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New Arrivals $21.25 Trade Paper add to wishlist Through Other Continents: American Literature Across Deep Time Wai Chee Dimock $24.95 Trade Paper add to wishlist Modernism, Media, and Propaganda: British Narrative from 1900 to 1945 Mark Wollaeger $13.50 Hardcover add to wishlist Once Again to Zelda: The Stories Behind Literature's Most Intriguing Dedications Marle Wagman Geller $21.25 Trade Paper add to wishlist Call It English: The Languages of Jewish American Literature Hana Wirth-nesher General The Conde Nast Traveler Book of Unforgettable Journeys: Great Writers on Great Places by Klara Glowczewska Publisher Comments From the #1 travel magazine in the country comes a collection of travel tales from some of todays finest writers: Russell Banks writes on the Everglades, Francine Prose explores the secrets of Prague, Robert Hughes conducts a tour of Italy, and more.... (read more) Your Price $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper check for used copies Sale Books Once Again to Zelda: The Stories Behind Literature's Most Intriguing Dedications by Marle Wagman Geller Synopsis A novel's dedication can say much about an author and his or her relationship to the person for whom the book has been consecrated. "Once Again to Zelda" explores the dedications in 50 iconic books, shedding light on the author's psyche, as well as the... (read more) Your Price $13.50 (Sale - Hardcover) Browse more featured Sale titles Used Books One Drop: My Father's Hidden Life -- A Story of Race and Family Secrets by Bliss Broyard Publisher Comments Two months before he died of cancer, renowned literary critic Anatole Broyard called his grown son and daughter to his side, intending to reveal a secret he'd kept all their lives and most of his own: he was black. Born in the French Quarter in 1920... (read more) Your Price $16.95 (Used - Hardcover) Browse more featured Used titles United States 20th Century Beat Collection by Barry Miles Publisher Comments By dividing the Beat Collection into three sections: The Original Beats - New York 1944-53; The San Francisco Scene 1954-57 and The Second Wave - New York 1958-60, New York Times bestselling author and Beat expert Barry Miles pulls together writings from,... (read more) Your Price $9.98 Sale - Hardcover check for used copies United States 18th and 19th Century The Peabody Sisters: Three Women Who Ignited American Romanticism by Megan Marshall Publisher Comments Elizabeth, Mary, and Sophia Peabody were in many ways our American Brontes. The story of these remarkable sisters — and their central role in shaping the thinking of their day — has never before been fully told. Twenty years in the making... (read more) Your Price $19.50 Used - Hardcover check for new and sale copies England 19th Century What Jane Austen Ate and Charles Dickens Knew: From Fox Hunting to Whist-The Facts of Daily... by Daniel Pool Publisher Comments For every frustrated reader of the great nineteenth-century English novels of Austen, Trollope, Dickens, or the Brontës who has ever wondered whether a duke outranked an earl, when to yell "Tally Ho!" at a fox hunt, or how one landed in "debtor's... (read more) Your Price $6.95 Used - Trade Paper check for new and sale copies England General Come Buy, Come Buy: Shopping and the Culture of Consumption in Victorian Women's Writing by Krista Lysack Publisher Comments From the 1860s through the early twentieth century, Great Britain saw the rise of the department store and the institutionalization of a gendered sphere of consumption. Come Buy, Come Buy considers representations of the female shopper in British women... (read more) Your Price $26.95 New - Trade Paper check for used and sale copies Latin America and Caribbean The Cambridge Companion to the Latin American Novel by Efrain Kristal Publisher Comments A stimulating collection of new essays on the development of the novel in Latin America.... (read more) Your Price $11.95 Used - Trade Paper check for new and sale copies Eastern Europe Very Short Introductions #53: Russian Literature: A Very Short Introduction by Catriona Kelly Publisher Comments Rather than presenting a conventional chronology of Russian literature, Russian Literature: A Very Short Introduction explores the place and importance in Russian culture of all types of literature. How and when did a Russian national literature come... (read more) Your Price $6.95 Used - Trade Paper check for new and sale copies France Banquet Years (68 Edition) by Roger Shattuck Publisher Comments Portrays the cultural bohemia of turn-of-the-century Paris who carried the arts into a period of renewal and accomplishment, who laid the ground-work for Dadaism and Surrealism.... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your Price $8.00 Used - Trade Paper check for new and sale copies Germany Secret Germany: Stefan George and His Circle by Robert E. Norton Publisher Comments Stefan George (1868-1933) was one of the most important and influential poets to have written in German. His work, in its originality and impact, easily ranks with that of Goethe, Holderlin, or Rilke. Yet George's reach extended far beyond the sphere of... (read more) Your Price $18.98 Sale - Hardcover check for used copies Asia Floating World in Japanese Fiction by Howard Hibbett Book News Annotation Hibbitt (Harvard U.) describes the fiction built around floating worlds that was popular among the prosperous, creative, and illegitimate shopkeepers and entertainers at the bottom of the Japanese feudal order during the 17th and 18th centuries. The... (read more) Your Price $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper check for used copies

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