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  • Historic Photos of Ernest Hemingway

    by James Plath ...
    Series series Historic Photos
    When Ernest Hemingway won the 1954 Nobel Prize for Literature, presenters called him "one of this epoch’s great molders of style,” praising his vivid dialogue and journalistic eye for "robust details to accumulate and take on momentous significance.”But even the Swedish Academy could not separate Hemingway the writer from Hemingway the adventurer. They also cited his "manly love of danger and ... Read more

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  • John Updike's Pennsylvania Interviews

    Edited by James Plath ...
    Updike remains both a critical and popular success; however, because Updike asked that his personal letters not be published the only way that Updike scholars and fans can read more of the author’s candid and insightful remarks is to revisit some of the many interviews he granted—most of which are difficult to locate or obtain. Updike wrote about his home town of Reading in Berks County, ... Read more

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  • The 100 Greatest Literary Characters

    by James Plath, Gail Sinclair, Kirk Curnutt ...
    From Captain Ahab to Yuri Zhivago, discover the most remarkable characters in fiction.Huckleberry Finn, Anna Karenina, Harry Potter, Hester Prynne . . . these are just a handful of remarkable characters found in literature, but of course the list is virtually endless! But why ponder which of these creations are the greatest? More than just a topic to debate with friends, the greatest characters ... Read more

    $46.99 USD

  • Hemingway and Africa

    by Miriam B. Mandel, Philip H. Melling, Silvio Calabi, Suzanne del Gizzo, Beatriz Penas Ibanez, Chikako Tanimoto, Erik Nakjavani, Frank Mehring, James Plath, Professor Jeremiah M Kitunda0, Kelli A. Larson1 ...
    Hemingway's two extended African safaris, the first in the 1930s and the second in the 1950s, gave rise to two of his best-known stories ("The Snows of Kilimanjaro" and "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber"), a considerable amount of journalism and correspondence, and two nonfiction books, Green Hills of Africa (1935), about the first safari, and True at First Light (1999; longer version, ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

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    My Life in Stories and Pictures

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    A magical concoction of the mischievous, tender, whimsical, and debauched real-life adventures of Alan Cumming, told in his own words and pictures. Described by the New York Times as “a bawdy countercultural sprite” and named one of the most fun people in show business by Time magazine, Alan Cumming is a genuine quadruple threat—an internationally acclaimed, award-winning star of stage, television ... Read more

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  • King Solomon's Mines

    by Henry Haggard ...
    In literature there is a category of novels that can surely be entered in the Red Data Book as they tell us about incredible places on the planet Earth. "King Solomon's mines" is a book written in the late nineteenth century, which exactly reflects that period. It is the brightest representative of adventure literature. Exciting, dizzying situations, treasure hunts, wild tribes which are yet not ... Read more

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  • Tom Sawyer: The Complete Collection

    by Mark Twain ...
    Series series The Greatest Fictional Characters of All Time
    This book, newly updated, contains now several HTML tables of contents that will make reading a real pleasure!The first table of contents (at the very beginning of the ebook) lists the titles of all novels included in this volume. By clicking on one of those titles you will be redirected to the beginning of that work, where you'll find a new TOC that lists all the chapters and sub-chapters of that ... Read more

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  • Man in Profile

    Joseph Mitchell of The New Yorker

    by Thomas Kunkel ...
    WINNER OF THE SPERBER PRIZE • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE AND PUBLISHERS WEEKLY • This fascinating biography reveals the untold story of the legendary New Yorker profile writer—author of Joe Gould’s Secret and Up in the Old Hotel—and unravels the mystery behind one of literary history’s greatest disappearing acts.Born and raised in North Carolina, Joseph ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

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  • Into the Fire

    The Fight to Save Fort McMurray

    by Jerron Hawley, Graham Hurley, Steve Sackett ...
    The dramatic story of one of the biggest natural disasters in Canadian history, the Fort McMurray wildfire of 2016, told by three of the firefighters who fought to save the city.On May 1, 2016, a wildfire burning to the southwest of Fort McMurray, Alberta, led to the declaration of a local state of emergency. Two days later, the fire had reached Fort McMurray, forcing the evacuation of 88,000 ... Read more

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  • Leo Tolstoy: The Classics Collection [newly updated] [19 Novels and Novellas] (Golden Deer Classics)

    by Leo Tolstoy, Golden Deer Classics ...
    This book, newly updated, contains now several HTML tables of contents that will make reading a real pleasure! The first table of contents (at the very beginning of the ebook) lists the titles of all novels included in this volume. By clicking on one of those titles you will be redirected to the beginning of that work, where you'll find a new TOC that lists all the chapters and sub-chapters of ... Read more

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  • Writing Deafness

    The Hearing Line in Nineteenth-Century American Literature

    by Christopher Krentz ...
    Taking an original approach to American literature, Christopher Krentz examines nineteenth-century writing from a new angle: that of deafness, which he shows to have surprising importance in identity formation. The rise of deaf education during this period made deaf people much more visible in American society. Krentz demonstrates that deaf and hearing authors used writing to explore their ... Read more

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  • Understanding Michael Chabon

    by Joseph Dewey ...
    Series series Understanding Contemporary American Literature
    An exploration of Chabon's career-long fascination with the consolations—and dangers—of the imaginationPulitzer Prize-winning author Michael Chabon has emerged as one of the most daring writers of American fiction in the post-Pynchon era. Joseph Dewey examines how Chabon's narratives have sought to bring together the defining elements of the two principal expressions of the American narrative that ... Read more

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