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James Ferguson

This comprehensive overview of William Faulkner's short fiction is a systematic study of this body of work, which Faulkner produced over a period of forty years. The author examines Faulkner's struggle to master the special problems posed by the genre. The book is organized topically. A chronological survey of Faulkner's career as a writer of short fiction is followed by chapters devoted to aspects of Faulkner's craft: thematic patterns, points of view, and other technical and formal patterns. The author offers a frank assessment of Faulkner's failures and successes as a writer of short fiction.

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Karl Kroeber

"Describing in detail precise differences between the psychological experience of reading a novel and watching a movie, Make Believe in Film and Fiction shows how movies' unique magnification of movements produces stories especially potent in exposing hypocrisy, the spread of criminality in contemporary society, and the relation of private experience to the natural environment. By contrasting novels with visual storytelling the book also displays how fiction facilitates sharing of subjective fantasies, frees the mind from limiting spatial and temporal preconceptions, and dramatizes the ethical significance of even trivial and commonplace behavior, while intensifying readers' awareness of how they think and feel."--Jacket.

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Joan Lingard

Sadie, a Protestant, and Kevin, a Catholic, are both attracted to and pitted against each other until a new eruption of violence in Belfast forces them to face the consequences of their behavior.

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Andrew Blencowe

"As a work of historical fiction, Andrew Blencowe's The Goddess of Fortune reveals the private foibles, quirks, and lusts of the famous (and often rich) of the period. Beautiful Louise, while only 24 years old, uses her intelligence, wiles, and body to dominate the so-called "stronger sex". The duplicity of Roosevelt and his so-called Brains Trust is exposed and the doubts of the urbane gentleman, Henry Morgenthau, are made clear. In words commonly attributed to Lenin--the best way to destroy the capitalist system is to debauch the currency--Kaito Sasaki of the Bank of Tokyo proves just that with his printing of U.S. 100 dollar bills. How could the end goals of the Axis come to fruition given these events? Goddess explores just how, and in doing so brings to light in imaginative prose the lives of historical figures we have only known from our history books." [back cover].