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By the Book: Writers on Literature and the Literary Life from The New York Times Book Review

Price: $3.95

Publisher: Henry Holt and Co. : October 2014

Seller ID: 144163

ISBN-13: 9781627791458

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Sixty-five of the world's leading writers open up about the books and authors that have meant the most to themEvery Sunday, readers of The New York Times Book Review turn with anticipation to see which novelist, historian, short story writer, or artist will be the subject of the popular By the Book feature. These wide-ranging interviews are conducted by Pamela Paul, the editor of the Book Review, and here she brings together sixty-five of the most intriguing and fascinating exchanges, featuring personalities as varied as David Sedaris, Hilary Mantel, Michael Chabon, Khaled Hosseini, Anne Lamot...
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Library of Classic American Literature

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Publisher: Courage Books : September 2000

Seller ID: 99506

ISBN-13: 9780762408740

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

This impressive volume contains an all-star collection of American authors and their greatest works, unabridged: The Call of the Wild by Jack London; The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane; Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton; My Antonia by Willa Cather; Walden by Henry David Thoreau; The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain; The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne; and Collected Short Stories by Edgar Allan Poe.
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Longman Anthology of British Literature, Volume 1C, The: The Restoration and the Eighteenth Century

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Publisher: Pearson : July 2009

Seller ID: 99474

ISBN-13: 9780205655274

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Key Benefit: The Fourth Edition builds upon the strengths of previous editions with its sustained attention to the context in which the literature was produced and its broadened scope of literature that includes the full cultural diversity of the British Isles. Key Topics: Includes canonical authors and newly visible authors. Extensive selections from previously underrepresented female writers are fully integrated. New "Responses" readings group works that were based on earlier writings to link works across time and place. "Perspectives" readings are broad groupings that illuminate underlying ...
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The Portable American Realism Reader (Portable Library)

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Publisher: Penguin Classics : December 1997

Seller ID: 100486

ISBN-13: 9780140268300

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

During the pivotal period of America's international emergence, between the Civil War and WWI, the aligned literary movements of Realism and Naturalism not only shaped the national literature of the age, but also left an indelible and far-reaching influence on twentieth-century American and world literature. Seeking to strip narrative from pious sentimentalities, and, according to William Dean Howells, to paint life as it is, and human feelings in their true proportion and relation, Realism is best represented by this volume's masterly pieces by Twain, Henry James, Stephen Crane, Kate Chopin, ...
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Women and Literature in Britain, 1500-1700

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Publisher: Cambridge University Press : November 1996

Seller ID: 193279

ISBN-13: 9780521467773

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

This is the first comprehensive introduction to the works and social contexts of women writers in early modern Britain, a paradoxical period when it was considered unfeminine to write and yet women were the authors of many poems, translations, conduct books, autobiographies, plays, pamphlets and other texts. Leading scholars examine the history of women's role in and access to literary culture, and the work of individual women writers. A unique chronology offers a woman-centered perspective on historical and literary events, and there is a guide to further reading.
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Literary Feuds: A Century of Celebrated Quarrels--From Mark Twain to Tom Wolfe

By: Arthur, Anthony

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Publisher: Thomas Dunne Books : December 2002

Seller ID: 193277

ISBN-13: 9780312272098

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

A submarine's deadliest antagonist is another sub. Some of our most illustrious writers have tried their best to sink their enemies, using all the weapons at their command-wit, humor, sarcasm, invective, and the occasional right cross to the jaw. In these eight profiles of quarrels between famous authors, Anthony Arthur draws on a lifetime of reading and teaching their works to describe the feuds as lively duels of strong personalities. Going beyond mere gossip, he provides insights into the issues that provoked the quarrels-Soviet communism, World War II, and the natural tension between the c...
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Inside 'The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe': Myths, Mysteries, and Magic from the Chronicles of Narnia

By: Bell, James Stuart

Price: $2.50

Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin : November 2005

Seller ID: 24455

ISBN-13: 9780312347444

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

Garden Of Virtues

By: Brown, Carolyn C.

Price: $1.95

Publisher: Abingdon Press : February 1996

Seller ID: 126857

ISBN-13: 9780687017362

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

Arranged around the virtues of prudence, justice, temperance, fortitude, faith, hope, and charity, A Child's Garden of Virtues includes Bible stories, classic and historical stories, poetry, and Scripture -- all written in easy-to-understand language.

A Garden of Virtues offers stories, poems, encouraging quotations, Scripture verses, and inspirational anecdotes to help readers focus on all dimensions of a virtuous life.

