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Lost Classics
by Michael Ondaatje and Michael Redhill and Esta Spalding and Linda Spalding  Publisher Comments An Anchor Books Original <BR>Seventy-four distinguished writers tell personal tales of books loved and lost-great books overlooked, under-read, out of print, stolen, scorned, extinct, or otherwise out of commission. <BR>Compiled by the...
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Why Read the Classics?
by Italo Calvino Publisher Comments From the internationally-acclaimed author of some of this century's most breathtakingly original novels comes this posthumous collection of thirty-six literary essays that will make any fortunate reader view the old classics in a dazzling new light...
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Yale Series of Younger Poets #98: The Cuckoo
by Peter Streckfus Publisher Comments The winner of this year's Yale Series of Younger Poets competition is Peter Streckfus's The Cuckoo, chosen by competition judge and Poet Laureate Louise Gluck. It is Gluck's first selection as judge. In this unforgettable, daring first collection, Peter...
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The Divine Comedy: The Inferno (Cliffs Notes) - Study Notes - Study Notes
by Nikki Moustaki Publisher Comments The original CliffsNotes study guides offer a look into critical elements and ideas within classic works of literature. The latest generation of titles in this series also feature glossaries and visual elements that complement the classic, familiar...
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Antigone's Claim (00 Edition)
by Judith P. Butler Publisher Comments The celebrated author of "Gender Trouble" here redefines Antigone's legacy, recovering her revolutionary significance and liberating it for a progressive feminism and sexual politics. Antigone has long been a feminist icon of defiance. But what has...
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Earliest English Poems 3RD Edition
by Michael Alexander Synopsis Michael Alexander has translated old English poetry into modern English and into a verse form that retains the qualities of Anglo-Saxon metre and alliteration. Included in this selection are the heroic poems such as "Wildsith", "Deor", "Brunanburn" and...
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The Robert Heinlein Interview and Other Heinleiniana
by J. Neil Schulman Publisher Comments In 1975, Robert A. Heinlein was sixty-six, at the height of his literary career; J. Neil Schulman was twenty and hadn't yet started his first novel. Because he was looking for a way to meet his idol, Schulman wangled an assignment from the New York Daily...
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Shakespearean Criticism - (1849)
by Samuel Taylor Taylor Coleridge Publisher Comments Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. Pomona Press are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original...
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You Might Be a Redneck If... (Little Books)
by Jeff Foxworthy Publisher Comments Designed to generate impulse sales, titles in this line are carefully balanced for gift giving, self-purchase, or collecting. Little Books may be small in size, but they're big in titles and sales....
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The Shih King
by James Legge Publisher Comments Heaven protects and establishes thee. It grants thee all excellence, So that thine every matter is right, And thou receivest every Heavenly favour. It sends down to thee long-during happiness, Which the days are not sufficient to enjoy....
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Hawthorne's Shyness: Ethics, Politics, and the Question of Engagement
by Clark Davis Publisher Comments Davis offers both a challenge to current trends in American literary studies and a striking new perspective on the writing of Nathaniel Hawthorne. Drawing on ethical theorists including Heidegger, Levinas, Davidson, and Cavell, he finds new models for...
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Chick Literature (06 Edition)
by Ferris Publisher Comments From the bestselling "Bridget Jones's Diary "that started the trend to the television sensation "Sex and the City "that captured it on screen, "chick lit" has become a major pop culture phenomenon. Banking on female audiences' identification with single,...
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George Eliot and Judaism: An Attempt to Appreciate 'Daniel Deronda'
by David Kaufmann Publisher Comments Subtitled "An Attempt to Appreciate Daniel Deronda" this 1888 study, published in Germany by a Jewish scholar, praised Eliot's sympathetic understanding of Judaism in her novel....
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Defining the World: The Extraordinary Story of Dr Johnson's Dictionary
by Henry Hitchings Publisher Comments Recalling the story of the first great lexicon of English, the author reveals how Samuel Johnson arduously assembled his famous eighteenth century dictionary--a task that took longer than expected but ultimately helped make English into a major European...
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Gay Cuban Nation
by Emilio Bejel Publisher Comments With Gay Cuban Nation, Emilio Bejel looks at Cuba's markedly homoerotic culture through writings about homosexuality, placing them in the social and political contexts that led up to the Cuban Revolution. By reading against the grain of a wide variety of...
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Seventeenth Century Studies - Collected Essays of Edmund Gosse
by Edmund Gosse Publisher Comments COLLECTED ESSAYS OF EDMUND GOSSE VOL. I SEVENTEENTH CENTURY STUDIES SEVENTEENTH CENTURY STUDIES BY EDMUND GOSSE, C. B. WILLIAM HEINEMANN 19 3 First Published 1883 New Impressions 1885, 1897 Fourth Edition 1913 PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION 1883 IN writing...
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Cambridge Companion To Eighteenth-century Poetry (01 Edition)
by John E. (ed.) Sitter Publisher Comments f eighteenth-century English poets....
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God's Struggler: Religion in the Writings of Nikos Kazantzakis
by Peter A Bein Book News Annotation Argues that while Nikos Kazantzakis may have occupied the so-called borderlands between belief and unbelief throughout much of his career, he nonetheless possessed, or was possessed by, an intense awareness of the sacred. These 11 essays analyze in...
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Fiction Now (Dalkey Archive Scholarly)
by Warren F. Motte Synopsis Fiction Now reports on the current states of the novel in France, taking a series of soundings within the compass of innovative French writing since 2001. Chapters focus closely upon Jean Echenoz, Marie Redonnet, Christian Gailly, Lydie Salvayre, Gerard...
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Greek Lyric Poetry: A New Translation
by Sherod Santos Publisher Comments "A magnificent achievement, better, more animated, buoyant and richly articulated than any other version I know."--Anthony Hecht This collection of classical lyric poems, translated by Sherod Santos, answers Dante Gabriel Rosetti's mandate that "The only...
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