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The Stone and the Flute

7 best books like The Stone and the Flute (Hans Bemmann): The Privilege of the Sword, Swordspoint, The Vampire Armand, Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity, The Story of the Jews: Finding the Words, 1000 BCE – 1492 CE, The Earthsea Quartet, A Critique of Postcolonial Reason: Toward a History of the Vanishing Present

The Privilege of the Sword
AuthorEllen Kushner
ISBN0553382683
Welcome to Riverside, where the aristocratic and the ambitious battle for power in the city's ballroom, brothels and boudoirs. Into this alluring world walks Katherine, a well-bred country girl versed in the rules of conventional society. Her mistake is thinking that they apply. For Katherine's...
Swordspoint
AuthorEllen Kushner
ISBN0553585495
The classic forerunner to The Fall of the Kings now with three bonus stories.

Hailed by critics as "a bravura performance" (Locus) and "witty, sharp-eyed, [and] full of interesting people" (Newsday), this classic melodrama of manners, filled with remarkable plot twists and unexpected...
The Vampire Armand
AuthorAnne Rice
ISBN0345434803
In the latest installment of The Vampire Chronicles, Anne Rice summons up dazzling worlds to bring us the story of Armand - eternally young, with the face of a Botticelli angel. Armand, who first appeared in all his dark glory more than twenty years ago in the now-classic Interview with the Vampire, the...
Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity
AuthorJudith Butler
ISBN0415389550
Since its publication in 1990, Gender Trouble has become one of the key works of contemporary feminist theory, and an essential work for anyone interested in the study of gender, queer theory, or the politics of sexuality in culture. This is the text where Judith Butler began to advance the ideas that...
The Story of the Jews: Finding the Words, 1000 BCE – 1492 CE
AuthorSimon Schama
ISBN1847921329
It is a story like no other: an epic of endurance against destruction, of creativity in oppression, joy amidst grief, the affirmation of life against the steepest of odds. It spans the millennia and the continents - from India to Andalusia and from the bazaars of Cairo to the streets of Oxford. It takes...
The Earthsea Quartet
AuthorUrsula K. Le Guin
ISBN0140154272
If you're into stuff like this, you can read the full review.


RIP Ursula K. Le Guin, 1929 – 2018: The Earthsea Quartet (Earthsea Cycle, #1-4) by Ursula K. Le Guin



"To light a candle, is to cast a shadow": Ursula K. Le Guin, 1929 – 2018


Who now has the stature...
A Critique of Postcolonial Reason: Toward a History of the Vanishing Present
AuthorGayatri Chakravorty Spivak
ISBN0674177649
Are the "culture wars" over? When did they begin? What is their relationship to gender struggle and the dynamics of class? In her first full treatment of postcolonial studies, a field that she helped define, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, one of the world's foremost literary theorists, poses these questions...
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