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The almost truth
When a teenaged con artist realizes that she looks like an age-enhanced photo of a missing child, she decides to pull the ultimate con--until she begins to suspect she may actually be the missing child.
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The Woman Priest
\"In providing a modern translation . . . Sheila Delany sheds light on a text that illustrates the complexity of Enlightenment attitudes toward religion.\" — Reading Religion
\"My God! Pardon me if I have dared to make sacred things serve a profane love; but it is you who have put passion into our hearts; they are not crimes—I feel this in the purity of my intentions.\" —Agatha, writing to Zoé
In pre-revolutionary Paris, a young woman falls for a handsome young priest. To be near him, she dresses as a man, enters his seminary, and is invited to become a fully ordained Catholic priest—a career forbidden to women then as now. Sylvain Maréchal's epistolary novella offers a biting rebuke to religious institutions and a hypocritical society; its views on love, marriage, class, and virtue remain relevant today. The book ends in La Nouvelle France, which became part of British-run Canada during Maréchal's lifetime. With thorough notes and introduction by Sheila Delany, this first translation of Maréchal's novella, La femme abbé, brings a little-known but revelatory text to the attention of readers interested in French history and literature, history of the novel, women's studies, and religious studies.
\"While the contents of The Woman Priest make for a good story (drag, drama, and death—what more can you ask for?), the astonishing complexity of the novella seems to lie not necessarily in the general plot line, but rather in the context in which the author wrote the book—as brilliantly explained in Delany's introduction to her translation.\" — Canadian Literature
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The woman priest : a translation of Sylvain Maréchal's novella, La femme abbé
\"In pre-revolutionary Paris, a young woman falls for a handsome young priest. To be near him, she dresses as a man, enters his seminary, and is invited to become a fully ordained Catholic priest, a career forbidden to women then as now. Sylvain Maréchal's epistolary novella offers a biting rebuke to religious institutions and a hypocritical society; its views on love, marriage, class, and virtue remain relevant today. The book ends in la Nouvelle France, which had become part of Canada during Maréchal's lifetime. With thorough notes and introduction by Sheila Delany, this first translation of Maréchal's novella, La femme abbé, brings a little-known but revelatory text to the attention of readers interested in French history and literature, history of the novel, women's studies, and religious studies.\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Uncovering Hidden Histories of Adapting Jane Austen
THE HIDDEN HISTORY OF JANE AUSTEN'S \"THE VOLUBLE LADY\" Most sources (including my own book) claim that dramatic adaptations of Austen's fiction began with Rosina Filippi's Duologues and Scenes from the Novels of Jane Austen, Arranged and Adapted for Drawing-Room Performance (Looser; Cano 15; Bolton; Gilson). Half-Hours appeared in serialized form, in weekly parts that could be bound together, then in multi-volume books. Thanks to its circulation in Knight's Half-Hours, this excerpt came to be valued as a stand-alone, broadly comic interlude, known by perhaps millions of readers. Copycat editors lifted Knight's selections wholesale in competing books, down to recycling his made-up title (Lindo; Major; Former; Gilbart 261).
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The great impersonation
\"The year is 1913. The disgraced and formerly penniless aristocrat Sir Everard Dominey returns from Africa a reformed and wealthy man, determined to take his place in society. But is he Sir Everard--or the German spy, Baron Leopold von Ragastein? Written by the \"Prince of Storytellers,\" this landmark spy novel's fast-moving plot teems with vivid characters that offer a compelling portrait of the English aristocracy before the Great War\"-- Provided by publisher.
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The Prince and the Pauper
Two boys are born on the same day in sixteenth-century England; one is a beggar, and the other is the Prince of Wales.Growing up, Tom Canty daydreams of hobnobbing with nobility, while Edward Tudor, son of King Henry VIII, longs for freedom beyond the castle walls.
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Godsend
\"Inspired by the story of John Walker Lindh, the \"American Taliban,\" Whiting Award winner John Wray explores the circumstances that could impel a young American to exchange identity, home, and to become an Islamist militant\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Literary Trespassing in Susan Abulhawa's Mornings in Jenin and Sayed Kashua's Second Person Singular
This article focuses on a rare leitmotif in literary productions by Palestinians. Both Susan Abulhawa's
and Sayed Kashua's
present Arab characters who, under unusual circumstances, impersonate or literally acquire the identity of the Israeli-Jewish other. In the fictional creations of Ismael/David and Amir/Yonatan, Abulhawa and Kashua, respectively, construe characters whose existence blurs the borderline between various versions of today's Palestinian Arab and mainstream projections of its Israeli-Jewish counterpart. These characters represent, as the article demonstrates, the authors' attempts to work out the implications of the idea that — as a result of the historical events of Israeli Independence and the consequent Palestinian Nakba — the collision of two national yearnings has created a liminal space in which both Israeli and Palestinian narratives gradually infiltrate one another, developing an inextricable and dynamic bond between the Palestinian identity and its counterpart.
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Love from the shadows
\"A beautiful waitress (Fritz, of course) and her hospital nurse brother (also Fritz) visit their estranged father, a once successful but now retired writer (amazingly enough, also Fritz), in order to find out the true reason why their mother committed suicide. When dad's health fails, the siblings are then more concerned with the money he might leave them.\"--Amazon.com.
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