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Product Description: The writings of William Gilmore Simms (1806-1870) provide a sweeping fictional portrait of the colonial and antebellum South in all of its regional diversity. Simms's account of the region is more comprehensive than that of any other author of his time; he treats the major intellectual and social issues of the South and depicts the bonds and tensions among all of its inhabitants...read more
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9781557289643 | Univ of Arkansas Pr, May 1, 2011, cover price $45.00 | About this edition: The writings of William Gilmore Simms (1806-1870) provide a sweeping fictional portrait of the colonial and antebellum South in all of its regional diversity.
Product Description: F. Scott Fitzgerald had a busy and productive literary apprenticeship, writing in a great variety of genres. This volume contains his writings for the student magazine at his high schools and his Princeton writings for the Daily Princetonian, the Princeton Tiger, and the Nassau Literary Magazine...read more
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9780521765923 | 1 edition (Cambridge Univ Pr, March 31, 2010), cover price $115.00 | About this edition: F.
Provides a close-up look at the brief but intense romance--largely epistolary--between an eighteen-year-old F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ginevra King, the young daughter of a wealthy Chicago stockbroker, and its lasting influence on Fitzgerald's literary characters and stories. Reprint. 10,000 first printing.
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9781400063086 | Random House Inc, February 1, 2005, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Provides a close-up look at the brief but intense romance--largely epistolary--between an eighteen-year-old F.
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9780812973273 | Reprint edition (Random House Inc, February 14, 2006), cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Provides a close-up look at the brief but intense romance--largely epistolary--between an eighteen-year-old F.
Product Description: Twice during the last decade of his life, in 1934 and 1936, F. Scott Fitzgerald proposed a collection of his personal essays to Maxwell Perkins, his editor at Charles Scribner's Sons. Perkins was unenthusiastic on both occasions, and Fitzgerald died in 1940 without having put his best essays between hard covers...read more
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9780521402392 | Cambridge Univ Pr, October 31, 2005, cover price $150.00 | About this edition: Twice during the last decade of his life, in 1934 and 1936, F.
The American novelist discusses literature, his writings, and the role of history in fiction
Hardcover:
9780878052608 | Univ Pr of Mississippi, December 1, 1985, cover price $46.00 | About this edition: The American novelist discusses literature, his writings, and the role of history in fiction
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9780080377919, titled "Battles of Hastings: A History of the Hastings International Chess Congress" | Cadogan Books, April 1, 1991, cover price $19.95 | also contains Battles of Hastings: A History of the Hastings International Chess Congress, Conversations With William Styron
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9780521402378 | Cambridge Univ Pr, April 13, 2000, cover price $31.99
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9780521890472 | Cambridge Univ Pr, September 1, 2002, cover price $59.99
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9780754603603 | Ashgate Pub Ltd, June 1, 2001, cover price $110.00
An authorized biography of the author of Sophie's Choice, Nat Turner, and other classic twentieth-century novels describes his Southern upbringing, his thirty-year feud with Norman Mailer, and his struggle with clinical depression. 20,000 first printing.
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Hardcover:
9780679410546 | Random House Inc, March 1, 1998, cover price $30.00 | About this edition: An authorized biography of the author of 'Sophie's Choice' and other classic twentieth-century novels describes his Southern upbringing, his thirty-year feud with Norman Mailer, and his struggle with clinical depression
Product Description: Theodore Dreiser's Russian Diary is an extended record of the American writer's travels throughout the Soviet Union in 1927-28. Dreiser was initially invited to Moscow for a week-long observance of the tenth anniversary of the October Revolution...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
Hardcover:
9780812280913 | Univ of Pennsylvania Pr, September 1, 1996, cover price $45.00 | About this edition: Theodore Dreiser's Russian Diary is an extended record of the American writer's travels throughout the Soviet Union in 1927-28.
Product Description: In 1992 the University of Pennsylvania Press published a new edition of Theodore Dreiser's second novel, Jennie Gerhardt. The original published text was altered significantly from the author's intentions: its sexual energy was short-circuited, its criticisms of organized religion were blunted, its language was smoothed and sentimentalized, and, most important, Jennie Gerhardt was reduced to a less thoughtful, less womanly character...read more
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9780812232844 | Univ of Pennsylvania Pr, October 1, 1995, cover price $31.95 | About this edition: In 1992 the University of Pennsylvania Press published a new edition of Theodore Dreiser's second novel, Jennie Gerhardt.
