$7 or Less
 Used: $5.95 Trade Paper List Price $9.95 
add to wish list |
|
Ian Rankin's Black and Blue: A Reader's Guide (Continuum Contemporaries)
by Gill Plain  Publisher Comments This is an excellent guide to Ian Rankins breakthrough novel. It features a biography of the author and interview with him, a full-length analysis of the novel, and a great deal more. If youre studying this novel, reading it for your book club, or if you...
|
||||||
New: $3.95 Trade Paper
add to wish list |
|
Fyodor Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment (Barron's Book Notes)
by Fyodor M. Dostoevsky Publisher Comments Plot synopsis of this classic is made meaningful with analysis and quotes by noted literary critics, summaries of the work's main themes and characters, a sketch of the author's life and times, a bibliography, suggested test questions, and ideas for...
|
||||||
Used: $5.95 Trade Paper List Price $19.95
add to wish list |
|
Stories and Stone: Writing the Ancestral Pueblo Homeland
by Reuben J Ellis Book News Annotation Stories, essays, travelers' reports, and poems tell of four centuries of visits to the homeland of the Pueblo peoples, also known as the Anasazi, in the Four Corners region of the American Southwest. Contributors include Edward Abbey, Willa Cather...
|
||||||
Used: $1.49 Trade Paper List Price $15.00
add to wish list |
|
Let's Hear It for the Girls: 375 Great Books for Readers 2-14
by Erica Bauermeister Publisher Comments The authors of the popular "500 Great Books by Women: A Reader's Guide" now address the need to provide children with strong female role models, both ordinary and extraordinary. This lively, browsable guide to books with strong female protagonists...
|
||||||
Used: $5.95 Trade Paper List Price $19.95
add to wish list |
|
American Women Writers: A Biographical Dictionary
by Carol Kort Synopsis American Women Writers profiles more than 150 women whose works span four centuries and have greatly influenced American writing. Each entry features an in-depth examination of its subject's biography, literary and personal influences, and a discussion...
|
||||||
Used: $5.95 Trade Paper List Price $15.95
add to wish list |
|
Once Upon a Time in Great Britain
by Melanie Wentz Publisher Comments Visiting England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales? Don't miss Narnia, Wonderland, Hogwarts and Middle-Earth! If you're planning a trip abroad--or just a flight of fancy into literature's best-loved magical lands--Once Upon a Time in Great Britain is a wonderful...
|
||||||
Used: $4.80 Trade Paper List Price $17.95
add to wish list |
|
Love + Marriage = Death: And Other Essays on Representing Difference (Stanford Studies in Jewish History & Culture)
by Sander Gilman Publisher Comments This is a book about Jews and their representations - not about Jews as a special, isolated case, but as an example of how stereotypes and the categories of difference are represented in text. Including works from high literature, medical literature and...
|
||||||
Used: $3.50 Trade Paper List Price $13.00
add to wish list |
|
Writers Dreaming: 25 Writers Talk about Their Dreams and the Creative Process
by Naomi Epel Publisher Comments As they discuss their dreams--both sleeping and waking--with Naomi Epel, the 26 writers in this intriguing book create a portrait of the creative process that is more candid than most autobiographies and more inspiring than any guide to writing....
|
||||||
Used: $5.95 Trade Paper List Price $9.95
add to wish list |
|
Nick Hornby's High Fidelity: A Reader's Guide
by Joanne Knowles Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. [93]-94)....
|
||||||
Used: $6.50 Trade Paper List Price $31.00
add to wish list |
|
Part of Nature, Part of Us: Modern American Poets
by Helen Hennessy Vendler Publisher Comments Join Professor Helen Vendler in her course lecture on the Yeats poem "Among School Children." View her insightful and passionate analysis along with a condensed reading and student comments on the course. The poets nearest to us in time often seem the...
|
||||||
New: $5.99 Trade Paper
add to wish list |
|
Beloved (Cliffs Notes) - Study Notes - Study Notes
by Mary Robinson Publisher Comments 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...
|
||||||
Used: $3.20 Trade Paper List Price $22.00
add to wish list |
|
Literary Education: A Revaluation
by James Gribble Publisher Comments This book, the first of its kind, is an attempt to offer a justification for the teaching of literature in schools and universities, and is intended as a contribution to the philosophy of literary education. The issues which Dr Gribble discusses could...
|
||||||
Used: $2.95 Mass Market List Price $5.50
add to wish list |
|
The Souls of Black Folk (Bantam Classics)
by W E B Dubois Publisher Comments "The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line." Thus speaks W.E.B. Du Bois in The Souls Of Black Folk, one of the most prophetic and influental works in American literature. In this eloquent collection of essays, first...
|
||||||
Used: $5.00 Trade Paper List Price $12.95
add to wish list |
|
NTC's Dictionary of Literary Terms
by Kathleen Morner Publisher Comments * 600 Terms, Concepts, and Critical Theories. Are all defined, explained, and illustrated in clear, easy-to-understand language. * Comprehensive. Providing students with all the literary and critical terms commonly encountered in the study of literature,...
|
||||||
Used: $4.80 Trade Paper List Price $17.95
add to wish list |
|
Mutual Impressions: Writers from the Americas Reading One Another
by Ilan Stavans Publisher Comments ""Mutual Impressions" is a delight and a revelation, a treasury of insight and enthusiasm from both sides of the principle linguistic divide that defines this hemisphere."--Steven Kellman, author of "The Plague: Fiction and Resistance"...
|
||||||
Used: $5.95 Trade Paper List Price $14.95
add to wish list |
|
Twentieth-Century Attitudes: Literary Powers in Uncertain Times
by Brooke Allen Publisher Comments In eighteen essays, Ms. Allen explores the lives and work of some of the last century's most brilliant and eccentric literary talents. Ms. Allen's appraisals, which combine extensive biographical information with new critical insights, richly illustrate...
|
||||||
Used: $6.95 Trade Paper List Price $19.95
add to wish list |
|
Reading on the Edge: Exiles, Modernities, and Cultural Transformation in Proust, Joyce, and Baldwin
by Cy Johnson Roullier Publisher Comments Reading on the Edge explores the notion of multiple cultural identity and exile in the work of Marcel Proust, James Joyce, and James Baldwin. Focusing on the cultural politics of modernism through the prism of cultural theory, the book reconceives each...
|
||||||
Used: $4.95 Trade Paper List Price $12.99
add to wish list |
|
Inside Narnia: A Guide to Exploring the Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
by Lewis Publisher Comments The Chronicles of Narnia series has sold over 85 million copies worldwide and single-handedly introduced people of all ages to the central doctrines of Christianity. Anticipating the December 2005 Walden Media/Walt Disney Pictures release of The Lion...
|
||||||
New: $5.95 Trade Paper
add to wish list |
|
The Narrative of Sojourner Truth
by Sojourner Truth Publisher Comments One of the most important slave narratives of all time, The Narrative of Sojourner Truth tells the story of one African American woman who struggles against the bondages of slavery in the mid-1800s. With the strength of her spirituality, Truth overcomes...
|
||||||
Used: $6.00 Hardcover List Price $85.00
add to wish list |
|
Bibliographies and Indexes in Afro-American and African Stud #62: Silence and Narrative: The Early Novels of Gertrude Stein
by Janice L Doane Publisher Comments Making use of recent feminist critical theory, Doane considers Gertrude Stein's modernist preoccupation with narrative silence in her early novels. She demonstrates the effects of this preoccupation on Stein's literary development, from the...
|
||||||
