Stories of the Inspiration Behind Great Works of Literature
Author: Celia Blue Johnson
Every great book begins with an idea, whether it comes to a writer's mind with lightning speed or tugs at the imagination over time. "Dancing with Mrs. Dalloway" offers stories of the inspiration behind fifty classic wor ... |
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How to Read the Classics without Fear
Author: Sandra Newman
There they sit, the great tomes of classical literature, taunting you with their length and difficulty, as you ask: which books are the most important and why - and what's actually any good? Why does most writing about t ... |
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An Average Guy Tackles the Classics
Author: Wayne Turmel
An insightful and often comical look at the classics and modern thinking. Comedian Turmel revisits the Dead White Males of literature to see if they can offer any pearls of wisdom to a middle-age male seeking answers to ... |
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Author: Attilio Bertolucci
Translated here for the first time into English by Nicholas Benson, the poems of Attilio Bertolucci's WINTER JOURNEY (Viaggio d'inverno) direct our gaze on communal life and health in moments of deceptive calm. Through a ... |
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Role and Representation in Charles Dickens' Novels, Twentieth-Century Fiction, and Film
Author: Jan Alber
This book investigates the ways in which Charles Dickens's mature fiction, prison novels of the twentieth century, and prison films narrate the prison. To begin with, this study illustrates how fictional narratives occas ... |
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Author: Sheila Heti & Ross Simonini
Oh Yeah, That's What I Was Doing collects five years of intimate, wide-ranging conversations with many of today's most prominent writers, taken from the pages of the "Believer". The participants don't limit themselves to ... |
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Author: Clark Blaise
Blaise is a North American treasure, one of a handful of the truly important short-story writers in the last fifty years. His "Selected Essays" bring together for the first time another aspect of his tremendous and coura ... |
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America, Its Language, and the Most Controversial Dictionary Ever Published
Author: David Skinner
Few decades have caused more controversy than the 1960s, a time of explosive change in which tradition and authority gave way to freedom - a sweeping transformation crystalized in the 1961 publication of "Webster's Third ... |
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Author: Pasco H. Allan & Allan H. Pasco
Originally published in 1994 by the University of Toronto Press, this pioneering study looks empirically at the way allusion works in specific fictions and affects the reading process. Clear, concise definitions and dist ... |
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Author: S.J. Suarez & Michael L. Turner
This volume covers the history of printing and publishing from the lapse of government licensing of printed works in 1695 to the development of publishing as a specialist commercial undertaking and the industrialization ... |
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Commonplace Books and Other Readings
Author: Richard D. Katzev
In the Country of Books is the first contemporary review of the commonplace book tradition, as well as a unique, in-depth analysis of a single commonplace book. The volume also includes several personal essays on the lit ... |
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A Quick Guide to Success
Author: Paula Dawidowicz
This book is designed to help you achieve one specific goal. It's not designed to give you the philosophiesof conducting research. It's not designed to give you a background in a specific academic discipline or aspecific ... |
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Author: Hugh Amory & David D. Hall
Volume 1 of A History of the Book in America, The Colonial Book in the Atlantic World, encompasses the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. It is organized around three major themes: the persisting colonial relationship ... |
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Author: David Allan
This pioneering exploration of Georgian men and women's experiences as readers explores their use of commonplace books for recording favourite passages and reflecting upon what they had read, revealing forgotten aspects ... |
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Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
Stevenson's studies of Victor Hugo, Walt Whitman, Robert Burns, Henry David Thoreas, Yoshida-Torajiro, Francois Villon, charles of Orleans, Samuel Pepys, and John Knox. |
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From Pride and Prejudice to Twilight, Books to Fall in Love-and Lust-with
Author: Jennifer Lawler
"My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you." --Mr. Darcy, Pride and Prejudice The taboo affair of Jane and Mr. Rochester. The (literally) timeless love between E ... |
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Author: Christopher H.K. Persaud
Dan Brown's staggering bestseller, The Da Vinci Code has sold over 80 million copies since it wasreleased in 2003. Expediently classified as a work of fiction, Brown nevertheless intimates that hisbook is about historica ... |
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