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Author:David S. Reynolds
Beneath the American Renaissance: The Subversive Imagination in the Age of Emerson and Melville
The award-winning Beneath the American Renaissance is a classic work on American literature. It immeasurably broadens our knowledge of our most important literary period, as first identified by F.O. Matthiessen's American Renaissance. With its combination of sharp critical insight, engaging observation, and narrative drive,...- $44.95
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Author:George Beahm
The Stephen King Companion: Four Decades of Fear from the Master of Horror
A detailed companion to the work of Stephen King, using original articles, interviews, and biographical material to show how he became America's favorite storyteller. The Stephen King Companion provides a look inside Stephen King's world. The book is a detailed look not only at...- $9.99
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Author:WR Book House
Thomas Merton on James Joyce
ISBN-10: 1666548723ISBN-13: 9781666548723Publisher: Learn25Language: EnglishPublished: 03/24/2022Format: CDWeight: 0.30lbsSize: 5.43h x 6.46w x 1.10d- $39.99
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Author:Carl Rollyson
The Life of William Faulkner: The Past Is Never Dead, 1897-1934 Volume 1
William Faulkner emerged from the ravaged South--half backwoods, half defeated empire--transforming his corner of Mississippi into the fictional Yoknapatawpha County and bestowing on the world some of the most revolutionary and enduring literature of the twentieth century. The personal story behind the work has...- $34.95
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Author:William Butler Yeats
W.B. Yeats: Selected Poems
William Butler Yeats, the first Irishman to win the Nobel Prize for Literature, is not only one of the greatest poets of the twentieth century but one of the most widely read. The landscape, myths, legends, and folklore of his homeland lie at the...- $19.95
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Author:Azar Nafisi
Read Dangerously: The Subversive Power of Literature in Troubled Times
The New York Times bestselling author of Reading Lolita in Tehran returns with a guide to the power of literature in turbulent times, arming readers with a resistance reading list, ranging from James Baldwin to Zora Neale Hurston to Margaret Atwood.[A] stunning look at...- $34.99
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Author:Andrew Neiderman
The Woman Beyond the Attic: The V.C. Andrews Story
This celebration of the woman who took us to the heights of a secluded attic and the depths of our own dark psyches reveals an intimate portrait of the famously private V.C. Andrews.Best known for her internationally, multi-million-copy bestselling novel Flowers in the Attic,...- $39.99
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Author:Janet Metzger
Essays One
A selection of essays on writing and reading by the master short-fiction writer Lydia Davis Lydia Davis is a writer whose originality, influence, and wit are beyond compare. Jonathan Franzen has called her a magician of self-consciousness, while Rick Moody hails her as the...- $39.99
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Author:Merphy Napier
On Writing and Worldbuilding: Volume I
Writing advice tends to be full of 'rules' and 'tips' which are either too broad to be helpful or outright wrong. In On Writing and Worldbuilding, we will discuss specific and applicable ideas to consider, from effective methods of delivering exposition and foreshadowing, to...- $39.99
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Author:Jason M. Baxter
The Medieval Mind of C.S. Lewis: How Great Books Shaped a Great Mind
C. S. Lewis had one of the great minds of the twentieth century. Many readers know Lewis as an author of fiction and fantasy literature, including the Chronicles of Narnia and the Space Trilogy. Others know him for his books in apologetics, including Mere...- $27.99
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Author:Maria Tatar
The Heroine with 1001 Faces
World-renowned folklorist Maria Tatar reveals an astonishing but long buried history of heroines, taking us from Cassandra and Scheherazade to Nancy Drew and Wonder Woman. How do we explain our newfound cultural investment in empathy and social justice? For decades, Joseph Campbell had defined...- $44.99
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Author:Natalie Haynes
Pandora's Jar: Women in the Greek Myths
Funny, sharp explications of what these sometimes not-very-nice women were up to, and how they sometimes made idiots of . . . but read on!--Margaret Atwood, author of The Handmaid's TaleThe national bestselling author of A Thousand Ships returns with a fascinating, eye-opening take...- $41.99
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Author:Marta McDowell
Unearthing the Secret Garden: The Plants and Places That Inspired Frances Hodgson Burnett
McDowell's gorgeous book opens an ivy-covered door to new information about one of the world's most famous authors.--Angelica Shirley Carpenter, editor of In the GardenNew York Times bestselling author Marta McDowell has revealed the way that plants have stirred some of our most cherished...- $27.99
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Author:James Baldwin
The Fire Next Time
At once a powerful evocation of his early life in Harlem and a disturbing examination of the consequences of racial injustice to both the individual and the body politic, James Baldwin galvanized the nation in the early days of the civil rights movement with...- $14.95
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Author:Olivia Laing
To the River: A Journey Beneath the Surface
