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The Afro-American Novel and Its Traditionby Bernard W. BellISBN 0870235680 (0-87023-568-0)
Hardcover, Univ of Massachusetts Pr
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Age of Chivalryby National Geographic StaffISBN 0870440756 (0-87044-075-6)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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Alice's Adventures In Wonderlandby Lewis CarrollISBN 0870300229 (0-87030-022-9)
Hardcover, Capricorn Pr
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For more than 130 years, children have reveled in the delightfully non-moralistic, non-educational virtues of this classic. In fact, at every turn, Alice's new companions scoff at her traditional education. The Mock Turtle, for example, remarks that he took the "regular course" in school: Reeling, Writhing, and branches of Arithmetic-Ambition, Distraction, Uglification, and Derision. Carroll believed John Tenniel's illustrations were as important as his text. Naturally, Carroll's instincts were good; the masterful drawings are inextricably tied to the well-loved story. (All ages) --Emilie Coulter [via]
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As Others Read Us: International Perspectives on American Literatureby Huck GutmanISBN 0870236296 (0-87023-629-6)
Hardcover, Univ of Massachusetts Pr
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The Ashton Scholastic Guide Best Books for Childrenby Belle Y. AldermanISBN 0868968706 (0-86896-870-6)
Hardcover, Ashton Scholastic
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At the Mountains of Madness and Other Novelsby H. P. LovecraftISBN 0870540386 (0-87054-038-6)
Hardcover, Arkham House Pub
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The Authority of Experience: Essays in Feminist Criticismby Arlyn Diamond, Lee EdwardsISBN 0870236229 (0-87023-622-9)
Softcover, Univ of Massachusetts Pr
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The Book of Jobby Stephen MitchellISBN 086547270X (0-86547-270-X)
Softcover, North Point Press
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Caneby Jean ToomerISBN 0871401517 (0-87140-151-7)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Cane'Book summary:A breakthrough in prose and poetical writing. . . . This book should be on all readers and writers desks and in their minds. Maya Angelou
First published in 1923, Jean Toomers Cane is an innovative literary workpart drama, part poetry, part fictionpowerfully evoking black life in the South. Rich in imagery, Toomers impressionistic, sometimes surrealistic sketches of Southern rural and urban life are permeated by visions of smoke, sugarcane, dusk, and fire; the northern world is pictured as a harsher reality of asphalt streets. This iconic work of American literature is published with a new afterword by Rudolph Byrd of Emory University and Henry Louis Gates Jr. of Harvard University, who provide groundbreaking biographical information on Toomer, place his writing within the context of American modernism and the Harlem Renaissance, and examine his shifting claims about his own race and his pioneering critique of race as a scientific or biological concept. [via] 
Cheap Thrillsby Ron GoulartISBN 0870001728 (0-87000-172-8)
Hardcover, Arlington House
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Complete Poems and Major Proseby John Milton, Merritt Yerkes HughesISBN 0872206785 (0-87220-678-5)
Hardcover, Hackett Pub Co Inc
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Constance Fenimore Woolson: Homeward Boundby Sharon L. DeanISBN 0870498983 (0-87049-898-3)
Hardcover, Univ of Tennessee Pr
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Critics on Poeby David B. KestersonISBN 0870242520 (0-87024-252-0)
Softcover, Univ of Miami Pr
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Czeslaw Milosz and the Insufficiency of Lyricby Donald DavieISBN 087049483X (0-87049-483-X)
Hardcover, Univ of Tennessee Pr
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Dickinson: Stragegies of Limitationby Jane Donahue EberweinISBN 0870234730 (0-87023-473-0)
Hardcover, Univ of Massachusetts Pr
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Doc Savageby Phillip FarmerISBN 0872168549 (0-87216-854-9)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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Doctor Faustusby Christopher Marlowe, David WoottonISBN 0872207293 (0-87220-729-3)
Softcover, Hackett Pub Co Inc
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The Dream and the Dialogueby Alice TempletonISBN 0870498592 (0-87049-859-2)
Hardcover, Univ of Tennessee Pr
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Elements of Criticismby Peter Jones, Henry Home KamesISBN 0865974691 (0-86597-469-1)
Softcover, Liberty Fund
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Emily Dickinson and the Image of Homeby Jean McClure MudgeISBN 0870231642 (0-87023-164-2)
Hardcover, Univ of Massachusetts Pr
