Literary Criticism

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Report copyright infringementby Paul Fussell (Author)Not everyone is as innocent as this engaging complainant. Most people who read know something about Johnson, enough at least to summon up images of him asseverating "No, Sir," knocking back endless cups of tea, rambling over the Hebrides, puffing out his breath like a whale, repressing Boswell, standing bareheaded in Uttoxeter Market, and having a frisk with Beauclerk and Langton. And now, thanks to the Johnsonians of Yale, Columbia, Oxford...

The Perfect Hour: The Romance of F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ginevra King, His First Love

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Report copyright infringementby James L. W. West (Author)In The Perfect Hour, biographer James L. W. West III reveals the never-before told story of the romance between F. Scott Fitzgerald and his first love, Ginevra King. They met in January 1915, when Scott was nineteen, a Princeton student, and sixteen-year-old Ginevra, socially poised and confident, was a sophomore at Westover School. Their romance flourished in heartfelt letters and quickly ran its course-but Scott never forgot it. Ginev...

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Report copyright infringementby Jens Baggesen (Author), Jesper Gulddal (Editor), Jesper Gulddal (Translator)'This travel book is truly a labyrinth--or, more precisely, a piece of the labyrinth that it has been my fate to wander, from the cradle to the grave.' Jens Baggesen's The Labyrinth (1792-93) is a genre-bending and highly personal travel book that follows the young Danish author's journey, made in 1789, from Copenhagen through Germany to the Swiss border at Basel. In its outer form, it ...

The Origins of Nostalgia: Memories and Reflections

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Report copyright infringementby Svetlana Boym (Author), Ron Roberts (Editor)This collection of previously unpublished autobiographical and semi-autobiographical "snippets of experience" written by Svetlana Boym in the final period of her life capture her penchant for seamlessly melding, poetically and dream-like, the intensively personal with the everyday and the world-historical. They illuminate the formative conditions for the thinking which she was to develop into her majestic work on nost...

The Early H.G. Wells: A Study of the Scientific Romances

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Report copyright infringementby Bernard Bergonzi (Author)This is a sensitive study of Wells' imaginative development during his formative years. It comes at a time when interest in H.G. Wells' early writing is beginning to revive, owing, no doubt, to the current translation into reality of some aspects of science fiction.Mr. Bergonzi examines Wells' early fiction, from surviving student writings of the late eighties to 1901 when he published The First Men in the Moon, his last significant sci...

Muse of Fire: World War I as Seen Through the Lives of the Soldier Poets

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Report copyright infringementby Michael Korda (Author)Michael Korda, the best-selling author of Hero and Alone, tells the story of the First World War not in any conventional way but through the intertwined lives of the soldier poets who came to describe it best, and indeed to symbolize the war's tragic arc and lethal fury.His epic narrative begins with Rupert Brooke, "the handsomest young man in England" and perhaps its most famous young poet in the halcyon days of the Edwardian Age, and end...

In the Future of Yesterday: A Life of Stefan Zweig

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Report copyright infringementby R?diger G?rner (Author)A refreshing approach to the life and work of Austrian writer Stefan Zweig. In the Future of Yesterday delves into Stefan Zweig's considerable contribution to world literature, rooted in the Austro-Jewish tradition. His privileged social background saw him embrace European culture and cosmopolitanism. A world traveler from the outset he liked to uproot himself, but whether he stayed in London, New York or, eventually, in Brazil, his liter...

Writers Like Us: My Life with Sinclair Lewis

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Report copyright infringementby Barnaby Conrad (Author), Barnaby Conrad III (Editor)Writers Like Us is a poignant literary memoir by Barnaby Conrad, who had the good fortune to be mentored by Sinclair Lewis, the first American author to win the Nobel Prize for Literature. In the spring of 1947, the 25 year-old Conrad was living in Santa Barbara, California, when he met Lewis. Conrad was struggling with his first novel, while Lewis, then 62, was in the twilight of his career. While they both h...

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Report copyright infringementby Kristian Carlsson (Author) Number of Pages: 114 Dimensions: 0.27 x 8 x 5 IN Illustrated: Yes Publication Date: August 16, 2013

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Report copyright infringementby Frederik Byrn K?hlert (Author)Best known for his alternative comics, Chester Brown (b. 1960) is one of the most acclaimed and influential cartoonists of the last half century. This first biography provides a critical account of Brown's life and career, highlighting his role in the evolving comics landscape and tracing his journey from self-publishing minicomics on the streets of Toronto to creating award-winning graphic novels. Characterized by often minimalis...

