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Their Eyes Were Watching God (Cliffs Notes) - Study Notes - Study Notes
by Megan Ashe  Publisher Comments This is a deeply moving story of one woman's search for love in this world. Although narrated by Hurston, the first and last chapters are "framed" around two long-lost friends who meet on a back porch. The book is a journey through the South and a...
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Harry Potter and Philosophy (Popular Culture and Philosophy #9)
by David Baggett Publisher Comments Harry Potter has put a spell on millions of readers, and they all want to find out more about the deeper meaning of his adventures. In "Harry Potter and Philosophy," 17 experts in the field of philosophy unlock some of Hogwarts' secret panels, uncovering...
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The Outlandish Companion: In Which Much is Revealed Regarding Claire and Jamie Fraser, Their Lives and Times, Antecedents, Adventures, Companion
by Diana Gabaldon Publisher Comments "New York Times bestselling author Diana Gabaldon has captured the hearts of millions with her critically acclaimed novels, Outlander. Dragonfly In Amber, Voyager, and Drums Of Autumn. From the moment Claire Randall accidentally steps through a magical...
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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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Modern Literary Theory : a Reader (4TH 01 Edition)
by Philip (ed.) Rice Publisher Comments The new edition of this core text has been thoroughly revised and updated in light of the latest developments in the field. Covering the key theoretical approaches in modern literary theory, the text includes those essays and documents that are essential...
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Leaves of Grass: The Original 1855 Edition (Thrift Edition)
by Walt Whitman Publisher Comments "The most extraordinary piece of wit and wisdom that America has yet contributed." — Ralph Waldo Emerson. Inspired by transcendentalism, Whitman's immortal collection includes some of the greatest poems of modern times, including his masterpiece...
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Companion To Shakespeares Works Volume 4
by Richard Dutton Publisher Comments The four-volume Companion to Shakespeare's Works, compiled as a single entity, offers a uniquely comprehensive snapshot of current Shakespeare criticism. This volume looks at Shakespeare's poems, problem comedies and late plays....
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Burning Books
by Matthew Fishburn Publisher Comments Book burning is one of the taboos of modernity, due in part to its association with the Nazi book fires. This event provides the focus for a study of the broader history of destroying a book by fire, arguing for a more complex and nuanced understanding...
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Letters of the Century: America 1900-1999
by Lisa (edt) Grunwald Publisher Comments Immediate and evocative, letters witness and fasten history, catching events as they happen, write Lisa Grunwald and Stephen J. Adler in their introduction to this remarkable book. In more than 400 letters from both famous figures and ordinary citizens...
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The Beautiful Cigar Girl: Mary Rogers, Edgar Allan Poe, and the Invention of Murder
by Daniel Stashower 
Publisher Comments A gruesome murder, a stunned city, and Edgar Allan Poe come to life with vivid detail in this shocking true story. On July 28, 1841, the battered body of a young woman was found floating in the Hudson River. It was soon discovered to be the lovely...
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Uses of Literature (Blackwell Manifestos)
by Rita Felski Synopsis Uses of Literature bridges the gap between literary theory and common-sense beliefs about why we read literature. Explores the diverse motives and mysteries of why we read Offers four different ways of thinking about why we read literature - for...
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Gulliver's Travels (Oxford World's Classics)
by Jonathan Swift Publisher Comments George Orwell considered Gulliver's Travels among the six most indispensable books in world literature. Recognized as a masterpiece since it first appeared in 1726, Swift's tale of a seaman's adventures is a brilliant, biting piece of satirical writing...
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The Breaking Point: Hemingway, Dos Passos, and the Murder of Jose Robles
by Stephen Koch Publisher Comments Both a biographical portrait and history-in-miniature, "The Breaking Point" explores the time Ernest Hemingway and John Dos Passos shared in the Spanish Civil War, an ideological adventure that brought their literary rivalry to the breaking point....
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A History of the Munster Anabaptists: Inner Emigration and the Third Reich: A Critical Edition of Friedrich Reck-Malleczewen's Bockelson: A Tale of
by George B. Von Der (trn) Lippe Publisher Comments A defining work in the "Inner Emigration" literary movement, Friedrich Reck-Malleczewen's History of the Münster Anabaptists was written in 1937 as a criticism of the Nazi regime. This English translation includes documents, scholarly essays...
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Classics to Read Aloud to Your Children
by William F Russell Publisher Comments A perennially popular collection of short stories, poems, legends, and myths from great works of literature that are especially appropriate for parents to read aloud to their children aged five to twelve. Line drawings....
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The Oxford Companion to Classical Literature
by M C Howatson Publisher Comments From Achilles's heel to the sword of Damocles, Western culture teems with allusions from the rich heritage of classical literature, and this new edition of The Oxford Companion to Classical Literature, the first updating since Sir Paul Harvey's original...
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A Room of One's Own
by Woolf Publisher Comments Why is it that men, and not women, have always had power, wealth, and fame? Woolf cites the two keys to freedom: fixed income and one’s own room. Foreword by Mary Gordon....
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Hamlet: Character Studies (Character Studies)
by Michael Davies Synopsis It is an ideal introduction for students looking to develop an advanced understanding of one of Shakespeare's greatest tragedies....
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Intellectuals
by Paul Johnson Publisher Comments A fascinating portrait of the minds that have shaped the modern world. In an intriguing series of case studies, Rousseau, Shelley, Marx, Ibsen, Tolstoy, Hemingway, Bertrand Russell, Brecht, Sarte, Edmund Wilson, Victor Gollancz, Lillan Hellman, Cyril...
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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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