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In the wake of factory closings and his beloved wife's death, Lev is on his way from Eastern Europe to London, seeking work to support his mother and his little daughter. After a spell of homelessness, he finds a job in the kitchen of a posh restaurant, and a room in the house of an appealing Irishman who has also lost his family. Never mind that Lev must sleep in a bunk bed surrounded by plastic toys — he has found a friend and shelter. However...
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"Joseph Conrad's enduring portrait of the ugliness of colonialism in a deluxe edition with a gripping cover by 'Hellboy' artist Mike Mignola. 'Heart of Darkness' is the thrilling tale of Marlow, a seaman and wanderer recounting his physical and psychological journey in search of the infamous ivory trader Kurtz. Traveling upriver into the heart of the African continent, he gradually becomes obsessed by this enigmatic, wraith-like figure. Marlow's discovery...
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Collected essays by T. H. Huxley volume VII
Publisher
D. Appleton and Co
Pub. Date
[1902]
Edition
Authorized edition.
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xv, 329 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm.
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English
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Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2003]
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1 DVD (91 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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A sophisticated European brother and sister turn up unexpectedly on the doorstep of their staid American cousins. The fortune-hunting Eugenia and her high-spirited brother Felix turn this Puritan world upside down.
6) The capital
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Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
2019.
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First American edition.
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417 pages ; 25 cm.
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English
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"Set in the European Union buildings in Brussels, [this novel] is based on Manasse?s extensive research of this much-maligned institution. Without a central plot, it offers a kaleidoscopic view of the machinations and tribulations of a huge cast of characters who undertake the widely varied work of the European Commission. One strand follows the attempts of Martin Susman and Fenia Xenapoulou, bureaucrats in the Department of Culture, to organize a...
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Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2020]
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1 DVD (100 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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When the immoral Peter Willems is accused of stealing in his position at a Dutch East Indies port, he persuades the man who gave him his start in life, the merchant ship captain Lingard, to take him up-river to a secret trading post on a remote Indonesian island. There, he falls in love with the beautiful native woman Aissa, as the cunning Babalatchi tries to trick and blackmail him into disclosing the entrance of the secret trading route.
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W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
2016.
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First edition.
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392 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
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English
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"A panoramic, eye-opening history of the vast migration of Eastern Europeans to the West by a recent winner of a MacArthur Fellowship. Between 1846 and 1940, more than 50 million Europeans moved to the Americas, irrevocably changing both their new lands and the ones they left behind. Their immigration fostered an idea of the 'land of the free, ' and yet more than a third returned home again. In a groundbreaking study, Tara Zahra brilliantly explores...
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University Press of Mississippi
Pub. Date
[2007]
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xviii, 185 pages : maps ; 24 cm
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English
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From the Publisher: The Natchez Indians: A History to 1735 is the story of the Natchez Indians as revealed through accounts of Spanish, English, and French explorers, missionaries, soldiers, and colonists, and in the archaeological record. Because of their strategic location on the Mississippi River, the Natchez Indians played a crucial part in the European struggle for control of the Lower Mississippi Valley. The book begins with the brief confrontation...
14) The Europeans
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Entertainment One Film USA
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
40th anniversary restoration.
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1 Blu-ray (92 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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The lives and routines of the puritanical Wentworth family are upended by the not-so-welcome arrival of their European cousins to New England one particularly golden autumn. Lee Remnick shines as the snooty and calculating Eugenia, a Baroness whose marriage to a German prince is on the fritz, meanwhile her dapper brother Felix has his eye on one of the Wentworth daughters.
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Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xix, 476 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
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A group biography of seven remarkable men and women who arrived in India during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in order to join the freedom movement and struggle for a country and people other than their own.
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Publisher
W.W. Norton & Co
Pub. Date
[2006]
Edition
Fourth edition.
Physical Desc
xix, 514 pages : illustrations, 1 map ; 22 cm.
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English
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The Fourth Edition is again based on Robert Kimbrough's meticulously re-edited text. Missing words have been restored and the entire novel has been re-punctuated in accordance with Conrad's style. The result is the first published version of Heart of Darkness that allows readers to hear Marlow's voice as Conrad heard it when he wrote the story. "Backgrounds and Contexts" provides readers with a generous collection of maps and photographs that bring...
18) Red strangers
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Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2006.
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xvi, 405 pages ; 20 cm.
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English
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Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company, Inc
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
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1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Acclaimed cartoonist Peter Kuper delivers a powerful interpretation of this controversial classic. Heart of Darkness has unsettled generations of readers with its haunting portrait of colonialism and brutal exploitation in Africa. Now award-winning illustrator Peter Kuper reimagines Conrad's masterpiece for a new generation, transforming this dramatic tale of madness, greed, and evil into something visually immersive and profoundly complex. Drawn...
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