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Pilgrim's Progress (03 Edition)
Pilgrim's Progress (03 Edition)
by John Bunyan
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One of the most powerful dramas of Christian faith ever written, this captivating allegory of man's religious journey in search of salvation follows the pilgrim as he travels an obstacle-filled road to the Celestial City. An enormously influential 17th... (read more)

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Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays
Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays
by Camille Paglia
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A collection of twenty of Paglia's out-spoken essays on contemporary issues in America's ongoing cultural debate such as Anita Hill, Robert Mapplethorpe, the beauty myth, and the decline of education in America.... (read more)

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Illness as Metaphor  and  AIDS and its Metaphors
Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and its Metaphors
by Susan Sontag
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Brimming with humane and original ideas about a disease and the modern condition, this classic essay and its sequel -- written 10 years later -- are compassionate exhortations and a liberating event. "Taken together, the two essays are an exemplary... (read more)

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Recent Theories of Narrative
Recent Theories of Narrative
by Wallace Martin
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This book ranges over the entitle spectrum of recent theories of narrative to show how they have altered our understanding not only of fiction but of nonfictional forms such as biography and historical writing.... (read more)

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The Odyssey (Cliffs Notes) - Study Notes - Study Notes
The Odyssey (Cliffs Notes) - Study Notes - Study Notes
by Stanley P. Baldwin
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The original CliffsNotes study guides offer expert commentary on major themes, plots, characters, literary devices, and historical background. The latest generation of titles in this series also feature glossaries and visual elements that complement the... (read more)

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Poet's Dictionary: A Handbook of Prosody and Poetic Devices
Poet's Dictionary: A Handbook of Prosody and Poetic Devices
by William Packard
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This handbook defines the tools, terms, and techniques of poetry. Arranged alphabetically from "accent" to "zeugma," The Poets Dictionary is clear, superb, and complete.... (read more)

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Tolkien and the Lord of the Rings: A Guide to Middle-Earth
Tolkien and the Lord of the Rings: A Guide to Middle-Earth
by Colin Duriez
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This absorbing guide to the mind behind Middle-earth will introduce or remind readers of the abundance that exists in Tolkien's thought and imagination.... (read more)

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Selected Poems (Dover Thrift Editions)
Selected Poems (Dover Thrift Editions)
by Emily Dickinson
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Over 100 best-known, best-loved poems by one of America's foremost poets, reprinted from authoritative early editions. "The Snake," "Hope," "The Chariot," many more, display unflinching honesty, psychological penetration, and technical adventurousness... (read more)

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Mythologies
Mythologies
by Roland Barthes
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"[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)

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Great Short Works of Leo Tolstoy
Great Short Works of Leo Tolstoy
by Leo Tolstoy
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Of all Russian writers Leo Tolstoy is probably the best known to the Western world, largely because of War and Peace, his epic in prose, and Anna Karenina, one of the most splendid novels in any language. But during his long lifetime Tolstoy also wrote... (read more)

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The Art of the Poetic Line
The Art of the Poetic Line
by James Longenbach
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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)

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Animal Farm (Cliffs Notes) - Study Notes - Study Notes
Animal Farm (Cliffs Notes) - Study Notes - Study Notes
by Daniel Moran
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The original CliffsNotes study guides offer expert commentary on major themes, plots, characters, literary devices, and historical background. The latest generation of titles in this series also features glossaries and visual elements that complement the... (read more)

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Best of Oscar Wilde (04 Edition)
Best of Oscar Wilde (04 Edition)
by Oscar Wilde
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An extraordinary volume for fans and students Including The Importance of Being Earnest, An Ideal Husband, A Woman of No Importance, Lady Windermere's Fan, and Salom, this collection showcases Wilde's brilliance and timeless wit.... (read more)

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Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet (Cliffs Notes) - Study Notes
Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet (Cliffs Notes) - Study Notes
by Annaliese Connolly
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The original CliffsNotes study guides offer expert commentary on major themes, plots, characters, literary devices, and historical background. The latest generation of titles in this series also feature glossaries and visual elements that complement the... (read more)

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Cliffsnotes on Anaya's Bless Me, Ultima
Cliffsnotes on Anaya's Bless Me, Ultima
by Ruben O Martinez
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The original CliffsNotes study guides offer expert commentary on major themes, plots, characters, literary devices, and historical background. CliffsNotes on Bless Me, Ultima brings to life a search for personal identity in the context of the social... (read more)

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Voice in the Wilderness: Conversations with Terry Tempest Williams
Voice in the Wilderness: Conversations with Terry Tempest Williams
by Terry Tempest Williams
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With her distinctive, impassioned voice and familiar felicity of language, Terry Tempest Williams talks about wilderness and wildlife, place and eroticism, art and literature, democracy and politics, family and heritage, Mormonism and religion, writing... (read more)

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How to Read and Why
How to Read and Why
by Harold Bloom
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American's wisest, most prolific reader--and the "New York Times" bestselling author of "Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human"--draws upon his more than 40 years as a college professor and critic to help readers attain a truly profound engagement with... (read more)

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Female Subjects in Black and White
Female Subjects in Black and White
by Elizabeth Abel
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This landmark collaboration between African American and white feminists goes to the heart of problems that have troubled feminist thinking for decades. Putting the racial dynamics of feminist interpretation center stage, these essays question such... (read more)

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Orientalism
Orientalism
by Edward W Said
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The noted critic and a Palestinian now teaching at Columbia University,examines the way in which the West observes the Arabs.... (read more)

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You Might Be a Redneck If... (Little Books)
You Might Be a Redneck If... (Little Books)
by Jeff Foxworthy
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Designed to generate impulse sales, titles in this line are carefully balanced for gift giving, self-purchase, or collecting. Little Books may be small in size, but they're big in titles and sales.... (read more)

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