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Mightier Than the Sword: Uncle Tom’s Cabin and the Battle for America
$26.99 Add to cartIn this wide-ranging, brilliantly researched work, David S. Reynolds traces the factors that made Uncle Tom’s Cabin the most influential novel ever written by an American. Upon its 1852 publication, t
- Author: Reynolds, David S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: June 11 2012
- ISBN10: 0393342352
- Language: English
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The Letters of Sylvia Beach
$26.95 Add to cartFounder of the Left Bank bookstore Shakespeare and Company and the first publisher of James Joyce’s Ulysses, Sylvia Beach had a legendary facility for nurturing literary talent. In this first collecti
- Author: Beach, Sylvia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 376
- Publish Date: December 06 2011
- ISBN10: 0231145373
- Language: English
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Norman Mailer at 100: Conversations, Correlations, Confrontations
$39.95 Add to cartWinner of the Robert F. Lucid Award for Mailer Studies
Norman Mailer at 100 celebrates the author’s centenary in 2023 and the seventy-fifth anniversary of the publication of his bestselling debut nove- Author: Begiebing, Robert J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: November 23, 2022
- ISBN10: 0807178136
- Language: English
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New Orleans: A Writer’s City
$24.95 Add to cartThe neighborhoods of New Orleans have given rise to an extraordinary outpouring of important writing. Over the last century and a half or so, these stories and songs have given the city its singular p… [more below]
- Series: Imagining Cities
- Author: Johnson, T. R.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 314
- Publish Date: March 02 2023
- ISBN10: 1316512061
- Language: English
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Glad to the Brink of Fear: A Portrait of Ralph Waldo Emerson
$29.95 Add to cartAn engaging reassessment of the celebrated essayist and his relevance to contemporary readers
More than two centuries after his birth, Ralph Waldo Emerson remains one of the presiding spirits in Ameri- Author: Marcus, James
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: March 05 2024
- ISBN10: 0691254338
- Language: English
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A Journey Into Steinbeck’s California, Third Edition
$27.95 Add to cartThe third edition to A Journey into Steinbeck’s California features new photographs plus updated sections to provide a closer look into one of the most important American literary figures.
Susan Shilli
- Series: ArtPlace
- Author: Shillinglaw, Susan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 300
- Publish Date: May 14 2019
- ISBN10: 1938901827
- Language: English
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Book of the Subgenius
$20.95 Add to cartEither a hilarious parody of a religious text or an informative collection of totally real stories from a definitely real church that could be the foundation-stone of the promised kingdom of peace and… [more below]
- Author: Subgenius Foundation
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: December 15 2009
- ISBN10: 0671638106
- Language: English
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The Untamed Tongue: A Dissenting Dictionary
$33.95 Add to cartThis is a new collection of biting aphorisms and provocative meditations by the master iconoclast of our age. Of The Untamed Tongue Szasz says: “I have tried, in the tradition of Voltaire’s Philosoph
- Author: Szasz, Thomas Stephen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: March 10 1990
- ISBN10: 0812691040
- Language: English
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Why Read Moby-Dick?
$16.00 Add to cartA “brilliant and provocative” (The New Yorker) celebration of Melville’s masterpiece–from the bestselling author of In the Heart of the Sea, Valiant Ambition, and In the Hurricane’s Eye
One of the gr- Author: Philbrick, Nathaniel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: September 24 2013
- ISBN10: 0143123971
- Language: English
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Walt Whitman’s New Orleans: Sidewalk Sketches and Newspaper Rambles
$34.95 Add to cartWalt Whitman’s short stint in New Orleans during the spring of 1848 was a crucial moment of literary and personal development, with many celebrated poems from Leaves of Grass showing its influence. Wa
- Series: Library of Southern Civilization
- Author: Schöberlein, Stefan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: March 30 2022
- ISBN10: 0807176826
- Language: English
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A Word or Two Before I Go: Essays Then and Now
$24.95 Add to cartPraise for Arthur Krystal:
“Arthur Krystal’s essays shine like a searchlight through the fog of contemporary culture. Vivid, sharp, and enlightening, they keep a steady keel through roiling waters.”–
- Author: Krystal, Arthur
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: September 12 2023
- ISBN10: 0813950627
- Language: English
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Studies in Classic American Literature
$23.00 Add to cartStudies in Classic American Literature …] is at once a work of cultural criticism, a study and critique of American myths, a meditation on the relationship between the Old World and the New, a new … [more below]
- Series: Shearsman Classics
- Author: Lawrence, D. H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 196
- Publish Date: May 15 2011
- ISBN10: 1848611587
- Language: English
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Love Me Fierce in Danger: The Life of James Ellroy
$21.95 Read moreTHE TELEGRAPH’S BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR
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“As gripping and twisted as a James Ellroy no- Author: Powell, Steven
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: February 09 2023
- ISBN10: 1501367315
- Language: English
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The Mathematics of the Breath and the Way: On Writers and Writing
$19.95 Add to cartA collection of columns, reviews, introductions, interviews, and previously uncollected stories revealing the method behind the madness and critical acumen of Charles Bukowski.
- Author: Bukowski, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: June 12 2018
- ISBN10: 0872867595
- Language: English
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Thoreau and the Language of Trees
$31.18 Add to cartTrees were central to Henry David Thoreau’s creativity as a writer, his work as a naturalist, his thought, and his inner life. His portraits of them were so perfect, it was as if he could see the sap … [more below]
- Author: Higgins, Richard
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: April 04 2017
- ISBN10: 520294041
- Language: English
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Patriotic Gore: Studies in the Literature of the American Civil War
$44.99 Add to cartCritical/biographical portraits of such notable figures as Harriet Beecher Stowe, Abraham Lincoln, Ulysses S. Grant, Ambrose Bierce, Mary Chesnut, William Tecumseh Sherman, and Oliver Wendell Holmes p… [more below]
- Author: Wilson, Edmund
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 850
- Publish Date: August 19 2010
- ISBN10: 0393312569
- Language: English
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There Are Too Many Milks: And Other Common Annoyances of Modern Life
$14.95 Read moreA laugh-out-loud collection of illustrated scenarios that perfectly captures the tribulations of being an adult human in the twenty-first century.
Whether pondering the overwhelming plethora of nondai- Author: Lawall, Tara
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: March 07, 2023
- ISBN10: 1797219871
- Language: English
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Elegant Complexity
$39.99 Add to cartElegant Complexity is the first critical work to provide detailed and thorough commentary on each of the 192 sections of David Foster Wallace’s masterful Infinite Jest. No other commentary on Infinite… [more below]
- Author: Carlisle, Greg
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 514
- Publish Date: August 01 2007
- ISBN10: 0976146533
- Language: English
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Literary New Orleans: Essays and Meditations (Revised)
$19.95 Add to cartThis is an altogether engaging collection of ruminations on early New Orleans writers — George Washington Cable, Grace King, Lafcadio Hearn, and Kate Chopin — as well as three prolific twentieth-cen
- Series: Southern Literary Studies
- Author: Kennedy, Richard S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: April 01, 1998
- ISBN10: 0807122734
- Language: English
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Records of the Salem Witch-Hunt
$50.00 Add to cartThis book represents the first comprehensive record of all legal documents pertaining to the Salem witch trials, in chronological order. Numerous newly discovered manuscripts, as well as records publi… [more below]
- Author: Rosenthal, Bernard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 1012
- Publish Date: December 19 2013
- ISBN10: 1107689619
- Language: English
