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The Art of the Personal Essay: An Anthology from the Classical Era to the Present

By: Lopate, Phillip

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Anchor: January 1995

Seller ID: 292274

ISBN: 038542339X

Binding: Trade Paperback

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For more than four hundred years, the personal essay has been one of the richest and most vibrant of all literary forms. Distinguished from the detached formal essay by its friendly, conversational tone, its loose structure, and its drive toward candor and self-disclosure, the personal essay seizes on the minutiae of daily life-vanities, fashions, foibles, oddballs, seasonal rituals, love and disappointment, the pleasures of solitude, reading, taking a walk -- to offer insight into the human condition and the great social and political issues of the day. The Art of the Personal Essay is...
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The Art of the Personal Essay: An Anthology from the Classical Era to the Present

By: Lopate, Phillip

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Anchor: January 1995

Seller ID: 331056

ISBN: 038542339X

Binding: Trade Paperback

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Cyclopedia of Literary Characters

By: Magill, Frank N.

Price: $6.95

Publisher: Salem Pr Inc: February 1998

Seller ID: 69105

ISBN: 0893564400

Binding: Hardcover

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Cyclopedia of Literary Characters, Revised Edition examines more than 29,000 major characters from 3,294 important works of literature. It includes the major characters from over 1,400 titles appearing in Masterplots, Revised Second Edition (1996). This comprehensive edition combines the characters profiled in Cyclopedia of Literary Characters (1963) and Cyclopedia of Literary Characters II (1990). It also includes all characters that appeared in more recent works of Masterplots II published through 1995. This revised work includes 574 articles on new titles and 84 rewritten articles, with all...
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Fathers & Sons

By: Manguel, Alberto

Price: $6.95

Publisher: Chronicle Books: April 1998

Seller ID: 303698

ISBN: 0811816303

Binding: Trade Paperback

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Turning his inspired anthologizing skills to two subjects we can all relate to, celebrated writer and editor Alberto Manguel offers his most fascinating literary, collections yet. Manguel brings his quirky sensibility, and instinct for exceptional writing to a core human experience, presenting an outstanding array of international voices that delve into the mystery of everyone's primary relationship. Both volumes feature an exceptional collection of complete short stories, each selection accompanied by a provocative introduction from the editor. With such writing talents as Richard Ford, Kensa...
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New American Stories (Vintage Contemporaries)

By: Marcus, Ben

Price: $9.95

Publisher: Vintage: July 2015

Seller ID: 352349

ISBN: 0804173540

Binding: Trade Paperback

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In New American Stories, the beautiful, the strange, the melancholy, and the sublime all comingle to show the vast range of the American short story . In this remarkable anthology, Ben Marcus has corralled a vital and artistically singular crowd of contemporary fiction writers. Collected here are practitioners of deep realism, mind-blowing experimentalism, and every hybrid in between. Luminaries and cult authors stand side by side with the most compelling new literary voices. Nothing less than the American short story renaissance distilled down to its most relevant, daring, and unforget...
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Spoon River Anthology

By: Masters, Edgar Lee

Price: $3.95

Publisher: Collier Macmillan Publishers: August 1962

Seller ID: 334807

ISBN: 0020700105

Binding: Trade Paperback

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Six Gothic Tales

By: Maurier, Daphne du,Anthony, Evelyn,Holt, Victory,North, Jessica,Whitney, Phyllis A.,Brent, Madeleein

Price: $6.95

Publisher: Reader's Digest Association: January 1985

Seller ID: 331230

ISBN: 0895770601

Binding: Hardcover

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The Anatomy of Memory: An Anthology

By: McConkey

Price: $6.95

Publisher: Oxford University Press: April 1996

Seller ID: 277087

ISBN: 0195078411

Binding: Hardcover

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Memory is astonishing and elusive--its threads intricately woven and infinitely complicated. It makes intelligible the chaos of experience; it feeds our creativity and shapes our daily judgments, our spiritual apprehensions, our desires. It is the essential element of human consciousness, the key to our personality, and the linchpin of our sense of who we are.
In The Anatomy of Memory James McConkey has assembled a rich selection of writings that illuminate the nature of memory and the varied roles it plays in our lives. Ranging from the scientific to the humanistic--from "hardwir...
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The Best of McSweeney's Internet Tendency

By: McSweeney's

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Publisher: McSweeney's Publishing: March 2014

Seller ID: 360266

ISBN: 1938073797

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

Back in 1998, the internet was young and wild and free. Along with listservs, pornography, and listservs dedicated to pornography, there was a website that ran all its articles in the same font and within abnormally narrow margins. This site was called McSweeney's Internet Tendency, and many dozens of people read it. Now, fifteen years later, most of those readers have died, but the Tendency still exists, publishing, every day, quasi-humor writing in the same font within the same abnormally narrow margins. The site has no ads, and no revenue prospects, and thus, every year or so, we collect so...
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Second Mencken Chrestomathy

By: Mencken, H.L.