Over sixty years after Virginia Woolf drowned in the River Ouse, Olivia Laing set out one midsummer morning to walk its banks, from source to sea. Along the way, she explores the roles that rivers play in human lives, tracing their intricate flow through...- $29.95
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Author:Adin E. Lears
World of Echo: Noise and Knowing in Late Medieval England
Between late antiquity and the fifteenth century, theologians, philosophers, and poets struggled to articulate the correct relationship between sound and sense, creating taxonomies of sounds based on their capacity to carry meaning. In World of Echo, Adin E. Lears traces how medieval thinkers adopted...- $48.95
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Author:Lauren Berlant
Cruel Optimism
A relation of cruel optimism exists when something you desire is actually an obstacle to your flourishing. Offering bold new ways of conceiving the present, Lauren Berlant describes the cruel optimism that has prevailed since the 1980s, as the social-democratic promise of the postwar...- $29.99
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Author:Marta McDowell
Unearthing the Secret Garden Lib/E: The Plants and Places That Inspired Frances Hodgson Burnett
McDowell's gorgeous book opens an ivy-covered door to new information about one of the world's most famous authors.--Angelica Shirley Carpenter, editor of In the GardenNew York Times bestselling author Marta McDowell has revealed the way that plants have stirred some of our most cherished...- $46.99
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Author:Bonnie Greer
Langston Hughes: The Value of Contradiction
Langston Hughes was a man far ahead of his time, but his actions were often unpredictable, contradictory and refused classification. To give an example, he campaigned tirelessly for civil rights but then testified before the controversial House Committee on Un-American Activities, seen by many...- $34.99
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Author:Bill Bryson
Shakespeare: The World as Stage
Shakespeare: The Illustrated Edition is an exquisitely illustrated, updated edition of Bill Bryson's bestselling biography of William Shakespeare that takes the reader on an enthralling tour through Elizabethan England and the eccentricities of Shakespearean scholarship. With more than 100 color and black-and-white illustrations throughout,...- $14.99
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Author:Sami Schalk
Bodyminds Reimagined: (Dis)Ability, Race, and Gender in Black Women's Speculative Fiction
In Bodyminds Reimagined Sami Schalk traces how Black women's speculative fiction complicates the understanding of bodyminds - the intertwinement of the mental and the physical - in the context of race, gender, and (dis)ability. Bridging Black feminist theory with disability studies, Schalk demonstrates that...- $24.99
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Author:Eudora Welty
One Writer's Beginnings
Featuring a new introduction, this updated edition of the New York Times bestselling classic by Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning author and one of the most revered figures in American letters is profound and priceless as guidance for anyone who aspires to write...- $29.99
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Author:Simon Jones
Don't Panic: Douglas Adams and the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Now in audiobook for the first time ever Read by Neil Gaiman and Simon Jones, the original "Arthur Dent," and written by #1 New York Times bestselling author Neil Gaiman, Don't Panic is the definitive chronicle of all things Hitchhiker.First published in 1986 and...- $39.99
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Author:Michael Schur
How to Be Perfect: The Correct Answer to Every Moral Question
From the creator of The Good Place and the cocreator of Parks and Recreation, a hilarious, thought-provoking guide to living an ethical life, drawing on 2,500 years of deep thinking from around the world. Most people think of themselves as "good," but it's not...- $29.99
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Author:Earnest Gouge
Totkv Mocvse/New Fire: Creek Folktales
Totkv Mocvse/New Fire presents the work of Earnest Gouge, an important early Creek (Muskogee) author, and makes available for the first time-in Creel and English--the myths and legends of a major American Indian tribe. In 1915, Earnest Gouge was encouraged by ethnographer John Reed...- $32.95
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Author:Jonathan Shay
Odysseus in America: Combat Trauma and the Trials of Homecoming
In this ambitious follow-up to Achilles in Vietnam, Dr. Jonathan Shay uses the Odyssey, the story of a soldier's homecoming, to illuminate the pitfalls that trap many veterans on the road back to civilian life.Seamlessly combining important psychological work and brilliant literary interpretation with...- $39.99
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Author:Azar Nafisi
Read Dangerously: The Subversive Power of Literature in Troubled Times
The New York Times bestselling author of Reading Lolita in Tehran returns with a guide to the power of literature in turbulent times, arming readers with a resistance reading list, ranging from James Baldwin to Zora Neale Hurston to Margaret Atwood.[A] stunning look at...- $39.99
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Author:Linda Lear
Beatrix Potter: A Life in Nature
In this now classic biography, Linda Lear offers the astonishing portrait of an extraordinary woman who gave us some of the most beloved children's books of all time. Beatrix Potter found freedom from her conventional Victorian upbringing in the countryside. Nature inspired her imagination...- $57.99
