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  • The Elsewhere Community

    by Hugh Kenner ...
    Series series The CBC Massey Lectures
    Acclaimed literary critic Hugh Kenner examines Western culture's insatiable need for stimulation encountered elsewhere - from the eighteenth century's Grand Tour, to the self-imposed exile of modernist writers, to the disembodied global journeys the Internet avails us today. Kenner brings to this fascinating study knowledge of a wide array of disciplines.Hugh Kenner has written on topics ranging ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Passion for Joyce

    The Letters of Hugh Kenner and Adaline Glasheen

    by Hugh Kenner, Adaline Glasheen ...
    This volume contains all of the extant letters written to each other by the renowned Joyce scholars, Hugh Kenner and Adaline Glasheen, between 1953 and 1984. In these frank letters, we are offered the opportunity to visit the creative process. The letters have been carefully annotated so that we can follow how their ideas are absorbed into their published writings. They do not hesitate to try out ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Questioning Minds

    The Letters of Guy Davenport and Hugh Kenner

    by Guy Davenport, Hugh Kenner ...
    "The most intellectually exhilarating work published in 2018 . . . A lasting treasure." —Michael Dirda, The Washington PostHugh Kenner (1923–2003) and Guy Davenport (1927–2005) first met in September 1953 when each gave a paper on Ezra Pound at Columbia University. They met again in the fall of 1957, and their correspondence begins with Kenner's letter of March 7, 1958. In the next forty–four ... Read more

    $16.79 CAD

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    An A to Z Dictionary of History's Greatest Metaphorical Quotations

    by Mardy Grothe ...
    Respected quotation anthologist and author of Oxymoronica and Viva la Repartee Dr. Mardy Grothe is at his best in Metaphors Be with You, an A to Z dictionary of 2,750 of history’s greatest metaphorical quotations, meticulously curated for writers, readers, and quotation lovers everywhere.In Metaphors Be with You, Dr. Mardy Grothe has created the definitive reference on English’s finest metaphors, ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • The Waste Land

    A Biography of a Poem

    by Matthew Hollis ...
    **A New Statesman, Financial Times, Observer, and Sunday Times Book of the Year“[An] impressive examination of artistic creation.”—Alex Clark, GuardianA riveting account of the making of T. S. Eliot’s celebrated poem The Waste Land on its centenary.**Renowned as one of the world’s greatest poems, The Waste Land has been said to describe the moral decay of a world after war and the search for ... Read more

    $19.79 CAD

  • The New Yale Book of Quotations

    Edited by Fred R. Shapiro ...
    A revised, enlarged, and updated edition of this authoritative and entertaining reference book —named the #2 essential home library reference book by the Wall Street Journal“Shapiro does original research, earning [this] volume a place on the quotation shelf next to Bartlett's and Oxford's.”—William Safire, New York Times Magazine (on the original edition)“A quotations book with footnotes that are ... Read more

    $54.99 CAD

  • Writers on Writing

    A Book of Quotations

    by Bloomsbury Publishing ...
    Series series Writers' and Artists'
    Writers on Writing brings together a plethora of phrases, quotable lines, quips and putdowns about the writing process. Arranged in themes that follow the stages from idea to final publication and beyond, this little book of quotations brings together words of wisdom and withering wit from famous and infamous writers across the ages about their own work and that of fellow writers. Themes on the ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • Contested Will

    Who Wrote Shakespeare?

    by James Shapiro ...
    In this remarkable book, Shakespeare scholar James Shapiro, author of Shakespeare in a Divided America, explains when and why so many people began to question whether Shakespeare wrote his plays.For more than two hundred years after William Shakespeare’s death, no one doubted that he had written his plays. Since then, however, dozens of candidates have been proposed for the authorship of what is ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

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  • 1,000 Books to Read Before You Die

    A Life-Changing List

    by James Mustich ...
    "The ultimate literary bucket list. . . . 948 pages later, you still want more!" —The Washington PostCelebrate the thrill of discovering new titles in an extraordinary book that's as compulsively readable, entertaining, surprising, and enlightening as the one,zero-plus titles it recommends.Covering fiction, poetry, science and science fiction, memoir, travel writing, biography, children's books, ... Read more

    $19.19 CAD

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  • The Most Dangerous Book

    The Battle for James Joyce's Ulysses

    by Kevin Birmingham ...
    **Recipient of the 2015 PEN New England Award for Nonfiction“The arrival of a significant young nonfiction writer . . . A measured yet bravura performance.” —Dwight Garner, The New York Times**James Joyce’s big blue book, Ulysses, ushered in the modernist era and changed the novel for all time. But the genius of Ulysses was also its danger: it omitted absolutely nothing. Joyce, along with some of ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

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  • QI: Advanced Banter

    by John Lloyd, John Mitchinson ...
    The ultimate compendium of crisp one-liners, knockout jokes, droll asides and universal truths collected over the years by the creators of QI.'You know 'that look' women get when they want sex? Me neither.' Steve Martin; 'You cannot prevent the birds of sorrow from flying over your head, but you can prevent them from nesting in your hair.' Chinese proverb; 'The Beatles are dying in the wrong ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • On Writers and Writing

    by Margaret Atwood ...
    A brilliant, ambitious, insightful inquiry into the art of writing from the legendary Margaret Atwood.What do we mean when we say that someone is a writer? Is he or she an entertainer? A high priest of the god of Art? An improver of readers' minds and morals? Looking back on her own childhood and the development of her writing career, Margaret Atwood addresses the riddle of her own art.Her wide ... Read more

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