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Attention: Dispatches from a Land of DistractionA wide-ranging, rule-bending collection of nonfiction from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Netanyahus "Attention reveals a fresh, vital literary voice as it covers seemingly every imaginable topic relating to modern life."--Entertainment Weekly NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY WIRED...
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A Mencken Chrestomathy: His Own Selection of His Choicest WritingsEdited and annotated by H.L.M., this is a selection from his out-of-print writings. They come mostly from books--the six installments of the Prejudices series, A Book of Burlesques, In Defense of Women, Notes on Democracy, Making a President, A Book of Calumny, Treatise on...
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First Love and Other TalesThis volume includes eight tales in new translations by David Magarshack: The Singers, Bezhin Meadow, Mumu, Assya, First Love, Knock...Knock...Knock..., Living Relics, Clara Milich.Author: Ivan Sergeevich TurgenevPublisher: W. W. Norton & CompanyPublished: 04/01/1968Pages: 356Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.86lbsSize: 7.80h x 5.22w x 0.84dISBN: 9780393004441
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Russia's Lost Literature of the AbsurdThese bizarre and wildly imaginative pieces, written in Soviet Russia forty years ago, are as vital and disturbing as the best of today's absurdist literature. Almost none of the works of Daniil Kharms and Alexander Vvedensky have been published before in any language.Author: Daniel...
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Mirror, Mirror on the Wall: Women Writers Explore Their Favorite Fairy TalesNew edition (revised and expanded) available 8/13/02.Fairy tales are one of the most enduring forms of literature, their plots retold and characters reimagined for centuries. In this elegant and thought-provoking collection of original essays, Kate Bernheimer brings together twenty-eight leading women writers to discuss...
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Moll FlandersWritten in a time when criminal biographies enjoyed great success, Daniel Defoe's Moll Flanders details the life of the irresistible Moll and her struggles through poverty and sin in search of property and power. Born in Newgate Prison to a picaresque mother, Moll propels...
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She: A History of AdventureA runaway bestseller on its publication in 1887, H. Rider Haggard's She is a Victorian thrill ride of a novel, featuring a lost African kingdom ruled by a mysterious, implacable queen; ferocious wildlife and yawning abysses; and an eerie love story that spans two...
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Daisy MillerOriginally published in The Cornhill Magazine in 1878 and in book form in 1879, Daisy Miller brought Henry James his first widespread commercial and critical success. The young Daisy Miller, an American on holiday with her mother on the shores of Switzerland's Lac Leman,...
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The European Philosophers from Descartes to Nietzsche"Between the earliest and the latest of the works included here, we have two hundred and fifty years of vigorous and adventurous philosophizing," Monroe Beardsley writes in his Introduction to this collection. "If the modern period can be only vaguely or arbitrarily bounded, it...
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Far from the Madding CrowdFar from the Madding Crowd, Hardy's passionate tale of the beautiful, headstrong farmer Bathsheba Everdene and her three suitors, firmly established the thirty-four-year-old writer as a popular novelist. According to Virginia Woolf, "The subject was right; the method was right; the poet and the...
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Tales, Poems, and Other WritingsFrom short masterpieces like "Bartleby the Scrivener" and "Billy Budd" to more obscure, even completely unknown works like the epic poem "Clarel," Melville's stories and poems rank among his greatest and most gripping work. This unique anthology-the first of its kind in fifty years-gathers...
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A Journal of the Plague YearDefoe's account of the bubonic plague that swept London in 1665 remains as vivid as it is harrowing. Based on Defoe's own childhood memories and prodigious research, A Journal of the Plague Year walks the line between fiction, history, and reportage. In meticulous and...
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Twice-Told TalesThis volume of short stories and shorter works by Nathaniel Hawthorne was heralded upon its release and is still widely considered a classic.Author: Nathaniel HawthornePublisher: Modern LibraryPublished: 10/09/2001Pages: 432Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.95lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.20w x 0.90dISBN: 9780375757884About the AuthorNathaniel Hawthorne (1805-64) was an...
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Sense and SensibilityPublished in 1811, Sense and Sensibility has delighted generations of readers with its masterfully crafted portrait of two sisters, Elinor and Marianne Dashwood. Forced to leave their home after their father's death, Elinor and Marianne must rely on making good marriages as their means...
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Sister CarrieSelected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all time Theodore Dreiser is a man who, with the passage of time, is bound to loom larger and larger in the awakening aesthetic consciousness of America. Among all of our...
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In Search of Lost Time, Volume VI: Time RegainedTime Regained, the final volume of In Search of Lost Time, begins in the bleak and uncertain years of World War I. Years later, after the war's end, Proust's narrator returns to Paris and reflects on time, reality, jealousy, artistic creation, and the raw...
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Break, Blow, Burn: Camille Paglia Reads Forty-Three of the World's Best PoemsAmerica's most provocative intellectual brings her blazing powers of analysis to the most famous poems of the Western tradition--and unearths some previously obscure verses worthy of a place in our canon. Combining close reading with a panoramic breadth of learning, Camille Paglia sharpens our...
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Amor / LoveAtr vete a amar. Si hay alguien capaz de describir con maestr a, personalidad y humor la naturaleza caprichosa del amor, es Isabel Allende. Esta recopilaci n de escenas de amor, seleccionadas de entre sus libros, es una invitaci n a sumergirse en la...
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Poems Are Teachers: How Studying Poetry Strengthens Writing in All Genres"Poems wake us up, keep us company, and remind us that our world is big and small, And too, poems teach us how to write. Anything." Amy Ludwig VanDerwater explains in Poems Are Teachers. This is a practical book designed for every classroom teacher....
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The Longman Anthology of World Literature, Volume a: The Ancient WorldThis volume samples a broad range of literature from the ancient world. It offers extensive selections from The Bible, The Book of Songs, The Mahabharata, The Ramayana, and Virgil's Aenid, as well as seven longer works in their entirety, including The Epic of Gilgamesh...
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