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50 Essays: A Portable Anthology Publisher Comments 50 Essays: A Portable Anthology directly addresses students' and instructors' concerns that composition readers are too expensive and too large. At less than half the size and price of comparable readers, 50 Essays meets the needs of a wide variety... (read more) This Edition: SOLD OUT add to wish list |
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Making of a Poem: a Norton Anthology of Poetic Forms (00 Edition) by Mark Strand Publisher Comments Two beloved and esteemed poets have collaborated on this intimate and useful anthology illuminating the history, practice, and wonder of our most elusive art. Intended for all those who love poetry, including teachers, readers, writers, and students, The... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $10.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Best American Short Stories 2012 by Tom Perrotta Publisher Comments The Best American Series® First, Best, and Best-Selling The Best American series is the premier annual showcase for the country's finest short fiction and nonfiction. Each volumes series editor selects notable works from hundreds of magazines... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Listening Is an Act of Love: A Celebration of American Life from the Storycorps Project by Dave Isay Publisher Comments “Heartfelt and ever-endearing – equal parts information and inspiration. This is a book to keep by your bedside and return to often.” -- Amy Dickinson, nationally syndicated advice columnist "Ask Amy" After a chance encounter... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Short Takes : Brief Encounters With Contemporary Nonfiction (05 Edition) by Judith Kitchen Publisher Comments Seventy-five writers including Verlyn Klinkenborg, Jo Ann Beard, David Sedaris, Dorothy Allison, Salman Rushdie, Jerry Tempest Williams, Michael Perry, Mark Spragg, and Jane Brox reflect on the power of short works to move, persuade, and change readers.... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $9.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Great Short Stories by American Women (Dover Thrift Editions) by Candace Ward Synopsis Choice collection of 13 stories includes "Life in the Iron Mills" by Rebecca Harding Davis, Zora Neale Hurston's "Sweat," plus superb fiction by Kate Chopin, Willa Cather, Edith Wharton, many others.... (read more) List Price $3.00 Your price: $1.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Portable Sixties Reader by Ann Charters Publisher Comments From civil rights to free love, JFK to LSD, Woodstock to the Moonwalk, the Sixties was a time of change, political unrest, and radical experiments in the arts, sexuality, and personal identity. In this anthology of more than one hundred selections of... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Top 500 Poems by William Harmon Publisher Comments Here, for the first time, is our generations' definitive view of the greatest poetry in the English language. This is the story of poetry in English, a collection of the best 500 poems, based not on one critic's choice, not on one poet's choice, but on... (read more) List Price $34.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Hardcover
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McSweeney's Mammoth Treasury of Thrilling Tales by Michael Chabon Publisher Comments From Pulitzer Prize-winner Michael Chabon and the editors of the award-winning iconoclastic magazine McSweeney's comes this collection of never-before-published stories from America's most popular and innovative writers reinventing the genres they love.... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $3.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Vintage Book of Contemporary American Poetry by J. D. McClatchy Publisher Comments From Robert Lowell, Sylvia Plath, and John Berryman to Allen Ginsburg, John Ashbery, and Frank O'Hara, here are the iconic poets of the past half-century, men and women who have used and reshaped the American language in all its vigorous, daring, tender,... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $10.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Ecco Anthology of Contemporary American Short Fiction by Joyce Carol Oates and Christopher R. Beha Staff Pick My favorite collection of short fiction to come along in some time. Many of the stories I've gone back to again and again over the years, and plenty more I've discovered here for the first time. The book has been on my end table for a month now, and it... (read more) List Price $18.99 Your price: $9.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Art of Personal Essay : an Anthology From the Classical To the Present (94 Edition) by Phillip (ed.) Lopate Publisher Comments 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) List Price $21.00 Your price: $11.00 Used - Trade Paper
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New European Poets by Wayne Miller and Kevin Prufer Staff Pick New European Poets is a collection whose publication is long overdue. Where else can you read contemporary poetry from Malta, Hungary, Iceland, and Belarus, not to mention Ireland, Italy, and Poland, all between the same two covers? The editors have done... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price: $10.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Good Poems by Garrison Keillor Publisher Comments Every day people tune in to The Writer's Almanac on public radio and hear Garrison Keillor read them a poem. And here, for the first time, is an anthology of poems from the show, chosen by the narrator for their wit, their frankness, their passion, their... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $12.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Portable Beat Reader by Ann Charters Publisher Comments Beginning in the late 1940's, American literature discovered a four-letter word, and the word was "beat." Beat as in poverty and beatitude, ecstasy and exile. Beat was Jack Kerouac touring the American road in prose as fast and reckless as a V-8 Chevy... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price: $10.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Believer Book of Writers Talking To Writers (08 Edition) by Vendela Vida Synopsis This collection of conversations between writers and their mentors includes Zadie Smith with Ian McEwan; Jonathan Lethem with Paul Auster; Adam Thirlwell with Tom Stoppard; Susan Choi with Francisco Goldman; ZZ Packer with Edward P. Jones; and Dave... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price: $10.00 Used - Trade Paper
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This Is Not Chick Lit: Original Stories by America's Best Women Writers by Elizabeth Merrick Publisher Comments New short stories from: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Aimee Bender, Judy Budnitz, Jennifer S. Davis, Jennifer Egan, Carolyn Ferrell, Mary Gordon, Cristina Henriquez, Samantha Hunt, Binnie Kirshenbaum, Dika Lam, Caitlin Macy, Francine Prose, Holiday Reinhorn,... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $1.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Created in Darkness by Troubled Americans: The Best of McSweeney's Humor Category by Dave Eggers and Suzanne Kleid and John Warner and Lee Epstein and Kevin Shay Publisher Comments The fine people of "McSweeney's" have put together a preposterously funny collection that offers a wealth of useful information--a consistently hilarious selection of brainy, wild humor from one of America's most popular literary magazines.... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Hardcover
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The New American Poetry, 1945-1960 by Donald Merria Allen Publisher Comments With more than 100,000 copies sold, The New American Poetry has become one of the most influential anthologies published in the United States since World War II. As one of the first counter-cultural collections of American verse, this volume fits in... (read more) List Price $40.95 Your price: $11.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Dashing Diamond Dick and Other Classic Dime Novels (Penguin Classics) by J Randolph Cox Publisher Comments A one-of-a-kind compendium of popular fiction from a bygone era Dime novels ?as fundamentally American as baseball and jazz?were an inexpensive and inexhaustible source of popular entertainment for millions of Americans in the late nineteenth and early... (read more) List Price $14.50 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
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