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American Voices: A Thematic/Rhetorical Readerby Warren Rosenberg, Harold Schechter , Jonna Gormely SemeiksISBN 0060457635 (0-06-045763-5)
Softcover, Addison-Wesley
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The City University of New York: Cuny English Forumby Saul N. Brody, Harold SchechterISBN 0404624510 (0-404-62451-0)
Hardcover, Ams Pr Inc
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Conversation Pieces: Poems That Talk to Other Poemsby Harold Schechter , Kurt BrownISBN 0307265455 (0-307-26545-5)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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Here are poems that answer, argue with, update, elaborate on, mock, interrogate, or pay tribute to poems of the past. We hear Leda's view of the Swan; feel sympathy for La Belle Dame sans Merci, and find out how Marvell's coy mistress might have answered his appeal. Raleigh's famous reply to Marlowe's "The Passionate Shepherd to His Love" sparked a centuries-long debate that John Donne, William Carlos Williams, C. Day Lewis, and Ogden Nash could not resist joining. In these pages we see Denise Levertov respond to Wordsworth, Randall Jarrell to Auden, Ogden Nash to Byron, Donald Justice to César Vallejo. We also see contemporary poets responding to their peers with the same intriguing mix of admiration and impatience.
Whether they offer approbation or reproof, the pleasures of a jazz riff or a completely different perspective, these remarkable poems are not only engaging themselves but also capable of casting surprising new light on the poems that inspired them. [via]More editions of Conversation Pieces: Poems That Talk to Other Poems:
Deviant: The Shocking True Story of the Original 'Psycho'by Harold SchechterISBN 0340595647 (0-340-59564-7)
Softcover, Hodder General Publishing Division
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The Devil's Gentleman: Manhattan's Bon Vivant Poisoner and the Trial That Ushered in the Twentieth Centuryby Harold SchechterISBN 0345476794 (0-345-47679-4)
Hardcover, Ballantine Books
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The Devil's Gentleman: Privilege, Poison, and the Trial That Ushered in the Twentieth Centuryby Harold SchechterISBN 0345476808 (0-345-47680-8)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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Discoveriesby Harold Schechter , Jonna Gormely SemeiksISBN 0195068505 (0-19-506850-5)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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Discoveries : Fifty Stories of the Questby Harold Schechter , Richard Pisciotta, Jerry Herron, Diane SimoneISBN 0195081765 (0-19-508176-5)
Softcover, Oxford University Press
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The Manly Handbookby Harold Schechter , David EverittISBN 0425056473 (0-425-05647-3)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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The Mask of Red Deathby Harold SchechterISBN 0449007227 (0-449-00722-7)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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Patterns in Popular Culture: A Sourcebook for Writersby Harold Schechter , Jonna Gormely SemeiksISBN 0060457619 (0-06-045761-9)
Hardcover, Harper & Row
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Real to Reel : Real Life Stories That Inspired Some of the Most Popular Movies of All Timesby Harold Schechter , David EverittISBN 0425172716 (0-425-17271-6)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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Read the real-life stories that inspired Hollywood's biggest blockbusters.
Who can forget the bone-crushing terror of Jaws, the mother-loving horrors of Pscyho, the daredevil exploits of Indiana Jones, or the romance of The English Patient? For a century, the movies have dazzled, frightened, thrilled, and touched us. But did you know that some of the silver screen's most imaginative flights of fancy are firmly rooted in realty? If you've been amazed by Hollywood's greatest hits, wait until you discover...The purportedly possessed teen who inspired The Exorcist
The vaudeville comics fictionalized in The Sunshine Boys The 1927 Dumb-Bell Murders that inspired Double Indemnity
The Hungarian spy in Africa who became The English Patient
The real-life boxer who was the model for Rocky
The con artist brothers depicted in The Sting
Plus the true stories behind Rope, The Bridge on the River Kwai, The Great Escape, Indiana Jones, Jaws, and many other films
Full of surprising revelations and fascinating anecdotes, Real to Reel is compulsory reading for every movie fan. [via]More editions of Real to Reel : Real Life Stories That Inspired Some of the Most Popular Movies of All Times:
Savage Pastimes: A Cultural History Of Violent Entertainmentby Harold SchechterISBN 0312282761 (0-312-28276-1)
Hardcover, St Martins Pr
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The Serial Killer Files: The Who, What, Where, How, and Why of the World's Most Terrifying Murderersby Harold SchechterISBN 0345465660 (0-345-46566-0)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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Hollywoods make-believe maniacs like Jason, Freddy, and Hannibal Lecter cant hold a candle to real life monsters like John Wayne Gacy, Ted Bundy, Jeffrey Dahmer, and scores of others who have terrorized, tortured, and terminated their way across civilization throughout the ages. Now, from the much-acclaimed author of Deviant, Deranged, and Depraved, comes the ultimate resource on the serial killer phenomenon.
Rigorously researched and packed with the most terrifying, up-to-date information, this innovative and highly compelling compendium covers every aspect of multiple murderersfrom psychology to cinema, fetishism to fan clubs, trophies to trading cards. Discover:
WHO THEY ARE: Those featured include Ed Gein, the homicidal mamas boy who inspired fictions most famous Psycho, Norman Bates; Angelo Buono and Kenneth Bianchi, sex-crazed killer cousins better known as the Hillside Stranglers; and the Beanes, a fifteenth-century cave-dwelling clan with an insatiable appetite for human flesh
HOW THEY KILL: They shoot, stab, and strangle. Butcher, bludgeon, and burn. Drown, dismember, and devour . . . and other methods of massacre too many and monstrous to mention here.
WHY THEY DO IT: For pleasure and for profit. For celebrity and for companionship. For the devil and for dinner. For the thrill of it, for the hell of it, and because such men are monsters, who live . . .
beyond the frontiers of madness.
PLUS: in-depth case studies, classic killers nicknames, definitions of every kind of deviance and derangement, and much, much more.
For more than one hundred profiles of lethal loners and killer couples, Bluebeards and black widows, cannibals and copycats this is an indispensable, spine-tingling, eye-popping investigation into the dark hearts and mad minds of that twisted breed of human whose crimes are the most frightening . . . and fascinating. [via]More editions of The Serial Killer Files: The Who, What, Where, How, and Why of the World's Most Terrifying Murderers:
The Tell-tale Corpse: An Edgar Allan Poe Mysteryby Harold SchechterISBN 0449007235 (0-449-00723-5)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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