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The Sexual Labyrinth of Nikolai GogolThrough careful textual readings of Gogol's most famous works, Karlinsky argues that Gogol's homosexual orientation-which Gogol himself could not accept or forgive in himself-may provide the missing key to the riddle of Gogol's personality. "A brilliant new biography that will long be prized for...
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Forgotten All-Star: A Biography of Gardner FoxThe Life and Times of Gardner FoxHe wrote over 4000 comic book stories, and co-created such enduring heroes as The Flash and Hawkman. He wrote dozens of novels. He inspired a generation of comic book writers. And yet his story has never fully been...
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William Morris: Romantic to RevolutionaryWilliam Morris--the great 19th-century craftsman, designer, poet and writer--remains a monumental figure whose influence resonates powerfully today. As an intellectual (and author of the seminal utopian News from Nowhere), his concern with artistic and human values led him to cross what he called the...
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A Mark Twain Christmas: A Journey Across Three Christmas SeasonsFilled with the remarkable wit and humor of America's favorite storyteller, A Mark Twain Christmas gives readers insight into Twain's life through little known stories about how he and his family celebrated this treasured holiday. If my boot should leave a stain on the...
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I Am Stan: A Graphic Biography of the Legendary Stan LeeThe first graphic novel biography of the legendary Stan Lee, co-creator of many of Marvel's beloved superheroes, from Eisner-nominated comics creator Tom Scioli. Everyone knows Stan Lee: His work at the creative helm of Marvel Comics resulted in the creation of many of the...
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The Scarlet BoyGeorge Grantley has fond memories of his boyhood days spent at Anglesey House with his childhood playmate Charles Scarlet, happy times that came to an end with the Scarlet boy's tragic death in an accident. Now Anglesey House stands empty, and George thinks it...
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The Black VeilIn this searing, brilliantly acclaimed memoir, one of the most admired writers of his generation reveals how a decade of alcohol, drugs, and other indulgences led him not to the palace of wisdom but to a psychiatric hospital in one of New York's less...
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Goethe: The Poet and the Age: Volume I: The Poetry of Desire (1749-1790)In 1880 Nietzsche observed that Goethe had been "not just a good and great man, but an entire culture." The author of Faust, of exquisite lyric poetry, and of a bewildering variety of other plays, novels, and poetry as well as treatises on botany...
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Kahlil Gibran: Beyond BordersPainter and poet, immigrant, rebel, global citizen, author of the beloved classic, The Prophet. Kahlil Gibran: Beyond Borders tells the inspiring saga of the artist's life and creative vision Gibran's story is one of overcoming barriers faced by many immigrants at the turn of...
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Barnave: The Revolutionary Who Lost His Head for Marie AntoinetteA major new biography of Antoine Barnave--the politician and writer who advocated for a constitutional monarchy in revolutionary France Antoine Barnave was one of the most influential statesmen in the early French Revolution. He was a didactic man of austere morals and vaulting ambition...
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Under Magnolia: A Southern MemoirA lyrical and evocative memoir from Frances Mayes, the Bard of Tuscany, about coming of age in the Deep South and the region's powerful influence on her life. The author of three beloved books about her life in Italy, including Under the Tuscan Sun...
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James Agee in Context: New Literary, Visual, Cultural, and Historical EssaysIt's difficult to overestimate the impact of the many new works by James Agee uncovered and published in the last twenty years. These previously unknown primary works have, in turn, encouraged a parallel explosion of critical evaluation and reevaluation by scholars, to which James...
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Soul's TemptationDaniel Bennet has become a cultural phenomenon after penning an international best-selling novel based on his ordeal trying to bring a powerful criminal to justice. He has everything he could ever want: a beautiful wife, son, and wealth beyond his wildest dreams. But something...
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A Girl's StoryIn A Girl's Story, Annie Ernaux revisits a night fifty years earlier when she found herself submerged and controlled by another person's desire and willpower. It was the summer of 1958, the year she turned eighteen, and the man she had given herself to...
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Fyodor Dostoevsky--The Gathering Storm (1846-1847): A Life in Letters, Memoirs, and CriticismThis second book in a three-volume work on the young Fyodor Dostoevsky is a diary-portrait of his early years drawn from letters, memoirs, and criticism of the writer, as well as from the testimony and witness of family and friends, readers and reviewers, and...
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The Storytellers: Straight Talk from the World's Most Acclaimed Suspense and Thriller AuthorsHave you ever read a suspense novel so good you had to stop and think to yourself, How did the author come up with this idea? Their characters? Is some of this story real? For over five years, Mark Rubinstein, physician, psychiatrist, and mystery...
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Bright Day (Valancourt 20th Century Classics)Gregory Dawson, a middle-aged and disillusioned writer, is holed up in a Cornish hotel working on a film script he must finish. A chance encounter with an old acquaintance in the bar sends him back to the England of 1913, when he was just...
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Back Roads to Far Towns: Basho's Travel JournalBasho (1644-1694) is the most famous Haiku poet of Japan. He made his living as a teacher and writer of Haiku and is celebrated for his many travels around Japan, which he recorded in travel journals. This translation of his most mature journal, Oku-No-Hosomichi,...
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Edith Wharton in FranceFrom French scholar and author Claudine Lesage, comes Edith Wharton in France, an examination of Wharton's years (1907-1937) in France. Lesage, with her innate knowledge of French culture, uses previously unknown or untranslated sources to provide a unique look into French society and Wharton's...
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UnwrittenTwelve-year-old Gracie Freeman is living a normal life, but she is haunted by the fact that she is actually a character from a story, an unpublished fairy tale she's never read. When she was a baby, her parents learned that she was supposed to...
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