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The Perpetual Orgy: Flaubert and Madame Bovary
by Mario Vargas Llosa  Publisher Comments The book's first section is a tete-a-tete with Emma Bovary; the second traces the gestation and birth of the novel, as well as Flaubert's method, his mania for documentation, and the novel's literary sources; the third situates it in literary history...
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Popular Feminist Fiction as American Allegory: Representing National Time
by Jane Elliott Publisher Comments Offering a strikingly original treatment of feminist literature, Popular Feminist Fiction as American Allegory argues that feminist novels served as a means of narrating and negotiating the perceived decline of American progress after the 1960s. Elliott...
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Pride and Prodigies
by Andy Orchard Publisher Comments The twin themes of pride and prodigies are suggested by tracing changing attitudes towards the concept of pride and establishing a close link between the proud pagan warriors depicted in Christian tradition and the monsters they fight and with whom they...
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Introduction to Manuscript Studies
by Raymond Clemens Book News Annotation Heavily illustrated with color plates of manuscript pages and details, this oversized volume (9x12") contains an thorough presentation of the study of medieval manuscripts that will be of use to medievalists as well as their students. The process of...
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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 Delighted States: A Book of Novels, Romances, & Their Unknown Translators, Containing Ten Languages, Set on Four Continents, & Accompani
by Adam Thirlwell Publisher Comments Having slept with a prostitute in Egypt, a young French novelist named Gustave Flaubert at last abandons sentimentality and begins to write. He influences the obscure French writer Édouard Dujardin, who is read by James Joyce on the train to Trieste...
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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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Masochism: Coldness and Cruelty & Venus in Furs
by Gilles Deleuze Publisher Comments In his stunning essay, Coldness and Cruelty, Gilles Deleuze provides a rigorous and informed philosophical examination of the work of the late 19th-century German novelist Leopold von Sacher-Masoch. Deleuze's essay, certainly the most profound study yet...
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Quiet American : Text and Criticism (96 Edition)
by Graham Greene 
Powells.com Staff Pick When Graham Greene first published The Quiet American, it was largely dismissed in this country as anti-American. In 1955, that particular criticism carried substantial weight. When Joseph Mankiewicz made the novel into a film three years later, he...
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Critical Perspectives on Harry Potter
by Elizabeth E. Heilman Publisher Comments DISCLAIMER: This book is not authorized, approved, licensed, or endorsed by J.K. Rowling, Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc., or anyone associated with the Harry Potter books or movies....
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American Bloomsbury: Louisa May Alcott, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Margaret Fuller, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Henry David Thoreau: Their Lives, Th
by Susan Cheever Publisher Comments The 1850s were heady times in Concord, Massachusetts: in a town where a woman's petticoat drying on an outdoor line was enough to elicit scandal, some of the greatest minds of our nation's history were gathering in three of its wooden houses to establish...
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The Life You Save May Be Your Own: An American Pilgrimage
by Paul Elie Publisher Comments Elie tells the story of four modern American Catholics who made literature out of their search for God: Thomas Merton; Dorothy Day; Walker Percy; and Flannery OConnor....
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Medea and Other Plays (World's Classics)
by Euripides And Morwood Publisher Comments This new translation brings to life the most profound tragedies of Euripides, described by Aristotle as "the most tragic of the poets." In these plays, Euripides places his characters under the pressure of intolerable circumstances, revealing them, to...
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Clive Cussler and Dirk Pitt Revealed (Dirk Pitt Adventures)
by Clive Cussler Publisher Comments Complete with rare photos, dedications, the Clive Cussler car collection, a brief synopsis of every Dirk Pitt novel, an exclusive interview with Cussler, and Dirk Pitt trivia, this book contains a mother lode of information every fan will treasure....
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Golden Bowl (83 Edition)
by Henry James Publisher Comments Published in 1904, The Golden Bowl is the last completed novel of Henry James. In it, the widowed American Adam Verver is in Europe with his daughter Maggie. They are rich, finely appreciative of European art and culture, and deeply attached to each...
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University of Texas Press Slavic Series #1: The Dialogic Imagination: Four Essays
by M M Bakhtin Publisher Comments These essays reveal Mikhail Bakhtin (1895-1975)--known in the West largely through his studies of Rabelais and Dostoevsky--as a philosopher of language, a cultural historian, and a major theoretician of the novel. The Dialogic Imagination presents, in...
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Maps and Legends
by Michael Chabon
Publisher Comments Michael Chabon's sparkling first book of nonfiction is a love song in 16 parts — a series of linked essays in praise of reading and writing, with subjects running from ghost stories to comic books, Sherlock Holmes to Cormac McCarthy. Throughout...
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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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So Many Books!: Reading and Publishing in an Age of Abundance
by Gabriel Zaid
Publisher Comments "With cascades of books pouring down on him from every direction, how can the twenty-first-century reader keep his head above water? Gabriel Zaid answers that question in a variety of surprising ways, many of them witty, all of them provocative."-Anne...
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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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