Paperback:
9780812215137 | Univ of Pennsylvania Pr, October 1, 1995, cover price $24.95
Product Description: This is an annual volume containing review-essays of scholarly works in English and American language and literature. It offers a forum exclusively for reviews, a place to publish treaments that are both lengthy and exacting. This edition includes essays by Harvey Teres on Wallace Stevens; Burton Hatlen on Fromm's "Academic Capitalism"; Paul Connolly on Virginia Woolf and postmodernism; Alan Richardson on fathers and daughters; J...read more
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9780813914770 | Univ of Virginia Pr, December 1, 1993, cover price $70.00 | About this edition: This is an annual volume containing review-essays of scholarly works in English and American language and literature.
Product Description: "Review" is an annual volume which publicizes review-essays of scholarly works in English and American language and literature. It offers the scholarly community an otherwise unavailable forum exlcusively for reviews, a place to publish treatments that are both lenghty and exacting...read more
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9780813913711 | Univ of Virginia Pr, December 1, 1991, cover price $70.00 | About this edition: "Review" is an annual volume which publicizes review-essays of scholarly works in English and American language and literature.
Product Description: "Review" is an annual volume which publishes review-essays and reviews of scholarly works in English and American language and literature. It offers the scholarly community forum exclusively for reviews, and a place to publish treatments that are both lengthy and exacting...read more
Hardcover:
9780813913100 | Univ of Virginia Pr, February 1, 1991, cover price $70.00 | About this edition: "Review" is an annual volume which publishes review-essays and reviews of scholarly works in English and American language and literature.
Paperback:
9780812213300 | Reprint edition (Univ of Pennsylvania Pr, July 1, 1990), cover price $22.50 | About this edition: This book examines literary authorship in the twentieth century and covers such topics as publishing, book distribution, the trade editor, the literary agent, the magazine market, subsidiary rights, and the blockbuster mentality.
Hardcover:
9780813912172 | Univ of Virginia Pr, November 1, 1988, cover price $70.00
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9780813911601 | Univ of Virginia Pr, February 1, 1988, cover price $70.00
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9780813911137 | Univ of Virginia Pr, December 1, 1986, cover price $70.00
Product Description: In "Waiting for Nothing" and Other Writings, the works of the depression-era writer Tom Kromer are collected for the first time into a volume that depicts with searing realism life on the bum in the 1930s and, with greater detachment, the powerless frustration of working-class people often too locked in to know their predicament...read more
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9780820323688 | Univ of Georgia Pr, December 1, 1986, cover price $28.95 | About this edition: In "Waiting for Nothing" and Other Writings, the works of the depression-era writer Tom Kromer are collected for the first time into a volume that depicts with searing realism life on the bum in the 1930s and, with greater detachment, the powerless frustration of working-class people often too locked in to know their predicament.
Hardcover:
9780813910925 | Univ of Virginia Pr, August 1, 1986, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: First edition.
Product Description: Near fine copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. ; 348 pages; Comprehensive examinations of new books...read more
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9780813910765 | Univ of Virginia Pr, February 1, 1986, cover price $70.00 | About this edition: Near fine copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth.
Product Description: "To write it took three months; to conceive itâthree minutes; to collect the data in itâall my life." So said F. Scott Fitzgerald regarding This Side of Paradise, the novel he began writing in November 1917 and published on March 26, 1920...read more
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9780812278675 | Univ of Pennsylvania Pr, March 1, 1983, cover price $45.00 | About this edition: "To write it took three months; to conceive itâthree minutes; to collect the data in itâall my life.
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9780816182619 | G K Hall, September 1, 1982, cover price $37.00 | About this edition: Book by Casciato, Arthur D.
Product Description: Near fine copy in the original silver gilt-blocked cloth. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. ; 416 pages; Lengthy and rigorous examinations of new books...read more
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9780813908656 | Univ of Virginia Pr, September 1, 1981, cover price $70.00 | About this edition: Near fine copy in the original silver gilt-blocked cloth.
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