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The American

by Henry James, Leon Edel ...

Henry James brilliantly combines comedy, tragedy, romance, and melodrama in this tale of a wealthy American businessman in Paris. Determined to marry Claire de Cintré, a scintillating and beautiful aristocrat, Christopher Newman comes up against the machinations of her impoverished but proud family in a dramatic clash between the Old World and the New. A co-production with the BBC, starring Diana ... Read more

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Henry James brilliantly combines comedy, tragedy, romance, and melodrama in this tale of a wealthy American businessman in Paris. Determined to marry Claire de Cintré, a scintillating and beautiful aristocrat, Christopher Newman comes up against the machinations of her impoverished but proud family in a dramatic clash between the Old World and the New. A co-production with the BBC, starring Diana
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Riders of the Purple Sage

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`With searching eyes he studied the beautiful purple barren waste of sage. Here was the unknown and the perilous.'The novel that set the pattern for the modern Western Riders of the Purple Sage was first published in 1912 immediately selling over a million copies. In the remote border country of South Utah a man is about to be whipped by the Mormons in order to pressure Jane Withersteen into ... Read more

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`With searching eyes he studied the beautiful purple barren waste of sage. Here was the unknown and the perilous.'The novel that set the pattern for the modern Western Riders of the Purple Sage was first published in 1912 immediately selling over a million copies. In the remote border country of South Utah a man is about to be whipped by the Mormons in order to pressure Jane Withersteen into
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Noir Fiction and Film

Diversions and Misdirections

by Lee Clark Mitchell ...

The argument of Noir Fiction and Film is curiously counterintuitive: that in a century of hard-boiled fiction and detective films, characteristics that at first seemed trivial swelled in importance, flourishing into crucial aspects of the genre. Among these are aimless descriptions of people and places irrelevant to plot, along with detectives consisting of little more than sparkling dialogue and ... Read more

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The argument of Noir Fiction and Film is curiously counterintuitive: that in a century of hard-boiled fiction and detective films, characteristics that at first seemed trivial swelled in importance, flourishing into crucial aspects of the genre. Among these are aimless descriptions of people and places irrelevant to plot, along with detectives consisting of little more than sparkling dialogue and
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Mark My Words

Profiles of Punctuation in Modern Literature

by Professor Lee Clark Mitchell ...

Why are Emily Dickinson and Henry James drawn habitually to dashes? What makes James Baldwin such a fan of commas, which William Carlos Williams tends to ignore? And why do that odd couple, the novelist Virginia Woolf and the short story specialist Andre Dubus II, both embrace semicolons, while E. E. Cummings and Nikki Giovanni forego punctuation entirely? More generally, what effect do such ... Read more

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Why are Emily Dickinson and Henry James drawn habitually to dashes? What makes James Baldwin such a fan of commas, which William Carlos Williams tends to ignore? And why do that odd couple, the novelist Virginia Woolf and the short story specialist Andre Dubus II, both embrace semicolons, while E. E. Cummings and Nikki Giovanni forego punctuation entirely? More generally, what effect do such
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More Time

Contemporary Short Stories and Late Style

by Lee Clark Mitchell ...

More Time studies the contemporary short story and focuses on four recent collections: Alice Munro's Dear Life (2012); Andre Dubus's Dancing After Hours (1996); Joy Williams's The Visiting Privilege (2015); and Lydia Davis's Can't and Won't (2014). Each publication has appeared near the conclusion of a career devoted all but exclusively to short stories, with each defining a 'late style' honed ... Read more

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More Time studies the contemporary short story and focuses on four recent collections: Alice Munro's Dear Life (2012); Andre Dubus's Dancing After Hours (1996); Joy Williams's The Visiting Privilege (2015); and Lydia Davis's Can't and Won't (2014). Each publication has appeared near the conclusion of a career devoted all but exclusively to short stories, with each defining a 'late style' honed
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Mere Reading

The Poetics of Wonder in Modern American Novels

by Professor Lee Clark Mitchell ...

