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A Historical Guide to Edgar Allan Poe (Historical Guides to American Authors)

By: N/A

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Oxford University Press: January 2001

Seller ID: 131166

ISBN: 0195121503

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - VeryGood

Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849), son of itinerant actors, holds a secure place in the firmament of history as America's first master of suspense. Displaying scant interest in native scenes or materials, Edgar Allan Poe seems the most un-American of American writers during the era of literary nationalism; yet he was at the same time a pragmatic magazinist, fully engaged in popular culture and intensely concerned with the "republic of letters" in the United States. This Historical Guide contains an introduction that considers the tensions between Poe's "otherworldly" settings and his histor...
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A Reader's Guide to Ernest Hemingway

By: Arthur Waldhorn

Price: $4.95

Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux: May 1972

Seller ID: 230060

ISBN: 0374510024

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

A Readerâ€™s Delight

By: Noel Perrin

Price: $6.95

Publisher: Dartmouth: March 1988

Seller ID: 192024

ISBN: 0874514320

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - LikeNew

A Splendor of Letters: The Permanence of Books in an Impermanent World

By: Basbanes, Nicholas A.

Price: $15.95

Publisher: Harper Perennial: November 2004

Seller ID: 1758

ISBN: 0060580801

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New

In A Splendor of Letters, Nicholas A. Basbanes continues the lively, richly anecdotal exploration of book people, places, and culture he began in 1995 with A Gentle Madness (a finalist that year for the National Book Critics Circle Award) and expanded in 2001 with Patience & Fortitude, a companion work that prompted the two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and biographer David McCullough to proclaim him "the leading authority of books about books." In this beautifully packaged edition, Basbanes brings to a close his wonderful trilogy on the remarkable world o...
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A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments

By: Wallace, David Foster

Price: $17.99

Publisher: Back Bay Books: February 1998

Seller ID: 296239

ISBN: 0316925284

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New

In this exuberantly praised book - a collection of seven pieces on subjects ranging from television to tennis, from the Illinois State Fair to the films of David Lynch, from postmodern literary theory to the supposed fun of traveling aboard a Caribbean luxury cruiseliner - David Foster Wallace brings to nonfiction the same curiosity, hilarity, and exhilarating verbal facility that has delighted readers of his fiction, including the bestselling Infinite Jest.
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A World Between: Poems, Short Stories, and Essays by Iranian-Americans

By: Persis Karim

Price: $5.95

Publisher: George Braziller: March 1999

Seller ID: 164309

ISBN: 0807614459

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - VeryGood

This collection is the first published anthology of writings by Iranian immigrants and first generation Iranian Americans. Wide ranging and deeply personal, these pieces explore the Iranian community's continuing struggle to understand what it means to be Iranian in America. The selections come together to present a rich, humanizing portrait of a growing community Americans tend to view negatively. Many are intimate reflections on the pain of being alienated from the language, history, and geography of one's childhood. Others grapple with the complexities of cultural and personal identity. Ira...
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A Writer's Reader

By: N/A

Price: $12.95

Publisher: Longman Pub Group: June 1997

Seller ID: 211181

ISBN: 0673525058

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - VeryGood

Pages unmarked, light wear to edges.
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Abbey's Road (Plume)

By: Edward Abbey

Price: $7.00

Publisher: Plume: December 1990

Seller ID: 85420

ISBN: 0452265649

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - VeryGood

"The natural world, as we call it, has already become remote, out of reach, mysterious, in the minds of urban and suburban Americans. They see the wilderness disappearing, slipping away, receding into an inaccessible past. But they are mistaken. That world can still be rescued... that is my main excuse for this book."--Edward Abbey

You are about to visit some of the most exciting places on earth. Not the sort of excitement that makes morning headlines or the nightly news. Instead it is the excitement that comes from experiencing the natural world as it always has been and should...
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ABC of Reading

By: EZRA POUND

Price: $5.95

Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc: May 1960

Seller ID: 196779

ISBN: 0811201511

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - LikeNew

This important work, first published in 1934, is a concise statement of Pound s aesthetic theory. It is a primer for the reader who wants to maintain an active, critical mind and become increasingly sensitive to the beauty and inspiration of the world s best literature. With characteristic vigor and iconoclasm, Pound illustrates his precepts with exhibits meticulously chosen from the classics, and the concluding Treatise on Meter provides an illuminating essay for anyone aspiring to read and write poetry. ABC of Reading displays Pound s great ability to open new avenues in literature for our t...
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After the Great Divide: Modernism, Mass Culture, Postmodernism (Theories of Representation and Difference)

