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Hardcover:

9780374279974 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, March 14, 2017, cover price $27.00

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By Mimi Chubb (editor), Wendy Lesser (editor) and Jennifer Zahrt (editor)

Hardcover:

9781619024571 | Counterpoint, January 13, 2015, cover price $28.00

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Hardcover:

9781410468567 | Large print edition (Thorndike Pr, May 9, 2014), cover price $31.99
9780374289201 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, January 7, 2014, cover price $25.00

Paperback:

9781250062093 | Reprint edition (Picador USA, January 13, 2015), cover price $15.00

Hardcover:

9780300169331 | Yale Univ Pr, March 8, 2011, cover price $28.00

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9780300181593 | Yale Univ Pr, March 20, 2012, cover price $20.00

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A cultural critic raised as an atheist reflects on the meaning of her Jewish heritage and her 'difficult friendship' with the writer Leonard Michaels, who continues to influence her life, even after his death.

Hardcover:

9780375424007 | Pantheon Books, January 9, 2007, cover price $23.95 | About this edition: A cultural critic raised as an atheist reflects on the meaning of her Jewish heritage and her 'difficult friendship' with the writer Leonard Michaels, who continues to influence her life, even after his death.

Paperback:

9780307274960 | Reprint edition (Vintage Books, April 8, 2008), cover price $13.95

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A tale set in England during three distinct twentieth-century time periods follows the lives of three sets of people, including a master novelist and his student, a middle-aged writer and a flirtatious Canadian, and a King's College grad student and her lover, in an account that sets their lives against such historical events as the death of Queen Victoria and the end of the Vietnam War.

Hardcover:

9781590511763 | Other Pr Llc, October 1, 2005, cover price $23.95 | About this edition: A tale set in England during three distinct twentieth-century time periods follows the lives of three sets of people, including a master novelist and his student, a middle-aged writer and a flirtatious Canadian, and a King's College grad student and her lover, in an account that sets their lives against such historical events as the death of Queen Victoria and the end of the Vietnam War.

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9781589880221 | Italian edition edition (Paul Dry Books Inc, October 1, 2005), cover price $24.95

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A collection of original essays reflects on their writers' formative experiences of language and culture, from Bharati Mukherjee's appreciation of the Bangla language after the Hindu-Muslim riots of 1946, to Amy Tan's frustration with comparisons between English and Chinese, to Josef Skvorecký's decision to learn English so he could write a fan letter. Reprint. 12,500 first printing.
By Wendy Lesser (editor)

Paperback:

9781400033232 | Reprint edition (Anchor Books, July 12, 2005), cover price $13.95 | About this edition: A collection of original essays reflects on their writers' formative experiences of language and culture, from Bharati Mukherjee's appreciation of the Bangla language after the Hindu-Muslim riots of 1946, to Amy Tan's frustration with comparisons betweenEnglish and Chinese.

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A collection of original essays reflects on their writers' formative experiences of language and culture, from Bharati Mukherjee's appreciation of the Bangla language after the Hindu-Muslim riots of 1946, to Amy Tan's frustration with comparisons between English and Chinese, to Josef Skvorecký's decision to learn English so he could write a fan letter. 25,000 first printing.
By Wendy Lesser (editor)

Hardcover:

9780375422386 | Pantheon Books, September 30, 2004, cover price $23.00 | About this edition: A collection of original essays reflects on their writers' formative experiences of language and culture, from Bharati Mukherjee's appreciation of the Bangla language after the Hindu-Muslim riots of 1946, to Amy Tan's frustration with comparisons betweenEnglish and Chinese.

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Discusses the revisiting of books she once read, the author reflects and examines how her reactions and opinions of these books have changed.

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9780618082933 | Houghton Mifflin, May 7, 2002, cover price $24.00 | About this edition: Discusses the revisiting of books she once read, the author reflects and examines how her reactions and opinions of these books have changed.

