Conrad (Literary Lives)
Thames & Hudson, June 1988. Oversize Softcover. More
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D.H. Lawrence (Literary Lives)
Thames & Hudson, June 1988. Oversize Softcover. More
Margin Of Hope: An Intellectual Autobiography
Harvest Books, April 1984. First Edition. Trade Paperback. A leading literary critic-and the author of World of Our Fathers-looks back on his life from the early 1930s through the 1970s. A perceptive account of Howe's intellectual growth. Index. As is. Two bumped corners at the bottom of the boards... More
Death and Life of American Journalism: The Media Revolution That Will Begin the World Again
Nation Books, January 2010. First Edition. Hardcover. Daily newspapers are closing across America. Washington bureaus are shuttering; whole areas of the federal government are now operating with no press coverage. International bureaus are going, going, gone. Journalism, the counterbalance to corporate and political power, the lifeblood of American democracy, is..... More
The Lost Childhood and Other Essays
Viking Press, January 1952. First Edition. Cloth. Octavo. Dustjacket is missing. Brown cloth covered boards with much faded gold lettering along spine. Wear to board edges, heavily worn top of spine. Mild tanning of end pages, but relatively clean & white compared to the heavily foxed, deeply spotted internal pages..... More
The Muses Are Heard: An Account
Random House, November 1956. First Edition. Cloth. Octavo in edgeworn dustjacket with especially heavy wear top & bottom of spine. Darkened at margins. Flap is not clipped. Rear jacket panel's mostly white design is quite dust stained. Black cloth covered boards with blue & silver & red lettering and designs..... More
A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life
Random House Trade Paperbacks, April 2022. Paper Back. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - From the Booker Prize-winning author of Lincoln in the Bardo and Tenth of December comes a literary master class on what makes great stories work and what they can tell us about ourselves--and our world today. LONGLISTED..... More
Inheritance: An Autobiography of Whiteness
Legacy Lit, June 2022. Hardcover. "Bracing, candid, and rueful." --Kirkus Baynard Woods thought he had escaped the backwards ways of the South Carolina he grew up in, a world defined by country music, NASCAR, and the confederacy. He'd fled the South long ago, transforming himself into a politically left-leaning writer..... More
Nothing Personal
Beacon Press, May 2021. Hardcover. James Baldwin's critique of American society at the height of the civil rights movement brings his prescient thoughts on social isolation, race, and police brutality to a new generation of readers. Available for the first time in a stand-alone edition, Nothing Personal is Baldwin's deep..... More
Telling the Truth: The Theory and Practice of Documentary Fiction
Cornell University Press, May 1986. First Edition. Cloth. Barbara Foley here focuses on the relatively neglected genre of documentary fiction: novels that are continually near the borderline between factual and fictive discourse. She links the development of the genre over three centuries to the evolution of capitalism, but her analyses..... More
The Heroic Temper: Studies in Sophoclean Tragedy (Volume 35, Sather Classical Lectures)
University of California Press, May 1983. First Thus. Paper Back. The first two chapters of this book isolate and describe the literary phenomenon of the Sophoclean tragic hero. In all but one of the extant Sophoclean dramas, a heroic figure who is compounded of the same literary elements faced a...... More
Ancient Greek Literature
Oxford University Press, June 1980. Paper Back. K.J. Dover and three other classical scholars have collaborated in writing this new historical survey of Greek literature from 700 B.C. to 550 A.D. The book concentrates on the principal authors and quotes many passages from their work in translation, to allow the..... More
The Novel of the Future
Collier, January 1976. Reprint. Paper Back. Octavo. Paperback reprint. Top right corner of front cover has several creases. Previous owner's name and locale inked upper right corner of half title page. Ink underlining & marginal notation scattered occasionally through text. Sunned spine. [212 pages]. More
Books Promiscuously Read: Reading as a Way of Life
Picador, July 2022. Paper Back. The critic and scholar Heather Cass White offers an exploration of the nature of reading. Heather Cass White's Books Promiscuously Read is about the pleasures of reading and its power in shaping our internal lives. It advocates for a life of constant, disorderly, time-consuming reading..... More
Going Solo
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, October 1986. First Edition. Hardcover. The fascinating story of Roald Dahl's life continues in Going Solo, a marvelous evocation of the author's wartime exploits. As a pilot in World War II, Roald Dahl had some wonderfully exciting -- and frighteningly near-death -- experiences including encounters with..... More
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