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The Pulitzer Prize-winning critic offers a personal meditation on the relationship between books and life and on the role of books in teaching us how to live, drawing on sources ranging from Dr. Seuss to Simone Weil to explores the ways in which the written word informs and enriches virtually every aspect of life. Reprint. 30,000 first printing.

Hardcover:

9780805078770 | Henry Holt & Co, May 2, 2006, cover price $17.00 | About this edition: Offers a personal meditation on the relationship between books and life and on the role of books in teaching us how to live, drawing on sources ranging from Dr.

Paperback:

9780805083385 | Reprint edition (Henry Holt & Co, May 1, 2007), cover price $18.99 | About this edition: The Pulitzer Prize-winning critic offers a personal meditation on the relationship between books and life and on the role of books in teaching us how to live, drawing on sources ranging from Dr.

Miscellaneous:

9781429900287 | 1 edition (Henry Holth & Co, April 1, 2007), cover price $9.99

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A showcase of one hundred of the world's most significant books is comprised of some of the Pulitzer Prize-winning author's introductory essays on such writers as James Boswell, Colette, and Joseph Roth, in a volume that includes explorations of a range of genres as well as numerous specific works. Reprint.

Hardcover:

9780393057577 | W W Norton & Co Inc, December 22, 2004, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: A showcase of one hundred of the world's most significant books offers the author's introductory essays on such writers as James Boswell, Colette, and Joseph Roth, and includes explorations of a range of genres and specific works.

Paperback:

9780393329636 | Reprint edition (W W Norton & Co Inc, May 1, 2007), cover price $28.95 | About this edition: A showcase of one hundred of the world's most significant books is comprised of some of the Pulitzer Prize-winning author's introductory essays on such writers as James Boswell, Colette, and Joseph Roth, in a volume that includes explorations of a range of genres as well as numerous specific works.

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Hardcover:

9781410485007 | Large print edition (Thorndike Pr, December 23, 2015), cover price $31.99
9781605988443 | Pegasus Books, August 15, 2015, cover price $24.95

Paperback:

9781681772585 | Reprint edition (Pegasus Books, December 6, 2016), cover price $15.95

CD/Spoken Word:

9781504616089 | Unabridged edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, June 30, 2016), cover price $29.95

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CD/Spoken Word:

9781504616072 | Mp3 una edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, June 30, 2016), cover price $29.95
9781504616065 | Unabridged edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, June 30, 2016), cover price $55.00

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Product Description: The Captain Of The 'Pole-Star:' Weird And Imaginative Fiction

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9781553100683 | Ash Tree Pr, June 30, 2004, cover price $46.00 | About this edition: The Captain Of The 'Pole-Star:' Weird And Imaginative Fiction

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Organized thematically, a collection of essays introduces nearly ninety of the world's most entertaining and informative books, covering masterpieces of fantasy and science fiction, horror and adventure, epics, history, philosophy, essays, and children's literature, by authors ranging from Sappho and Petronius to Frederick Douglass, Arthur Conan Doyle, and Georgette Heyer.

Hardcover:

9780151012510 | 1 edition (Houghton Mifflin, November 5, 2007), cover price $25.00 | About this edition: Organized thematically, a collection of essays introduces nearly ninety of the world's most entertaining and informative books, covering masterpieces of fantasy and science fiction, horror and adventure, epics, history, philosophy, essays, and children's literature, by authors ranging from Sappho and Petronius to Frederick Douglass, Arthur Conan Doyle, and Georgette Heyer.
9780134722184, titled "Instrumentation in Analytical Chemistry" | Ellis Horwood Ltd, January 1, 1992, cover price $86.00 | also contains Instrumentation in Analytical Chemistry

Paperback:

9780156033855 | Reprint edition (Houghton Mifflin, November 10, 2008), cover price $18.95

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By Michael Dirda (introduced by)

Hardcover:

9780307592682 | Everymans Library, February 2, 2010, cover price $30.00

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By Michael Dirda (introduced by)

Paperback:

9781590176160 | Reprint edition (New York Review of Books, May 7, 2013), cover price $14.95

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By Michael Dirda (introduced by)

Hardcover:

9780674059047 | Harvard Univ Pr, May 1, 2011, cover price $30.00

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By Michael Dirda (foreword by)

Hardcover:

9781582436050 | Counterpoint, August 1, 2010, cover price $25.00

Paperback:

9781582437262 | Counterpoint, July 12, 2011, cover price $15.95

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Hardcover:

9780691151359 | Princeton Univ Pr, October 10, 2011, cover price $19.95

Paperback:

9780691164120 | Princeton Univ Pr, November 9, 2014, cover price $16.95

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The memoirs of a Pulitzer Prize-winning literary journalist and critic discusses his childhood and education in small-town Ohio, his colorful family and friends, and his voracious appetite for reading. Reprint. 10,000 first printing.

Hardcover:

9780393057560 | 1 edition (W W Norton & Co Inc, October 1, 2003), cover price $24.95 | About this edition: The memoirs of a Pulitzer Prize-winning literary journalist and critic discusses his childhood and education in small-town Ohio, his colorful family and friends, and his voracious appetite for reading.

Paperback:

9780393326147 | Reprint edition (W W Norton & Co Inc, December 30, 2004), cover price $16.95 | About this edition: The memoirs of a Pulitzer Prize-winning literary journalist and critic discusses his childhood and education in small-town Ohio, his colorful family and friends, and his voracious appetite for reading.

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By Christine A. Lindberg (compiler) and Rick Moody (foreword by)

Hardcover:

9780199829927 | 3 edition (Oxford Univ Pr, August 24, 2012), cover price $40.00
9780195342840 | 2 edition (Oxford Univ Pr, November 11, 2008), cover price $40.00

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In this thesaurus, more than three hundred thousand synonyms and ten thousand antonyms can be found, as well as nearly two hundred collections of nouns to add detail to writing, quick guides to easily confused words, and other useful features.

Hardcover:

9780195170764 | Oxford Univ Pr, October 21, 2004, cover price $40.00 | About this edition: 'Written by writers for writers, this innovative thesaurus truly advances the time-honored word source.

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A collection of classic essays and reviews by a Pulitzer Prize-winning book critic for the Washington Post includes writings on the author's first experiences of Beckett and Faulkner in high school, a meeting of the P.G. Wodehouse Society, and a discovery of the Japanese epic The Tale of Genji. Reprint. 10,000 first printing.

Hardcover:

9780253338242 | Indiana Univ Pr, October 1, 2000, cover price $24.95

Paperback:

9780393324891 | Reprint edition (W W Norton & Co Inc, October 1, 2003), cover price $13.95 | About this edition: A collection of classic essays and reviews by a Pulitzer Prize-winning book critic for the Washington Post includes writings on the author's first experiences of Beckett and Faulkner in high school, a meeting of the P.

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By Michael Dirda (introduced by)

Paperback:

9780131898615, titled "The Creative Impulse Combined: An Introduction to the Arts" | 3rd edition (Prentice Hall, January 1, 1993), cover price $50.67 | also contains The Creative Impulse Combined: An Introduction to the Arts

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By Michael Dirda (introduced by)

Paperback:

9780984832989 | Santa Fe Writers Project, April 1, 2015, cover price $24.95

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