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The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child $6.52 After dark in a Mexican border town, a father holds open a hole in a wire fence as his wife and two small boys crawl through.So begins life in the United States for many people every day. And so begins this collection of twelve autobiographical stories by Santa Clara University professor Francisco Jim�nez, who at the age of four illegally crossed the border with his family in 1947. “The Circuit,… |
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Harvesting the Heart: A Novel $6.00 The author of Picture Perfect “explores the fragile ground of ambivalent motherhood” (New York Times Book Review). Paige’s mother left when she was five. When Paige becomes a mother herself, she is overwhelmed by the demands. Unable to forget her past, Paige struggles with the difficulties of marriage and motherhood…. |
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Persuasion (Oxford World’s Classics) $3.04 Anne Elliot, heroine of Austen’s last novel, did something we can all relate to: Long ago, she let the love of her life get away. In this case, she had allowed herself to be persuaded by a trusted family friend that the young man she loved wasn’t an adequate match, social stationwise, and that Anne could do better. The novel opens some seven years after Anne sent her beau packing, and she’s s… |
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Modern Women Writers $21.95 Willa Cather, Kate Chopin, Carson McCullers, Joyce Carol Oates, Flannery O’Connor, Katherine Anne Porter, Gertrude Stein, Anne Tyler, Eudora Welty, and Edith Wharton are among the most distinguished writers of modern fiction that this country has produced. Their insights into the various roles of women have altered accepted notions of gender in American literature. Often using the intimate territory of family and home as the backdrop of their fiction, these widely read and widely taught authors have also redefined our literary perceptions of plot and character. Modern Women Writers, part of the Essential Bibliography of American Fiction series, introduces the serious reader and student to each representative author’s body of work and to those sources written about her work that illuminate her writing and her life. The book includes a foreword by Mary Ann Wimsatt, McClintock Professor of Southern Letters at the University of South Carolina, that comments on these writers and discusses their collective influence on American fiction. Based on Facts On File’s four-volume Bibliography of American Fiction series, each volume in this concise series profiles between six and ten authors selected according to their backgrounds and writings. The forewords written by experts in literature offer readers a fuller understanding of the authors as a group and place their writings in a larger context. Entries are arranged alphabetically by author and begin with a complete primary bibliography of the author’s books in all genres: fiction, nonfiction, poetry, drama. The secondary bibliography, intended to enhance the reader’s understanding of an author and his works, lists major biographical and criticalbooks and articles. A list of archives locating the principal holdings of an author’s manuscripts and private papers completes each entry. Modern Women Writers is the first resource for anyone who seeks to expand his or her knowledge about the most widely read women authors of our time. Whether the reader wants to discover other works by a favorite author or wants to explore the body of criticism that the works have inspired, this volume provides a reliable road map for the literary journey. |
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Modern English Prose Writers $20.27 Modern English Prose Writers |
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Some Modern French Writers $22.85 Some Modern French Writers |
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Modern Jewish Women Writers in America $28.48 After forty years of feminism, views of the traditional Jewish family, religion, and gender roles have changed. In the process a new literature has been created, new paradigms born, and many Jewish women writers have been reevaluated, reclaimed, and renamed, with their Jewish heritage often overlooked or misinterpreted. Modern Jewish Women Writers in America includes groundbreaking essays and interviews with scholars and authors who reveal that despite pressures of assimilation, personal goals, and in some cases, anti-Semitism, they have never been able to divorce their lives or literature from being Jewish. |
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Modern Chinese Writers $62.95 Buy and sell [Modern Chinese Writers] at great prices. |
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