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  • Leonardo, Poe, Mallarmé

    The Collected Works of Paul Valéry, Volume 8

    by Paul Valéry ...
    Translated by Malcolm Cowley, James R. Lawler ...
    Series series Bollingen Recollections
    A collection of Valéry’s essays on three artists who were of central importance to himPaul Valéry had an enduring fascination with Leonardo, Poe, and Mallarmé and his essays on these fellow artists are among his most important writings. This volume presents those essays along with extensive selections on these figures from Valéry’s Notebooks. Valéry’s Leonardo and Poe were almost pure invention. ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

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  • Leaves of Grass

    The First (1855) Edition

    by Walt Whitman ...
    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

    $10.99 USD

  • Black Cargoes

    A History of the Atlantic Slave Trade 1518–1865

    by Daniel P. Mannix, Malcolm Cowley ...
    "A carefully understated but chilling account of the whole 3 ½ centuries during which 15 million Africans were snatched from their homes and delivered into slavery in the New World." — TimeIn 1518, the Atlantic slave trade began with the landing in the West Indies of the first enslaved people directly from Africa. These were the victims of a forced migration that was more callous and immensely ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Exile's Return

    A Literary Odyssey of the 1920s

    by Malcolm Cowley ...
    The adventures and attitudes shared by the American writers dubbed "The Lost Generation" are brought to life here by one of the group's most notable members. Feeling alienated in the America of the 1920s, Fitzgerald, Crane, Hemingway, Wilder, Dos Passos, Crowley, and many other writers "escaped" to Europe, some forever, some as temporary exiles. As Cowley details in this intimate, anecdotal ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Winesburg, Ohio

    by Sherwood Anderson ...
    Published in 1919, Winesburg, Ohio is Sherwood Anderson’s masterpiece, a work in which he achieved the goal to which he believed all true writers should aspire: to see and feel “all of life within.” In a perfectly imagined world, an archetypal small American town, he reveals the hidden passions that turn ordinary lives into unforgettable ones. Unified by the recurring presence of young George ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

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  • The Portable Emerson

    New Edition

    by Ralph Waldo Emerson ...
    Series series Portable Library
    This volume, edited by Carl Bode in collaboration with Malcolm Cowley, presents the essential Emerson, selected from works that eloquently express the philosophy of a worldly idealist. The Portable Emerson comprises essays, including “History,” “Self-Reliance,” “The Over-Soul,” “Circles,” and “The Poet”; Emerson’s first book, Nature, in its entirety; twenty-two poems, including “Uriel,” “The ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • In Our Time (Warbler Classics)

    by Ernest Hemingway, Malcolm Cowley ...
    In Our Time, Ernest Hemingway's first collection of short stories, heralded the arrival of an original and distinct literary voice. The stories' richly complicated themes of alienation, loss, grief, and separation contrast with Hemingway's spare but deeply evocative prose.This Warbler Classics edition includes the essay Hemingway at Midnight by eminent literary critic Malcolm Cowley, who was a ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • The Long Voyage

    by Malcolm Cowley ...
    Critic, poet, editor, chronicler of the Lost Generation, elder statesman of the Republic of Letters, Malcolm Cowley (1898-1989) was an eloquent witness to American literary and political life. His letters, mostly unpublished, provide a self-portrait of Cowley and his time and make possible a full appreciation of his long, varied career. ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

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  • Three Short Stories & Ten Poems

    by Ernest Hemingway ...
    Ernest Hemingway was one of America’s best known and most beloved authors. This was a his first published book. These three stories and ten poems served notice that a major new talent had arrived and the rules of American Literature were about to change. ... Read more

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  • In Our Time

    by Ernest Hemingway ...
    In Our Time has a curious history in that Earnest Hemingway released it in at least three different versions. The first edition (the 1924 Paris edition) was commissioned by Ezra Pound for Three Mountains Press and contains six prose vignettes. The collection explores loss, grief, separation, and alienation—topics Hemingway would never leave behind.Until Ezra Pound asked him to write this ... Read more

    $1.99 USD

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  • The Old Wives’ Tale

    by Arnold Bennett ...
    English novelist. Bennett believed that ordinary people had the potential to be the subject of interesting books. In this respect, an influence which Bennett himself acknowledged was the French writer Maupassant whose "Une Vie" inspired "The Old Wives' Tale". Maupassant is also one of the writers on whom Richard Larch, the protagonist of Bennett's first (and obviously semi-autobiographical) novel, ... Read more

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  • Main Street

    by Lewis, Sinclair ...
    Main Street is a novel by Sinclair Lewis, offering a searing critique of small-town America and the conformity of middle-class society in the early 20th century. Set in the fictional town of Gopher Prairie, Minnesota, the story follows Carol Milford, a young woman filled with dreams of cultural enlightenment and social reform, who becomes disillusioned with the narrow-mindedness and conservatism ... Read more

    $0.99 USD