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An Instance of the Fingerpost: A Novel
Now in trade, the New York Times bestseller that "may well be the best 'historical mystery' ever written " ( The Sunday Boston Globe) "It is 1663, and England is wracked with intrigue and civil strife. When an Oxford don is murdered, it seems at first that the incident can have nothing to do with great matters of church and state....Yet, little is as it seems in this gripping novel, which dramatizes the ways in which witnesses can see the same events yet remember them falsely. Each of four narrators-a Venetian medical student, a young man intent on proving his late father innocent of treason, a cryptographer, and an archivist-fingers a different culprit...an erudite and entertaining tour de force." - People"Enthralling."- San Francisco Chronicle Book Review"Ingenious."- The Philadelphia Inquirer"Successful literary thrillers in the mold of Umberto Eco's The Name of the Rose are the stuff of a publisher's dreams, and in Pears' novel they may have found a near-perfect example of the genre...Pears, with a painstaking, almost forensic attention to detail, constructs his world like a master painter..."- New York Times"Fascinating...quite extraordinary...elevates the murder mystery to the category of high art."- Los Angeles Times Book Review"Brings not merely a huge cast of characters but a whole century vividly to life."- Newsweek.
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Instances of the Number 3: A Novel
Following the death of Peter Hansome, his wife Bridget is contacted by Frances Slater, her late-husband’s mistress Though the two are from opposite sides of London and meet under the least desirable circumstances, the women become close friends. In a subtly wrought turn of events, Bridget and Frances discover that they have in common what is important to them most: their parallel memories of Peter, killed in a car accident, and the shared reality of his spirit form, haunting them still. A gracefully tuned feat of the imagination, Salley Vickers’s novel is a rare celebration of life’s most intriguing geometries, the love triangle. .
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Wounded Hearts: Masculinity, Law, and Literature in American Culture
The literary study of emotion is part of an important revisionary movement among scholars eager to recast emotional politics for the twenty-first century. Looking beyond the traditional categories of sentiment, sensibility, and sympathy, Jennifer Travis suggests a new approach to reading emotionalism among men. She argues that the vocabulary of injury, with its evaluations of victimhood and its assessments of harm, has deeply influenced the cultural history of emotions. From the Civil War to the early twentieth century, Travis traces the history of male emotionalism in American discourse. She argues that injury became a comfortable vocabulary--particularly among white middle-class men--through which to articulate and to claim a range of emotional wounds. The debates about injury that flourished in the cultural arenas of medicine, psychology, and the law spilled over into the realm of fiction, as Travis demonstrates through readings of works by Stephen Crane, William Dean Howells, Willa Cather, Henry James, and Edith Wharton. Travis concludes by linking this history to twenty-first-century preoccupations with "pain-centered politics," which, she cautions, too often focuses only on women and racial minorities..
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Old Friends and Modern Instances
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A Modern Instance
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Shakespeare Proverbs or, The Wise Saws of Our Wisest Poet Collected into a Modern Instance: Edited with Introduction and Notes by William J. Rolfe
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