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Emily Dickinson and the Problem of Othersby Christopher E. G. BenfeyISBN 0870234374 (0-87023-437-4)
Hardcover, Univ of Massachusetts Pr
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Emily Dickinson: Daughter of Prophecyby Beth MacLay DorianiISBN 0870239996 (0-87023-999-6)
Hardcover, Univ of Massachusetts Pr
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Emily Dickinson's Imageryby Rebecca Patterson, Margaret H. FreemanISBN 087023272X (0-87023-272-X)
Hardcover, University of Massachusetts Press
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English Drama to 1710by Christopher RicksISBN 0872261271 (0-87226-127-1)
Hardcover, Peter Bedrick Books
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The Fiction of Bernard Malamudby Richard Astro, Corvallis Dept. of English Oregon State University, Jackson J. BensonISBN 0870714465 (0-87071-446-5)
Hardcover, Univ of Arizona Pr
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Flannery O'Connor: The Woman, the Thinker, the Visionaryby Ted R. SpiveyISBN 086554557X (0-86554-557-X)
Softcover, Mercer Univ Pr
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Frances Hodgson Burnett's the Secret Gardenby Frances Hodgson BurnettISBN 0866119892 (0-86611-989-2)
Hardcover, Abdo Pub Co
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Genji Daysby Edward G. SeidenstickerISBN 0870112961 (0-87011-296-1)
Hardcover, Kodansha Amer Inc
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George Orwell's 1984by George OrwellISBN 0871295423 (0-87129-542-3)
Softcover, Dramatic Pub Co
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German Studies in the Post-Holocaust Age: The Politics of Memory, Identity, and Ethnicityby Janet Ward, Adrian Del CaroISBN 0870817191 (0-87081-719-1)
Softcover, Univ of Oklahoma Pr
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Gulliver's Travelsby Malvina G. Vogel, Johnathon Smith, Johathan SwiftISBN 0866119922 (0-86611-992-2)
Hardcover, Abdo Pub Co
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The Gutenberg Elegies: The Fate of Reading in an Electronic Ageby Sven BirkertsISBN 0865479577 (0-86547-957-7)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Gutenberg Elegies: The Fate of Reading in an Electronic Age'Book summary:A reissue of the book that first examined the future of reading and literature in the electronic age, now with a new introduction and Afterword In our zeal to embrace the wonders of the electronic age, are we sacrificing our literary culture? Renowned critic Sven Birkerts believes the answer is an alarming yes. In The Gutenberg Elegies , he explores the impact of technology on the experience of reading. Drawing on his own passionate, lifelong love of books, Birkerts examines how literature intimately shapes and nourishes the inner life. What does it mean to "hear" a book on audiotape or decipher its words in electronic form on a laptop screen? Can the world created by Henry James exist in an era defined by the work of Bill Gates? Are books as we know them--volumes printed in ink on paper, with pages to be turned as the reading of each page is completed--dead? At once a celebration of the complex pleasures of reading and a bold challenge to the information technologies of today and tomorrow, The Gutenberg Elegies is an essential volume for anyone who cares about the past and the future of books. [via]
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The Healing Imagination of Olive Schreiner: Beyond South African Colonialismby Joyce Avrech BerkmanISBN 0870238361 (0-87023-836-1)
Softcover, Univ of Massachusetts Pr
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Heaven upon Earth: The Form of Moral and Religious Children's Literature, to 1850by Patricia DemersISBN 0870497863 (0-87049-786-3)
Hardcover, Univ of Tennessee Pr
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Himby E. E. CummingsISBN 0871400383 (0-87140-038-3)
Hardcover, Liveright
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History of Greek Literatureby Albin LeskyISBN 0872203506 (0-87220-350-6)
Softcover, Hackett Pub Co Inc
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A History of Japanese Literatureby Shuichi Kato, David G. ChibbettISBN 0870114913 (0-87011-491-3)
Softcover, Kodansha America, Incorporated
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A History of Japanese Literature: The Modern Yearsby Shuichi KatoISBN 0870115693 (0-87011-569-3)
Hardcover, Kodansha Amer Inc
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A History of Japanese Literature: The Years of Isolationby Shuichi KatoISBN 0870115685 (0-87011-568-5)
Hardcover, Kodansha Amer Inc
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Homer's The Odyssey: A Play with Musicby Elliot Sokolov, Amie Brockway-Henson, Richard HensonISBN 0871298619 (0-87129-861-9)
Softcover, Dramatic Pub
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Housman's Land of Lost Content: A Critical Study of A Shropshire Ladby B. J. LeggettISBN 0870491067 (0-87049-106-7)
