A Personal History
Author: Jonathan Franzen
This is a brilliant, award-winning memoir from the author of The Corrections. Jonathan Franzen arrived late, and last, in a family of boys in Webster Groves, Missouri. The Discomfort Zone is his intimate memoir of his gr ... |
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Selected Letters Between a Father and Son
Author: Louis Ginsberg & Allen Ginsberg Allen Ginsburg
FAMILY BUSINESS is not only a personal glimpse into the life of one of the great US poets, but also the moving story of a relationship between a father and a son set against the turbulent world of postwar America. As a l ... |
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Author: Richard Wasowski
The original CliffsNotes study guides offer expert commentary on major themes, plots, characters, literary devices, and historical background. The latest generation of titles in this series also feature glossaries and vi ... |
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Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne
'any narrative of human action and adventure - whether we call it history or Romance - is certain to be a fragile handiwork, more easily rent than mended' The fragility - and the durability - of human life and art domina ... |
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From Carrie to Cell, the Terrifying Truth Behind the Horror Master's Fiction
Author: Lois Gresh & Robert Weinberg
The advance praise includes: 'What a treasure house is this book! Robots, space aliens, Einstein, black holes, time travel - these themes, and much more, from Stephen King's amazing books are opened up like toy chests. I ... |
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Conversations 1970-2006
Author: Joyce Carol Oates
An incisive collection of interviews with one of the leading lights of American writing. Joyce Carol Oates has written some of the most enduring fiction of our time, including the national bestsellers We Were the Mul ... |
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Author: Christopher Bigsby
This is the long-awaited biography of one of the twentieth century's greatest playwrights whose postwar decade of work earned him international critical and popular acclaim. Arthur Miller was a prominent figure in Americ ... |
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Aldo Leopold, Joseph Wood Krutch, Edward Abbey, Annie Dillard, Gary Snyder
Author: James I. McClintock
Aldo Leopold, Joseph Wood Krutch, Edward Abbey, Annie Dillard, Gary Snyder - these writers have all recorded their encounters with nature. In this volume, McClintock shows how their mystical experiences with the wild led ... |
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A Reader
Author: Julia Watson & Sidonie Smith
"Women, Autobiography, Theory" is the first comprehensive guide to the burgeoning field of women's autobiography, drawing into one volume the most significant theoretical discussions on women's life writing of the last t ... |
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A Commonplace Book from Revolutionary America
Author: Catherine La Courreye Blecki
Milcah Martha Moore (1740-1829) lived and flourished in the Philadelphia area during its peak, when it was the center of commerce, politics, social life, and culture in the young republic. A well-educated woman, disowne ... |
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Author: Walter Lowenfels
In 1863 Walt Whitman first proposed to the publisher John Redpath a book about his Civil War experiences. It was never published. But in a draft prospectus Whitman described a new book ...with its framework jotted down o ... |
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Author: Nat Hentoff
More than 20 years of Nat Hentoff's dazzling and provocative writings on jazz, politics, and American thought. From the Bill of Rights, freedom of speech, and civil rights to jazz, blues and country music, Nat Hentoff ha ... |
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Author: Deborah E. McDowell & Arnold Rampersad
Seven noted scholars examine slave narratives and the topic of slavery in American literature, from Frederick Douglass's Narrative (1845)-- treated in chapters by James Olney and William L. Andrews-- to Sheley Anne Willi ... |
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Author: Ralph C. Wood
Flannery O'Connor was only the second twentieth-century writer (after William Faulkner) to have her work collected for the Library of America, the definitive edition of American authors. Forty years after her death, O'Co ... |
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American Ethnic Modernism Between the World Wars
Author: Rita Keresztesi
Strangers at Home reframes the way we conceive of the modernist literature that appeared in the period between the two world wars. This provocative work shows that a body of texts written by ethnic writers during this pe ... |
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Author: Charles Ives
Charles Ives (1874-1954) was probably one of the most psycho - intellectually brilliant, imaginative and flexible Americans to ever walk the land of free-dom. A graduate of Yale, he became a multi-millio-naire in the Ame ... |
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Critical Studies on Writing as an Art
Author: Willa Cather
[Willa Cather] is saying the most interesting, most profound things about the art of writing, and the life of art, that have been said in our time certainly, and she does it with immense grace and dignity. - Katherine An ... |
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A Conflict of Theatres
Author: Daniel Albright
In this book, Daniel Albright, one of today's most intrepid and vividly communicative explorers of the border territory between literature and music, offers insights into how composers of genius can help us to understand ... |
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Author: Cambridge Studies in American Literature & Culture
This wide-ranging comparative study argues for a fundamental reassessment of the literary history of the nineteenth-century United States within the transamerican and multilingual contexts that shaped it. Drawing on an a ... |
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Letters from African-American Soldiers in the Union Army 1861-1865
Author: Cambridge Studies in American Literature & Culture
The Civil War stands vivid in the collective memory of the American public. There has always been a profound interest in the subject, and specifically the participation of black Americans in and reactions to the war and ... |
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