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9781101873335 | Reprint edition (Vintage Books, September 20, 2016), cover price $16.00
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9781101874721 | Alfred a Knopf Inc, October 13, 2015, cover price $26.00
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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
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9781590177648 | New York Review of Books, November 4, 2014, cover price $15.95
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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
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9781590177181 | Reprint edition (New York Review of Books, March 11, 2014), cover price $14.00
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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
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9781578065462 | Univ Pr of Mississippi, July 1, 2003, cover price $50.00 | About this edition: Biography -- Literary Criticism--> Conversations with William H.
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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.
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
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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.
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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.
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9781570034725 | Univ of South Carolina Pr, July 1, 2002, cover price $39.95 | About this edition: An ambitious novelist made clear and accessible; William H.
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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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9780874136425 | Univ of Delaware Pr, December 1, 1998, cover price $35.00
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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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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9780679446620 | 1st edition (Alfred a Knopf Inc, August 1, 1996), cover price $26.00 | About this edition: Essays share insights into the relationship of a writer's life and work, literary language, history, culture, biography as a form of literature, and other topics
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9780801484896 | Reprint edition (Cornell Univ Pr, November 1, 1997), cover price $28.95 | About this edition: William Gass writes about literary language, about history, about the avant-garde, about minimalism's brief vogue, about the use of the present tense in fiction (Is it due to the lack of both a sense of history and a belief in the future?
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9780141180106 | Reprint edition (Penguin Classics, April 1, 1997), cover price $17.00
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9780805776058 | Twayne Pub, June 1, 1990, cover price $22.95
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