Category - Literary Collections
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And Then Something Happened: Essays on Fiction Writing
PaperbackOriginal price $18.95 - Original price $18.95Original price $18.95$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Debra Spark's Curious Attractions remains a hugely popular fiction writing guide thirteen years after its publication. Now, she tackles the thorn...
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The Curtain: An Essay in Seven Parts
PaperbackOriginal price $13.99 - Original price $13.99Original price $13.99$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /“An elegant, personalized integration of anecdote, analysis, scholarship, memory and speculation. . . . Not since Henry James, perhaps, has a fic...
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Cultural Amnesia: Necessary Memories from History and the Arts
PaperbackOriginal price $19.95Original price $19.95 - Original price $19.95Original price $19.95Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /"I can't remember when I've learned as much from something I've read—or laughed as much while doing it." —Jacob Weisberg, Slate This internationa...
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The Unforgivable: And Other Writings
PaperbackOriginal price $18.95 - Original price $18.95Original price $18.95$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Thrilling, stylish essays about everything from flying carpets and Doctor Zhivago to God and Shakespeare, by a rediscovered Italian writer.Christ...
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End of a Berlin Diary
PaperbackOriginal price $24.99Original price $24.99 - Original price $24.99Original price $24.99Current price $23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /"A vivid and unforgettable word picture of the destruction of Nazi Germany" (The New York Times). A radio broadcaster and journalist for Edward R....
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Writers and Their Teachers
HardcoverOriginal price $26.95Original price $26.95 - Original price $26.95Original price $26.95Current price $23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /By turns reflective, entertaining and moving, this book reveals how some of the most influential and best loved writers of our time were shaped by ...
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Studies in Classic American Literature
HardcoverOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$36.99$36.99 - $36.99Current price $36.99| /David Herbert Lawrence (11 September 1885 - 2 March 1930) was an English writer and poet. His collected works represent, among other things, an ext...
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David Bowie, Enid Blyton and the Sun Machine
PaperbackOriginal price $23.95Original price $23.95 - Original price $23.95Original price $23.95Current price $21.99$21.99 - $21.99Current price $21.99| /A dazzling act of literary-critical rebellion, casting new light on the lives of David Bowie and Enid BlytonProduct DetailsISBN-13: 9781526173638 M...
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The Evergreen Collection: Exceptional Stories from Across Washington State
PaperbackOriginal price $24.95Original price $24.95 - Original price $24.95Original price $24.95Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /While working for Washington State Magazine, eleven journalists traveled throughout the region to interview farmers, chefs, wine tasters, mountain ...
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Remembrance: Selected Correspondence of Ray Bradbury
HardcoverOriginal price $35.00Original price $35.00 - Original price $35.00Original price $35.00Current price $29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /Iconic author of Fahrenheit 451, The Martian Chronicles, and Something Wicked This Way Comes, Ray Bradbury believed that, someday, a collection o...
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Masculine Pregnancies: Modernist Conceptions of Creativity and Legitimacy, 1918-1939
HardcoverOriginal price $99.00 - Original price $99.00Original price $99.00$117.99$117.99 - $117.99Current price $117.99| /Examines literary depictions of "mannish" pregnant women and metaphors of male pregnancy to reframe the relationship between creativity and gender ...
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Do Not Forget Me: Three Jewish Mothers Write to Their Sons from the Thessaloniki Ghetto
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$41.99$41.99 - $41.99Current price $41.99| /Following the Axis invasion of Greece, the Nazis began persecuting the country's Jews much as they had across the rest of occupied Europe, beginni...
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Anna Karenina
HardcoverOriginal price $24.95Original price $24.95 - Original price $24.95Original price $24.95Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /At its simplest, Anna Karenina is a love story. It is a portrait of a beautiful and intelligent woman whose passionate love for a handsome office...
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What About the Baby?: Some Thoughts on the Art of Fiction
PaperbackOriginal price $17.00Original price $17.00 - Original price $17.00Original price $17.00Current price $16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /A collection of essays, lectures, and observations on the art of writing fiction from Alice McDermott, winner of the National Book Award and unma...
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Virginia Woolf on the Ghost Stories of Henry James
PaperbackOriginal price $15.99 - Original price $15.99Original price $15.99$19.99$19.99 - $19.99Current price $19.99| /First published in 1940, this volume contains a collection of classic essays by Virginia Woolf on the subject of Henry James and his work. Henry Ja...
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Cultural Forces in World Politics
PaperbackOriginal price $36.95 - Original price $36.95Original price $36.95$38.99$38.99 - $38.99Current price $38.99| /Ali Mazrui argues that the emphasis in world politics continues to be on arms, on resources and on strategic calculations and that the importance o...
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Life and Times of Frederick Douglass: Written by Himself
PaperbackOriginal price $12.95 - Original price $12.95Original price $12.95$14.99$14.99 - $14.99Current price $14.99| /'It will be seen in these pages that I have lived several lives in one: first, the life of slavery; secondly, the life of a fugitive from slavery...
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Slavery, Surveillance and Genre in Antebellum United States Literature
HardcoverOriginal price $89.00 - Original price $89.00Original price $89.00$106.99$106.99 - $106.99Current price $106.99| /Slavery, Surveillance, and Genre in Antebellum United States Literature argues for the existence of deep, often unexamined, interconnections betwee...
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Wonderlands: Essays on the Life of Literature
PaperbackOriginal price $17.00Original price $17.00 - Original price $17.00Original price $17.00Current price $16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /Searching and erudite new essays on writing from the author of Burning Down the House.Charles Baxter’s new collection of essays, Wonderlands, joi...
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Against Everything: Essays
PaperbackOriginal price $18.00Original price $18.00 - Original price $18.00Original price $18.00Current price $17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle AwardThe essays in Against Everything are learned, original, highly entertaining, and, from start t...
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