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 Postmodernism: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)Best Price: $6.64 I'm a student of contemporary art, and I consider myself educated and well read, but I find even... |  The Longman Anthology of British Literature, Volumes 1A, 1B & 1C Package (Longman Anthology of British Literature)Best Price: $49.50 |  Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, Written by Himself (Norton Critical Editions)Best Price: $8.00 Upon its publication in 1845, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave,... |  i before e (except after c)Best Price: $6.49 Little things, little rhymes that make the simple yet essential things in life easy to remember... |  Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men: The Ideology of the Republican Party before the Civil War With a New Introductory EssayBest Price: $13.02 The issues with slavery in America reached all the way back to the birth of the nation. The... |
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 Literature and Society: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, Drama, Nonfiction (4th Edition)Best Price: $53.00 A text/anthology with a difference. Literature and Society, 2nd Edition, provides an extensive,... |  The Compact Bedford Introduction to Literature: Reading, Thinking , WritingBest Price: $20.00 |  Norton Anthology of Literature by Women (Boxed set, Volumes 1 and 2)Best Price: $49.38 Was shipped insanely fast, I think maybe a day? But anyway, just in time for the semester to... |  The Painter from Shanghai: A NovelBest Price: $13.50 This book is well written, but definitely reminds me in many ways of Memoirs of a Geisha... the... |  The Letter of MarqueBest Price: $7.99 The last few books in this series had gotten very complicated and very dark. This book hits a... |
 Silas Marner (Bantam Classics)Best Price: $1.15 This book is required reading for freshman in our high school. This version is very hard to... | Norton Anthology of Literature by Women (Boxed set, Volumes 1 and 2) Best Price: $49.38 Was shipped insanely fast, I think maybe a day? But anyway, just in time for the semester to... | i before e (except after c) Best Price: $6.49 Little things, little rhymes that make the simple yet essential things in life easy to remember... | The Painter from Shanghai: A Novel Best Price: $13.50 This book is well written, but definitely reminds me in many ways of Memoirs of a Geisha... the... | The Letter of Marque Best Price: $7.99 The last few books in this series had gotten very complicated and very dark. This book hits a... |
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 Writing Poems (7th Edition)Best Price: $39.26 WRITING POEMS by Michelle Boisseau and Robert Wallace, 6th ed., offers clear advice, appropriate... |  Chushingura (The Treasury of Loyal Retainers): A Puppet PlayBest Price: $17.95 "Chushingura" is Japan's "Romeo and Juliet". Not literally, of course, as... |  Critical Terms for Literary StudyBest Price: $20.22 While I agree that this is not a text that delves deep into the theories of Lacan or Derrida or... |  Making Communicative Language Teaching HappenBest Price: $69.86 VanPatten has a gift for writing and a penchant from staying away from the trendy, faddish, or... |  Unfortunately, It Was Paradise: Selected PoemsBest Price: $15.15 This book is absolutely exquisite! I only hope that someday I can read it in its original... |
 Aristotle's Poetics (Dramabook,)Best Price: $5.63 I read these works for a graduate seminar on Aristotle. Poetry appeals to human passions and... |  David Copperfield (Penguin Classics)Best Price: $4.82 Classic of the caliber of Great Expectations (Oxford World's Classics). Dickens does a great... |  Literature for Children: A Short Introduction (5th Edition)Best Price: $15.00 This succinct yet comprehensive introduction to children's literature focuses on genres and... |  Literary Theory: An Introduction Second EditionBest Price: $13.00 Terry Eagleton has a clever and no-nonsense approach to the study of literary theory. This book... |  Six Memos for the Next Millennium/the Charles Eliot Norton Lectures 1985-86 (Vintage International)Best Price: $6.00 Six Memos for the Next Millennium is a collection of lectures Italo Calvino had intended to... |
 The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare (Modern Library Classics)Best Price: $4.77 Today it's al Qaeda... in Chesterton's time it was anarchists, ("no government is good... |  A Good Indian Wife: A NovelBest Price: $13.93 Anesthesiologist Neel Sarath has it made. A successful Indian-American doctor with a home in San... |  Paradise Lost (Oxford World's Classics)Best Price: $17.28 This is an excellent edition of "Paradise Lost" to own. The binding and dustjacket are... |  The Mysteries of Udolpho (Penguin Classics)Best Price: $7.93 "I believe that memory is responsible for nearly all these three-volume novels" ... |  On Liberty and Other Essays (Oxford World's Classics)Best Price: $5.57 John Stuart Mill, 1806-73, worked for the East India Co. helped run Colonial India from England.... |
 All Quiet on the Western Front (Cliffs Notes)Best Price: $2.58 I have to admit that I read the Cliff Notes after I read the book twice and saw all three... |  E.E. Cummings: Complete Poems 1904-1962Best Price: $31.22 ee cummings is my favorite poet, so obviously I'm a little biased. But if you love poetry you'll... |  Racing Odysseus: A College President Becomes a Freshman AgainBest Price: $11.00 Interwoven themes of mid-life personal growth and recovery, contemporary college education... |  My AntoniaBest Price: $1.84 The edition of this book that has a cover painting of Antonia in a white dress (ISBN 1438242905)... | |
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