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  • Revival: Little Golden America (1944)

    by Ilya Ilf, Eugene Petrov ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    Odnoetazhnya Amerika (One-Storied America) First published in the U.S.S.R. 1936. Little Golden America. First published in England in 1944. Translated from the Russian by Charles Malamuth This is one of the most popular books ever published in the Soviet Union. It remains popular in Russia today. We Americans cannot figure out what makes it so popular. It is a good book, interesting and well ... Read more

    $105.80 CAD

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  • The American Home Front, 1941–1942

    by Alistair Cooke ...
    A New York Times bestseller: This portrait of the United States at the beginning of World War II is "an unexpected and welcome discovery in a time capsule" ( The Washington Post).In nearly three thousand BBC broadcasts over fifty-eight years, Alistair Cooke reported on America, illuminating our country for a global audience. Shortly before he passed away, a long-forgotten manuscript resurfaced in ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Essays of E. B. White

    by E. B. White ...
    Series series Perennial Classics
    "Some of the finest examples of contemporary, genuinely American prose. White's style incorporates eloquence without affection, profundity without pomposity, and wit without frivolity or hostility. Like his predecessors Thoreau and Twain, White's creative, humane, and graceful perceptions are an education for the sensibilities." — Washington PostThe classic collection by one of the greatest ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

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  • Letter from America

    1946-2004

    by Alistair Cooke ...
    Series series Penguin Modern Classics
    A defining collection from Alistair Cooke's legendary BBC Radio broadcasts, guiding us through nearly sixty years of changing life in the United States'No one else succeeded in explaining to the English-speaking world ... the idiosyncrasies of a country at once so familiar, and yet so utterly foreign' IndependentWhen Alistair Cooke retired in February 2004 he was acclaimed as one of the greatest ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • The Air-Conditioned Nightmare

    by Henry Miller ...
    "Henry Miller is the nearest thing to Céline America has produced.... He aims not at the ears, brains, or consciences, but at the viscera and solar plexus."—The New Leader.In 1939, after ten years as an expatriate, Henry Miller returned to the United States with a keen desire to see what his native land was really like—to get to the roots of the American nature and experience. He set out on a ... Read more

    $20.99 CAD

  • A Walker in the City

    by Alfred Kazin ...
    A literary icon's "singular and beautiful" memoir of growing up as a first-generation Jewish American in Brownsville, Brooklyn ( The New Yorker).A classic portrait of immigrant life in the early decades of the twentieth century, A Walker in the City is a tour of tenements, subways, and synagogues—but also a universal story of the desires and fears we experience as we try to leave our small, ... Read more

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  • Bohemians, Bootleggers, Flappers, and Swells

    The Best of Early Vanity Fair

    Edited by Graydon Carter, David Friend ...
    Offering readers an inebriating swig from the great cocktail shaker of the Roaring Twenties—the Jazz Age, the age of Gatsby—Bohemians, Bootleggers, Flappers, and Swells showcases unforgettable writers in search of how to live well in a changing era.Vanity Fair editor Graydon Carter introduces these fabulous pieces written between 1913 and 1936, when the magazine published a Murderers’ Row of the ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD

  • Letters from America, 1946–1951

    by Alistair Cooke ...
    "[Cooke is] one of the most gifted and urbane essayists of the century, a supreme master." —The SpectatorAs the voice of the BBC's Letter from America for close to six decades, Alistair Cooke addressed several millions of listeners on five continents. They tuned in every Friday evening or Sunday morning to listen to his erudite and entertaining reports on life in the United States. According to ... Read more

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  • The Collected Essays and Articles of F. Scott Fitzgerald (Annotated)

    Enriched Edition. Jazz Age Essays on Modernism, Celebrity, Success, and American Values

    by Francis Scott Fitzgerald, Perrin Norley ...
    The Collected Essays and Articles of F. Scott Fitzgerald gathers the novelist's nonfiction—literary criticism, cultural commentary, autobiographical reflection, and professional counsel—into a revealing companion to his fiction. Written with the same elegance, irony, and rhythmic precision that animate The Great Gatsby, these pieces illuminate the Jazz Age from within: its glamour, commodified ... Read more

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  • Selected Stories

    by O. Henry ...
    Eighty short stories by a master of the genreO. Henry's comic eye and unique, ironic approach to life's realities are unmatched. These stories—about con men and tricksters and "innocent" deceivers, about fate, luck, and coincidence—have delighted generations of readers. Set in New York and the West, in Central America and the South, they demonstrate O. Henry's mastery of speech and place, and ... Read more

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  • Talk About America, 1951–1968

    by Alistair Cooke ...
    "There is never going to be anyone else like Cooke, a chronicler of amazing times." — The Daily TelegraphAs the voice of the BBC's Letter from America for close to six decades, Alistair Cooke addressed several millions of listeners on five continents. They tuned in every Friday evening or Sunday morning to listen to his erudite and entertaining reports on life in the United States. According to ... Read more

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  • The Alistair Cooke Collection Volume One

    Letters from America, Talk About America, and The Americans

    by Alistair Cooke ...
    **Three volumes of BBC broadcasts about the US from the New York Times–bestselling author, host of Masterpiece Theater, and "international treasure" ( Booklist).In addition to his most visible presence as the host of PBS's Masterpiece Theater for over two decades, British-born Alistair Cooke entertained and informed millions of listeners around the globe with his weekly BBC radio program, Letters ... Read more

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