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The Discovery of Poetry: A Field Guide to Reading and Writing Poems Best Price: $4.70 This product was very helpful. My professor actually required it for an intro to poetry writing...	The Pleasure of the Text Best Price: $6.70 I returned to Barthes not having read him in a long time. A graduate TA, with shaky french...	Shakespeare Lexicon and Quotation Dictionary: A Complete Dictionary of All the English Words, Phrases, and Constructions in the Works of the Poet (Volume 1 A-M Best Price: $12.29 My daughter looked at several sights before checking Amazon. Once again, you all came through. ...	Love My Rifle More Than You: Young and Female in the U.S. Army Best Price: $8.44 I just checked and there happen to be two recent reviews of Clint Eastwood's "Heartbreak...	Writing Poems (7th Edition) Best Price: $39.26 WRITING POEMS by Michelle Boisseau and Robert Wallace, 6th ed., offers clear advice, appropriate...



Camus: The Stranger (A Student Guide: Landmarks of World Literature) Best Price: $14.39 (This is a review of the Matthew Ward translation; black an dwhite cover) This is a newish...	The Portrait of a Lady (Penguin Classics) Best Price: $4.94 Rich people and the traps that they set for themselves. I had a hard time relating to the...	Samuel Johnson: The Major Works (Oxford World's Classics) Best Price: $10.63 Great book, but there is an edition problem where there are pages missing. I got 2 copies, same...	The Critical Tradition: Classic Texts and Contemporary Trends Best Price: $68.11 I am a new English PhD student struggling to learn the history of critical theory and...	Walden: A Fully Annotated Edition Best Price: $18.50 I have at least six or seven different editions of Thoreau's greatest classic, and this one is...



High Tide in Tucson: Essays from Now or Never Best Price: $2.66 The title story in this collection is that of a stowaway hermit crab that Kingsolver...	The Student's Catullus (Oklahoma Series in Classical Culture) Best Price: $19.75 The third edition to Garrison's Catullus is an improvement from the last edition. A minor...	Critical Terms for Literary Study Best Price: $20.22 While I agree that this is not a text that delves deep into the theories of Lacan or Derrida or...	All Year Round (Lifeways) Best Price: $16.00 Healthy and delicious recipes, beautiful poetry, and great ideas centering around natural...	How to Read Egyptian Hieroglyphs: A Step-by-Step Guide to Teach Yourself, Revised Edition Best Price: $16.02 If you have real interest, this is your book. If you are going to Egypt, not just to sightsee,...

The Norton Anthology of Children's Literature: The Traditions inEnglish (Slipcased Edition) Best Price: $40.94 I have this book as a textbook this semester and it has great info.It might have TOO much info...	Borges: Selected Non-Fictions Best Price: $10.79 A must read. A great selection of non-fiction material. If you know and like Borges you know...	Strangers on a Train Best Price: $6.99 The Fiction Writer should put tension on every page of a novel, in every scene, and select every...	Samuel Johnson: The Major Works (Oxford World's Classics) Best Price: $10.63 Great book, but there is an edition problem where there are pages missing. I got 2 copies, same...	The Critical Tradition: Classic Texts and Contemporary Trends Best Price: $68.11 I am a new English PhD student struggling to learn the history of critical theory and...

The Flowers of Evil (Oxford World's Classics) Best Price: $7.82 Baudelaire's poetry is a potent brew of Poe's mystery/terror, Flaubert's realism, Byron's brand...	American Literature, Volume I (Penguin Academics Series) (Penguin Academics) Best Price: $28.15 This was the main assigned text for my Early American Literature course in college. I think the...	Distant Star Best Price: $8.49 Schematic and poorly resolved. Details, situations and descriptions largely uninteresting. Seems...	The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages Best Price: $7.52 I knew, prior to reading this book, that I didn't like Harold Bloom. I've encountered him...	The Art of the Poetic Line (Art of) Best Price: $6.78 How the topic of the poetic line caused angst for the first years of my serious attempts at...

Candide (Bantam Classics) Best Price: $1.00 Voltaire's book, originally published in 1759, is a classic of world literature. At face value,...	Lady Chatterley's Lover (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) Best Price: $8.46 "She saw the clumsy breeches slipping down over the pure, delicate, white loins, the bones...	The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Short Stories (2 Vol. Set) Best Price: $49.50 Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories are widely available in numerous editions, but this...	The Pleasure of the Text Best Price: $6.70 I returned to Barthes not having read him in a long time. A graduate TA, with shaky french...	Shakespeare Lexicon and Quotation Dictionary: A Complete Dictionary of All the English Words, Phrases, and Constructions in the Works of the Poet (Volume 1 A-M Best Price: $12.29 My daughter looked at several sights before checking Amazon. Once again, you all came through. ...

