 | 100 Best Books for Children
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by Houghton Mifflin
Hardcover
(09 April, 2004)
(7 reviews) 
Customer Review: Absolutely essential for every family: As a former bookseller and librarian, I was often asked by confused parents and grandparents for book suggestions for children of a particular age. |
 | A "Gravity's Rainbow" Companion: Sources and Contexts for Pynchon's Novel
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by University of Georgia Press
Paperback
(01 August, 1988)
(13 reviews) 
Customer Review: Extremely Helpful Don't Read GR Without It: Seriously they should package the two books together. If you're going to try to read Gravity's Rainbow get this book too, |
 | A Chance Meeting : Intertwined Lives of American Writers and Artists, 1854-1967
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by Random House
Hardcover
(09 March, 2004)
(7 reviews) 
Customer Review: Excellent Book About Artists in America: This is a collection of essays about the private lives of important American authors and artists. |
 | A Collection of Essays
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by Harcourt
Paperback
(01 June, 1970)
(16 reviews)
Editorial Review: Imagine any of today's writers of "creative nonfiction" dispatching a rogue elephant before an audience of several thousand. Now, imagine the essay that would result. Can we say "narcissism"? As part of the Imperial Police in Burma, |
 | A Companion to Faulkner Studies
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by Greenwood Press
Hardcover
(30 June, 2004)
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 | A Derrida Reader
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by Columbia University Press
Paperback
(15 April, 1991)
(3 reviews)
Customer Review: probes from concepts on high as a bird in flight looking: by far this is the most accessible introduction tothe forbidden threshold of Derrida's thought. |
 | A Fine Brush On Ivory: An Appreciation Of Jane Austen
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by Oxford University Press
Hardcover
(30 September, 2004)
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 | A Guide to the Oxford English Dictionary
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by Oxford University Press
Hardcover
(01 July, 1993)
(2 reviews)
Customer Review: Very Helpful: This book is a very nice supplement to the 20 volume OED. It has 2 main parts:"Part One is a step-by-step guide to understanding the kinds of information found in, |
 | A Handbook to Literature (9th Edition)
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by Prentice Hall
Paperback
(10 July, 2002)
(10 reviews)
Customer Review: A Handbook to Literature: Harmon and Holman have done a fantastic job editing this handbook. I had to pick it up for use in a poetry class (taught by Harmon, |
 | A New History of French Literature
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by Harvard University Press
Hardcover
(01 September, 1989)
(1 reviews)
Customer Review: French Literature in Context: The book is very interesting and very well written. It is composed of individual articles and essays rather than chapters, |
 | After Theory
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by Basic Books
Hardcover
(23 December, 2003)
(7 reviews) 
Customer Review: Starts strong, loses steam: Eagleton's analysis of theory's halcyon days is always interesting and at times provocative, but his decisive break with critical theory--most notably Deconstruction and Psychoanalysis--is little more than a rhetorical device. |
 | Alone! Alone!: Lives of Some Outsider Women (New York Review Books Collections)
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by New York Review of Books
Hardcover
(01 April, 2004)
(1 reviews)
Customer Review: A long overdue collection: While men who don't follow the beaten path have been celebrated and written about for some time now, it is rare that oddball women are given the same attention. |
 | Amelia Peabody's Egypt: A Compendium
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by William Morrow
Hardcover
(21 October, 2003)
(8 reviews)
Customer Review: Delightful and Disappointing at the same time!: The delightful part is the wonderful black and white pictues and drawings that fill this book to the brim. |
 | Americans in Paris: A Literary Anthology
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by Library of America
Hardcover
(01 March, 2004)
(1 reviews)
Customer Review: A highly articulate literary composite portrait: Compiled and edited by New Yorker staff writer Adam Gopnik, America In Paris: A Literary Anthology is a seminal celebration of statesmen, |
 | An Introduction to Literature, 13th Edition
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by Longman
Paperback
(27 March, 2003)
(4 reviews)
Customer Review: Great for my Literature Class. . . BUT: I bought this book for my college Literature class, overpaid as usual too. After a semester of use, |
 | Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia
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by University of Minnesota Press
Paperback
(01 October, 1983)
(12 reviews)
Customer Review: brilliant, important: This is, in my opinion, the most important work of theory/philosophy for the latter half of the twentieth century. |
 | Athenaze: An Introduction to Ancient Greek
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by Oxford University Press
Paperback
(01 March, 2003)
(48 reviews) 
Customer Review: An acceptable intro to Greek, but not the best: My university uses ATHENAZE books 1 and 2 to teach beginning Greek, which is fine when you have professors who love to teach grammar and drill people. |
 | Benet's Reader's Encyclopedia : Fourth Edition (Benet's Reader's Encyclopedia)
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by HarperResource
Hardcover
(09 October, 1996)
(20 reviews)
Editorial Review: What does it mean to have the voice of a stentor? Where is John o'Groat'sHouse? Ever heard of a beast epic, or the Jindyworobak Movement? And what is theorigin of the word "abracadabra"?The answers lie in this delicious reference that anyone interested in humility should have;j |
 | Big Sur
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by Penguin Books
Paperback
(01 June, 1992)
(42 reviews)
Customer Review: Essential Kerouac: Though not my absolute favorite Kerouac novel, I can honestly say once again that I loved every bit of it(if you want some of my overall favorite Kerouac work, |
 | Bobbed Hair and Bathtub Gin : Writers Running Wild in the Twenties
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by Nan A. Talese
Hardcover
(18 May, 2004)
(4 reviews)
Customer Review: A great book for the summer: Fun and light, this is a perfect beach read. Marion Meade is a terrific writer and brings the four women back to life. |