A Garden of Virtues collection includes the following items in the quantities indicated in parentheses. Items may be ordered individually.
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Spiritual Literacy: Reading the Sacred in Everyday Life

By: Brussat, Mary Ann,Brussat, Frederic

Price: $2.95

Publisher: Scribner : November 1996

Seller ID: 30238

ISBN-13: 9780684815336

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

This rich treasury of inspirational readings answers the universal question: How can I live a spiritual life every day?
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American Bloomsbury: Louisa May Alcott, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Margaret Fuller, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Henry David Thoreau: Their Lives, Their Loves, Their Work

By: Cheever, Susan

Price: $2.95

Publisher: Simon & Schuster : December 2006

Seller ID: 105324

ISBN-13: 9780743264617

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Even the most devoted readers of nineteenth-century American literature often assume that the men and women behind the masterpieces were as dull and staid as the era's static daguerreotypes. Susan Cheever's latest work, however, brings new life to the well-known literary personages who produced such cherished works as "The Scarlet Letter, Moby-Dick, Walden," and "Little Women." Rendering in full color the tumultuous, often scandalous lives of these volatile and vulnerable geniuses, Cheever's dynamic narrative reminds us that, while these literary heroes now seem secure of their spots in the ca...
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The Romance of the Colorado River (Classics of the Old West)

By: Dellenbaugh, Frederick Samuel

Price: $8.00

Publisher: Time-Life Books : January 1982

Seller ID: 138899

ISBN-13: 9780809440023

Binding: Novelty

Condition: Used - Good

All Things Shining: Reading the Western Classics to Find Meaning in a Secular Age

By: Dreyfus, Hubert,Kelly, Sean Dorrance

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Publisher: Free Press : August 2011

Seller ID: 102583

ISBN-13: 9781416596165

Binding: Trade Paperback

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An inspirational book that is "a smart, sweeping run through the history of Western philosophy. Important for the way it illuminates life today and for the controversial advice it offers on how to live" (The New York Times). "What constitutes human excellence?" and "What is the best way to live a life?" These are questions that human beings have been asking since the beginning of time. In their critically acclaimed book, All Things Shining, Hubert Dreyfus and Sean Dorrance Kelly argue that our search for meaning was once fulfilled by our responsiveness to forces greater than ourselves, whether...
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The Bibliophile's Devotional: 365 Days of Literary Classics

By: Ephron, Hallie

Price: $2.95

Publisher: Adams Media : October 2009

Seller ID: 233605

ISBN: 045079101050

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Bridges to Literature, Level 3

By: Green, Jane

Price: $1.95

Publisher: McDougal Littell : January 2002

Seller ID: 143856

ISBN-13: 9780618087358

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

The Charles Dickens Encyclopaedia

By: Hardwick, Michael & Mollie.

Price: $2.95

Publisher: Futura : January 1990

Seller ID: 100298

ISBN-13: 9780708848968

Binding: Trade Paperback

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It's Greek to Me

By: Macrone, Michael,Lulevitch, Tom

Price: $2.95

Publisher: Harper Paperbacks : May 1994

Seller ID: 24433

ISBN-13: 9780062720443

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

From Homer's Iliad (bite the dust) to Plato's Phaedo (swan song), this fascinating fun-filled sequel to Brush Up Your Shakespeare reveals the classical origins of many common English phrases. Macrone is an erudite guide.--San Francisco Chronicle. 40 illustrations.
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Death Valley in '49 (1849): Important chapter of California pioneer history (Classics of the Old West)

By: Manly, William Lewis

Price: $8.00

Publisher: Time-Life Books : January 1982

Seller ID: 138894

ISBN-13: 9780809440252

Binding: Novelty

Condition: Used - Good

The True Country: Themes in the Fiction of Flannery O'Connor

By: Martin, Carter W.

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Publisher: Vanderbilt University Press : March 1969

Seller ID: 94983

ISBN-13: 9780826512499

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Intended for a general audience as well as the scholar and student, this first full-length study of Flannery O'Connor's fiction available again in a paperback edition.
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The Western Lit Survival Kit: An Irreverent Guide to the Classics, from Homer to Faulkner

By: Newman, Sandra

Price: $3.50

Publisher: Avery : January 2012

Seller ID: 99602

ISBN-13: 9781592406944

Binding: Trade Paperback

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A side-splitting tour that makes it a blast to read the Western literary canon, from the ancient Greeks to the Modernists. To many, the Great Books evoke angst: the complicated Renaissance dramas we bluffed our way through in college, the dusty Everyman's Library editions that look classy on the shelf but make us feel guilty because they've never been opened. On a mission to restore the West's great works to their rightful place (they were intended to be entertaining ), Sandra Newman has produced a reading guide like no other. Beginning with Greek and Roman literature, she takes readers throu...
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The Western Lit Survival Kit: An Irreverent Guide to the Classics, from Homer to Faulkner

By: Newman, Sandra

Price: $3.50

Publisher: Avery : January 2012

Seller ID: 99639

ISBN-13: 9781592406944

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

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