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English
Description
A marvelous collection of wide-ranging essays from the bestselling author of The Handmaid's Tale and The Testaments, exploring her lifelong relationship to science fiction—as a reader and as a writer
The ebook edition of this title contains over thirty additional, illuminating ebook-exclusive illustrations by the author
At a time when the borders between genres are increasingly porous, she maps the fertile
Author
Series
Bollingen volume 54
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
[1971]
Language
English
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Publisher
Bodleian Library
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Novel Houses' visits unforgettable dwellings in twenty legendary works of English and American fiction. Each chapter stars a famous novel in which a dwelling is pivotal to the plot, and reveals how personally significant that place was to the writer who created it.0We discover Uncle Tom's Cabin's powerful influence on the American Civil War, how essential 221B Baker Street was to Sherlock Holmes and the importance of Bag End to the adventuring hobbits...
15) Science fiction
Author
Publisher
The MIT Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"An overview of how science fiction has grappled with the ways that science and technology shape and change human lives, emphasizing the challenges of the 21st century"--
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Series
Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Language is the way humans deal with past, present, and future possibilities, as well as the subset called the probable. This is where Samuel Delany finds his justification for the writing life. Since the 1960s, occurrences such as Sputnik, school desegregation, and the advent of AIDS have given Delany, as a gay man, as a Black man, access to certain truths and facts he could write about, and the language--sometimes fiction, sometimes nonfiction--in...
Author
Publisher
Harper Perennial
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"Keynote Jane Austen and the Brontës endure as the leading ladies of English literature, but why are these reclusive parsons' daughters the only ones we remember? Funny and fascinating, Shelley DeWees's nonfiction debut, Not Just Jane, revisits British history through the extraordinary lives and work of seven long-forgotten authoresses--and wonders why they, and so many others, faded into obscurity (and what we are missing because of it)"--
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Publisher
Bodleian Library
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Close friendships are a heart-warming feature of many of our best-loved works of fiction. From the poignant schoolgirl relationship between Jane Eyre and Helen Burns to Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn's adventures on the Mississippi, fictional friends have supported, guided, comforted--and at times betrayed, the heroes and heroines of our most popular plays and novels. This book explores twenty-four literary friendships and together with character...
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