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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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Theodor W. Adorno: One Last Genius
by Detlev Claussen Publisher Comments He was famously hostile to biography as a literary form. And yet this life of Adorno by one of his last students is far more than literary in its accomplishments, giving us our first clear look at how the man and his moment met to create andldquo...
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How Novels Work
by Oxford Publisher Comments Drawing on his weekly Guardian column, "Elements of Fiction," John Mullan offers an engaging look at the novel, focusing mostly on works of the last ten years as he illuminates the rich resources of novelistic technique. Mullan sheds light on some of the...
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Why Poetry Matters (Why X Matters)
by Jay Parini Publisher Comments Poetry doesn’t matter to most people, observes Jay Parini at the opening of this book. But, undeterred, he commences a deeply felt meditation on poetry, its language and meaning, and its power to open minds and transform lives. By the end of the...
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Secret Lives of Great Authors: What Your Teachers Never Told You about Famous Novelists, Poets, and Playwrights
by Robert Schnakenberg Synopsis In the tradition of Cormac O'Brien's bestselling "Secret Lives of the U.S. Presidents," Schnakenberg delivers uncensored profiles of the world's greatest writers, complete with hundreds of little-known, politically incorrect, and downright bizarre facts....
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Cambridge Introduction To Narrative (2ND 08 Edition)
by H. Porter Abbott Publisher Comments What is narrative? How does it work and how does it shape our lives and the texts we read? H. Porter Abbott emphasizes that narrative is found not just in literature, film, and theater, but everywhere in the ordinary course of people's lives. This widely...
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The Baum Plan for Financial Independence: And Other Stories
by John Kessel Publisher Comments "A superb satirist with a keen eye for detailing the human spirit."-Philadelphia Inquirer "Stories that liberate the mind."-The New York Times Book Review A long-awaited collection that intersects imaginatively with Pride and Prejudice, Frankenstein, The...
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German Literature (Very Short Introductions)
by Nicholas Boyle Publisher Comments German literature in all genres and from all historical periods has exerted an enormous influence on the history of western thought. From Martin Luther, Frederick Schiller, and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe to Karl Marx, Sigmund Freud, Thomas Mann, Bertolt...
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The Left-Handed Story: Writing and the Writer's Life (Writers on Writing)
by Nancy Willard Publisher Comments Praise for Nancy Willard "Willard's invention and lyricism, the splash of her wit, the glancing slyness of her dialogue, all have the fresh breath of a first-rate writer." ---New York Times Book Review "Willard's gift for seamlessly mixing the magical...
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Ours
by Cole Swensen Publisher Comments This book explores gardens, particularly the seventeenth-century French baroque gardens designed by the father of the form, Andre Le Notre. While these poems focus on such classical examples as Versailles, which Le Notre created for his principal...
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The Baum Plan for Financial Independence: And Other Stories
by John Kessel Publisher Comments These stories offer a sustained exploration of the ways gender dynamics can both empower and enslave us. Kessel's wit sparkles throughout, peaking with the most uproariously weird phone-sex conversation you'll ever read ('The Red Phone'). Grade: A...
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Rimertown: An Atlas
by Laura Walker Publisher Comments A poetic charting of Laura Walker's rural, southern hometown, Rimertown/an atlas delves into the startling landscapes created by the passage of time through people and through place; it is an atlas born of image and voice. Composed of four interwoven...
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The the Joy of Reading: A Passionate Guide to 189 of the World's Best Authors and Their Works
by Charles Van Doren Publisher Comments Charles Van Doren has laid a feast before all of us that is irresistible. -Mortimer J. Adler This engaging love letter to reading follows the great authors and classics that transformed the world: from Aristotle and Herodotus in ancient Greece to...
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Land of the Permanent Wave: An Edwin "Bud" Shrake Reader
by Edwin Shrake Publisher Comments Edwin Bud Shrake is one of the most intriguing literary talents to emerge from Texas. He has written vividly in fiction and nonfiction about everything from the early days of the Texas Republic to the making of the atomic bomb. His real gift has been to...
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Letters of the Century: America 1900-1999
by Lisa 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 Cambridge Introduction to George Eliot (Cambridge Introductions to Literature)
by Nancy Henry Publisher Comments As the author of The Mill on the Floss and Middlemarch, George Eliot was one of the most admired novelists of the Victorian period, and she remains a central figure in the literary canon today. She was the first woman to take on the kind of political and...
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The Cambridge Introduction to George Eliot (Cambridge Introductions to Literature)
by Nancy Henry Publisher Comments As the author of The Mill on the Floss and Middlemarch, George Eliot was one of the most admired novelists of the Victorian period, and she remains a central figure in the literary canon today. She was the first woman to take on the kind of political and...
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The Sonnets and Narrative Poems: The Complete Nondramatic Poetry (Signet Classics)
by William Shakespeare Publisher Comments With an introduction by W.H. Auden and commentary from Helen Vendler, among others, this volume presents all of Shakeseare's non-dramatic poetry in one place....
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The Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms
by Chris Baldick Publisher Comments From Jacques Derrida's differance to Henry James's ficelle, the vocabulary of literary theory and criticism can seem difficult if not opaque. To help remedy the average reader's bafflement, this new Third Edition of The Oxford Dictionary of Literary...
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The Journey Abandoned: The Unfinished Novel
by Lionel Trilling Publisher Comments In 1947, Lionel Trilling, the prominent literary critic, published a novel entitled The Middle of the Journey. While conducting research in the archives at Columbia University, Geraldine Murphy discovered a second novel-a clean, well-crafted "third" of a...
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