated novelist with two upcoming books from st. martin ’s: twilight and primary storm..
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Author: herman melville book title: bartleby, The scrivener a story Of wall-street bartleby The scrivener (1853), by herman melville, tells The story Of a quiet, hardworking legal copyist who works in an office in The wall street area Of new york city. one day bartleby declines The assignment his employer gives him with The inscrutable "i would prefer not." The utterance Of this remark sets off a confounding set Of actions and behavior, making The unsettling character Of bartleby one Of melville's most enigmatic and unforgettable creations.  herman melville towers among American writers not only for his powerful novels, but also for The stirring novellas and Short Stories that flowed from his pen. two Of The most admired Of these - `bartleby` and `benito cereno` - first appeared as magazine pieces and were then published in 1856 as part Of a collection Of Short Stories entitled `the piazza tales`. `bartleby` (also known as `bartleby The scrivener`) is an intriguing moral allegory set in The business world Of mid-19th-Century new york. a strange, enigmatic man employed as a clerk in a legal office, bartleby forces his employer to come to grips with The most basic questions Of human responsibility, and haunts The latter`s conscience, even after bartleby`s dismissal. `benito cereno`, considered one Of melville`s Best Short Stories, deals with a bloody slave revolt on a spanish vessel. a splendid parable Of man`s struggle against The forces Of evil, The carefully developed and mysteriously guarded plot builds to a dramatic climax while revealing The horror and depravity Of which man is capable. reprinted here from standard texts in a finely made, yet inexpensive new edition, these Stories offer The general reader and students Of melville and American literature sterling examples Of a literary giant at his story-telling Best..
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Author: andrew taylor book title: bleeding heart square andrew taylor has written over 25 crime novels, and won many awards for his books. his Best selling historical crime novel The American boy was selected by richard and judy's book club. this new story is set in bleeding heart square in The 1930s. in case you were wondering, there is no 'bleeding heart square' in london, but there is a 'bleeding heart yard'. it is apparently named after elizabeth hatton, a 17th Century society beauty who was murdered one night in 1626 after a ball, and her body found in The yard torn limb from limb and with her heart still bleeding on The cobblestones, a story that is used in this book to describe The origins Of bleeding heart square. at The start Of The book, lydia has a violent argument with her husband, marcus. she decides to leave him and her life Of privilege to take refuge with her father in his rooms at 7 bleeding heart square, to live in much reduced circumstances. she does not know her father well, as her mother divorced him when she was young. but she is determined to stay with him, and not to give in to her mother (re-married and now lady cassington) and return to live with marcus, to keep up appearances. The current owner Of The house is a shady character called serridge. narton, a policeman, suspects serridge Of murdering The previous owner, phillipa penhow, about four years ago. ms penhow, a rich spinster, had become smitten with serridge. he persuaded her to buy a remote farmhouse in essex, and to move there to live with him, until she disappeared shortly afterwards. when questioned, serridge claimed that she met an old boyfriend and moved away to america with him, but no-one has heard from her since. narton recruits rory, a young man he sees hanging about The square, to help him find evidence that serridge is to blame. rory wants to find out what happened to ms penhow, because she is The aunt Of his girlfriend fenella. it also turns out that lydia's father is somehow connected to serridge, not only through their time together in The army during The first world war, but also because he used to own The farm in essex that serridge persuaded ms penhow to buy. the main mystery to be solved in The book is whether serridge murdered ms penhow for her money, or whether she really did move to america. however, in true dickensian fashion, there is a whole host Of characters, and many subplots that contribute to The main story. ms penhow's infatuation with serridge, and The consequences Of that, are gradually revealed through excerpts from her diary, read by an unknown person, who has somehow acquired The diary. these convey her initial optimism and subsequent slide into despair, and raise The hope that perhaps she did just run away after all. meanwhile, with The help Of narton, rory starts to find out what really happened to ms penhow, while gradually realising that fenella no longer wants to marry him, and struggling to find himself a job as a journalist. a third subplot describes how lydia starts to make a new life for herself, her growing friendship with rory after he also moves into 7 bleeding heart square, and her own part in discovering what happened to ms penhow. the book evokes The period partly through its descriptions Of The british fascist movement, and marcus's involvement in it, and through The stark differences between The lives Of The wealthy and those Of The poor. it is a hugely enjoyable book, in which The many different threads, and rich detail, are skilfully woven together. it was an exciting read, and i had to restrain myself from turning to The ending to find out what happened before finishing The book. but, i'm afraid when i finally did get there, i was a bit underwhelmed by The final unveiling Of The fate Of ms penhow, and i don't think this was just because i hadn't been paying enough attention to The clues dotted through The story. despite this, and because The story Of ms penhow is in some ways almost incidental, mostly serving as a means to throw The various characters together, one can just about forgive The ending, and simply enjoy The rest Of The book. one to recommend, but i don't think it's going to make my top five Of The year..
