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The Essentials of Literature in English, Post-1914 by Ian Mackean Publisher Comments By identifying and analyzing the leading works and authors in modern English literature, this book provides the reader with an engaging and knowledgeable insight into the books, their writers and the connections between them. From Graham Greene to... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $4.25 Sale - Trade Paper 
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The Company They Kept: Writers on Unforgettable Friendships by Robert B Silvers Publisher Comments Now in paperback Many of the illustrious contributors to The New York Review of Books have had deep and abiding relationships-both personal and intellectual-with other poets, writers, artists, composers, and scientists of equal stature. The Company They... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $9.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Secret Lives of Great Authors: What Your Teachers Never Told You about Famous Novelists, Poets, and Playwrights by Robert Schnakenberg Publisher Comments Strange-but-true tales of murderers, adulterers, drug addicts, and other literary legends. With outrageous and uncensored profiles of everyone from William Shakespeare to Thomas Pynchon, Secret Lives of Great Authors tackles all the tough... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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From Puritanism to Postmodernism: A History of American Literature by Richard Ruland Publisher Comments From Modernist/Postmodernist perspective, leading critics Richard Ruland (American) and Malcolm Bradbury (British) address questions of literary and cultural nationalism. They demonstrate that since the seventeenth century, American writing... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Russian Literature (Brief Insight) by Catriona Kelly Publisher Comments Catriona Kelly takes an enlightening and nontraditional approach to exploring Russia's unique literary traditions. Rather than proceeding chronologically, she uses Pushkin as the central figure in Russia's literary genesis and analyzes how this “... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Light, Freedom and Song: A Cultural History of Modern Irish Writing by David Pierce Publisher Comments In this absorbing analysis of modern Irish writing, an acknowledged expert considers the hybrid character of modern Irish writing to show how language, culture, and history have been affected by the colonial encounter between Ireland and Britain... (read more) List Price $42.00 Your price: $22.98 Sale - Hardcover
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The Cambridge Introduction to Early American Literature by Emory Elliott Publisher Comments Presenting a literary history of American writing (from 1492 to 1820) and a concise social and cultural history, Emory Elliott traces the impact of race, gender, and ethnic conflict on early American culture. He explores the centrality of American... (read more) List Price $32.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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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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Literature at War, 1914-1940: Representing the "Time of Greatness" in Germany by Wolfgang G. Natter Publisher Comments In this fascinating examination of German texts written about the First World War, Wolfgang Natter offers a new understanding of the relationship between culture and warfare. He focuses not only on the literary voices of German authors whose works are... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $12.98 Sale - Hardcover
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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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Disputatio #13: John Gower: Manuscripts, Readers, Contexts by Malte Urban Publisher Comments The essays collected here represent the current state of research into the works of John Gower, poet, philosopher, and contemporary of Geoffrey Chaucer. They assess Gower's literary output within the context of manuscript production and readership... (read more) List Price $87.00 Your price: $60.00 Sale - Hardcover
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Redefining Elizabethan Literature by Georgia Brown Publisher Comments A wide-ranging study of the development of the concept of literature and authorship in late Elizabethan culture.... (read more) List Price $128.25 Your price: $29.97 Sale - Hardcover
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One Drop: My Father's Hidden Life -- A Story of Race and Family Secrets by Bliss Broyard Publisher Comments Two months before he died of cancer, renowned literary critic Anatole Broyard called his grown son and daughter to his side, intending to reveal a secret he had kept all their lives and most of his own: he was black. But even as he lay dying, the truth... (read more) List Price $24.99 Your price: $17.50 Sale - Hardcover
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Call It English by Hana Wirth-nesher Synopsis Call It English identifies the distinctive voice of Jewish American literature by recovering the multilingual Jewish culture that Jews brought to the United States in their creative encounter with English. In transnational readings of works from the late-... (read more) List Price $46.00 Your price: $14.98 Sale - Hardcover
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British Poetry in the Age of Modernism by Peter Howarth Publisher Comments An informative and inspiring account of the themes and debates that have shaped British poetry of the last century.... (read more) List Price $102.00 Your price: $14.97 Sale - Hardcover
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Voice and the Victorian Storyteller (Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature & Culture) by Ivan Kreilkamp Publisher Comments Ivan Kreilkamp uncovers the importance of voice and the storyteller in the Victorian novel.... (read more) List Price $134.75 Your price: $32.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Writers Talk: Conversations with Contemporary British Novelists by Phillip Tew Publisher Comments Writers Talk includes interviews with Kate Atkinson, Pat Barker, Jonathan Coe, Jim Crace, Toby Litt, Graham Swift, Matt Thorne, David Mitchell, AlanWarner, and Will Self. Is it a good time to be a writer in the time of The Da Vinci Code? It's not... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $3.50 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Power of the Passive Self in English Literature, 1640 1770 by Scott Paul Gordon Publisher Comments Challenging recent work contending that seventeenth-century English discourses privilege the notion of a self-enclosed, self-sufficient individual, this study recovers a counter-tradition that imagines selves as more passively prompted than actively... (read more) List Price $138.25 Your price: $24.97 Sale - Hardcover
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Off the Page: Writers Talk about Beginnings, Endings, and Everything in Between by Carole Burns Publisher Comments How do writers approach a new novel? Do theystart with plot, character, ortheme? A. S.Byatt startswith color. E. L. Doctorow beginswith an image. In Off the Page, authors tell ushow they work, giving insight into their writing process. Gathered from some... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Beats: From Kerouac to Kesey, an Illustrated Journey Through the Beat Generation by Mike Evans Publisher Comments This year marks the 50th anniversary of the publication of On the Road, the defining book of the Beat Generation. Jack Kerouac wrote his masterpiece in one frenzied three-week period in 1951 on the infamous 119-foot scroll, which has been “on the... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $11.98 Sale - Hardcover
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