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Uncle Tom's Cabin

Product Description: Uncle Tom's Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly is an anti-slavery novel by American author Harriet Beecher Stowe. Published in 1852, the novel had a profound effect on attitudes toward African Americans and slavery in the United States, so much in the latter case that the novel intensified the sectional conflict leading to the American Civil War...read more

By Alfred Kazin (introduced by)

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9781439526316 | Reissue edition (Paw Prints, August 11, 2008), cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Uncle Tom's Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly is an anti-slavery novel by American author Harriet Beecher Stowe.

Maggie: A Girl of the Streets And Other Selected Stories

The brutal effects of poverty and the loneliness of slum life are portrayed in two short novels, which heralded the appearance of naturalism in American literature. Reissue.

By Stephen Crane, Alfred Kazin (introduced by) and Tom Wolfe (other contributor)

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9780451529985 | Reissue edition (Signet Classic, February 7, 2006), cover price $5.95 | About this edition: The brutal effects of poverty and the loneliness of slum life are portrayed in a selection of the author's works, which heralded the appearance of naturalism in American literature.

Call It Sleep

By Hana Wirth-Nesher

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Paperback:

9780075536277, titled "Introduction to Linguistic Concepts" | Alfred a Knopf Inc, June 1, 1977, cover price $12.95 | also contains Introduction to Linguistic Concepts

Alfred Kazin's America: Critical and Personal Writings

A portrait of the first Lifetime Award winner in Literary Criticism from the Truman Capote Literary Trust documents his life as the son of Russian Jewish immigrants, his passion for literature, his contributions as a literary and social critic, his works at numerous prestigious universities, and his outspoken political views. 20,000 first printing.

By Alfred Kazin and Ted Solotaroff (introduced by)

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Hardcover:

9780066213439 | 1 edition (Harpercollins, October 1, 2003), cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Material selected from Kazin's three memoirs accompany a selection of his critical writings.

Writing Was Everything

Product Description: For more than sixty years Alfred Kazin has been one of the most eloquent witnesses to the literary life of the mind in America. Writing Was Everything is a summation of that life, a story of coming of age as a writer and critic that is also a vibrant cultural drama teeming with such characters as Hart Crane and Allen Ginsberg, Simone Weil and Flannery O'Connor, Hannah Arendt and Robert Lowell, Edmund Wilson and George Orwell...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Alfred Kazin

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Hardcover:

9780674962378 | Harvard Univ Pr, September 1, 1995, cover price $19.50 | About this edition: The author recounts his exchanges with such literary figures as Hart Crane, Allen Ginsburg, and Flannery O'Connor

Paperback:

9780674962385 | Reprint edition (Harvard Univ Pr, April 1, 1999), cover price $12.50 | About this edition: For more than sixty years Alfred Kazin has been one of the most eloquent witnesses to the literary life of the mind in America.

God & the American Writer

Nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award and chosen as a New York Times Notable Book, a finely written, erudite study by the late literary critic looks at the ways America's greatest writers have treated God. Reprint. 15,000 first printing.

By Alfred Kazin

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9780394549682 | Alfred a Knopf Inc, October 1, 1997, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: Essays explore the place of God in the writings of such American authors as Hawthorne, Melville, Emerson, Whitman, Dickinson, Twain, Eliot, Frost, and Faulkner

Paperback:

9780679733416 | Vintage Books, November 1, 1998, cover price $15.00 | About this edition: Essays explore the place of God in the writings of such American authors as Hawthorne, Melville, Emerson, Whitman, Dickinson, Twain, Eliot, Frost, and Faulkner

Walker in the City

By Alfred Kazin

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Hardcover:

9781567312126 | Fine Communications, August 1, 1997, cover price $8.98

9780844662169 | Peter Smith Pub Inc, January 1, 1986, cover price $18.50

Paperback:

9780156941761, titled "A Walker in the City" | Mariner Books, March 19, 1969, cover price $14.95

A Lifetime Burning in Every Moment: From the Journals of Alfred Kazin

The son of Russian-Jewish immigrants, Kazin became the last 20th century American literary and social critic in a great tradition that began with Edmund Wilson. A Lifetime Burning in Every Moment is a collection of writings from Kazin's diaries, which he has kept from the 1930s to the present. From a sensitive observer who is never at a loss for the most striking words, this is an astute and resonant portrait of cultural life in the last half century.