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9780618340811 | Reprint edition (Mariner Books, May 8, 2003), cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Writings on the author's favorite works of literature include discussions on such works as Anna Karenina, The Portrait of a Lady, Huckleberry Finn, Don Quixote, The Idiot, the young adult tale I Capture the Castle, and poetry by such figures as Wordsworth and Milton.

Miscellaneous:

9780547346892 | Houghton Mifflin, May 8, 2003, cover price $13.00

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By Joan Ross Acocella, Stephen Black (photographer), Tom Brazil (photographer), Bill Cooper (photographer), Gadi Dagon (photographer), Jeffrey Escoffier (editor), Ken Friedman (photographer), Robbie Jack (photographer), Klaus Lefebvre (photographer), Wendy Lesser, Matthew Lore (editor) and Alastair Macauley

Paperback:

9781569245804 | Da Capo Pr, July 31, 2002, cover price $29.95

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A renowned cultural observer and critic focuses on the intersection of art and experience in an intellectual memoir that describes coming of age in Berkeley, California, in the 1960s, the events that shaped her life, and the influences of film, theater, art, and literature on her life and work. Reprint.

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9780375404023 | Pantheon Books, February 1, 1999, cover price $24.00 | About this edition: The author focuses on the intersection of art and experience in an intellectual memoir that describes the coming of age in Berkley, California, in the 1960s, and the events that shaped her life

Paperback:

9780375703812 | Vintage Books, March 7, 2000, cover price $19.00 | About this edition: A renowned cultural observer and critic focuses on the intersection of art and experience in an intellectual memoir that describes coming of age in Berkeley, California, in the 1960s, the events that shaped her life, and the influences of film, theater, art, and literature on her life and work.

Presents the details of director Stephen Daldry's work on the acclaimed play, 'An Inspector Calls,' in an attempt to reveal his intepretative approach to theater (view table of contents)

Hardcover:

9780520212060 | Univ of California Pr, December 1, 1997, cover price $85.00 | About this edition: Presents the details of director Stephen Daldry's work on the acclaimed play, 'An Inspector Calls,' in an attempt to reveal his intepretative approach to theater

Paperback:

9780520212626 | Univ of California Pr, December 1, 1997, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Presents the details of director Stephen Daldry's work on the acclaimed play, 'An Inspector Calls,' in an attempt to reveal his intepretative approach to theater

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Hardcover:

9780756761967 | Diane Pub Co, November 1, 1993, cover price $25.00

Paperback:

9780674667365 | Reprint edition (Harvard Univ Pr, September 1, 1995), cover price $16.00

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An investigation of society's attitude toward murder, both in art and in real life, recounts a famous legal case in which a federal court judge had to decide whether a gas-chamber execution would be broadcast on public television.

Hardcover:

9780674667358 | Harvard Univ Pr, January 1, 1994, cover price $34.95 | About this edition: An investigation of society's attitude toward murder--both in art and in real life--recounts a famous legal case in which a federal court judge had to decide whether a gas-chamber execution would be broadcast on public television

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Presents essays by John Berger, Elizabeth Hardwick, Greil Marcus, Susan Sontag, Amy Tan, Gore Vidal, and others, that discuss the process of artistic critism
By Wendy Lesser (editor)

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9781562790370 | Mercury House, July 1, 1993, cover price $21.95 | About this edition: Presents essays by John Berger, Elizabeth Hardwick, Greil Marcus, Susan Sontag, Amy Tan, Gore Vidal, and others, that discuss the process of artistic critism

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Looks at the portrayal of women in art, photographs, motion pictures, and literature, and argues that male artists do not inevitably misrepresent women

Hardcover:

9780674392106 | Harvard Univ Pr, April 1, 1991, cover price $38.95 | About this edition: Looks at the portrayal of women in art, photographs, motion pictures, and literature, and argues that male artists do not inevitably misrepresent women

Paperback:

9780674392113 | Harvard Univ Pr, February 1, 1992, cover price $18.00

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