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Leaves of Grass 150TH Anniversary Edition
by Walt Whitman  Publisher Comments "I celebrate myself, And what I assume you shall assume, For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you. I loafe and invite my soul, I lean and loafe at my ease....observing a spear of summer grass." So begins Leaves of Grass, the first great...
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The Dramatic Works of Samuel Beckett: Volume III of the Centenary Collection of Samuel Beckett
by Samuel Beckett Publisher Comments Volume III features the dramatic works of the poet, novelist, short-story writer, playwright, translator, and critic....
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The Prince (Bantam Classics)
by Machiavelli And Donno Publisher Comments Here is the world's most famous master plan for seizing and holding power. Astonishing in its candor The Prince even today remains a disturbingly realistic and prophetic work on what it takes to be a prince . . . a king . . . a president. ...
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Life's Companion: Journal Writing as a Spiritual Quest
by Christina Baldwin Publisher Comments In this classic book you will discover the intimate journey of personal and spiritual development that is possible through the practice of journal writing. In Life’s Companion, acclaimed author Christina Baldwin offers readers guidance and...
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The Library at Night
by Alberto Manguel Publisher Comments Inspired by the process of creating a library for his fifteenth-century home near the Loire, in France, Alberto Manguel, the acclaimed writer on books and reading, has taken up the subject of libraries. “Libraries,” he says, “have...
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Minders of Make-Believe: Idealists, Entrepreneurs, and the Shaping of American Children's Literature
by Leonard Marcus Publisher Comments An animated first-time history of the visionaries--editors, authors, librarians, booksellers, and others--whose passion for books has transformed American childhood and American culture What should children read? As the preeminent children's literature...
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Unfinished Masterpiece: The Harlem Renaissance Fiction of Anita Scott Coleman
by Laurie (edt) Champion Publisher Comments An edition of the short fiction of New Mexio-born Harlem Renaissance writer Anita Scott Coleman....
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Reading Like a Writer : a Guide for People Who Love Books and for Those Who Want To Write Them (06 Edition)
by Francine Prose 
Powells.com Staff Pick Reading Like a Writer is a treasure chest. You can crack it open at any chapter and come away enriched. Prose is one of the best teachers around, and for the price of a paperback, you are getting an Ivy League education in writing. For people who love...
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Death in the Afternoon
by Ernest Hemingway Publisher Comments Hemingway's Classic Portrait Of The Pageantry Of Bullfighting. <P>Still considered one of the best books ever written about bullfighting, "Death in the Afternoon" reflects Hemingway's belief that bullfighting was more than mere sport. Here he...
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The Machine in the Garden: Technology and the Pastoral Ideal in America
by Leo Marx Publisher Comments For more than 40 years, Marx's work focused on technology and culture in 19th- and 20th-century America. This edition celebrates the anniversary of Marx's classic text, and features a new Afterword on the process of writing the book. Illustrations....
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The Arcades Project
by Walter Benjamin Publisher Comments "To great writers," Walter Benjamin once wrote, "finished works weigh lighter than those fragments on which they labor their entire lives." Conceived in Paris in 1927 and still in progress when Benjamin fled the Occupation in 1940, The Arcades Project(in...
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Ecotopia
by Ernest Callenbach
Publisher Comments Ecotopia was founded when northern California, Oregon, and Washington seceded from the Union to create a "stable-state" ecosystem: the perfect balance between human beings and the environment. Now, twenty years later, the isolated, mysterious Ecotopia...
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The Gift: Creativity and the Artist in the Modern World (Vintage)
by Lewis Hyde Publisher Comments By now a modern classic, The Gift is a brilliantly orchestrated defense of the value of creativity and of its importance in a culture increasingly governed by money and overrun with commodities. Widely available again after twenty-five years, this book...
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Collections of Nothing
by William Davies King Publisher Comments Nearly everyone collects something, even those who don’t think of themselves as collectors. William Davies King, on the other hand, has devoted decades to collecting nothing—and a lot of it. Captivated by the detritus of everyday life, King...
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Nine Gates : Entering the Mind of Poetry (97 Edition)
by Jane Hirshfield Publisher Comments Poetry and the Mind of Concentration Every good poem begins in language awake to its own connections--language that hears itself and what is around it, sees itself and what is around it, looks back at those who look into its gaze and knows more perhaps...
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The Making of a Poem (Norton Anthology)
by Mark Strand Publisher Comments Two esteemed poets collaborated on this intimate and useful anthology illuminating the history, practice, and wonder of a most elusive art. Intended for those who love poetry, including teachers, readers, writers, and students, "The Making of a Poem...
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Rules for the Dance: A Handbook for Writing and Reading Metrical Verse
by Mary Oliver Publisher Comments "True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, / As those move easiest who have learn'd to dance," wrote Alexander Pope. "The dance," in the case of Oliver's brief and luminous book, refers to the interwoven pleasures of sound and sense to be found in...
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Burning Down the House: Essays on Fiction
by Charles Baxter Publisher Comments In this book, Baxter offers several sharp, articulate, and provocative essays that examine the many forces currently shaping contemporary American fiction. As noted in The Washington Times: "What elevates this collection from the status of technical...
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Queer Pulp: Perverted Passions from the Golden Age of the Paperback
by Susan Stryker Publisher Comments Queer Pulp exposes the history of queer sexuality in mid-twentieth century American paperbacks. Historian Susan Stryker charts the rise of the queer paperback within the context of American pop- and publishing culture, with a peppy and accessible...
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The White Goddess: A Historical Grammar of Poetic Myth
by Robert Graves Publisher Comments "The White Goddess" is perhaps the finest of Robert Graves's works on the psychological and mythological sources of poetry. In this tapestry of poetic and religious scholarship, Graves explores the stories behind the earliest of European deities-- the...
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