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Exile's Return: A Literary Odyssey of the 1920s (Penguin Twentieth Century Classics) by Malcolm Cowley About the Author Malcolm Cowley (1898-1989) a leadiing literary figure of his time, wrote numerous books of literary criticism, essays, and poetry.... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper add to wish list |
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One Drop: My Father's Hidden Life -- A Story of Race and Family Secrets by Bliss Broyard Publisher Comments Two months before he died of cancer, renowned literary critic Anatole Broyard called his grown son and daughter to his side, intending to reveal a secret he had kept all their lives and most of his own: he was black. But even as he lay dying, the truth... (read more) List Price $24.99 Your price: $6.95 Used - Hardcover add to wish list |
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The List: The Uses and Pleasures of Cataloguing by Robert E Belknap Publisher Comments “I am no more lonely than the Mill Brook, or a weathercock, or the north star, or the south wind, or an April shower, or a January thaw, or the first spider in a new house,” wrote Henry David Thoreau in Walden. In creating this list, and many... (read more) List Price $38.50 Your price: $4.95 Used - Hardcover add to wish list |
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Bloomsbury Recalled by Quentin Bell Publisher Comments In Bloomsbury Recalled, Quentin Bell has written an extraordinary memoir of the circle of intellectuals in London early in this century know as the Bloomsbury group. Bell offers remarkable judgments about and recollections of each of the notable people... (read more) List Price $29.00 Your price: $8.50 Used - Trade Paper add to wish list |
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Modernism: A Guide to European Literature 1890-1930 by Malcolm Bradbury Publisher Comments The Modern movement in the arts transformed consciousness and artistic form just as the energies of modernity--scientific, technological, philosophical, political--transformed for ever the nature, the speed, the sensation of human life, ' write the... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price: $8.50 Used - Trade Paper add to wish list |
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The Birth of the Beat Generation: Visionaries, Rebels, and Hipsters, 1944-1960 by Steven Watson Publisher Comments The second volume in the acclaimed series that brings to life the groups of avant-garde writers, artists, and patrons who were keystones of what has come to be called Modernism, this book sheds new light on the hard-living, maverick poets and novelists... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper add to wish list |
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Milking the Moon: A Southerner's Story of Life on This Planet by Eugene Walter Publisher Comments “I’ve had a great life, and it all happened because I didn’t plan any of it.” -- Eugene Walter Eugene Walter was the best-known man you’ve never heard of. In his 76 years, he ate of “the ripened heart of life,”... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $8.50 Used - Hardcover add to wish list |
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Middle English Literature: An Historical Sourcebook by Goldie Publisher Comments This collection of fourteenth- and fifteenth-century documents is designed for students of Chaucer and Middle English literature. It makes readily available accounts of key historical events and descriptions of pertinent cultural phenomena. Brings... (read more) List Price $45.95 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper add to wish list |
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The Imprint of Alan Swallow: Quality Publishing in the West by Dale W Nelson Book News Annotation This biography follows the career of Swallow (1915-1966) from his early days as a poet, to his pioneering work as a publisher in Colorado. Nelson, a reporter with the Associated Press for forty years and the author of numerous books, argues that... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $9.50 Used - Hardcover add to wish list |
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From Birdwomen to Skygirls: American Girls' Aviation Stories by Fred Erisman Publisher Comments Close on the heels of the American public’s early enthusiasm over the airplane came aviation stories for the young. From 1910 until the early 1960s, they exalted flight and painted the airplane as the most modern and adventuresome of machines... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $9.50 Used - Hardcover add to wish list |
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The Company They Kept: Writers on Unforgettable Friendships by Robert B Silvers Publisher Comments Now in paperback Many of the illustrious contributors to The New York Review of Books have had deep and abiding relationships-both personal and intellectual-with other poets, writers, artists, composers, and scientists of equal stature. The Company They... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper add to wish list |
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The Rhetoric of English India by Sara Suleri Publisher Comments Tracing a genealogy of colonial discourse, Suleri focuses on paradigmatic moments in the multiple stories generated by the British colonization of the Indian subcontinent. Both the literature of imperialism and its postcolonial aftermath emerge here as a... (read more) List Price $32.50 Your price: $11.95 Used - Trade Paper add to wish list |
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The Fifties: From Notebooks and Diaries of the Period by Edmund Wilson Publisher Comments This is the highly acclaimed fourth volume in the series that began with The Twenties and it is complimented with photographs and journal excerpts of some of the most interesting characters of the decade.... (read more) List Price $40.00 Your price: $8.95 Used - Mass Market add to wish list |
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One Drop: My Father's Hidden Life--A Story of Race and Family Secrets by Bliss Broyard Synopsis A father's stunning secret sparks a life-transforming journey in this story of race, identity, and the American dream. Broyard tries to make sense of her father's choices and the impact of his revelation on her own life.... (read more) List Price $15.99 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper add to wish list |
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A Book of Secrets: Illegitimate Daughters, Absent Fathers by Michael Holroyd Publisher Comments A Time Top Ten Nonfiction Book of 2011 A Seattle Times Best Book of 2011On a hill above the Italian village of Ravello sits the Villa Cimbrone, a place of fantasy and make-believe. The characters who move through Michael Holroyds new book are destined... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $17.95 Used - Hardcover add to wish list |
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Young Romantics by Daisy Hay Publisher Comments Young Romantics tells the story of the interlinked lives of the young English Romantic poets from an entirely fresh perspective—celebrating their extreme youth and outsize yearning for friendship as well as their individuality and political... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price: $12.50 Used - Trade Paper add to wish list |
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Reading for Realism: The History of A U.N. Literary Institution, 1850-1910 (New Americanists) by Nancy Glazener Publisher Comments Reading for Realism presents a new approach to U.S. literary history that is based on the analysis of dominant reading practices rather than on the production of texts. Nancy Glazener’s focus is the realist novel, the most influential literary form... (read more) List Price $31.25 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper add to wish list |
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Disturbing Calculations: The Economics of Identity in Postcolonial Southern Literature, 1912-2002 by Melanie R Benson Publisher Comments In Thomas Wolfes Look Homeward, Angel, Margaret Leonard says, “Never mind about algebra here. Thats for poor folks. Theres no need for algebra where two and two make five.” Moments of mathematical reckoning like this pervade twentieth-century... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $9.50 Used - Trade Paper add to wish list |
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Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great: English Authors by Elbert Hubbard Publisher Comments William Morris; Robert Browning; Alfred Tennyson; Robert Burns; John Milton; Samuel Johnson; Thomas B. Macaulay; Lord Byron; Joseph Addison; Robert Southey; Samuel Coleridge; Benjamin Disraeli.... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price: $9.50 Used - Trade Paper add to wish list |
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History of Japanese Literature #02: World Within Walls: Japanese Literature of the Pre-Modern Era, 1600-1867 by Donald Keene Publisher Comments The Tokugawa family held the shogunate from 1603 to 1867, ruling Japan and keeping the island nation isolated from the rest of the world for more than 250 years. Donald Keene looks within the "walls" of isolation and meticulously chronicles the period's... (read more) List Price $37.50 Your price: $11.95 Used - Trade Paper add to wish list |