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  • The Cambridge Introduction to Contemporary American Fiction

    by Stacey Olster ...
    The Cambridge Introduction to Contemporary American Fiction explores fiction written over the last thirty years in the context of the profound political, historical, and cultural changes that have distinguished the contemporary period. Focusing on both established and emerging writers - and with chapters devoted to the American historical novel, regional realism, the American political novel, the ... Read more

    $26.39 CAD

  • Don DeLillo

    Mao II, Underworld, Falling Man

    Edited by Professor Stacey Olster ...
    Series series Bloomsbury Studies in Contemporary North American Fiction
    A collection of original, stimulating interpretations of key texts by Don DeLillo, designed for students and edited and written by leading scholars in the field. The book offers new perspectives on two of the most important pre-millennial novels by any American writer Mao II and Underworld and the first extended discussions of Falling Man, DeLillo's exploration of 9/11 and its aftermath.An ... Read more

    $47.49 CAD

  • The Cambridge Companion to John Updike

    Edited by Stacey Olster ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    John Updike is one of the most prolific and important American authors of the contemporary period, with an acclaimed body of work that spans half a century and is inspired by everything from American exceptionalism to American popular culture. This Companion joins together a distinguished international team of contributors to address both the major themes in Updike's writing as well as the sources ... Read more

    Was $43.99 CAD Now $31.99 CAD

  • The Suburbs

    New Literary Perspectives

    by Véronique Béghain, Nicolas P. Boileau, Marie Bouchet, Aurore Clavier, Nathalie Cochoy, Claire Fabre-Clark, Paul Farley, Olivier Gaudin, James Gifford0, Heinz Ickstadt1, Nathalie Jaëck2, Isabelle Keller-Privat3, Bastien Meresse5, Stacey Olster6, Ged Pope7, Jérémy Potier8, Mathilde Rogez9, Richard Samin1, Michael Symmons Roberts2, Ivan Vladislavic3 ...
    While suburbs provide a rich field of research for sociologists, architects, urbanists and anthropologists, they have not been given much attention in literary and cultural studies. The Suburbs: New Literary Perspectives sets out to enrich the limited existing body of critical analysis on the subject with a landmark collection of essays offering a far larger perspective than the books or ... Read more

    $126.39 CAD

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  • Still Wild

    Short Fiction of the American West 1950 to the Pre

    by Larry McMurtry ...
    Larry McMurtry—the preeminent chronicler of the American West—celebrates the best of Western short fiction in this anthology that represents the coming-of-age of the legendary American frontier, featuring authors such as Jack Kerouac, Annie Proulx, and more.Featuring a veritable Who’s Who of the century’s most distinctive writers, this collection effectively departs from the standard superstars of ... Read more

    $24.99 CAD

  • The House of Mirth Illustrated

    by Edith Wharton ...
    The House of Mirth is a 1905 novel by American author Edith Wharton. It tells the story of Lily Bart, a well-born but impoverished woman belonging to New York City's high society around the end of the 19th century.[a] Wharton creates a portrait of a stunning beauty who, though raised and educated to marry well both socially and economically, is reaching her 29th year, an age when her youthful ... Read more

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  • 50 Masterpieces you have to read before you die Vol: 1 (2021 Edition)

    by Dante Alighieri, Jane Austen, Honoré de Balzac, Charlotte Brontë, Anne Brontë, Emily Brontë, Brontë Sisters, Samuel Butler, Miguel de Cervantes, Joseph Conrad, Daniel Defoe0, Fyodor Dostoyevsky1, Arthur Conan Doyle2, Alexandre Dumas3, George Eliot4, Gustave Flaubert5, Charlotte Perkins Gilman6, Nikolai Gogol7, The Brothers Grimm8, Homer9, Victor Hugo0, Victor Hugo1, Washington Irving2, Henry James3, James Joyce4, D. H. Lawrence5, Gaston Leroux6, Jack London7, Arthur Machen8, Herman Melville9, Marcel Proust0, Mary Shelley1, Stendhal2, Robert Louis Stevenson3, Bram Stoker4, Sun Tzu5, Jonathan Swift6, William Makepeace Thackeray7, Leo Tolstoy8, Mark Twain9, Oscar Wilde0, Marcus Aurelius1, Francis Bacon2, Benjamin Franklin3, Plato4, William Shakespeare5, Charles Darwin6, Charles Eliot7, John Woolman8, William Penn9, Thomas Browne0, Adam Smith1, Aesop2, Lord Byron3, Alessandro Manzoni4, Pierre Corneille5, Ben Jonson6, Nathaniel Hawthorne7, Edgar Allan Poe8, H.P. Lovecraft9, Samuel L. Clemens0, Presbourg Press1 ...
    This book contains the following works arranged alphabetically by authors last names:- The Divine Comedy [Dante Alighieri]- Emma [Jane Austen]- Persuasion [Jane Austen]- Pride and Prejudice [Jane Austen]- Father Goriot [Honoré de Balzac]- Jane Eyre [Charlotte Brontë]- The Tenant of Wildfell Hall [Anne Brontë]- Wuthering Heights [Emily Brontë]- The Way of All Flesh [Samuel Butler]- Don Quixote ... Read more

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  • Men Without Women

    by Ernest Hemingway ...
    Series series Starbooks Classics Collection - Ernest Hemingway
    Men Without Women (1927) is the second collection of short stories written by American author Ernest Hemingway (July 21, 1899 – July 2, 1961). The volume consists of fourteen stories, ten of which had been previously published in magazines. The story subjects include bullfighting, infidelity, divorce and death. "The Killers", "Hills Like White Elephants" and "In Another Country" are considered to ... Read more

    $1.99 CAD

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  • The Typewriter Is Holy

    The Complete, Uncensored History of the Beat Generation

    by Bill Morgan ...
    2014 ACKER AWARD WINNERAnyone who cares to understand the literary and cultural ferment of America in the later twentieth century must be familiar with the writings and lives of those scruffy bohemians known as the Beat Generation.In this highly entertaining work, Bill Morgan, the country’s leading authority on the movement and a man who personally knew most of the Beats, narrates the history of ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • Roth Unbound

    A Writer and His Books

    by Claudia Roth Pierpont ...
    A critical evaluation of Philip Roth—the first of its kind—that takes on the man, the myth, and the work.Philip Roth is one of the most renowned writers of our time. From his debut, Goodbye, Columbus, which won the National Book Award in 1960, and the explosion of Portnoy's Complaint in 1969 to his haunting reimagining of Anne Frank's story in The Ghost Writer ten years later and the series of ... Read more

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  • All the Sad Young Men

    [Short story collections by F. Scott Fitzgerald]

    by F. Scott Fitzgerald ...
    Series series Starbooks Classics Collection - Frances Scott Fitzgerald
    All the Sad Young Men is the third collection of short stories written by F. Scott Fitzgerald, published by Scribners in February 1926.The volume contains nine stories:1."The Rich Boy"2."Winter Dreams"3."The Baby Party"4."Absolution (story)"5."Rags Martin-Jones and the Pr-nce of W-les"6."The Adjuster (story)"7."Hot and Cold Blood"8."The Sensible Thing""9."Gretchen's Forty Winks"<p... ... Read more

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  • The Liberal Imagination

    by Lionel Trilling ...
    The Liberal Imagination is one of the most admired and influential works of criticism of the last century, a work that is not only a masterpiece of literary criticism but an important statement about politics and society. Published in 1950, one of the chillier moments of the Cold War, Trilling’s essays examine the promise —and limits—of liberalism, challenging the complacency of a naïve liberal ... Read more

    $15.19 CAD