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In this new collection, Eugene Goodheart, scholar of English literature, essayist, and public intellectual, reveals hims......more
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In the last decade of his life, Robert Penn Warren remained a vibrant force in American literature, producing new works ......more
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Mare Nostrum (1918) es una de las novelas más conocidas de Vicente Blasco Ibáñez. Transcurre sobre todo en el Mediterrán......more
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Anna David s True Tales of Lust and Love began as a one-time-only reading and storytelling show in January of 2012, a ve......more
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The Journal to Stella offers a detailed commentary on Swift s experiences in London in the last years of Queen Anne s re......more
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Katherine Mansfield’s arrival in London in 1908 marked the start of her professional career as a writer and this study m......more
Robert Creeley is one of the most celebrated and influential American poets. A stylist of the highest order, Creeley imb......more
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A Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award Aleksandar Hemon s lives begin in Sarajevo, where boyhood is consu......more
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Posthumously published in 1864 The Maine Woods, depicts Henry David Thoreau’s experiences in the forests of Maine, and e......more
This collection brings together Virginia Woolf’s personal letters and reflections on a wide array of subjects, including......more
From the exploration of feminist themes to incisive critiques of literary giants, this collection of Virginia Woolf’s es......more
This volume brings together a remarkable collection of Virginia Woolf’s most insightful and thought-provoking works on l......more
This volume is a complete collection of June Jordan s columns for The Progressive, published between 1989 and 2001. Jord......more
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"When I first saw it, when at last the bear of my girlhood unlocked itself from the stone shadows and I could see the fi......more
A comparative investigation of Emerson’s Transcendental thought and Zhu Xi’s Neo-Confucianism, this book shows how both ......more
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The way we create and organize knowledge is the theme of From the Tree to the Labyrinth, a major achievement by one of t......more
David Sterritt, film critic for the Christian Science Monitor and professor of film at Long Island University, is one of......more
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This probing collection of essays assesses the wide influence of W. J. Cash and the profound effect of his classic disse......more
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