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Critical theory emerged in the 1920s from the work of the Frankfurt School, the circle of German-Jewish academics who sought to diagnose—and, if at all possible, cure—the ills of society, particularly fascism and capitalism. In this book, Stephen Eric Bronner provides sketches of leading representatives of the critical tradition (such as George Lukács and Ernst Bloch, Theodor Adorno and Walter Benjamin, Herbert Marcuse and Jurgen Habermas) as well as many of its seminal texts and empirical investigations.

Every Sherlock Holmes story ever written — in one volume. This edition of The Complete Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle brings together all four novels and all fifty-six short stories in a single, carefully organized collection. From the first meeting at Bart's Hospital in A Study in Scarlet to the final bow in Shoscombe Old Place, every case, every deduction, every fog-drenched London street is here — the complete Sherlock Holmes series as Conan Doyle wrote it. But this is not just another reprint. WHAT MAKES THIS EDITION DIFFERENT Each of the nine books in the Sherlock Holmes...

The book that invented modern short fiction. Fifteen stories. One city. A new kind of literature. When James Joyce published Dubliners in 1914, after nine years of fighting with terrified publishers and threatened printers, English-language fiction changed permanently. The stories collected here — written between 1904 and 1907, when Joyce was in his early twenties — created the modern short story as we know it: stripped of plot machinery, oriented toward the epiphany, written in a prose of such restraint and precision that every word seems weighed against silence. There is nothing like ...

"Critical Mass" was first published in the August 1957 issue of Space Science Fiction Magazine. Sir Arthur C. Clarke (1917-2008) is regarded as one of the most-influential science fiction writers of all time. He was named a Grand Master by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, and was inducted into the Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame.

One hundred and seventy-eight stories, from the war-time nightmare that made his name to the last things he wrote before the illness took him — Boule de Suif, The Necklace, Mademoiselle Fifi, Miss Harriet, and stories most readers have never had the chance to find, all in the translation that introduced Maupassant to English readers at the start of the twentieth century. This is not a new translation. It is the historic anonymous American version, first published in 1903 and long in the public domain worldwide, corrected against a genuine problem: the source it was set from had drifted ...

This annotated edition of White Nights includes: • A critical study, "A Whole Moment of Happiness" • On the Dreamer — a life lived more in imagination than in fact • A full life of Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821–1881) • The complete novella in the classic Garnett translation • On the last lines everyone quotes, and what they cost "My God, a whole minute of bliss! Is that too little for the whole of a man's life?" For four white nights in St. Petersburg — those luminous northern nights when the sun barely sets and the city cannot quite sleep — a lonely young man who has never so ...

The detective who solved crimes not by reading clues but by reading souls. The most radical inversion of Sherlock Holmes ever written — and, a century later, still the strangest and most morally serious detective fiction in the English language. This Erato Press critical edition brings together four complete Father Brown collections with a critical essay that examines what Chesterton was actually doing: smuggling theology into the detective story and making it work. In 1910, G. K. Chesterton introduced a small, round-faced Catholic priest who carried a shabby umbrella and solved crimes by...

A woman starves herself quietly for a week in a snowbound cabin at Poker Flat, and the only line the story gives her death is a single sentence about the food she never touched. Forty-three words later she is gone. This happens twenty-seven times across the six works gathered here: Bret Harte grants an outcast — a gambler, a prostitute, a drunkard, a half-breed, a Chinese boy — one explicit moment of moral recognition, and twenty-one of the twenty-seven are dead before the story ends. The median distance from recognition to death is 499 words, and that distance barely moves whether the ...

The pursuit of the CCRN certification signifies a commitment to excellence in critical care nursing, a field demanding both profound knowledge and unwavering dedication. Recognizing the rigorous nature of this exam and the time constraints faced by busy professionals, Re-Wise Publishers presents "Revise CCRN: Short Study Notes," a focused and efficient guide designed to streamline your preparation and solidify your understanding of critical care principles. This book is born from a deep understanding of the challenges inherent in preparing for the CCRN exam. We know that effective learning ...

Brought to you by Penguin. This Penguin Classic is performed by Arinzé Kene, writer and performer of Olivier Award nominated Misty, and also known for his roles in Youngers, Informer and Eastenders. This definitive recording includes an Introduction by Gareth Stedman Jones. The Communist...

