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Life on the MississippiIn 1882 Mark Twain returned to the river of his childhood, determined to write the definitive travel book on the Mississippi. Life on the Mississippi is no ordinary guided tour, for every page is expressive of the structure, style and high humour that is...
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Janie Writes a Play: Jane Yolen's First Great StoryBased on a true story to the beginning of the storied career of children's book author Jane Yolen, written by her very own daughter. Janie Yolen loves to read, write, dance, and sing. So when her teacher announces Janie's elementary class will perform a...
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Down and Out in Paris and LondonFrom the author of 1984, the classic semi-autobiographical story about the adventures of a penniless British writer in two cities.Down and Out in Paris and London follows the journey of a writer among the down-and-out in two great cities. Without self-pity and often with...
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All I Want Is YouA USA TODAY BESTSELLER Exes. Professional rivals. Just one bed. What could go wrong? All Jessica has ever wanted is her own happily ever after. But until that happens, she spends her days as a small-time romance writer, penning satisfying Happily Ever Afters to...
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1931-1934The Diary of Anais Nin, Vol. 1: 1931-1934 is the first in a nine volume series in the influential artist and thinker's own words, covering the time when Nin is about to publish her first book and ends when she leaves Paris for New...
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Who Was Mark Twain?A humorist, narrator, and social observer, Mark Twain is unsurpassed in American literature. Best known as the author of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain, not unlike his protagonist, Huck, has a restless spirit. He found adventure prospecting for silver in Nevada, navigating...
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The Writing Life"For nonwriters, it is a glimpse into the trials and satisfactions of a life spent with words. For writers, it is a warm, rambling, conversation with a stimulating and extraordinarily talented colleague." -- Chicago TribuneFrom Pulitzer Prize-winning Annie Dillard, a collection that illuminates the...
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The Very Heart of It: New York Diaries, 1983-1994From the renowned novelist and critic, an exquisite collection of journal entries from the 1980s and '90s, tracking a young, gay author's literary coming-of-age in New York during the AIDS crisis In 1983, Thomas Mallon was still unknown. A literature professor at Vassar College,...
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Quack This Way: David Foster Wallace & Bryan A. Garner Talk Language and WritingDavid Foster Wallace was at the center of late-20th-century American literature, Bryan A. Garner at that of legal scholarship and lexicography. It was language that drew them together. The wide-ranging interview reproduced here memorializes 67 minutes of their second and final evening together, in...
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Letters to a Young Poet: The Norton Centenary EditionThis slim volume of letters from the poet and mystic, Rainer Maria Rilke, to a nineteen-year-old cadet and aspiring poet named Franz Xaver Kappus, has touched millions of readers since it was first published in English in 1934. The translator, Mary Dows Herter Norton--a...
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Letters to a Young Poet: A New Translation and CommentaryA fresh perspective on a beloved classic by acclaimed translators Anita Barrows and Joanna Macy. German poet Rainer Maria Rilke's (1875-1926) Letters to a Young Poet has been treasured by readers for nearly a century. Rilke's personal reflections on the vocation of writing and...
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Knife: Meditations After an Attempted MurderNATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST - #1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER - From Booker Prize winner Salman Rushdie, a searing, deeply personal account of enduring--and surviving--an attempt on his life thirty years after the fatwa that was ordered against him A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: The...
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EurotrashFrom "the great German-language writer of his generation" (Joshua Cohen) comes the second novel of Christian Kracht's career narrated by an eponymous "Christian" (the first was his bestselling debut, Faserland). Eurotrash begins in Zurich, where Christian has returned to care for his eighty-year-old mother...
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Walden and Civil DisobedienceHenry David Thoreau reflects on life, politics, and society in these two inspiring masterworks: Walden and Civil Disobedience. In 1845, Thoreau moved to a cabin that he built with his own hands along the shores of Walden Pond in Massachusetts. Shedding the trivial ties...
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The Return (Pulitzer Prize Winner): Fathers, Sons and the Land in BetweenWINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE - The acclaimed memoir about fathers and sons, a legacy of loss, and, ultimately, healing--one of The New York Times Book Review's ten best books of the year, winner of the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award, and a finalist for...
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The Other GirlWINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE Annie Ernaux's profound investigation into the life of her mysterious older sister, who died at six, two years before Annie was born. In the summer of 1950, when Annie Ernaux is ten, she inadvertently learns she...
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The Night Trilogy: Night/Dawn/DayThe new translation of the bestselling memoir Night in one volume with its companion novels, Dawn and Day Night is one of the masterpieces of Holocaust literature. First published in 1958, it is the autobiographical account of an adolescent boy and his father in...
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The Guest CatA bestseller in France and winner of Japan's Kiyama Shohei Literary Award, The Guest Cat, by the acclaimed poet Takashi Hiraide, is a subtly moving and exceptionally beautiful novel about the transient nature of life and idiosyncratic but deeply felt ways of living. A...
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Notes from an Island"If you never see me again in life after this book is published, it is because I left to find an island of my own at last." ―Alexander Chee, author of How to Write an Autobiographical Novel "Tove Jansson was a genius, a woman...
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Love, Rita: An American Story of Sisterhood, Joy, Loss, and LegacyA searing tribute of sisterhood and family, profound love and loss from the acclaimed author of The World According to Fannie Davis.In Love, Rita Bridgett M. Davis tells the story of her beloved older sister Rita, who knew Bridgett before she knew herself. Just...
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