Nega Mezlekia's memoir Notes from the Hyena's Belly was described in the New York Times Book Review as "the most riveting book about Ethiopia since Ryszard Kapuscinski's literary allegory The Emperor and the most distinguished African literary memoir since Soyinka's Aké appeared 20 years ago." Mezlekia now offers a first novel steeped in African folklore and teeming with the class, ethnic and …
Twenty years at hull-house is jane addams graphic account of her famed settlement house in chicago west side slums.
Did J. Edgar Hoover die a natural death? ... Or was he murdered?
Richard III is perhaps the most memorable of Shakespeare's history plays. It charts the rise and fall of a Macchiavellian villain who, by scheming and by infanticide claws his way to the throne of England
A house party is in full swing at Lady Hunstanton's stately country home. One of the guests is Gerard Arbuthnot, an earnest, upright young man whose prospects are limited, so he is overjoyed when the suave Lord Illingworth offers him employment as his secreatry. His mother, however, implores him to refuse this brilliant entree into sophistcated society. Should she reveal the shameful secret …
Judith Wright's Collected Poems 1942-1970 containing seven previously published books of verse and additional uncollected poems, demonstrates the weight and substance of the poetic achievement of one of Australia's most highly respected and valuedpoets. Whether she is read for her rich and comprehensive evocation of the Australian eart, of her meditations on the great traditional themes of love…