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Banarasidas Ardhakathanak: A Half StoryAuthor: Rohini ChowdhuryPublisher: India Penguin ClassicsPublished: 01/01/2009Pages: 360Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.51lbsSize: 7.79h x 5.19w x 0.90dISBN: 9780143100546About the AuthorBanarasidas was a poet, philosopher and merchant. He had no precedent in literature or tradition that might have inspired him to write his life's story or...
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El Niño Terrible Y La Escritora Maldita / The Terrible Boy and the Damned AuthorJaime Bayly, periodista, escritor, ni o terrible de la televisi n, bisexual, divorciado, padre de dos hijas, con novio fuera del cl set, se enamora repentinamente de Luc a Santamar a, una estudiante de psicolog a de apenas veinte a os que sue a...
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The Inventors: A MemoirFall, 1970. At the start of eighth grade, Peter Selgin fell in love with the young teacher who'd arrived from Oxford in Frye boots, with long hair, and a passion for his students that was intense and unorthodox. The son of an emotionally remote...
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Oh, the Places He Went: A Story about Dr. SeussDr. Seuss is known as the creator of some of the most beloved children's books of all time. Journey to the fantastic world he created in this appealing story about the author/illustrator whose magical, rhyming characters have delighted children of all ages.Author: Maryann N....
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Beautiful TwentysomethingsMarek Hlasko's literary autobiography is a vivid, first-hand account of the life of a young writer in 1950s Poland and a fascinating portrait of the ultimately short-lived rebel generation. Told in a voice suffused with grit and morbid humor, Hlasko's memoir was a classic...
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A Son of the Middle BorderA classic of American realism, A Son of the Middle Border (1917) is the true coming-of-age odyssey of a farm boy who--informed by the full brute force of a homesteaders' life on the vast unbroken prairie--would become a preeminent American writer of the early...
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The Life of Mark Twain: The Early Years, 1835-1871volume 1This book begins the first multi-volume biography of Samuel Clemens to appear in over a century. In the succeeding years, Clemens biographers have either tailored their narratives to fit the parameters of a single volume or focused on a particular period or aspect of...
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A Literary Guide to Flannery O'Connor's GeorgiaFlannery O'Connor spent most of her life in Georgia. Most of O'Connor's fiction is also set in the state, in locales rich in symbolism and the ambience of southern rural and small-town life. Filled with contemporary and historical photos, this guide introduces O'Connor's readers...
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Silent Interviews: On Language, Race, Sex, Science Fiction, and Some Comics--A Collection of Written InterviewsA collection of substantial written interviews.Samuel R. Delany, whose theoretically sophisticated science fiction and fantasy has won him a broad audience among academics and fans of postmodernist fiction, offers insights into and explorations of his own experience as writer, critic, theorist, and gay black...
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Nobody's Son: Notes from an American LifeHere's a story about a family that comes from Tijuana and settles into the 'hood, hoping for the American Dream. . . . I'm not saying it's our story. I'm not saying it isn't. It might be yours. How do you tell a story...
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Katherine Mansfield: A Darker ViewThe works of Katherine Mansfield (1888-1923), one of England's most gifted short story writers, have influenced over eight decades of writers. A friend to Virginia Woolf, D. H. Lawrence, and Bertrand Russell, Mansfield left a literary legacy collected in The Garden Party, In a...
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Truth or Consequences: Improbable Adventures, a Near-Death Experience, and Unexpected Redemption in the New Mexico DesertDaniel Asa Rose was a successful novelist, memoirist, book critic, and columnist for the New York Times Magazine, Esquire, and others, when the top blew off his domestic life. His wife of sixteen years wanted out. Before he could slip into depression, doubt, and...
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The Abridged Diaries of Charlotte Perkins GilmanOne of the leading intellectuals of first-wave feminism, Charlotte Perkins Gilman 1860-1935] was a prolific socialist writer and lecturer. Nearly forgotten in the years following her death, she has been the subject of renewed interest and appreciation in recent decades. Drawing from her previous...
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A Skeptic's Guide to Writers' HousesThere are many ways to show our devotion to an author besides reading his or her works. Graves make for popular pilgrimage sites, but far more popular are writers' house museums. What is it we hope to accomplish by trekking to the home of...
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Nikolai GogolThis biography begins with Gogol's death and ends with his birth, an inverted structure typical of both Gogol and Nabokov. The biographer proceeds to establish the relationship between Gogol and his novels, especially with regard to nose-consciousness, a peculiar feature of Russian life and...
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Letters on God and Letters to a Young WomanRainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926) was an avid letter writer, and more than seven thousand of his letters have survived. The best-known collection today is Rilke's Letters to a Young Poet, first published in 1929. Two other letter collections appeared around the same time and...
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Carnal Acts: EssaysAcclaimed personal writing from one of our most outspoken essayists, on disability, on family, on being an impolite woman, and on the opportunities and "gifts" of a difficult life.Author: Nancy MairsPublisher: Beacon PressPublished: 11/30/1996Pages: 176Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.52lbsSize: 8.57h x 5.59w x 0.44dISBN: 9780807070857About...
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Balsamroot: A MemoirMelding past and present into a moving narrative, Mary Clearman Blew imaginatively recreates the dry, dusty, sparsely populated Montana of the early homesteaders and of her aunt Imogene's young womanhood. Striving to understand why her aunt chose a life alone, away from the ranch...
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All Rivers Run to the Sea: MemoirsIn this first volume of his two-volume autobiography, Wiesel takes us from his childhood memories of a traditional and loving Jewish family in the Romanian village of Sighet through the horrors of Auschwitz and Buchenwald and the years of spiritual struggle, to his emergence...
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Sing, Stranger: A Century of American Yiddish Poetry--A Historical AnthologySing, Stranger is a comprehensive historical anthology of a century of American poetry written in Yiddish and now translated into English for the first time. Here are the Proletarian or sweat-shop poets, sympathizing with Socialist Anarchists, who were highly popular with Yiddish audiences at...
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