This award-winning novel follows twelve-year-old Steven Moore and his slave companion on a nightmarish journey behind Union lines.
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Publishing monthly without interruption, Poetry has become America's most distinguished magazine of verse, presenting, often for the very first time, virtually every notable poet of the last nine decades-an unprecedented record.
The second collection of Schnitzler's prose fiction follows on the award-winning Night Games, Ms Schaefer has translated three of Schnitzler's greatest novellas, acknowledged masterpieces.
Ten distinguished observers confront the pervasive attack on the moral and cultural achievements of European civilization, and reflect on the fate of EuropeOs legacy. OCaustic and convincing...a thought-provoking collection of essays.O NNorman Davies, Wall Street Journal.
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Selected narratives from the two most important contemporary chroniclers of the Underground Railroad,... Læs mere
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Presents the history, archaeology, and legends of ancient Ireland from 9000 BC, when nomadic... Læs mere