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9780691074443 | Princeton Univ Pr, August 1, 2001, cover price $45.00

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9780691115672 | Princeton Univ Pr, September 2, 2003, cover price $35.00
9780691074450 | Princeton Univ Pr, May 1, 2002, cover price $17.95

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In an entertaining compilation of essays, the author of Love, etc. and Flaubert's Parrot reflects on the country, people, and culture of France and shares his thoughts on such writers as Simenon, Baudelaire, Sand, Sartre, and Flaubert. Reprint. 12,500 first printing.

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9781400030873 | Reprint edition (Vintage Books, September 1, 2003), cover price $14.95 | About this edition: In an entertaining compilation of essays, the author of Love, etc.

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Essays examine classics of children's literature that have been forgotten or neglected over time

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9780874518405 | Dartmouth College, October 1, 1997, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: Essays examine classics of children's literature that have been forgotten or neglected over time

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9781584653523 | Dartmouth College, August 1, 2003, cover price $15.95

A collection of nonfiction pieces by the Booker Prize-winning author of Midnight's Children addresses such topics as his fascination with The Wizard of Oz, the 2000 presidential election, the state of the novel, the Muslim faith, life under a fatwa, and the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. Reprint. 30,000 first printing.

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9780679463344 | 1 edition (Random House Inc, September 1, 2002), cover price $25.95 | About this edition: A collection of the author's nonfiction pieces addresses such topics as his fascination with 'The Wizard of Oz,' the 2000 presidential election, the Muslim faith, life under a fatwa, and the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001.

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9780679783497 | Reprint edition (Modern Library, September 1, 2003), cover price $18.00 | About this edition: A collection of nonfiction pieces by the Booker Prize-winning author of Midnight's Children addresses such topics as his fascination with The Wizard of Oz, the 2000 presidential election, the state of the novel, the Muslim faith, life under a fatwa, and the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001.

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Product Description: The secret journal which the Marquis de Sade worked hard at maintaining, even when ill and aging at the Charenton asylum in France, has been rediscovered and is now published in English for the first time.The Ghosts of Sodom offers a unique insight into the workings of the mind of this aristocratic sadist and literary revolutionary...read more

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9781840681017 | Creation Books, August 1, 2003, cover price $13.95 | About this edition: The secret journal which the Marquis de Sade worked hard at maintaining, even when ill and aging at the Charenton asylum in France, has been rediscovered and is now published in English for the first time.

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The critically acclaimed author of The Handyman and Dreaming offers an inspirational, offbeat guide to the writing life, sharing whimsical anecdotes about favorite writers along with such sage advice as 'Keep your aspirations to yourself!' and 'Learn to tease the good ideas out of yourself.' Reprint.

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9780679463160 | 1 edition (Random House Inc, August 1, 2002), cover price $23.95 | About this edition: The author offers an inspirational guide to the writing life, sharing anecdotes about favorite writers along with such sage advice as 'Keep your aspirations to yourself' and 'Learn to tease the good ideas out of yourself.

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9780345440464 | Reprint edition (Ballantine Books, August 1, 2003), cover price $16.00 | About this edition: The critically acclaimed author of The Handyman and Dreaming offers an inspirational, offbeat guide to the writing life, sharing whimsical anecdotes about favorite writers along with such sage advice as 'Keep your aspirations to yourself!

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In a hilarious collection of essays, rants, poems, stories, and observations, the author of Diary of an Emotional Idiot shares her thoughts on her own life, offers her opinionated portraits of characters ranging from Iggy Pop to jockey Chris Antley, and presents a selection of short fiction, including 'The Applebaum and Dwyer Letter,' an original tale written in collaboration with Rick Moody. Original. 15,000 first printing.

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9781400047550 | 1 edition (Three Rivers Pr, August 1, 2003), cover price $13.00 | About this edition: In a hilarious collection of essays, rants, poems, stories, and observations, the author of Diary of an Emotional Idiot shares her thoughts on her own life, offers her opinionated portraits of characters ranging from Iggy Pop to jockey Chris Antley, and presents a selection of short fiction, including 'The Applebaum and Dwyer Letter,' an original tale written in collaboration with Rick Moody.

