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Vendor: 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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Vendor: 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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Vendor: Brian Nelson
ノmile Zola: A Very Short Introduction
ノmile 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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Vendor: 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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Vendor: Rod Dreher
How Dante Can Save Your Life Lib/E: The Life-Changing Wisdom of History's Greatest Poem
Author: Rod DreherISBN-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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Vendor: 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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Vendor: 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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Vendor: 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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Vendor: 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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Vendor: 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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Vendor: 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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Vendor: 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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Vendor: 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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Vendor: 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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Vendor: 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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