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Minders of Make-Believe: Idealists, Entrepreneurs, and the Shaping of American Children's Literature
by Leonard Marcus  Publisher Comments An animated first-time history of the visionaries--editors, authors, librarians, booksellers, and others--whose passion for books has transformed American childhood and American culture What should children read? As the preeminent children's literature...
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Come Buy, Come Buy: Shopping and the Culture of Consumption in Victorian Women's Writing
by Krista Lysack Publisher Comments From the 1860s through the early twentieth century, Great Britain saw the rise of the department store and the institutionalization of a gendered sphere of consumption. Come Buy, Come Buy considers representations of the female shopper in British women...
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Children's Literature: A Reader's History from Aesop to Harry Potter
by Seth Lerer Publisher Comments Ever since children have learned to read, there has been children’s literature. Its history is inseparable from the history of childhood, as children are indelibly molded by the tales they hear and read—stories they will one day share with...
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Breaking the Rules: The Printed Face of the European Avant Garde 1900-1937
by Stephen (edt) Bury Publisher Comments This volume explores the creative transformation which shook the foundations of European culture during the first four decades of the twentieth century—a revolution which encompassed fields as wide-ranging as visual art, theatre, literature...
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Friends, Writers, and Other Countrymen: A Memoir
by Sidney Offit Publisher Comments Sidney Offit has devised a marvelous mirror of his unique personality as well as a one of a kind tour of the New York literary world in the last half century. Anyone even faintly interested in books will find it impossible to put down.---Thomas Fleming...
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A Brief Introduction to Modern Arabic Literature (Brief Introduction)
by David Tresilian Publisher Comments This short book offers a unique overview of modern Arabic literature, focusing on developments over the last fifty years and providing a guide to the literary landscape, indicating the major landmarks in the shape of authors, ideas, and debates. This is...
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The Columbia Literary History of Eastern Europe Since 1945
by Harold B Segel Publisher Comments Covering Albania, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, the Czech Republic, East Germany, Hungary, Lithuania, Macedonia, Poland, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, and Ukraine, Harold B. Segel, a longtime scholar of Slavic literatures and of...
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Chronicles of My Life: An American in the Heart of Japan
by Donald Keene Publisher Comments I sometimes think that if, as the result of an accident, I were to lose my knowledge of Japanese, there would not be much left for me. Japanese, which at first had no connection with my ancestors, my literary tastes, or my awareness of myself as a person,...
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Medieval Texts and Cultures of Northern Europe #17: The Narrator, the Expositor, and the Prompter in European Medieval Theatre
by Philip Butterworth Synopsis This volume examines the role of the prompter who operated in full view of the audience and offered all the lines to the players. Such a role and its function is fascinating, not only in its own right, but also in relation to how it might inform us about...
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