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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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| Pulitzer: A Life in Politics, Print, and Power
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James McGrath Morris.
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| Publisher: Harper. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780060798697. Daedalus Item Code: 23353 |
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| Like Alfred Nobel, Joseph Pulitzer is better known today for the prize that bears his name than for his contribution to history. Yet in 19th-century American industry, while Carnegie provided the ... (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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| The Reader's Encyclopedia of World Drama
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John Gassner & Edward Quinn, eds.
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| Publisher: Dover. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9780486420646. Daedalus Item Code: 04176 |
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| The first single-volume reference of its kind, this comprehensive 1969 work traces world drama from its earliest ritual forms. It focuses on the literary content of the plays, with articles by nearly ... (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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| 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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| 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: Houghton Mifflin. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780151013586. Daedalus Item Code: 30415 |
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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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| 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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| Robert Burns and the Hellish Legion
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John Burnett.
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| Publisher: NMS Publishing. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9781905267316. Daedalus Item Code: 21378 |
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| Recognizing that folk takes and beliefs are as important a part of cultural history as novels or organized religion, this book examines the lives and the supernatural beliefs of the country people of ... (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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| Running with Scissors: A Memoir
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Augusten Burroughs.
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| Publisher: Atlantic Books. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9781843545682. Daedalus Item Code: 32042 |
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| Before Possible Side Effects and A Wolf at the Table, Augusten Burroughs gave us this harrowing yet hilarious childhood memoir that inspired the film of the same name. Burroughs's ... (Read More)
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