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Book Row: An Anecdotal and Pictorial History of the Antiquarian Book Trade
by Marvin Modlin  Publisher Comments The city has eight million stories, and this one unfolds just south of 14th Street in Manhattan, mostly on the seven blocks of Fourth Avenue bracketed by Union Square and Astor Place. There, for nearly eight decades, from the 1890s to the 1960s, thrived...
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Afro-orientalism (04 Edition)
by Mullen Publisher Comments As early as 1914, in his pivotal essay "The World Problem of the Color Line," W.E.B. Du Bois was charting a search for Afro-Asian solidarity and for an international anticolonialism. In "Afro-Orientalism, Bill Mullen traces the tradition of revolutionary...
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Visiting Emily: Poems Inspired by the Life and Work of Emily Dickinson
by Sheila Coghill Publisher Comments This unique anthology gathers work by eighty poets inspired by Emily Dickinson. Beginning with Hart Crane's 1927 poem "To Emily Dickinson" and moving forward through the century to such luminary figures as Archibald MacLeish, John Berryman, Yvor Winters,...
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Shakespeare's the Taming of the Shrew (Cliffs Notes) - Study Notes - Study Notes
by Kate Maurer 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 feature glossaries and visual elements that complement the...
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Nature of Narrative (2ND 07 Edition)
by Robert Scholes Publisher Comments For the past forty years The Nature of Narrative has been a seminal work for literary students, teachers, writers, and scholars. Countering the tendency to view the novel as the paradigm case of literary narrative, authors Robert Scholes and Robert...
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Toy Medium
by Daniel Newton Tiffany Publisher Comments A brilliant philosophical, historical, and cultural analysis of artistic, poetic, and scientific attempts to manifest the immaterial and the abstract--clouds, weather, soul, spirit, particle, etc.-- by a highly regarded theorist who is a terrific writer....
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Subjectivities: A History of Self-Representation in Britain, 1832-1920
by Regenia Gagnier Publisher Comments This comparative analysis draws on working-class autobiography, public and boarding school memoirs, and the canonical autobiographies by women and men in the United Kingdom to define subjectivity and value within social class and gender in nineteenth...
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The Children's Garden Book
by Olive Percival Publisher Comments A gardener "ought to have a little make-believe," the Southern California garden maven Olive Percival mused more than eighty years ago. Inspired by this principle, she devised plans for whimsical gardens that could be created by children and adults alike....
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Scouting for Boys: a Handbook for Instruction in Good Citizenship (UK Edition)
by Robert Baden-powell Publisher Comments A startling amalgam of Zulu war-cry and Sherlock Holmes, of practical tips on health and hygiene and object lessons in woodcraft, Scouting for Boys (1908) is the original blueprint and inspiration for the Boy Scout Movement. An all-time bestseller in the...
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Jane Austen, or the Secret of Style
by D A Miller Publisher Comments "In addition to being an essential book on Austen, this is the smartest, not to mention the most stylish, discussion of style there is. Miller approaches this forbiddingly elusive concept and beautifully captures its weirdness and its emotional...
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Brave New Voices: The Youth Speaks Guide to Teaching Spoken Word Poetry
by Jen Weiss Publisher Comments Over the last several years, YOUTH SPEAKS after-school poetry workshops have helped turn hundreds of student writers into passionate poets. And now, Jen Weiss, director of YOUTH SPEAKS New York, and Scott Herndon share some of the secrets of their...
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Hopes and Impediments, Selected Essays
by Chinua Achebe Publisher Comments One of the most provocative and original voices in contemporary literature, Chinua Achebe here considers the place of literature and art in our society in a collection of essays spanning his best writing and lectures from the last twenty-three years. For...
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The Polysyllabic Spree
by Nick Hornby 
Powells.com Staff Pick Name one other book critic that consistently makes you laugh out loud without denigrating the work of his subject. Right, you can't. (If you can, please, let me know.) Hornby's monthly "What I've Been Reading" columns for the Believer magazine (collected...
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The Fall of the House of Poe: And Other Essays
by Phillip L. Roderick Publisher Comments Why was Edgar Allan Poe unable to form either emotional or sexual bonds with the women in his life? Why did he worship at the grave of his friend's mother-a woman he may have loved but who he could have never been intimate with? Why did he marry his 13...
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Reading Literature and Writing Argument (3RD 08 Edition)
by Missy James Synopsis Hear what professors have to say about "Reading"" Literature and Writing Argument 3e: " "The quality and variety and freshness of the literary selections is one of this text's biggest strengths." --KarenGardiner-University of Alabama "The authors are way...
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Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination
by Toni Morrison Publisher Comments The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "Beloved and "Jazz now gives us a learned, stylish, and immensely persuasive work of literary criticism that promises to change the way we read American literature even as it opens a new chapter in the American...
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The Geographic Imagination of Modernity: Geography, Literature, and Philosophy in German Romanticism
by Chenxi Tang Publisher Comments The Geographic Imagination of Modernity traces the emergence of the geographic paradigm in modern Western thought in the decades around 1800. This period represents an extraordinary intellectual threshold, a time when European society invented new...
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Transatlantic Literary Studies: A Reader
by Susan (edt) Manning Synopsis This groundbreaking volume is the first to define the emergent field of transatlantic literary studies. It brings together a wide range of material to explore the theoretical and literary possibilities of the transatlantic world as an arena for textual...
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Anatomy of Wonder: A Critical Guide to Science Fiction Fifth Edition
by Neil (edt) Barron Publisher Comments A classic updated, this completely revised fifth edition offers a historical perspective on science fiction plus incomparable coverage of contemporary and early SF titles....
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Uncle John's Second Bathroom Reader
by Bathroom Readers Ins Publisher Comments It's Time For #2~ That's right!...We're back flushed with the success of Uncle John's first Bathroom Reader! Here's another great collection of bathroom reading that'll bowl you over. No more frantic searches at the last minute for that perfect magazine...
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