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A New York Times Book Review Editors Choice Winner of the American Library in Paris Book Award 2017Les Misérables is among the most popular and enduring novels ever written Like Inspector Javerts dogged pursuit of Jean Valjean its appeal has never waned but only grown broader in its onehundredandfiftyyear life Whether we encounter Victor Hugos story on the page onstage or onscreen Les Misérables continues to captivate while also perhaps unexpectedly speaking to contemporary concerns In The Novel of the Century the acclaimed scholar and translator David Bellos tells us whyThis enchanting biography of a classic of world literature is written for Les Mis fanatics and novices alike Casting decades of scholarship into accessible narrative form Bellos brings to life the extraordinary story of how Victor Hugo managed to write his novel of the downtrodden despite a revolution a coup détat and political exile how he pulled off a pathbreaking deal to get it published and how his approach to the social question would define his eras moral imagination More than an ode to Hugos masterpiece The Novel of the Century also shows that what Les Misérables has to say about poverty history and revolution is full of meaning today
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Contents Include Divisions of Chinese History by Dynastic Rule Conversion Table of Wade Giles and Pinyin Systems for Romanizing Chinese The World Behind the Novel Chine in the Seventeenth Century The Novelists World Tradition and Innovation Political Realities in Fictional Garb Past as Metaphor for the Present Man as Responsible Being Fictional Examinations of Identity Disaster and Renewal in an Ordered Universes etc
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This historical novel Encounter Mannam by Hahn MooSook one of Asias most honored writers is a story of the resilience in the Korean spirit It is told through the experiences of Tasan a highranking official and foremost NeoConfucian scholar at the beginning of the nineteenth century Because of Tasans fascination with Western learning then synonymous with Catholicism he is exiled to a remote province for 18 years In banishment he meets people from various social and religious backgroundsBuddhist monks peasants shamanswhom he would not otherwise have met The events of Tasans life are effectively used to depict the confluence of Buddhist NeoConfucian Taoist and shamanistic beliefs in traditional KoreaA subplot involves three young sisters the daughters of a prominent Catholic aristocrat and affords the reader vivid glimpses into Yidynasty womens lives particularly those of palace ladies scholars wives tavern keepers shamans and slaves In contrast to the longheld Confucian stereotype of female subservience this story illustrates the richness of womens contribution to Korean culture and traditionEncounters detailed narrative provides a broad and informed view of nineteenthcentury Korea making it a highly useful book for courses on Korean literature and society It will also be an engaging read for lovers of historical fiction
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Meihua and Longyan first daughter and second son of prominent families discover a powerful bond in their conflict with the centuriesold social codes of the Ming dynasty Although forbidden education Meihua secretly learns to read and write Longyan beset by a learning disability that dishonors his family and prevents him from becoming a scholar makes his mark as an outstanding military commander But soon he must choose between protecting the decaying Ming dynasty and joining the barbarian Manchus from beyond the Great WallLongyan and Meihua find themselves on opposite sides of this brutal struggle yet passion compels them to continue their liaison Torn between fighting the Manchu conquerors and working to heal their divided country they endure strife the torments of conflicting loyalties and ultimately exile
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Set in nineteenth century Bangor Maine follows midwife Maude as she delivers Elizabeth to sixteenyearold unmarried Fanny who years later hires her daughter as a seamstress to work for the brothel she runs
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Set during the Tang Dynasty of eighthcentury China a sweeping fantasy tale of Greenpearl kidnapped by Tibetan raiders chronicles her dual questto learn the language of humans and to find her longlost mother
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After healing Hung leader of the Taiping Rebellion in midnineteenthcentury China Rulan becomes his obsession and to avoid him she must take refuge as a spy in the mansion of the rebellions opponent General Li
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The Oxford History of the Novel in English is a 12volume series presenting a comprehensive global and uptodate history of Englishlanguage prose fiction and written by a large international team of scholars The series is concerned with novels as a whole not just the literary novel and each volume includes chapters on the processes of production distribution and reception and on popular fiction and the fictional subgenres as well as outlining the work of major novelists movements traditions and tendenciesVolume 3 The NineteenthCentury Novel 18201800 charts one of the most significant and exciting periods in the history of the genre Beginning with the decade in which Scotts work helped inaugurate the threevolume novel and in which many narrative genres conventions and preoccupations associated with Victorian fiction first emerged it traces how these forms developed and changed in the mid nineteenth century as the novel became established at the centre of British national culture The volume includes sections on book history on major authors and on the varieties of fiction and range of narrative modes during the period It also features essays on theories of the novel and on the novels relationship to other aesthetic forms Volume 3 also emphasizes the wider cultural role and significance of the novel during the period including its impact on ideas of place and nation as well as its intervention in political scientific and intellectual contexts