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Author: jack kerouac book title: on The road jack kerouac's on The road is one Of The most controversial American novels Of The 20th Century. when critics concede that The book and its author were instrumental in triggering The rucksack revolution, this is to damn with praise, as kerouac is reduced to a one-book author (though he published some twenty volumes containing a wide range Of prose and poetry). moreover, The spiteful acknowledgement Of a sociohistorical fact imports an aesthetic grudge against a novel that a close reading reveals to be far more conventional than most Of its adversaries would would care to realize. nor does The book propagate The shameless adoration Of libidinous licentiousness for which it has been castigated in conservative quarters. kerouac, too, never understood what his book meant to The hordes Of youngsters taking to The highways after The fashion Of The characters peopling The narrative; but then, he was ill-fitted to grasp what his book had kindled in generations Of young readers who felt stifled by The limitations Of their parental homes. he never realized that he had prefigured their longings. born, in 1922, in lowell ma and baptized jean-louis lebris de kerouac, he learned english only as a second language. his parents, french canadian immigrants, provided for a parochial, catholic conservative, working-class background dominated by The mother who, in keeping with her heritage, felt more comfortable at speaking to her children in her french-canadian dialect. The father, a printer, lost his job in The great depression and never recovered his standing. “ti-jean” (as jack was pet-named by his mother) was a brooding, introverted child, a voracious, if indiscriminate reader. in high school, he was a minor sensation on The football field, The performanance at half-back, rather than academic excellence, earning him a scholarship to columbia university after a preparatory year at horace mann, a private high school in new york city. college football, however, was more competitive than high-school games, and after breaking a leg in practice, he could not establish himself as a starter on The team. he also was in academic difficulties and had to make up for failing grades with extracurricular work during summer vacation. kerouac left columbia during his sophomore year, came back for a brief spell The following year, and after various odd jobs at gas stations and an honorable discharge from The navy for an “indifferent character,” he joined The merchant marine in 1942. jack, who claimed he had completed his first novel at age eleven, had written for his high-school paper, contributed articles on local college sports to The columbia spectator, and, “… inspired by a new enthusiasm for The novels Of thomas wolfe” (ann charters, kerouac), began to keep extensive journals. onboard The s.s. george weems, “bound for liverpool with 500-pound bombs in her hold, flying The red dynamite flag” (charters), he wrote The sea is my brother, which remained unpublished. after The war restless years followed, as jack grew involved in The emerging underground scene Of new york. (in part he was to record those experiences in on The road.) during The winters he lived in his mother’s apartment in ozone park, l.i. (The father had died in The spring Of 1946), from where he set out on frequent drinking bouts, often lasting for several days, to times square bars or to parties in greenwich village; The summers he spent roaming The country between new york, san francisco, and mexico city. intermittently he worked on what was to become The town and The city; accepted by harcourt, brace co. in 1949, The book appeared The following year and received lukewarm critical appraisal: “more often than not, The depth and breadth Of his vision triumph decisively over his technical weaknesses,” The new york times book review noted in november 1950. during The spring Of 1951 kerouac completed, in a three-week burst Of writing, a typescript entitled variously “beat generation” and “on The road,” different names for “… a scroll Of paper three inches thick made up Of one single-spaced, unbroken 120 feet long paragraph,…” as a friend recalls. in spite Of several revisions and persistent efforts, kerouac could not find a publisher for what he, according to ann charters, “… knew immediately… was The Best writing he had ever done.” editors were more interested in Stories dealing with The scandalous lifestyle Of these young, “beat” bohemians than in their artistic work, until, in late 1955, malcolm cowley, senior adviser at viking, accepted The book on The proviso that he and kerouac go over The script together. when on The road finally came out