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Eyes: Novellas and Stories

By William H. Gass

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9781101874721 | Alfred a Knopf Inc, October 13, 2015, cover price $26.00

Life Sentences: Literary Judgments and Accounts

By William H. Gass

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9780307595843 | Alfred a Knopf Inc, January 17, 2012, cover price $28.95

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9781564789174 | Reprint edition (Dalkey Archive Pr, January 20, 2015), cover price $17.95

Tests of Time: Essays

Tests of Time brings us fourteen witty and elegant essays by novelist and literary critic William H. Gass, "the finest prose stylist in America" (Steven Moore, Washington Post). Whether he's exploring the nature of narrative, the extent and cost of political influences on writers, or the relationships between the stories we tell and the moral judgments we make, Gass is always erudite, entertaining, and enlightening.

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9781628970388 | Reprint edition (Dalkey Archive Pr, July 6, 2014), cover price $16.95

9780226284064 | Univ of Chicago Pr, April 1, 2003, cover price $20.00 | About this edition: Tests of Time brings us fourteen witty and elegant essays by novelist and literary critic William H.

The World Within the Word: Essays

A notable novelist and critic considers the works, lives, preoccupations, and achievements of Valery, Freud, Stein, Sartre, Henry Miller, Joyce, Rilke, Proust, Nabokov, Faulkner, Colette, and other modern writers

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9781628970395 | Reprint edition (Dalkey Archive Pr, July 6, 2014), cover price $16.95

9780879232986 | Reissue edition (David R Godine Pub, September 1, 1984), cover price $11.95 | About this edition: A notable novelist and critic considers the works, lives, preoccupations, and achievements of Valery, Freud, Stein, Sartre, Henry Miller, Joyce, Rilke, Proust, Nabokov, Faulkner, Colette, and other modern writers

Middle C

By William H. Gass

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9781410459589 | Large print edition (Thorndike Pr, July 24, 2013), cover price $31.99

9780307701633 | Alfred a Knopf Inc, March 12, 2013, cover price $28.95

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9780804168786 | Vintage Books, December 3, 2013, cover price $15.95

Conversations With William H. Gass

Product Description: Conversations with William H. Gass captures the imagination and philosophical acumen of one of America's most important aestheticians, critical theorists, fiction writers, and essayists.From his first major novel, Omensetter's Luck (1966), to his numerous collections of essays and philosophical inquiries, to his controversial novel The Tunnel (1995), Gass (b...read more

By Theodore G. Ammon (editor)

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9781617037016 | Univ Pr of Mississippi, December 12, 2012, cover price $30.00 | also contains Conversations With William H. Gass | About this edition: Conversations with William H.

9781578065479 | Univ Pr of Mississippi, June 1, 2003, cover price $22.00 | About this edition: Conversations with William H.

9780314020253, titled "Louisiana Civil Code, 1993" | West Group, January 1, 1993, cover price $27.69 | also contains Conversations With William H. Gass, Louisiana Civil Code, 1993

The Anatomy of Melancholy

By Robert Burton

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9781486145577 | Lightning Source Inc, June 20, 2012, cover price $9.94 | also contains Anatomy of Melancholy

9780940322660 | New York Review of Books, April 1, 2001, cover price $29.95

The Recognitions

By William H. Gass (introduced by)

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9781564786913 | Reprint edition (Dalkey Archive Pr, February 7, 2012), cover price $19.95

Finding a Form

By William H. Gass

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9781564785299 | Dalkey Archive Pr, August 25, 2009, cover price $15.95

Cartesian Sonata: And Other Novellas

Four interconnected novellas explore the themes of mind, matter, God, and the conflict between good and evil

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9780375401688 | Alfred a Knopf Inc, September 1, 1998, cover price $24.00 | About this edition: Four interconnected novellas explore the themes of mind, matter, God, and the conflict between good and evil

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9781564785022, titled "Cartesian Sonata and Other Novellas" | Reprint edition (Dalkey Archive Pr, February 15, 2009), cover price $13.95

9780465026203 | Reprint edition (Basic Books, January 27, 2000), cover price $17.00 | About this edition: Four interconnected novellas explore the themes of mind, matter, God, and the conflict between good and evil.

A Temple of Texts

By William H. Gass

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9781564784681 | Dalkey Archive Pr, September 25, 2007, cover price $14.95

The Tunnel: A Novel

Product Description: Thirty years in the making, William Gass's second novel first appeared on the literary scene in 1995, at which time it was promptly hailed as an indisputable masterpiece. The story of a middle aged professor who, upon completion of his massive historical study, "Guilt and Innocence in Hitler's Germany," finds himself writing a novel about his own life instead of the introduction to his magnum opus...read more

By William H. Gass

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9781564784483 | Cdr una edition (Dalkey Archive Pr, June 1, 2006), cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Thirty years in the making, William Gass's second novel first appeared on the literary scene in 1995, at which time it was promptly hailed as an indisputable masterpiece.

