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Second Reading: Notable Neglected Books Revisited by Jonathan Yardley Publisher Comments This collection of reviews and re-evaluations by Pulitzer Prize-winning book critic Jonathan Yardley considers lesser-known works from renowned authors and underappreciated talents, and offers fresh takes on old favorites. Yardley's reviews of sixty... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $11.20 Sale - Trade Paper 
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The Heart of What Matters: The Role for Literature in Moral Philosophy by Anthony Cunningham Publisher Comments Cunningham addresses Kantian ethics as the most prominent modern ethical theory and demonstrates that the theory cannot adequately account for the claims of our most intimate attachments and commitments.... (read more) List Price $28.95 Your price: $9.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Liberal Imagination by Lionel Trilling Publisher Comments '\'\\\'\\\\\\\'\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\'The NYRB Classics series is designedly and determinedly exploratory and eclectic, a mix of fiction and non-fiction from different eras and times and of various sorts. The series includes nineteenth century novels and... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Mythologies by Roland Barthes Publisher Comments "[Mythologies] illustrates the beautiful generosity of Barthes's progressive interest in the meaning (his word is signification) of practically everything around him, not only the books and paintings of high art, but also the slogans, trivia, toys, food,... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $6.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Possessed: Adventures with Russian Books and the People Who Read Them by Elif Batuman Publisher Comments THE TRUE BUT UNLIKELY STORIES OF LIVES DEVOTED—ABSURDLY! MELANCHOLICALLY! BEAUTIFULLY!—TO THE RUSSIAN CLASSICS No one who read Elif Batumans first article (in the journal n+1) will ever forget it. “Babel in California” told the true... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Nation, Language, and the Ethics of Translation (Translation/Transnation) by Sandra Bermann Publisher Comments In recent years, scholarship on translation has moved well beyond the technicalities of converting one language into another and beyond conventional translation theory. With new technologies blurring distinctions between "the original" and its... (read more) List Price $31.95 Your price: $18.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Art of the Poetic Line by James Longenbach Publisher Comments James Longenbach is the author of three poetry collections, including Draft of a Letter; five works of criticism, including The Resistance to Poetry, as well as numerous essays and reviews. He is Joseph Henry Gilmore Professor of English at the... (read more) List Price $12.00 Your price: $6.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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American Renaissance: Art and Expression in the Age of Emerson and Whitman by F O Matthiessen Review "[Matthiessen's] exploration of the haunted mind of Hawthorne, of Emerson's integrity, of the mental hell in which Melville lived, of Whitman's schizophrenia, of Thoreau's chosen solitude, [has] produced a book unequaled in American critical writing... (read more) List Price $53.00 Your price: $19.12 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Writer in Politics by Willian H. Gass and Lorin Cuoco Publisher Comments William H. Gass and Lorin Cuoco here present an edited but uncut record of the proceedings of the first international conference convened by the International Writers Center at Washington University in St. Louis. Major addresses were delivered by Breyten... (read more) List Price $29.00 Your price: $5.25 Sale - Hardcover
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Derrida, Literature and War: Absence and the Chance of Meeting (Philosophy, Aesthetics and Cultural Theory) by Sean Gaston Publisher Comments Derrida, Literature and War argues for the importance of the relation between absence and chance in Derrida's work in thinking today about war and literature. Sean Gaston starts by marking Derrida's attempts to resist the philosophical tradition of... (read more) List Price $53.50 Your price: $18.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Bibliophile's Devotional: 365 Days of Literary Classics by Hallie Ephron Synopsis What better way to start a day than with inspiration from a literary classic? Now you can do just that. In this book, praised author and critic Hallie Ephron delivers a daily dose of literary knowledge. A brilliant companion to the canon of great... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Academic Instincts by Marjorie Garber Publisher Comments "I have been waiting for years for a book about my profession as vital and zesty as Academic Instincts. Now Marjorie Garber has written it with her customary fireworks, learning, and flair. It should change our minds about academic life--for the better."-... (read more) List Price $32.75 Your price: $13.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Snobbery: The American Version by Joseph Epstein Publisher Comments Joseph Epstein's highly entertaining new book takes up the subject of snobbery in America after the fall of the prominence of the old Wasp culture of prep schools, Ivy League colleges, cotillions, debutante balls, the Social Register, and the rest of it.... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $6.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Promised Land: Thirteen Books That Changed America by Jay Parini Publisher Comments “These thirteen books must be seen as representative, not definitive, works. They are nodal points, places where vast areas of thought and feeling gathered and dispersed, creating a nation as various and vibrant as the United States, which must be... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $9.98 Sale - Hardcover
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The Possessed: Adventures with Russian Books and the People Who Read Them. by Elif Batuman by Elif Batuman Publisher Comments THE TRUE BUT UNLIKELY STORIES OF LIVES DEVOTED—ABSURDLY MELANCHOLICALLY BEAUTIFULLY —TO THE RUSSIAN CLASSICS No one who read Elif Batuman’s first article (in the journal n+1) will ever forget it. “Babel in California” told... (read more) Your price: $9.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Harper Lee's to Kill a Mockingbird: The Relationship Between Text and Film (Screen Adaptations) by R Barton Palmer Publisher Comments To Kill a Mockingbird is an immensely important work of literature which is studied worldwide. Literature and film adaptations studies students will find plenty of material to support their courses and essay writing on how the film versions provide... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $9.95 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Inevitable: Contemporary Writers Confront Death by David Shields and Bradford Morrow Staff Pick You are going to die. If that incontrovertible fact bums you out, you may want to read The Inevitable, which contains 20 essays about death that are alternately funny, sad, enlightening, and fascinating. The book doesn't pretend to have the the answers... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Between Religion and Rationality: Essays in Russian Literature and Culture by Joseph Frank Publisher Comments "This is a wonderful and illuminating collection written for general readers. Yet any Russian specialist can also benefit from Frank's interpretations, which bear the stamp of his powerful and distinctive mind. This thought-provoking book is difficult to... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $14.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Poetry Lesson by Andrei Codrescu Publisher Comments "The Poetry Lesson is a gem--a consistently engaging and entertainingly rambling meditation on teaching and poetry that is filled with Andrei Codrescu's quicksilver mental responses. His teacher-narrator keeps vacillating between denouncing the new, text-... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $10.95 Sale - Hardcover
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The Paris Review Interviews, I by The Paris Review and Philip Gourevitch Publisher Comments A Picador Paperback Original How do great writers do it? From James M. Cain's hard-nosed observation that "writing a novel is like working on foreign policy. There are problems to be solved. It's not all inspirational," to Joan... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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