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Vectors: Aphorisms & Ten-Second Essays
$14.00 Add to cartOur best-seller. The best bathroom book ever for serious readers.
- Author: Richardson, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 109
- Publish Date: October 01 2001
- ISBN10: 0967266890
- Language: English
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The Cult of Alien Gods: H.P. Lovecraft And Extraterrestrial Pop Culture
$27.95 Add to cartIn this entertaining and informative book, Colavito traces the origins of thebelief in ancient extraterrestrial visitors to the work of horror writer H.P.Lovecraft. Illustrations.
- Author: Colavito, Jason
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: December 30 2005
- ISBN10: 1591023521
- Language: English
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The Cambridge Companion to the American Short Story
$49.58 Add to cartThis Companion offers students and scholars a comprehensive introduction to the development and the diversity of the American short story as a literary form from its origins in the eighteenth century … [more below]
- Series: Cambridge Companions to Literature
- Author: Collins, Michael J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 350
- Publish Date: May 25 2023
- ISBN10: 1009292846
- Language: English
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My World-And Welcome to It
$18.99 Add to cartThe world of Thurber is splendidly sampled in these thirty stories, sketches, and articles that range from the wildest comedy to the serious business of murder. Animal courtship, maids, Macbeth, baseb… [more below]
- Series: Harvest Book
- Author: Thurber, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 324
- Publish Date: March 19 1969
- ISBN10: 0156623447
- Language: English
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The American Canon: Literary Genius from Emerson to Pynchon
$35.00 Read moreOur foremost literary critic on our most essential writers, from Emerson and Whitman to Hurston and Ellison, from Faulkner and O’Connor to Ursula K. LeGuin and Philip Roth.
No critic has better unders- Author: Bloom, Harold
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 436
- Publish Date: October 15 2019
- ISBN10: 1598536400
- Language: English
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Mark Twain’s Book of Animals: Volume 3
$31.18 Read moreLongtime admirers of Mark Twain are aware of how integral animals were to his work as a writer, from his first stories through his final years, including many pieces that were left unpublished at his … [more below]
- Series: Jumping Frogs: Undiscovered, Rediscovered, and Celebrated Wr #3
- Author: Twain, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: July 01 2011
- ISBN10: 520271521
- Language: English
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Walking the Rez Road: Stories, 20th Anniversary Edition
$17.95 Add to cartCelebrating two decades in publication, this twentieth-anniversary edition of a timeless classic comprises forty stories and poems that feature Luke Warmwater, a Vietnam veteran who survived the war b… [more below]
- Author: Northrup, Jim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: July 01 2013
- ISBN10: 1555919774
- Language: English
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The Best American Essays 2009
$14.95 Add to cartEdited by award-winning poet and essayist Mary Oliver, the latest edition of this “rich and thoughtful collection” (Publishers Weekly) offers the finest essays “judiciously selected from countless pub… [more below]
- Series: Best American Series (R)
- Author: Oliver, Mary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: October 18 2011
- ISBN10: 0618982728
- Language: English
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The Life You Save May Be Your Own: An American Pilgrimage
$27.00 Add to cartThe story of four modern American Catholics who made literature out of their search for God
In the mid-twentieth century four American Catholics came to believe that the best way to explore the questi- Author: Elie, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: March 10 2004
- ISBN10: 0374529213
- Language: English
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The Cambridge Companion to the American Graphic Novel
$49.58 Add to cartThe Cambridge Companion to the American Graphic Novel explores the important role of the graphic novel in reflecting American society and in the shaping of the American imagination. Using key examples… [more below]
- Series: Cambridge Companions to Literature
- Author: Baetens, Jan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 300
- Publish Date: September 28 2023
- ISBN10: 1009379356
- Language: English
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Exoteric Modernisms: Progressive Era Realism and the Aesthetics of Everyday Life
$197.92 Add to cartThis book is an account of how American realism in the Progressive Era contributed to debates about modernity. It uses the anthropological theories of Franz Boas, and Jacques Ranciere’s work on aesthe… [more below]
- Author: Collins, Michael J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: September 20 2023
- ISBN10: 1474456723
- Language: English
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The Art of Fiction
$22.95 Add to cartJames Salter’s exalted place in American letters is based largely on the intense admiration of other writers, but his work resonates far beyond the realm of fellow craftsmen, addressing themes–youth,
- Series: Kapnick Lectures
- Author: Salter, James
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 120
- Publish Date: April 11 2016
- ISBN10: 0813939054
- Language: English
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Flannery O’Connor and the Christ-Haunted South
$30.99 Add to cartFlannery 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. Fifty years a… [more below]
- Author: Wood, Ralph C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 284
- Publish Date: September 01 2005
- ISBN10: 0802829996
- Language: English
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Rip Van Winkle’s Republic: Washington Irving in History and Memory
$34.95 Add to cartTwo centuries ago, native New Yorker Washington Irving exploded onto the literary scene of Europe with the publication of his breakout collection of stories, The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent.
- Author: Burstein, Andrew
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 28, 2022
- ISBN10: 0807177598
- Language: English
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Civil Disobedience, Solitude and Life Without Principle
$13.99 Add to cartHenry David Thoreau (1817-1862) championed the belief that people of conscience were at liberty to follow their own opinion. In these selections from his writings, we see Thoreau the individualist and… [more below]
- Series: Literary Classics
- Author: Thoreau, Henry David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 90
- Publish Date: April 01 1998
- ISBN10: 1573922021
- Language: English
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Romance Of The Road: Literature Of The American Highway
$17.95 Add to cartFor four decades, the American road narrative has been a significant and popular literary genre for expressing journeys of self discovery. These works have been used as springboards for authors to def… [more below]
- Author: Primeau, Ronald
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 182
- Publish Date: February 09 2010
- ISBN10: 0879726989
- Language: English
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Goodness and the Literary Imagination: Harvard’s 95th Ingersoll Lecture with Essays on Morrison’s Moral and Religious Vision
$32.95 Read moreWhat exactly is goodness? Where is it found in the literary imagination? Toni Morrison, one of American letters’ greatest voices, pondered these perplexing questions in her celebrated Ingersoll Lectur
- Author: Morrison, Toni
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 01 2019
- ISBN10: 0813943620
- Language: English
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A Literary Guide to Washington, DC: Walking in the Footsteps of American Writers from Francis Scott Key to Zora Neale Hurston
$29.95 Add to cartThe site of a thriving literary tradition, Washington, DC, has been the home to many of our nation’s most acclaimed writers. From the city’s founding to the beginnings of modernism, literary luminarie
- Author: Roberts, Kim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: May 24 2018
- ISBN10: 0813941172
- Language: English
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Walt Whitman’s Civil War
$21.99 Add to cartIn 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… [more below]
- Author: Lowenfels, Walter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: January 01 2001
- ISBN10: 0306803550
- Language: English
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Province of Joy: Praying with Flannery O’Connor
$21.00 Add to cart“Like a beautiful quilt, Province of Joy is a deeply loving, imaginative work of art and faith.” – Elizabeth A. Johnson
This unique “Book of Hours” is modeled on the spiritual life and prayer practices
- Author: O’Donnell, Angela
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: May 01 2012
- ISBN10: 1557257035
- Language: English
