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9781627122757 | Cavendish Square, January 1, 2014, cover price $12.93 | About this edition: An introduction to the life and career of author Lois Lowry.
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9781627122740 | Cavendish Square, January 1, 2014, cover price $29.93 | About this edition: An introduction to the life and career of author Lois Lowry.
Paperback:
9781627122580 | Cavendish Square, January 1, 2014, cover price $12.93
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9781627122610 | Cavendish Square, January 1, 2014, cover price $29.93
In modern culture, the essay is often considered an old-fashioned, unoriginal form of literary styling. The word essay brings to mind the uninspired five-paragraph theme taught in schools around the country or the antiquated, Edwardian meanderings of English gentlemen rattling on about art and old books. These connotations exist despite the fact that Americans have been reading and enjoying personal essays in popular magazines for decades, engaging with a multitude of ideas through this short-form means of expression. To defend the essayâthat misunderstood staple of first-year composition coursesâNed Stuckey-French has written The American Essay in the American Century. This book uncovers the buried history of the American personal essay and reveals how it played a significant role in twentieth-century cultural history. In the early 1900s, writers and critics debated the âdeath of the essay,â claiming it was too traditional to survive the eraâs growing commercialism, labeling it a bastion of British upper-class conventions. Yet in that period, the essay blossomed into a cultural force as a new group of writers composed essays that responded to the concerns of Americaâs expanding cosmopolitan readership. These essays would spark the âmagazine revolution,â giving a fresh voice to the ascendant middle class of the young century. With extensive research and a cultural context, Stuckey-French describes the many reasons essays grew in appeal and importance for Americans. He also explores the rise of E. B. White, considered by many the greatest American essayist of the first half of the twentieth century whose prowess was overshadowed by his success in other fields of writing. Whiteâs work introduced a new voice, creating an American essay that melded seriousness and political resolve with humor and self-deprecation. This book is one of the first to consider and reflect on the contributions of E. B. White to the personal essay tradition and American culture more generally. The American Essay in the American Century is a compelling, highly readable book that illuminates the history of a secretly beloved literary genre. A work that will appeal to fiction readers, scholars, and students alike, this book offers fundamental insight into modern American literary history and the intersections of literature, culture, and class through the personal essay. This thoroughly researched volume dismisses, once and for all, the âdeath of the essay,â proving that the essay will remain relevant for a very long time to come.
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9780826219251 | Univ of Missouri Pr, May 31, 2011, cover price $60.00 | About this edition: In modern culture, the essay is often considered an old-fashioned, unoriginal form of literary styling.
Paperback:
9780826220158 | Reprint edition (Univ of Missouri Pr, September 1, 2013), cover price $25.00
Product Description: In the years following World War II, a small group of gay writers established themselves as literary power players, fueling cultural changes that would resonate for decades to come, and transforming the American literary landscape forever...read more
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9780446563130 | 1 edition (Twelve, February 2, 2012), cover price $27.99
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9780446563123 | Twelve, February 5, 2013, cover price $15.00 | About this edition: In the years following World War II, a small group of gay writers established themselves as literary power players, fueling cultural changes that would resonate for decades to come, and transforming the American literary landscape forever.
Product Description: "[The Hunger Games trilogy spread like wildfire," says Croton-on-Hudson, N.Y., teacher Annmarie Powers, in a statement to USA TODAY, the Nation's No. 1 Newspaper. The teacher explained that the books, written by author Suzanne Collins, "deal with themes that teens are consumed with: 'fairness, relationships, plenty of violence and blood, greed, hypocrisy, subservience and rebellion...read more
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9780761386384 | Twenty First Century Books, October 1, 2012, cover price $34.65 | About this edition: "[The Hunger Games trilogy spread like wildfire," says Croton-on-Hudson, N.
Paperback:
9780872865433 | City Lights Books, September 13, 2011, cover price $16.95
Hardcover:
9780763604073 | Candlewick Pr, April 1, 1999, cover price $16.99 | About this edition: A reflection of special childhood moments in ten writer's lives demonstrates the similar, different, and life-changing experiences of children during various time periods and includes individual explanations of how they discovered the path toward becoming writers
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9780763658922 | Reprint edition (Candlewick Pr, February 14, 2012), cover price $14.99
9780763617349 | Reprint edition (Candlewick Pr, March 1, 2002), cover price $8.99 | About this edition: Ten writers reflect on special childhood moments and provide individual explanations of how they became writers.
9780763610340 | Reprint edition (Candlewick Pr, February 1, 2001), cover price $8.99 | About this edition: Ten writers reflect on special childhood moments and provide individual explanations of how they became writers.
School and Library:
9781564023063 | Candlewick Pr, March 1, 1996, cover price $15.99 | About this edition: A reflection of special childhood moments in ten writer's lives demonstrates the similar, different, and life-changing experiences of children during various time periods and includes individual explanations of how they discovered the path toward becoming writers
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9780606209885 | Demco Media, February 1, 2002, cover price $16.80 | also contains When I Was Your Age: Original Stories About Growing Up | About this edition: Ten writers reflect on special childhood moments and provide individual explanations of how they became writers.
Prebinding:
9780606238069 | Reprint edition (Turtleback Books, February 14, 2012), cover price $26.95
9781435265417 | Reprint edition (Paw Prints, April 25, 2008), cover price $16.99 | also contains When I Was Your Age: Original Stories About Growing Up
9780613581066 | Turtleback Books, December 1, 2003, cover price $16.75 | About this edition: Ten writers reflect on special childhood moments and provide individual explanations of how they became writers.
9780613747356 | Turtleback Books, February 1, 2001, cover price $19.65 | also contains When I Was Your Age: Original Stories About Growing Up | About this edition: Ten writers reflect on special childhood moments and provide individual explanations of how they became writers.
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