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“stu guideman”

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  • Moby Dick In One Sitting

    A Condensed Classic

    by Stu Guideman ...
    Series series In One Sitting
    The purpose of this text is to capture, as far as is possible, the beauty and purpose of the writing in an condensed and readable form. Melville, by his own admission, was torn between what he wanted to write and what he imagined others would wish to read. Much of the plot redundancy, contextual flavor, and extensive history of the whaling industry has been removed. What is left is Melville’s rich ... Read more

    $0.99 USD

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  • Oz: The Complete Collection

    by L. Frank Baum ...
    Here you will find the complete Oz collection in the chronological order of their original publication.- The Wonderful Wizard of Oz- The Marvelous Land of Oz- Ozma of Oz- Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz- The Road to Oz- The Emerald City of Oz- The Patchwork Girl of Oz- Tik-Tok of Oz- The Scarecrow of Oz- Rinkitink in Oz- The Lost Princess of Oz- The Tin Woodman of Oz- The Magic of Oz<p... ... Read more

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  • The Complete Novels of Victor Hugo

    by Victor Hugo ...
    This book contains the complete novels of Victor Hugo in the chronological order of their original publication. - Hans of Iceland - Bug-Jargal - The Last Day of a Condemned Man - The Hunchback of Notre-Dame - Claude Gueux - Les Misérables - Toilers of the Sea - The Man Who Laughs - Ninety-Three ... Read more

    $4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Film Flam

    Essays on Hollywood

    by Larry McMurtry ...
    A noted screenwriter himself, Pulitzer Prize–winner Larry McMurtry knows Hollywood—in Film Flam, he takes a funny, original, and penetrating look at the movie industry and gives us the truth about the moguls, fads, flops, and box-office hits.With successful movies and television miniseries made from several of his novels—Terms of Endearment, The Last Picture Show, Lonesome Dove, and *Hud—*McMurtry ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Toni Morrison

    by Pelagia Goulimari ...
    Series series Routledge Guides to Literature
    Toni Morrison's visionary explorations of freedom and identity, self and community, against the backdrop of African American history have established her as one of the foremost novelists of her time; an artist whose seriousness of purpose and imaginative power have earned her both widespread critical acclaim and great popular success.This guide to Morrison’s work offers:an accessible introduction ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • On Poetry and Craft

    Selected Prose

    by Theodore Roethke ...
    Series series Writing Re: Writing
    "One of the virtues of good poetry is the fact that it irritates the mediocre."Theodore Roethke was one of the most famous and outspoken poets and poetry teachers this country has ever known. In this volume of selected prose, Roethke articulates his commitments to imaginative possibilities, offers tender advice to young writers, and zings darts at stuffed shirts, lightweights and fools."Art is our ... Read more

    $10.69 USD

  • The Geographical History of America

    Or the Relation of Human Nature to the Human Mind

    by Gertrude Stein ...
    First published in 1936, The Geographical History of America compiles prose pieces, dialogues, philosophical meditations, and playlets by one of the century's most influential writers. In this work, Stein sets forth her view of the human mind: what it is, how it works, and how it is different from - and more interesting than - human nature. ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Cool Characters

    Irony and American Fiction

    by Lee Konstantinou ...
    Charting a new course in the criticism of postwar fiction, Cool Characters examines the changing status of irony in American cultural and political life from World War II to the present, showing how irony migrated from the countercultural margins of the 1950s to the cultural mainstream of the 1980s. Along the way, irony was absorbed into postmodern theory and ultimately became a target of recent ... Read more

    $37.79 USD

  • Henry Miller and Religion

    by Thomas Nesbit ...
    Series series Studies in Major Literary Authors
    This study argues that this previously banned author devoted his entire life to articulating a religion of self-liberation in his autobiographical books, examining his life and work within the context of fringe religious movements that were linked with the avant-garde in New York City and Paris at the first of the 20th century. This study shows how these transatlantic movements – including ... Read more

    $79.99 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Cormac McCarthy

    Edited by Steven Frye ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    Cormac McCarthy both embodies and redefines the notion of the artist as outsider. His fiction draws on recognizable American themes and employs dense philosophical and theological subtexts, challenging readers by depicting the familiar as inscrutably foreign. The essays in this Companion offer a sophisticated yet concise introduction to McCarthy's difficult and provocative work. The contributors, ... Read more

    $26.29 USD

  • Unvarnishing Reality

    Subversive Russian and American Cold War Satire

    by Derek C. Maus ...
    Unvarnishing Reality draws original insight to the literature, politics, history, and culture of the cold war by closely examining the themes and goals of American and Russian satirical fiction. As Derek C. Maus illustrates, the paranoia of nuclear standoff provided a subversive storytelling mode for authors from both nations—including Thomas Pynchon, Robert Coover, John Barth, Walker Percy, Don ... Read more

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  • Lines of Flight

    Discursive Time and Countercultural Desire in the Work of Thomas Pynchon

    by Stefan Mattessich, Stanley Fish, Fredric Jameson ...
    Series series Post-Contemporary Interventions
    For Thomas Pynchon, the characteristic features of late capitalism—the rise of the military-industrial complex, consumerism, bureaucratization and specialization in the workplace, standardization at all levels of social life, and the growing influence of the mass media—all point to a transformation in the way human beings experience time and duration. Focusing on Pynchon’s novels as representative ... Read more

    $25.19 USD