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Thackeray, Newman, Ruskin, Huxley, Thoreau and Others - Essays English and American (Harvard Classics Leatherette Bound Collector's Edition)

By: WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY, JOHN HENRY NEWMAN, MATTHEW ARNOLD, JOHN RUSKIN, THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY, HENRY DAVID THOREAU

Price: $9.50

Publisher: Grolier Enterprises: July 1980

Seller ID: 20080702143628

ISBN: B000KF6LI0

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

Used - very good plus, no DJ. Beautiful brown leatheretter boards, gilt decoration, clean & sharp, tight binding; slight soling to text block fore edge, bright pages w/ gilt upper edge, red pen scribbles on back end page , a very nice copy. 470 pp.
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The Outermost Dream: Literary Sketches

By: WILLIAM MAXWELL

Price: $12.95

Publisher: Graywolf Press: 1997-09-01

Seller ID: 20070607105211

ISBN: 1555972640

Binding: Paper Back

Condition: New

The Outermost Dream brings together essays and reviews by William Maxwell, one of America's foremost writers and editors. Maxwell chose deliberately to focus on biography, memoir, diaries, and correspondence when reviewing books: "what people said and did and wore and ate and hoped for and were afraid of, and in detail after often unimaginable detail they refresh our idea of existence and hold oblivion at arm's length." In reading his reviews, we are struck by Maxwell's skill in choosing the one particular, the haunting moment, that further illuminates our understanding of the power ...
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The Outermost Dream: Literary Sketches

By: WILLIAM MAXWELL

Price: $12.95

Publisher: Graywolf Press: 1997-09-01

Seller ID: 20070607105212

ISBN: 1555972640

Binding: Paper Back

Condition: New

Kodak Elegy: A Cold War Childhood

By: William Merrill Decker

Price: $16.95

Publisher: Syracuse Univ Pr (Sd): April 2012

Seller ID: 104301

ISBN: 0815609728

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Like New

A new copy, right out of its shrinkwrap, but cover corners have been slightly bumped.
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A History of English Literature

By: WILLIAM VAUGHN MOODY, ROBERT MORSS LOVETT

Price: $7.00

Publisher: Charles Scribner's Sons: January 1930

Seller ID: 20090923162268

ISBN: B000YBDNUE

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

Very solid, minimal wear, previous owner inscription & pen underlining, a nice copy. 591 pp.
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In the American Grain (New Directions Paperbook)

By: WILLIAMS, WILLIAM CARLOS

Price: $5.50

Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation: June 1956

Seller ID: 184280

ISBN: 0811202305

Binding: Paper Back

Condition: Used - Good

Covers rubbed, owner name present, text solid and unmarked, a nice vintage paperback.
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American Literature: A world View

By: WILLIS WAGER

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York U Press: November 1968

Seller ID: 20071102127473

ISBN: 991120114

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Used - good. Ex library with pocket, stamps, stickers, interior very clean and solid. Dustjacket good with mylar cover. 291 pp.
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Giving the Devil His Due: Demonic Authority in the Fiction of Flannery O'connor and Fyodor Dostoevsky

By: Wilson, Jessica Hooten

Price: $22.00

Publisher: February 2017

Seller ID: 171185

ISBN: 1498291376

Binding: Paper Back

Condition: New

Flannery O'Connor and Fyodor Dostoevsky shared a deep faith in Christ, which compelled them to tell stories that force readers to choose between eternal life and demonic possession. Their either-or extremism has not become more popular in the last fifty to a hundred years since these stories were first published, but it has become more relevant to a twenty-firstt-century culture in which the lukewarm middle ground seems the most comfortable place to dwell. Giving the Devil His Due walks through all of O'Connor's stories and looks closely at Dostoevsky's magnum opus The Brothers Karamazov to sh...
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Reading Walker Percy's Novels

By: Wilson, Jessica Hooten

Price: $27.00

Publisher: LSU Press: May 2018

Seller ID: 171188

ISBN: 0807168777

Binding: Paper Back

Condition: New

Walker Percy (1916-1990) considered novels the strongest tool with which to popularize great ideas among a broad audience, and, more than half a century after they first appeared in print, his works of fiction continue to fascinate contemporary readers. Despite their lasting appeal, however, Percy's engaging narratives also contain intellectual elements that demand further explication. Philosophical themes, including existentialism, language acquisition theory, and modern Catholic theology, provide a deeper layer of meaning in Percy's writings.

Jessica Hooten Wilson's Reading Walke...
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April 1865: The Month That Saved America

By: Winik, Jay

Price: $14.00

Publisher: Harper: March 2001

Seller ID: 176508

ISBN: 0060187239

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

Owner name present, appearance as new, including jacket.
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Words for Readers and Writers: Spirit-Pooled Dialogues

By: Woiwode, Larry

Price: $19.99

Publisher: Crossway: April 2013

Seller ID: 104517

ISBN: 143353522X

Binding: Paper Back

Condition: New

Words--so small, so powerful--engender and enable our very existence. How are we to receive them, use them, hear them, and unite them?

