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Umbertina: A Novel

Umbertina: A Novel

Helena Barolini

Quintessential immigrant narrative and acknowledged contemporary classic of Italian-American women's literature.
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Helen Barolini

The many lovers of Umbertina and Barolini's other works will be enthralled by this riveting novel."—Sandra (Mortola) Gilbert
More Italian Hours, and Other Stories

More Italian Hours, and Other Stories

Helen Barolini

These stories captured my attention from the beginning to the end. Barolini's telling details create the characters so vividly that I felt I could almost touch them.
Chiaroscuro: Essays of Identity

Chiaroscuro: Essays of Identity

Helen Barolini

Included in Chiaroscuro is an updated re-introduction to Barolini's American Book Award-winning collection, The Dream Book: An Anthology of Writings by Italian-American Women.
Aldus & His Dream Book: An Illustrated Essay

Aldus & His Dream Book: An Illustrated Essay

Helen Barolini

"In this marvelous, learned, and friendly volume, Helen Barolini traces the contours of his career and reveals Aldus and the Aldine press in historical and cultural context; she admirably conveys the magic of an age in which the book as we ...
Religious Change and Indigenous Peoples: The Making of ...

Religious Change and Indigenous Peoples: The Making of ...

Dr Helena Onnudottir

The Making of Religious Identities Dr Helena Onnudottir, Professor Adam Possamai, Professor Bryan S Turner. ©Helena Onnudottir, Adam Possamai andBryan S. Turner 2013 All rightsreserved. Nopartof thispublication maybe reproduced, ...
Priam's Lens

Priam's Lens

Jack L. Chalker

There was one chance to stop them. Helena, one of the Titan-dominated planets, concealed an untapped, hundred-year-old weapon - Priam's Lens. Getting to Helena would not be difficult, but activating the lens was another matter.
Jane Austen, the Secret Radical

Jane Austen, the Secret Radical

Helena Kelly

In her first, brilliantly original book, Austen expert Helena Kelly introduces the reader to a passionate woman living in an age of revolution; to a writer who used what was regarded as the lightest of literary genres, the novel, to grapple ...
Anarchist Voices: An Oral History of Anarchism in America

Anarchist Voices: An Oral History of Anarchism in America

Paul Avrich

His lover, Helena Born, was close to Miriam Daniell, both from Bristol, both contributors to Liberty. Helena (I'm named after her) died of cancer in 1901, having turned Father over to Helen Tufts. Father was later active in the Ethical Society.
Jane Austen, the Secret Radical

Jane Austen, the Secret Radical

Helena Kelly

In this fascinating, revelatory work, Helena Kelly--dazzling Jane Austen authority--looks past the grand houses, the pretty young women, past the demure drawing room dramas and witty commentary on the narrow social worlds of her time that ...
The Routledge Encyclopedia of Walt Whitman

The Routledge Encyclopedia of Walt Whitman

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See also SPAIN AND SPANISH AMERICA, WHITMAN IN Born, Helena (1860- 1901) Helena Born moved with her friend Miriam Daniell from England to the Boston area in 1890. Born in Devonshire, England, Born moved with her parents to ...
The Ladies'' and Gentlemen''s Diary, Or, United States ...

The Ladies'' and Gentlemen''s Diary, Or, United States ...

Melatiah Nash

Melatiah Nash ... 25° 36'' W. of New-York. It will be central near Sunbury, a small seaport in Georgia, and central on the meridian, in lat. 13° 45'' N. and long. 25° 43 '' E. The centre will leave the globe in the ocean S. E. of St. Helena, near the African coast, in lat 2-9 33° S. and long. 81° 46'' E., and the entire penumbra go off a little W. of S. from St. Helena, in lat. 24°32'' S, and long. 65° 20'' E. - “At Charleston, South Carolina, the Eclipse will be 103 digits on the South limb, and at Havana, ...
The National Wildlife Federation's Wildlife Watcher's ...

The National Wildlife Federation's Wildlife Watcher's ...

Joe La Tourette

Seattle: Mountaineers Press. 194 pages. Duda, Mark Damian.1994. Virginia WildlifeViewing Guide. Helena, Mont.:Falcon Press. 95 pages. Fischer, Carol,and Hank Fischer. 1990. Montana Wildlife Viewing Guide. Helena, Mont.: Falcon Press.
A Circular Journey

A Circular Journey

Helen Barolini

A Circular Journey collects for the first time in one book the essays that most powerfully define the unique gifts of one of America's most distinctive voices.
Their Other Side: Six American Women and the Lure of Italy

Their Other Side: Six American Women and the Lure of Italy

Helen Barolini

Given a nature already prone to depression and the inroads that influenza could make into that already vulnerable state of mind, nothing is less surprising than that Constance Woolson's remedies for fending off depression could not, at last, ...
Love in the Middle Ages

Love in the Middle Ages

Helen Barolini

" in this second novel the author thoughtfully tackles the pain involved when loving together and living together turn out to be irreconcilable."-New York Times “A warm story, a very readable book.”—Christian Science Monitor
Festa: Recipes and Recollections of Italian Holidays

Festa: Recipes and Recollections of Italian Holidays

Helen Barolini

Festa is a year-long feast of memories and delicious, traditional Italian dishes from St. Nicholas sweetmeats in December and perciatelli with sardines and fennel for March s St. Joseph s Day, to figs with prosciutto for summer s Ferragosto ...