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The Buried Book: The Loss and Rediscovery of the Great Epic of Gilgamesh
by David Damrosch  Synopsis In The Buried Book, David Damrosch, a Columbia professor of comparative literature, organizes his text as an archaeological dig, opening with a prefatory account of Austen Henry Layard's discovery and excavation of the ruins of Nineveh in the 1840s, then...
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The Meaning of Everything: The Story of the Oxford English Dictionary
by Simon Winchester Publisher Comments From the bestselling author of <BR>"The Professor and the Madman, <BR>The Map That Changed the World, "and "Krakatoa" <P> Writing with marvelous brio, Simon Winchester first serves up a lightning history of the English language and pays...
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The Politically Incorrect Guide to English and American Literature
by Elizabeth Kantor Publisher Comments Citing declining coverage of classic English and American literature in today's schools, a "politically incorrect" primer challenges popular misconceptions while introducing the works of such core masters as Shakespeare, Faulkner, and Austen, in a volume...
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How to Talk about Books You Haven't Read
by Pierre Bayard Synopsis In this mischievous book, literature professor Bayard contends that, in this age of infinite publication, the truly cultivated person is not the one who has read a book but the one who understands the books place in our culture....
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Tess of the D'Urbervilles: Classic Collection
by Thomas Hardy Synopsis Hardys harrowing novel introduced his most memorable tragic heroine, Tess, a poor but beautiful country girl who must fend for herself in a world where she is only valued for her uses to others....
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A Reader's Guide Through the Wardrobe: Exploring C.S. Lewis's Classic Story
by Leland Ryken Publisher Comments Step inside the wardrobe?.You may be surprised at what you find. In this informative book, Lewis scholar Marjorie Lamp Mead and literary expert Leland Ryken unlock the door to The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, inviting you to step inside-deeper and...
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10 Books That Screwed Up the World: And 5 Others That Didn't Help
by Benjamin Wiker Synopsis From Machiavelli to Marx, Nietzsche to Hitler, this volume offers a provocative look at some of Western civilization's most infamous authors and their literary works and shows how these works have inflicted great evil in the world---and still cause...
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How Proust Can Change Your Life (UK Edition)
by Alain De Botton Publisher Comments Double cassette, read by Samuel West....
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The Prisoner of Zenda
by Anthony Hope Synopsis A droll young English gentleman with a fascination for feudal Ruritania and a marked physical resemblance to its king impersonates the king to help defeat a plot against him, then falls in love with the kings betrothed....
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The Politically Incorrect Guide to English and American Literature
by Elizabeth Kantor Publisher Comments Citing declining coverage of classic English and American literature in today's schools, a "politically incorrect" primer challenges popular misconceptions while introducing the works of such core masters as Shakespeare, Faulkner, and Austen, in a volume...
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The Linden Tree
by Ellie Mathews Synopsis When eleven-year-old Katy Sue loses her mother to meningitis, she begins to contemplate the shape of her family and their farm through drawing, a process that allows her to accept life without her mother and to find her own role....
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Les MIS'Rables
by Victor Hugo Synopsis Hugos epic follows Jean Valjean, an honest peasant turned hardened criminal through harsh circumstances, who reforms but is pursued relentlessly by a police inspector. Famous chapters include Valjeans flight through the Paris sewers....
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Building Bridges: Stephen King Live at the National Book Awards
by Stephen King Publisher Comments "BUILDING BRIDGES"<P>Stephen King Live at the National Book Awards<P>Each Autumn, in conjunction with the conferring of The National Book Awards in Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, and Young People's Literature, the Board of Directors of the...
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Great Poetry: Poetry Is Life and Vice Versa
by Michael Enright Publisher Comments Poetry is Life, and Vice Versa is the entertaining creation of two men who share a passion for words. Dr. Bruce Meyer is an English professor, author and poet, and Michael Enright is a veteran CBC Radio host and former print journalist. In this series of...
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Jude the Obscure
by Thomas Hardy Synopsis Hardys last and most controversial novel involves the tragic relationship between Jude, who is thwarted in his ministry aspirations, and the free-thinking Sue, who is shunned for her social and sexual rebellion....
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The World of Atlas Shrugged CD
by Ayn Rand Publisher Comments Ayn Rand's famous 1957 classic, Atlas Shrugged, has become more widely read and influential with each passing year, thanks in part to its brilliant dramatization of Rand's Objectivist philosophy and its celebration of self-reliance, integrity...
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Saint Thomas Aquinas, the Dumb Ox
by G. K. Chesterton Publisher Comments Called a work of genius by fellow writers, many consider this to be the best of Chesterton's many fine books....
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My Shakespeare
by David William Publisher Comments 'My Shakespeare' is a program of words and music written and composed for and about Shakespeare. Elizabethan and Jacobean colleagues are called as character witnesses. In between, famous contributors include Coleridge, Dickens, Tolstoy, Berlioz, Virginia...
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The Truth and Fiction in the Da Vinci Code: A Historian Explores What We Really Know about Jesus, Mary Magdalene, and Constantine
by Bart D. Ehrman Publisher Comments A staggeringly popular work of fiction, Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code has stood atop The New York Times Bestseller List for well over a year, with millions of copies in print. But this fast-paced mystery is unusual in that the author states up front that...
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In the Presence of Audience: The Self in Diaries and Fiction
by Deborah Martinson Synopsis As a diary writer imagines shadow readers rifling diary pages, she tweaks images of the self, creating multiple readings of herself, fixed and unfixed. When the readers and potential readers are husbands and publishers, the writer maneuvers carefully in...
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