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Murphy's Law

An Advocacy Club Novel

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Jake Murphy has graduated law school. So what? No job, no friends, nothing but debt. His name says it all. In his first year as a lawyer, Jake confronts lawyers, clients, judges - each with an agenda at odds with his own. He is swimming surrounded by sharks. He just wants to get ahead. Is that too much to ask? It turns out that it just might be. ... Read more

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Jake Murphy has graduated law school. So what? No job, no friends, nothing but debt. His name says it all. In his first year as a lawyer, Jake confronts lawyers, clients, judges - each with an agenda at odds with his own. He is swimming surrounded by sharks. He just wants to get ahead. Is that too much to ask? It turns out that it just might be.
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The Substance of Shadow

A Darkening Trope in Poetic History

by John Hollander ...

John Hollander, poet and scholar, was a master whose work joined luminous learning and imaginative risk. This book, based on the unpublished Clark Lectures Hollander delivered in 1999 at Cambridge University, witnesses his power to shift the horizons of our thinking, as he traces the history of shadow in British and American poetry from the Renaissance to the end of the twentieth century.Shadow ... Read more

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John Hollander, poet and scholar, was a master whose work joined luminous learning and imaginative risk. This book, based on the unpublished Clark Lectures Hollander delivered in 1999 at Cambridge University, witnesses his power to shift the horizons of our thinking, as he traces the history of shadow in British and American poetry from the Renaissance to the end of the twentieth century.Shadow
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Spoon River Anthology

by Edgar Lee Masters, Ronald Primeau ...

A landmark of American literature told in dramatic monologues that topples the myth of the moral superiority of small-town lifeIn 1915, Edgar Lee Masters published a book written in free verse about a fictional town called Spoon River, based on the Midwestern towns where he grew up. The shocking scandals and secret tragedies of Spoon River were immediately recognized by readers as authentic. ... Read more

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A landmark of American literature told in dramatic monologues that topples the myth of the moral superiority of small-town lifeIn 1915, Edgar Lee Masters published a book written in free verse about a fictional town called Spoon River, based on the Midwestern towns where he grew up. The shocking scandals and secret tragedies of Spoon River were immediately recognized by readers as authentic.
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The Advocacy Club Short Stories

by John Hollander ...

Series Book 1 - Advocacy Club
The Advocacy Club Novels are all about agendas, hidden and otherwise. Meet several junior lawyers who have lofty goals, but plenty of obstacles. The Short Stories anthology introduces the main characters: the good, the bad, and the "stay tuned - to be determined". These stories serve as the prequels for the novels, starting with Murphy's Law, the first novel in the series. ... Read more

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The Advocacy Club Novels are all about agendas, hidden and otherwise. Meet several junior lawyers who have lofty goals, but plenty of obstacles. The Short Stories anthology introduces the main characters: the good, the bad, and the "stay tuned - to be determined". These stories serve as the prequels for the novels, starting with Murphy's Law, the first novel in the series.
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The Sonnets

by William Shakespeare, Stephen Orgel, A. R. Braunmuller ...

Series series The Pelican Shakespeare
Together with A Lover's Complaint' and little-known alternative versions of four of the sonnets. Edited with an introduction by Stanley Wells. ...the most beautifully printed text available.' ... Read more

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Together with A Lover's Complaint' and little-known alternative versions of four of the sonnets. Edited with an introduction by Stanley Wells. ...the most beautifully printed text available.'
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American Poetry 19th Century 2

by John Hollander ...

First Published in 2004. From Philip Freneau to Walt Whitman, Herman Melville to Trumbull Stickney, this collection of two volumes, selected by John Hollander, gives an insight into the artform during the nineteenth century. This collection is sorted by author with focus on American Indian Poetry, Folk Songs and Spirituals. An extensive list of works with attention to their chronology and editor ... Read more

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First Published in 2004. From Philip Freneau to Walt Whitman, Herman Melville to Trumbull Stickney, this collection of two volumes, selected by John Hollander, gives an insight into the artform during the nineteenth century. This collection is sorted by author with focus on American Indian Poetry, Folk Songs and Spirituals. An extensive list of works with attention to their chronology and editor
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Leaves of Grass

by Walt Whitman ...

