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One for the Books
Penguin Group US 2012; US$ 11.99One of America?s leading humorists and author of the bestseller Closing Time examines his own obsession with books Joe Queenan became a voracious reader as a means of escape from a joyless childhood in a Philadelphia housing project. In the years since then he has dedicated himself to an assortment of idiosyncratic reading challenges: spending... more...
Second Reading
Europa 2011; US$ 9.99There is currently no description available for this title at this time. more...
Beneath the American Renaissance
Oxford University Press, USA 2011; US$ 18.99The award-winning Beneath the American Renaissance is a classic work on American literature. It immeasurably broadens our knowledge of our most important literary period, as first identified by F.O. Matthiessen's American Renaissance. With its combination of sharp critical insight, engaging observation, and narrative drive, it represents the kind... more...
Modern Print Activism in the United States
Ashgate Publishing Ltd 2013; US$ 99.95Print media have been used throughout the twentieth century to promote social and political activism. At a time when the golden age of print appears to be ending, Modern Print Activism in the United States argues that print activism should be studied as a specifically modernist phenomenon and poses questions related to the efficacy of print as a vehicle... more...
How to Read a Novelist
Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2013; US$ 14.99The novel is alive and well, thank you very much For the last fifteen years, whenever a novel was published, John Freeman was there to greet it. As a critic for more than two hundred newspapers worldwide, the onetime president of the National Book Critics Circle, and the current editor of Granta , he has reviewed thousands of books and interviewed... more...
Creating Postcolonial Literature
Palgrave Macmillan 2013; US$ 85.00Using case studies, this book explores the publishing of African literature, addressing the construction of literary value, relationships between African writers and British publishers, and importance of the African market. It analyses the historical, political and economic conditions framing the emergence of postcolonial literature. more...
Familiar Studies of Men and Books
Electric Book Company 1999; US$ 4.95The essays that were later published as Familiar Studies of Men and Books (1882) began to appear in the Cornhill Magazine in 1876. The essay was the form in which Stevenson first gave promise of his future distinction and these critical essays were very favourably received. more...
Experience of Reading
Taylor and Francis 1991; US$ 135.00In The Experience of Reading , Philip Davis sets out to show that books matter most on a personal level and that reading offers a great deal more than a mere escape into fantasy. As a professional teacher with a strong interest in opening up the universities, Davis employs the modern novel to allow serious readers access to a search for a way of being,... more...
You've GOT to Read This Book!
HarperCollins 2006; US$ 11.99A collection of inspirational essays about books that have transformed their readers' lives includes contributions by such figures as Dave Barry, Stephen Covey, John Gray, Christiane Northrup, Malachy McCourt, and Kenny Loggins. more...
The Evolution of the Book
Oxford University Press 1998; US$ 54.99This study is a concise history of the book in all its forms, starting from the very beginning with the invention of writing and concluding at the present time with the electronic revolution and what it may hold for the future. more...