in 1957, The original typescript had been cut by one-third and amended to approximate The text to literary, orthographic, and printing conventions. “… cowley riddled The original style Of The manuscript there, without my power to complain,…,” kerouac indicted later in an interview for The paris review. (The tangled genesis Of The text prior to publication-some seven typescript versions are known to exist-may well prove futile all attempts at establishing a definitive edition.) in The wake Of The clamor raised over The publication Of allen ginsberg's “howl” (The poem is dedicated to kerouac, among others),on The road made The bestseller lists and, except for a Short lag in The early sixties, has continued to sell at a steady pace in america and western europe. The commercial success Of on The road prompted viking to bring out more Of kerouac’s writings. by 1958 he had completed several manuscripts (visions Of cody, doctor sax, and The subterraneans, to name but a few), all autobiographical, loose in form, and written in The new prose style which he had developed in The meanwhile and called “spontaneous prose”: long, unpremeditated sentences full Of associations, put to paper in The way they came to his mind; highly personal, often idiosyncratic accounts which were at times inherently contradictory; as he phrased it himself, in The vaguely programmatic “essentials Of spontaneous prose”: no pause to think Of proper word but The infantile pileup Of scatological buildup words till satisfaction is gained, which will turn out to be a great appending rhythm to a thought and be in accordance with great law Of timing. the editors insisted on something conventional and chose The dharma bums because it was close to on The road in scope, contents, and method Of presentation. The book was inspired by kerouac’s friendship with The californian poet gary snyder, who became The model for japhy ryder, The hero Of The dharma bums. snyder had introduced kerouac to buddhist texts, The influence Of which is traceable in on The road and, more conspicuously, in The dharma bums. but kerouac 'a infatuation with eastern mysticism and religions was only transitory. at heart he always remained a devout catholic, in his own personal way. he writes in “the origins Of The beat generation,” an article for playboy: i am not ashamed to wear The crucifix Of my lord. it is because i am beat, that is, i believe in beatitude and that god so loved The world that he gave his own begotten son to it… so you people don’t believe in god. so you're all big smart know-it-all marxists and freudians, hey? why don’t you come back in a million years and tell me all about it, angels? kerouac had always been an introverted, brooding, melancholic loner who preferred watching from The side over actively participating in his friends' hullabaloos; during The sixties, his health deteriorating from continuous abuse Of alcohol and benzedrine, he became utterly estranged from The world and retreated to his mother's home. he felt his work was misunderstood by The reading public, for whom he had become, due to his semi-fictitious heroes dean moriarty and japhy ryder, a cult figure and a pioneer Of The newly emerging liberal movement. his political attitude was diametrically opposed to that Of The majority Of his readers as well as to that Of his former close friend allen ginsberg. kerouac spoke out in favor Of The American engagement in vietnam; in The interview for The paris review he explained: i’m pro-American and The radical political involvements seem to tend elsewhere… The country gave my canadian family a good break, more or less, and we see no reason to demean said country. shadows Of fatalism and a profound pessimism permeate his later writing, for instance, The vanity Of duluoz. resignation, that all is “vanity,” rings through The last attempt at reshaping The legend he had begun with The town and The city. conspicuously, The two books cover roughly The same period Of time, from The last years in lowell to The father's death in new york city; while not exactly cheerful, The tone Of The town and The city, characterized by a longing to restore The happy days Of childhood, had to give way to a deep sense Of irrevocable loss. he wrote in The preface Of visions Of cody: “my work comprises one vast book like proust's remembrance Of things past, except my remembrances are written on The run instead Of afterwards in a sickbed.” The comparison, half-correct at Best, sheds a distinct light on The author’s ambitions and misperceptions. jack kerouac died on october 21, 1969, “of hemorrhaging esophageal varices, The classic drunkard’s death,” according to gerald nicosia, The author Of memory babe, a near-definitive critical biography..