A Temple Of Texts: Essays

In a compilation of essays exploring the nature and value of writing, the noted literary critic, essayist, and novelist presents an annotated list of the fifty books that have most influenced his life and work, as well as his thoughts on such disparate authors as Rainer Maria Rilke, Gertrude Stein, Stanley Elkin, Gabriel García Márquez, William Gaddis, and others. 10,000 first printing.

By William H. Gass

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9780307262868 | 1 edition (Alfred a Knopf Inc, February 14, 2006), cover price $26.95 | About this edition: In a compilation of essays exploring the nature and value of writing, the noted literary critic, essayist, and novelist presents an annotated list of the fifty books that have most influenced his life and work, as well as his thoughts on such disparate authors as Rainer Maria Rilke, Gertrude Stein, Stanley Elkin, Gabriel García Márquez, William Gaddis, and others.

Reading Rilke's Orphic Identity

Product Description: This study of Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926) examines the poet's understanding of the malleable nature of identity, while addressing the question of Rilke's place in literary history. In line with contemporary literary theory which views the - self as a societal - construction and strategic narrative device, this study explores Rilke's preoccupations with identity in his work, as he investigates the disintegration of the subjective self in the modern world...read more

By ERIKA M. NELSON

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9780820472140 | Peter Lang Pub Inc, February 9, 2005, cover price $52.95 | About this edition: This study of Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926) examines the poet's understanding of the malleable nature of identity, while addressing the question of Rilke's place in literary history.

9783039102877 | Peter Lang Pub Inc, February 9, 2005, cover price $71.95 | About this edition: This study of Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926) examines the poetâs understanding of the malleable nature of identity, while addressing the question of Rilkeâs place in literary history.

Tests of Time

The renowned author of Cartesian Sonata reflects on the nature of writing, reading, culture, history, politics, and public opinion in fourteen witty essays that address the nature of narrative and its philosophical implications, the cost of political influence on writers, and the work of Gustave Flaubert, among other topics. 12,500 first printing. (view table of contents)

By William H. Gass

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9780375412578 | 1 edition (Alfred a Knopf Inc, February 1, 2002), cover price $25.00 | About this edition: The author reflects on the nature of writing, reading, culture, history, politics, and public opinion in fourteen essays.

The Franchiser: A Novel

By Stanley Elkin and William H. Gass (foreword by)

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9781564783059 | Dalkey Archive Pr, September 1, 2001, cover price $13.50

The Writer and Religion

Product Description: ÂEvery significant religious system stands upon a sacred text. This text is indeed its temple. Inside, its heroes and their history are enshrined. Although leaders of varying degrees of divinity are always involved in the creation of a new sect, they usually have short lives, often come to bad ends, and their influence, diluted by disciples, soon disappears as water does in sand...read more

By Lorin Cuoco (editor) and William H. Gass (editor)

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9780809323166 | Southern Illinois Univ Pr, October 1, 2000, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: ÂEvery significant religious system stands upon a sacred text.

Reading Rilke: Reflections on the Problems of Translation

The renowned essayist, philosopher, and novelist presents a close-up study and rendering of Rainer Maria Rilke's poetic masterpiece Duino Elegies as he reflects on the art of translating a work from another language while maintaining the true essence of the original. Reprint. 12,500 first printing. (view table of contents)

By William H. Gass

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9780375403125 | Alfred a Knopf Inc, September 1, 1999, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: Presents a study of the 'Duino Elegies' and reflects on the art of translating a work from another language while maintaining the true essence

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9780465026227 | Basic Books, October 16, 2000, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: The renowned essayist, philosopher, and novelist presents a close-up study and rendering of Rainer Maria Rilke's poetic masterpiece Duino Elegies as he reflects on the art of translating a work from another language while maintaining the true essence of the original.

The World Within the Word

Product Description: In this sequel to Fiction & the Figures of Life, one of America's most brilliant and eclectic minds examines literature, culture, writers (their lives and works), and the nature and uses of language and the written word. Included are discussions of ValÃ©ry, Henry Miller, Sartre, Freud, Faulkner, suicide, "art and order," and the transformation of language into poetry and fiction...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By William H. Gass

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9780465026258 | Basic Books, October 1, 2000, cover price $20.00 | About this edition: In this sequel to Fiction & the Figures of Life, one of America's most brilliant and eclectic minds examines literature, culture, writers (their lives and works), and the nature and uses of language and the written word.