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Author:Brian Nelson
Émile Zola: A Very Short Introduction
Émile Zola was the leader of the literary movement known as naturalism and is one of the great figures of the novel. In his monumental Les Rougon-Macquart (1871-93), he explored the social and cultural landscape of the late nineteenth century in ways that scandalized...- $39.99
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Author:Jonathan Gottschall
The Storytelling Animal: How Stories Make Us Human
Author: Jonathan GottschallISBN-10: 8200073610ISBN-13: 9798200073610Publisher: Tantor AudioLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/24/2012Format: MP3 CDWeight: 0.15lbsSize: 6.69h x 5.28w x 0.63d- $39.99
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Author:Rod Dreher
How Dante Can Save Your Life Lib/E: The Life-Changing Wisdom of History's Greatest Poem
Author: Rod DreherISBN-10: 8200006662ISBN-13: 9798200006663Publisher: Tantor AudioLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/30/2015Format: CDWeight: 0.60lbsSize: 6.10h x 6.50w x 1.30d- $71.99
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Author:Eric Martin
The Conspiracy Against the Human Race: A Contrivance of Horror
Author: Eric Martin, Thomas LigottiISBN-10: 1665113197ISBN-13: 9781665113199Publisher: HighBridge AudioLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/02/2018Format: MP3 CDWeight: 0.20lbsSize: 6.70h x 5.40w x 0.70d- $41.99
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Author:Lisa Duggan
Mean Girl: Ayn Rand and the Culture of Greed
Ayn Rand's complicated notoriety as popular writer, leader of a political and philosophical cult, reviled intellectual, and ostentatious public figure endured beyond her death in 1982. In the 21st century, she has been resurrected as a serious reference point for mainstream figures, especially those...- $24.99
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Author:LIV Albert
Greek Mythology: The Gods, Goddesses, and Heroes Handbook: From Aphrodite to Zeus, a Profile of Who's Who in Greek Mythology
Finally sort out who's who in Greek mythology--from gods, goddesses, heroes, monsters, and everyone in between Greek mythology continues to appear in popular movies and books today but have you ever wondered about where these characters started out? Discover the origins of your favorite...- $29.99
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Author:Margaret Atwood
On Writers and Writing
What is the role of the writer? Prophet? High priest of art? Court jester? Or witness to the real world? Looking back on her own childhood and writing career, Margaret Atwood examines the metaphors which writers of fiction and poetry have used to explain...- $24.99
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Author:Angus Fletcher
Wonderworks: The 25 Most Powerful Inventions in the History of Literature
A brilliant examination of literary inventions through the ages, from ancient Mesopotamia to Elena Ferrante, that shows how writers have created technical breakthroughs--rivaling any scientific inventions--and engineering enhancements to the human heart and mind.Literature is a technology like any other. And the writers we...- $49.99
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Author:Andrew Blauner (Editor)
The Peanuts Papers: Writers and Cartoonists on Charlie Brown, Snoopy & the Gang, and the Meaning of Life
A one-of-a-kind celebration of America's greatest comic strip - and the life lessons it can teach us - from a stellar array of writers and artists Over the span of 50 years, Charles M. Schulz created a comic strip that is one of the...- $24.99
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Author:C. S. Lewis
The Reading Life: The Joy of Seeing New Worlds Through Others' Eyes
The revered teacher and bestselling author reflects on the power, importance, and joy of a life dedicated to reading books in this delightful collection drawn from his wide body of writings.More than fifty years after his death, revered intellectual and teacher C. S. Lewis...- $19.99
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Author:Edward Crankshaw
Tolstoy
Tolstoy was not always an old man--not always a bearded patriarch fixing the world with the eye of an angry ancient mariner. He started War and Peace when he was 35, and Anna Karenina was finished before he was 50. By then he had...- $9.99
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Author:Anna Pasternak
Lara: The Untold Love Story and the Inspiration for Doctor Zhivago
The heartbreaking story of the love affair between Boris Pasternak, the author of Doctor Zhivago, and Olga Ivinskaya--the true tragedy behind the timeless classic.When Stalin came into power in 1924, the Communist government began persecuting dissident writers. Though Stalin spared the life of Boris...- $39.99
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Author:Pierre Bayard
How to Talk about Books You Haven't Read
In this delightfully tongue-in-cheek book, a #3 bestseller in France, literature professor Bayard contends that, in this age of infinite publication, the truly cultivated person is not the one who has read a book but the one who understands the book's place in our...- $19.95
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Author:C. S. Lewis
The C. S. Lewis Signature Classics Audio Collection: Screwtape Letters, Great Divorce, Problem of Pain, Mere Christianity
Using allegoric narrative, stinging satire, reasoned insight, and his signature wealth of compassion, C.S. Lewis wrote highly entertaining and deeply illuminating essays and books of popular theology that revealed the shared beliefs of Christianity and explored the nature of good and evil. This collection...- $59.99
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