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Norton Anthology of English Literature, Major Authors, Volume B (8TH 06 Edition)
by Stephen (ed.) Greenblatt  Publisher Comments The classic survey of English literature in a vibrant new edition, with Stephen Greenblatt as general editor. <BR>A legendary bestseller for more than forty years, "The Norton Anthology of English Literature" is the classic survey to the field from...
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Man Is Wolf to Man
by Janusz Bardach Publisher Comments The gripping tale of a man's ability to survive the hard labor camps of the Soviet gulag....
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Motivation and Narrative in Herodotus (Oxford Classical Monographs)
by Emily Baragwanath Publisher Comments In his extraordinary story of the defence of Greece against the Persian invasions of 490-480 BC Herodotus sought to communicate not only what happened, but also the background of thoughts and perceptions that shaped those events and became critical to...
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Anglophilia: Deference, Devotion, and Antebellum America
by Elisa Tamarkin Review "Anglophilia takes a commonsensical subject-nineteenth-century adulation for and emulation of British culture-and shows us both why it doesn't mean what we thought and why it's worthy of closer study and more careful attention. This is a rare gem of a...
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The Trophies of the Martyrs: An Art Historical Study of Early Christian Silver Reliquaries
by Galit Noga-banai Synopsis In this pioneering study, the first of its kind, Galit Noga-Banai analyses silver reliquaries decorated with Christian figurative themes. She offers a clearer and more detailed picture of the beginnings of the cult of relics, which were an essential...
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The Art of Fact: A Historical Anthology of Literary Journalism
by Kevin Kerrane and Ben Yagoda Publisher Comments The Art of Fact is a historical treasury tracing literary journalism back to such pioneers as Defoe, Dickens, Orwell, and to crime writers, investigative social reporters, and war correspondents who stretched the limits of style and even propriety to...
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Illuminations (69 Edition)
by Walter Benjamin Publisher Comments Walter Benjamin was one of the most original cultural critics of the twentieth century. Illuminations includes his views on Kafka, with whom he felt a close personal affinity; his studies on Baudelaire and Proust; and his essays on Leskov and on Brecht's...
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The Writing of the Disaster : L'Ecriture Du Desastre
by Maurice Blanchot Publisher Comments < div> Modern history is haunted by the disasters of the century& #8212; world wars, concentration camps, Hiroshima, and the Holocaust& #8212; grief, anger, terror, and loss beyond words, but still close, still impending. How can we write...
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Violence and the Sacred
by Rene Girard Publisher Comments This brilliant study of good and evil examines the presence of ritual violence in sacred ceremony....
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Proofs and Theories: Essays on Poetry
by Louise Gluck 
Powells.com Staff Pick These essays share the same deftness, brevity, and perception that make Louise Gluck's poems so remarkable. Ranging from near-memoir to academic writing on past poets to the challenges contemporary poetry face, Proofs and Theories is a wonderful little...
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Walter Benjamin Selected Writings, Volume 1, 1913-1926
by Walter Benjamin Publisher Comments Walter Benjamin was one of the most original and important critical voices of the twentieth century, but until now only a few of his writings have been available in English. Harvard University Press has now undertaken to publish a significant portion of...
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The Great War and Modern Memory
by Paul Fussell Publisher Comments The year 2000 marks the twenty-fifth anniversary of the publication of The Great War and Modern Memory, winner of the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and recently named by the Modern Library one of the twentieth century's 100...
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Writings From the New Yorker 1925-1976
by E. B. White Publisher Comments Beautifully written, full of vitality, humor, love of life, and the free spirit, these short pieces are classics meant to be read and re-read with great delight. "There of the country's great literary treasures".--New York Times....
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The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Modern Library Classics)
by Ralph Waldo Emerson Publisher Comments The definitive collection of Emerson's major speeches, essays, and poetry, The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson chronicles the life's work of a true "American Scholar." <BR>As one of the architects of the transcendentalist movement...
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In a Queer Time and Place : Transgender Bodies, Subcultural Lives (05 Edition)
by Judith Halberstam Publisher Comments In her first book since the critically acclaimed Female Masculinity, Judith Halberstam examines the significance of the transgender body in a provocative collection of essays on queer time and space. She presents a series of case studies focused on the...
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Room of One's Own (05 Edition)
by Virginia Woolf Publisher Comments In A Room of One's Own, Virginia Woolf imagines that Shakespeare had a sister: a sister equal to Shakespeare in talent, equal in genius, but whose legacy is radically different.This imaginary woman never writes a word and dies by her own hand, her genius...
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Return of the Shadow #1: The Return of the Shadow: The History of the Lord of the Rings, Part One
by J. R. R. Tolkien Publisher Comments In this sixth volume of The History of Middle-earth the story reaches The Lord of the Rings. In The Return of the Shadow (an abandoned title for the first volume) Christopher Tolkien describes, with full citation of the earliest notes, outline plans, and...
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Derrida's "Of Grammatology" (Indiana Philosophical Guides)
by Arthur Bradley Synopsis Everything you need to know about Derrida's "Of Grammatology" in one volume...
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Chaucerian Spaces: Spatial Poetics in Chaucer's Opening Tables (Suny Series in Medieval Studies)
by William F. Woods Synopsis Examines affect and the significance of space and place in the first six Canterbury Tales....
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Americans in Paris: A Literary Anthology
by Adam Gopnik Publisher Comments From the earliest years of the American republic, Paris has provoked an extraordinary American literary response. An almost inevitable destination for writers and thinkers, Paris has been many things to many Americans: a tradition-bound bastion of the...
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