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All Poets Welcome: The Lower East Side Poetry Scene in the 1960s with CD (Audio) by Daniel Kane Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 273-288) and index.... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Book W/Audio Cd 
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Basil Street Blues by Michael Holroyd Synopsis 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) List Price $24.95 Your price: $3.60 Used - Hardcover
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In Lieu of Memory: Contemporary Jewish Writing in France (Judaic Traditions in Literature, Music, & Art) by Thomas Nolden Publisher Comments A wide-ranging analysis of French Jewish authors born after the Shoah, this book traces the rich development of young Jewish writing from its beginning in the late 1970s, into the 1980s and 1990s, when it gained intense momentum.... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $13.95 Used - Hardcover 
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Sylvia Beach and the Lost Generation: A History of Literary Paris in the Twenties and Thirties by Noel Riley Fitch Publisher Comments The story of Sylvia Beach's love for Shakespeare and Company supplies the lifeblood of this book. 'An absorbing book, backed by an impressive amount of research. Working from the rich collection of Sylvia Beach's papers, Noel Fitch has written an... (read more) List Price $21.95 Your price: $10.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Norman & Charlotte Strouse Edition of the Writings of Thomas Carlyle #2: Sartor Resartus by Thomas Carlyle Publisher Comments 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) List Price $103.75 Your price: $36.00 Used - Hardcover
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Side Tracks: Explorations of a Romantic Biographer by Richard Holmes Publisher Comments In 1985 Richard Holmes published a book called Footsteps, and the writing of biography was changed forever. A daring mixture of travel, biographical sleuthing, and personal memoir, it broke all the conventions of the genre and remains one of the most... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price: $5.13 Used - Hardcover
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Medievalism and the Modernist Temper by R Howard Bloch Publisher Comments 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) List Price $19.95 Your price: $5.21 Used - Trade Paper
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Sartor Resartus (Oxford World's Classics) by Thomas Carlyle Publisher Comments Sartor Resartus ("The Tailor Retailored") is ostensibly an introduction to a strange history of clothing by the German Professor of Things in General, Diogenes Teufelsdrockh; its deeper concerns are social injustice, the right way of living in the world,... (read more) List Price $10.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Romantics: England in a Revolutionary Age by E P Thompson Publisher Comments Thompson galvanized audiences in New York and in England with his unique blend of historical analysis and literary acuity as he examined the turbulent 1790s through the work of Wordsworth, Coleridge, Mary Wollstonecraft, and that of such less well-known... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $5.96 Used - Hardcover
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History of 20th Century Literature by Simon Beesley Publisher Comments 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) List Price $29.95 Your price: $14.95 Used - Hardcover
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Structure and Society in Literary History: Studies in the History and Theory of Historical Criticism by Robert Weimann Publisher Comments 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) List Price $28.95 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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A Novel Without Lies by Anatoly Mariengof Publisher Comments This frank and detailed memoir of Sergey Esenin is indispensable for anyone interested in the literary avant-garde of the twenties.... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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A Lifetime Burning Every Moment: From the Journals of Alfred Kazin by Alfred Kazin Publisher Comments 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) List Price $15.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Once Again to Zelda: The Stories Behind Literature's Most Intriguing Dedications by Marle Wagman Geller Synopsis 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) List Price $16.95 Your price: $10.95 Used - Hardcover
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A Reader's Guide to Writers' London by Ian Cunningham Publisher Comments 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) List Price $35.00 Your price: $20.00 Used - Hardcover
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Famous Irish Writers by Martin Wallace Publisher Comments 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) List Price $11.95 Your price: $3.20 Used - Hardcover
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Cult Fiction by Andrew Calcutt Publisher Comments 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) List Price $16.95 Your price: $4.38 Used - Trade Paper
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Lay of the Land: Metaphor as Experience and History in American Life and Letters by Annette Kolodny Publisher Comments 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) List Price $27.25 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Subjects and Citizens: Nation, Race, and Gender from Oroonoko to Anita Hill by Michael Moon Publisher Comments "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) List Price $30.25 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Ross and Tom: Two American Tragedies by John Leggett Publisher Comments 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) List Price $21.00 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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