Series series Vintage Classics
Abraham Lincoln read it with approval, but Emily Dickinson described its bold language and themes as "disgraceful." Ralph Waldo Emerson found it "the most extraordinary piece of wit and wisdom that America has yet produced." Published at the author's expense on July 4, 1855, Leaves of Grass inaugurated a new voice and style into American letters and gave expression to an optimistic, bombastic ... Read more

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Abraham Lincoln read it with approval, but Emily Dickinson described its bold language and themes as "disgraceful." Ralph Waldo Emerson found it "the most extraordinary piece of wit and wisdom that America has yet produced." Published at the author's expense on July 4, 1855, Leaves of Grass inaugurated a new voice and style into American letters and gave expression to an optimistic, bombastic
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Frost: Poems

Edited by John Hollander

by Robert Frost ...

Series series Everyman's Library Pocket Poets Series
From one of the most brilliant and widely read of all American poets, a generous selection of lyrics, dramatic monologues, and narrative poems--all of them steeped in the wayward and isolated beauty of Frost's native New England. Includes his classics "Mending Wall, " "Birches, " and "The Road Not Taken, " as well as poems less famous but equally great. ... Read more

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From one of the most brilliant and widely read of all American poets, a generous selection of lyrics, dramatic monologues, and narrative poems--all of them steeped in the wayward and isolated beauty of Frost's native New England. Includes his classics "Mending Wall, " "Birches, " and "The Road Not Taken, " as well as poems less famous but equally great.
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The Home Place

by Wright Morris ...

Reproduced from the 1948 edition of The Home Place, the Bison Book edition brings back into print an important early work by one of the most highly regarded of contemporary American Writers.This account in first-person narrative and photographs of the one-day visit of Clyde Muncy to "the home place" at Lone Tree, Nebraska, has been called "as near to a new fiction form as you could get." Both ... Read more

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Reproduced from the 1948 edition of The Home Place, the Bison Book edition brings back into print an important early work by one of the most highly regarded of contemporary American Writers.This account in first-person narrative and photographs of the one-day visit of Clyde Muncy to "the home place" at Lone Tree, Nebraska, has been called "as near to a new fiction form as you could get." Both
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Selected Poetry

by John Hollander ...

“Perfection is a rare accomplishment, particularly in American poetry, and the perfection of much of Hollander’s work makes it essential reading for anyone who genuinely cares for the craft of poetry. But in our fallen world we seem fated to value power of perfection, and John Hollander’s poetry has shown a visionary power just often enough to secure him a place as one of the major figures of our ... Read more

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“Perfection is a rare accomplishment, particularly in American poetry, and the perfection of much of Hollander’s work makes it essential reading for anyone who genuinely cares for the craft of poetry. But in our fallen world we seem fated to value power of perfection, and John Hollander’s poetry has shown a visionary power just often enough to secure him a place as one of the major figures of our
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Figurehead

And Other Poems

by John Hollander ...

In a major review in The New Republic of John Hollander's two earlier books, Tesserae and Selected Poetry (both 1993), Vernon Shetley said, "John Hollander's poetry has shown a visionary power just often enough to secure him a place as one of the major figures of our moment."Figurehead, a lively, varied, and technically dazzling book, confirms the statement made by Henry Taylor in the Washington ... Read more

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In a major review in The New Republic of John Hollander's two earlier books, Tesserae and Selected Poetry (both 1993), Vernon Shetley said, "John Hollander's poetry has shown a visionary power just often enough to secure him a place as one of the major figures of our moment."Figurehead, a lively, varied, and technically dazzling book, confirms the statement made by Henry Taylor in the Washington
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Picture Window

Poems

by John Hollander ...

In this deeply philosophical and highly inventive new collection, John Hollander, the distinguished author of numerous books of poetry, offers profound yet playful meditations on the reflective mind and on the words with which we come to know the world. In forms as varied as sonnets, songs, and ancient odes, he muses over the ways we use (and misuse) language as “we grasp the world by ear, by ... Read more

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In this deeply philosophical and highly inventive new collection, John Hollander, the distinguished author of numerous books of poetry, offers profound yet playful meditations on the reflective mind and on the words with which we come to know the world. In forms as varied as sonnets, songs, and ancient odes, he muses over the ways we use (and misuse) language as “we grasp the world by ear, by
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