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The Ancient

The Ancient

Muriel Gray

They should have paid more attention to the trash. With its powerful blend of superb characterisation and demonic horror, Muriel Gray's new novel is her best yet.
Abstract Expressionism and Other Modern Works: The Muriel ...

Abstract Expressionism and Other Modern Works: The Muriel ...

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The Muriel Kallis Steinberg Newman Collection in the Metropolitan Museum of Art Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.) Gary Tinterow, Lisa Mintz Messinger, Nan Rosenthal. Abstract Expressionism and Other Modern Works The Muriel ...
These Times, This Place

These Times, This Place

Muriel Gray

We need good writers to tackle hard topics. Maternity pay, public transport, gap year students, poor housing - things that matter to us all. Muriel Gray tells us why they do, and what needs to be done.
Miss Muriel and Other Stories

Miss Muriel and Other Stories

Ann Petry

Acclaimed author Ann Petry penned these and the other unforgettable narratives in Miss Muriel and Other Stories more than seventy years ago, yet in them contemporary readers recognize characters who exist today and dilemmas that recur again ...
Tiny Island

Tiny Island

Michael Hollinger

Just what I said. MURIEL. (Beat.) You mean Gloria Blakely's parry? (Beat. Hazel looks at her, then returns to work.) HAZEL. That's right, "Gloria Blakely's party." MURIEL. You're still angry about me and Norm — HAZEL. Is that what you think?
The Trickster

The Trickster

Muriel Gray

He is a shape-shifter. He is as old as time. He kills without mercy.
The Ancient

The Ancient

Muriel Gray

Amongst towering mountains of trash in the backstreets of Lima, three young boys are trying to raise a demon.
Furnace

Furnace

Muriel Gray

From the author of The Trickster, an unnerving tale of latterday alchemy and the horrors brooding beneath the placid surface of life in one small town in America.
Navelbine® and Taxotère®: Histories of Sciences

Navelbine® and Taxotère®: Histories of Sciences

Muriel Le Roux

By recounting this history, the authors of this book attempt to illustrate how the work of themselves and others, united in a community, has helped obtain these results.
Savage Coast

Savage Coast

Muriel Rukeyser

“Monika Zgustova's concerns areclosetomy own:the fate of the individualin the hands of totalitarianism. She is an outstanding writer, whose fiction invokes thepolitics and cultureof people throughout history.” —Vaclav Havel “Three centuries, ...
New Perspectives on Detective Fiction: Mystery Magnified

New Perspectives on Detective Fiction: Mystery Magnified

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Jerry Speir, Raymond Chandler (New York: Frederick Ungar Publishing, 1981), 55–56. When we consider the parallels between Muriel's and Degarmo's bodies, Marlowe's description of the body in the lake appears less misogynistic than ...
Up and Down the Cline--the Nature of Grammaticalization

Up and Down the Cline--the Nature of Grammaticalization

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Olga Fischer, Muriel Norde, and Harry Perridon University of Amsterdam 1. Introduction During the past two decades, the revived interest in grammaticalization phenomena has firmly established itself as one of the most flourishing branches of ...
Cabins in the Laurel

Cabins in the Laurel

Muriel Earley Sheppard

Two hundred feet below under the shade of a pine tree a log cabin snuggles into a laurel thicket. Another perches on a knoll out beyond. The whole panorama of the tangled road through the foothills lies knotted below. On the green slopes ...
Shakespeare in His Context: The Constellated Globe

Shakespeare in His Context: The Constellated Globe

Muriel Clara Bradbrook

'As we expect from Bradbrook, always a pleasantly readable scholar, these papers consistently convey rich, penetrating, informative, durable perspectives on Shakespeare and the English Renaissance.
The Generation of Postmemory: Writing and Visual Culture ...

The Generation of Postmemory: Writing and Visual Culture ...

Marianne Hirsch

The book's chapters, two of which were written collaboratively with the historian Leo Spitzer, engage the work of postgeneration artists and writers such as Art Spiegelman, W.G. Sebald, Eva Hoffman, Tatana Kellner, Muriel Hasbun, Anne ...
The Generation of Postmemory: Writing and Visual Culture ...

The Generation of Postmemory: Writing and Visual Culture ...

Marianne Hirsch

The book’s chapters, two of which were written collaboratively with the historian Leo Spitzer, engage the work of postgeneration artists and writers such as Art Spiegelman, W.G. Sebald, Eva Hoffman, Tatana Kellner, Muriel Hasbun, Anne ...

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