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Cecil Dreeme
Cecil Dreemeis one of the queerest American novels of the 19th century. This edition, which includes a new introduction contextualizing the sexual history of the period and queer longings of the book, brings a rare, almost forgotten, sensational gothic novel set in New York's West Village back to light.
Published posthumously in 1861, the novel centers on Robert Byng, a young man who moves back to New York after traveling abroad and finds himself unmarried and underemployed, adrift in the heathenish dens of lower Manhattan. When he takes up rooms in \"Chrysalis College\"-a thinly veiled version of the 19th-century New York University building in Washington Square-he quickly finds himself infatuated with a young painter lodging there, named Cecil Dreeme. As their friendship grows and the novel unfolds against the backdrop of the bohemian West Village, Robert confesses that he \"loves Cecil with a love passing the love of women.\" Yet, there are dark forces at work in the form of the sinister and magnetic Densdeth, a charismatic figure of bad intention, who seeks to ensnare Robert for his own. Full of romantic entanglements, mistaken identity, blackmail, and the dramas of temptation and submission,Cecil Dreemeis a gothic novel at its finest. Poetically written-with flashes of Walt Whitman, Charles Dickens, and Oscar Wilde-Cecil Dreemeis an early example of that rare bird, a queer novel from the 19th century.
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The woman in the window
\"It isn't paranoia if it's really happening... Anna Fox lives alone -- a recluse in her New York City home, drinking too much wine, watching old movies... and spying on her neighbors. Then the Russells move next door: a father, a mother, their teenaged son. The perfect family. But when Anna sees something she shouldn't, her world begins to crumble -- and its shocking secrets are laid bare. What is real? What is imagined? Who is in danger? Who is in control? In this gripping Hitchcockian thriller, no one and nothing are what they seem.\"-- Provided by publisher
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The Spy
A year after his imitative first novel Precaution (1820)
enjoyed only modest success, James Fenimore Cooper penned The
Spy: A Tale of the Neutral Ground , a Revolutionary War
narrative initiating the American historical romance, a novel and a
genre that quickly put to rest the British critic Sydney Smith's
1820 quip, \"In the four corners of the globe, who reads an American
novel?\" Beginning with The Spy , everyone did. The novel
excited readers with the perilous adventures of the spy (Harvey
Birch, the Yankee peddler) and his contact Mr. Harper (George
Washington appearing incognito), both surfacing repeatedly in
various disguises and engaged in counterespionage (very clearly a
parallel to the John Andre and Benedict Arnold stories) with their
guerilla nemeses, the loyalist Cow-Boys and renegade Skinners.
The Spy revealed the clash of loyalties within families
between public and private duty to country and to self, and served
as a microcosm of the new American world, staged in the \"neutral
ground\" between opposing forces in Westchester, New York. William
Gilmore Simms, Cooper's admirer and imitator, declared \"The
publication of The Spy … was an event,\" while Boston's
North American Review agreed, \"the American Revolution is
an admirable basis, on which to found fictions of the highest order
of romantic interest.\" This fresh tale generated good American
press for the young Cooper, and so set the stage for Cooper's
career-long contributions to the development of the American novel.
The editors provide a historical introduction identifying Cooper's
sources, as well as detailed explanatory notes to enable readers
fully to appreciate the geographical and historical settings in the
novel. This scholarly edition, the eighteenth in \"The Writings of
James Fenimore Cooper,\" presents an accurate text drawing upon
eight texts, from the first edition (with two editorially revised
reprintings soon following to satisfy public demand) through the
heavily revised Bentley Standard Novels edition (1831) and the more
lightly revised Putnam Author's edition (1849). The editors provide
a full scholarly apparatus discussing their editorial choices, and
the edition has been approved by scholarly peers in the Committee
for Scholarly Editions of the Modern Language Association.
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Réanimation urbaine et pouvoir local
Cet ouvrage s’adresse aux étudiants, professeurs et chercheurs en aménagement, en urbanisme, en géographie, en sociologie, en science politique, en design de l’environnement, etc. Il intéressera aussi les professionnels et autres intervenants des affaires municipales, de l’aménagement urbain et du développement communautaire, de même que toute personne soucieuse du devenir des vieux quartiers.
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The affairs of the falcâons : a novel
Ana Falcâon, along with her husband Lucho and their two young children, has fled the economic and political strife of Peru for a chance at a new life in New York City in the 1990s. Being undocumented, however, has significantly curtailed the family's opportunities: Ana is indebted to a loan shark who calls herself Mama, and is stretched thin by unceasing shifts at her factory job. To make matters worse, Ana must also battle both criticism from Lucho's cousin--who has made it obvious the family is not welcome to stay in her spare room for much longer--and escalating and unwanted attention from Mama's husband.
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The Chainbearer
Cooper's The Chainbearer presents an exciting narrative that interrogates issues of what it means to own land. The novel examines the claims of ownership of wilderness land among Native Americans, New England squatters, and the old New York families with legal deeds.
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Les attentats du 11 septembre 2001, le traumatisme de toute une nation (Grands Événements)
Découvrez enfin tout ce qu'il faut savoir sur le 11 septembre en moins d'une heure! Le 11 septembre 2001, le monde entier est sous le choc: deux avions viennent de s'écraser sur les tours du World Trade Center, à New York, entraînant la mort de près de 3 000 personnes. Quelques minutes plus tard, un troisième s'écrase contre le Pentagone. Pour les États-Unis, le réveil est brutal: jamais le territoire américain n'avait été attaqué avec une telle violence. Pour George W. Bush, une chose est claire: ce crime ne restera pas impuni. La guerre contre le terrorisme vient tout juste de commencer. Ce livre vous permettra d'en savoir plus sur: • Le contexte politique et social de l'époque • Les acteurs majeurs qui ont pris part à l'événement • Le déroulement des attentats • Les répercussions des attaques Le mot de l'éditeur: « Dans ce numéro de la collection « 50MINUTES | Grands Événements », Quentin Convard nous fait découvrir les dessous de cette journée qui a fait entrer de plain-pied les États-Unis dans le XXIe siècle. Si un attentat avait déjà eu lieu en 1993 dans les tours jumelles, l'horreur vécu le 11 septembre 2001 est inqualifiable et surprend tout le monde. Sans entrer dans la polémique, l'auteur nous présente le déroulement de la journée et met en lumière certains éléments troublants. » Stéphanie Dagrain À PROPOS DE LA SÉRIE 50MINUTES | Grands Événements La série « Grands Événements » de la collection « 50MINUTES » aborde plus de cinquante faits qui ont bouleversé notre histoire. Chaque livre a été pensé pour les lecteurs curieux qui veulent tout savoir sur un sujet précis, tout en allant à l'essentiel, et ce en moins d'une heure. Nos auteurs combinent les faits, les analyses et les nouvelles perspectives pour rendre accessibles des siècles d'histoire.
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