Category: Literature

An O'Henry Reader

Price: $4.00

Publisher: Globe Fearon : June 1983

Seller ID: 10978

ISBN-13: 9780870650444

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

Edwardian Fiction: An Oxford Companion

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA : September 1997

Seller ID: 15227

ISBN-13: 9780198117605

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

The Edwardian era saw a remarkable outpouring of fiction, much of which we don't normally think of as Edwardian. There were major works such as Conrad's Lord Jim and Nostromo, Samuel Butler's The Way of All Flesh, and D. H. Lawrence's Sons and Lovers. Children's literature saw such marvelous books as Frances Hodgson Burnett's The Secret Garden and A Little Princess, and there were many popular classics as well, such as Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's The Hound of the Baskervilles and Baroness Orczy's The Scarlet Pimpernel. Now, in Edwardian Fiction: An Oxford Companion, readers have an illuminating g...
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Emily Bront: Wuthering Heights

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Publisher: Columbia University Press : March 2000

Seller ID: 19676

ISBN-13: 9780231119214

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

Charting a careful course through the bewildering profusion of material on "Wuthering Heights," this "Guide" offers synopses of and excerpts from critical responses to the novel from the time of publication to the present day, supplemented by the most comprehensive bibliography currently available. Opening with a chapter on how Emily BrontA's masterpiece was received in the nineteenth century, the "Guide" links together a selection of extracts that demonstrate the major critical developments of the twentieth century -- from humanism through formalism to deconstruction. Within this general fram...
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Encyclopedia of Contemporary Literary Theory: Approaches, Scholars, Terms (Theory / Culture)

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Publisher: University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division : April 1993

Seller ID: 15230

ISBN-13: 9780802068606

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

The last half of the twentieth century has seen the emergence of literary theory as a new discipline. As with any body of scholarship, various schools of thought exist, and sometimes conflict, within it. I.R. Makaryk has compiled a welcome guide to the field. Accessible and jargon-free, the Encyclopedia of Contemporary Literary Theory provides lucid, concise explanations of myriad approaches to literature that have arisen over the past forty years.Some 170 scholars from around the world have contributed their expertise to this volume. Their work is organized into three parts. In Part I, forty ...
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Flashman on the March from The Flashman Papers, 1867-8

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Knopf : November 2005

Seller ID: 61154

ISBN-13: 9781400044757

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

First US Edition. A square, tight and unmarked copy. Dust jacket now protected in removable mylar.
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Lilac Girls

Price: $7.00

Publisher: Ballantine Books : January 0001

Seller ID: 32637

ISBN-13: 9781101883082

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - For readers of The Nightingale and Sarah's Key, inspired by the life of a real World War II heroine, this remarkable debut novel reveals the power of unsung women to change history in their quest for love, freedom, and second chances. New York socialite Caroline Ferriday has her hands full with her post at the French consulate and a new love on the horizon. But Caroline's world is forever changed when Hitler's army invades Poland in September 1939--and then sets its sights on France. An ocean away from Caroline, Kasia Kuzmerick, a Polish teenager, senses her caref...
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Miller's Valley

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Publisher: Random House Trade : January 0001

Seller ID: 20733

ISBN-13: 9780812985900

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - In a small town on the verge of big change, a young woman unearths deep secrets about her family and unexpected truths about herself. Filled with insights that are the hallmark of Anna Quindlen's bestsellers, Miller's Valley is an emotionally powerful story about a family you will never forget. For generations the Millers have lived in Miller's Valley. Mimi Miller tells about her life with intimacy and honesty. As Mimi eavesdrops on her parents and quietly observes the people around her, she discovers more and more about the toxicity of family secrets, the dangers ...
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Only Companion: Japanese Poems of Love and Longing (Shambhala Centaur Editions)

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Publisher: Shambhala : December 1996

Seller ID: 65063

ISBN-13: 9781570623004

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

Written by court princesses, exiled officials, Zen priests, and recluses, the one hundred and fifty poems translated here represent the rich diversity of Japan's poetic tradition. Varying in tone from the sensuous and erotic to the profoundly spiritual, each poem captures a sense of the poignant beauty and longing known only in the fleeting experience of the moment. The translator has selected these five-line tanka--one of the great traditional verse forms of Japanese literature--from sources ranging from the classical imperial anthologies of the eighth and tenth centuries to works of the earl...
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The Mark Twain Anthology: Great Writers on His Life and Work (Library of America)

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Publisher: Library of America : March 2010

Seller ID: 20408

ISBN-13: 9781598530650

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

Mark Twain, William Faulkner once observed, was the first truly American writer, and all of us since are his heirs. In this unique collection scores of these literary legatees from the U.S. and around the world take the measure of Twain and his genius, among them: Jos Mart , Rudyard Kipling, Theodor Herzl, George Bernard Shaw, H. L. Mencken, Helen Keller, Jorge Luis Borges, Sterling Brown, George Orwell, T. S. Eliot, Richard Wright, W. H. Auden, Ralph Ellison, Kenzaburo Oe, Robert Penn Warren, Ursula Le Guin, Norman Mailer, Erica Jong, Gore Vidal, David Bradley, Kurt Vonnegut, Toni Morrison, ...
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The Oxford Companion to English Literature

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Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA : November 2000

