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Dignity." </p><h3>From Publishers Weekly</h3><p>America's most popular author is arguably its most popular crusader as well, tilting his pen against myriad targets, including big law (The Firm, etc.), big tobacco (The Runaway Jury), big insurance (The Rainmaker) and now, in perhaps his sweetest, shortest novel, against anyone, big or little, who treats the homeless as less than human. The expected powerhouse opening involves the hostage-taking?by an armed, homeless man who calls himself Mister?of nine attorneys of a huge law firm headquartered in D.C. Among the nine is narrator Michael Brock, an antitrust lawyer who receives a faceful of blood when a police sniper blows away Mister's head. "I'm alive! I'm alive," Michael cries like Ebenezer Scrooge, but, like Scrooge, this greedy hotshot is ripe for a moral awakening. 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He observes the hilarious complaints that overworked monks, their hands cramped from writing, sometimes added to the margins of the texts they were copying:<br /></p><p>'The parchment is hairy'; 'Thin ink, bad parchment, difficult text'; 'Thank God, it will soon be dark'; 'Now I’ve written the whole thing. For Christ’s sake give me a drink.'<br /></p><p><em>On the Nature of Things</em> was filled with, to Christian eyes, scandalous ideas. It argues eloquently, Mr. Greenblatt writes, that 'there is no master plan, no divine architect, no intelligent design.' 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And the further you read, the more astonishing it becomes. It's a chapter in how we became what we are, how we arrived at the worldview of the present. No one can tell the whole story, but Greenblatt seizes on a crucial pivot, a moment of recovery, of transmission, as amazing as anything in fiction.” (<em>Philadelphia Inquirer</em> )<br /></p><p>“In <em>The Swerve</em>, the literary historian Stephen Greenblatt investigates why [Lucretius' ] book nearly dies, how it was saved and what its rescue means to us.” (Sarah Bakewell - <em>New York Times Book Reivew</em> ) </p><h3>About the Author</h3><p><strong>Stephen Greenblatt </strong>(Ph.D. Yale) is Cogan University Professor of the Humanities at Harvard University. Also General Editor of <em>The Norton Shakespeare</em>, he is the author of eleven books, including <em>The Swerve: How the World Became Modern; Shakespeare’s Freedom</em>; <em>Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare</em>; <em>Hamlet in Purgatory</em>; <em>Practicing New Historicism</em>; <em>Marvelous Possessions: The Wonder of the New World</em>; and <em>Learning to Curse: Essays in Early Modern Culture</em>. He has edited seven collections of criticism, including <em>Cultural Mobility: A Manifesto</em>, and is a founding coeditor of the journal <em>Representations</em>. His honors include the MLA’s James Russell Lowell Prize for <em>Shakespearean Negotiations: The Circulation of Social Energy in Renaissance England</em>, the Distinguished Humanist Award from the Mellon Foundation, the Wilbur Cross Medal from the Yale University Graduate School, the William Shakespeare Award for Classical Theatre, the Erasmus Institute Prize, two Guggenheim Fellowships, and the Distinguished Teaching Award from the University of California, Berkeley. He was president of the Modern Language Association of America and is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Philosophical Society, and the American Academy of Arts and Letters.<br /></p><

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Terry Goodkind

The Sword of the Truth, Book 00 - Debt of Bones

SUMMARY: A milestone of storytelling set in the world of The Sword of Truth, Debt of Bones is the story of young Abby's struggle to win the aid of the wizard Zedd Zorander, the most important man alive.Abby is trapped, not only between both sides of the war, but in a mortal conflict between two powerful men. For Zedd, who commands power most men can only imagine, granting Abby's request would mean forsaking his sacred duty. With the storm of the final battle about to break, both Abby and Zedd are caught in a desperate fight to save the life of a child...but neither can escape the shadow of an ancient betrayal.With time running out, their only choice may be a debt of bones. The world-for Zedd, for Abby, for everyone-will never again be the same.Discover why millions of readers the world over have elevated Terry Goodkind to the ranks of legend.<

Terry Goodkind

The Sword of the Truth, Book 02 - Stone of Tears

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