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Vintage: September 1995

Seller ID: 327342

ISBN: 0679764070

Binding: Trade Paperback

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Merriam-Websters Dictionary of American Writers

By: Merriam-Webster

Price: $11.95

Publisher: Merriam Webster: April 2001

Seller ID: 69101

ISBN: 0877790221

Binding: Hardcover

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A comprehensive guide to authors, literary works, groups, movements, and influential periodicals which have shaped America's literary tradition since the early 1600s.
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The Borzoi Anthology of Latin American Literature

By: Monegal, Emir Rodriguez

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf, New York: June 1977

Seller ID: 269741

ISBN: 0394733010

Binding: Trade Paperback

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Best Stories from the Indian Classics

By: Naravane, V S

Price: $5.95

Publisher: Roli Books: December 2004

Seller ID: 330514

ISBN: 8174363238

Binding: Trade Paperback

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In this selection of stories from the classics of Sanskrit fiction, Professor Naravane offers fascinating glimpses of life in ancient India. Retold in modern English and presented in a lively, fluent style, those stories are marked by an amazing diversity of atmosphere, situation, attitudes and characterization. They reveal the centuries, and convey the unique, distinctive flavour of Indian life and culture.
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Great American Short Stories (Dover Thrift Editions)

By: NEGRI, PAUL

Price: $2.95

Publisher: Dover Publications: June 2002

Seller ID: 281377

ISBN: 0486421198

Binding: Trade Paperback

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Featuring 19 of the finest works from the most distinguished writers in the American short-story tradition, this new compilation begins with Nathaniel Hawthorne's 1835 tale "Young Goodman Brown" and ranges across an entire century, concluding with Ernest Hemingway's 1927 classic, "The Killers." Other selections include Poe's "The Tell-Tale Heart," Melville's "Bartleby," Harte's "The Luck of Roaring Camp," "To Build a Fire," by Jack London, "The Real Thing" by Henry James, F. Scott Fitzgerald's "Bernice Bobs Her Hair," plus stories by Mark Twain, Sarah Orne Jewett, Charles Chesnutt, Kate Chopin...
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Great American Short Stories (Dover Thrift Editions)

By: NEGRI, PAUL

Price: $2.95

Publisher: Dover Publications: June 2002

Seller ID: 295905

ISBN: 0486421198

Binding: Trade Paperback

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The Norton Anthology of American Literature (Eighth Edition) (Vol. C)

By: Norton

Price: $7.95

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company: November 2011

Seller ID: 9691

ISBN: 0393934780

Binding: Trade Paperback

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The Eighth Edition features a diverse and balanced variety of works and thorough but judicious editorial apparatus throughout. The new edition also includes more complete works, much-requested new authors, 170 in-text images, new and re-thought contextual clusters, and other tools that help instructors teach the course they want to teach.

The Norton Anthology of American Literature is now available as an interactive ebook, at just a fraction of the print price.

The Continental Edition of World Masterpieces

By: Norton

Price: $6.95

Publisher: W W Norton and Company: January 1962

Seller ID: 50925

ISBN: B000S8867I

Binding: Hardcover

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The Norton Anthology of World Masterpieces, Vol. 2

By: Norton

Price: $7.95

Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc: February 1992

Seller ID: 69044

ISBN: 0393961427

Binding: Hardcover

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The Norton Reader: An Anthology of Nonfiction (Shorter Twelfth Edition)

By: Norton

Price: $5.95

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company: January 2008

Seller ID: 152125

ISBN: 0393931730

Binding: Trade Paperback

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With readings in a wide variety of genres, subjects, and styles, it offers the largest and most thoughtfully chosen collection of essays for composition students today. The Twelfth Edition has been carefully revised, with 25 percent of its readings new and an extensive new introduction to reading and writing with guidelines to all the elements cited in the WPA Outcomes Statement. Available in two editions: a full edition, with 206 readings; and a shorter edition, with 123.
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The Norton Anthology of English Literature

By: Norton

Price: $4.95

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company: December 1999

Seller ID: 214242

ISBN: 0393975665

Binding: Trade Paperback

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