By Alfred Kazin

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9780060190378 | Harpercollins, May 1, 1996, cover price $26.00 | About this edition: The son of Russian-Jewish immigrants, Kazin became the last 20th century American literary and social critic in a great tradition that began with Edmund Wilson.

Paperback:

9780060928322 | Harpercollins, May 1, 1997, cover price $15.95 | also contains The Altar Boy

En tierra nativa/ In Native Lands: Interpretacion de medio siglo de literatura norteamericana

Product Description: Alfred Kazin, uno de los principales crÃticos de la literatura angloamericana, escribiÃ³ este libro sobre el surgimiento de la literatura moderna en los Estados Unidos con la finalidad de proporcionar al lector una visiÃ³n objetiva, bien documentada y analizada de lo que puede considerarse la literatura norteamericana anterior a los aÃ±os cincuenta...read more

By Alfred Kazin

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9789681638689 | Fondo De Cultura Economica USA, December 31, 1996, cover price $27.99 | About this edition: Alfred Kazin, uno de los principales crÃticos de la literatura angloamericana, escribiÃ³ este libro sobre el surgimiento de la literatura moderna en los Estados Unidos con la finalidad de proporcionar al lector una visiÃ³n objetiva, bien documentada y analizada de lo que puede considerarse la literatura norteamericana anterior a los aÃ±os cincuenta.

New York Jew

Product Description: In this book, Alfred Kazin, who for more than 30 years has been one of the central figures of America's intellectual life, takes us into his own life and times. His autobiography encompasses a personal story openly told; an inside look at New York's innermost intellectual circles; strong and intimate revelations of many of the most important writers of the century; and brilliantly astute observations of the literary accomplishments, atmosphere, and fads of the 1940s, 50s, and 60s in the context of America's shifting political gales...read more

By Alfred Kazin

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9780394495675 | Random House Inc, May 1, 1978, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: The distinguished literary critic picks up the story of his life in 1940 and chronicles the significant events, people, and places of his life thereafter and comments on the literary doings of the forties, fifties, and sixties

Paperback:

9780815604136 | Syracuse Univ Pr, August 1, 1996, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: In this book, Alfred Kazin, who for more than 30 years has been one of the central figures of America's intellectual life, takes us into his own life and times.

An American Procession

The eminent literary critic presents a searching study of the major American writers of the crucial century from 1830 to 1930, proceeding from Emerson and Hawthorne to Faulkner and Fitzgerald

By Alfred Kazin

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9780394503783 | Alfred a Knopf Inc, May 1, 1984, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: The eminent literary critic presents a searching study of the major American writers of the crucial century from 1830 to 1930, proceeding from Emerson and Hawthorne to Faulkner and Fitzgerald

Paperback:

9780674031432 | Reprint edition (Harvard Univ Pr, March 1, 1996), cover price $17.00

On Native Grounds: An Interpretation of Modern American Prose Literature

A classic interpretation of literature from America's golden age-including the work of Howells, Wharton, Lewis, Cather, Fitzgerald, Hemingway, and Faulkner. New Preface by the Author; Index.

By Alfred Kazin

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Hardcover:

9780156002714 | Harcourt, March 1, 1995, cover price $25.01 | About this edition: A classic interpretation of literature from America's golden age-including the work of Howells, Wharton, Lewis, Cather, Fitzgerald, Hemingway, and Faulkner.

