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  • Major Characters in American Fiction

    Edited by Jack Salzman, Pamela Wilkinson ...
    "No other works specifically devoted to character seek to provide such detail" as this compendium of biographies of American literary characters ( Library Journal ).Major Characters in American Fiction is the perfect companion for everyone who loves literature—students, book clubs, and serious readers at every level.Developed at Columbia University's Center for American Culture Studies, Major ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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    NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Anna Quindlen presents a “swift and compelling paean to the joys of books” (Booklist).“Like the columns she used to write for the New York Times, [How Reading Changed My Life] is tart, smart, full of quirky insights, lapidary, and a pleasure to read.”—Publishers Weekly“Reading has always been my home, my sustenance, my great invincible companion. . . . Yet of all the many ... Read more

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  • Roger Ebert's Four-Star Reviews 1967–2007

    by Roger Ebert ...
    Pick your next movie to watch with this collection of four decades of 4-star reviews from the Pulitzer Prize–winning film critic.Spanning the length of Roger Ebert's career as the leading American movie critic, this book contains all of his four-star reviews written during that time from About Last Night . . . to You Can Count on Me. A great guide for movie watching. ... Read more

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  • I Never Metaphor I Didn't Like

    A Comprehensive Compilation of History’s Greatest Analogies, Metaphors, and Similes

    by Mardy Grothe ...
    The murals in restaurants are on a par with the food in museums.America is an enormous frosted cupcake in the middle of millions of starving people.Critics are like pigs at the pastry cart.Describing something by relating it to another thing is the essence of metaphorical thought. It is one of the oldest activities of humankind—and one of the most impressive when done skillfully. Throughout ... Read more

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  • Cary Grant

    A Celebration

    by Richard Schickel ...
    Richard Schickel's text, combining critical analysis and a re-interpretation of all the available biographical information, masterfully maps the intersections where a great star's personal history and his screen personality met in a style as elegant, graceful and witty as the actor himself. ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • The New York Times Book Review

    125 Years of Literary History

    by The New York Times ...
    A “delightful” (Vanity Fair) collection from the longest-running, most influential book review in America, featuring its best, funniest, strangest, and most memorable coverage over the past 125 years.Since its first issue on October 10, 1896, The New York Times Book Review has brought the world of ideas to the reading public. It is the publication where authors have been made, and where readers ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

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  • A Reader's Book of Days: True Tales from the Lives and Works of Writers for Every Day of the Year

    True Tales from the Lives and Works of Writers for Every Day of the Year

    by Tom Nissley ...
    A witty and addictively readable day-by-day literary companion.At once a love letter to literature and a charming guide to the books most worth reading, A Reader's Book of Days features bite-size accounts of events in the lives of great authors for every day of the year. Here is Marcel Proust starting In Search of Lost Time and Virginia Woolf scribbling in the margin of her own writing, "Is it ... Read more

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  • The Heroine's Bookshelf

    Life Lessons, from Jane Austen to Laura Ingalls Wilder

    by Erin Blakemore ...
    A testament to inspirational women throughout literature, Erin Blakemore’s exploration of classic heroines and their equally admirable authors shows today’s women how to best tap into their inner strengths and live life with intelligence, grace, vitality and aplomb. This collection of unforgettable characters—including Anne Shirley, Jo March, Scarlett O’Hara, and Jane Eyre—and outstanding authors ... Read more

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  • The Twilight Zone

    Rod Serling’S Wondrous Land

    by Kenneth Reynolds ...
    From 1959 to 1964, a chilling new anthology series held audiences captive with tales of horror, delight, and mystery. Rod Serling changed the face of television with The Twilight Zone, a groundbreaking series that enticed viewers to tap into the wonders of a dimension of sound, a dimension of sight, a dimension of mind. When they accepted that cryptic invitation, viewers found themselves in The ... Read more

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  • 1001 First Lines

    by Scarlett Archer ...
    "It was a dark and stormy night; the rain fell in torrents, except at occasional intervals, when it was checked by a violent gust of wind which swept up the streets (for it is in London that our scene lies), rattling along the house-tops, and fiercely agitating the scanty flame of the lamps that struggled against the darkness."- Paul Clifford by Edward George Bulwer-Lytton"Call me Ishmael." -Moby ... Read more

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  • Stella Adler on America's Master Playwrights

    Eugene O'Neill, Thornton Wilder, Clifford Odets, William Saroyan, Tennessee Williams, William Inge, Arthur Miller, Edward Albee

    by Stella Adler ...
    In her long-awaited book, the legendary acting teacher Stella Adler gives us her extraordinary insights into the work of Henrik Ibsen (“The creation of the modern theater took a genius like Ibsen . . . Miller and Odets, Inge and O’Neill, Williams and Shaw, swallowed the whole of him”), August Strindberg (“He understood and predicted the forces that would break in our lives”), and Anton Chekhov ( ... Read more

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  • Second Reading

    Notable And Neglected Books Revisited

    by Jonathan Yardley ...
    The Pulitzer Prize–winning book critic shares recollections and reviews from his career at the Washington Post.In this book, Jonathan Yardley considers lesser-known works from renowned authors and underappreciated talents, and offers fresh takes on old favorites. Yardley's reviews of sixty titles include fiction by Gabriel García Márquez, John Cheever, and Henry Fielding; the autobiography of ... Read more

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