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Product Description: First Published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

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9780415967167 | Routledge, August 1, 2003, cover price $140.00 | About this edition: First Published in 2003.

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9780415967174 | Routledge, August 1, 2003, cover price $38.95 | About this edition: First Published in 2003.

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Celebrates the author's humor and philosophies as reflected in many of his written works, in a collection of excerpts that considers such topics as the human condition, religion, and race. Original.

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9780806525051 | Citadel Pr, August 1, 2003, cover price $12.00 | About this edition: Celebrates the author's humor and philosophies as reflected in many of his written works, in a collection of excerpts that considers such topics as the human condition, religion, and race.

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A series of original essays reflects on the bilingual writer's struggles with identity, choice, expression, and nationalism, in a collection that includes contributions by such authors as Anita Desai, Eva Hoffman, and Ariel Dorfman.

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9781403960665 | 1 edition (Palgrave Macmillan, July 18, 2003), cover price $22.95 | About this edition: A series of essays reflects on the bilingual writer's struggles with identity, choice, expression, and nationalism, with contributions by Anita Desai, Eva Hoffman, and Ariel Dorfman.

In a collection of interviews, fifteen National Book Award winners and finalists examine the profound relationship between reading and writing and describe the book that has had the most influence on his or her life.

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9780679642855, titled "The Book That Changed My Life: Interviews With National Book Award Winners and Finalists" | Modern Library, September 1, 2002, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Every reader can name at least one book that changed his or her life—and many more beloved titles will surely come to mind as well.

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9780679783510, titled "The Book That Changed My Life: Interviews With National Book Award Winners and Finalists" | Modern Library, September 1, 2002, cover price $15.00 | About this edition: In a collection of interviews, fifteen National Book Award winners and finalists examine the profound relationship between reading and writing and describe the book that has had the most influence on his or her life.

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9780613591423 | Turtleback Books, July 1, 2003, cover price $24.50 | About this edition: In a collection of interviews, fifteen National Book Award winners and finalists examine the profound relationship between reading and writing and describe the book that has had the most influence on his or her life.

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Product Description: In this short but powerful book of interlinked essays, noted cultural critic Vijay Prashad examines the contradictions of the American economy.Prashad assesses a range of related issues: the oft-vaunted US economy, propped up by the rising debt of poor and middle-class workers; welfare policies that punish those attempting to escape the grip of debt and poverty; and a prison industry that regulates and houses the unemployed, as well as a reserve army of laborers...read more

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9780896086890 | South End Pr, July 1, 2003, cover price $17.00 | About this edition: In this short but powerful book of interlinked essays, noted cultural critic Vijay Prashad examines the contradictions of the American economy.

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Product Description: In this short but powerful book of interlinked essays, noted cultural critic Vijay Prashad examines the contradictions of the American economy.Prashad assesses a range of related issues: the oft-vaunted US economy, propped up by the rising debt of poor and middle-class workers; welfare policies that punish those attempting to escape the grip of debt and poverty; and a prison industry that regulates and houses the unemployed, as well as a reserve army of laborers...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9780896086906 | South End Pr, June 1, 2003, cover price $40.00 | About this edition: In this short but powerful book of interlinked essays, noted cultural critic Vijay Prashad examines the contradictions of the American economy.

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The noted critic offers a collection of his poetry, film, culture, and fiction criticism, ranging from 1967-2001, including forty-nine witty essays on Judith Krantz, James Agee, Fellini, D. H. Lawrence, W. H. Auden, and more. (view table of contents)

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9780393051803 | 1 edition (W W Norton & Co Inc, June 1, 2003), cover price $35.00 | About this edition: The noted critic offers a collection of his poetry, film, culture, and fiction criticism, including forty-nine essays on such figures as Judith Krantz, James Agee, D.