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Author: mary putney book title: The china bride from publishers weekly nineteenth-Century china, england and scotland are The settings for putney's continuing saga Of The renbourne twins, dominic and kyle, begun in The wild child. there, kyle handed over his unwanted betrothed, meriel (a match arranged at birth), to his twin brother, dominic, and escaped to spain with his terminally ill mistress, constancia. ever since his true love's death, kyle has been exploring The world. in 1832, he is in macao. his father's health is failing, however, and kyle plans to fulfill his lifelong dream Of seeing The temple Of hoshan, "an image Of peace and unearthly beauty," then return to england to resume his duties as lord maxwell. unfortunately, china is closed to all fan-qui (foreigners) and kyle must stay within The confines Of The canton settlement, a narrow strip Of warehouses serving as shipping point for all european and American trade companies. in order to sneak into The chinese countryside, kyle enlists The aid Of jin kang, who he thinks is a young male chinese interpreter. jin is actually troth mei-lian montgomery, feisty daughter Of a scottish trader and chinese concubine, who is forced to make her living by spying on "foreign devils." kyle's rash escapade is predictably unsuccessful, as he is discovered and sentenced to death. he marries troth (symbolically) and dispatches her to england to tell his family Of his fateawhich, Of course, turns out to be different from what she imagines. in chapters alternating between troth's experiences in england and flashbacks to her adventures with kyle in china, putney contrives an awkward tale, dependant for its drama on kyle's belief that he can never love again, and on troth's fear Of rejection by kyle's family. though The conflict rarely grips, The sex scenes are adequately steamy, and putney provides plenty Of atmospheric details. from library journal picking up The story Of The "irresponsible twin" from The wild child (lj 8/99), putney's latest historical sweeps its adventure-seeking hero to The other side Of The globe and into The narrow, conflicted life Of troth mei-lian montgomery, an orphaned eurasian daughter Of a scottish trader, with dangerous, passionate, and life-changing results. a master at creating unusual, sympathetic characters in compelling relational situations, putney takes a woman caught between two worlds and a british peer who has vowed never to marry again and sends them on a forbidden journey that not only challenges their preconceptions about life and each other but eventually brings them love as well. smoothly integrated references to The ancient practices Of tai chi, feng shui, and wing chun add interest and authenticity to this highly sensual, emotionally involving romance, which also addresses a number Of women's and ethnic issues still relevant today. this elegantly written work is sure to join putney's earlier novels in most library romance collections. putney is a Best-selling rita award winner and lives in baltimore. *** award-winning author mary jo putney captivated The hearts Of readers everywhere with her breathtaking debut, The wild child. now, in her new novel, The china bride, she has created another fiercely moving love story and another endearing heroine – a rare beauty torn between two cultures who valiantly struggles to discover The woman she is destined to be. born to a scottish father, troth montgomery, betrothed to her life as a concubine, never imagined she would one day leave The orient to arrive at The english estate Of a stranger – The brother Of The man who had briefly been her husband. kyle renbourne, viscount Of maxwell, had taken troth as his bride shortly before his apparent execution in a chinese prison. now, as his widow, she is entitled to The home she always dreamed Of but remains haunted by The memory Of a dashing husband and The brief, forbidden love they shared. but then kyle renbourne is seemingly reborn, though his mind and body are badly wounded. together, troth and kyle embark on a miraculous journey Of hope, faith, and struggle against a deadly menace that has followed them halfway across The world. "she squeezed his hand, and in her grip he felt The pulse Of her chi. pure and bright, it glowed with a compassion that warmed The depths Of his darkness… he felt scalded, melted, transformed." written with elegance and gentle passion, The china bride is a stirring tale Of lasting love and The power Of forgiveness told by a master storyteller..
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Artist: charlotte perkins gilman/kirsten potter comment: this collection brings together twelve Of The finest Short Stories Of prominent American feminist author charlotte perkins gilman. "the yellow wallpaper," gilman's Best-known work, was first published in 1892 and represents an important examination Of nineteenth-Century attitudes toward women's physical and mental health. written as a collection Of journal entries by a woman whose physician husband has confined her to her bedroom, The story depicts.
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