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3) Coronado
Author
Publisher
Morrow
Pub. Date
c2006
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
232 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Lehane presents a collection of five short stories about class, gender, freedom, and violence; along with the play "Coronado," adapted to stage in 2005 from the story "Until Gwen."
Author
Language
English
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Description
Contains a reprint of the 1855 edition of Whitman's collection of poems, providing the typeface, design, and layout of the original version, including and afterword by Whitman authority David S. Reynolds, discussing its background, reception, and contribution to literary history.
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Series
Library of America volume 40-42
Publisher
Distributed to the trade in the U.S. and Canada by the Viking Press
Pub. Date
c1988
Physical Desc
3 v. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
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Description
A Nigerian graduate student who has made his home in America knows what it means to strike out for new shores. When his wife proposes that he accompany her to Berlin, where she has been awarded a prestigious arts fellowship, he has his reservations: "I knew every departure is a death, every return a rebirth. Most changes happen unplanned, and they always leave a scar." In Berlin, Habila's central character finds himself thrown into contact with a...
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Series
Library of America volume 43
Publisher
Literary Classics of the United States
Pub. Date
[1989]
Physical Desc
1296 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Presents three works from the distinguished American writer--"The Princess Cassimassima," "The Reverberator," and "The Tragic Muse"--That explore a range of ideas in a distinct realist style
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Series
Language
English
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This is the story of Azar Nafisi's dream and of the nightmare that made it come true. For two years before she left Iran in 1997, Nafisi gathered seven young women at her house every Thursday morning to read and discuss forbidden works of Western literature. They were all former students whom she had taught at university. They were unaccustomed to being asked to speak their minds, but soon they began to open up and to speak more freely, not only about...
Author
Series
The library of America volume 96
Publisher
Library of America
Pub. Date
c1997
Physical Desc
xxii, 1032 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Here are all of Stevens' published books of poetry, side-by-side for the first time with the haunting lyrics of his later years and early work that traces the development of his art. From the rococo inventiveness of Harmonium, his first volume (including such classics as "Sunday Morning," "Peter Quince at the Clavier," and "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird"), through "Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction," "Esthetique du Mal," "The Auroras of Autumn,"...
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Language
English
Description
One of literature's most gripping ghost stories depicts the sinister transformation of two innocent children into flagrant liars and hypocrites. Elegantly told tale of unspoken horror and psychological terror creates what few stories in literature have beenable to do -- a complete feeling of dread and uncertainty.
Author
Series
Publisher
Teaching Co
Pub. Date
c1998
Physical Desc
42 sound discs (ca. 2520 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (381 p., 22 cm.)
Language
English
Description
To truly understand the United States of America, you must explore its literary tradition. Now, in this grand collection of 84 fascinating lectures, you'll get the chance to finally become familiar with America's true literary masterpieces (some you may already be familiar with, others you have yet to discover). Professor Weinstein has crafted these lectures to explain why some works become classics while others do not, why some "immortal" works fade...
Author
Series
The Library of America volume 59
Publisher
Library of America
Pub. Date
c1992
Physical Desc
898 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Contains two of Sinclair Lewis's most famous novels and includes a chronology of the author's life and career.
Author
Series
Publisher
Recorded Books
Pub. Date
p1999
Physical Desc
7 sound discs (ca. 8 hrs.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
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Description
Two boys, best friends in a small midwestern town, finally come to understand that of all the terrors threatening them from Cooger and Dark's Pandemonium Shadow Show the greatest menance exists within themselves.
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