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Product Description: The essays in Culture in Transit are by many of English Canada's most prominent translators, a group which has made whole libraries of Quebec literature available to English-speaking readers. Philip Stratford, Kathy Mezei, Ray Ellenwood, Betty Bednarski, William Findlay, Linda Gaboriau, Jane Brierley, Susanne de Lotbinière-Harwood, Luise von Flotow, Barbara Godard, David Homel, Wayne Grady, and Sheila Fischman...read more

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9781550650600 | Vehicule Pr, May 1, 2003, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: The essays in Culture in Transit are by many of English Canada's most prominent translators, a group which has made whole libraries of Quebec literature available to English-speaking readers.

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Seven essays on the moral life of literature and the moral burden of the poet seek to rescue key literary works from misinterpretation, in a collection that covers such texts as the Oxford English Dictionary, Tyndale's Bible, and poems by Henry Vaughan and T.S. Eliot. 15,000 first printing. (view table of contents)

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9781582431079 | 1 edition (Counterpoint, April 24, 2003), cover price $25.00 | About this edition: Essays on the moral life of literature and the moral burden of the poet seek to rescue key literary works from misinterpretation, covering such texts as the Oxford English Dictionary and poems by Henry Vaughan and T.

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Product Description: This volume gathers nineteen of the most representative and defining essays from the journal ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment over the course of its first ten years.Following an introduction that traces the stages of ecocriticism's development, The ISLE Reader is organized into three sections, each of which reflects one of the general goals the journal has sought to accomplish...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
By Michael P. Branch (editor) and Scott Slovic (editor)

Hardcover:

9780820325163 | Univ of Georgia Pr, May 1, 2003, cover price $69.95

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9780820325170 | Univ of Georgia Pr, May 1, 2003, cover price $30.95 | About this edition: This volume gathers nineteen of the most representative and defining essays from the journal ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment over the course of its first ten years.

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Product Description: Transatlantic in scope and interdisciplinary in approach, this volume works to restore both a radical edge and a new specificty to the much-debated definitions of Puritans amd Puritansim. Ranging from the 1622 election of a new master at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, to Oliver Cromwell's self-fashioning, to the uses of the Turk in anti-Puritan polemic to Anne Hutchison and the Antinomian crisis, the ten essays offer a richly detailed account of the intersection of religion, politics, and culture in England and America in the seventeenth century and beyond...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9780874138177 | Univ of Delaware Pr, May 1, 2003, cover price $49.50 | About this edition: Transatlantic in scope and interdisciplinary in approach, this volume works to restore both a radical edge and a new specificty to the much-debated definitions of Puritans amd Puritansim.
9781611492262 | Univ of Delaware Pr, May 1, 2003, cover price $52.00 | About this edition: Transatlantic in scope and interdisciplinary in approach, this volume works to restore both a radical edge and a new specificity to the much-debated definitions of Puritans and Puritanism.

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Features ten stories about the secrets of one family, including oddities at Grandmother Eva's house, Eva's daughter, Clara's decision to pose nude while pregnant, and Clara's daughter, Rachel's thoughts of death and tragedy. (view table of contents)

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9781889330839 | 1 edition (Sarabande Books, May 1, 2003), cover price $21.95 | About this edition: Features ten stories about the secrets of one family, including oddities at Grandmother Eva's house, Eva's daughter, Clara's decision to pose nude while pregnant, and Clara's daughter, Rachel's thoughts of death and tragedy.

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9781889330822 | 1 edition (Sarabande Books, May 1, 2003), cover price $13.95 | About this edition: Features ten stories about the secrets of one family, including oddities at Grandmother Eva's house, Eva's daughter, Clara's decision to pose nude while pregnant, and Clara's daughter, Rachel's thoughts of death and tragedy.

