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  • Ernest Hemingway and the Geography of Memory

    Edited by Cirino, Mark P. Ott ...
    Ernest Hemingway’s work reverberates with a blend of memory, geography, and lessons of life revealed through the trauma of experience. Michigan, Italy, Spain, Paris, Africa, and the Gulf Stream are some of the most distinctive settings in Hemingway’s short fiction, novels, articles, and correspondence. In his fiction, Hemingway revisited these sites, reimagining and transforming them. Travel was ... Read more

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  • Hemingway and Italy

    Twenty-First-Century Perspectives

    Edited by Mark Cirino, Mark P. Ott ...
    Exploring the importance of Ernest Hemingway's time in Italy to his writing and legacyFrom his World War I service in Italy through his transformational return visits during the decades that followed, Ernest Hemingway’s Italian experiences were fundamental to his artistic development. Hemingway and Italy offers essays from top scholars, exciting new voices, and people who knew Hemingway during his ... Read more

    $26.59 USD

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  • As Consciousness Is Harnessed to Flesh

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  • The Quotable Book Lover

    Edited by Ben Jacobs, Helena Hjalmarsson ...
    "Some books are unreservedly forgotten; none are unreservedly remembered."-W. H. Auden"A room without books is like a body without a soul."-Cicero"The proper study of mankind is books."-Aldous HuxleyThis collection of more than five hundred quotations captures the wisdom and wit of the most insightful things ever said about books, spoken and written by such legendary figures as: Aeschylus, Ernest ... Read more

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  • Hermit in Paris

    by Italo Calvino ...
    This collection of journals, interviews and travelogues by the author of Invisible Cities has "something fascinating on every page" ( The Guardian, UK).This posthumously published collection offers a unique, puzzle-like portrait of one of the postwar era's most inventive and mercurial writers. In letters and journals, occasional pieces and interviews, Italo Calvino recalls growing up in seaside ... Read more

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  • Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

    by Michael Y. Bennett ...
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    Edward Albee’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? shocked audiences and critics alike with its assault on decorum. At base though, the play is simply a love story: an examination of a long-wedded life, filled with the hopes, dreams, disappointments, and pain that accompany the passing of many years together.While the ethos of the play is tragicomic, it is the anachronistic, melodramatic secret object ... Read more

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  • The New York Public Library Literature Companion

    by Staff of The New York Public Library ...
    Pick up The New York Public Library Literature Companion to check the dates of Marcel Proust's Remembrance of Things Past or to find out how James Joyce's Ulysses changed U.S. obscenity laws, and you may find yourself hours later absorbed in the imaginary worlds of Camelot and The Matrix or sidetracked by the fascinating history of The New Yorker. Designed to satisfy the curious browser as well as ... Read more

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  • Italo Calvino

    Letters, 1941–1985

    by Italo Calvino ...
    Translated by Martin McLaughlin ...
    The first collection of letters in English by one of the great writers of the twentieth centuryThis is the first collection in English of the extraordinary letters of one of the great writers of the twentieth century. Italy's most important postwar novelist, Italo Calvino (1923-1985) achieved worldwide fame with such books as Cosmicomics, Invisible Cities, and If on a Winter's Night a Traveler. ... Read more

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  • The Artist's Mentor

    Inspiration from the World's Most Creative Minds

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    What inspires a person to create? How does an artist see the world? What happens during a "eureka moment?" How does an artist find self-discipline? The Artist's Mentor is for those of us who want to create art but do not know how to begin. Drawing on interviews and autobiographical writings of more than 100 famous painters, photographers, sculptors, and film and video artists, Jackman gets to the ... Read more

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    How Political Correctness Sabotages Art

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    Colleges and universities used to teach art history to encourage connoisseurship and acquaint students with the riches of our artistic heritage. But now, as Roger Kimball reveals in this witty and provocative book, the student is less likely to learn about the aesthetics of masterworks than to be told, for instance, that Peter Paul Rubens' great painting Drunken Silenus is an allegory about anal ... Read more

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  • Federico Fellini

    His Life and Work

    by Tullio Kezich ...
    A lively and authoritative journey into the world of a cinema masterWith the revolutionary 8 1/2, Federico Fellini put his deepest desires and anxieties before the lens in 1963, permanently impacting the art of cinema in the process. Now, more than forty years later, film critic and Fellini confidant Tullio Kezich has written the work by which all other biographies of the filmmaker are sure to be ... Read more

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