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HarperCollins is proud to present a range of best-loved, essential classics. 'The reaches opened before us and closed behind, as if the forest had stepped leisurely across the water to bar the way for our return. We penetrated deeper and deeper into the heart of darkness.' At the peak of European Imperialism, steamboat captain Charles Marlow travels deep into the African Congo on his way to relieve the elusive Mr Kurtz, an ivory trader renowned for...
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Home Vision Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003]
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1 DVD (91 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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A sophisticated European brother and sister turn up unexpectedly on the doorstep of their staid American cousins. The fortune-hunting Eugenia and her high-spirited brother Felix turn this Puritan world upside down.
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Harper
Pub. Date
c2008
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xix, 458 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
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"George Balanchine, in collaboration with Stravinsky, famously created an Americanized version of Russian classical ballet. Kurt Weill, schooled in Berlin jazz, composed a Broadway opera. Rouben Mamoulian's revolutionary Broadway productions of Porgy and Bess and Oklahoma! drew upon Russian 'total theater.' An army of German filmmakers--among them F. W. Murnau, Fritz Lang, Ernst Lubitsch, and Billy Wilder--made Hollywood more edgy and cosmopolitan....
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Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2022.
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476 pages
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Rebels Against the Raj tells the story of seven people who chose to struggle for a country other than their own: foreigners to India who across the late 19th to late 20th century arrived to join the freedom movement fighting for independence from British colonial rule. Of the seven, four were British, two American, and one Irish. Four men, three women. Before and after being jailed or deported they did remarkable and pioneering work in a variety of...
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Heart of Darkness and Selected Short Fiction, by Joseph Conrad, 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...
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W.W. Norton & Co
Pub. Date
c2006
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xix, 514 p. : ill., 1 map ; 22 cm.
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The Fourth Edition is again based on Robert Kimbrough's meticulously re-edited text. Missing words have been restored and the entire novel has been re-punctuated in accordance with Conrad's style. The result is the first published version of Heart of Darkness that allows readers to hear Marlow's voice as Conrad heard it when he wrote the story. "Backgrounds and Contexts" provides readers with a generous collection of maps and photographs that bring...
8) Fitzcarraldo
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Anchor Bay Entertainment [distributor
Pub. Date
1999], c1982
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1 DVD (157 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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Story of a man obsessed with a dream to build his own personal opera house in a remote Peruvian town.
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Penguin
Pub. Date
2007
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xlviii, 136 p. : ill., map ; 20 cm.
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Marlow, a seaman and wanderer, recounts his physical and psychological journey in search of the infamous ivory trader Kurtz. Traveling up river to the heart of the African continent, he gradually becomes obsessed by this enigmatic, wraith-like figure. Marlow's discovery of how Kurtz has gained his position of power over the local people involves him in a radical questioning, not only of his own nature and values, but those of Western civilization....
10) The Chumash world at European contact: power, trade, and feasting among complex hunter-gatherers
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University of California Press
Pub. Date
c2008
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xiv, 361 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
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11) Pocahontas
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Walt Disney Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
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2 DVDs (84 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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Legendary tale of Native American Pocahontas and her unlikely romance with British Captain John Smith. Tenth Anniversary Edition includes: deleted scenes; The Making of Pocahontas; sing-along songs; and more.
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W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2014]
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283 pages ; cm
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Details the other revolutions during 1776, including the reaction of the native residents of San Francisco in the wake of the first European settlement there and the devastation of the Aleutian Islands by the Russians' hunt for sea otters.
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"In this stunning work of historical fiction, Laila Lalami brings us the imagined memoirs of the first black explorer of America -- a Moroccan slave whose testimony was left out of the official record. In 1527, the conquistador P?nfilo de Narv?ez sailed from the port of Sanl?car de Barrameda with a crew of six hundred men and nearly a hundred horses. His goal was to claim what is now the Gulf Coast of the United States for the Spanish crown and,...
15) Last Hope Island: Britain, occupied Europe, and the brotherhood that helped turn the tide of war
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Random House
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[2017]
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xviii, 553 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
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"When the Nazi Blitzkrieg subjugated Europe in World War II, London became the safe haven for the leaders of seven occupied countries--France, Belgium, Holland, Luxembourg, Norway, Czechoslovakia and Poland--who fled there to avoid imprisonment and set up governments in exile to commandeer their resistance efforts. The lone hold-out against Hitler's offensive, Britain became a beacon of hope to the rest of Europe, as prominent European leaders like...
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Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2012
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xxvii, 468 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
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This narrative history of China's nineteenth-century Taiping Rebellion (which cost some twenty million lives) brims with unforgettable characters and vivid re-creations of massive and sometimes gruesome battles--a riveting, both sweeping and intimate portrait of the largest civil war in history.
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The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
2022.
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xvi, 303 pages : illustrations, map ; 25 cm.
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In 1739 Bordeaux's Royal Academy of Sciences held an essay contest seeking answers to a pressing question: What was the cause of Africans' black skin? Published here for the first time and translated into English, these early documents of scientific racism lay bare the Enlightenment origins of the phantom of racial hierarchy.
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Union Station Media
Pub. Date
c2007.
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1 DVD (105 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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Mexico, 1521. The Spanish army of Hernando Cortes has swept through the New World forcing their religious beliefs on the brave Aztec people. A skillful Aztec scribe, who survived the Massacre of the Temple in 1520, spends years trying to preserve the rites and customs of his people. The Spanish army would conquer their land, but not the soul of the Aztec people.
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