Talking Heads is a series of dramatic monologues written for BBC television by British playwright Alan Bennett and later published as a series of books.

    Christine is New York's highest-paid call girl. Without knowing it, the two astonishingly beautiful young women are sisters--locked in a twisted web of deceit and ambition shaped by their cruel mother! "One of the summer's steamiest books."--USA Today. HC: Simon & Schuster.

    Sir Issac Newton's 'short chronicle from the first memory of things in Europe, to the Conquest of Persia byAlexander the Great'

    Yet she and her mother are forced to leave the family castle and wander penniless. They join a band of strolling actors, but opportunity always seems to elude them. Eventually, Carola enters a convent as a novice. But Carola has developed many natural psychic abilities and this leads to a terrible conflict in which she is accused of witchcraft. She becomes the target of vicious fanaticism and only barely manages to elude death.Life as Carola is a vivid portrayal of the struggle between good and evil and the power of the noble human spirit to conquer that which persecutes it.

    He cites the creation of fear and the establishment of dependency upon goods which, without becoming wage-earners, the Indians could not procure. As native peoples are hurried through the process of acculturation, Indian customs and ways of life, ceremonies, art, music, and dance are often lost only to be replaced by illness, apathy, and forced labor. This volume combines autobiography, travel writing, and social commentary. No index or bibliography. Recommended for public libraries. - Publishers Weekly

    Each tale is introduced with an intriguing account of its origin and sometimes the unbelievably strange but true facts upon which it is based.

    First undertaken as a kind of discipline, the work molds itself into a penetrating reflection on daily events in Mathews's life, his friends, himself, and the act of writing.

    It covers all the major novelists, poets and dramatists - from Shakespeare, Milton, Wordsworth, Austen, Dickens to Conrad and to contemporary writers from all over the English-speaking world - Saul Bellow, Adrienne Rich, Les Murray, Wole Soyinka, and Janet Frame. More than 100 specialist contributors provide detailed biographical and critical articles not only on writers and their works. Substantial coverage is also given to such literary genres as popular fiction, science fiction, detective novels, and children's classics. All literary concepts and movements are described in detail. - Over 4,500 alphabetical entries, cross-referenced throughout - Includes all literature in English - British, Irish, American, Australian, African, Canadian, New Zealand, Indian and Caribbean - Illustrated throughout with over 115 photographs and line drawings

    Above all, says John Stott, the Book of Psalms points to the greatness of God and leads readers to know him better.In Favorite Psalms, Stott helps readers better understand thirty-eight chapters of Psalms. He offers insightful exposition and practical application, looking at everything from setting and background to voice and theme. This book includes historical information and other Scripture references and is an ideal tool for both sermon preparation and devotional use.

    While acknowledging rhetoric's general loss of prestige, the author asserts its value in modern times as an indispensable vehicle for style and thought in the work of Joyce, Orwell, Jarrell, and others, and concludes by surveying rhetoric's fragmentation and misapplication in the current critical theories of such thinkers as Jakobson and de Man.

    

    And no one has captured the rich texture of this life as colorfully and persuasively as Fred Kaplan in this acclaimed biography. Drawing on unpublished and long-forgotten sources, Kaplan presents a full-scale portrait of Dickens and his world. From the autobiographical basis of his novels and his extraordinary circle of friends to the course of his unhappy marriage and complicated family relations, Kaplan reveals the restless compulsions, private passions, and professional concerns that drove Dickens to unprecedented literary success. Kaplan details Dickens's often stormy dealings with his publishers and his carefully cultivated relationship with readers, heightened through amateur theatricals and numerous public readings in Britain and North America. Brilliantly written and thoroughly researched, Dickens provides an absorbing and perceptive account of its subject as a singularly complex man and a consummate artist, offering readers new insights into Dickens's—and literature's—greatest works, works such as Bleak House, David Copperfield, Great Expectations, and Oliver Twist.

    

    Written almost 100 years ago it is one of the rarest and most sought-after books in the whole literature of golf, a sharp and opinionated pilgrimage to great temples of golf. This facsimile contains all 64 of Harry Rountree's paintings. For anyone who loves the game this book is an absolute must.

    The Pickwick Papers; Oliver Twist; A Christmas Carol; Hard Times; David Copperfield; A Tale of Two Cities; Great Expectations