Hardcover, University of Tennessee Press
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Interpreting Young Adult Literature: Literary Theory in the Seconday Classroomby John Noell MooreISBN 0867094141 (0-86709-414-1)
Softcover, Boynton/Cook Pub
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Introduction to the Poemby Maynard MacK, Robert W. BoyntonISBN 0867091436 (0-86709-143-6)
Softcover, Boynton/Cook Pub
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Introductory Lectures on Psycho-Analysisby Sigmund Freud, James StracheyISBN 0871401185 (0-87140-118-5)
Softcover, Liveright Pub Corp
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Japan the Beautiful and Myselfby Yasunari KawabataISBN 0870110888 (0-87011-088-8)
Softcover, Kodansha Amer Inc
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John Locke and Children's Books in 18th Century Englandby Samuel F. PickeringISBN 087049290X (0-87049-290-X)
Hardcover, Univ of Tennessee Pr
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Life of Ezra Poundby Noel StockISBN 0865470758 (0-86547-075-8)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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Little Womenby Louisa May AlcottISBN 0866119558 (0-86611-955-8)
Hardcover, Abdo Pub Co
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Looking Backward 1988-1888: Essays on Edward Bellamyby Daphne PataiISBN 0870236342 (0-87023-634-2)
Softcover, Univ of Massachusetts Pr
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Manga! Manga!: The World of Japanese Comicsby Frederik SchodtISBN 0870117521 (0-87011-752-1)
Softcover, Kodansha Amer Inc
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Maria Edgeworth and the Public Scene: Intellect, Fine Feeling and Landlordism in the Age of Reformby Michael HurstISBN 0870241354 (0-87024-135-4)
Hardcover, University of Miami Press
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Mark Twain on the Loose: A Comic Writer and the American Selfby Bruce MichelsonISBN 087023966X (0-87023-966-X)
Hardcover, Univ of Massachusetts Pr
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The Marriage of Heaven and Hellby William BlakeISBN 0870240196 (0-87024-019-6)
Softcover, Univ of Miami Pr
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Matsuo Bashoby Makoto UedaISBN 0870115537 (0-87011-553-7)
Softcover, Kodansha Amer Inc
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The Middle Agesby W. F. BoltonISBN 0872261255 (0-87226-125-5)
Hardcover, Peter Bedrick Books
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Modern Ageby George A. PanichasISBN 0865970629 (0-86597-062-9)
Softcover, Liberty Fund
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![Fuller, Edmund: Myth, Allegory, and Gospel: An Interpretation of J. R. R. Tolkien, C. S. Lewis, G. K. Chesterton [and] Charles Williams](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/P/0871233576.01._SL160_SCLZZZZZZZ__.jpg "Fuller, Edmund: Myth, Allegory, and Gospel: An Interpretation of J. R. R. Tolkien, C. S. Lewis, G. K. Chesterton [and] Charles Williams")
Myth, Allegory, and Gospel: An Interpretation of J. R. R. Tolkien, C. S. Lewis, G. K. Chesterton [and] Charles Williamsby Edmund FullerISBN 0871233576 (0-87123-357-6)
Hardcover, Bethany Fellowship, inc.
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The Odysseyby Homer, Sheila Murnaghan, Stanley LombardoISBN 0872204847 (0-87220-484-7)
Softcover, Hackett Pub Co Inc
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"And when the wine had begun to work on his mind,
I spoke these sweet words to him:
'Cyclops
You ask me my name, my glorious name,
And I will tell it to you. Remember now,
To give me the gift just as you promised.
Noman is my name. They call me Noman-
My mother, my father, and all my friends too.'
He answered from his pitiless heart:
'Noman I will eat last after his friends.
Friends first, him last. That's my gift to you.'" [via]
Oedipus Tyrannusby Sophocles, Paul Woodruff, Peter MeineckISBN 0872204928 (0-87220-492-8)
Softcover, Hackett Pub Co Inc
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Patrick White's Fictionby William WalshISBN 0868610402 (0-86861-040-2)
Hardcover, George Allen and Unwin Australia
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The Picture of Dorian GrayISBN 0866119981 (0-86611-998-1)
Hardcover, Abdo Pub Co
Find This BookBook summary:A lush, cautionary tale of a life of vileness and deception or a loving portrait of the aesthetic impulse run rampant? Why not both? After Basil Hallward paints a beautiful, young man's portrait, his subject's frivolous wish that the picture change and he remain the same comes true. Dorian Gray's picture grows aged and corrupt while he continues to appear fresh and innocent. After he kills a young woman, "as surely as if I had cut her little throat with a knife," Dorian Gray is surprised to find no difference in his vision or surroundings. "The roses are not less lovely for all that. The birds sing just as happily in my garden."
