Soccer and Society in Modern Latin America
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Le Morte d’Arthur (Modern Library) $13.70 The legends of King Arthur and his knights of the Round Table have inspired some of the greatest works of literature–from Cervantes’s Don Quixote to Tennyson’s Idylls of the King. Although many versions exist, Malory’s stands as the classic rendition. Malory wrote the book while in Newgate Prison during the last three years of his life; it was published some fourteen years later, in 1485, by Will… |
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Pride and Prejudice (Modern Library) $3.99 “It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.” Next to the exhortation at the beginning of Moby-Dick, “Call me Ishmael,” the first sentence of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice must be among the most quoted in literature. And certainly what Melville did for whaling Austen does for marriage–tracing the intricacies (n… |
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Twilight in Delhi (New Directions Paperbook) $7.25 The sounds and smells of Delhi–the flutter of pigeons’ wings, the call to prayer, the scent of jasmine and frying ghee–come to life in the novel whose detail E.M. Forster called “new and fascinating” upon its original publication in 1940. Reprinted with a revised introduction by the author, Twilight in Delhi is enacted between two revolutionary momen s of change, depicting the change of a way of… |