By: Huyssen, Andreas

Price: $8.95

Publisher: Indiana University Press: February 1987

Seller ID: 276400

ISBN: 0253203996

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

One of the most comprehensive and intelligent postmodern critics of art and literature, Huyssen collects here a series of his essays on pomo... " --Village Voice Literary Supplement

... his work remains alert to the problematic relationship obtaining between marxisms and poststructuralisms." --American Literary History

... challenging and astute." --World Literature Today

Huyssen's level-headed account of this controversial constellation of critical voices brings welcome clarification to today's murky haze of cultural discussion and proves definitively that commentary from...
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After the Tall Timber: Collected Nonfiction

By: Adler, Renata

Price: $18.00

Publisher: New York Review Books: April 2015

Seller ID: 284461

ISBN: 1590178793

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

What is really going on here? For decades Renata Adler has been asking and answering this question with unmatched urgency. In her essays and long-form journalism, she has captured the cultural zeitgeist, distrusted the accepted wisdom, and written stories that would otherwise go untold. As a staff writer at The New Yorker from 1963 to 2001, Adler reported on civil rights from Selma, Alabama; on the war in Biafra, the Six-Day War, and the Vietnam War; on the Nixon impeachment inquiry and Congress; on cultural life in Cuba. She has also written about cultural matters in the United States,...
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Against Deconstruction

By: Ellis, John Martin

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Princeton University Press: February 1990

Seller ID: 276466

ISBN: 0691014841

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Like New

"The focus of any genuinely new piece of criticism or interpretation must be on the creative act of finding the new, but deconstruction puts the matter the other way around: its emphasis is on debunking the old. But aside from the fact that this program is inherently uninteresting, it is, in fact, not at all clear that it is possible. . . . T]he na vet of the crowd is deconstruction's very starting point, and its subsequent move is as much an emotional as an intellectual leap to a position that feels different as much in the one way as the other. . . ." --From the book

AIDs and Its Metaphors

By: Sontag, Susan

Price: $7.98

Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux: January 1989

Seller ID: 294884

ISBN: 0374102570

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

All I Did Was Ask: Conversations with Writers, Actors Musicians, and Artists

By: Terry Gross

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Hyperion: September 2004

Seller ID: 131070

ISBN: 1401300103

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - VeryGood

A fascinating collection of revealing and entertaining interviews by the award-winning host of National Public Radio's premier interview program Fresh Air.

Over the last twenty years, Terry Gross has interviewed many of our most celebrated writers, actors, musicians, comics, and visual artists. Her show, Fresh Air with Terry Gross, a weekday magazine of contemporary arts and issues produced by WHYY in Philadelphia, is one of National Public Radio's most popular programs. More than four million people tune in to the show, which is broadcast on over 400 NPR...
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All the Lives I Want: Essays About My Best Friends Who Happen to Be Famous Strangers

By: Alana Massey

Price: $18.98

Publisher: Grand Central Publishing: February 2017

Seller ID: 99384

ISBN: 1455565881

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New - New

"Alana Massey's prose is to brutal honesty what a mandolin is to a butter knife: she's sharper; she slices thinner; she shows the cross-section of a truth so deftly--so powerfully and cannily--it's hard to look away, and hard not to feel that something has shifted in you for having read her."--Leslie Jamison, New York Times bestselling author of The Empathy Exams
From columnist and critic Alana Massey, a collection of essays examining the intersection of the personal with pop culture through the lives of pivotal female figures--from Sylvia Plath to Britney Spe...
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American children through their books, 1700â€“1835. Foreword by Dorothy Canfield Fisher

By: Monica. Kiefer

Price: $8.00

Publisher: Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press / London: Oxford University Press, 1948.: January 1948

Seller ID: 259860

ISBN: B00DPGE9D0

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - VeryGood

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American Notes: A Journey

By: Charles Dickens

Price: $4.98

Publisher: Fromm Intl: August 1985

Seller ID: 247019

ISBN: 0880640235

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - VeryGood

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American Worlds Since Emerson

By: David Marr

Price: $5.98

Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press: January 1988

Seller ID: 134684

ISBN: 0870235885

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - VeryGood

Examines Emerson's ideas concerning nature, culture, and politics, discusses his influence on American political life, and considers works by William James, R.P. Blackmur, Joseph Heller, and Ralph Ellison.
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Amerika: Russian Writers View the United States (Russian Literature Series)

By: N/A

Price: $6.95

Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press: May 2004

Seller ID: 199640

ISBN: 1564783561

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - VeryGood

For half of the twentieth century, there were two superpowers in the world and a gulf of silence between them. Knowledge of Russian culture was based on propaganda and rumour, and their knowledge of the West was no better. When the Soviet Union fell, Russians began to travel to America more regularly, and what they discovered was a very different place to the one they had imagined, but, at the same time, not exactly the one that Americans think they know. This collection of beautifully written and entertaining literary essays by a wide range of Russian writers - young and old, funny and som...
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An Artificial Wilderness: Essays on 20th Century Literature (A Nonpareil Book, #59) (A Nonpareil Book, #59)

