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Fiction in the Archives: Pardon Tales and Their Tellers in Sixteenth-Century France
Fiction in the Archives: Pardon Tales and Their Tellers in Sixteenth-Century France
This book is an account of life and death in early modern France. It is an analysis of the crime stories which men and women told their judges in order to try to save themselves from the gallows. To receive a royal pardon for murder in 16th century France, a supplicant had to tell the king a story. Thousands of such stories are found in the French archives, providing evidence of the narrative skills and life conditions of peasants, artisans and the well-to-do. Many of the pardon tales are accoun
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Fiction 100: An Anthology of Short Fiction (13th Edition)
Fiction 100: An Anthology of Short Fiction (13th Edition)
For Introduction to the Short Story and Introduction to Fiction. A collection of carefully chosen, interesting stories with literary merit, the best-selling text-anthology Fiction 100 continues to offer instructors the flexibility to organize their courses in a format that best suits their pedagogical needs. Intended to ignite students’ curiosity, imagination, and intelligence, these selections represent a wide variety of subject matter, theme, literary technique, and style. International in
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Soul’s Road: A Fiction Collection
Soul’s Road: A Fiction Collection
Soul’s Road is a deeply beautiful collection of short stories by both recognized and new voices in contemporary fiction. There are names that you have read before and names that you will soon fall in love with. Each story is a work of truth, of art and of vast, uninhibited imagination. Stories range from explorations of love, identity and the meaning of family to fictionalized memoir that is both wonderfully touching and genuinely funny. From Ann Keeling’s “Singing of the Sun,” a deeply moving s
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