Seller ID: 15231

ISBN-13: 9780198662440

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

When the Fifth Edition of The Oxford Companion to English Literature appeared in 1985, it received a glowing front-page review in The New York Times Book Review, which praised it as "a wonderful, infuriating, amusing, and informative war horse of a book." Now comes the new Sixth Edition, thoroughly updated and greatly expanded by editor Margaret Drabble and a team of 140 distinguished contributors, who include Salmon Rushdie, Brian Aldiss, Penelope Fitzgerald, Ian Buruma, and Michael Holroyd. Readers will find over 660 new entries, over a third of which were written by Drabble herself, includ...
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The Selected Letters of Wallace Stegner

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Publisher: Counterpoint : November 2007

Seller ID: 61077

ISBN-13: 9781593761684

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Like New

Wallace Stegner, recipient of the Pulitzer Prize in 1972, was a great writer. As an author, historian, teacher, and environmentalist, he influenced countless prominent individuals during his long life. Showcasing some of those relationships, these letters (written between 1933 and 1993) cover a broad range of topics, including literature, history, conservation, and Stanford. Here are letters to colleagues, like Ansel Adams, friends and family, as well as many students who went on to become well-respected authors, among them Wendell Berry, John Daniel, Barry Lopez, William Kittredge, and Robert...
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Black Sun

By: Abbey, Edward

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Capra Pr : September 1990

Seller ID: 40401

ISBN-13: 9780884963196

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

Black Sun Edward Abbey This reissue of Abbey's own favorite novel is a bittersweet love story between a forest ranger and a student half his age who eventually disappears into the desert wilderness. With a foreword by Abbey, and a tribute from his desert-stomping pal, author Charles Bowden: "Who Was that Ornery Guy?"
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Down the River

By: Abbey, Edward

Price: $6.00

Publisher: Plume : April 1982

Seller ID: 40402

ISBN-13: 9780525484080

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

Good News: A Novel (Plume)

By: Abbey, Edward

Price: $7.00

Publisher: Plume : January 1991

Seller ID: 45434

ISBN-13: 9780452265653

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

In Good News, Edward Abbey's acclaimed underground classic, the West is wild again. American civilization as the twentieth century knew it has crumbled. In the great Southwest, a new breed of settler, whites and Indians together, is creating a new way of life in the wilderness--a pastoral economy--with skills and savvy resurrected from the pre-industrial past. Meanwhile, in a last surviving bastion of urban life, the remnants of the power elite are girding their armed forces to re-impose the old order. This is a land of horses and motorcycles, high-tech weaponry and primitive courage, and the ...
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Monkey Wrench Gang, The

By: Abbey, Edward

Price: $7.00

Publisher: HarpPerenM : July 2000

Seller ID: 33799

ISBN-13: 9780060956448

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

Edward Abbey called The Monkey Wrench Gang a "comic extravaganza," which it is, although one with a clear, serious message: to protect the American wilderness from the forces of commercial enterprise. The story centers on George Hayduke, an ex-Green Beret and Vietnam vet, who returns to the Southwestern desert after the war to find his beloved canyons and rivers threatened by industrial development. On a whitewater rafting trip down the Colorado River, Hayduke joins forces with three others who share his indignation and want to do something about it: feminist saboteur and Bronx exile Bonnie Ab...
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The Brave Cowboy: An Old Tale in a New Time (Zia Book)

By: Abbey, Edward

Price: $5.00

Publisher: University of New Mexico Press : October 1977

Seller ID: 26609

ISBN-13: 9780826304483

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

In the Belly of the Beast: Letters From Prison

By: Abbott, Jack Henry

Price: $7.00

Publisher: Vintage : January 1991

Seller ID: 64348

ISBN-13: 9780679732372

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

A visionary book in the repertoire of prison literature. When Normal Mailer was writing The Executioner's Song, he received a letter from Jack Henry Abbott, a convict, in which Abbott offered to educate him in the realities of life in a maximum security prison. This book organizes Abbott's by now classic letters to Mailer, which evoke his infernal vision of the prison nightmare.
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Secret Rendezvous (English and Japanese Edition)

By: Abe, Kobo

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf : January 1979

Seller ID: 69666

ISBN-13: 9780394503721

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Like New

First US edition with unclipped (8.95) dust jacket, now protected in removeable mylar. A square, tight, and unmarked copy.
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The Woman in the Dunes

By: Abe, Kobo

Price: $7.00

Publisher: Vintage : April 1991

Seller ID: 35840

ISBN-13: 9780679733782

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

The Woman in the Dunes, by celebrated writer and thinker Kobo Abe, combines the essence of myth, suspense and the existential novel. After missing the last bus home following a day trip to the seashore, an amateur entomologist is offered lodging for the night at the bottom of a vast sand pit. But when he attempts to leave the next morning, he quickly discovers that the locals have other plans. Held captive with seemingly no chance of escape, he is tasked with shoveling back the ever-advancing sand dunes that threaten to destroy the village. His only companion is an odd young woman. Together ...
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A Man of the People

By: Achebe, Chinua

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Anchor : January 1989

Seller ID: 10515

ISBN-13: 9780385086165

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

From the renowned author of The African Trilogy, a political satire about an unnamed African country navigating a path between violence and corruption As Minister for Culture, former school teacher M. A. Nanga is a man of the people, as cynical as he is charming, and a roguish opportunist. When Odili, an idealistic young teacher, visits his former instructor at the ministry, the division between them is vast. But in the eat-and-let-eat atmosphere, Odili's idealism soon collides with his lusts--and the two men's personal and political tauntings threaten to send their country into chaos. When O...
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