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Narrative of Sojourner Truth Book Cover
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Narrative of Sojourner Truth (Modern Library Torchbearers)

Sojourner Truth

  • Aug 1 - Aug 25
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The autobiography of a Black woman who defied nineteenth-century conventions to become a preacher, popular speaker, abolitionist, and women’s rights activist. 

Sojourner Truth was an incredible, remarkable, epoch-defying woman who escaped from slavery and successfully sued for her son’s freedom, in addition to her career as a wildly successful orator and activist—a woman alive to the hypocrisies of her age, and unafraid to talk about them.

Her autobiography, which she dictated, is an outstanding historical document. Truth’s tale sheds a light on realities of slavery that are still rarely that she was a slave in upstate New York, not on a Southern plantation; that Dutch was her first language; that the circumstances of her slavery isolated her from a broader Black community; that her experience of religion was a racially integrated one, and became the means of her independence. Ultimately, The Narrative of Sojourner Truth is the story of a great American that reveals aspects of slavery and free Black life that are too often overlooked.
  • History
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Queer Roman Verse: An Anthology

C. Luke Soucy (Translator)

  • Aug 19 - Sep 1
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A vital reclamation of queer themes in the poetry of ancient Rome from an electric new talent in classical translation.
Centuries after the fall of the Roman Empire, as new global empires sought to enshrine the art and literature of their ancient predecessor, some inconvenient truths were lost in translation. Queer love and desire—expressed freely and variously throughout Roman poetry, from the lyrics of Horace to the epics of Virgil and Ovid—had no lexicon in nineteenth-century English, whose classical revivalists passed down a canon shaped by Victorian ideals governing family, moral discipline, and public virtue. To English readers, the queer contours of Rome became disguised, distorted, or erased.

This landmark anthology, spanning four centuries and fourteen major poets, offers a long-overdue correction to the record. Vibrant, nimble meters by award-winning translator C.?Luke Soucy keep pace with Latin formulations, revealing a rich current of queer themes that have always been present in those great works of antiquity—and a powerful reminder that what has always been here has always been queer.
  • Classics
  • Poetry
At the Mountains of Madness: And Other Tales of Weird Science Book Cover
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At the Mountains of Madness: And Other Tales of Weird Science

H.P. Lovecraft

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A bone-chilling collection of H.P. Lovecraft’s hallucinatory visions of science, featuring the “exciting and definitive” (Danielle Trussoni) annotations of Leslie S. Klinger.
Presenting nine fantastical works by one of literature’s “most critically fascinating and yet enigmatic figures” (Alan Moore), At the Mountains of And Other Tales of Weird Science is an essential volume of H.P. Lovecraft’s most visionary science fiction. In “From Beyond,” a reckless experiment ruptures the thin membrane separating our world from one teeming with interdimensional lifeforms, while “The Shunned House” tells of the battle of a young man and his uncle against a monstrous presence buried within an abandoned dwelling. At the center of the collection is the novella “At the Mountains of Madness,” in which a team of Antarctic researchers discover remnants of a sprawling, ancient civilization—and the chilling truth of its eventual demise.

With Leslie S. Klinger as an indefatigable guide through Lovecraft’s peculiar, spine-tingling universe, and featuring an introduction by award-winning author Tamsyn Muir, At the Mountains of Madness is an essential edition for Lovecraft newcomers and devoted fans alike.
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