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Basil Street Blues
by Michael Holroyd
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Part detective story, part family saga, and part oblique voyage into self-discovery, this memoir of an extravagant heritage is drawn from the author's parents' recollections of their early lives.... ( read more)
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Norman & Charlotte Strouse Edition of the Writings of Thomas Carlyle #2: Sartor Resartus
by Thomas Carlyle
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This is volume two of the proposed eight-volume series of the Writings of Thomas Carlyle. Sartor Resartus is arguably Carlyle's most enduring and infuential work: it made his reputation and became the inspiration for Ralph Waldo Emerson and fellow... ( read more)
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Twenty-Eight Artists and Two Saints: Essays
by Joan Acocella
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A distinguished cultural critic presents an insightful compilation of thirty-one essays in which she reflects on the life and work--and the creative process involved--of Simone de Beauvoir, Dorothy Parker, Saul Bellow, Twyla Tharp, Jerome Robbins, Susan... ( read more)
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Medievalism and the Modernist Temper
by R Howard Bloch
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While modernists are currently so mired in the question of who did what to whom during World War II that they have lost a sense of intellectual urgency, the study of medieval literature and culture has never been more alive or at a more interestingly... ( read more)
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All Poets Welcome: The Lower East Side Poetry Scene in the 1960s with CD (Audio)
by Daniel Kane
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 273-288) and index.... ( read more)
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History of 20th Century Literature
by Simon Beesley
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Poets representing war's anguish, modernists transforming the novel, Beats capturing the rhythm of the times: the 20th century witnessed some of the most diverse and experimental writing since the birth of literature. Survey this vast and varied... ( read more)
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Structure and Society in Literary History: Studies in the History and Theory of Historical Criticism
by Robert Weimann
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In "Structure and Society in Literary History" Robert Weimann, one of Germany's leading literary theoreticians, raises important questions about the social function of literature and sketches the outlines of a new historical criticism. <P>Weinmann... ( read more)
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A Novel Without Lies
by Anatoly Mariengof
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This frank and detailed memoir of Sergey Esenin is indispensable for anyone interested in the literary avant-garde of the twenties.... ( read more)
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A Lifetime Burning Every Moment: From the Journals of Alfred Kazin
by Alfred Kazin
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Alfred Kazin, one of our most distinguished critics culls half a century from his journals. Russell Baker describes Kazin's work best: "A lovely book about 20th-century life lived gracefully on the New York literary battleground, and about the universal... ( read more)
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Once Again to Zelda: The Stories Behind Literature's Most Intriguing Dedications
by Marle Wagman Geller
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A novel's dedication can say much about an author and his or her relationship to the person for whom the book has been consecrated. "Once Again to Zelda" explores the dedications in 50 iconic books, shedding light on the author's psyche, as well as the... ( read more)
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A Reader's Guide to Writers' London
by Ian Cunningham
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London has stimulated and fascinated writers from Chaucer, Dickens and De Quincey, to Orton, Orwell and more recently, Peter Ackroyd. Both a bedside companion and an imaginative travel guide, it leads you through the literary history of each district... ( read more)
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Famous Irish Writers
by Martin Wallace
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Exploring the lives and works of more than 80 Irish writers—including playwrights, novelists, short story writers, poets, essayists, historians, humorists, and philosophers—this book examines Irish writing within the context of... ( read more)
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Cult Fiction
by Andrew Calcutt
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Fans of modern literature will devour this unique and entertaining introduction to the rebel writers of fiction. Over 200 entries explore the fascinating lives of such authors as William S. Burroughs, Anaiis Nin, Kurt Vonnegut, the Marquis de Sade, and... ( read more)
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Lay of the Land: Metaphor as Experience and History in American Life and Letters
by Annette Kolodny
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An original and highly unusual psycholinguistic study of American literature and culture from 1584 to 1860, this volume focuses on the metaphor of 'land-as-woman.' It is the first systematic documentation of the recurrent responses to the American... ( read more)
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Subjects and Citizens: Nation, Race, and Gender from Oroonoko to Anita Hill
by Michael Moon
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"This superb collection demonstrates the exciting new work being done in American literary history and criticism. Its many wide-ranging, richly detailed contributions are certain to shape and extend cultural and political debates about race, class... ( read more)
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Ross and Tom: Two American Tragedies
by John Leggett
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Here, at last back in print, is the classic dual biography of Ross Lockridge and Thomas Heggen, two authors who achieved sudden fame and fortune and then self-destructed.<P>Ross Lockridge, the author of the spectacularly best-selling Raintree... ( read more)
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An Orderly Life (Pioneers of Modern U.S. Hispanic Literature)
by Jose Yglesias
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Rafe Sabas is the ideal corporate man. He is on a first name basis with the president of his company and likes to think about a deal while talking about something else. "I am not good at thinking alone," he quips, "corporate life ruins you for that... ( read more)
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An American Procession
by Alfred Kazin
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In this illuminating study of the "crucial century" (1830-1930), Alfred Kazin views the major figures in American writing, beginning in the 1830s when Ralph Waldo Emerson founded a national literature on the basis of a religious revolution, and ending on... ( read more)
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Upstate: Records and Recollections of Northern New York (New York Classics)
by Edmund Wilson
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Reprint of Wilson's 1971 collection originally published by Farrar,
Straus, and Giroux. Contains a new foreword by Richard Costa
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Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)... ( read more)
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Cassell's History of English Literature
by Peter Conrad
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A complete chronicle of the literature of the British Isles, from Beowulf to the beginning of the third millennium--all in one volume. This classic work of literary history has now been updated to cover new developments in writing over the past 20 years.... ( read more)
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