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The Art of the Personal Essay: An Anthology from the Classical Era to the Present
by Phillip Lopate
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The first anthology devoted to the literary form known as the personal essay. A compilation of more than 60 selections by such masters as Plutarch, Montaigne, Orwell, Baldwin, Tanizaki, and Woolf, as well as contemporary personal essayists from... ( read more)
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The Best American Short Stories 2008 (Best American Short Stories)
by Salman Rushdie
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This brilliant collection, edited by the award-winning and perennially provocative Salman Rushdie, boasts a "magnificent array" (Library Journal) of voices both new and recognized. With Rushdie at the helm, the 2008 edition "reflects the variety of... ( read more)
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The Voice That Is Great Within Us: American Poetry of the Twentieth Century (Bantam Classics)
by Hayden Carruth
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This famous anthology includes the works of more than 130 major American poets of the modern period--Robert Frost, Paul Goodman, Carl Sandburg and Gwendolyn Brooks among them--along with short biographies of each.... ( read more)
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The Best American Short Stories 2007
by Stephen King and Heidi Pitlor
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Pop-culture icon Stephen King serves as the guest editor of this popular anthology, which includes such contributors as Richard Russo, John Barth, Jim Shepard, Alice Munro, William Gay, and Mary Gordon.... ( read more)
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100 Best-Loved Poems (Dover Thrift Editions)
by Philip Smith
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Popular, well-known poetry: "The Passionate Shepherd to His Love," "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?" "Death, be not proud," "The Raven," "The Road Not Taken," plus works by Blake, Wordsworth, Byron, Shelley, Keats, many others.<BR>... ( read more)
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Dashing Diamond Dick and Other Classic Dime Novels (Penguin Classics)
by J Randolph Cox
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A one-of-a-kind compendium of popular fiction from a bygone era
Dime novels as fundamentally American as baseball and jazzwere an inexpensive and inexhaustible source of popular entertainment for millions of Americans in the late nineteenth and early... ( read more)
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The Extraordinary Tide: New Poetry by American Women
by Susan Aizenberg
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A collection of nearly 400 poems by more than 100 different writers, The Extraordinary Tide synthesizes and celebrates an entire era of poetry by women in America. Long overdue, the anthology includes America's most recognized poets as well as those... ( read more)
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The Norton Anthology of English Literature, Eighth Edition, Volume E: The Victorian Age
by Stephen Greenblatt
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Read by millions of students over seven editions, The Norton Anthology of English Literature remains the most trusted undergraduate survey of English literature available and one of the most successful college texts ever published. Firmly grounded by the... ( read more)
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In the Midst of Winter: Selections from the Literature of Mourning
by Mary Jane Moffat
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Death silences not only those it takes, but those it leaves behind: All too typically we can neither express our grief nor express sympathy for the bereaved. In his sensitive collection, toss finds a voice -- or several voices -- in the poetry, fiction... ( read more)
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The Norton Anthology of American Literature
by Nina (edt) Baym
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The Norton Anthology of American Literature is the classic survey of American literature from its sixteenth-century origins to its flourishing present. This volume—Volume D—covers American literature from 1914 to 1945.... ( read more)
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Lost Tribe: Jewish Fiction from the Edge
by Paul Zakrzewski
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<p>Funny, raw, dark, sometimes outrageous, the twenty-five contributors to <i>Lost Tribe</i> explore themes such as conflicted identities, sexual fetishes, religious intolerance, and even the troubled legacy of the Holocaust to create a... ( read more)
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The Literary West
by Thomas J Lyon
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This anthology, gathered and introduced by distinguished western scholar Thomas J. Lyon, offers the panoramic literary range of the American West, from the romance of the mythic Wild West to the present-day creative explosion of the real, diverse West... ( read more)
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The Best American Nonrequired Reading (Best American Nonrequired Reading)
by Dave Eggers
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From "Q & A" by Dave Eggers A group of senators and assemblypersons were pressing The Best American Nonrequired Reading on a number of questions relating to the collection, so we decided to kill that stone in the shape of an introduction in the shape... ( read more)
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Great Modern European Short Stories
by Douglas Angus
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Included in this brilliant collection are twenty-five stories of twentieth-century Europe by some of the greatest writers of the era. Unique in their range of insights, these pieces reflect the vast upheavals of their time, etching o fascinating and very... ( read more)
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A Stranger Among Us: Stories of Cross Cultural Collision and Connection
by Stacy Bierlein
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Thirty acclaimed writers of international fiction explore the stranger in tales of cultural clashes and bonds. These stories of disparate experience travel beyond politics and multicultural manners to become an essential discussion of otherness... ( read more)
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An Exaltation of Forms: Contemporary Poets Celebrate the Diversity of Their Art
by Annie Finch
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At once handbook, reader, and guide to the literary tastes and wisdom of poets, An Exaltation of Forms is an indispensable resource certain to find a dedicated audience among poetry lovers. The editors invited over fifty contemporary poets to select a... ( read more)
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My Mistress's Sparrow Is Dead: Great Love Stories, from Chekhov to Munro
by Jeffrey Eugenides
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"When it comes to love, there are a million theories to explain it. But when it comes to love stories, things are simpler. A love story can never be about full possession. Love stories depend on disappointment, on unequal births and feuding families, on... ( read more)
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McSweeney's #12
by Dave Eggers
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Issue 12 is made up of three parts. The first and largest section consists entirely of new writers?new to us, probably new to you, and not even well-known by their own families.
Part two is a new story from Roddy Doyle, featuring Jimmy Rabbitte of... ( read more)
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The Outlaw Bible of American Literature
by Alan Kaufman
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"The Outlaw Bible of American Literature" includes selections from literary nonconformists including Hunter S. Thompson, Lenny Bruce, Henry Miller, R. Crumb, Philip K. Dick, Jim Carroll and many others.... ( read more)
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Good Poems for Hard Times
by Garrison Keillor
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Selected for his readings on public radio's "The Writer's Almanac," the 185 poems in this follow-up to his acclaimed anthology "Good Poems" are perfect for today's troubled times.... ( read more)
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