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Written by American author and dedicated abolitionist Harriet Beecher Stowe, "Uncle Toms Cabin" is a poignant novel which shows the harsh reality of a slaves life in the 1800s. Uncle Tom, an African-American slave who believes in the power of Christian faith. The book would be a major contributor to the Civil War because its compelling portrayal of slaves as fellow human beings left little room for compromise: if slaves were indeed...
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"In the early 1960s Emma Tennant's parents spotted a magical bay and decided to build a house there. Rovinia, as the house is called, is on the west coast of Corfu, above the bay and beach where - legend has it - Nausicaa rescued the shipwrecked Odysseus. There the Ionian Sea shades from emerald to deep ultramarine much like each day blends into the next, as it has for uncountable ages." "Women did the heavy lifting, the architect was local, but Tennant's...
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From the Publisher: The Harlem Renaissance-the unprecedented artistic outpouring centered in 1920s and 1930s Harlem-comes down to us today, says Jeffrey B. Ferguson, as a braiding of history, memory, and myth. To analyze the movement's contents and meaning, Ferguson presents its signature works and lesser known pieces in a framework that allows students to examine the issues its writers and artists faced. Political theorists and civil rights activists,...
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For 90 years "Poetry" has been America's most distinguished magazine of verse. This 90th anniversary anthology may be the most bountiful collection of American poems ever published. It offers a record of poetic achievement as well as some of the vagaries, fads, fashions, and failures of the last 90 years.
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Enjoy the side-splitting fun and wacky adventures of Woody Woodpecker along with Chilly Willy, Andy Panda, Wally Walrus, Buzz Buzzard and Woody's nephew and niece, Knothead and Splinter. Also includes appearances by Oswald the Lucky Rabbit, Windy the Bear, Maggie and Sam and Inspector Willoughby.