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by Norman Podhoretz  Publisher Comments Allen Ginsberg, Lionel and Diana Trilling, Lillian Hellman, Hannah Arendt, and Norman Mailer -- all are ex-friends of Norman Podhoretz, the renowned editor and critic and leading member of the group of New York intellectuals who came to be known as "the... (read more)  List Price $25.00 Your price $11.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies 
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by Polly Nolan Publisher Comments The 14 stories in this collection range from contemporary to historical, from funny to poignant, from the south of Ireland to the north, each one reflecting some aspect of being Irish. Contributers include Siobhan Parkinson, Gordon Snell, Marilyn Taylor,... (read more) Your price $4.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Alfred Kazin Publisher Comments God and the American Writer does more to illuminate the fundamental purposes and motivations of our greatest writers from Hawthorne to Faulkner than any study I have read in the past fifty-five years--that is, since the same author's On Native Grounds. --... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price $7.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by John A Mccrossan Publisher Comments Books and reading have contributed to the success of generations of Americans, many of whom have had distinguished careers and have left their mark on history. While the accomplishments of these notable Americans are well known, their adventures with... (read more) List Price $49.95 Your price $18.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Dolores Blyth Jones Publisher Comments This unique reference work offers a comprehensive listing of all Little Golden Book titles issued from the inception of the series in 1942 through 1985. Included are all titles issued in the familiar Little Golden Book format, and various subseries such... (read more) List Price $57.75 Your price $30.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Loren Daniel Glass Publisher Comments "A richly rewarding, insightful, and engaging study." —American Literary Realism "Glass provides a novel, nuanced, and sound critical perspectives on the productive interaction of seemingly opposite forces: modernism and the mass market."—... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price $10.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Edwin Thuboo Synopsis Frankie Sionil Jos of the Philippines is among Asias leading fictionist. In a career spanning more than half a century that included editing Solidarity, which promotes writing in and about Southeast Asia, he has produced a remarkable body of fiction... (read more) List Price $28.00 Your price $9.25 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Lee Morrissey Publisher Comments The Constitution of Literature challenges the prevailing understanding of the relationship between literature and democracy during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, when both literature and democracy were acquiring their modern forms. Against the... (read more) List Price $60.00 Your price $35.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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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 $7.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Deborah Baker Publisher Comments A literary exploration of the Beats' encounter with India in the 1960s, a journey that inspired and influenced generations of Americans and Indians alike In 1961, Allen Ginsberg left New York by boat for Bombay, India. He brought with him his troubled... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price $17.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Emma Gerstein Publisher Comments Osip Mandelstam and Anna Akhmatova stood at the pinnacle of twentieth-century Russian literature, and their works continue to stand as monuments of literary achievement, yet they also suffered brutally under Stalin's regime, martyrs to its paranoia and... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price $25.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Heiner Mueller Publisher Comments Heiner Muller, East German author of Hamletmachine and Medea, was the preeminent German successor of Bertholt Brecht at the end of the twentieth century. In this collection of essays, stories, and interviews conducted by Sylvere Lotringer, Muller... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Ragai N Makar Publisher Comments 2,548 numbered entries of books, chapters in books, periodical articles, poems, and reference sources, covering all genres of literature including ballads, comedy, drama, fiction, Israeli literature, Islamic literature, biographies, Mahjar literature... (read more) List Price $75.00 Your price $24.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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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 $3.63 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by John Miska Publisher Comments This anthology is a welcome enterprise. It gives readers a representative picture of Hungarian Canadian literature. The reader will find not only the recognized masters but also the younger generation of authors and poets.... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price $4.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Andrea Loselle Publisher Comments In History's Double, Andrea Loselle looks at the relation between tourism and French literature, drawing a distinction between the tourist industry and the "true" experience of travel. Examining the work of such notable writers as Blaise Cendrars, Paul... (read more) List Price $65.00 Your price $5.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Jonathan P. Decter Publisher Comments The poetics of Iberian Jewish culture in transition between Islamic and Christian... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price $19.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Michelle Burnham Publisher Comments In a radically new interpretation and synthesis of highly popular 18th- and 19th-century genres, Michelle Burnham examines the literature of captivity, and, using Homi Bhabha's concept of interstitiality as a base, provides a valuable redescription of... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price $11.20 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Charles Bernheimer Publisher Comments Ubiquitous in the streets and brothels of nineteenth-century Paris, the prostitute was even more so in the novels and paintings of the time. Charles Bernheimer discusses how these representations of the sexually available woman express male ambivalence... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price $7.75 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Harold Bloom Publisher Comments Bloom surveys with majestic view the literature of the West from the Old Testament to Samuel Beckett. He provocatively rereads the Yahwist (or J) writer, Jeremiah, Job, Jonah, the Iliad, the Aeneid, Dante's Divine Comedy, Hamlet, King Lear, Othello, the... (read more) List Price $13.50 Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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