Love My Rifle More Than You: Young and Female in the U.S. Army Best Price: $8.44 I just checked and there happen to be two recent reviews of Clint Eastwood's "Heartbreak...	Writing Poems (7th Edition) Best Price: $39.26 WRITING POEMS by Michelle Boisseau and Robert Wallace, 6th ed., offers clear advice, appropriate...	Camus: The Stranger (A Student Guide: Landmarks of World Literature) Best Price: $14.39 (This is a review of the Matthew Ward translation; black an dwhite cover) This is a newish...	The Portrait of a Lady (Penguin Classics) Best Price: $4.94 Rich people and the traps that they set for themselves. I had a hard time relating to the...	Samuel Johnson: The Major Works (Oxford World's Classics) Best Price: $10.63 Great book, but there is an edition problem where there are pages missing. I got 2 copies, same...

The Critical Tradition: Classic Texts and Contemporary Trends Best Price: $68.11 I am a new English PhD student struggling to learn the history of critical theory and...	The Flowers of Evil (Oxford World's Classics) Best Price: $7.82 Baudelaire's poetry is a potent brew of Poe's mystery/terror, Flaubert's realism, Byron's brand...	The Enlightenment: A Brief History with Documents (The Bedford Series in History and Culture) Best Price: $11.00 After reading a bunch of these Bedford series in History books for a history class, I have...	Miss Manners' Guide to Excruciatingly Correct Behavior, Freshly Updated Best Price: $20.00 Miss Manners' advice (freshly updated or not) is an essential reference for every household. ...	The Custom of the Country (Penguin Classics) Best Price: $7.00 Edith Wharton is still one of America's most well-known female novelists and writers. She...

How to Read a Poem: And Fall in Love with Poetry Best Price: $5.94 While this book has a very academic tone, it is also obvious that the author has a genuine...	Eugene Onegin (Penguin Classics) Best Price: $6.22 Love this book. I love poetry and Puskin is one of my favorite authors. The story depics Russian...	The Heat Seekers Best Price: $6.50 I really loved the Heat Seekers; it left me wanting more. Zane said in her comments, that...	Bulfinch's Greek and Roman Mythology: The Age of Fable (Dover Thrift Editions) Best Price: $1.48 Long time favorite; good place to start for novice interested in mythology; always good for a...	New Keywords: A Revised Vocabulary of Culture and Society Best Price: $24.68 The editors, Tony Bennett, Lawrence Grossberg and Meaghan Morris are well known academics and...

Piers Plowman (Norton Critical Editions) Best Price: $13.50 The poem of 'Piers the Ploughman' is often considered to be anonymously composed, as the name...	I Am a Cat: Three Volumes in One Best Price: $12.44 Contemporary social issues have always been tackled by Japanese novelists, notably Natsume...	Blending Genre, Altering Style : Writing Multigenre Papers Best Price: $17.82 I love this book and have decided to base my Masters Project on this concept. Tom Romano gives...	Absalom, Absalom!: The Corrected Text (Modern Library) Best Price: $10.69 I wrote a paper historical truth in Absalom! Absalom! in graduate school and decided to revisit...	Marxism and Literature (Marxist Introductions) Best Price: $26.46 This book extends the theme of Raymond Williams's earlier work in literary and cultural...

Theory into Practice: An Introduction to Literary Criticism Best Price: $77.14 Beginning with more accessible critical approaches and gradually introducing more challenging...	Bleak House (Penguin Classics) Best Price: $4.55 The Introduction by Bradbury in the Penguin version, which I would suggest not looking at until...	The Anti-Aesthetic: Essays on Postmodern Culture Best Price: $19.50 Collection of essays on postmodernism and various examples thereof. Consumed this particular...	The Country and the City Best Price: $13.06 Really like this book. As a rural dwelling, rural upbrought, bumpkin, who nevertheless has had...	Teaching American English Pronunciation (Oxford Handbooks for Language Teachers) Best Price: $23.34 I was asssigned this book in a non-credit ESL pronunciation course, and found it a bit less...

Walden, Civil Disobedience, and Other Writings, Third Edition (Norton Critical Editions) Best Price: $10.00 This revised and expanded Norton Critical Edition reprints the texts of Walden, Civil...	Critical Handbook of Children's Literature, A (8th Edition) Best Price: $64.42 EXCELLENT. PROVIDES A SYNOPSIS OF THE ESSENTIAL ELEMENTS OF LITERATURE FOR CHILDREN. EXAMPLES...

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