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  • New Views on Old News
    Merritt Abrash
    The objective of the seven articles reprinted in New Views on Old News is to promote reconsideration of longstanding assumptions about a variety of significant creative works. The hope of author Merritt Abrash is that readers will find Thomas More’s Utopians, H.G.Wells’ time traveler, Karel Capek’s robots, Alfred Hitchcock’s birds, and the other subjects of the book, no longer ...
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    19,93 €

  • Fourteen Fraught Fables and One Debatable Day
    Merritt Abrash
    As suggested by the title Fourteen Fraught Fables and One Debatable Day, this book is composed of two independent parts. The fourteen fables are brief subjective tales, some which might be called surreal, others simply fantastic, but all of them bizarre products of a rare imagination. They take place in a world which seems at first very l...
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    15,46 €

  • Things in Heaven and Earth
    Merritt Abrash
    Floating bricks poetically changing color? The authentic deed to London’s St. Paul’s Cathedral for sale at a street market? A mini-nebula transported in a fish-and-chips bag? British Telephone’s most darling operator enmeshed in the Eternal Wheel’s inexorable circuit? All these and more events fill one week for Winslow, who descends each morning from the north balcony of Liverp...
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    23,02 €

  • Absurdist Angles on History
    Merritt Abrash
    The plays in Absurdist Angles on History: Three Plays look at absurdities of modern history from three different angles. How World War I Happened applies absurdist dramatic treatment to the outbreak of the war, an episode largely absurd to start with. The wishful thinking and frivolous motivations of the main actors are more effectively highlighted by absurdist exaggeration tha...
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    16,82 €

  • George Stubbs
    Merritt Abrash
    Thisbiography of George Stubbs, leading eighteenth century English animal painter, is "imagined", becausevirtually nothing is known ofhis character or private life. Historian Merritt Abrashhas combined his knowledge of eighteenth century Great Britain with the facts of Stubbs’ artistic career and theevidence of his paintings, in orderto create stories providing insights intothe...
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    17,04 €

  • Mindful of Utopia
    Merritt Abrash
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    31,93 €