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“nicholas wolfson”

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  • Huckleberry Finn: Antidote to Hate

    by Nicholas Wolfson ...
    Huck, Jim and Tom are American immortals. They resonate in the popular culture and, at the same time, provoke the continual concern and interest of intellectuals in the academic community. When the book was first published, and for years thereafter, many critics complained about the baleful influence the delinquent Huck, with his use of bad language, and skepticism about religion, would have on ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

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    Gleams of Sunshine (Unabridged)

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    by Joseph Horatio Chant ...
    Narrated by Elizabeth Dixon, Nicholas Wolfson, Kathryn Richins, Ahmad Forster ...

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    3 hours 1 min

    This is a volume of religious, and as the subtitle of the book says, 'optimistic' poems by J.H. Chant, a Canadian minister of the United Church. ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

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  • Politically Incorrect Guide to English and American Literature

    by Elizabeth Kantor ...
    What PC English professors don't want you to learn from . . .- Beowulf: If we don't admire heroes, there's something wrong with us- Chaucer: Chivalry has contributed enormously to women's happiness- Shakespeare: Some choices are inherently destructive (it's just built into the nature of things)- Milton: Our intellectual freedoms are Christian, not anti-Christian, in origin- Jane Austen: Most men ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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  • The Road to Monticello

    The Life and Mind of Thomas Jefferson

    by Kevin J. Hayes ...
    Thomas Jefferson was an avid book-collector, a voracious reader, and a gifted writer--a man who prided himself on his knowledge of classical and modern languages and whose marginal annotations include quotations from Euripides, Herodotus, and Milton. And yet there has never been a literary life of our most literary president. In The Road to Monticello, Kevin J. Hayes fills this important gap by ... Read more

    $38.69 USD

  • Without Copyrights: Piracy, Publishing, and the Public Domain

    Piracy, Publishing, and the Public Domain

    by Robert Spoo ...
    Series series Modernist Literature and Culture
    The names of James Joyce and Ezra Pound ring out in the annals of literary modernism, but few recognize the name of Samuel Roth. A brash, business-savvy entrepreneur, Roth made a name--and a profit--for himself as the founding editor and owner of magazines that published selections from foreign writings--especially the risque parts--without permission. When he reprinted segments of James Joyce's ... Read more

    $27.89 USD

  • Christopher Hitchens: The Last Interview

    and Other Conversations

    by Christopher Hitchens ...
    Series series The Last Interview Series
    This selection of interviews showcases the remarkable career of one of this generation’s greatest and most divisive thinkers—featuring a foreword by Stephen Fry.“ . . . pulls together some of Hitchens’s greatest dialogues, each sparkling with intelligence and wit.” —New York Times Book ReviewIf someone says I’m doing this out of faith, I say, Why don’t you do it out of conviction?One of his ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Beauty of a Social Problem

    Photography, Autonomy, Economy

    by Walter Benn Michaels ...
    Bertolt Brecht once worried that our sympathy for the victims of a social problem can make the problem's "beauty and attraction" invisible. In The Beauty of a Social Problem, Walter Benn Michaels explores the effort to overcome this difficulty through a study of several contemporary artist-photographers whose work speaks to questions of political economy.Although he discusses well-known figures ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Trimalchio

    An Early Version of The Great Gatsby

    by F. Scott Fitzgerald ...
    For the legions of Great Gatsby fans and scholars, F. Scott Fitzgerald’s early version of his masterpiece provides a new understanding of Fitzgerald’s working methods, fresh insight into his characters, and renewed appreciation of his genius—now available in ebook for the first time.Reading F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Trimalchio, an early and complete version of The Great Gatsby, is like listening to a ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Culture, Capital and Representation

    Edited by R. Balfour ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    With contributions ranging over three centuries, Culture, Capital and Representation explores how literature, cultural studies and the visual arts represent, interact with, and produce ideas about capital, whether in its early phases (the growth of stock markets) or in its late phase (global speculative capital). ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Lady Liberty Enlightens the World : Interesting Facts about the Statue of Liberty - American History for Kids | Children's History Books

    by Baby Professor ...
    When you look at Lady Liberty, you see a symbol of American freedom. But did you know that the statue was not even created in the US? There’s an interesting story behind it and this American history book will tell you all about it. To make history learning a lot easier, there are pictures to accompany the texts in this book. Grab a copy today! ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to African American Women's Literature

    Edited by Angelyn Mitchell, Danille K. Taylor ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    The Cambridge Companion to African American Women's Literature covers a period dating back to the eighteenth century. These specially commissioned essays highlight the artistry, complexity and diversity of a literary tradition that ranges from Lucy Terry to Toni Morrison. A wide range of topics are addressed, from the Harlem Renaissance to the Black Arts Movement, and from the performing arts to ... Read more

    $30.39 USD

  • The View from the Masthead

    Maritime Imagination and Antebellum American Sea Narratives

    by Hester Blum ...
    With long, solitary periods at sea, far from literary and cultural centers, sailors comprise a remarkable population of readers and writers. Although their contributions have been little recognized in literary history, seamen were important figures in the nineteenth-century American literary sphere. In the first book to explore their unique contribution to literary culture, Hester Blum examines ... Read more

    $26.59 USD