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LETTERS · BRITISH LITERATURE · BIOGRAPHY · LITERATURE The Collected Letters of George Gissing Volume 1 1863–1880 By George Gissing Edited by Paul F. Mattheisen, Arthur C. Young, and Pierre Coustillas For many years, the only Gissing letters available to the public were those in the modest selection of letters to his family published in 1927. In the following years a good number were published separately in such places as journals, memoirs, and sales catalogues, but like the single and small groups of unpublished letters scattered in libraries around the world, they remained in practical terms inaccessible. LETTERS · BRITISH LITERATURE · BIOGRAPHY · LITERATURE The Collected Letters of George Gissing Volume 7 1897–1899 By George Gissing Edited by Paul F. Mattheisen, Arthur C. Young, and Pierre Coustillas Gissing’s career, which spanned the period of about 1877 to his death in 1903, was characterized by prodigious output (almost a novel a year in the early days), modest recognition, and modest income. He wrote of poverty, socialism, class differences, social reform, and later on, about the problems of women and industrialization. LETTERS · BRITISH LITERATURE · BIOGRAPHY · LITERATURE The Collected Letters of George Gissing Volume 2 1881–1885 By George Gissing Edited by Paul F. Mattheisen, Arthur C. Young, and Pierre Coustillas For many years, the only Gissing letters available to the public were those in the modest selection of letters to his family published in 1927. In the following years a good number were published separately in such places as journals, memoirs, and sales catalogues, but like the single and small groups of unpublished letters scattered in libraries around the world, they remained in practical terms inaccessible. LETTERS · BRITISH LITERATURE · BIOGRAPHY · LITERATURE The Collected Letters of George Gissing Volume 8 1900–1902 By George Gissing Edited by Paul F. Mattheisen, Arthur C. Young, and Pierre Coustillas For many years, the only Gissing letters available to the public were those in the modest selection of letters to his family published in 1927. In the following years a good number were published separately in such places as journals, memoirs, and sales catalogues, but like the single and small groups of unpublished letters scattered in libraries around the world, they remained in practical terms inaccessible. LETTERS · BRITISH LITERATURE · LITERATURE · UNITED KINGDOM The Collected Letters of George Gissing Volume 3 1886–1888 By George Gissing Edited by Paul F. Mattheisen, Arthur C. Young, and Pierre Coustillas For many years, the only Gissing letters available to the public were those in the modest selection of letters to his family published in 1927. In the following years a good number were published separately in such places as journals, memoirs, and sales catalogues, but like the single and small groups of unpublished letters scattered in libraries around the world, they remained in practical terms inaccessible. LETTERS · BRITISH LITERATURE · BIOGRAPHY · LITERATURE The Collected Letters of George Gissing Volume 4 1889–1891 By George Gissing Edited by Paul F. Mattheisen, Arthur C. Young, and Pierre Coustillas Gissing’s career, which spanned the period of about 1877 to his death in 1903, was characterized by prodigious output (almost a novel a year in the early days), modest recognition, and modest income. He wrote of poverty, socialism, class differences, social reform, and later on, about the problems of women and industrialization. LETTERS · BRITISH LITERATURE · LITERATURE · UNITED KINGDOM The Collected Letters of George Gissing Volume 5 1892-1895 By George Gissing Edited by Paul F. Mattheisen, Arthur C. Young, and Pierre Coustillas Gissing’s career, which spanned the period of about 1877 to his death in 1903, was characterized by prodigious output (almost a novel a year in the early days), modest recognition, and modest income. He wrote of poverty, socialism, class differences, social reform, and later on, about the problems of women and industrialization. LETTERS · BRITISH LITERATURE · LITERATURE The Freethinker’s Daughter A Novel By Jenny O'Neill Set in 1833 Lexington, Kentucky, this historical coming-of-age novel for young readers features resonant themes and topics—slavery, abolition, racism, prejudice, class consciousness, a devastating epidemic, and deep personal loss—as its thirteen-year-old white female narrator fights injustice and uncertainty with integrity, love, and hope. JUVENILE FICTION | SOCIAL THEMES | ADOLESCENCE & COMING OF AGE · JUVENILE FICTION | HISTORICAL | UNITED STATES | 19TH CENTURY · JUVENILE FICTION | SOCIAL THEMES | PREJUDICE & RACISM · KENTUCKY · LITERATURE · YOUNG READERS Terra Incognita Poems By Sara Henning This poignant collection of masterful elegies centers on the revelatory ways in which the speaker reconciles love, loss, and grief’s legacy. Following her mother’s battle with colon cancer and her own crisis of meaning, Henning culminates the collection with her rediscovery of joy in life’s small moments. POETRY | SUBJECTS & THEMES | FAMILY · POETRY | SUBJECTS & THEMES | DEATH, GRIEF, LOSS · WOMEN POETS · LITERATURE AVAILABLE The Collected Letters of George Gissing Volume 9 1902–1903 By George Gissing Edited by Paul F. Mattheisen, Arthur C. Young, and Pierre Coustillas This ninth volume concludes the widely-acclaimed edition of The Collected Letters of George Gissing, which not only renders obsolete all other collections and selections of his letters, but also contains a considerable quantity of hitherto unpublished or inaccessible materials. LETTERS · BRITISH LITERATURE · LITERATURE · UNITED KINGDOM Rewriting Modernity Studies in Black South African Literary History By David Attwell Rewriting Modernity: Studies in Black South African Literary History connects the black literary archive in South Africa to international postcolonial studies via the theory of transculturation, a position adapted from the Cuban anthropologist Fernando Ortiz. LITERARY CRITICISM, AFRICA · SOUTH AFRICA · LITERATURE · AFRICAN STUDIES Bread of the Moment Poems By David Sanders David Sanders’s second book of poems mixes free and formal verse to search for wisdom in life’s quiet moments as well as in those jolting times when our fragility is most apparent. POETRY | AMERICAN · POETRY · OHIO AND REGIONAL · LITERATURE Secure the Shadow A Novel By Michael Henson Set in an unnamed midwestern city and told from multiple perspectives, Henson’s latest novel about addiction and the power of community offers an unseen portrait of the far-reaching and sometimes tragic effects of the 1990s drug crisis. FICTION | CITY LIFE · LITERATURE Bread of the Moment Poems By David Sanders David Sanders’s second book of poems mixes free and formal verse to search for wisdom in life’s quiet moments as well as in those jolting times when our fragility is most apparent. POETRY | AMERICAN · POETRY · OHIO AND REGIONAL · LITERATURE Secure the Shadow A Novel By Michael Henson Set in an unnamed midwestern city and told from multiple perspectives, Henson’s latest novel about addiction and the power of community offers an unseen portrait of the far-reaching and sometimes tragic effects of the 1990s drug crisis. FICTION | CITY LIFE · LITERATURE Fine Boys A Novel By Eghosa Imasuen Set in Nigeria during the pro-democracy movement and told from the perspective of an eighteen-year-old Gen-Xer, Ewaen, this coming-of-age novel examines the violent university confraternities during the mid-1990s. FICTION | WORLD LITERATURE | AFRICA | NIGERIA · LITERARY FICTION · NIGERIA · LITERATURE · AFRICAN STUDIES Allegiance Stories By Gurney Norman Spanning forty years of work, Allegiance is an autobiography told through stories—a rich personal journey into Norman’s life, place, and consciousness. In classic short stories, lyrical meditations, folktales, dreamscapes, and stream of consciousness writing, Norman imaginatively weaves together the threads of his life. SHORT STORIES (SINGLE AUTHOR) · APPALACHIA · LITERATURE Allegiance Stories By Gurney Norman Spanning forty years of work, Allegiance is an autobiography told through stories—a rich personal journey into Norman’s life, place, and consciousness. In classic short stories, lyrical meditations, folktales, dreamscapes, and stream of consciousness writing, Norman imaginatively weaves together the threads of his life. SHORT STORIES (SINGLE AUTHOR) · APPALACHIA · LITERATURE English Lit Poems By Bernard Clay Affrilachian Poet Bernard Clay narrates his West-Side Louisville upbringing and the complexities of Black Appalachian identity in this debut collection of poems compiled from more than twenty years of work. POETRY | AMERICAN | AFRICAN AMERICAN · APPALACHIAN STUDIES · POETRY | SUBJECTS & THEMES | PLACES · KENTUCKY · APPALACHIA · POETRY · LITERATURE House of Incest By Anaïs Nin Introduction by Allison Pease Foreword by Gunther Stuhlmann Originally published in 1936,  House of Incest  is Anaïs Nin’s first work of fiction. Based on Nin’s dreams, the novel is a surrealistic look within the narrator’s subconscious as she attempts to distance herself from a series of all-consuming and often taboo desires. FICTION | PSYCHOLOGICAL · AMERICAN LITERATURE · LITERATURE · ANAÏS NIN Weedeater An Illustrated Novel By Robert Gipe Weedeater picks up six years after the end of Robert Gipe’s first novel, Trampoline, and continues the story of the people of Canard County, Kentucky, living through the last hurrah of the coal industry and battling with opioid abuse. The events it chronicles are frantic, but its voice is filled with humor and grace. FICTION | SMALL TOWN & RURAL · COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS | LITERARY · FICTION · APPALACHIA · LITERATURE Sherwood Anderson’s Winesburg, Ohio With Variant Readings and Annotations By Sherwood Anderson Edited by Ray Lewis White In 1919 a middle-aged Chicago ad man facing professional and personal crises published a modest book of stories intended to “reform” American literature. Against all expectations, it achieved what its author, Sherwood Anderson, intended: after Winesburg, Ohio, American literature would be written and read freshly and differently. FICTION | SMALL TOWN & RURAL · SHORT STORIES (SINGLE AUTHOR) · OHIO · MIDWEST · LITERATURE Good-bye, Son and Other Stories By Janet Lewis Lewis’ only collection of short fiction was first published in 1946, but remains as quietly haunting today as it was then. Set in small communities of the upper Midwest and northern California in the ’30s and ’40s, these midcentury gems focus on the quiet cycles connecting youth and age, despair and hope, life and death. LITERARY FICTION · SHORT STORIES (SINGLE AUTHOR) · AMERICAN LITERATURE · WOMEN AUTHORS · LITERATURE Not Out of Hate A Novel of Burma By Ma Ma Lay Edited by William H. Frederick Translation by Margaret Aung-Thwin Introduction by Anna Allott Afterword by Robert E. Vore Ma Ma Lay’s 1955 novel of the marriage between a rural teenager to a powerful Anglophile twenty years her senior, set in prewar Burma, is an engaging drama, finely observed work of social realism, and stirring rejection of Western cultural dominance by Burma’s foremost female author and one of its preeminent voices for change. 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