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All Is Vanity : A Novelby Christina SchwarzISBN 0385499728 (0-385-49972-8)
Hardcover, Doubleday Publishing
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The American Heritage Book of English Usageby American Heritage Dictionary EditorsISBN 0395767857 (0-395-76785-7)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin Company
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Anne of Green Gablesby L.M. Montgomery, Elizabeth Waterston, Mary Henley RubioISBN 0393926958 (0-393-92695-8)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Anne of Green Gables'Book summary:Since its publication in 1908, Anne of Green Gables has been an enduring bestseller and arguably Canadas most famous novel.
This Norton Critical Edition offers an unrivaled selection of contextual and critical material, edited by two leading Montgomery scholars. Backgrounds brings together fourteen relevant excerpts from Montgomerys journals, letters, and juvenilia along with literary selections from, among others, Sir Walter Scott, Byron, Caroline Oliphant, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, and Louisa May Alcott. The cultural context of Anne of Green Gables is explored through the writings of Carole Gerson, Kate Wood, and Mary Henley Rubio. Criticism is divided into Early Reviews and Responses and Modern Critical Views. Eight reviews from 1908 to 1942 include Canadian, American, and British assessments. Critical essays are provided by, among others, Northrop Frye, Elizabeth Epperly, T. D. MacLulich, Juliet McMaster, Carol Shields, Margaret Atwood, and Elizabeth Waterston. A Chronology and Selected Bibliography are also included. [via]More editions of Anne of Green Gables:
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The Art of Fiction: Notes on Craft for Young Writersby John GardnerISBN 0394504690 (0-394-50469-0)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Authorby Helen LesterISBN 0395827442 (0-395-82744-2)
Hardcover, Walter Lorraine
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A Book of Your Ownby Carla StevensISBN 0395678870 (0-395-67887-0)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
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Breakfast of Championsby Kurt VonnegutISBN 0385334206 (0-385-33420-6)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Breakfast of Champions'Book summary:"We are healthy only to the extent that our ideas are humane." So reads the tombstone of downtrodden writer Kilgore Trout, but we have no doubt who's really talking: his alter ego Kurt Vonnegut. Health versus sickness, humanity versus inhumanity--both sets of ideas bounce through this challenging and funny book. As with the rest of Vonnegut's pure fantasy, it lacks the shimmering, fact-fueled rage that illuminates Slaughterhouse-Five. At the same time, that makes this book perhaps more enjoyable to read.
Breakfast of Champions is a slippery, lucid, bleakly humorous jaunt through (sick? inhumane?) America circa 1973, with Vonnegut acting as our Virgil-like companion. The book follows its main character, auto-dealing solid-citizen Dwayne Hoover, down into madness, a condition brought on by the work of the aforementioned Kilgore Trout. As Dwayne cracks, then crumbles, Breakfast of Champions coolly shows the effects his dementia has on the web of characters surrounding him. It's not much of a plot, but it's enough for Vonnegut to air unique opinions on America, sex, war, love, and all of his other pet topics--you know, the only ones that really count. [via]
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The Call of Stories: Teaching and the Moral Imaginationby Robert ColesISBN 0395528151 (0-395-52815-1)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
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Contexts for Compositionby Stanley A. Clayes, David Gelvin SpencerISBN 0390197912 (0-390-19791-2)
Hardcover, Appleton-Century-Crofts
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The Craft of Crime: Conversations With Crime Writersby John C. CarrISBN 0395331218 (0-395-33121-8)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
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The Craft of Interviewingby John Joseph BradyISBN 0394724690 (0-394-72469-0)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Craft of Writingby William SloaneISBN 0393300501 (0-393-30050-1)
Softcover, Norton & Company, Incorporated, W. W.
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Dashiell Hammett: A Lifeby Diane JohnsonISBN 0394505018 (0-394-50501-8)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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The Enigma of Arrivalby V.S. NaipaulISBN 0394757602 (0-394-75760-2)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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The Essence of Fiction: A Practical Handbook for Successful Writingby Malcolm McConnellISBN 0393023060 (0-393-02306-0)
Hardcover, Norton
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Extraordinary Lives: The Art and Craft of American Biographyby William ZinsserISBN 0395486173 (0-395-48617-3)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
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The Fact Checker's Bible: A Guide to Getting It Rightby Sarah Harrison SmithISBN 0385721064 (0-385-72106-4)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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The Fading Smile: Poets in Boston from Robert Lowell to Sylvia Plath, 1955-1960by Peter DavisonISBN 0393313581 (0-393-31358-1)
Softcover, Norton & Company, Incorporated, W. W.