Named a Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the YearMere Reading argues for a return to the foundations of literary study established nearly a century ago. Following a recent period dominated by symptomatic analyses of fictional texts (new historicist, Marxist, feminist, identity-political), Lee Clark Mitchell joins a burgeoning neo-formalist movement in challenging readers to embrace a rationale ... Read more

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Named a Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the YearMere Reading argues for a return to the foundations of literary study established nearly a century ago. Following a recent period dominated by symptomatic analyses of fictional texts (new historicist, Marxist, feminist, identity-political), Lee Clark Mitchell joins a burgeoning neo-formalist movement in challenging readers to embrace a rationale
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Late Westerns

The Persistence of a Genre

by Lee Clark Mitchell ...

Series series Postwestern Horizons
For more than a century the cinematic western has been America’s most familiar genre, always teetering on the verge of exhaustion and yet regularly revived in new forms. Why does this outmoded vehicle—with the most narrowly based historical setting of any popular genre—maintain its appeal? In Late Westerns Lee Clark Mitchell takes a position against those critics looking to attach “post” to the ... Read more

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For more than a century the cinematic western has been America’s most familiar genre, always teetering on the verge of exhaustion and yet regularly revived in new forms. Why does this outmoded vehicle—with the most narrowly based historical setting of any popular genre—maintain its appeal? In Late Westerns Lee Clark Mitchell takes a position against those critics looking to attach “post” to the
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The Turn of the Screw

The Unraveling Mystery of The Turn of the Screw

by Henry James ...

Enter the eerie and enigmatic world of Henry James' classic novella, "The Turn of the Screw." Follow the harrowing tale of a young governess who is tasked with caring for two children in a remote country estate. As she becomes entangled in a web of supernatural events and unsettling secrets, the line between reality and imagination blurs, leading to a chilling and unforgettable climax. ... Read more

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Enter the eerie and enigmatic world of Henry James' classic novella, "The Turn of the Screw." Follow the harrowing tale of a young governess who is tasked with caring for two children in a remote country estate. As she becomes entangled in a web of supernatural events and unsettling secrets, the line between reality and imagination blurs, leading to a chilling and unforgettable climax.
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The Rainbow Trail

by Zane Grey ...

Ten years after events of Riders of the Purple Sage, the wall to Surprise Valley has broken and Jane Withersteen is forced to make a big decision. ... Read more

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Ten years after events of Riders of the Purple Sage, the wall to Surprise Valley has broken and Jane Withersteen is forced to make a big decision.
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Daisy Miller

A Study

by Henry James ...

Series series Literary Classics
The novella that made Henry James famous and offended half of Boston. Daisy Miller, a fresh and pretty American abroad, strolls out unchaperoned with a handsome Italian and cannot understand why the expatriate ladies of Rome close their doors to her. James poses a single, unanswerable question — is she innocent or merely careless, and does the distinction matter to a society that has already ... Read more

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The novella that made Henry James famous and offended half of Boston. Daisy Miller, a fresh and pretty American abroad, strolls out unchaperoned with a handsome Italian and cannot understand why the expatriate ladies of Rome close their doors to her. James poses a single, unanswerable question — is she innocent or merely careless, and does the distinction matter to a society that has already
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Glasses

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*** Original and Unabridged Content. Made available by GOLDEN CLASSIC PRESS***Synopsis:This was a little person whom I would have made a high bid for a good chance to paint. The head, the features, the color, the whole facial oval and radiance had a wonderful purity; the deep grey eyes -- the most agreeable, I thought, that I had ever seen -- brushed with a kind of winglike grace every object they ... Read more

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*** Original and Unabridged Content. Made available by GOLDEN CLASSIC PRESS***Synopsis:This was a little person whom I would have made a high bid for a good chance to paint. The head, the features, the color, the whole facial oval and radiance had a wonderful purity; the deep grey eyes -- the most agreeable, I thought, that I had ever seen -- brushed with a kind of winglike grace every object they
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The Man of The Forest

by Zane Grey ...

"The Man of the Forest" is a Western novel by Zane Grey, published in 1920. It tells the story of Milt Dale, a reclusive and skilled woodsman who protects two sisters from a ruthless gang. The novel combines romance, action, and Grey's vivid depiction of the American frontier. ... Read more

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"The Man of the Forest" is a Western novel by Zane Grey, published in 1920. It tells the story of Milt Dale, a reclusive and skilled woodsman who protects two sisters from a ruthless gang. The novel combines romance, action, and Grey's vivid depiction of the American frontier.
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