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| I'd Hate Myself in the Morning: A Memoir
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Ring Lardner Jr. Victor Navasky, intro.
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| Publisher: Nation. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9781560253389. Daedalus Item Code: 20230 |
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| This memoir by Ring Lardner Jr. is a pilgrimage through the American century. The son of the immensely popular and influential writer, Lardner worked as a reporter in New York before leaving for ... (Read More)
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| John Payne Collier: Scholarship and Forgery in the Nineteenth Century
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Arthur Freeman & Janet Ing Freeman.
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| Publisher: Yale. Format: slipcased.
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| ISBN: 9780300096613. Daedalus Item Code: 31842 |
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| (ILAB Prize for Bibliography from the International League of Antiquarian Booksellers) This is an immense 2-volume account of the controversial career of John Payne Collier, a writer and ... (Read More)
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| The Letters of Robert Lowell
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Saskia Hamilton.
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| Publisher: FSG. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9780374530341. Daedalus Item Code: 31992 |
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| One of the most influential poets of the 20th century, Robert Lowell was also a prolific letter writer who corresponded with many of the remarkable writers and thinkers of his day, including ... (Read More)
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| Lost for Words: The Hidden History of the Oxford English Dictionary
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Lynda Mugglestone.
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| Publisher: Yale. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780300106992. Daedalus Item Code: 31848 |
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| The story behind the creation of the greatest dictionary in the English language has become a popular fascination, with several treatises on the subject. A scholar of 19th-century English at Oxford, ... (Read More)
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| The Memory Chalet
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Tony Judt.
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| Publisher: William Heinemann. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780434020966. Daedalus Item Code: 32036 |
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| (One of the New York Times Book Review's 100 Notable Books of 2011) In 2008, expatriate British historian, essayist, and political commentator Tony Judt was diagnosed with amyotrophic ... (Read More)
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| Poetry for the Spirit: Poems of Universal Wisdom and Beauty
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Alan Jacobs, ed.
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| Publisher: Watkins. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9781842931097. Daedalus Item Code: 31324 |
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| This anthology gathers 600 inspirational poems spanning four millennia of world literature, including translations from Sanskrit, Egyptian, Hindi, Persian, Hebrew, Chinese, and Homeric Greek. A ... (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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| Poisoned Pens: Literary Invective from Amis to Zola
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Gary Dexter, ed.
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| Publisher: Frances Lincoln. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9780711231627. Daedalus Item Code: 31586 |
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| "With the single exception of Homer, there is no eminent writer, not even Sir Walter Scott, whom I can despise so entirely as I despise Shakespeare," George Bernard Shaw once opined in a double-edged ... (Read More)
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| Poisoned Pens: Literary Invective from Amis to Zola
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Gary Dexter, ed.
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| Publisher: Frances Lincoln. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780711229297. Daedalus Item Code: 31587 |
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| "With the single exception of Homer, there is no eminent writer, not even Sir Walter Scott, whom I can despise so entirely as I despise Shakespeare," George Bernard Shaw once opined in a double-edged ... (Read More)
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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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| Reading Jackie: Her Autobiography in Books
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William Kuhn.
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| Publisher: Nan A. Talese. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780385530996. Daedalus Item Code: 31617 |
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| Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis never wrote a memoir, but she revealed much of herself through the nearly 100 books she brought into print during the last two decades of her life as an editor at Viking ... (Read More)
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