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  • The Crime Fiction Handbook

    de Peter Messent ...
    Series series Wiley Blackwell Literature Handbooks
    The Crime Fiction Handbook presents a comprehensive introduction to the origins, development, and cultural significance of the crime fiction genre, focusing mainly on American British, and Scandinavian texts.Provides an accessible and well-written introduction to the genre of crime fictionMoves with ease between a general overview of the genre and useful theoretical approachesIncludes a close ... Leer más

    $22.00 USD

  • The Civil War Letters of Joseph Hopkins Twichell

    A Chaplain's Story

    de Joseph Hopkins Twichell ...
    In 1861 young Joseph Twichell cut short his seminary studies to become a Union Army chaplain in New York's Excelsior Brigade. A middle-class New England Protestant, Twichell served for three years in a regiment manned mostly by poor Irish American Catholics. This selection of Twichell's letters to his Connecticut family will rank him alongside the Civil War's most literate and insightful firsthand ... Leer más

    $35.99 USD

  • The Letters of Mark Twain and Joseph Hopkins Twichell

    Edición de Steve Courtney, Peter Messent, Harold K. Bush ...
    This book contains the complete texts of all known correspondence between Samuel L. Clemens (Mark Twain) and Joseph Hopkins Twichell. Theirs was a rich exchange. The long, deep friendship of Clemens and Twichell—a Congregationalist minister of Hartford, Connecticut—rarely fails to surprise, given the general reputation Twain has of being antireligious. Beyond this, an examination of the growth, ... Leer más

    $44.99 USD

  • A Companion to Mark Twain

    Edición de Peter Messent, Louis J. Budd ...
    Series series Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture
    This broad-ranging companion brings together respected American and European critics and a number of up-and-coming scholars to provide an overview of Twain, his background, his writings, and his place in American literary history.One of the most broad-ranging volumes to appear on Mark Twain in recent yearsBrings together respected Twain critics and a number of younger scholars in the field to ... Leer más

    $48.00 USD

  • Mark Twain and Male Friendship

    The Twichell, Howells, and Rogers Friendships

    de Peter Messent ...
    This book explores male friendship in America in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries through Mark Twain and the relationships he had with William Dean Howells, Joseph Twichell, and Henry H. Rogers. ... Leer más

    $27.99 USD

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  • The Trials of Phillis Wheatley

    America's First Black Poet and Her Encounters with the Founding Fathers

    de Henry Louis Gates Jr ...
    In 1773, the slave Phillis Wheatley literally wrote her way to freedom. The first person of African descent to publish a book of poems in English, she was emancipated by her owners in recognition of her literary achievement. For a time, Wheatley was the most famous black woman in the West. But Thomas Jefferson, unlike his contemporaries Ben Franklin and George Washington, refused to acknowledge ... Leer más

    $9.99 USD

  • Mark Twain

    The Adventures of Samuel L. Clemens

    de Jerome Loving ...
    Mark Twain, who was often photographed with a cigar, once remarked that he came into the world looking for a light. In this new biography, published on the centennial of the writer’s death, Jerome Loving focuses on Mark Twain, humorist and quipster, and sheds new light on the wit, pathos, and tragedy of the author of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. In brisk and compelling fashion, Loving follows ... Leer más

    $27.99 USD

  • A Companion to Alfred Hitchcock

    Edición de Thomas Leitch, Leland Poague ...
    The most comprehensive volume ever published on Alfred Hitchcock, covering his career and legacy as well as the broader cultural and intellectual contexts of his work.Contains thirty chapters by the leading Hitchcock scholarsCovers his long career, from his earliest contributions to other directors’ silent films to his last uncompleted last filmDetails the enduring legacy he left to filmmakers and ... Leer más

    $46.00 USD

  • For Country, Cause & Leader

    The Civil War Journal of Charles B. Haydon

    de Stephen W. Sears ...
    Now published for the first time, an eyewitness account of the Civil War by a Union soldier who fought from Bull Run to Knoxville.This remarkable book presents the transcription of some twenty pocket diaries kept throughout the first three years of the Civil War by Charles B. Haydon and sent back one by one to his home in Decatur, Michigan, to be read by his father and brother. As readable as they ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 1

    The Complete and Authoritative Edition

    de Mark Twain ...
    Series Libro 10 - Mark Twain Papers
    Mark Twain's final and uncensored masterpiece, presented in three volumes, is a landmark publication in American literature.**“Twain will begin to seem strange again, alluring and still astonishing . . . in ways that still resonate with us.”—New York Times“His crystalline humor and expansive range are a continuous source of delight and awe.”—Los Angeles Times Book Review**"I've struck it!" Mark ... Leer más

    $25.99 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Crime Fiction

    Edición de Martin Priestman ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    The Cambridge Companion to Crime Fiction covers British and American crime fiction from the eighteenth century to the end of the twentieth. As well as discussing the detective fiction of writers like Arthur Conan Doyle, Agatha Christie and Raymond Chandler, it considers other kinds of fiction where crime plays a substantial part, such as the thriller and spy fiction. It also includes chapters on ... Leer más

    $28.99 USD

  • The Civil War: The Final Year Told by Those Who Lived It (LOA #250)

    Edición de Aaron Dean-Sheehan ...
    Series Libro 4 - Library of America: The Civil War Collection
    Featuring hundreds of first-hand writings from the American Civil War, this final installment of the highly acclaimed four-volume series traces events from March 1864 to June 1865After 150 years the Civil War still holds a central place in American history and self-understanding. It is our greatest national drama, at once heroic, tragic, and epic—our Iliad, but also our Bible, a story of sin and ... Leer más

    $19.99 USD