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Booknotes Life Stories: Notable Biographers on the People Who Shaped America by Brian Lamb Publisher Comments From presidents to generals, from civil rights activists to poets, from inventors to scientists, Brian Lamb explores the lives of our most fascinating Americans on Booknotes, his weekly C-Span interview program. He and his guests have examined the lives... (read more) List Price $27.50 Your price: $6.50 Used - Hardcover 
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Floating World in Japanese Fiction by Howard Hibbett Book News Annotation Hibbitt (Harvard U.) describes the fiction built around floating worlds that was popular among the prosperous, creative, and illegitimate shopkeepers and entertainers at the bottom of the Japanese feudal order during the 17th and 18th centuries. The... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $5.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Once Again to Zelda: The Stories Behind Literature's Most Intriguing Dedications by Marle Wagman Geller Publisher Comments A fascinating look at the stories behind the dedications of 50 literary classics. Mary Shelley dedicated Frankenstein to her father, her greatest champion. Charlotte Brönte dedicated Jane Eyre to William Makepeace Thackeray for his enthusiastic review... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $4.50 Used - Hardcover
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Partisans: Marriage, Politics, and Betrayal Among the New York Intellectuals by David Laskin Publisher Comments From the Depression era of the 1930s through the Vietnam War of the 1960s, a generation of "public intellectuals" thrived in America. They were poets, novelists, critics, and commentators who were also friends, rivals, spouses, and lovers. Their... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $2.95 Used - Hardcover
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Reading for Realism: The History of A U.N. Literary Institution, 1850-1910 (New Americanists) by Nancy Glazener Publisher Comments Reading for Realism presents a new approach to U.S. literary history that is based on the analysis of dominant reading practices rather than on the production of texts. Nancy Glazener’s focus is the realist novel, the most influential literary form... (read more) List Price $31.25 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Dickens' Fur Coat and Charlotte's Unanswered Letters: The Rows and Romances of England's Great Victorian Novelists by Daniel Pool Publisher Comments It was the Best of Times, it was the Worst of Times, but most of all, as Daniel Pool reveals in this delightful new book, it was a time of surprisingly outrageous behavior. Dickens' Fur Coat and Charlotte's Unanswered Letters plunks the reader down in... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The literary almanac :the best of the printed word, 1900 to the present. by Andrews Mcmeel Publisher Comments The Literary Almanac is more than a book about books. It's the book to end all books when it comes to finding out about the ins and outs of books, authors, and publishing. Handy and easy-to-read, this volume is filled with absorbing facts and engaging... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Records of Shelley, Byron, and the Author (New York Review Books Classics) by Edward Trelawny 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 experimental novels, reportage and... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Literature, Letters and the Canonical in Early Modern Scotland by Nicola Royan Synopsis A collection of papers offering new perspectives on Scottish early-modern literature that invite the revision and expansion of previous selections of critical choices. They introduce less familiar writers and texts, investigating contexts and... (read more) List Price $32.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Mexico in Its Novel: A Nation's Search for Identity by John Brushwood Publisher Comments Mexico in Its Novel is a perceptive examination of the Mexican reality as revealed through the nation's novel. The author presents the Mexican novel as a cultural phenomenon: a manifestation of the impact of history upon the nation, an attempt by a... (read more) List Price $38.50 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Resistant Writer: Rhetoric as Immunity, 1850 to the Present (Suny Series, Literacy, Culture, & Learning: Theory & Practice) by Charles Paine Publisher Comments The Resistant Writer integrates two lively sub-fields in rhetoric and composition: nineteenth-century composition history and contemporary issues about teaching cultural studies in composition. Examining the broad cultural anxieties that nineteenth... (read more) List Price $34.95 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Booknotes: America's Finest Authors on Reading, Writing, and the Power of Ideas by Brian Lamb Publisher Comments For nearly a decade, Booknotes has been an oasis of book programming on television, the only place where Americans can regularly find in-depth, quality discussions of books. From the Hardcover edition.... (read more) List Price $23.00 Your price: $1.98 Used - Trade Paper
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"Communazis": FBI Surveillance of German Emigre Writers by Alexander Stephan Publisher Comments Thousands of writers, artists, filmmakers, and intellectuals fled Germany in the 1930s. Many settled in the United States, hoping to find allies against Nazism and a safe refuge from Hitler’s Gestapo. But in America nearly all of the exiled authors&... (read more) List Price $62.75 Your price: $4.50 Used - Hardcover
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Once: As It Was by Griseld Ohannessian Publisher Comments An unconventional family idyll set on a gentleman's farm in Pennsylvania in the 1930s, Once: As It Was is a vibrant pastoral memoir that mixes unsentimentality with childhood innocence in a moving story that builds to a spine-tingling confrontation. "Of... (read more) List Price $13.50 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
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An Orderly Life (Pioneers of Modern U.S. Hispanic Literature) by Jose Yglesias Publisher Comments Rafe Sabas is the ideal corporate man. He is on a first name basis with the president of his company and likes to think about a deal while talking about something else. "I am not good at thinking alone," he quips, "corporate life ruins you for that... (read more) List Price $12.75 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
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East, West, and Others: The Third World in Postwar German Literature (Modern German Culture & Literature) by Arlene A Teraoka Publisher Comments East, West, and Others is the first work to examine the Third World in German literature from World War II to the present. Arlene A. Teraoka investigates how prominent post-World War II East and West German authors have portrayed the Third World. She... (read more) List Price $65.25 Your price: $4.95 Used - Hardcover
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Upstate: Records and Recollections of Northern New York (New York Classics) by Edmund Wilson Book News Annotation Reprint of Wilson's 1971 collection originally published by Farrar, Straus, and Giroux. Contains a new foreword by Richard Costa (English, Texas A&M). Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)... (read more) List Price $18.75 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Them: A Memoir of Parents by Francine du Plessix Gray Publisher Comments The much-acclaimed biographer's unflinchingly honest, wise, and forgiving portrait of her own famous parents: two wildly talented Russian émigrés who fled wartime Paris to become one of New York's first and grandest power couples. Tatiana du Plessix... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $0.95 Used - Hardcover
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A Chance Meeting: Intertwined Lives of American Writers and Artists by Rachel Cohen Publisher Comments Each chapter of this inventive consideration of American culture evokes an actual meeting between American writers and artists, from Henry James and Mathew Brady, to Mark Twain and Ulysses S. Grant, to Elizabeth Bishop and Marianne Moore, to Norman... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Double Lives: American Writers' Friendships by Richard R Lingeman Publisher Comments In this insightful new book, a veteran biographer explores the passions and betrayals that have enlivened the most significant, most fruitful friendships in American letters.... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $4.50 Used - Hardcover
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