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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...
How to Read Literature Like a Professor
HarperCollins 2009; US$ 12.99What does it mean when a fictional hero takes a journey?. Shares a meal? Gets drenched in a sudden rain shower? Often, there is much more going on in a novel or poem than is readily visible on the surface?a symbol, maybe, that remains elusive, or an unexpected twist on a character?and there's that sneaking suspicion that the deeper meaning of a literary... more...
Leave Me Alone, I'm Reading
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2007; US$ 16.00?It?s not that I don?t like people,? writes Maureen Corrigan in her introduction to Leave Me Alone, I?m Reading . ?It?s just that there always comes a moment when I?m in the company of others?even my nearest and dearest?when I?d rather be reading a book.? In this delightful memoir, Corrigan reveals which books and authors have shaped her own life?from... more...
Teaching Stories
Random House Publishing Group 2007; US$ 16.00In this remarkable anthology, some of the world?s greatest writers provide a master class on the transformative power of learning and literature. Culled from a course developed by Pulitzer Prize?winning author Robert Coles for the Harvard Graduate School of Education, Teaching Stories is an invaluable collection in which novelists, essayists, and... more...
Recovering Your Story
Random House Publishing Group 2007; US$ 26.95?Great art discovers for us who we are,? writes eminent literature professor and critic Arnold Weinstein in this magisterial new book about how we can better uncover and understand our own stories by reading five major modern writers. Professor Weinstein, author of the highly acclaimed A Scream Goes Through the House, has spent a lifetime guiding students... more...
Joy of Reading
Sourcebooks, Inc. 2008; US$ 24.95Like a professor whose enthusiasm enwraps his students, Van Doren explains what's wonderful in the books you've missed and awakens your desire to reopen the books you already know. more...
Why We Read What We Read
Sourcebooks, Inc. 2007; US$ 14.99What do weight loss, evil emperors and tales of redemption have in common? more...
Creationists
Random House Publishing Group 2008; US$ 14.95E. L. Doctorow is acclaimed internationally for such novels as Ragtime, Billy Bathgate, and The March . Now here are Doctorow?s rich, revelatory essays on the nature of imaginative thought. In Creationists , Doctorow considers creativity in its many forms: from the literary (Melville and Mark Twain) to the comic (Harpo Marx) to the cosmic (Genesis... more...
How to Read Novels Like a Professor
HarperCollins 2009; US$ 12.99Of all the literary forms, the novel is arguably the most discussed . . . and fretted over. From Miguel de Cervantes's Don Quixote to the works of Jane Austen, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, and today's masters, the novel has grown with and adapted to changing societies and technologies, mixing tradition and innovation in every age throughout... more...
The Sackett Companion
Random House Publishing Group 2009; US$ 17.00Little did Louis L'Amour realize back in 1960 when he published The Daybreakers , a novel about two brothers who came west after the Civil War, that he had begun creating what would become perhaps North America's most widely followed literary family: the Sacketts. The stories of ten generations of Sackett men and women as they forged westward... more...