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Form and Style: Research Papers, Reports, Thesesby Carole Slade, William Giles Campbell, Stephen Vaughan BallouISBN 0395676584 (0-395-67658-4)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
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The Grace of Great Things : Creativity and Innovationby Robert GrudinISBN 0395588685 (0-395-58868-5)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin Company
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The Great Pursuitby Tom SharpeISBN 039472609X (0-394-72609-X)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Historian's Craftby Marc BlochISBN 0394705122 (0-394-70512-2)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Historian's Craft'Book summary:This work, by the co-founder of the "Annales School" deals with the uses and methods of history. It is useful for students of history, teachers of historiography and all those interested in the writings of the Annales school. [via]
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Home Cooking : A Writer in the Kitchenby Laurie Colwin, Anna ShapiroISBN 039455969X (0-394-55969-X)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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I Never Told Anybody: Teaching Poetry Writing in a Nursing Homeby Kenneth KochISBN 0394724992 (0-394-72499-2)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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In Search of J. D. Salinger: A Writing Lifeby Ian HamiltonISBN 0394534689 (0-394-53468-9)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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The Insider's Guide to Getting Published : Why They Always Reject Your Manuscript and What You Can Do about Itby John BoswellISBN 0385479360 (0-385-47936-0)
Softcover, Broadway Books
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The Languages of Tolkien's Middle Earthby Ruth S. NoelISBN 0395291305 (0-395-29130-5)
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Lend Me Your Ears: Great Speeches In Historyby William SafireISBN 0393059316 (0-393-05931-6)
Hardcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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Letters to a Fiction Writerby Frederick BuschISBN 0393047350 (0-393-04735-0)
Hardcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Letters to a Fiction Writer'Book summary:"As a writer," says Andre Dubus, "you are constantly in training. Day after day, alone at your desk, with no one watching you or even depending on you, you take your position on the playing field." Letters to a Fiction Writer, which was inspired by Rilke's Letters to a Young Poet, is a reminder that there is actually a whole community out there sharing your Sisyphean task. These 33 letters are written by authors such as Ann Beattie, John Gardner, Joyce Carol Oates, and Tobias Wolff. Lee K. Abbott (Living After Midnight) addresses the obligation of the fiction writer to "write it all goddamn down." Raymond Carver ponders the relationship between writing and alcoholism (upon recovering from it, he says, "I was so grateful to have my health back, and my life back, that it really didn't matter to me in one large way if I ever wrote anything again or not"). David Bradley discusses the difficulty of being an as-yet unpublished writer: "Most professions," he says, "pay bright prospects to develop their skills.... There are no such positions in writing."
Trying to make it as a writer is discouraging, yes. "If you can stop," recommends Reynolds Price, "you probably should. Try cabinet-making." But if you're all thumbs with a band saw, clasp this book to your breast and don't let go. For in it there are words of wisdom, wit, encouragement, and enticement that are sure to help you through that "strange and particular torture" that comes, according to Nicholas Delbanco, "after four hours of sitting with a paragraph you know to be poor." Of course, the true key to being a writer, say many of the authors included in this anthology, is writing. "Show up for work as dutifully and with as little fanfare as any civil servant," says Rosellen Brown. "Stop thinking of becoming an author," says Stanley W. Lindberg, editor of The Georgia Review, "and work instead to become a writer." And finally, intones Janette Turner Hospital (The Ivory Swing), "When rejection slips or rotten reviews come in ... have one stiff drink, say five Hail Mary's and ten Fuck-You's, and get back to work." --Jane Steinberg [via]
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Listen to Their Voices: Twenty Interviews With Women Who Writeby Mickey PearlmanISBN 0395681979 (0-395-68197-9)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin Company
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Little Womenby Louisa May Alcott, Gregory Eiselein, Anne K. PhillipsISBN 0393976149 (0-393-97614-9)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Little Women'Book summary:Little Women is one of the best loved books of all time. Lovely Meg, talented Jo, frail Beth, spoiled Amy: these are hard lessons of poverty and of growing up in New England during the Civil War. Through their dreams, plays, pranks, letters, illnesses, and courtships, women of all ages have become a part of this remarkable family and have felt the deep sadness when Meg leaves the circle of sisters to be married at the end of Part I. Part II, chronicles Meg's joys and mishaps as a young wife and mother, Jo's struggle to become a writer, Beth's tragedy, and Amy's artistic pursuits and unexpected romance. Based on Louise May Alcott's childhood, this lively portrait of nineteenth-century family life possesses a lasting vitality that has endeared it to generations of readers.
