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American Romances
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Rebecca Brown |
The impulse to tell our worst to a bunch of strangers has been fueling American self-hood for 300 years: there's a direct line from the Puritan confession narrative to today's lurid, inescapable exhi… |
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Essays and Essay-writing: Based on Atlantic Monthly Models
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William Maddux Tanner |
Book digitized by Google from the library of the New York Public Library and uploaded to the Internet Archive by user tpb. |
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Essays and reviews
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Edgar Allan Poe |
This collection of Poe's writings includes his thoughts on poetry; reviews he wrote on many other authors, British, American, and Continental; his views of the literary world he moved in; essays, etc… |
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A week on the Concord and Merrimack rivers ; Walden, or, Life in the woods ; The Maine woods ; Cape…
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Henry David Thoreau |
Henry David Thoreau wrote four full-length works, collected here in a single volume. Interweaving natural observation, personal experience, and historical lore, they reveal his brilliance not only as… |
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The Professor and Other Writings
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Terry Castle |
From one of America's most brilliant critics and cultural commentators comes a long-awaited collection of penetrating autobiographical essays and a riveting short memoir, novelistic in style and ambi… |
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Essays old and new
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Essie Chamberlain |
1st edition - 1926
2nd edition - 1934 - Revised and Enlarged
3rd edition - 1947 |
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To everything on earth
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Kurt Caswell |
"Collected essays on the nexus of fate, community, and nature by a group of writers and scholars that have collaborated on several initiatives and projects tied to the same. By looking at external la… |
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The best American essays 2001
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Kathleen Norris |
A collection of twenty-six essays by American authors, chosen by guest editor Kathleen Norris as the best to be published in 2000, including selections by Stephen King, Diane Ackerman, and Reynolds P… |
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The devil problem and other true stories
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David Remnick |
The Devil Problem and Other True Stories is David Remnick's first book since his Pulitzer Prize-winning Lenin's Tomb. While Remnick has continued to visit and report on Russia, he has also written on… |
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I'm back for more cash : a Tony Kornheiser collection : (because you can't take two hundred newspap…
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Tony Kornheiser |
A compilation of humor from the "Washington Post" columnist and radio-TV commentator takes on the world of politics, social institutions, technology, and the media. |
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News from the world
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Paula Fox |
A collection of stories, essays, and autobiographical pieces. |
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Mothers through the eyes of women writers
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Zora Neale Hurston,Natalie Angier,E. M. Broner,Erica Jong,Judith Shapiro |
"Through a wide cross-section of age and cultural background, The Source of the Spring explores how our perceptions of mothers in women's lives have changed over the generations. In prose that ranges… |
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The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2008
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Emily Raboteau,Rana Dasgupta,Elizabeth Gonzalez,Emmanuel Guibert,Etgar Keret,Kurt Vonnegut,Stephen King,Gene Weingarten,David Rohde,David Gessner,Evan Ratliff,Laurie Weeks,Tamas Dobozy,Paul Hornschemeier,Rutu Modan,Dave Eggers,Andrew Sean Greer,Sherman Alexie,Patrick Tobin,George Saunders,Patricio Pron,Tea Obreht,Amy Waldman,Didier Lefèvre,Bryan Furuness,Laura van den Berg,Lilli Carré,Courtney Moreno,Marjorie Celona,J. Malcom Garcia,Jake Swearingen,Helon Haliba,Raffi Khartchadourian,Malerie Willens,Rachel Aviv,Nora Bonner,Frederic Lemercier,T Ott |
Presents selections of mainstream and alternative American literatue including both fiction and nonfiction, that discuss a broad spectrum of subjects. |
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Scribble, scribble, scribble
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Simon Schama |
Collects more than thirty previously published essays on a diverse range of topics, including food habits, art, politics, history, and travel. |
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Some remarks
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Neal Stephenson |
"A collection of essays from #1 New York Times bestselling author Neal Stephenson"-- |
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Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls
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David Sedaris |
From the unique perspective of David Sedaris comes a new book of essays taking his listeners on a bizarre and stimulating world tour. From the perils of French dentistry to the eating habits of the A… |
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Hold the enlightenment
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Tim Cahill |
America's funniest adventure writer returns with his most entertaining collection of essays yet as he travels the globe and faces down challenges that are animal, topographical--and human. |
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Novels and essays
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Frank Norris |
In his brief career -- he died at 32 -- Frank Norris introduced fresh and sometimes shocking elements into American fiction. Inspired by the naturalistic "new novel" developed in France by Zola and F… |
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Loud and clear
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Anna Quindlen |
"With her trademark insight and her special ability to convey the impact public events have on ordinary lives, Quindlen here combines commentary on American society and the world at large with reflec… |
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Piecework
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Pete Hamill |
In a new volume of journalistic essays, the eclectic author of A Drinking Life offers sharp commentary on diverse subjects, such as American immigration policy toward Mexico, Mike Tyson, television, … |
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