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Inventing the Truth: The Art and Craft of Memoir

By: William Zinsser

Price: $13.95

Publisher: Mariner Books: May 1998

Seller ID:: 111861

ISBN: 0395901502

Binding: Paper Back

Condition: New

An indispensable book by writers who have experienced firsthand the rewards and challenges of crafting a memoir Anyone undertaking the project of writing a memoir knows that the events, memories, and emotions of the past often resist the orderly structure of a book. "Inventing the Truth" offers wisdom from nine notable memoirists about their process (Ian Frazier searched through generations of family papers to understand his parents' lives), the hurdles they faced (Annie Dillard tackles the central dilemma of memoir: what to put in and what to leave out), and the unexpected joys of bring...
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Writing to Learn

By: WILLIAM ZINSSER

Price: $14.99

Publisher: Harpercollins: March 1989

Seller ID:: 94950

ISBN: 0062720406

Binding: Paper Back

Condition: New

Chapter Onel . Hermes and the Periodic TableAs a boy I spent four years at a boarding school in Massachusetts called Deerfield Academy that had two legends attached to it. The first was its headmaster, Frank L. Boyden. When he was a young man just out of college, in 1902, he accepted a position that only a teacher desperate for a first job might have taken: running a moribund academy in the tiny village of Deerfield. The school had so few boys that the new headmaster had to play on the football and baseball teams himself. By the time I got there, in the mid-1930s, Frank Boyden had built ...
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Going on Faith: Writing as a Spiritual Quest

By: William Zinsser, ed.

Price: $26.00

Publisher: Wipf & Stock Publishers: February 2011

Seller ID:: 173031

ISBN: 1610970675

Binding: Paper Back

Condition: New

Dostoevsky: Language, Faith, and Fiction (Making of the Christian Imagination)

By: Williams, Rowan

Price: $29.95

Publisher: Baylor University Press: August 2011

Seller ID:: 169829

ISBN: 1602583730

Condition: New

In this highly acclaimed work, now available for the first time in paperback, Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams investigates the four major novels of one of literature's most complex, and most complexly misunderstood, authors: "Crime and Punishment," "The Idiot," "Devils," and "The Brothers Karamozov." Displaying an impressive grasp of the literary, historical, psychological, and theological frameworks underpinning Dostoevsky's text, Williams explores the intricacies of his speech, fiction, metaphor, and iconography. To understand Dostoevsky as a writer of fiction, Williams convincingly ...
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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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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 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 writing today, including Cormac McCa...
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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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Flannery O'connor And The Christ-Haunted South

By: Wood, Ralph C.

Price: $18.00

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

Seller ID:: 150423

ISBN: 0802829996

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, and...
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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 (1893-1968) acquired a considerable international reputation. Poet and anarchist; novelist and biographer; critic of art, literature, and life; aesthetic philosopher; and revolutionary theorist of education, Read was in a unique place as an interpreter of his time. Few writers have probed so deeply into the nature of the prevailing culture, and none brought together the insights of modern philosophers and critics, poets and artists, psychologists and social scientists, as Read did.Best known as an art critic and follower of the theories of Carl Jung, Rea...
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Landscapes of Fear

By: Yi-Fu Tuan

Price: $27.50

Publisher: Univ Of Minnesota Press: April 2013

Seller ID:: 112040

ISBN: 0816684596

Binding: Paper Back

Condition: New

To be human is to experience fear, but what is it exactly that makes us fearful? "Landscapes of Fear"--written immediately after his classic "Space and Place"--is renowned geographer Yi-Fu Tuan's influential exploration of the spaces of fear and of how these landscapes shift during our lives and vary throughout history.In a series of linked essays that journey broadly across place, time, and cultures, Tuan examines the diverse manifestations and causes of fear in individuals and societies: he describes the horror created by epidemic disease and supernatural visions of witches and...
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Space and Place: The Perspective of Experience

By: YI-FU TUAN, STEVEN HOELSCHER, EDITORS,KAREN E. TILL

Price: $22.00

Publisher: University of Minnesota Press: February 2001

Seller ID:: 20081104149333

ISBN: 0816638772

Binding: Paper Back

Condition: New

Geographer Yi-Fu Tuan's study of space and place aims more toward suggestion than conclusion. A retired professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Tuan is scientist, psychologist and philosopher as he attempts to order human understandings of space (which he equates with freedom) and place (which he equates with home) through human experiences of the body, architecture, mythology, time, and relationships. Devoting entire chapters to the way children's awareness of space and place differs from, and then merges with, adult awareness as well as the roles of physical ability and knowledge i...
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