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"The Yellow Wallpaper" is a 6,000-word short story by American writer Charlotte Perkins Gilman, first published in January 1892 in New England Magazine. It is regarded as an important early work of American feminist literature, illustrating attitudes in the 19th century toward women's physical...

*This Book is annotated (it contains a detailed biography of the author). *An active Table of Contents has been added by the publisher for a better customer experience. *This book has been checked and corrected for spelling errors. In this probing critique of "androcentric culture,"...

Royal friend. Abandoned brother. Aspiring architect.All Noah has ever wanted is to stand out on his own, and shed the stigma of being a “royal hanger-on”. He doesn’t care about royal titles, or money, and he’s tired of people only using him for who he knows. Love isn’t an option for him,...

Ten years, ten authors, ten critics. The Canadian Literature Centre/Centre de littérature canadienne reaches into its ten-year archive of Brown Bag Lunch readings to sample some of the most diverse and powerful voices in contemporary Canadian literature. This anthology offers readers samples from...

A chance meeting on a dark deserted stretch of highway leads to a strange but familiar love affair.

As a child, I would spend hours listening to my Grandad, or some other gentleman, tell outdoor stories. Many of these tales would have me literally rolling on the floor. As I grew older, I began to enjoy telling my own stories. Most of the stories I write contain a large percentage of truth. Growing...

He buried a secret for thirty years until he thought he had found someone to trust. But when the friend turned their back, and the system that was supposed to help failed him, he decided that enough was enough.

A handbook for writers. Intended for self-help and classroom use, it contains chapters on the paragraph, the sentence, diction, the writing as a whole, and style, with exercises at the end of each chapter. Intended primarily to clarify the writing of essays, memoirs, and other forms of non-fiction, it also provides suggestions for improving fictional style.

Cruising on the Holland American ship Prinsendam from England to Denmark,East Germany,Estonia, Russia, Finland, Sweden, Holland, France, Guernsey and Spain. Highlights include the Carnac Megoliths, The Peterhof in St. Petersburg, La Coruña and Bilbao in Spain, the glorious landscape and sad WWII history of Guernsey, the Delft tile works, and the Chocolate Museum in Belgium.

Father. Brother. Ex-husband.Keir Martin is starting his life over in Las Vegas, but he’s not alone. His sons are with him, and they’re what’s important. After his ex-wife left all of them, he can’t even begin to think about bringing another woman into their lives, but then he meets...

Poems and rhythmic prose, each of these reflections tell a story about love, life, joy, happiness, fact. fiction, depression, and inspiration. Some are serious, some are just for fun, some rhyme, some don't, but they are from my creative heart.

She’s always been one of the guys. Ainsley Martin grew up beating boys at sports, and resigned herself to the fate of always being a girl friend, and not a girlfriend. Transforming from a jock to a computer nerd didn’t help her win guys, but it did get her a job with the Corrigan &...

• Discover the thoughts, history, and customs of the Shuar of the Amazon, as told in their own words. • Tribe members explain their practices of shapeshifting and headhunting; the interdependence of humans and the environment; the role of ecstatic sex; their belief in war as a path to peace;...

Again I have found poetic gems on the sands of my life, strewn on the beach, brought in by the tide. They seem to find me as if by magic. More poems of love, joy, fact, fiction, and inspiration. Stories of romance and tragedy, war and peace, and father and motherhood. All born from my overactive imagination,...