Author: Nadine Gordimer
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Keywords: stories, loot
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2003-04-02
List price: $23.00
ISBN-10: 0374190909
ISBN-13: 9780374190903

Masterly new fiction from the recipient of the Nobel Prize in LiteratureA startling new work: ten fictions, each a revelation of our interior lives, each entering unforeseen contexts of our contemporary world. In the title story, an earthquake exposes both an ocean bed strewn with treasure among the dead and the avarice of the town’s survivors. In "The Diamond Mine," a woman recalls her youthful surreptitious sexual initiation, while she and her parents chauffeured a young soldier to his wartime embarkation. The anopleles mosquito brings death to the saunas and other playgrounds of the d

Author: S. I. Trevisanato
Publisher: Gorgias Press LLC
Keywords: loot, bible, science, history, egypt, archaeology, plagues
Number of Pages: 212
Published: 2005-08-24
List price: $38.00
ISBN-10: 1593332343
ISBN-13: 9781593332341

In The Plagues of Egypt, molecular biologist Siro Trevisanato assembles data gleaned from a variety of ancient texts and a wide range of scientific disciplines to assist in a reconsideration of the ten biblical plagues recorded in the Biblical book of Exodus. Trevisanato’s reconstruction presents a view of these events that argues for their historical reality, identifying the series of disasters which befell Egypt as a chain reaction traceable to a single cataclysmic event which for the first time can be dated with certainty.

Authors:Matthew Joseph Bruccoli, Park Bucker, Park Bucker, Ma
Publisher: University of South Carolina Press
Keywords: maxwell, perkins, correspondence, wolfe, thomas, life, clean, loot
Number of Pages: 330
Published: 2000-10
List price: $39.95
ISBN-10: 1570033552
ISBN-13: 9781570033551

The relationship between Thomas Wolfe and his editor, Maxwell Perkins has been the subject of guesswork and anecdote for 70 years. Scholars have debated Wolfe’s dependence on his editor. This volume of 251 letters should clarify the relationship and set the record straight.