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The Lost Road and Other Writings: Language and Legend before The Lord of the Ringsby J. R. R. Tolkien, Christopher TolkienISBN 0395455197 (0-395-45519-7)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin
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Madame Bovary's Ovaries: A Darwinian Look at Literatureby David P. Barash, Nanelle R. BarashISBN 0385338023 (0-385-33802-3)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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Music for Chameleonsby Truman CapoteISBN 0394508262 (0-394-50826-2)
Hardcover, Random House
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Necessary Angelby Wallace StevensISBN 0394702786 (0-394-70278-6)
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Norton Book of Nature Writingby Robert Finch, John ElderISBN 0393978168 (0-393-97816-8)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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The Norton Book of Nature Writing/Field Guideby Robert FinchISBN 0393946347 (0-393-94634-7)
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The Norton Field Guide To Writingby Richard BullockISBN 0393977765 (0-393-97776-5)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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Now All We Need Is a Title: Famous Book Titles and How They Got That Wayby Andre BernardISBN 0393314367 (0-393-31436-7)
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Put It in a Memo: A Practical Guide to Persuasive Business Writingby Helen GorensteinISBN 0395576482 (0-395-57648-2)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
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Random House Rhyming Dictionaryby Jess SteinISBN 0394400623 (0-394-40062-3)
Softcover, Random House Childrens Books
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Riveting Reportsby Bruce Ross-LarsonISBN 0393317935 (0-393-31793-5)
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Self-Help: Storiesby Lorrie Moore, Victoria WilsonISBN 0394539214 (0-394-53921-4)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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The Simple Art of Murderby Raymond ChandlerISBN 0394757653 (0-394-75765-3)
Softcover, Vintage Books
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The Sportswriterby Richard FordISBN 0394743253 (0-394-74325-3)
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Stranger Than Fiction: True Storiesby Chuck PalahniukISBN 0385722222 (0-385-72222-2)
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Successful Writing: A Rhetoric for Advanced Compositionby Maxine C. HairstonISBN 0393954161 (0-393-95416-1)
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Sudden Fiction (Continued)by James Thomas, Robert ShapardISBN 0393038300 (0-393-03830-0)
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Sudden Fiction (Continued)by Robert Shapard, James ThomasISBN 0393313425 (0-393-31342-5)
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Sylvia Beach and the Lost Generation: A History of Literary Paris in the Twenties and Thirtiesby Noel Riley FitchISBN 0393302318 (0-393-30231-8)
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Telling Stories: An Anthology for Writersby Joyce Carol OatesISBN 0393971767 (0-393-97176-7)
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A Theory of Discourse: The Aims of Discourseby James L. KinneavyISBN 039300919X (0-393-00919-X)
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They Went: The Art and Craft of Travel Writingby Calvin Trillin, Ian Frazier, Mark SalzmanISBN 0395563372 (0-395-56337-2)
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They Went: The Art and Craft of Travel Writingby Ian Frazier, Andrea LeeISBN 0395563364 (0-395-56336-4)
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The Things They Carriedby Tim O'BrienISBN 039551598X (0-395-51598-X)
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A finalist for both the 1990 Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award, The Things They Carried marks a subtle but definitive line of demarcation between Tim O'Brien's earlier works about Vietnam, the memoir If I Die in a Combat Zone and the fictional Going After Cacciato, and this sly, almost hallucinatory book that is neither memoir nor novel nor collection of short stories but rather an artful combination of all three. Vietnam is still O'Brien's theme, but in this book he seems less interested in the war itself than in the myriad different perspectives from which he depicts it. Whereas Going After Cacciato played with reality, The Things They Carried plays with truth. The narrator of most of these stories is "Tim"; yet O'Brien freely admits that many of the events he chronicles in this collection never really happened. He never killed a man as "Tim" does in "The Man I Killed," and unlike Tim in "Ambush," he has no daughter named Kathleen. But just because a thing never happened doesn't make it any less true. In "On the Rainy River," the character Tim O'Brien responds to his draft notice by driving north, to the Canadian border where he spends six days in a deserted lodge in the company of an old man named Elroy while he wrestles with the choice between dodging the draft or going to war. The real Tim O'Brien never drove north, never found himself in a fishing boat 20 yards off the Canadian shore with a decision to make. The real Tim O'Brien quietly boarded the bus to Sioux Falls and was inducted into the United States Army. But the truth of "On the Rainy River" lies not in facts but in the genuineness of the experience it depicts: both Tims went to a war they didn't believe in; both considered themselves cowards for doing so. Every story in The Things They Carried speaks another truth that Tim O'Brien learned in Vietnam; it is this blurred line between truth and reality, fact and fiction, that makes his book unforgettable. --Alix Wilber [via]
