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| Lonelyhearts: The Screwball World of Nathanael West and Eileen McKenney
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Marion Meade.
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| Publisher: Mariner. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9780547386386. Daedalus Item Code: 20742 |
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| "[Nathanael] West and [Eileen] McKenney died young in a car crash in 1940—too soon for him to know that his lacerating novels, especially The Day of the Locust, would become American classics; ... (Read More)
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| Lonelyhearts: The Screwball World of Nathanael West and Eileen McKenney
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Marion Meade.
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| Publisher: Houghton Mifflin. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780151011490. Daedalus Item Code: 21010 |
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| "[Nathanael] West and [Eileen] McKenney died young in a car crash in 1940—too soon for him to know that his lacerating novels, especially The Day of the Locust, would become American classics; ... (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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| Louisa May Alcott: A Personal Biography
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Susan Cheever.
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| Publisher: Simon & Schuster. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9781416569916. Daedalus Item Code: 23218 |
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| The author of American Bloomsbury returns to Concord, Massachusetts for this engaging life of its most famous female writer. Louisa May Alcott never intended to write Little Women; she ... (Read More)
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| Mark Twain: An Illustrated Biography
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Geoffrey C. Ward, Dayton Duncan & Ken Burns.
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| Publisher: Knopf. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780375405617. Daedalus Item Code: 23536 |
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| A companion volume to Ken Burns' documentary Mark Twain (cowritten by Geoffrey Ward and Dayton Duncan), this visual biography pulls together material from a variety of published and ... (Read More)
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| Mark Twain's Other Woman: The Hidden Story of His Final Years
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Laura Skandera Trombley.
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| Publisher: Knopf. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780307273444. Daedalus Item Code: 21862 |
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| An enduring mystery in Mark Twain's life concerns the events of his last decade, from 1900 to 1910, obscured by Twain himself and intentionally overlooked by his biographers. Eminent Twain scholar ... (Read More)
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| Martial's Epigrams: A Selection
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Garry Wills, trans.
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| Publisher: Viking. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780670020393. Daedalus Item Code: 12029 |
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| One of classical literature's greatest satirists, Martial earned his livelihood by excoriating the follies and vices of his time, and set a pattern that satirists have admired and imitated across the ... (Read More)
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| Max Beerbohm: A Kind of a Life
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N. John Hall.
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| Publisher: Yale. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780300097054. Daedalus Item Code: 03984 |
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| Max Beerbohm was widely celebrated as the wittiest mind of his age, becoming famous in the mid-1890s and remaining so until his death in 1956. His wit manifested itself in both prose and caricature, ... (Read More)
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| The Mind-Body Problem: Poems
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Katha Pollitt.
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| Publisher: Random House. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9781400063338. Daedalus Item Code: 21527 |
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| In her second book of poems, following her National Book Critics Circle Award–winning 1982 collection Antarctic Traveller, Katha Pollitt takes the ordinary events of life (her own and others) ... (Read More)
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| Mom: A Celebration of Mothers from StoryCorps
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Dave Isay, ed.
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| Publisher: Penguin. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9781594202612. Daedalus Item Code: 31230 |
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| Through conversations between parents and children, husbands and wives, siblings and friends, the life of the American mother unfolds in this collection of interviews and personal stories from Dave ... (Read More)
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| Moon Woke Me Up Nine Times: Selected Haiku of Basho
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Matsuo Basho. David Young, trans.
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| Publisher: Knopf. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9780307962003. Daedalus Item Code: 38570 |
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| Renowned as a bohemian wanderer and poet of 17th-century Japan, Matsuo Munefusa—Basho—is attuned to both the natural world and simple human activity; "Piles of quilts / snow on distant mountains / I ... (Read More)
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| My Father's Roses: A Family's Journey from World War I to Treblinka
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Nancy Kohner.
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| Publisher: Pegasus. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9781605980737. Daedalus Item Code: 22244 |
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| Unlike other fathers in their northern English town, Nancy Kohner's father was elegantly dressed after the Eastern European fashion, never without a rose in his lapel. When he died, Kohner delved ... (Read More)
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