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| New Ways to Kill Your Mother: Writers and Their Families
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Colm Toibin.
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| Publisher: Scribner. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9781451668551. Daedalus Item Code: 31741 |
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| From Jane Austen's aunts to Tennessee Williams's mentally ill sister, the impact of intimate family dynamics can be seen in many of literature's greatest works, and in this brilliant, nuanced ... (Read More)
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| Nom de Plume: A (Secret) History of Pseudonyms
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Carmela Ciuraru.
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| Publisher: Harper. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780061735264. Daedalus Item Code: 31599 |
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| Privacy may seem to be a quaintly old-fashioned idea in our "look at me" era, yet for some of our great writers, a new name—even a new personality—was essential to creative freedom. Carmela Ciuraru ... (Read More)
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| The Notebook
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Jose Saramago. Amanda Hopkinson & Daniel Hahn, trans.
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| Publisher: Verso. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9781844676149. Daedalus Item Code: 32054 |
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| Thought-provoking and lyrical, The Notebook records the last year in the life of the Portuguese Nobel laureate through the online blog that his family encouraged him to write. José Saramago ... (Read More)
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| October, or Autumnal Tints
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Henry David Thoreau. Robert D. Richardson, intro. Lincoln Perry, illus.
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| Publisher: Norton. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780393081886. Daedalus Item Code: 29353 |
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| This beautiful new presentation of Henry David Thoreau's classic work is enhanced with an essay by Thoreau biographer Robert Richardson and elegant watercolors by Lincoln Perry. Originally delivered ... (Read More)
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| Off the Road: Twenty Years with Neal Cassady, Jack Kerouac, and Allen Ginsberg
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Carolyn Cassady.
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| Publisher: Overlook. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9781590201046. Daedalus Item Code: 23783 |
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| Written by a woman who loved these three icons of the Beat movement—she was the wife of Neal Cassady, the lover of Jack Kerouac, and the friend of Allen Ginsberg—this literary memoir by Carolyn ... (Read More)
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| On the Edge: Collected Long Poems
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Kenneth Koch.
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| Publisher: Knopf. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780307262844. Daedalus Item Code: 01866 |
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| "One doesn't go to [Kenneth] Koch to experience the opening of the poet's mind to the world … but for urbane, often vaudevillian, entertainments. This volume—a companion to 2005's Collected ... (Read More)
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| O'Neill (2-Volume Set): Son and Playwright; Son and Artist
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Louis Sheaffer.
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| Publisher: Cooper Square. Format: 2 vols., pap.
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| ISBN: . Daedalus Item Code: 21967 |
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| (1974 Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography) The most lauded playwright in American history, Eugene O'Neill won four Pulitzer Prizes and the Nobel Prize for a body of work that ... (Read More)
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| Origins of the Specious: Myths and Misconceptions of the English Language
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Patricia T. O'Conner & Stewart Kellerman.
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| Publisher: Random House. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9780812978100. Daedalus Item Code: 31286 |
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| Do you cringe when a commentator pronounces "niche" as "nitch?" Do you get bent out of shape when someone writes "they" for a lone person of undetermined sex? Do you think British spellings are more ... (Read More)
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| The Oxford Book of Parodies
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John Gross, ed.
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| Publisher: Oxford. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780199548828. Daedalus Item Code: 30757 |
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| This hugely entertaining anthology collects light skits, boisterous send-ups, and savage lampoons, ranging from the broadly comic to the subtle and erudite, from popular nursery rhymes to literary ... (Read More)
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| Patrick Bronte: Father of Genius
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Dudley Green.
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| Publisher: History Press. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9780752454450. Daedalus Item Code: 23164 |
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| Patrick Brontë (1777–1861) was the father of novelists Anne, Charlotte, and Emily as well as their brother Branwell, yet he was also a fascinating man in his own right, says Dudley Green in this ... (Read More)
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