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The Top Ten: Writers Pick Their Favorite Booksby J. Peder ZaneISBN 0393328406 (0-393-32840-6)
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U and I: A True Storyby Nicholson BakerISBN 0394589947 (0-394-58994-7)
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Ulyssesby James JoyceISBN 0394743121 (0-394-74312-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ulysses'Book summary:Ulysses has been labeled dirty, blasphemous, and unreadable. In a famous 1933 court decision, Judge John M. Woolsey declared it an emetic book--although he found it sufficiently unobscene to allow its importation into the United States--and Virginia Woolf was moved to decry James Joyce's "cloacal obsession." None of these adjectives, however, do the slightest justice to the novel. To this day it remains the modernist masterpiece, in which the author takes both Celtic lyricism and vulgarity to splendid extremes. It is funny, sorrowful, and even (in a close-focus sort of way) suspenseful. And despite the exegetical industry that has sprung up in the last 75 years, Ulysses is also a compulsively readable book. Even the verbal vaudeville of the final chapters can be navigated with relative ease, as long as you're willing to be buffeted, tickled, challenged, and (occasionally) vexed by Joyce's sheer command of the English language.
Among other things, a novel is simply a long story, and the first question about any story is: What happens?. In the case of Ulysses, the answer might be Everything. William Blake, one of literature's sublime myopics, saw the universe in a grain of sand. Joyce saw it in Dublin, Ireland, on June 16, 1904, a day distinguished by its utter normality. Two characters, Stephen Dedalus and Leopold Bloom, go about their separate business, crossing paths with a gallery of indelible Dubliners. We watch them teach, eat, stroll the streets, argue, and (in Bloom's case) masturbate. And thanks to the book's stream-of-consciousness technique--which suggests no mere stream but an impossibly deep, swift-running river--we're privy to their thoughts, emotions, and memories. The result? Almost every variety of human experience is crammed into the accordian folds of a single day, which makes Ulysses not just an experimental work but the very last word in realism.
Both characters add their glorious intonations to the music of Joyce's prose. Dedalus's accent--that of a freelance aesthetician, who dabbles here and there in what we might call Early Yeats Lite--will be familiar to readers of Portrait of an Artist As a Young Man. But Bloom's wistful sensualism (and naive curiosity) is something else entirely. Seen through his eyes, a rundown corner of a Dublin graveyard is a figure for hope and hopelessness, mortality and dogged survival: "Mr Bloom walked unheeded along his grove by saddened angels, crosses, broken pillars, family vaults, stone hopes praying with upcast eyes, old Ireland's hearts and hands. More sensible to spend the money on some charity for the living. Pray for the repose of the soul of. Does anybody really?" --James Marcus [via]
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The Vest Pocket Writer's GuideISBN 0395441455 (0-395-44145-5)
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Waldenby Henry David Thoreau, Walter HardingISBN 0395720427 (0-395-72042-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Walden'Book summary:On July 4, 1845, Henry David Thoreau moved into the cabin he had built on the shore of Walden Pond. Now, on the 150th anniversary of that event, Houghton Mifflin is proud to publish an exceptional new edition of what is perhaps the most important book in our history as a publisher. Walden: An Annotated Edition features the definitive text of the book with extensive notes on Thoreau's life and times by the distinguished biographer and critic Walter Harding. In the third chapter, Thoreau writes, "How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book?" For many readers, Walden is that book. Written a century and a half ago, it grows more meaningful every day, and whether you are reading it for the first time or the hundredth, Walter Harding's insightful comments will open your eyes to the true depths of this masterpiece.[via]More editions of Walden:
