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The Cambridge Introduction to Emily Dickinson
Cambridge University Press 2007; US$ 22.00This introduction delves behind the myth of Emily Dickinson to present her in the context of her time. more...
The Cambridge Introduction to Harriet Beecher Stowe
Cambridge University Press 2007; US$ 21.00A guide to Stowe's long career as a professional author, with detailed readings of Uncle Toms Cabin. more...
The Cambridge Introduction to Herman Melville
Cambridge University Press 2007; US$ 21.00This introduction sets out the key themes, contexts, and critical reception of Melvilles entire oeuvre. more...
Mark Twain
University of Minnesota Press 1960; US$ 36.00Mark Twain - American Writers 5 was first published in 1960. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions. more...
Ambrose Bierce
University of Minnesota Press 1964; US$ 36.00MANY know him, but no one knows very much about him. This might have been said of Ambrose Bierce in his own time, and it can be said with as much justice today. Bierce remains an enigmatic figure; most of what has been recorded about the man mingles fact and legend... more...
Braless in Wonderland
Penguin Group US 2008; US$ 16.99Allee Rosen is a lot of things: high school senior, overachiever, brain. The one thing she's not is supermodel material. She leaves that to the pretty people like her little sister (aka "The Fluff"). That's why it's a complete shock when Allee, not her sister, is the one spotted by modeling scouts at the mall and signed by an elite modeling agency... more...
Fictions of America
Taylor & Francis 2007; US$ 34.95The Internet has had a huge impact on channels of communication and information, reaching across time and space to connect the world through globalisation. In this Internet-led world, story links to story, windows open on new stories and no overall authority establishes priority. This sense of globalisation has raised many questions for contemporary... more...
American Modernism's Expatriate Scene
Edinburgh University Press 2007; US$ 89.55This study takes as its point of departure an essential premise: that the widespread phenomenon of expatriation in American modernism is less a flight from the homeland than a dialectical return to it, but one which renders uncanny all tropes of familiarity and immediacy which 'fatherlands' and 'mother tongues' are traditionally seen... more...
Washington Irvings Contributions to the Corrector
University of Minnesota Press 1968; US$ 60.00This volume makes available, for the first time in collected form, a series of sketches by Washington Irving which were published anonymously in a political newspaper, The Corrector, in 1804. The Corrector, a short-lived political sheet, was published in more...
Walking
The Floating Press 2008; US$ 4.95If you are ready to leave father and mother, and brother and sister, and wife and child and friends, and never see them again, - if you have paid your debts, and made your will, and settled all your affairs, and are a free man, then you are ready for a walk. Walking is an essay by American writer, naturalist and philosopher David Thoreau (1817 - 1862).... more...









