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Four centuries after his death in 1616, Cervantes's great novel (the first novel), Don Quixote (1605, 1615), continues to fascinate readers and generate debate about key questions. Were the efforts of the deluded hidalgo and his corpulent squire to revive the lost age of chivalry intended simply to amuse? Or to be the vehicle for a sustained reflection on the acts of writing and reading, the state of Spanish society, the nature of reality itse...

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In autumn 1397, Viscount Ramon de Perellós left the papal palace in Avignon to travel to St Patrick's Purgatory, famous throughout Europe as a gateway to the next world. There, he spent twenty-four hours in an underground cavern, where he claimed to have travelled through the nine fields of Purgatory, accompanied by demons, before entering the Earthly Paradise and catching a glimpse of Heaven.

In 1960s New York, Walter Stackhouse is a successful architect married to the beautiful Clara who leads a seemingly perfect life. But his fascination with an unsolved murder leads him into a spiral of chaos as he is forced to play cat-and-mouse with a clever killer and an overambitious detective, while at the same time lusting after another woman.

Four centuries after his death in 1616, Cervantes's great novel (the first novel), Don Quixote (1605, 1615), continues to fascinate readers and generate debate about key questions. Were the efforts of the deluded hidalgo and his corpulent squire to revive the lost age of chivalry intended simply to amuse? Or to be the vehicle for a sustained reflection on the acts of writing and reading, the state of Spanish society, the nature of reality itse...

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A groundbreaking introduction to vectors, matrices, and least squares for engineering applications, offering a wealth of practical examples

Excerpt from Indian Local Names: With Their InterpretationAs the work progressed, however, my interest in the subject increased, and in order to avail myself of the very best authority on the subject in the Eng lish language, I even ordered for my library from England during the Civil War, when the rate of exchange was well nigh at its highest point.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. F...

Making Justice Our Business is the story of Darryl Hunt, and of those drawn to him who refused to give up on him, each other, and justice. Boyd tells the story of how one summer morning in 1985, an attractive, white newspaper editor named Deborah Sykes was raped, brutally stabbed, and murdered in a Southern town. A 911 caller gave a false name--Sammy Mitchell--and the investigation quickly focused on him and his friend, Darryl Hunt, a black ni...

Multi-Period Trading via Convex Optimization considers a basic model of multi-period trading, which can be used to evaluate the performance of a trading strategy. It describes a framework for single-period optimization, where the trades in each period are found by solving a convex optimization problem that trades ö expected return, risk, transaction cost and holding cost such as the borrowing cost for shorting assets. It then describes a multi...

Im New York der 1960er-Jahre ist Walter Stackhouse, erfolgreicher Architekt und Hobby-Krimiautor, schon seit längerer Zeit unglücklich mit seiner Frau Clara verheiratet. Deshalb genießt er auch die Aufmerksamkeit der charmanten Jazzsängerin Ellie, mit welcher er schon bald eine Affäre anfängt. Außerdem ist er fasziniert von der Geschichte eines Buchhändlers, der seine eigene Frau umgebracht haben soll. Da Walter von seiner Ehe erlöst werden wi...

This edited volume of fourteen specially commissioned essays written from a variety of critical perspectives by leading Cervantine scholars seeks to provide an overview of Cervantes's Novelas ejemplares which will be of interest to a broad academic readership.

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.