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Walden and Civil Disobedienceby Henry David ThoreauISBN 0395051134 (0-395-05113-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Walden and Civil Disobedience'Book summary:Henry David Thoreau was a sturdy individualist and a lover of nature. In March, 1845, he built himself a wooden hut on the edge of Walden Pond, near Concord, Massachusetts, where he lived until September 1847. Walden is Thoreaus autobiograophical account of his Robinson Crusoe existence, bare of creature comforts but rich in contemplation of the wonders of nature and the ways of man. On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience is the classic protest against government's interference with individual liberty, and is considered one of the most famous essays ever written. This newly repackaged edition also includes a selection of Thoreau's poetry. [via]
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Walden and Other Writingsby Henry David Thoreau, Brooks Atkinson, Townsend ScudderISBN 0394604210 (0-394-60421-0)
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Walden and Resistance to Civil Governmentby Henry David Thoreau, Owen Thomas, William RossiISBN 0393959058 (0-393-95905-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Walden and Resistance to Civil Government'Book summary:On July 4, 1845, Henry David Thoreau moved into the cabin he had built on the shore of Walden Pond, thus beginning the most famous experiment in simple living in American history. On the 150th anniversary of that event, Houghton Mifflin, successor to Thoreau's original publisher, is proud to publish a new edition of Walden, annotated by the distinguished Thoreau scholar Walter Harding and illustrated with Thoreau's own drawings. Even those who have read Walden many times will find much that is new in this edition, and those reading the book for the first time will discover why it has changed the lives of generations of readers. [via]
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The War of the Ringby J. R. R. Tolkien, Christopher TolkienISBN 039556008X (0-395-56008-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The War of the Ring'Book summary:In The War of the Ring Christopher Tolkien takes up the story of the writing of The Lord of the Rings with the Battle of Helm's Deep and the drowning of Isengard by the Ents. This is followed by an account of how Frodo, Sam and Gollum were finally brought to the Pass of Kirith Ungol, at which point J.R.R. Tolkien wrote at the time: 'I have got the hero into such a fix that not even an author will be able to extricate him without labour and difficulty'. Then comes the war in Gondor, and the book ends with the parley between Gandalf and the ambassador of the Dark Lord before the Black Gate of Mordor. In describing his intentions for The Return of the King J.R.R. Tolkien said that 'It will probably work out very differently from this plan when it really gets written, as the thing seems to write itself once it gets going'; and in The War of the Ring totally unforeseen developmenst that would become central to the narrative are seen at the moment of their emergence: the palantir bursting into fragments on the stairs of Orthanc, its nature as unknown to the author as to those who saw it fall, or the entry of Faramir into the story ('I am sure I did not invent him, though I like him, but there he came walking into the woods of Ithilien').[via]
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Western Wind: An Introduction to Poetryby John Frederick NimsISBN 0394312317 (0-394-31231-7)
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What Do Authors Do?by Eileen ChristelowISBN 0395866219 (0-395-86621-9)
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Word Smart: Building an Educated Vocabularyby Adam Robinson, Princeton Review (Firm)ISBN 039475686X (0-394-75686-X)
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The Wordsby Jean Paul SartreISBN 0394747097 (0-394-74709-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Words'Book summary:Jean-Paul Sartre's famous autobiography of his first ten years has been widely compared to Rousseau's Confessions. Written when he was fifty-nine years old, The Words is a masterpiece of self-analysis. Sartre the philosopher, novelist and playwright brings to his own childhood the same rigor of honesty and insight he applied so brilliantly to other authors. Born into a gentle, book-loving family and raised by a widowed mother and doting grandparents, he had a childhood which might be described as one long love affair with the printed word. Ultimately, this book explores and evaluates the whole use of books and language in human experience. [via]
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The Writer on Her Workby Janet SternbergISBN 0393308677 (0-393-30867-7)
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A Writer's Realityby Mario Vargas Llosa, Myron I. LichtblauISBN 0395622344 (0-395-62234-4)
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Writing Essentialsby Dawn Rodrigues, Myron C. TumanISBN 0393973360 (0-393-97336-0)
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Writing Essentials: A Norton Pocket Guideby Dawn Rodrigues, Myron C. TumanISBN 0393969339 (0-393-96933-9)
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Writing Skills Handbookby Charles BazermanISBN 0395614554 (0-395-61455-4)
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Writing Skills Handbookby Harvey S. Wiener, Charles BazermanISBN 0395357462 (0-395-35746-2)
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