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A Time Outside This TimeA blistering novel about a writer's creative response to the daily onslaught of fake news, memory, and the ways in which truth gives over to fiction "An absorbing portrait of an inspired artist in the midst of our maddening cultural moment" --Ayad Akhtar, author...
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Hans Christian Andersen (Spanish Edition)This beautiful Spanish-language book, translated from the hugely popular Little People, BIG DREAMS series, can be enjoyed by fluent Spanish speakers and those learning the language, whether at home or in the classroom. En este libro de la serie Little People, BIG DREAMS, aclamada...
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The Young ManWINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE Annie Ernaux's most recent book, dazzling and breathtaking, published in France in 2022, is about her affair with a man 30 years her junior. "A sublime book." --Olivia de Lamberterie, Elle "Once again the work of...
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Writing a WrongWriter for Hire Veronica Blackstone's latest client is found dead and police suspect a burglary gone wrong, but Veronica isn't convinced in this intriguingly plotted mystery. As a writer for hire, Veronica Blackstone puts her keyboard to use to help others. That includes writing...
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Maya Angelou: (History Book for Kids, Biography Book for Children)This Maya Angelou children's book is a perfect introduction to one of the world's most famous writers. Maya Angelou was an African-American author, poet, playwright and civil rights activist. She wrote seven autobiographies, three books of essays, several books of poetry, and a long...
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The World Split Open: Great Authors on How and Why We WriteSince 1984, Literary Arts has welcomed many of the world's most renowned authors and storytellers to its stage for one of the country's largest lectures series. Sold-out crowds congregate at Portland's Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall to hear these writers' discuss their work and their...
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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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Portraits of Learned MenThe most complete translation available of these brief biographies of great European figures, written by one of the leading historians of the sixteenth century. Portraits of Learned Men provides a fascinating synopsis of the contours, mentality, and trajectory of humanistic culture in Italy and...
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Richard Wright: Later Works (Loa #56): Black Boy (American Hunger) / The OutsiderNative Son and Black Boy are classics of twentieth-century American literature--and yet the novel and memoir known to millions of readers are in fact revised and abbreviated versions of the books Richard Wright wrote. The two-volume Library of America edition presents for the first...
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Unverschmerzt: Johannes Bobrowski - Leben Und WerkZum 40. Todesjahr legt der Band neue Studien zu Leben und Werk des Lyrikers und Erz hlers Johannes Bobrowski (1917-1965) vor. Mit 29 Beitr gen aus zehn L ndern wird erstmals versucht, das breite thematische und methodische Spektrum der internationalen Forschung ber diesen Autor...
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A Table for One: Under the Light of JerusalemA TABLE FOR ONE is set in the intimate Jerusalem cafes of the 1950s and 1960s, where the scent of the fresh roasted coffee and cigarette smoke wafted in with the elan of a lost European culture. Appelfeld found that it was only in...
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Novalis: Signs of RevolutionAuthor: William Arctander O'BrienPublisher: Duke University PressPublished: 12/20/1994Pages: 384Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.40lbsSize: 9.22h x 6.02w x 1.16dISBN: 9780822315193About the AuthorWm. Arctander O'Brien is Associate Professor of German and Comparative Literature at the University of California, San Diego.This title is only available via back order
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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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