Literary St. Louis: A Guide

Product Description: A descriptive and informative guide to more than 100 sites of literary significance in the greater St. Louis area, Literary St. Louis: A Guide includes historical and biographical information, maps, literary anecdotes, and photographs...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Lorin Cuoco (editor) and William H. Gass

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9781883982355 | Missouri Historical Society Pr, September 1, 2000, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: A descriptive and informative guide to more than 100 sites of literary significance in the greater St.

3 Essays: Reflections on the American Century

Cultural Studies. Autobiography. Visual Arts.THREE ESSAYS presents the work of three of America's most distinguishedwriters--Gerald Early, William H. Gass, and Naomi Lebowitz. Each essayoffers the personal experience of the author: Early on growing up in anItalian neighborhood in Philadelphia, Gass on the presence of theMississippi River in the life of a city, and Lebowitz on the memories ofher father, a rabbi. Together with illustrations from three residentartists at Washington University, the writing and visual art combine toform unique reflections on the twentieth century.

By Gerald Lyn Early, William H. Gass and Naomi Lebowitz

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9781883982331 | Washington Univ in Saint Louis, May 1, 2000, cover price $23.95

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9781883982348 | Missouri Historical Society Pr, May 1, 2000, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Cultural Studies.

Conjunctions: 32 Eye to Eye

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By William H. Gass and Bradford Morrow

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9780941964487 | Conjunctions, May 1, 1999, cover price $12.00 | About this edition: Edited by Bradford Morrow.

The Tunnel

While writing the introduction to his magnum opus, a moral history of Hitler's Germany, a middle-aged historian finds himself writing instead a history of himself and secretly digging a tunnel out of his own basement

By William H. Gass

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9780395686287 | Ticknor & Fields, December 1, 1995, cover price $25.01

9780679437673 | Alfred a Knopf Inc, June 1, 1995, cover price $30.00 | About this edition: While writing the introduction to his magnum opus, a moral history of Hitler's Germany, a middle-aged historian finds himself writing instead a history of himself and secretly digging a tunnel out of his own basement

Paperback:

9781564782137 | Dalkey Archive Pr, May 1, 1999, cover price $16.95

9780060976866 | Perennial, February 1, 1996, cover price $17.50 | About this edition: While writing the introduction to his magnum opus, a moral history of Hitler's Germany, a middle-aged historian finds himself writing instead a history of himself and secretly digging a tunnel out of his own basement.

Willie Masters' Lonesome Wife

Product Description: In this paean to the pleasures of language, Gass equates his text with the body of Babs Masters, the lonesome wife of the title, to advance the conceit that a parallel should exist between a woman and her lover and a book and its reader.

By William H. Gass

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9781564782120, titled "Willie Masters' Lonesome Wife" | Dalkey Archive Pr, March 1, 1999, cover price $13.95 | About this edition: In this paean to the pleasures of language, Gass equates his text with the body of Babs Masters, the lonesome wife of the title, to advance the conceit that a parallel should exist between a woman and her lover and a book and its reader.

9780916583460, titled "Willie Masters' Lonesome Wife" | Dalkey Archive Pr, December 1, 1989, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: In this paean to the pleasures of language, Gass equates his text with the body of Babs Masters, the lonesome wife of the title, to advance the conceit that a parallel should exist between a woman and her lover and a book and its reader.

Habitations of the Word: Essays

Brings together the author's reflections on literature, philosophy and the theory of language in pieces that examine a diversity of ideas and writers, including Emerson, Joyce, Dickens, and Pound (view table of contents)

By William H. Gass

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9780671527266, titled "The Habitations of the Word: Essays" | Simon & Schuster, February 1, 1985, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: Brings together the author's reflections on literature, philosophy and the theory of language in pieces that examine a diversity of ideas and writers, including Emerson, Joyce, Dickens, and Pound

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9780801484889 | Reprint edition (Cornell Univ Pr, November 1, 1997), cover price $15.50 | About this edition: Brings together the author's reflections on literature, philosophy and the theory of language in pieces that examine a diversity of ideas and writers, including Emerson, Joyce, Dickens, and Pound

9780671617691 | Simon & Schuster, January 1, 1986, cover price $8.95 | About this edition: Brings together the author's reflections on literature, philosophy and the theory of language in pieces that examine a diversity of ideas and writers, including Emerson, Joyce, Dickens, and Pound

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