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(from the back cover) In "Between Literature and Science" Peter Swirski uses an interdisciplinary approach to examine the intellectual scope of Edgar Allan Poe and Stanislaw Lem. He shows that they propose far reaching hypotheses in aesthetics, epistemology, philosophy of science, and pragmatics, as well as cosmology, artificial intelligence, and futurology. Swirski argues that previous studies of Poe and Lem have misrepresented their artistic achievements by neglecting these broader philosophical and scientific ambitions. His analysis leads to bold arguments about the nature of literature and its relation to a broad range of other disciplines. "Breaking free of the duldrums of postmodernist thought, Swirski writes with directness and vigor, and gives new hope for the future of literary studies." Jerrold Levinson, University of Maryland. "A bold challenge to disciplinary narrowness... Between Literature and Science makes a significant contribution to Poe scholarship, Lem scholarship, literary theory, philosophy of literature, epistemology, and aesthetics... It stands out from the rank and file of academic books by virtue of the breadth and depth of the reading and thinking it exemplifies and conveys... Rarely have I been so enthusiastic about a book." Paisley Livingston, Department of Philosophy, University of Aarhus. "Peter Swirski, a brilliant literary critic and a superb translator, deserves wide recognition as a scholar in American and Polish literatures. His expertise and thoroughness as a researcher and translator warrant complete faith in his critical and scholarly work." Stanislaw Lem..
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When Chloe Fields's estranged father dies suddenly, she returns home-and finds herself in the presence of the one man she has never stopped loving..
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This engaging study of the detective story's arrival in Japan - and of the broader cross-cultural borrowing that accompanied it - argues for a reassessment of existing models of literary influence between "unequal" cultures. Because the detective story had no pre-existing native equivalent in Japan, the genre's formulaic structure acted as a distinctive cultural marker, making plain the process of its incorporation into late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Japanese letters. Mark Silver tells the story of Japan's adoption of this new Western literary form at a time when the nation was also remaking itself in the image of the Western powers. His account calls into question conventional notions of cultural domination and resistance, demonstrating the variety of possible modes for cultural borrowing, the surprising vagaries of inter-cultural transfer, and the power of the local contexts in which "imitation" occurs."Purloined Letters" considers a fascinating range of primary texts populated by wise judges, faceless corpses, wily confidence women, desperate blackmailers, a fetishist who secrets himself for days inside a leather armchair, and a host of other memorable figures. The work begins by analyzing Tokugawa courtroom narratives and early Meiji biographies of female criminals (dokufu-mono, or "poison-woman stories"), which dominated popular crime writing in Japan before the detective story's arrival. It then traces the mid-Meiji absorption of French, British, and American detective novels into Japanese literary culture through the quirky translations of muckraking journalist Kuroiwa Ruiko. Subsequent chapters take up a series of detective stories nostalgically set in the old city of Edo by Okamoto Kido (a Kabuki playwright inspired by Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes) and the erotic, grotesque, and macabre works of Edogawa Ranpo, whose pen-name punned on "Edgar Allan Poe.".
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The very best detective novels, including an anthology of Sherlock Holmes short stories, in one collection (with an active table of contents):

The Murders In The Rue Morgue, and
The Purloined Letter, by Edgar Allan Poe,
The Moonstone, by Wilkie Collins,
Mystery of the Hasty Arrow, by Anna Green,
The Riddle of the Frozen Flame, Thomas Hanshaw
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle,
The Clue of the Twisted Candle, by Edgar Wallace.
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Detective fiction is widely considered to have begun in 1841 with the publication of "The Murders in the Rue Morgue", a short story by Edgar Allan Poe featuring "the first fictional detective, the eccentric and brilliant Auguste Dupin. In this story Poe set up a plot formula that has been used by almost all murder mystery writers ever since. This is a collection of all three of Poe’s mystery stories including; “The Murders in the Rue Morgue” - “The Mystery Of Marie Roget” and “The Purloined Letter.” "If you like detective stories then this is a must read".
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C. Auguste Dupin, investigator extraordinaire, was the remarkable creation of Edgar Allan Poe. Written in the 1840s, Poe presented the acutely observant, shrewd but idiosyncratic character who, with his chronicler, provided the inspiration for the more famous Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson. Here are the three Dupin stories together on one AudioBook release..
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