LIFE, LANGUAGE, & LITERATURE is an advanced level, integrated skills reading text. It is an anthology of American literature that focuses on aspects of American life and its reflection through literature.
Written during and immediately after the Spanish Civil War, this classic account of its background represents a struggle to see issues in Spanish politics objectively, despite the author's personal involvment.
Tracing events from the Midwestern states of Indiana and Kentucky to the East Coast, the author of such major bestsellers as Serpico and King of the Gypsies has written a dramatic and terrifying book about a charming and successful psychopath and the woman who loved him--and whom he murdered. The custody battle over the couple's infant son makes this true story all the more tragic. 16 pages of photographs.
Drawn by the anger and loyalties learned at a grandfather's knee, second generation Irish-American Jamie McGuire has vanished into a world of explosive secrets and brutal betrayals. Now Jamie's father, Michael -- an advertising executive with no allegiance to any cause -- must rescue his lost son from a violent place where revolution is the faith and freedom means death. But it may already be too late, for Jamie has been chosen to play two indispensable roles in a bloody, long-running international drama: scapegoat...and martyr.
"Whether or not we've come a long way since then, this engaging study of courtship shows that at least half the fun is in reading about getting there." -- "St. Louis Post-Dispatch."
"Parish's short and very readable account of the history of American slavery is the one book that everyone with even a passing interest in the topic should read before anything else."
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This study of slavery focuses initially on the drastic revisions in the historical debate on slavery and the present understanding of 'the peculiar institution'. It gives a concise explanation of the nature of American slavery and its impact on the slaves themselves and on Southern society and culture.
And it broadens our understanding of the debates among historians about slavery; compares Southern slavery with slavery elsewhere in the New World; and shows how slavery evolved and changed over time—and how it ended. Peter Parish examines some of the important recent works on slavery to identify crucial questions and basic themes and define the main areas of controversy.
El laberinto de la soledad es una de las piezas claves de la literatura moderna, ensayo el mismo moderno y reflexión critica sobre la modernidad. En la historia de la literatura hispanoamericana se trata de la prosa ensayística más importante de este siglo, la que ha influido mas en el pensamiento y en la literatura de lengua española y la que mas ha resonado en los de otras lenguas. En el contexto intelectual hispánico, pertenece a la tradición del ensayo de identidad nacional. En palabras de Octavio Paz: "Es un libro dentro de la tradición francesa del moralismo. Es una descripción de ciertas actitudes por una parte, y por otra, un ensayo de interpretación historica." Es una voluntad de interpretar criticamente la realidad historica de México. Esta edición de El laberinto de la soledad se ha hecho en estrecha colaboración con el propio Octavio Paz, que no solo ha revisado, especialmente para este publicación, sus propios textos, sino que ademas ha leido y revisado las aportaciones de Enrico Mario Santí. Se incluye también un texto inedito de Octavio Paz, El tres y el cuatro, y tres nuevas versiones, de otros tantos textos, realizadas por el autor para esta edición.
"The Committee" has masterminded a fiendish, far-reaching plot rooted in the highest corridors of power. Code name: Tantalus. Tantalus -- all the more daring because it is so obvious -- strikes at the very lifeline of humanity. Its aim is enormous, horrible, and unknown even to the superpowers. Only one man, Christopher Locke, an unsuccessful college professor, can expose the trail that begins with the brutal execution of every person in an obscure South American town. But even as Locke navigates the labyrinth leading to The Committee and Tantalus, The Committee is hunting him down, using even his most trusted friends against him.