Critically acclaimed author Larry Woiwode explores the mysterious potential of words in this collection of 21 essays on the process and the significance of reading and writing.

Reflect on Woiwode's masterful meditations and you will find yourself inspired not only to write and to read, but also to believe in the transforming power of words.

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The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test

By: WOLFE, TOM

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Picador: August 2008

Seller ID: 181533

ISBN: 031242759X

Binding: Paper Back

Condition: New

Tom Wolfe's The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test ushered in an era of New Journalism, "An American classic" (Newsweek) that defined a generation. "An astonishing book" (The New York Times Book Review) and an unflinching portrait of Ken Kesey, his Merry Pranksters, LSD, and the 1960s.
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The Fun Stuff: And Other Essays

By: Wood, James

Price: $17.00

Publisher: Picador: October 2013

Seller ID: 110041

ISBN: 1250037832

Binding: Paper Back

Condition: New

Author of How Fiction Works

James Wood has long established himself as the leading critic of his generation. With The Fun Stuff, he confirms his preeminence not only as a discerning judge, but also as one of fiction's most ardent appreciators. In these twenty-three sparkling dispatches, Wood offers a panoramic look at the modern novel. He effortlessly connects his encyclopedic understanding of the literary canon--casting his eye upon such crucial writers as Thomas Hardy and Leo Tolstoy--with an equally in-depth analysis of the most important authors writi...
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The Fun Stuff: And Other Essays

By: Wood, James

Price: $6.50

Publisher: Picador: October 2013

Seller ID: 174995

ISBN: 1250037832

Binding: Paper Back

Condition: Used - Very Good

Solid binding, unmarked interior. Cover shows light general shelfwear, sun-fading to all edges. Age-toning to textblock.
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How Fiction Works

By: WOOD, JAMES

Price: $17.00

Publisher: Picador: July 2009

Seller ID: 151152

ISBN: 0312428472

Binding: Paper Back

Condition: New

In the tradition of E. M. Forster's Aspects of the Novel and Milan Kundera's The Art of the Novel, How Fiction Works is a scintillating study of the magic of fiction--an analysis of its main elements and a celebration of its lasting power. Here one of the most prominent and stylish critics of our time looks into the machinery of storytelling to ask some fundamental questions: What do we mean when we say we "know" a fictional character? What constitutes a telling detail? When is a metaphor successful? Is Realism realistic? Why do some literary conventions become dated wh...
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Literature and Theology

By: Wood, Ralph C.

Price: $12.99

Publisher: Abingdon Press: November 2008

Seller ID: 150436

ISBN: 068749740X

Binding: Paper Back

Condition: New

The phrase 'People of the Book' may be the best way to access Ralph Wood's most recent work. Used originally by Muslims to describe both Jews and Christians, the name calls attention to the story-borne essence of Christianity and the Christian call to center one's life 'around the singular Story of God's ordering and reordering of the world' (Wood). It makes perfect sense that a people sustained by story-the Gospel in particular-should produce stories of their own. Truth begets truth; and as St. Augustine observed, 'I must confess that I have learned many things I never knew before.just by wri...
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Flannery O'connor And The Christ-Haunted South

By: Wood, Ralph C.

Price: $28.50

Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company: August 2005

Seller ID: 180545

ISBN: 0802829996

Binding: Paper Back

Condition: New

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. Fifty years after her death, O'Connor's fiction still retains its original power and pertinence. For those who know nothing of O'Connor and her work, this study by Ralph C. Wood offers one of the finest introductions available. For those looking to deepen their appreciation of this literary icon, it breaks important new ground.
Unique to Wood's approach is his concern to show how O'Connor's stories, novels...
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The Crystal Spirit: A Study of George Orwell

By: Woodcock, George

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Black Rose Books: August 2005

Seller ID: 174629

ISBN: 1551642689

Binding: Paper Back

Condition: Used - Good

Covers lightly creased and faded; text solid and unmarked.
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Herbert Read: The Stream and the Source: The Stream and the Source

By: Woodcock, George

Price: $19.99

Publisher: Black Rose Books: July 2008

Seller ID: 174677

ISBN: 1551643189

Binding: Paper Back

Condition: New

During his lifetime, Herbert Read acquired a considerable international reputation as a poet, anarchist, novelist and biographer, critic of art, literature and life, aesthetic philosopher and revolutionary theorist of education. This book is a critical study of his intellectual career.
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On Fiction (On Series)

By: Woolf, Virginia

Price: $12.95

Publisher: Hesperus Press: December 2011

Seller ID: 131826

ISBN: 1843916185

Binding: Paper Back

Condition: New

The only available edition of a collection of essays celebrating the ever-popular pastime of reading and storytelling, from one of the 20th century's greatest literary figures
"Here, then, very briefly and with inevitable simplification, an attempt is made to show the mind at work upon a shelf full of novels and to watch it as it chooses and rejects, making itself a dwelling-place in accordance with its own appetites. Of these appetites, perhaps, the simplest is the desire to believe wholly and entirely in something which is fictitious." Her readings sensitive, her prose ...
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