By: Sven Birkerts

Price: $6.95

Publisher: David R. Godine Publisher: April 1990

Seller ID: 191333

ISBN: 0879238070

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - VeryGood

If recent fiction consisted exclusively of American postmodernists, modern literature would be in de
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Anais Nin and the Remaking of Self: Gender, Modernism, and Narrative Identity

By: Diane Richard-Allerdyce

Price: $15.95

Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press: October 1997

Seller ID: 131169

ISBN: 087580232X

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - VeryGood

Pages unmarked, light shelf wear.
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Anatomy of Criticism: Four Essays

By: Northrop Frye

Price: $5.95

Publisher: Princeton University Press: February 1971

Seller ID: 248945

ISBN: 0691012989

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - VeryGood

The description for this book, Anatomy of Criticism, will be forthcoming.

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Anatomy of Criticism: Four Essays

By: Frye, Northrop

Price: $8.00

Publisher: Atheneum: January 1969

Seller ID: 284264

ISBN: B00005VE0P

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

A few pages have ink marks, light discoloration to page edges.
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Anatomy of Wonder: A Critical Guide to Science Fiction

By: N/A

Price: $6.00

Publisher: Rr Bowker Llc: August 1987

Seller ID: 290675

ISBN: 0835223124

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

x library book, pages unmarked, minimal library markings.
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Annotations To Finnegans Wake

By: Mchugh, Roland

Price: $16.95

Publisher: ROUTLEDGE @: January 1980

Seller ID: 283668

ISBN: 0710006616

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

A few pages have ink marks.
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Another ego : the changing view of self and society in the work of D. H. Lawrence

By: Baruch Hochman

Price: $39.95

Publisher: University of South Carolina Press: January 1970

Seller ID: 43827

ISBN: B007EJL6AS

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

dust jacket shows light wear...
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Another republic: 17 European and South American writers : [poems]

By: Charles and Mark Strand editors Simic

Price: $9.95

Publisher: Ecco Press: January 1976

Seller ID: 241561

ISBN: 0912946288

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

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Anthology: Selected Essays From the First 30 years of The New York Review of Books 1963/93 [30th Anniversary Anthology]

By: Nyrb

Price: $5.95

Publisher: NYRB: January 2001

Seller ID: 191324

ISBN: B001U943QM

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - VeryGood

Pages unmarked, light wear.
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Aphra Behn (New Casebooks)

By: N/A

Price: $19.98

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan: May 1999

Seller ID: 270450

ISBN: 0312218583

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

Aphra Behn's literary reputation was only really secured in the closing decade of this century, especially by new historicist and feminist critics. The essays collected here present the best of a range of contemporary critical views, discussing both Behn's drama and her prose writings. Janet Todd, a leading Behn scholar, situates the works of the critics included in a broad literary context.

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Arnold: Selected Prose (Penguin English library EL58)

By: Matthew Arnold

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Penguin Classics: May 1971

Seller ID: 257887

ISBN: 014043058X

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

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Art Objects: Essays on Ecstasy and Effrontery

By: Jeanette Winterson

Price: $5.98

Publisher: Vintage: February 1997

Seller ID: 262102

ISBN: 0679768203

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

In these ten intertwined essays, one of our most provocative young novelists proves that she is just as stylish and outrageous an art critic. For when Jeanette Winterson looks at works as diverse as the Mona Lisa and Virginia Woolf's The Waves, she frees them from layers of preconception and restores their power to exalt and unnerve, shock and transform us.
"Art Objects is a book to be admired for its effort to speak exorbitantly, urgently and sometimes beautifully about art and about our individual and collective need for serious art."--Los Angeles Times
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Assembling California

By: John McPhee

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Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux: January 1994

Seller ID: 110336

ISBN: 0374523932

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - VeryGood

At various times in a span of fifteen years, John McPhee made geological field surveys in the company of Eldridge Moores, a tectonicist at the University of California at Davis. The result of these trips is Assembling California, a cross-section in human and geologic time, from Donner Pass in the Sierra Nevada through the golden foothills of the Mother Lode and across the Great Central Valley to the wine country of the Coast Ranges, the rock of San Francisco, and the San Andreas family of faults. The two disparate time scales occasionally intersect--in the gold disruptions of the nineteenth...
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Assorted Prose

