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Kafka Was the Rage: A Greenwich Village Memoir Kafka Was the Rage: A Greenwich Village Memoir
by Anatole Broyard

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"Nineteen forty-six was a good time — perhaps the best time — in the twentieth century. The war was over and there was a terrific sense of coming back, of repossessing life. Rents were cheap, restaurants were cheap, and it seemed to me that... (read more)

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The Peabody Sisters: Three Women Who Ignited American Romanticism The Peabody Sisters: Three Women Who Ignited American Romanticism
by Megan Marshall

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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)

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Minor Characters: A Beat Memoir Minor Characters: A Beat Memoir
by Joyce Johnson

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A National Book Critics Circle Award-winner, Minor Characters has deservedly become known among the cognoscenti as a classic about the 1950s, a vivid and compelling memoir of one womans coming of age amidst the angels and poets of the Beat Generation... (read more)

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Race, Nationalism and the State in British and American Modernism Race, Nationalism and the State in British and American Modernism
by Patricia E Chu

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An original study of the impact of increasing government controls on literary modernism.... (read more)

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One Drop: My Father's Hidden Life -- A Story of Race and Family Secrets One Drop: My Father's Hidden Life -- A Story of Race and Family Secrets
by Bliss Broyard

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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)

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Ornament and Silence: Essays on Women's Lives from Edith Wharton to Germaine Greer Ornament and Silence: Essays on Women's Lives from Edith Wharton to Germaine Greer
by Kennedy Fraser

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A brilliant collection.... Ms. Fraser does the greatest honor a writer can do people: she brings them alive. -- The New York Times Book Review Kennedy Fraser brings to the fourteen essays in this indispensable volume the sensitivity, freshness of... (read more)

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Sentiment & Celebrity: Nathaniel Parker Willis and the Trials of Literary Fame Sentiment & Celebrity: Nathaniel Parker Willis and the Trials of Literary Fame
by Thomas N. Baker

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How did the stately, republican literary world of Washington Irving and James Fenimore Cooper give way to the sensationalist, personality-saturated mass market society of the late nineteenth century? In answering this question, Sentiment and Celebrity... (read more)

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Secret Lives of Great Authors: What Your Teachers Never Told You about Famous Novelists, Poets, and Playwrights Secret Lives of Great Authors: What Your Teachers Never Told You about Famous Novelists, Poets, and Playwrights
by Robert Schnakenberg

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In the tradition of Cormac O'Brien's bestselling "Secret Lives of the U.S. Presidents," Schnakenberg delivers uncensored profiles of the world's greatest writers, complete with hundreds of little-known, politically incorrect, and downright bizarre facts.... (read more)

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Banquet Years Banquet Years
by Roger Shattuck

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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)

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Very Short Introductions #53: Russian Literature: A Very Short Introduction Very Short Introductions #53: Russian Literature: A Very Short Introduction
by Catriona Kelly

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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)

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The Cambridge Companion to the Latin American Novel The Cambridge Companion to the Latin American Novel
by Efrain Kristal

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A stimulating collection of new essays on the development of the novel in Latin America.... (read more)

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Victorian People and Ideas: A Companion for the Modern Reader of Victorian Literature Victorian People and Ideas: A Companion for the Modern Reader of Victorian Literature
by Richard Dani Altick

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Describes life in the Victorian period focusing on the social, religious, scientific, and artistic movements that characterized the age.... (read more)

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The Natural History of Make-Believe: A Guide to the Principal Works of Britain, Europe, and America The Natural History of Make-Believe: A Guide to the Principal Works of Britain, Europe, and America
by John Goldthwaite

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The Man in the Moon has dropped down to earth for a visit. Over the hedge, a rabbit in trousers is having a pipe with his evening paper. Elsewhere, Alice is passing through a looking glass, Dorothy riding a tornado to Oz, and Jack climbing a beanstalk to... (read more)

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Glas #05: New Russian Writing: "Bulgakov and Mandelstam" Glas #05: New Russian Writing: "Bulgakov and Mandelstam"
by Mandelstam Bulgakov

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Ivan R. Dee is exclusive distributor in the United States and Canada for this highly praised series of new Russian writing, published several times each year in a trade paperback format.... (read more)

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The Emergence of American Literary Narrative, 1820-1860 The Emergence of American Literary Narrative, 1820-1860
by Jonathan Arac

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In the mid-nineteenth century writers such as Nathaniel Hawthorne and Herman Melville produced works of fiction that even today, centuries later, help to define what American literature means. In this work of innovative literary history, Jonathan Arac... (read more)

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Twenty-Eight Artists and Two Saints: Essays Twenty-Eight Artists and Two Saints: Essays
by Joan Acocella

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A distinguished cultural critic presents an insightful compilation of thirty-one essays in which she reflects on the life and work--and the creative process involved--of Simone de Beauvoir, Dorothy Parker, Saul Bellow, Twyla Tharp, Jerome Robbins, Susan... (read more)

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Intellectual Vagabondage Intellectual Vagabondage
by Floyd Dell

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The widely debated challenge to modern literary and intellectual life by one of its most celebrated figures: How should the artist respond in times of great social and economic change, and why is alienation a surrender rather than a solution?... (read more)

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Everybody Was So Young: Gerald and Sara Murphy, a Lost Generation Love Story Everybody Was So Young: Gerald and Sara Murphy, a Lost Generation Love Story
by Amanda Vaill

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Gifted artist Gerald Murphy and his elegant wife, Sara, were icons of the most enchanting period of our time; handsome, talented, and wealthy expatriate Americans, they were at the very center of the literary scene in Paris in the 1920s. In Everybody Was... (read more)

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Modernisms Modernisms
by Peter Nicholls

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The recent enthusiasm for things "post"modern has often produced a caricature of Modernism as monolithic and reactionary. Peter Nicholls argues instead that the distinctive feature of Modernism is its diversity. Through a lively analysis of each of... (read more)

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February House February House
by Sherill Tippins

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In this captivating book, Sherill Tippins brings to life the story of what was possibly the most fertile and improbable live-in salon of the twentieth century. Known as February House, its residents included, among others, Carson McCullers, W. H. Auden... (read more)

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