Daniel M. Lavery
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
x, 226 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
A whimsical collection of text conversations in the styles of favorite literary characters imagines what Scarlett O'Hara might say to tempt Ashley away from Melanie, Mr. Rochester's passionate all-cap missives to Jane Eyre, and Daisy Buchanan's orders while driving.
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First Atria Books hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
xiii, 238 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Daniel Mallory Ortberg is known for blending genres, forms, and sources to develop fascinating new hybridsfrom lyric rants to horror recipes to pornographic scripture. In his most personal work to date, he turns his attention to the essay, offering vigorous and laugh-out-loud funny accounts of both popular and highbrow culture while mixing in meditations on gender transition, family dynamics, and the many meanings of faith. From a thoughtful analysis...
Author
Publisher
HarperOne, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
viii, 327 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Based on the long-running SLATE advice column, a collection of the most eye-opening, illuminating, and provocative installments during Daniel M. Lavery's tenure as the titular Prudence"--
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
190 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"A collection of darkly mischievous stories based on classic fairy tales."--Front flap.
"A collection of darkly playful stories based on classic folk and fairy tales (but with a feminist spin) that find the sinister in the familiar and the familiar in the alien." --
6) Villette
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Villette, by Charlotte Bronte, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics:
• New introductions commissioned from todays top writers and scholars
• Biographies of the authors
• Chronologies of contemporary...
Publisher
Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
xiii, 465 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"Featuring stories by a bestselling, cross-genre assortment of some of the most exciting writers working today, an anthology of gender-bent, queered, race-bent, and inclusive retellings from the vast lore surrounding King Arthur, Camelot, and the Knights of the Round Table. The stories are so iconic that just a name, a word, conjures romance and betrayal, chivalry and magic. These are legends so embedded in our culture that they feel real; that as...
Publisher
Del Rey
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
477 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
When Star Wars: A New Hope was first released in 1977, part of its appeal was that the world it presented felt alive. Landspeeders and starships were dirty. Droids broke down. And it was filled with cool, weird, and really weird background characters. (Really, just take a look around the Mos Eisley cantina.) Never mind Han, Luke, Leia, Darth Vader, and Obi-Wan. Who were these other guys? What was their story? Just seeing them brought up questions...