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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were to his work as a writer, from his first stories through his final years, including many pieces that were left unpublished at his … [more below]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
$29.99 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
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The Dover Anthology of American Literature, Volume II: From 1865 to 1922 Volume 2
$23.00 Add to cart“Absolutely wonderful; a marvelous journey which meanders through some of the most formative literature, non-fiction, and poetry to come out of the United States.” — The Literary Sisters
At the end of- Series: Dover Thrift Editions
- Author: Blaisdell, Bob
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 688
- Publish Date: October 15 2014
- ISBN10: 0486780775
- Language: English
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The Long-Legged House
$16.95 Read moreFirst published in 1969 and out of print for more than twenty-five years, The Long-Legged House was Wendell Berry’s first collection of essays, the inaugural work introducing many of the central issue… [more below]
- Author: Berry, Wendell
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: May 15 2012
- ISBN10: 1619020017
- Language: English
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CliffsNotes on Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath: Literature Notes
$10.99 Add to cartWhen you need help understanding a book, choose the name you’ve trusted for years-CliffsNotes. Gain the understanding you need with our in-depth literature study guides, and get more from every book y
- Series: Literature Notes
- Author: McGrath Vlcek, Kelly
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 132
- Publish Date: January 04 2023
- ISBN10: 9798889159506
- Language: English
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Will Rogers Speaks: Over 1000 Timeless Quotations for Public Speakers And Writers, Politicians, Comedians, Browsers…
$16.95 Add to cartWill Rogers was quoted more often than any other source besides the Bible and Shakespeare. Now his insightful wit is brought together in a collection of sayings organized by topic.
- Author: Sterling, Bryan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 332
- Publish Date: December 14 1995
- ISBN10: 0871317958
- Language: English
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Thread That Runs So True
$18.99 Add to cartFirst published in 1949, Jesse Stuart’s now classic personal account of his twenty years of teaching in the mountain region of Kentucky has enchanted and inspired generations of students and teachers.… [more below]
- Author: Stuart, Jesse
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: January 01 1950
- ISBN10: 0684719045
- Language: English
