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Brendon Nicholls
Nadine Gordimer is one of the most important writers to emerge in the twentieth century. Her anti-Apartheid novel July’s People (1981) is a powerful example of resistance writing. This guide…
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Cengage Learning Gale
A Study Guide for Nadine Gordimer’s Once Upon a Time, excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Short Stories for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study…
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A Study Guide for Nadine Gordimer’s Town and Country Lovers, excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Short Stories for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study…
A Study Guide for Nadine Gordimer’s Train from Rhodesia, excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Short Stories for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions…
Maria-Luiza Caraivan
Nadine Gordimer and the Rhetoric of Otherness in Post-Apartheid South Africa observes and examines several issues that are central to the South African writer’s works: the uniqueness of terror in…
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A Study Guide for Nadine Gordimer’s Good Climate, Friendly Inhabitants, excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Short Stories for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study…
Louise Yelin
Situated at the intersection of the colonial and the post-colonial, the modern and the postmodern, the novelists Christina Stead, Doris Lessing and Nadine Gordimer all bear witness to the 20th…
Ruth Weiss
A child of a Jewish family fleeing Nazi-Germany and settling in apartheid South Africa in the 1930s, Ruth Weiss’ journalistic career starts in Johannesburg of the 1950s. In 1968 banned…
Joseph Conrad
Wanting nothing but the best for his beloved daughter, Nina, Kasper Almayer strives for fortune while inadvertently causing his own collapse with greed.
Joseph Roth
Incomparably Roth’s greatest novel … the great poem of elegy to Habsburg Austria. -J. M. Coetzee, The New York Review of Books
Joya Uraizee
Surveys the works of three important female writers of postcolonial societies.
Christopher Hitchens
The opening of the Acropolis Museum in Athens in spring 2008 provides the opportunity to re-state the case for the return of the Elgin Marbles to Athens. This title makes…
Why the British Museum should hand back the Elgin Marbles
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Naguib Mahfouz
From Nobel laureate Mahfouz, these three magnificent novels, published in one edition for the first time, form an ancient Egyptian counterpart to his famous Cairo Trilogy. Includes Khufu’s Wisdom, Rhadopis…
