5279 results for '"Alan E. H. Emery'

Son of the Morning Star is the nonfiction account of General Custer from the great American novelist Evan S. Connell.Custer's Last Stand is among the most enduring events in American history--more...

C’est dans les Halles centrales de Paris récemment construites par Baltard que Zola situe le troisième épisode des Rougon-Macquart. Après « la course aux millions » décrite dans La curée, ce sera la...

By the spring of 1945, the Second World War was drawing to a close in Europe. Allied troops were sweeping through Nazi Germany and discovering the atrocities of SS concentration camps. The first to...

The acclaimed book behind the 2018 Sundance Grand Jury Prize-winning movie"LGBTQ cinema is out in force at Sundance Film Festival," proclaimed USA Today. "The acerbic coming-of-age movie is adapted...

A smart, funny classic about a young and beautiful American woman who moves to Paris determined to live life to the fullest. The Dud Avocado follows the romantic and comedic adventures of a young...

Paul Jennings was born into slavery on the plantation of James and Dolley Madison in Virginia, later becoming part of the Madison household staff at the White House. Once finally emancipated by...

The first new translation in over a century of the brilliant epic novel that inspired Les MisérablesSensational, engrossing, and heartbreaking, The Mysteries of Paris is doubtless one of the most...

The life of blues legend Robert Johnson becomes the centerpiece for this innovative look at what many consider to be America's deepest and most influential music genre. Pivotal are the questions...

Has Jewish modernity exhausted itself? Flourishing between the age of Enlightenment and the Second World War, the intellectual, literary, scientific and artistic legacy of Jewish modernity continues...

The 2008 presidential election made American history. Yet before Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, there were other "historic firsts": Shirley Chisholm, who ran for president in 1972, and Jesse...

John Pocock's edition of Burke's Reflections is two classics in one: Burke's Reflections and Pocock's reflections on Burke and the eighteenth century. "Pocock is, without question, the leading...

Amphigorey Also is an anthology of alphabetical, nonsensical verse and macabre illustrations from Tony Award-winning storyteller Edward Gorey.These imaginative drawings — including thirty-two pages...

In the predawn hours of a gloomy February day in 1994, two thieves entered the National Gallery in Oslo and made off with one of the world's most famous paintings, Edvard Munch's Scream. It was a...

Book three in the series called "truly magic in a reader's hands" by Jack Gantos, Newbery Medal winner for Dead End in Norvelt. When wishing for magic, it's hard not to wish for too much. If Jane,...

Poetry that acts as a fierce and loving resistance to violenceArt can't shield our bodies or stabilize the earth's climate, but Evie Shockley's semiautomatic insists that it can feed the spirit and...

A new history of the Roman Republic and its collapseIn Mortal Republic, prize-winning historian Edward J. Watts offers a new history of the fall of the Roman Republic that explains why Rome exchanged...

Collected in this Library of America volume are no fewer than six of the works of Edith Wharton: novels, novellas, and her renowned autobiography, A Backward Glance. Together they represent nearly a...