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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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| Personal History
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Katharine Graham.
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| Publisher: Vintage. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9780375701047. Daedalus Item Code: 31287 |
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| (Winner of the 1998 Pulitzer Prize for Biography) This extraordinarily frank, honest, and generous book by one of America's most famous and admired women contains, as its title suggests, both ... (Read More)
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| Players: The Mysterious Identity of William Shakespeare
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Bertram Fields.
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| Publisher: Regan Books. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9780060834173. Daedalus Item Code: 14175 |
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| For centuries scholars have debated the true identity of the author of the poems and plays attributed to William Shakespeare, the actor and co-owner of a successful theater company who hailed from ... (Read More)
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| Pleasure Bound: Victorian Sex Rebels and the New Eroticism
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Deborah Lutz.
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| Publisher: Norton. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780393068320. Daedalus Item Code: 23891 |
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| In her smart, provocative account of the erotic undercurrent beneath the surface of Victorian London, Deborah Lutz reveals a daring group of artists and thinkers who defied propriety to explore their ... (Read More)
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| The Poetry Lesson
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Andrei Codrescu.
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| Publisher: Princeton. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780691147246. Daedalus Item Code: 31816 |
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| In his hilarious account of the first day of a creative writing course taught by a "typical fin-de-siècle salaried beatnik" (one with an antic imagination, an outsized personality and libido, and an ... (Read More)
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| Poetry for the Beat Generation
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Jack Kerouac with Steve Allen.
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| Publisher: Rockbeat. Format: 1 audio CD.
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| ISBN: ROC 3151. Daedalus Item Code: 29712 |
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| Originally recorded in one take in 1959, this impromptu collaboration by Beat poet Jack Kerouac and musician and comedian Steve Allen was inspired by a nightclub performance at the Village Vanguard, ... (Read More)
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| Poets of the New Century
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Roger Weingarten & Richard M. Higgerson, eds.
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| Publisher: Godine. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9781567921786. Daedalus Item Code: 21570 |
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| This 2001 collection contains both new and previously published work of the new generation of poets writing at the turn of the 21st century, emphasizing young and midcareer poets along with a ... (Read More)
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| Poets Ranked by Beard Weight: The Commemorative Edition
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Upton Uxbridge Underwood. Gilbert Alter-Gilbert, text. Mahendra Singh, illus. Jack Passion, preface.
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| Publisher: Skyhorse. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9781616082451. Daedalus Item Code: 22419 |
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| Just how great a poet was Walt Whitman, a man of slight beard, compared to Samuel Morse, a poet as well as an inventor, whose massive Garibaldi Elongated–style beard embodied nearly three times the ... (Read More)
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