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BC, LIT000000, LIT004020, Nebraska Paperback, University of Nebraska PressA Great Plains Reader
$40.00The Great Plains are as rich and integral a part of American literature as they are of the North American landscape. In this volume the stories, poems, and essays that…
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BC, LIT000000, LIT004020, Nebraska Paperback, University of Nebraska PressA Sender of Words
$14.95Author of more than thirty books of poetry, Western history, stories, fiction, biography, criticism, and Native studies, John G. Neihardt (1881–1973) was born in Illinois, taught for many years at…
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BB, Hardcover, LIT004020, LIT004290, Southern Illinois University PressA Tawdry Place of Salvation
$39.00Through these essays—which deal with Bowles’s published as well as her unpublished work—Skerl seeks to generate serious critical attention for an important but neglected female experimental writer of the mid-twentieth…
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BC, Harper Perennial, HarperCollins, LCO002000, LIT004020, Paperback - TradeAlfred Kazin’s America
$17.99Over the course of sixty years, Alfred Kazin’s writings confronted virtually all of our major imaginative writers, from Emerson to Emily Dickinson to James Wright and Joyce Carol Oates –…
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LIT004020, LIT013000, Paperback - Trade, Penguin Books, philosophyAn Enemy of the People
$16.00Dr. Stockmann attempts to expose a water pollution scandal in his home town which is about to establish itself as a spa. When his brother, the mayor, conspires with local…
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BB, LIT004020, PER011020, PER011030, Southern Illinois University Press, Trade Cloth
Art Isn’t Easy
$44.00The new musical theatre of Stephen Sondheim shuns the traditional story of love triumphant, probing instead the more disturbing issues of contemporary life.Confident that the musical is America’s greatest original…
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BB, Hardback, LIT004020, PHI016000, University of Michigan Press, University of Michigan PressChic Ironic Bitterness
$40.00A brilliant and timely reflection on irony in contemporary American culture“This book is a powerful and persuasive defense of sophisticated irony and subtle humor that contributes to the possibility of…
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BB, Hardcover, LAN015000, LIT004020, soc018000, SOC028000, Southern Illinois University PressCold Warriors
$45.00Cold Warriors: Manliness on Trial in the Rhetoric of the West returns to familiar cultural forces—the West, anticommunism, and manliness—to show how they combined to suppress dissent and dominate the…
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BIO007000, Hardcover, LIT004020, Palgrave MacmillanErnest Hemingway
$110.00This Literary Life tells the story of Hemingway the writer by concentrating on four periods of his best work, shaped in part by study of the correspondence between him and…
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