Category: Classics

This edition of Aphra Behn's Oroonoko features a generous selection of thematically organized historical materials including explorers' descriptions of the "new world" of the Caribbean; planters' accounts of the sugar colonies; firsthand accounts of the slave trade from Dutch and English traders and abducted Africans; and early abolitionist publications by Europeans and former slaves. Excerpts from works by Ben Jonson, John Dryden, Richard Steele, and Daniel Defoe enrich students' understanding of the literary contexts for Behn's portrayal of "blackness" in Oroonoko.
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Oroonoko (Norton Critical Editions)

By: Behn, Aphra

Price: $4.95

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company: January 1997

Seller ID: 352436

ISBN: 0393970140

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Acceptable

"Historical Backgrounds" is an especially rich collection of seventeenth-and eighteenth-century documents about colonizers and slaves in the new world. Topically arranged-"Montaigne on America," "The Settling of Surinam," "Observers of Slavery, 1654-1712," "After Oroonoko: Noble Africans in Europe," and "Opinions on Slavery"-these selections create a revealing context for Behn's unusual story. Illustrations and maps are also included.

"Criticism" begins with an overview of responses to Behn and Oroonoko, from learned and popular writers of her time to Sir Walter Scott...
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Oroonoko (Norton Critical Editions)

By: Behn, Aphra

Price: $5.95

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company: January 1997

Seller ID: 362194

ISBN: 0393970140

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Acceptable

Looking Backward 2000 1887

By: Bellamy, Edward

Price: $5.95

Publisher: WORLD PUBLISHING COMPANY: January 0001

Seller ID: 288004

ISBN: B001LIQBY4

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Looking Backward: 2000-1887

By: Bellamy, Edward

Price: $2.95

Publisher: Signet Classics: August 1960

Seller ID: 294914

ISBN: 0451524128

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Henderson the Rain King (Classic, 20th-Century, Penguin)

By: Bellow, Saul

Price: $5.95

Publisher: Penguin Classics: June 1996

Seller ID: 310454

ISBN: 0140189424

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Henderson has come to Africa on a spiritual safari, a quest for the truth. His feats of strength, his passion for life, and, most importantly, his inadvertant success in bringing rain have made him a god-like figure among the tribes.
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Humboldt's Gift

By: Bellow, Saul

Price: $4.95

Publisher: Avon Books: 1975

Seller ID: 316998

ISBN: 0143105477

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

"I think it A Work of genius, I think it The Work of a Genius, I think it brilliant, splendid, etc. If there is literature (and this proves there is) this is where it's at." -John Cheever

Saul Bellow's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel explores the long friendship between Charlie Citrine, a young man with an intense passion for literature, and the great poet Von Humboldt Dleisher. At the time of Humboldt's death, Charlie's life is falling apart: his career is at a standstill, and he's enmeshed in an acrimonious divorce, infatuated with a highly unsuitable young woman, and involved with a...
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