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Explore our collection of literary books and timeless literary classics at our online bookstore, featuring the best in teenage literature, literary fiction, and modern literature. Discover must-read and best-selling titles, along with insightful criticism literature to enhance your reading experience.
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Nature's Nightmare: Analyzing David Foster Wallace's OblivionFrom the author of Elegant Complexity comes a cogent analysis of David Foster Wallace's Oblivion. Nature's Nightmare is the first book of criticism devoted to Wallace's masterful story collection. Carlisle gives an in-depth narrative analysis of each story: "Mr. Squishy," "The Soul is Not...
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The Coney Island Amateur Psychoanalytic Society and Its CircleOn the afternoon of August 28th, 1909, Sigmund Freud visited Coney Island's famous Dreamland amusement park. A hundred years later, this lively, imaginative book examines his legacy in Coney Island, a history which might have been. It begins with Norman Klein's reconstruction of his...
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The Portable Ana'is NinThe Portable Anais Nin is the first comprehensive collection of the author's work in nearly 40 years, during which time her catalogue has doubled with the release of the erotica and unexpurgated diaries. A handy source book of Nin's most important writings, arranged chronologically...
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The Poetry of Louis Dudek: Definitive CollectionWhen Dudek selected and arranged the poems in the book he intended this to be the definitive collection of his poems. Tis contains selections from 20 of his previous book between 1944 and 1997. Louis Dudek ... prolific poet, critic and literary activist ......
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With These Hands: Women Working on the LandAlthough millions of women in the United States have worked on the land, With These Hands is the first history of their work. This collection begins with the agricultural work of Native American women, and traces to the eighties their experience as well as...
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Snow Lit Rev, No. 11Eleventh issue of annual print-only literary and arts review.Fiction, poetry, essays, art, music, film, from UK, USA, Italy, France, Kenya, Japan, China. Includes essay by Pierre Crépon on Black Cultural Nationalism and music, and by Léa Dreyer on Franco-Swedish sound artist Lars Fredrikson; poems...
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Worshipful Company of FletchersMasterfully drawing on a variety of voices and characters, James Tate joyfully offers his first book since winning the Pulitzer Prize in 1992 for his "Selected Poems."Author: James TatePublisher: Ecco PressPublished: 12/01/1995Pages: 96Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.25lbsSize: 8.28h x 5.48w x 0.32dISBN: 9780880014311Award: National Book...
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The Mystical Theology of St. Bernard: Volume 120This classic study placed the saint squarely among the outstanding theologians of the Middle Ages, and stripped away the sentimentality in which popular piety had wrapped him. Gilson demonstrates in Bernard's works his blend of monastic tradition and the new learning of the early...
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You'll Be Okay: My Life with Jack KerouacYou have a unique viewpoint from which to write about Jack as no one else has or could write. I feel very deeply that this book must be written. And no one else, I repeat, can write it.--William S. BurroughsEdie Parker was eighteen years...
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Forest of a Thousand Daemons: A Hunter's Saga"His total conviction in multiple existences within our physical world is as much an inspiration to some of the most brilliant fiction in Yoruba writing as it is a deeply felt urge to 'justify the ways of God to man.'"Wole Soyinka, translator and Nobel...
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Fathers Playing Catch with Sons: Essays on Sport (Mostly Baseball)The essays in Fathers Playing Catch with Sons are a wonderful mixture of reminiscence and observation, of baseball and of fathers and sons, of how a game binds people together and bridges generations.In the pantheon of great sports literature, not a few poets have...
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Writers in Politics: A Re-Engagement with Issues of Literature and SocietyThis book reflects many of the concerns found in Decolonising the Mind and Moving the Centre. Ngugi has put together a new collection under an old title, rewriting most of the pieces that appeared in the original 1981 edition, and adding completely new essays,...
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Besides the BibleHow do you decide what to read? Dan Gibson, Jordan Green and John Pattison have created this tool to make your choices easier. Besides the Bible is a guide to the wide array of great books that they believe every Christian should read--the ones...
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The Secret of the Hardy Boys: Leslie McFarlane and the Stratemeyer SyndicateThe author of the Hardy Boys Mysteries was, as millions of readers know, Franklin W. Dixon. Except there never was a Franklin W. Dixon. He was the creation of Edward Stratemeyer, the savvy founder of a children's book empire that also published the Tom...
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Midland: PoemsThe winning manuscript of the fourth annual Hollis Summers Poetry Prize is also the exciting American debut by a poet who has already established himself as an important international poetic voice. Midland, the seventh collection by Kwame Dawes, draws deeply on the poet's travels...
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Of Women and the Essay: An Anthology from 1655 to 2000Of Women and the Essay brings together forty-six American and British women essayists whose work spans nearly four centuries. The contributions of these essayists prove that women have been significant participants in the essay tradition since the genre's modern beginnings in the sixteenth century....
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The Letters of Flannery O'Connor and Caroline Gordon"This girl is a real novelist," wrote Caroline Gordon about Flannery O'Connor upon being asked to review a manuscript of O'Connor's first novel, Wise Blood. "She is already a rare phenomenon: a Catholic novelist with a real dramatic sense, one who relies more on...
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Mark Twain's Aquarium: The Samuel Clemens-Angelfish Correspondence, 1905-1910"What I lacked and what I needed," confessed Samuel Clemens in 1908, "was grandchildren." Near the end of his life, Clemens became the doting friend and correspondent of twelve schoolgirls ranging in age from ten to sixteen. For Clemens, "collecting" these surrogate granddaughters was...
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Zither & AutobiographyA reflective, eclectic mixture of poetry and prose.Zither & Autobiography is comprised of two parts: the author's autobiography and a book-length poem entitled "Zither." Both parts of the book are concerned with facts and their undoing. In Autobiography, Scalapino explores her shifting memories of...
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Missing a Beat: The Rants and Regrets of Seymour KrimIn 1961, Beat writer Seymour Krim set Greenwich Village on its ear with a slim volume of essays that featured an unleashed voice, a brash title, and a foreword by Norman Mailer. James Baldwin called Views of a Nearsighted Cannoneer an "extraordinary volume." Saul...
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