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Charlotte Bronte: A Writer's Life
Rebecca Fraser.
Publisher: Pegasus.   Format: paperback.
ISBN: 9781933648880.  Daedalus Item Code: 32167
 
"If men could see us as we really are, they would be amazed," wrote Charlotte Brontë, the outwardly conventional parson's daughter who rarely met any men beyond those of the church of classroom, and ... (Read More)
 
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The Cheaper the Crook, the Gaudier the Patter: Forgotten Hipster Lines, Tough Guy Talk, and Jive Gems
Alan Axelrod.
Publisher: Skyhorse.   Format: paperback.
ISBN: 9781616084028.  Daedalus Item Code: 30824
 
Anybody ever called you a dewdropper? A kibitzer? A lounge lizard? If you never knew what the heck they meant—or if you ever wanted to toss around some hip jive yourself—this is the book you need. ... (Read More)
 
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Cheever: A Life
Blake Bailey.
Publisher: Knopf.   Format: hardcover.
ISBN: 9781400043941.  Daedalus Item Code: 13678
 
The author of a National Book Critics Circle Award–nominated biography of Richard Yates and the editor of the Library of America's two-volume collection of John Cheever's works, Blake Bailey offers ... (Read More)
 
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A Child's Delight
Noel Perrin.
Publisher: UPNE.   Format: paperback.
ISBN: 9781584653523.  Daedalus Item Code: 30148
 
In this collection of essays from his Washington Post column, National Book Award nominee Noel Perrin rescues from obscurity a broad range of 30 wonderful yet overlooked works for children. ... (Read More)
 
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A Christmas Carol: and Other Christmas Books
Charles Dickens. Robert Douglas-Fairhurst, ed.
Publisher: Oxford.   Format: hardcover.
ISBN: 9780199204748.  Daedalus Item Code: 24135
 
Since it was first published in 1843, inspiring a renaissance of joyous Christmas celebration, "A Christmas Carol" has become an essential part of the holiday season. Charles Dickens also wrote four ... (Read More)
 
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Christopher Isherwood Diaries: Volume One: 1939–1960
Christopher Isherwood. Katherine Bucknell, Ed.
Publisher: Vintage.   Format: paperback.
ISBN: 9780099555827.  Daedalus Item Code: 32029
 
In 1939 Christopher Isherwood and W.H. Auden emigrated together to the United States, a time Isherwood describes in spare, luminous prose in this first volume of his collected diaries. Turning to his ... (Read More)
 
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City Boy: My Life in New York During the 1960s and '70s
Edmund White.
Publisher: Bloomsbury.   Format: hardcover.
ISBN: 9781596914025.  Daedalus Item Code: 31878
 
In the New York of the 1970s, in the wake of the Stonewall uprising and in the midst of economic collapse, you might find Jasper Johns or William Burroughs at the next cocktail party, and you were as ... (Read More)
 
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Classic Western Stories: The Most Beloved Stories
Cooper Edens, ed.
Publisher: Chronicle.   Format: hardcover.
ISBN: 9780811863254.  Daedalus Item Code: 31473
 
This tasty "Western Sampler" for all ages features artwork from Cooper Edens's remarkable collection of vintage picture books—one of the largest in the world—set with tidbits of Western literature, ... (Read More)
 
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Cloud Gate Song: The Verse of Tang Poet Zhang Ji
Zhang Ji. Jonathan Chaves, trans.
Publisher: Floating World Editions.   Format: paperback.
ISBN: 9781891640445.  Daedalus Item Code: 31760
 
A major poet of the Tang dynasty, and a friend and poetic correspondent of such giants as Bai Juyi and Han Yu, Zhang Ji (c.766–830) is published in English translation for the first time in this ... (Read More)
 
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Coffee with Aristotle
Jonathan Barnes. Julian Barnes, foreword.
Publisher: Duncan Baird.   Format: hardcover.
ISBN: 9781844836109.  Daedalus Item Code: 30871
 
Interviewer: "But some philosophers have been pretty skeptical about human pretensions to scientific knowledge, haven't they?"

Aristotle: "'Perhaps we know nothing at all?' 'All knowledge is ... (Read More)

 
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Coffee with Groucho
Simon Louvish. Frank Ferrante, foreword.
Publisher: Duncan Baird.   Format: hardcover.
ISBN: 9781844835157.  Daedalus Item Code: 30872
 
Interviewer: "Tell me about the time you were interviewed by Ed Murrow in your garden."

Groucho Marx: "That was when I was trying to grow my own avocados. I planted an avocado tree, but nothing ... (Read More)

 
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Coffee with Hemingway
Kirk Curnutt. John Updike, foreword.
Publisher: Duncan Baird.   Format: hardcover.
ISBN: 9781844835140.  Daedalus Item Code: 30873
 
Interviewer: "Why didn't you just change your image if you felt forced to live up to it?"

Ernest Hemingway: "Do that and you're admitting you've been pulling the wool over the public the entire ... (Read More)

 
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