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Searching for an inn the enigmatic traveler Hans stops in a small city on the border between Saxony and Prussia The next morning Hans meets an old organgrinder in the market square and immediately finds himself enmeshed in an intense debateon identity and what it is that defines usfrom which he cannot break freeIndefinitely stuck in Wandernburg until his debate with the organgrinder is concluded he begins to meet the various characters who populate the town including a young freethinker named Sophie Though she is engaged to be married Sophie and Hans begin a relationship that defies contemporary mores about female sexuality and what can and cannot be said about itTraveler of the Century is a deeply intellectual novel chockfull of discussions about philosophy history literature love and translation It is a book that looks to the past in order to have us reconsider the conflicts of our present The winner of Spains prestigious Alfaguara Prize and the National Critics Prize Traveler of the Century marks the Englishlanguage debut of Andrés Neuman a writer described by Roberto Bolaño as being touched by grace
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The NineteenthCentury Novel A Critical Reader provides a comprehensive selection of contemporary and modern essays on the most important novels of the period By bringing together a range of material written across two centuries it offers an insight into the changing reception of realist fiction and a discussion of how complex debates about the meaning and function of realism informed and shaped the kind of fiction that was written in the nineteenth century The novels discussed are Northanger Abbey Jane Eyre Dombey and Son Middlemarch Far From the Madding Crowd Germinal Madame Bovary The Woman in White The Portrait of a Lady The Awakening Dracula Heart of Darkness
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Greenwich Connecticut 1922 Newspaper man Joe Henry finds himself the primary suspect when his friend fellow reporter Wynton Gresham is murdered Both were veterans of French battles during WWIthe war that was supposed to end all warsUnanswered questions pile up in the wake of a violent night Gresham lies dead in his home a manuscript he had just completed has gone missing three Frenchmen lay dead in a car accident less than a mile from Greshams home and a trunk full of Greshams clothes lay neatly packed in his bedroom Hours after his friends death Henry discovers in Greshams desk drawer a oneway ticket reserved in his friends name aboard a steamer ship to France The ticket is dated for the next day Henry steals away under Greshams identity escaping the heated interrogation of the town sheriff to Paris in the roaring 20s In the City of Light he becomes a hunted man To clear his name he must find the man responsible for his friends murder while evading his own and discover the deadly secret revealed in the lost manuscript In the process with the help of other broken veteran expats of Hemingways Lost Generation living in Paris he finds hope in a world irrevocably altered by warSkyhorse Publishing as well as our Arcade Yucca and Good Books imprints are proud to publish a broad range of books for readers interested in fictionnovels novellas political and medical thrillers comedy satire historical fiction romance erotic and love stories mystery classic literature folklore and mythology literary classics including Shakespeare Dumas Wilde Cather and much more While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller we are committed to books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home
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When a mysterious blogger reveals renowned prowar journalist Arthur Hunts longago incestuous affair with his smart but impressionable younger sister Emily Arthur writes a memoir in defense of his life coming to terms with his shattered sense of self his skewed political ideals and the crumbling American empire he has been struggling to uphold An angry but eloquent narrator in the tradition of Philip Roth and Thomas Bernhard Arthur recounts his relationship with Emily weaving in his claustrophobic WASP childhood his 60s student radical days at Yale and his vociferous support for Americas war in Iraq and its continuing drone campaignCapturing the tumult of recent American history Short Century is filled with supporting characters as memorable as Arthur including Miranda his mercurial college girlfriend Jersey Rothstein the charismatic freelove guru for whom Miranda leaves Arthur their son Jason who signs up to serve in Iraq where he is killed their daughter Sydney who follows Arthur into prowar punditry and their daughter Daisy who chooses to wear a burqa With a broad historical scope but an intimate personal focus this is a novel about America family and how the desire for freedom is often entangled with darker impulses
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