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As the United States pushes for war on Iraq, Arundhati Roy, the internationally acclaimed author of The God of Small Things, addresses issues of democracy and dissent, racism and empire, and war and peace in this collection of new essays.The eloquence, passion, and political insight of Roy’s political essays have added legions of readers to those already familiar with her Booker Prize-winning novel. -Invited to lecture as part of the prestigious Lannan -Foundation series on the first anniversary of the unconscionable attacks of September 11, 2001, Roy challenged those who equate dissent with being "anti-American." Her previous essays on globalization and dissent have led many to see Roy as "India's most impassioned critic of globalization and American influence" (New York Times).War Talk collects new essays by this prolific writer. Her work highlights the global rise of religious and racial violence. From the horrific pogroms against Muslims in Gujarat, India, to U.S. demands for a war on Iraq, Roy confronts the call to militarism. Desperately working against the backdrop of the nuclear recklessness between her homeland and Pakistan, she calls into question the equation of nation and ethnicity. And throughout her essays, Roy interrogates her own roles as "writer" and "activist.""If [Roy] continues to upset the globalization applecart like a Tom Paine pamphleteer, she will either be greatly honored or thrown in jail," wrote Pawl Hawken in Wired Magazine. In fact she was jailed in March 2002, when -India's Supreme Court found Roy in contempt of the court after months of attempting to silence her criticism of the government.Fully annotated versions of all Roy's most recent -essays, including her acclaimed Lannan Foundation -lecture from September 2002, are included in War Talk. Arundhati Roy is the winner of the Lannan Foundation’s Prize for Cultural Freedom, 2002, and will be returning to the U.S. in association with the Lannan Foundation in 2003. Roy’s most recent collection of essays, Power Politics, now in its second edition, sold over 25,000 copies in its first 12 months. (view table of contents)

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9780896087231 | 1 edition (South End Pr, April 1, 2003), cover price $40.00 | About this edition: As the United States pushes for war on Iraq, Arundhati Roy, the internationally acclaimed author of The God of Small Things, addresses issues of democracy and dissent, racism and empire, and war and peace in this collection of new essays.

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9780896087248 | 1 edition (South End Pr, April 1, 2003), cover price $12.00

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Product Description: This is a prose poem about reading - a playful, epigrammatic nocturne upon the dream-state one falls into when lost in a book, and the uncanny, trancelike pleasure of making silent marks on paper utter sounds inside one's head. A meditation on reading, the book goes both far and deep, resisting easy summary and classification...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9781582430560 | Counterpoint, May 1, 2000, cover price $23.00 | About this edition: In narrative format, shares the dreamstates and pleasure experienced when browsing and diving into the world of books, taking delight in words on pages.

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9781582432458 | Counterpoint, March 14, 2003, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: This is a prose poem about reading - a playful, epigrammatic nocturne upon the dream-state one falls into when lost in a book, and the uncanny, trancelike pleasure of making silent marks on paper utter sounds inside one's head.

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Product Description: Margaret Cavendish was probably one of the first women to fashion herself as an author. Her scholarly acceptance has been uneasy, but, as these essays aim to show, rather than self-absorbed or lacking in method, her own high-flying Phancies are the self-legitimating grounds of her discourse...read more
By Stephen Clucas (editor)

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9780754604648 | Ashgate Pub Ltd, April 1, 2003, cover price $124.95 | About this edition: Margaret Cavendish was probably one of the first women to fashion herself as an author.

Hardcover:

9781889330754 | 1 edition (Sarabande Books, April 1, 2003), cover price $20.95

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9781889330761 | 1 edition (Sarabande Books, April 1, 2003), cover price $12.95

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Presents a comprehensive, single-volume collection of the essays, letters, and travelogues of the great sixteenth-century humanist and essayist in which he reflects on such topics as truth, solitude, destiny, time, pleasure, loss, and death.

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9781400040216 | Everymans Library, April 1, 2003, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: Presents a comprehensive, single-volume collection of the essays, letters, and travelogues of the great sixteenth-century humanist and essayist in which he reflects on such topics as truth, solitude, destiny, time, pleasure, loss, and death.

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