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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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When We Were Ghouls: A Memoir of Ghost StoriesWhen Amy E. Wallen's southern, blue-collar, peripatetic family was transferred from Ely, Nevada, to Lagos, Nigeria, she had just turned seven. From Nevada to Nigeria and on to Peru, Bolivia, and Oklahoma, the family wandered the world, living in a state of constant upheaval....
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The Complete Letters of Henry James, 1878-1880: Volume 2Containing letters written between September 2, 1879, and May 14, 1880, this second volume of The Complete Letters of Henry James, 1878-1880 documents the full establishment of Henry James as a professional writer and critic on both sides of the Atlantic, as James publishes...
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The Complete Letters of Henry James, 1878-1880: Volume 1Containing letters written between October 3, 1878, and August 30, 1879, this volume of The Complete Letters of Henry James reveals Henry James establishing control of his writing career and finding confidence in himself not only as a professional author on both sides of...
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The Complete Letters of Henry James, 1876-1878: Volume 2Recipient of the "Approved Edition" seal from the Modern Language Association's Committee on Scholarly Editions This critical and scholarly edition presents the complete letters of Henry James, one of the great novelists and letter writers of the English language. Comprising more than ten thousand...
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Descanso for My Father: Fragments of a LifeWhen his father died, Harrison Candelaria Fletcher wasn't quite two. His mother packed up his father's belongings, put the boxes in a hall closet, and closed the door. The "man in a box" remained a mystery, hardly mentioned, and making only rare appearances in...
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The Complete Letters of Henry James, 1872-1876, Volume 3Recipient of the "Approved Edition" seal from the Modern Language Association's Committee on Scholarly Editions The Complete Letters of Henry James fills a gap in literary studies today by presenting in a critical and scholarly edition the complete letters of one of the great...
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The Complete Letters of Henry James, 1855-1872The Complete Letters of Henry James fills a crucial gap in modern literary studies by presenting in a scholarly edition the complete letters of one of the great novelists and letter writers of the English language. Comprising more than ten thousand letters reflecting on...
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Conversations with and about BeckettMel Gussow, the longtime drama critic for The New York Times, has put together a revelatory book of conversations with the famously reticent author and his chief collaborators. In this revealing and poignant collection, Gussow paints a portrait of Samuel Beckett, the novelist and...
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What's So Special about Shakespeare?Michael Rosen's lively exploration of Shakespeare, reissued in an accessible new format for young middle-grade readers. More than four hundred years after William Shakespeare's death, his name is known in every corner of the world. Why? Celebrated poet, critic, and Shakespeare enthusiast Michael Rosen...
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The Adventures of Mark Twain by Huckleberry FinnEveryone knows the story of the raft on the Mississippi and that ol' whitewashed fence, but now it's time for youngins everywhere to get right acquainted with the man behind the pen. Mr. Mark Twain An interesting character, he was...even if he did sometimes...
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Mikhail Kuzmin: A Life in ArtMikhail Kuzmin (1872-1936), Russia's first openly gay writer, stood at the epicenter of the turbulent cultural and social life of Petersburg-Petrograd-Leningrad for over three decades. A poet of the caliber of Aleksandr Blok, Vladimir Mayakovsky, Boris Pasternak, Osip Mandelshtam, and Marina Tsvetaeva (and acknowledged...
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Wandering SoulThe man who would become S. An-sky--ethnographer, war correspondent, author of the best-known Yiddish play, The Dybbuk--was born Shloyme-Zanvl Rapoport in 1863, in Russia's Pale of Settlement. His journey from the streets of Vitebsk to the center of modern Yiddish and Hebrew theater, by...
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Who Was Beatrix Potter?Born into wealth in 1860's London, Beatrix Potter always had a vivid imagination. Her early interests included natural history and archaeology, and Potter delighted in sketching fossils and fungi. After briefly illustrating Christmas cards with her brother, Bertram, Potter wrote and illustrated her well-known...
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Who Was Roald Dahl?For use in schools and libraries only. An introduction to the adventurous life of the famous children's author responsible for such classics as Charlie and the Chocolate Factor includes coverage of his military service, his marriage to an Academy Award-winning actress and his accomplishments...
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