Category: Books on Books

Contemporary fiction is a wide and diverse field, now global in dimension, with an enormous range of novels and writers that continues to grow at a fantastic speed. In this Very Short Introduction, Robert Eaglestone provides a clear and engaging exploration of the major themes, patterns, and debates of contemporary fiction. From genre, form, and experimentalism to the legacies of modernism and postmodernism, the relationship between globalization andterrorism, and the impact of technology, Eaglestone examines how works both reflect the world in which we live and the artistic concerns of writer...
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How to Read Literature

By: Eagleton, Terry

Price: $16.00

Publisher: Yale University Press : September 2019

Seller ID: 177855

ISBN-13: 9780300247640

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New

A literary master's entertaining guide to reading with deeper insight, better understanding, and greater pleasure--"English 101 in a book." (Michael Lindgren, Washington Post) What makes a work of literature good or bad? How freely can the reader interpret it? Could a nursery rhyme like Baa Baa Black Sheep be full of concealed loathing, resentment, and aggression? In this accessible, delightfully entertaining book, Terry Eagleton addresses these intriguing questions and a host of others. How to Read Literature is the book of choice for students new to the study of literature and for all other...
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Careers for Bookworms and Other Literary Types (VGM Careers for You S.)

By: Eberts, Marjorie, Gisler, Margaret

Price: $5.97

Publisher: Contemporary Books : January 2001

Seller ID: 21832

ISBN-13: 9780844286181

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

The New Lifetime Reading Plan: The Classical Guide to World Literature, Revised and Expanded

By: Fadiman, Clifton,Major, John S

Price: $8.00

Publisher: Collins Reference : June 1999

Seller ID: 177055

ISBN-13: 9780062720733

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Now in print for the first time in almost 40 years, The New Lifetime Reading Plan provides readers with brief, informative and entertaining introductions to more than 130 classics of world literature. From Homer to Hawthorne, Plato to Pascal, and Shakespeare to Solzhenitsyn, the great writers of Western civilization can be found in its pages. In addition, this new edition offers a much broader representation of women authors, such as Charlotte Bront%, Emily Dickinson and Edith Wharton, as well as non-Western writers such as Confucius, Sun-Tzu, Chinua Achebe, Mishima Yukio and many others. This...
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Sylvia Beach and the Lost Generation: A History of Literary Paris in the Twenties and Thirties

By: Fitch, Noel Riley

Price: $11.97

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company : May 1985

Seller ID: 153442

ISBN-13: 9780393302318

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Making use of the author's access to the Beach family papers, this account chronicles the literary circle that gathered at Beach's Paris book shop.
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The Letters of Ann Fleming

By: Fleming, Ann

Price: $40.00

Publisher: Collins Harvill : January 1985

Seller ID: 193251

ISBN-13: 9780002170598

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Published in Paris: American and British writers, printers, and publishers in Paris, 1920-1939

By: Ford, Hugh D

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Macmillan : January 1975

Seller ID: 160715

ISBN-13: 9780025396005

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Author Unknown: Tales of a Literary Detective

By: Foster, Don

Price: $7.50

Publisher: Holt Paperbacks : October 2001

Seller ID: 78359

ISBN-13: 9780805068122

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

From the professor with an extraordinary gift for unmasking the authors of anonymous documents comes the inside story of how he solves his most challenging cases. In "Author Unknown," Don Foster reveals a starling fact: since no two people use language in precisely the same way, our identities are encoded in our own language, a kind of literary DNA. Combining traditional scholarship with modern technology, Foster has discovered how to unlock that code and, in the process, has invented an entire field of investigation--literary forensics--by which it becomes possible to catch anonymous authors ...
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How to Read Literature Like a Professor: A Lively and Entertaining Guide to Reading Between the Lines

By: Foster, Thomas C.

Price: $8.99

Publisher: Harper Paperbacks : March 2003

Seller ID: 181034

ISBN-13: 9780060009427

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

What 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 text keeps escaping you.In this practical and amusing guide to literature, Thomas C. Foster shows how easy and gratifying it is to unlock those hidden truths, and to discover a world where a road leads to a quest; a shared meal may signify a ...
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Anatomy of Criticism: Four Essays

By: Frye, Northrop

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Princeton University Press : September 2000

Seller ID: 177131

ISBN-13: 9780691069999

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Striking out at the conception of criticism as restricted to mere opinion or ritual gesture, Northrop Frye wrote this magisterial work proceeding on the assumption that criticism is a structure of thought and knowledge in its own right. In four brilliant essays on historical, ethical, archetypical, and rhetorical criticism, employing examples of world literature from ancient times to the present, Frye reconceived literary criticism as a total history rather than a linear progression through time. Literature, Frye wrote, is "the place where our imaginations find the ideal that they try to pass ...
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Making Handmade Books: 100+ Bindings, Structures & Forms