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The twelve stories that defined detective fiction — and that remain, a hundred and thirty years later, the standard against which every mystery short story is measured. This Erato Press critical edition reads The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes as the collection that did not merely popularise a character but invented a form. Published in The Strand Magazine between July 1891 and June 1892, the twelve Adventures transformed Holmes from a figure in two modestly successful novels into the most famous fictional character in the world. Each story delivered, within the discipline of a few ...

A lifelike dummy. A strange dinner party. A soul that won’t stay dead. When struggling actor/waiter Luke Barrett is assigned to serve a bizarre memorial dinner, he doesn’t expect the guest of honor to be a creepy carpool dummy—or for the night to follow him home. But soon, Luke begins blacking out. Seeing things. Becoming someone else. As his reality unravels, he realizes the dummy isn’t just a lifeless prop. It’s watching. Waiting. And it wants in. From bestselling author William Massa comes a chilling short story of possession and occult terrors. A quick read that can be read or...

Metaphysics is one of the traditional four main branches of philosophy, alongside ethics, logic and epistemology. It is also an area that continues to attract and hold a fascination for many people yet it is associated with being complex and abstract. For some it is associated with the mystical...

This annotated edition includes: • All seventy tales, arranged into five thematic books • The complete longer fiction, including The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym • A critical study, "Poe Against the Light: The Fiction" • A full life of Poe — and the enduring mystery of his death • The detective story at its origin: the complete Tales of Ratiocination Every story he wrote. The man who invented your nightmares — and, in the same imagination, the detective. Edgar Allan Poe wrote almost nothing long, and so, uniquely among the great writers, the whole of his fiction fits in a ...

He was dead. The public refused to accept it. Conan Doyle, who had killed his most famous creation with surgical precision at the Reichenbach Falls, was compelled by subscription losses, public mourning, and financial necessity to do the impossible: bring him back. This Erato Press critical edition reads The Return of Sherlock Holmes as the most morally complex and structurally daring collection in the canon — the work of a writer who resented his creation and, in his resentment, made it better. "The Adventure of the Empty House" opens in 1894 with Watson, still grieving, visiting the ...

A man confesses to a murder on a night train — and argues, with terrifying conviction, that he was right to commit it. The Kreutzer Sonata is Tolstoy's most scandalous work: banned by Russian censors on first publication in 1889, condemned from pulpits, and still, more than a century later, one of the most unsettling accounts of jealousy, marriage, and sexual disgust ever written. Pozdnyshev, acquitted of killing his wife, tells a stranger the entire story in a single unbroken night — and Tolstoy never quite tells us how far to trust him. This edition presents the complete novella in ...

Designed for C2 near-native learners, this e-book delivers a curated set of sophisticated American English short stories in a streamlined, story-only format. Each text features layered narratives, shifting perspectives, implied meanings, and rich cultural references—written in high-level yet contemporary General American English that remains readable and natural. Across informal, professional, and reflective situations, the stories model advanced collocations, natural phrasal verbs, figurative language, and precise register shifts so you can sharpen your sense of tone, style, and nuance. ...

A Magical Adventure That Makes Learning Irresistible! When a flying moose and a talking squirrel crash-land on their front steps, Imani, Tommy, and Maya are swept into their most unusual adventure yet! Rocky and Bullwinkle need help—someone has stolen the legendary Thinking Toilet, and without it, no one in the magical realms can solve problems anymore. Join three brave friends as they journey through Philosophy Forest where question-mark trees whisper mysteries, climb Monopoly Mountains with game-board peaks, splash through fizzy Carbonated Springs, and discover the Sanitation Station ...

The collection in which Sherlock Holmes is wrong, in which Sherlock Holmes is killed, and in which Arthur Conan Doyle tried to end the most successful franchise in Victorian publishing. He failed. This Erato Press critical edition reads The Memoirs as what they are: the most daring, the most uneven, and the most consequential volume in the Holmes canon. Published in The Strand Magazine between 1892 and 1893, the eleven stories of The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes chart Doyle's growing restlessness with the character who had made him famous. The collection opens with "Silver Blaze" — one of ...