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Book Sense Best Books, Volume 1: 125 Favorite Books Recommended by Independent Booksellers
by Book Sense  Publisher Comments Celebrating five years of the successful Book Sense program, the first compilation of "must-read" adult and children's titles selected and annotated by trusted and experienced booksellers. Book Sense, the successful national brand representing more...
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Conversations with American Writers: The Doubt, the Faith, the In-Between
by Dale Brown Publisher Comments Postmodernity has shoved a stick through the spokes of any story that tries to take us somewhere. With postmodern literary theory insistent that a story can mean nothing, serious writers see their seriousness linked to maintaining the position that their...
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Truly Tasteless Jokes #2: Truly Tasteless Jokes
by Blanche Knott Publisher Comments One book wasn't enough. Demand was too great. The truly tasteless among us insisted on more outrageous insults, crude wit, and disgusting observations. Once again, no group is spared and nothing is too sacred to be ridiculed....
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The Gernsback Days
by Mike Ashley Publisher Comments "In recent years there has been a resurgence of interest in Hugo Gernsback, and the start of a serious study of the contribution he made to the development of science fiction. . . . It seemed to me that the time was due to reinvestigate the Gernsback era...
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Fictional Death and the Modernist Enterprise
by Alan Warren Friedman Publisher Comments Death and dying once seemed definitive, public, and appropriate; but the Industrial Revolution, the Great War, and the reenvisioning of reality by scientists and philosophers destabilized cultural norms. In Fictional Death and the Modernist Enterprise...
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Her Own Life (89 Edition)
by Elspeh Graham Publisher Comments Her Own Life gathers the writings of twelve English women from the tumultuous seventeenth century. Ranging from a shipwright's daughter to a duchess, with writing styles varying from diary and prophecy to lyric poetry, these extracts uncover an ignored...
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Camden House History of German Literature #9: German Literature of the Nineteenth Century, 1832-1899
by Clayton (edt) Koelb Publisher Comments This volume provides an overview of the major movements, genres, and authors of 19th-century German literature in the period from the death of Goethe in 1832 to the publication of Freud's Interpretation of Dreams in 1899. Although the primary focus is on...
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An Introduction to Shakespeare's Late Plays
by Joe Nutt Publisher Comments "An Introduction to Shakespeare's Late Plays" provides students with detailed analyses of all four of the late plays: "Pericles," "The Winter's Tale," "Cymbeline" and "The Tempest," showing them how to approach Shakespeare's verse and consider its...
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The Jungle Books
by Rudyard Kipling Publisher Comments The Jungle Books, by Rudyard Kipling, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully...
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Mimesis and Empire: The New World, Islam, and European Identities
by Barbara Fuchs Publisher Comments Offers a comparative look at European and New World early modern culture....
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Thomas Mann's the Magic Mountain
by Hans Rudolph (edt) Vaget Publisher Comments This collection seeks to illustrate the ways in which Thomas Mann's 1924 novel, The Magic Mountain, has been newly construed by some of today's most astute readers in the field of Mann studies. The essays, many of which were written expressly for this...
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Lotman and Cultural Studies: Encounters and Extensions
by Andreas (edt) Schonle Publisher Comments One of the most widely read and translated theorists of the former Soviet Union, Yurii Lotman was a daring and imaginative thinker. A cofounder of the Tartu-Moscow school of semiotics, he analyzed a broad range of cultural phenomena, from the opposition...
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A History of English Romanticism in the Eighteenth Century
by Henry A. Beers Publisher Comments 1899. The present volume consists, in substance, of a series of lectures given in elective courses in Yale College. Contents: The Subject Defined; The Augustans; The Spensarians; The Landscape Poets; The Miltonic Group; The School of Warton; The Gothic...
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Lady Gregory's Toothbrush (02 Edition)
by Toibin Publisher Comments In this remarkable biographical essay, Colm Tóibín examines the contradictions that defined Lady Gregory, an essential figure in Irish cultural history. She was the wife of a landlord and member of Parliament who had been personally responsible for...
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Shakespeare, Bacon and the Great Unknown
by Andrew Lang Publisher Comments Contents: Baconian and anti-William positions; "silence" about Shakespeare; that impossible he, the schooling of Shakespeare; Mr. Churton Collins on Shakespeare's learning; Shakespeare, genius and society; the courtly plays, "Love's Labor's Lost...
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Nostalgia in Transition, 1780-1917 (Victorian Literature & Culture)
by Linda M Austin Synopsis Referred to long ago as a disease of Swiss soldiers and Highland regiments far from home, nostalgia became known in the 1920s as more of a fleeting rather than debilitating condition. Yet what caused this shift in our collective understanding of the term?...
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Sir Hugo's Literary Companion: A Compendium of the Writings of Hugo's Companions, Chicago on the Subject of Mr. Sherlock Holmes
by David C. Humphrey Synopsis Sherlock Holmes-No other character in literature has inspired more people to imitation, tribute, commentary, and scholarship; from the deadly serious to the absurdly humorous. This book is a collection of hard to find essays by some of the most eminent...
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Plotting Terror: Novelists and Terrorists in Contemporary Fiction
by Margaret Scanlan Publisher Comments Is literature dangerous? In the romantic view, writers were rebels -- Shelley's "unacknowledged legislators of mankind" -- poised to change the world. In relation to twentieth-century literature, however, such a view becomes suspect. By looking at a...
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Cambridge Studies in French #41: Politics and Narratives of Birth
by Carol A. Mossman Publisher Comments A feminist analysis that combines a psychoanalytic perspective on catastrophic birth with the politics of reproduction in the emergent democracy of nineteenth-century France, this book focuses on three major thinkers--Rousseau, Constant and Stendhal--and...
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Cultural History of the American Novel: Henry James to William Faulkner
by David L. Minter Publisher Comments This account of America reconstructs literary history as a cultural drama out of which novels and the events emerge as kindred forms of cultural expression....
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