Paperback:

9780156687508 | Reprint edition (Mariner Books, April 1, 1995), cover price $28.00

9780156687515 | Reissue edition (Harcourt, June 1, 1983), cover price $9.95 | also contains The Goon 0: Rough Stuff | About this edition: A literary critic analyzes modern American literature and its relation to changing society, from realism and social reform to naturalism and social consciousness

Selected Short Stories of Nathaniel Hawthorne

By Alfred Kazin (editor)

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Paperback:

9780449300121 | Reissue edition (Fawcett Books, November 1, 1993), cover price $6.99

Our New York

By David Finn and Alfred Kazin

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Hardcover:

9780792481225 | Harpercollins, December 1, 1989, cover price $9.98

Starting Out in the Thirties

Product Description: "A stunning book. . . . Perhaps the most evocative reminiscence of a vital corner of the nineteen-thirties that we are likely to get. A beautifully written memoir in which the author's location of himself as a man, an intellectual, and a moral being is interwoven with the chronicle of an era...read more

By Alfred Kazin

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9780801495625 | Reprint edition (Cornell Univ Pr, February 1, 1989), cover price $13.95 | About this edition: "A stunning book.

9780394743363 | Vintage Books, April 1, 1980, cover price $4.95 | About this edition: The intellectual climate, key writers, and personalities of the nineteen thirties are recalled in Kazin's reminiscences of his youth

A Writer's America: Landscape in Literature

The distinguished literary critic and historian identifies and examines the influences of American landscapes, pastoral and urban, on American writers ranging from Jefferson to Bellow

By Alfred Kazin

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9780394571423 | Alfred a Knopf Inc, September 1, 1988, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: The distinguished literary critic and historian identifies and examines the influences of American landscapes, pastoral and urban, on American writers ranging from Jefferson to Bellow

An American Procession: The Major American Writers from 1830-1930

By Alfred Kazin

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9780394729237 | Alfred a Knopf Inc, February 1, 1985, cover price $8.95

Contemporaries: From the 19th Century to the Present

A broad critical history of modern literature includes essays on authors, such as William Faulkner, Saul Bellow, T. S. Eliot, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Boris Pasternak

By Alfred Kazin

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9780818011320 | Rev sub edition (Horizon Pr, June 1, 1982), cover price $9.95 | About this edition: A broad critical history of modern literature includes essays on authors, such as William Faulkner, Saul Bellow, T.

Bright Book of Life: American Novelists and Storytellers from Hemingway to Mailer

By Alfred Kazin

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9780268006648 | Univ of Notre Dame Pr, December 1, 1980, cover price $11.95

The Inmost Leaf: A Selection of Essays

Twenty-eight essays compose a literary commentary on American and European writers of both the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and includes glimpses of the authors' personal lives

By Alfred Kazin

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9780156443982 | Harcourt on Demand, November 1, 1979, cover price $17.00 | About this edition: Twenty-eight essays compose a literary commentary on American and European writers of both the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and includes glimpses of the authors' personal lives

The Portable Blake

Product Description: This handy guide covers ignition, air induction, exhaust, and emission controls.

By William Blake and Alfred Kazin

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9780028626666, titled "Arco Engine PerformanceÃ£for Ase Test A8" | Chek Chart Pubns, September 1, 1998, cover price $19.95 | also contains Arco Engine Performanceãfor Ase Test A8 | About this edition: This handy guide covers ignition, air induction, exhaust, and emission controls.

9780140150261 | Reprint edition (Penguin Classics, June 1, 1977), cover price $22.00 | About this edition: A collection of the poetry, prose, and art of the English mystic, accompanied by a biographical sketch

F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Man

Product Description: Collier, 1962, Good., 221 pages. Cover rubbed. Text clean. First Collier paperback edition. [Literary Criticism, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Biography] Out-of-print and antiquarian booksellers since 1933. We pack and ship with care.

By Alfred Kazin (editor)

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9780020041009 | Reissue edition (Macmillan Pub Co, September 1, 1962), cover price $1.25 | About this edition: Collier, 1962, Good.

Short Stories of Nathaniel Hawthorne

By Alfred Kazin (editor)

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Hardcover:

9780848801656 | Amereon Ltd, June 1, 1940, cover price $24.95

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