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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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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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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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Neverland: J. M. Barrie, the Du Mauriers, and the Dark Side of Peter Pan by Piers Dudgeon Publisher Comments In his revelatory Neverland, Piers Dudgeon tells the tragic story of J. M. Barrie and the Du Maurier family. Driven by a need to fill the vacuum left by sexual impotence, Barrie sought out George du Maurier, Daphne du Maurier's grandfather (author of the... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Between the Sheets: Nine 20th Century Women Writers and Their Famous Literary Partnerships by Lesley Mcdowell Publisher Comments Why did a gifted writer like Sylvia Plath stumble into a marriage that drove her to suicide? Why did Hilda Doolittle want to marry Ezra Pound when she was attracted to women? Why did Simone de Beauvoir pimp for Jean-Paul Sartre? The list of the damages... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $7.98 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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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: $24.98 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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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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The History of Pendennis. His Fortunes and Misfortunes, His Friends and His Greatest Enemy. by William Maekpeace Thackeray. with Illustrations on Wood by William Makepeace Thackeray Synopsis 1850. With illustrations on wood by the author. Vanity Fair is Thackeray's masterpiece, but he also showed great skill in writing historical fiction with fine attention to period manners and customs and a dispassionate sympathy for his character's... (read more) List Price $26.99 Your price: $18.95 Sale - Trade Paper
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Wider Boundaries of Daring: The Modernist Impulse in Canadian Women's Poetry by Di Brandt Publisher Comments Wider Boundaries of Daring: The Modernist Impulse in Canadian Women's Poetry announces a bold revision of the genealogy of Canadian literary modernism by foregrounding the originary and exemplary contribution of women poets, critics, cultural activists... (read more) List Price $42.95 Your price: $18.55 Sale - Trade Paper
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The American 1930s: A Literary History by Peter Conn Publisher Comments Beginning with the stock market crash of 1929 and ending with America's entry into the Second World War, the long Depression decade was a period of immense social, economic and political turmoil. In response, writers as various as John Dos Passos... (read more) List Price $31.99 Your price: $9.95 Sale - Trade Paper
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Fruitlands: The Alcott Family and Their Search for Utopia by Richard Francis Publisher Comments This is the first definitive account of Fruitlands, one of historys most unsuccessful—but most significant—utopian experiments. It was established in Massachusetts in 1843 by Bronson Alcott (whose ten-year-old daughter Louisa May... (read more) List Price $37.00 Your price: $21.95 Sale - Hardcover
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Call It English by Hana Wirth-nesher Publisher Comments "Call It English is an extraordinary book that will force a revision of our understanding of English-language Jewish American literature from the perspective of multilingualism. Cogently argued and vividly written, it offers a substantially new approach... (read more) List Price $46.00 Your price: $9.97 Sale - Hardcover
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Queen Elizabeth's Book of Oxford by Louise Durning Publisher Comments In 1566, Queen Elizabeth I visited Oxford for the first time. She toured the colleges, gave lectures, and attended a play in her honor at Christ Church. She was presented with a companion—a handbook made specifically for her and now fully... (read more) List Price $35.95 Your price: $10.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Beat Collection by Barry Miles Publisher Comments By dividing the Beat Collection into three sections: The Original Beats - New York 1944-53; The San Francisco Scene 1954-57 and The Second Wave - New York 1958-60, New York Times bestselling author and Beat expert Barry Miles pulls together writings from,... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Hardcover
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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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A History of Feminist Literary Criticism by Gill Plain Publisher Comments This authoritative history of feminist literary criticism charts the development of the practice from the middle ages to the present.... (read more) List Price $125.00 Your price: $29.98 Sale - Hardcover
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A Blue Hand: The Beats in India by Deborah Baker Publisher Comments In this engrossing new piece of Beat history, Pulitzer Prize finalist Deborah Baker takes us back to the moment when America's edgiest writers looked to India for answers as India looked to the West. It was 1961 when Allen Ginsberg left New York by boat... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $6.98 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 $34.50 Your price: $3.50 Sale - Trade Paper
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