A Barthes Reader
10 best books like A Barthes Reader (Roland Barthes): Lud-in-the-Mist, Mason & Dixon, The Spiral Dance: A Rebirth of the Ancient Religion of the Great Goddess, Betrayal, The Vanishing People: Fairy Lore and Legends, Bluets, The Dictionary of Classical Mythology, Growing Up Queer in Australia, Kindred: 12 Queer #LoveOzYA Stories, Art Matters
| Author | Hope Mirrlees |
| ISBN | 1593600410 |
Lud-in-the-Mist, the capital city of the small country Dorimare, is a port at the confluence of two rivers, the Dapple and the Dawl. The Dapple has its origin beyond the Debatable Hills to the west of Lud-in-the-Mist, in Fairyland. In the days of Duke Aubrey, some centuries earlier, fairy things had...
| Author | Thomas Pynchon |
| ISBN | 0312423209 |
The New York Times Best Book of the Year, 1997
Time Magazine Best Book of the Year 1997
Charles Mason (1728-1786) and Jeremiah Dixon (1733-1779) were the British surveyors best remembered for running the boundary between Pennsylvania and Maryland that we know today as the Mason-Dixon...
The Spiral Dance: A Rebirth of the Ancient Religion of the Great Goddess
| Author | Starhawk |
| ISBN | 0062516329 |
The twentieth anniversary edition of The Spiral Dance celebrates the pivotal role the book has had in bringing Goddess worship to the religious forefront. This bestselling classic is both an unparalleled reference on the practices and philosophies of Witchcraft and a guide to the life-affirming...
| Author | Harold Pinter |
| ISBN | 0571160824 |
Betrayal is Pinter's latest full-length play since the enormous success of No Man's Land. The play begins in 1977, with a meeting between adulterous lovers, Emma and Jerry, two years after their affair has ended. During the nine scenes of the play, we move back in time, through the states of their affair,...
| Author | Katharine M. Briggs |
| ISBN | 0394502485 |
A book on the themes in northern European -- British, German, Scandinavian -- folklore, with some bits roving farther afield on some themes.
Each chapter has a theme -- passage of time in Fairy, slower or (less typically) faster -- the fairies' moral views (and double standards) on lying and...
| Author | Maggie Nelson |
| ISBN | 1933517409 |
Suppose I were to begin by saying that I had fallen in love with a color...
A lyrical, philosophical, and often explicit exploration of personal suffering and the limitations of vision and love, as refracted through the color blue. With Bluets, Maggie Nelson has entered the pantheon of brilliant...
| Author | J.E. Zimmerman |
| ISBN | 0553257765 |
"A knowledge of classical mythology is indispensable in understanding and appreciating much of the great literature, sculpture, and painting of both the ancients and the moderns. Unless we know the marvelous stories of the deities and heroes of the ancients, their great literature and art as much...
Growing Up Queer in Australia
| Author | Benjamin Law |
| ISBN | 1760640867 |
‘No amount of YouTube videos and queer think pieces prepared me for this moment.’
‘The mantle of “queer migrant” compelled me to keep going – to go further.’
‘I never “came out” to my parents. I felt I owed them no explanation.’
‘All I heard from the pulpit were...
Kindred: 12 Queer #LoveOzYA Stories
What does it mean to be queer? What does it mean to be human? In this powerful #OwnVoices collection, twelve of Australia’s finest queer writers explore the stories of family, friends, lovers and strangers – the connections that form us.
Compelling queer short fiction by bestsellers,...
Combining Neil Gaiman's extraordinary words with Chris Riddell's deft and striking illustrations, Art Matters will inspire its readers to seize the day in the name of art.
Neil Gaiman once said that 'the world always seems brighter when you've just made something that wasn't there before'....
