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| Primo Levi's Universe: A Writer's Journey
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Sam Magavern.
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| Publisher: Palgrave. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780230606470. Daedalus Item Code: 31996 |
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| Widely known for his memoir Survival in Auschwitz, Primo Levi was also a scientist, fiction writer, and poet—a Renaissance man who did not want to be known only as a Holocaust writer. Using ... (Read More)
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| The Prodigal Tongue: Dispatches from the Future of English
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Mark Abley.
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| Publisher: Houghton Mifflin. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780618571222. Daedalus Item Code: 92002 |
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| The author of Spoken Here: Travels Among Threatened Languages (a New York Times Notable Book and San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of the Year) here takes a look at the wild, ... (Read More)
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| Proust's Overcoat: The True Story of One Man's Passion for All Things Proust
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Lorenza Foschini. Eric Karpeles, trans.
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| Publisher: Ecco. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780061965678. Daedalus Item Code: 22321 |
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| Imagine owning something personal that had once belonged to your literary hero. Although Jacques Guérin was a prominent businessman at the head of his family's successful perfume company, his real ... (Read More)
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| Pushcart's Complete Rotten Reviews and Rejections
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Bill Henderson & Andre Bernard, eds.
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| Publisher: Pushcart. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9781888889048. Daedalus Item Code: 21605 |
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| Ironic, hilarious, and a shot in the arm for would-be authors everywhere, this little volume collects hundreds of disparaging opinions on some of the world's great writers and works, from Lord Byron ... (Read More)
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| The Quotable Robertson Davies: The Wit and Wisdom of the Master
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James Channing Shaw.
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| Publisher: Douglas Gibson Books. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780771080883. Daedalus Item Code: 21176 |
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| One of Canada's most distinguished men of letters (a term he at times detested) and the recipient of the Governor General's Literary Award, Robertson Davies (1913–95) is remembered for the superb ... (Read More)
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| Reading My Father: A Memoir
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Alexandra Styron.
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| Publisher: Scribner. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9781416591795. Daedalus Item Code: 23182 |
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| In his own memoir Darkness Visible, Pulitzer Prize winner William Styron searingly chronicled his battle with deep depression. Here his youngest daughter Alexandra, herself a novelist, ... (Read More)
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| Reporting: Writings from The New Yorker
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David Remnick.
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| Publisher: Picador. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9780330443999. Daedalus Item Code: 32337 |
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| Longtime New Yorker reporter David Remnick here collects the cream of his in-depth stories from the magazine over 15 years, particularly on Russian and Jewish subjects, including Vladimir ... (Read More)
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| The Rise and Fall of the Bible: The Unexpected History of an Accidental Book
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Timothy Beal.
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| Publisher: Mariner. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9780547737348. Daedalus Item Code: 31460 |
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| "In his well-received Biblical Literacy, [Timothy] Beal explored ways to think about Bible stories and how they have become ingrained in our culture. Here he discusses the Bible as a book and ... (Read More)
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| A Room of One's Own: And Three Guineas
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Virginia Woolf. Michele Barrett, ed.
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| Publisher: Penguin. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780141198545. Daedalus Item Code: 32338 |
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| In 1928, Virginia Woolf delivered two college lectures that were expanded and published the following year as A Room of One's Own. Wondering why it is that men have always had the power while ... (Read More)
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| Rotten Reviews Redux: A Literary Companion
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Bill Henderson, ed.
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| Publisher: Pushcart. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9781888889680. Daedalus Item Code: 30919 |
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| A quarter century ago Pushcart Press took aim at laughable reviews that had trashed literary masterpieces through the centuries, quoting some 175 attacks in a little book that itself became a ... (Read More)
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| Sacred Wisdom: Tales from Rumi: Essential Selections from The Mathnawi
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E.H. Whinfield, trans. Alan Jacobs, intro.
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| Publisher: Watkins. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9781842931226. Daedalus Item Code: 31329 |
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| The 13th-century Persian poet Rumi has been rediscovered and widely celebrated in the West for his passionate engagement with the divine. This selection of his work is taken from his monumental ... (Read More)
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