 | Book Lust: Recommended Reading for Every Mood, Moment, and Reason
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by Sasquatch Books
Paperback
(01 September, 2003)
(19 reviews)
Customer Review: Good for expanding your reading horizons: As an avid reader of fiction, I find that I frequently exhaust all the books by a particular author and am left wondering what to read next. |
 | Bound to Please
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by W. W. Norton & Company
Hardcover
(22 December, 2004)
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 | Breaking The Da Vinci Code : Answers to the Questions Everybody's Asking
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by Nelson Books
Hardcover
(21 April, 2004)
(45 reviews) 
Customer Review: People Hear What They Want to Hear: I've read some of the Amazon reviews of Bock's "Breaking the Da Vinci Code" and I'm shocked. |
 | Chinese Primer: The Pinyin (3 Volume Set)
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by Princeton University Press
Paperback
(07 February, 1994)
(4 reviews)
Customer Review: Great set of books. DON'T buy them seperately.: As has been stated before, anyone who wants to use the Chinese series books should get at least three - 1. |
 | Classical Mythology
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by Oxford University Press
Paperback
(01 August, 2002)
(4 reviews)
Customer Review: Excellent overview of everything with Classical Mythology: This was a textbook assigned to me in my Classical Mythology course in college. |
 | Collected Works of Watchman Nee, The (Set 3 - Volumes 47-62)
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by Living Stream Ministry
Hardcover
(01 September, 1994)
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 | Critical Theory Today : A User-Friendly Guide (Garland Reference Library of the Humanities
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by Garland Publishing
Paperback
(01 July, 1998)
(10 reviews)
Customer Review: Groundbreaking work makes critical theory accessible to all.: Lois Tyson's "Critical Theory Today, A User-Friendly Guide" has profoundly changed the way I understand and experience literature. |
 | David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest: A Reader's Guide (Continuum Contemporaries
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by Continuum International Publishing Group
Paperback
(01 April, 2003)
(3 reviews)
Customer Review: An Illuminating Guide: If Infinite Jest has become the Ulysses of the late twentieth century, then this excellent guide is the equivalent of Stuart Gilbert's companion to Joyce's masterpiece: Burn offers a lucid unravelling of some of the more mysterious aspects of Wallace's book (what exactly is up with Hal, |
 | De-Coding Da Vinci: The Facts Behind the Fiction of The Da Vinci Code
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by Our Sunday Visitor
Paperback
(01 April, 2004)
(34 reviews)
Customer Review: Answered My Questions: Were Jesus and Mary Magdalene married?Did Jesus designate Mary Magadalene as the head of the church?Was there competition between the followers of Mary Magdalene and Peter?D |
 | Desolation Angels
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by Riverhead Books
Paperback
(01 September, 1995)
(27 reviews)
Customer Review: Kerouac's best novel: Wonderful novel by Jack Kerouac. We sense his deep loneliness and reevaluation of his life during his 63-day stay atop Desolation Peak in Mt. |
 | Dharma Bums
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by Penguin Books
Paperback
(01 February, 1991)
(115 reviews)
Editorial Review: One of the best and most popular of Kerouac's autobiographical novels, The Dharma Bums is based on experiences the writer had during the mid-1950s while living in California, after he'd become interested in Buddhism's spiritual mode of understanding. |
 | Dickens' Christmas : A Victorian Celebration
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by Harry N Abrams
Hardcover
(01 October, 2003)
(1 reviews)
Customer Review: Welcome to 1843: Nothing says Victorian more than Christmas, and this excellent book by Simon Callow presents a Victorian Christmas as seen through the eyes of the most popular of the Victorian era authors. |
 | Ex Libris : Confessions of a Common Reader
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by Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Paperback
(25 November, 2000)
(71 reviews)
Customer Review: A Book Lover's Delight: If you can't imagine anything more enjoyable than spending time with someone who treasures books as least as much as you do, |
 | Flannery O'Connor and the Christ-Haunted South
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by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company
Hardcover
(01 March, 2004)
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 | George Orwell: As I Please, 1943-1945 : The Collected Essays, Journalism & Letters
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by Nonpareil Books
Paperback
(01 August, 2000)
(6 reviews)
Customer Review: I think Orwell does the world well: While the recently published one-volume Essays is a worthy surrogate, nothing will beat this four volume collection. |
 | Gilles Deleuze (Routledge Critical Thinkers)
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by Routledge
Paperback
(01 December, 2001)
(1 reviews)
Customer Review: The Best Introduction to Deleuze: This is an extraodinary book: an astonishingly lucid and well-organized introduction to Deleuze's philosophical project. |
 | Glossary of Literary Terms
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by Heinle
Paperback
(18 November, 1998)
(8 reviews)
Customer Review: Top reference book!: There is nothing in this book that is not in any other literary terms book. However, it's the quality, not quantity (isn't that what they always say? |
 | Graphic Storytelling
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by Poorhouse Press
Paperback
(01 February, 1996)
(2 reviews)
Customer Review: A Comics Pro Gives It The Thumbs Up: As a veteran comic book illustrator (You can find my work here on Amazon.com; I am the CO-creator and artist of Transmetropolitan), |
 | High Tide in Tucson : Essays from Now or Never
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by Perennial
Paperback
(09 October, 1996)
(34 reviews)
Customer Review: Hermit Crabs have new meaning for us . . .: This well-written and entertaining book was partially responsible for my move to Tucson. |
 | Hooking Up
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by Picador
Paperback
(12 October, 2001)
(49 reviews)
Customer Review: Wolfe is the Mac-Daddy of American Greatness: If you love living in America, if you're thrilled by the raw courage of entrepeneurial effort that explodes into success, |
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