Women Thrive IV: Inspiring True Stories of Women Overcoming Adversity

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Report copyright infringementby Raimonda Jankunaite (Author)Could the stories of others spark the transformation you've been seeking? Women Thrive Volume IV is a celebration of courage, resilience, and the strength it takes to rise. Through the deeply personal stories of 15 extraordinary women, this book shines a light on what's possible when we embrace hope, let go of fear, and step into our power.Each chapter takes you on a journey-from trauma to triumph, from darkness to light-revealing ho...

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Report copyright infringementby Eileen Cleary (Editor), Martha McCollough (Designed by) Number of Pages: 156 Dimensions: 0.33 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: June 10, 2025

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Report copyright infringementby David Stephen Calonne (Editor)Conversations with Michael McClure features twenty interviews from 1969 to 2015 that chronicle the capacious scope of McClure's creativity. McClure (1932-2020) is notable not only for his considerable achievements as a poet and prose writer of the Beat Generation, but also for the many collaborative connections he forged over seven decades. From the 1950s to his death, McClure worked with an astonishing range of important figures i...

Reckoning with the Imagination: Wittgenstein and the Aesthetics of Literary Experience

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Report copyright infringementby Charles Altieri (Author)Much current theorizing about literature involves efforts to renew our sense of aesthetic values in reading. Such is the case with new formalism as well as recent appeals to the notion of "surface reading." While sympathetic to these efforts, Charles Altieri believes they ultimately fall short because too often they fail to account for the values that engage literary texts in the social world. In Reckoning with the Imagination, Altieri a...

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Report copyright infringementby Linda Leavell (Author)Winner of the Plutarch Award for the Best Biography of 2013Winner of the PEN Weld Award for BiographyA mesmerizing and essential biography of the modernist poet Marianne Moore The Marianne Moore that survives in the popular imagination is dignified, white-haired, and demure in her tricorne hat; she lives with her mother until the latter's death; she maintains meaningful friendships with fellow poets but never marries or falls in love. Lind...

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Report copyright infringementby Jamie Hood (Author)From a rising literary star and the author of how to be a good girl comes a brilliant, biting, and beautifully wrought memoir of trauma and the cost of survival "Hood descends into the terrifying dark of the unsayable with the dimmest of flashlights and returns bearing verbal gems, treasures, and marvels. Trauma Plot is a glass case of such wonders."--Torrey Peters, bestselling author of Detransition, Baby In the thick of lockdown, 2020, poet...

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Report copyright infringementby Magdalena J. Zaborowska (Author)An intimate portrait of James Baldwin, offering a new understanding of his life and works as seen through his close relationships and private life James Baldwin (1924-1987) was a pivotal figure of the twentieth century, an influential author, intellectual, and activist who led a celebrated public life--and whose words and image and persona remain current in our culture. Baldwin's many incarnations--"son of Harlem," "Black icon,"...

Michael Hofmann: An Extended Passport Application

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Report copyright infringementby Andr? Naffis-Sahely (Author)For more than four decades, Michael Hofmann has made significant contributions to the literary cultures of Germany, the United Kingdom, and the United States, ranging from his original poetry to translations of Kafka, Brecht, Hans Fallada, and Joseph Roth, among others. In the first book-length study of this iconic figure, poet and translator Andr? Naffis-Sahely surveys Hofmann's life and work with an emphasis on his poetry, situatin...

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Report copyright infringementby Lauren Oyler (Author)"The essay collection everyone's talking about."--New YorkA MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2024: Elle, The Millions, LitHub, Nylon, BookPage, PureWow, and moreFrom the national bestselling novelist and essayist, a groundbreaking collection of brand-new pieces about the role of cultural criticism in our ever-changing world.In her writing for Harper's, the London Review of Books, The New Yorker, and elsewhere, Lauren Oyler has emerged as one of the...

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Report copyright infringementby Craig Abbott (Author)If poets are "liars by profession," Sharmel Iris was truly professional. Poet, plagiarist, imposter, and forger, Iris engaged in a lifelong campaign of self-promotion that linked him to a constellation of leading writers and public figures, among them T.S. Eliot, Robert Frost, Joyce Kilmer, Ezra Pound, Dame Edith Sitwell, Diego Rivera, Pablo Picasso, Salvador Dali, Winston Churchill, Theodore Roosevelt, Eleanor Roosevelt, William Wrigley, a...

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Report copyright infringementby Jake Zawlacki (Author)Over thirty years after his initial ascent to super stardom, Todd McFarlane (b. 1961) remains one of the most popular and contentious comic artists ever. The interviews compiled in this volume offer a nuanced portrait of McFarlane's polarizing character. Beginning with his earliest days on Spider-Man to the months before the hotly anticipated release of Spawn and ending with his writing ventures decades later, the interviews offer compelli...

