Our Miniature Edition "TM" collection continues to grow! Since 1989, when the first minis appeared, Running Press has offered an astonishing range of subjects, sure to find a place in any booklover's library! Visit the golf course for nine holes, head to the kitchen with the Silver Palate chefs, travel to the heavens above, or rediscover the ...
Snowflakes aren't the only things that dance at Christmastime. So do nutcrackers, little girls, mouse-kings, and toys! In this beautiful edition of the classic story we love so much, none of the little characters ever age or become faded or threadbare. This keep-forever volume is priced to be within everyone's reach. And, come holiday time, this ...
One of America's most popular Jewish writers, Chaim Potok (b. 1929) is the author of such acclaimed novels as The Chosen (1967). The Promise (1969). The Book of Lights (1981), and Davita's Harp (1985). This volume present interviews in which Potok discusses the broad range of his writing and the deep influence of non-Jewish novels, esp. Waugh's ...
Nostalgia, a bittersweet yearning for the past, is an important element in Jewish-American performances of the late twentieth century. Numerous plays and films of this time use nostalgia to engage Jewish, including Yiddish, cultural themes and images. Nostalgia offers audiences a window through which to examine past and current social changes. ...
The value of Arab-Islamic history in Western thought has undergone many vicissitudes, but it is now greater than ever. This book investigates the intellectual motives and compulsions that hide behind the nineteenth-century British and American elite's invocation of this history. The touch-stones are many--the prophet, the Caliphate, the conquests, ...
New York, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt/M., Oxford, Wien. Not only do the two writers discussed in this book both display exceptional artistic ability to express their thoughts in a foreign language (neither English in Vladimir Nabokov's case, nor French in Tahar Ben Jelloun's, is the author's native tongue) but these two writers share many ...
In this book, the German histroy of "The Merchant of Venice highlights the Central European detour that Shakespearean reception underwent in Hebrew and Yiddish. Such a detour, with its various discomforts, is used to penetrate a current historical and political historiography, rendering Shylock a character that remembers various languages and ...
A collection of more than 75 Jewish-American novelists whose works were written largely after World War II. Entries also include gay and lesbian novelists, and for each there is a brief biography, a discussion of major works and themes, and an overview of the novelist's critical reception.
We guarantee every item's condition, as described on Alibris. If you are not satisfied that an item is as described, return your purchase for a refund.