As Hallward tries to make sense of his creation, his epigram-happy friend Lord Henry Wotton encourages Dorian in his sensual quest with any number of Wildean paradoxes, including the delightful "When we are happy we are always good, but when we are good we are not always happy." But despite its many languorous pleasures, The Picture of Dorian Gray is an imperfect work. Compared to the two (voyeuristic) older men, Dorian is a bore, and his search for ever new sensations far less fun than the novel's drawing-room discussions. Even more oddly, the moral message of the novel contradicts many of Wilde's supposed aims, not least "no artist has ethical sympathies. An ethical sympathy in an artist is an unpardonable mannerism of style." Nonetheless, the glamour boy gets his just deserts. And Wilde, defending Dorian Gray, had it both ways: "All excess, as well as all renunciation, brings its own punishment." [via]
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Planets in Peril: A Critical Study of C.S. Lewis's Ransom Trilogyby David C. DowningISBN 087023997X (0-87023-997-X)
Softcover, Univ of Massachusetts Pr
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Plato's Statesmanby Plato, Martin Ostwald, J.B. SkempISBN 0872201384 (0-87220-138-4)
Softcover, Hackett Pub Co Inc
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Playing It by Ear: Literary Essays and Reviewsby William H. PritchardISBN 0870239481 (0-87023-948-1)
Softcover, Univ of Massachusetts Pr
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The Poetics of Appalachian Spaceby Parks LanierISBN 0870496921 (0-87049-692-1)
Hardcover, Univ of Tennessee Pr
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Propaganda and Aesthetics: The Literary Politics of Afro-American Magazines in the Twentieth Centuryby Abby Arthur Johnson, Ronald Maberry JohnsonISBN 0870234021 (0-87023-402-1)
Softcover, Univ of Massachusetts Pr
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The Raymond Chandler Papersby Raymond Chandler, Frank MacShane, Tom HineyISBN 0871137860 (0-87113-786-0)
Hardcover, Atlantic Monthly Pr
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A Reader's Guide to Japanese Literatureby J. Thomas RimerISBN 087011896X (0-87011-896-X)
Hardcover, Kodansha International
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The Red Badge of Courageby Stephen CraneISBN 0866119787 (0-86611-978-7)
Hardcover, Abdo Pub Co
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The Renaissance Englishwoman in Print: Counterbalancing the Canonby Anne M. Haselkorn, Betty S. TravitskyISBN 0870236903 (0-87023-690-3)
Hardcover, Univ of Massachusetts Pr
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Rex Barney's Thank You for 50 Years in Baseball from Brooklyn to Baltimo reby Norman L. MacHt, Rex BarneyISBN 0870334433 (0-87033-443-3)
Hardcover, Cornell Maritime Pr/Tidewater Pub
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Sophistby Plato, Nicholas P. WhiteISBN 087220202X (0-87220-202-X)
Softcover, Hackett Pub Co Inc
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Statesmanby Plato, Christopher J. RoweISBN 0872204626 (0-87220-462-6)
Softcover, Hackett Pub Co Inc
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The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hydeby Robert Louis StevensonISBN 0866119612 (0-86611-961-2)
Hardcover, Abdo Pub Co
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Surprised by C. S. Lewis, George MacDonald and Dante: An Array of Original Discoveriesby Kathryn LindskoogISBN 0865547289 (0-86554-728-9)
Hardcover, Mercer University Press
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The Tall Tale in American Folklore and Literatureby Carolyn S BrownISBN 0870495291 (0-87049-529-1)
Hardcover, Univ of Tennessee Pr
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Theaetetusby Plato, Bernard Williams, Myles Burnyeat, M.J. LevettISBN 0872201589 (0-87220-158-9)
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Themes Out of School: Effects and Causesby Stanley CavellISBN 0865471460 (0-86547-146-0)
Hardcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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This Is No Place for a Woman: Nadine Gordimer, Nayantara Sahgal, Buchi Emecheta, and the Politics of Genderby Joya F. UraizeeISBN 086543767X (0-86543-767-X)
Softcover, Africa World Pr
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Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Artby Madeleine L'EngleISBN 0865474877 (0-86547-487-7)
Softcover, North Point Pr
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Wallace Stevens: Words Chosen Out of Desireby Helen VendlerISBN 0870494279 (0-87049-427-9)
Hardcover, Univ of Tennessee Pr
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A Way of Seeing: A Critical Study of James Ageeby Alfred T. BarsonISBN 0870230948 (0-87023-094-8)
Hardcover, Univ of Massachusetts Pr
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Within the Context of No Contextby George W. S. TrowISBN 0871136740 (0-87113-674-0)
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The Writer As Shaman: The Pilgrimages of Conrad Aiken and Walker Percyby Ted R. SpiveyISBN 086554199X (0-86554-199-X)
Hardcover, Mercer Univ Pr
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Writers in Action: The Writer's Choice Eveningsby Gerry TurcotteISBN 0868192740 (0-86819-274-0)
Hardcover, Currency Press
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