Literature
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Dead SoulsAn NYRB Classics Original The first of the great Russian novels and one of the indisputable masterpieces of world literature, Dead Souls is the tale of Chichikov, an affably cunning con man who causes consternation in a small Russian town when he shows up...
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A Knickerbocker's History of New YorkOne of the first important works of American comic literature, this satirical history of New York was initially published to popular acclaim in 1809. Spanning the creation of the world to the end of the "Dutch Dynasty," this humorous history examines the discovery of...
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The Case for Books: Past, Present, and FutureThe invention of writing was one of the most important technological, cultural, and sociological breakthroughs in human history. With the printed book, information and ideas could disseminate more widely and effectively than ever before -- and in some cases, affect and redirect the sway...
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Mark Twain's Notebooks: Journals, Letters, Observations, Wit, Wisdom, and DoodlesThe original and insightful collection that combines Mark Twain's journal writings with his rarely seen sketches and doodles. Fascinating and often hilarious, this is a complete record of the thoughts, ideas, and observations of the father of American literature. A national treasure and a...
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The Handy Literature Answer Book: An Engaging Guide to Unraveling Symbols, Signs and Meanings in Great WorksGet the most out of reading with this an engaging and fun guide to the deeper meanings in great works of literature From the epic of Gilgamesh to Aristotle and Cicero, and from Shakespeare and the King James Bible to Wuthering Heights, War and...
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Conversations with Audre LordeAudre Lorde (1934-1992), the author of eleven books of poetry, described herself as a "Black feminist lesbian poet warrior mother," but she added that this phrase was inadequate in capturing her full identity. The interviews in this collection portray the many additional sides of...
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The Best of Royko: The Tribune YearsFor more than 30 years, Mike Royko was a part of the daily fabric of Chicagoans' lives, penning often humorous and always honest columns first for the Chicago Daily News, then the Sun-Times, and finally the Tribune. Culled from thousands of his Tribune columns...
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G.K. Chesterton: Essential WritingsAuthor: G. K. ChestertonPublisher: Orbis BooksPublished: 09/24/2003Pages: 176Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.45lbsSize: 8.20h x 5.30w x 0.40dISBN: 9781570754951
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Social PoeticsSocial Poetics documents the imaginative militancy and emergent solidarities of a new, insurgent working class poetry community rising up across the globe. Part autobiography, part literary criticism, part Marxist theory, Social Poetics presents a people's history of the poetry workshop from the founding director...
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Ivan Bunin: Collected Stories"The Gentleman from San Francisco" is easily the best known of Ivan Bunin's stories and has achieved the stature of a masterpiece. But Bunin's other stories and novellas are not to be missed. Over the last several years a great many of them have...
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The Outlaw Bible of American EssaysLike its highly acclaimed companions, The Outlaw Bible of American Poetry and The Outlaw Bible of American Literature, this edition is a prime for generational revolt and an enduring document of the visionary tradition of authenticity and nonconformity in American lives and letters. A...
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The LeRoi Jones/Amiri Baraka ReaderAmiri Baraka - dramatist, poet, essayist, orator, and fiction writer - is one of the preeminent African-American literary figures of our time. The Leroi Jones/Amiri Baraka Reader provides the most comprehensive selection of Baraka's work to date, spanning almost 40 years of a brilliant,...
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Savage CoastThe poet's newly discovered novel of reporting on the Spanish Civil War "is both an absorbing read and an important contribution to 20th-century history" (Publishers Weekly). As a young reporter in 1936, the pioneering poet and political activist Muriel Rukeyser traveled to Barcelona to...
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Otherwise Known as the Human Condition: Selected Essays and Reviews*Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism**A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice**A New York Times Top 10 Nonfiction Book of the Year, as selected by Dwight Garner*Geoff Dyer has earned the devotion of passionate fans on both sides of...
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Narcissistic Narrative: The Metafictional ParadoxLinda Hutcheon, in this original study, examines the modes, forms and techniques of narcissistic fiction, that is, fiction which includes within itself some sort of commentary on its own narrative and/or linguistic nature. Her analysis is further extended to discuss the implications of such...
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Paper Bodies: A Margaret Cavendish ReaderPaper Bodies gathers together important and representative selections from the poetry, fiction, prefaces, and letters of Margaret Cavendish. Author: Margaret CavendishPublisher: Broadview Press IncPublished: 01/20/2000Pages: 332Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.93lbsSize: 8.40h x 5.50w x 0.70dISBN: 9781551111735About the Author Sylvia Bowerbank holds a joint apointment in...
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A room with a viewEdward Morgan Forster OM CH (1 January 1879 - 7 June 1970), known as E. M. Forster, was an English novelist, short story writer, essayist and librettist. Many of his novels examined class difference and hypocrisy in early 20th-century British society, notably A Room...
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Jnana Yoga (Eglish) EditionSwami Vivekananda, Jnana-Yoga, the Path of Knowledge, describes the essence of Vedanta philosophy - the wisdom of the Vedas, Upanishads, and the Bhagavad Gita in a modern scientific manner. The Swami's deep spiritual insight, fervid eloquence, and broad human sympathy, shine forth in these...
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La Ciudad de Dios (Spanish) EditionLa ciudad de Dios, cuyo t tulo original en lat n es De civitate Dei contra paganos, es decir, La ciudad de Dios contra los paganos, es una obra escrita en 22 libros de Agust n de Hipona que fue realizada durante su vejez...
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Las Guerras de lo Judios (Spanish) EditionCon esta obra, el autor nos da una visi n sentida y dram tica de aquellas contiendas feroces entre romanos y jud os que terminaron, bajo Tito, con la total ruina de Jerusal n.Author: Flavio JosefoPublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublished: 06/21/2017Pages: 296Binding Type: PaperbackWeight:...
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