By: John Updike

Price: $12.98

Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks: September 2012

Seller ID: 65574

ISBN: 0812983777

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New - New

John Updike's first collection of nonfiction pieces, published in 1965 when the author was thirty-three, is a diverting and illuminating gambol through midcentury America and the writer's youth. It opens with a choice selection of parodies, casuals, and "Talk of the Town" reports, the fruits of Updike's boyish ambition to follow in the footsteps of Thurber and White. These jeux d'esprit are followed by "Hub Fans Bid Kid Adieu," an immortal account of Ted Williams's last at-bat in Fenway Park; "The Dogwood Tree," a Wordsworthian evocation of one Pennsylvania childhood; and five autobiogr...
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Authoring a Life : A Womans Survival in and Through Literay Studies

By: BRENDA O. DALY

Price: $16.95

Publisher: State Univ of New York Pr: April 1998

Seller ID: 131048

ISBN: 0791436802

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - VeryGood

Authoring a Life illustrates how language often plays an important part in many a victim's struggle to survive the debilitating effects of father-daughter incest. For example, reading may serve as therapy, enabling a survivor to confront rather than repress painful memories, and writing may help a survivor to recover a sense of authoring both her texts and her life. The book argues that, despite the current backlash against survivor stories, language arts teachers must develop effective pedagogies for teaching father-daughter incest narratives.
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Autobiography of Mark Twain, Vol. 1

By: Twain, Mark

Price: $18.95

Publisher: University of California Press: November 2010

Seller ID: 295127

ISBN: 0520267192

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

"I've struck it " Mark Twain wrote in a 1904 letter to a friend. "And I will give it away--to you. You will never know how much enjoyment you have lost until you get to dictating your autobiography." Thus, after dozens of false starts and hundreds of pages, Twain embarked on his "Final (and Right) Plan" for telling the story of his life. His innovative notion--to "talk only about the thing which interests you for the moment"--meant that his thoughts could range freely. The strict instruction that many of these texts remain unpublished for 100 years meant that when they came out, he would be "d...
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Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 2: The Complete and Authoritative Edition (Volume 11) (Mark Twain Papers)

By: Twain, Mark

Price: $18.95

Publisher: University of California Press: October 2013

Seller ID: 295128

ISBN: 0520272781

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

Mark Twain's complete, uncensored Autobiography was an instant bestseller when the first volume was published in 2010, on the centennial of the author's death, as he requested. Published to rave reviews, the Autobiography was hailed as the capstone of Twain's career. It captures his authentic and unsuppressed voice, speaking clearly from the grave and brimming with humor, ideas, and opinions.
The eagerly-awaited Volume 2 delves deeper into Mark Twain's life, uncovering the many roles he played in his private and public worlds. Filled with his characteristic blend of humor an...
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Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 3: The Complete and Authoritative Edition (Volume 12) (Mark Twain Papers)

By: Twain, Mark

Price: $29.95

Publisher: University of California Press: October 2015

Seller ID: 295129

ISBN: 0520279948

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

The surprising final chapter of a great American life.

When the first volume of Mark Twain's uncensored Autobiography was published in 2010, it was hailed as an essential addition to the shelf of his works and a crucial document for our understanding of the great humorist's life and times. This third and final volume crowns and completes his life's work. Like its companion volumes, it chronicles Twain's inner and outer life through a series of daily dictations that go wherever his fancy leads.

Created from March 1907 to December 1909, these dictations presen...
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Axel's Castle: A Study in the Imaginative Literature of 1870-1930

By: Wilson, Edmund

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Collier Books: August 1991

Seller ID: 271253

ISBN: 0020128711

Condition: Used - Very Good

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BARTHES READER

By: Barthes, Roland

Price: $9.98

Publisher: Hill and Wang: January 1985

Seller ID: 283596

ISBN: 0374521441

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

A Barthes Reader gives one the image of Barthes as one of the great public teachers of our time, someone who thought out, argued for, and made available several steps in a penetrating reflection on language sign systems, texts- and what they have to tell us about the concept of being human. Susan Sontag's prefatory essay is one of her finest acts of criticism, informed by intellectual sympathy and a sure sense of the contours of the mind she is describing.

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Beacham's Sourcebook For Teaching Young Adult Fiction: Exploring Harry Potter

By: Schafer, Elizabeth D., D., Elizabeth Sullivan

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Beacham Publishing Corporation: September 2000

Seller ID: 1733

ISBN: 0933833571

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

If you are reading, teaching, or patenting Harry Potter fans, this indispensable guidebook takes you behind the Potter legend, into the life of its author J. K. Rowling, and gives young readers many more hours of enjoyment beyond reading the novels themselves.Explore the origins and mysteries of Harry's world, its history, science, magic, mythology, setting, characters, themes, food and sports.The sourcebook includes projects and activities for young readers, questions that generate lively discussions between parents and children, websites for internet research by young surfers, lesson plans f...
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