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Report copyright infringementby Domhnall Mitchell (Author)Emily Dickinson has often been pictured as a sensitive but isolated poet--someone who published very little in her lifetime and limited herself to lyrics, considered to be the kind of poems most removed from social and political life. In recent years, scholars have challenged that view, and this book extends the discussion in valuable new directions. Domhnall Mitchell begins by focusing on three historical phenomena--the railroad, the ...

Sons and Lovers: The Biography of a Novel

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Report copyright infringementby Neil Roberts (Author)Lawrence's autobiographical novel Sons and Lovers was written in four drafts between August 1910 and November 1912. During that period Lawrence's mother died, he broke for the final time with Jessie Chambers, the original of Miriam, had an affair with Alice Dax, the main model for Clara, had a year-long engagement to Louie Burrows, nearly died of pneumonia, gave up teaching, met Frieda Weekley who was to be his wife and life-companion, and ...

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Report copyright infringementby H. D (Author), Annette Debo (Editor)This volume presents two rare works by the modernist writer H.D.: Within the Walls, a collection of fourteen short stories, and What Do I Love?, a set of three long poems. Written during World War II in London, where H.D. chose to stay despite offers of refuge in the United States, the stories and poems recount her experiences during the Blitz. These texts capture the essence of war-torn London from the perspective of a woman...

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Report copyright infringementby Bruce Lindsay (Author)Ivor Cutler: A Life Outside the Sitting Room is the first biography of one of post-war Britain's most recognisable authors, poets and performers. Mr Cutler (as he preferred to be known) wrote and recorded some of the most unusual and memorable songs and poems in British popular culture, including the hilarious and unsettling 'Life in a Scotch Sitting Room' series. Described by fans and commentators as an outsider because of his eccentric b...

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Report copyright infringementby Barry Baldwin (Author)A book about ancient Greek satirist Lucian in his cultural and historical context. "My conclusion is that we need hardly ever look outside the second century for the immediate and personal sources of Lucian's inspiration." - Barry Baldwin Number of Pages: 123 Dimensions: 0.3 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN Publication Date: January 01, 1973

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Report copyright infringementby Walter Hooper (Author)""I thought I saw how stories of this kind could steal past a certain inhibition which had paralysed much of my own religion in childhood. Why did one find it so hard to feel as one was told one ought to feel about God or about the sufferings of Christ? I thought the chief reason was that one was told one ought to. An obligation to feel can freeze feelings. And reverence itself did harm. The whole subject was associated with lowered voices...

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Report copyright infringementby Marianne Moore (Author), Bonnie Costello (Introduction by)Marianne Moore's correspondence makes up the largest and most broadly significant collection of any modern poet. It documents the first two-thirds of this century, reflecting shifts from Victorian to modernist culture, the experience of the two world wars, the Depression and postwar prosperity, and the changing face of the arts in America and Europe. Moore wrote letters daily for most of her life--long, ...

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Report copyright infringementby Grevel Lindop (Author)This is the first full biography of Charles Williams (1886-1945), an extraordinary and controversial figure who was a central member of the Inklings--the group of Oxford writers that included C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien. Charles Williams--novelist, poet, theologian, magician and guru--was the strangest, most multi-talented, and most controversial member of the group. He was a pioneering fantasy writer, who still has a cult following. C.S...

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Report copyright infringementby Gabriela Ram?rez-Arellano (Compiled by), Esmeralda Aharon (Compiled by)Calladita te ves m?s bonita - You are prettier when you are quiet.This anthology brings together over 30 Latina authors who share their powerful stories of breaking free from the limitations imposed by this traditional saying. In their own words, these authors share their stories of challenging the narrative, inspiring change, and declaring that their voices will no longer be silenced! Expl...

A Bathroom Book for People Not Pooping or Peeing But Using the Bathroom as an Escape - Hardcover

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by Joe Pera (Author), Joe Bennett (Illustrator)A USA TODAY BESTSELLER!The cozy comedy of Joe Pera meets the darkly playful illustrations of Joe Bennett in A Bathroom Book for People Not Pooping or Peeing But Using the Bathroom as an Escape, a funny, warm, and sincere guide to regaining calm and confidence when you're hiding in the bathroom. "Nothing says 'class' to your dinner guests more than a Joe Pera book next to the can." --Seth Meyers Joe Pera goes to the bathroom a lot. And his friend,...

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Report copyright infringementby John Zheng (Editor)Conversations with Dana Gioia is the first collection of interviews with the internationally known poet and public intellectual, covering every stage of his busy, polymathic career. Dana Gioia (b. 1950) has made many contributions to contemporary American literature and culture, including but not limited to crafting a personal poetic style suited to the age; leading the revival of rhyme, meter, and narrative through New Formalism; walloping t...