By: Golden, Alisa

Price: $22.99

Publisher: Union Square & Co. : January 2011

Seller ID: 179781

ISBN-13: 9781600595875

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New

In the digital world, books may seem like an endangered species, but bookmaking is more popular than ever. Thanks to the 100 ideas in this volume, the craft is now available to everyone. In as little as an afternoon, beginners will be on their way to folding, gluing, and sewing handmade books in a variety of shapes and styles, from rolled scrolls to Jacobs ladders, folded flexagons to case bindings. Complete with photographs of the authors own master books and statements by more than 40 established book artists, this collection is sure to inspire. Culled from the authors best-selling books Cre...
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The Last Bookseller: A Life in the Rare Book Trade

By: Goodman, Gary

Price: $19.95

Publisher: Univ Of Minnesota Press : December 2021

Seller ID: 179930

ISBN-13: 9781517912574

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

Me & Nu: Childhood at Coole

By: Gregory, Anne

Price: $5.24

Publisher: Colin Smythe Ltd : November 1978

Seller ID: 193268

ISBN-13: 9780861400102

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Lady Gregory was the cornerstone of the Irish Literary Revival in the first quarter of the 20th century. At Coole Park in Co. Galway she was host to many literary figures and painters of the time: W. B. Yeats of course, J. M. Synge, Bernard Shaw, Douglas Hyde, A. E. (George W. Russell), Sean O'Casey, John Masefield, George Moore, and among the painters, J. B. Yeats the elder, Jack B. Yeats and Augustus John. As well as spending a large part of her time as hostess of Coole, being a prolific author and playwright, a Director of the Abbey Theatre, the chief campaigner for the return of the Lane P...
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The World's Strongest Librarian: A Book Lover's Adventures

By: Hanagarne, Josh

Price: $8.50

Publisher: Avery : May 2014

Seller ID: 155660

ISBN-13: 9781592408771

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

A funny and uplifting story of how a Mormon kid with Tourette's found salvation in books and weight lifting Josh Hanagarne couldn't be invisible if he tried. Although he wouldn't officially be diagnosed with Tourette Syndrome until his freshman year of high school, Josh was six years old when he first began exhibiting symptoms. When he was twenty and had reached his towering height of 6'7", his tics escalated to nightmarish levels. Determined to conquer his affliction, Josh tried countless remedies, with dismal results. At last, an eccentric, autistic strongman taught Josh how to "throttle" h...
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84, Charing Cross Road

By: Hanff, Helene

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics) : October 1990

Seller ID: 177944

ISBN-13: 9780140143508

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New

Those who have read The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, a novel comprised of only letters between the characters, will see how much that best-seller owes 84, Charing Cross Road. -- Medium.com A heartwarming love story about people who love books for readers who love books This funny, poignant classic love story showcases the power of the written word to bring people together. The story unfolds through a series of letters between Helene Hanff, a freelance writer living in New York City, and a used-book dealer in London at 84, Charing Cross Road. Through the years, though never m...
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Choosing Books for Children

By: Hearne, Betsy

Price: $8.48

Publisher: Delacorte Books for Young Readers : April 1990

Seller ID: 61737

ISBN-13: 9780385300841

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

The Demon and the Angel: Searching for the Source of Artistic Inspiration

By: Hirsch, Edward

Price: $12.00

Publisher: Harcourt : March 2002

Seller ID: 125461

ISBN-13: 9780151005383

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

A work of art, whether a painting, a dance, a poem, or a jazz composition, can be admired in its own right. But how does the artist actually create his or her work? What is the source of an artist's inspiration? What is the force that impels the artist to set down a vision that becomes art? In this groundbreaking book, poet and critic Edward Hirsch explores the concept of duende, that mysterious, highly potent power of creativity that results in a work of art. It has been said that Laurence Olivier had it, and so did Ernest Hemingway, but Maurice Evans and John O'Hara did not. Marlon Brando ha...
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The Unwritten Book: An Investigation

By: Hunt, Samantha

Price: $28.00

Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux : April 2022

Seller ID: 178973

ISBN-13: 9780374604912

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

From Samantha Hunt, the award-winning author of The Dark Dark, comes The Unwritten Book, her first work of nonfiction, a genre-bending creation that explores the importance of books, the idea of haunting, and messages from beyond I carry each book I've ever read with me, just as I carry my dead--those things that aren't really there, those things that shape everything I am.A genre-bending work of nonfiction, Samantha Hunt's The Unwritten Book explores the broadest sense of ghosts, ghost stories, and haunting. What is it to be haunted, to be a ghost, to die, to live, to read? Books are ghosts;...
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