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Ethan Frome (95 Edition)
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Ethan Frome (95 Edition)
by Edith Wharton

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Set against the bleak winter landscape of New England, Ethan Frome tells the story of a poor farmer, lonely and downtrodden, his wife Zeena, and her cousin, the enchanting Mattie Silver. In the playing out of this short novel's powerful and engrossing...
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Shakespeare and Republicanism
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Shakespeare and Republicanism
by Andrew Hadfield

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Andrew Hadfield reveals for the first time exactly how Shakespeare was influenced by contemporary strands in political thought critical of the English crown. Although he was often seen as a conservative political thinker characterized by an over-riding...
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Shakespeare Lexicon and Quotation Dictionary, Vol. 2
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Shakespeare Lexicon and Quotation Dictionary, Vol. 2
by Alexander Schmidt

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Volume 2 of massive work by a leading Shakespeare scholar and lexicographer, a standard in the field, provides full definitions, locations, and shades of meaning in every word in Shakespeare's plays and poems.<BR>...
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The Stanley Fish Reader (Blackwell Readers)
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The Stanley Fish Reader (Blackwell Readers)
by Stanley Fish

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"The Stanley Fish Reader" assembles for the first time the best work of this brightest intellectual light....
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The Aunt Lute Anthology of U.S. Women Writers, Volume Two: 20th Century
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The Aunt Lute Anthology of U.S. Women Writers, Volume Two: 20th Century
by Lisa Maria (edt) Hogeland

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A comprehensive collection of twentieth-century US women's writing, this volume contains works by over 150 women writing in a variety of genres. Works include not only fiction, drama, and poetry, but various nonfiction forms (autobiography, movement...
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Blending Genre, Altering Style : Writing Multigenre Papers (00 Edition)
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Blending Genre, Altering Style : Writing Multigenre Papers (00 Edition)
by Tom Romano

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For Tom Romano, the multigenre paper is much more than a writing assignment. It is a multilayered, multivoiced literary experience. Genres of narrative thinking require writers to make an imaginative leap, melding the factual with the imaginative...
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Great Gatsby (92 Edition)
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Great Gatsby (92 Edition)
by F. Scott Fitzgerald

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The exemplary novel of the Jazz Age, F. Scott Fitzgeralds' third book, The Great Gatsby (1925), stands as the supreme achievement of his career. T. S. Eliot read it three times and saw it as the "first step" American fiction had taken since Henry James;...
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The Road to Dune
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The Road to Dune
by Frank Herbert and Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson

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Frank Herbert's Dune is widely known as the science fiction equivalent of The Lord of the Rings. Now The Road to Dune is a companion work comparable to The Silmarillion, shedding light on and following the remarkable development of the bestselling...
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Aspects of the Novel
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Aspects of the Novel
by E M Forster

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Forster’s lively, informed originality and wit have made this book a classic. Avoiding the chronological approach of what he calls “pseudoscholarship,” he freely examines aspects all English-language novels have in common: story, people,...
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Land of the Permanent Wave: An Edwin
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Land of the Permanent Wave: An Edwin "Bud" Shrake Reader
by Edwin Shrake

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Edwin Bud Shrake is one of the most intriguing literary talents to emerge from Texas. He has written vividly in fiction and nonfiction about everything from the early days of the Texas Republic to the making of the atomic bomb. His real gift has been to...
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Strange Things the Malevolent North in C
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Strange Things the Malevolent North in C
by Margaret Atwood

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A superb exploration of stories and storytelling, myths and their reinventions and the strangeness of the Canadian North....
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Dead Subjects: Toward a Politics of Loss in Latino Studies
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Dead Subjects: Toward a Politics of Loss in Latino Studies
by Antonio Viego

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Dead Subjects is an impassioned call for scholars in critical race and ethnic studies to engage with Lacanian psychoanalytic theory. Antonio Viego argues that Lacanian theory has the potential to begin rectifying the deeply flawed way that ethnic and...
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Apostles of Modernity: American Writers in the Age of Development
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Apostles of Modernity: American Writers in the Age of Development
by Guy Reynolds

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Following World War II, Americans entertained a far more international political, cultural, and intellectual awareness as well as a greater fascination with development, progress, and modernity than ever before. In a revisionist account that takes...
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Come, Tell Me How You Live: an Archaeological Memoir (UK Edition)
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Come, Tell Me How You Live: an Archaeological Memoir (UK Edition)
by Agatha Christie

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Agatha Christie was already known as a crime writer when she accompanied her husband, Max Mallowan, to Syria and Iraq in the 1930s. She took great interest in his excavations, and when friends asked what her strange life was like, she decided to answer...
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Literature, Compact Edition (5TH 07 Edition)
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Literature, Compact Edition (5TH 07 Edition)
by X. Kennedy

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  The concise version of the discipline' s most popular introductory anthology, Kennedy/Gioia’ s Literature, Compact Edition continues to inspire students with engaging insights on reading and writing about stories, poems, and plays. ...
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Can Poetry Matter?: Essays on Poetry and American Culture
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Can Poetry Matter?: Essays on Poetry and American Culture
by Dana Gioia

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In 1991, Dana Gioia's provocative essay "Can Poetry Matter?" was published in the "Atlantic Monthly," and received more public response than any other piece in the magazine's history. In his book, Gioia more fully addressed the question: Is there a place...
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How Proust Can Change Your Life
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How Proust Can Change Your Life
by Alain de Botton

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As relevant today as they were at the turn of the century, Proust's life and work are transformed here into a no-nonsense guide to, among other things, enjoying your vacation, reviving a relationship, achieving original and uncliched articulation, being...
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Who Killed Albus Dumbledore?: What Really Happened in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince? Six Expert Harry Potter Detectives Examine the Evidenc
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Who Killed Albus Dumbledore?: What Really Happened in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince? Six Expert Harry Potter Detectives Examine the Evidenc
by John Granger

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Six fan-theorists attempt to unravel the clues of THE HALF-BLOOD PRINCE. Joyce Odell of Red Hen Productions, Daniella Teo of Mugglenet, Sally M. Gallo of The Leaky Cauldron, Wendy B. Harte and the mysterious "Swythyv" - along with editor, John Granger...
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An Introduction to Poetry
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An Introduction to Poetry
by X. J. Kennedy

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Kennedy/Gioia' s An Introduction to Poetry, 12e continues to inspire readers and writers with a rich collection of poems and engaging insights on reading, analyzing, and writing about poetry.               ...
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Norton Anthology of Poetry (5TH 05 Edition)
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Norton Anthology of Poetry (5TH 05 Edition)
by Margaret Ferguson

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Long the classic anthology of poetry in English, "The Norton Anthology of Poetry, Fifth Edition, adds to its wealth of known and loved poems a rich gathering of new poetry. Beginning with "Beowulf, newly represented by selections from Seamus Heaney's...
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