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  • Company Aytch

    Told from the point of view of an ordinary foot soldier, this personal memoir has been hailed as one of the liveliest, wittiest, and most significant commentaries ever written on the Civil War.Among the plethora of books about the Civil War, Company Aytch stands out for its uniquely personal view of the events as related by a most engaging writer—a man with Twain-like talents who served as a foot ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • My Life with Charlie Brown

    While best known as the creator of Peanuts, Charles M. Schulz (1922-2000) was also a thoughtful and precise prose writer who knew how to explain his craft in clear and engaging ways. My Life with Charlie Brown brings together his major prose writings, many published here for the first time.Schulz's autobiographical articles, book introductions, magazine pieces, lectures, and commentary elucidate ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

    by Mark Twain ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    The story of Hank Morgan, a nineteenth-century American who is accidentally returned to sixth-century England, is a powerful analysis of such issues as monarchy versus democracy and free will versus determinism. Yet it is also one of Twain's finest comic novels, still fresh and funny after more than 100 years. This edition reproduces more than 40 of Dan Beard's original drawings. - ;When A ... Read more

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  • FIND HER

    Zoey's life had been a downward spiral until she had a random encounter with Joe, the police detective who turned her life around. She thought life had settled into a normal routine when she got clean and started her job as a bouncer at the notorious Aces bar. Then, a chance customer encounter sets the stage for a wild ride she never saw coming.Cue the typical boring work night but then Zoey ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD

  • Naming the Rose

    Essays on Eco's 'The Name of the Rose'

    Edited by M. Thomas Inge ...
    The original essays gathered in this book make a beginning at exploring the cultural significance of The Name of the Rose in terms of its backgrounds and literary contexts. Eco's novel is examined in the light of several of the traditions from which it draws: theories of detective fiction, comedy, postmodernism, the apocalypse, semiotics, and literary criticism. The authors from a variety of ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

  • My Life with Charlie Brown

    While best known as the creator of Peanuts, Charles M. Schulz (1922–2000) was also a thoughtful and precise prose writer who knew how to explain his craft in clear and engaging ways. My Life with Charlie Brown brings together his major prose writings, many published here for the first time.Schulz's autobiographical articles, book introductions, magazine pieces, lectures, and commentary elucidate ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • The Humor of the Old South

    The humor of the Old South—tales, almanac entries, turf reports, historical sketches, gentlemen's essays on outdoor sports, profiles of local characters—flourished between 1830 and 1860. The genre's popularity and influence can be traced in the works of major southern writers such as William Faulkner, Erskine Caldwell, Eudora Welty, Flannery O'Connor, and Harry Crews, as well as in contemporary ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • The Dixie Limited

    Writers on William Faulkner and His Influence

    Edited by M. Thomas Inge ...
    Flannery O'Connor once noted, “The presence alone of Faulkner in our midst makes a great difference in what the writer can and cannot permit himself to do. Nobody wants his mule and wagon stalled on the same track the Dixie Limited is roaring down.” Her railroading metaphor wittily captures much of the respect and unease Faulkner's example brought the worldwide community of authors.Few other ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

  • Will Eisner

    Conversations

    Edited by M. Thomas Inge ...
    Series series Conversations with Comic Artists Series
    Will Eisner's innovations in the comics, especially the comic book and the graphic novel, as well as his devotion to comics analysis, make him one of comics' first true auteurs and the cartoonist so revered and influential that cartooning's highest honor is named after him. His newspaper feature The Spirit (1940-1952) introduced the now-common splash page to the comic book, as well as dramatic ... Read more

    $71.99 CAD

  • The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture

    Volume 9: Literature

    Series Book 9 - The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture
    Offering a comprehensive view of the South’s literary landscape, past and present, this volume of The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture celebrates the region’s ever-flourishing literary culture and recognizes the ongoing evolution of the southern literary canon. As new writers draw upon and reshape previous traditions, southern literature has broadened and deepened its connections not just to ... Read more

    $23.19 CAD

  • Southern Frontier Humor

    An Anthology

    Edited by Thomas Inge, Ed Piacentino ...
    If, as some suggest, American literature began with Huckleberry Finn, then the humorists of the Old South surely helped us to shape that literature. Twain himself learned to write by reading the humorists’ work, and later writers were influenced by it. This book marks the first new collection of humor from that region published in fifteen years—and the first fresh selection of sketches and tales ... Read more

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    A PEANUTS Collection

    Series series Peanuts Kids
    Put me in, Coach!The Peanuts gang is ready to play ball in this collection of baseball-themed cartoons. Some of the most popular Peanuts moments happen on the field and they’re gathered here for a season full of enjoyment. As manager of the endlessly losing team, Charlie Brown soldiers on to keep his team’s spirits up, while being constantly blown off the pitching mound in a clothes-exploding ... Read more

    $8.69 CAD