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  • Ernest Hemingway

    A New Life

    by James M. Hutchisson ...
    To many, the life of Ernest Hemingway has taken on mythic proportions. From his romantic entanglements to his legendary bravado, the elements of Papa’s persona have fascinated readers, turning Hemingway into such an outsized figure that it is almost impossible to imagine him as a real person. James Hutchisson’s biography reclaims Hemingway from the sensationalism, revealing the life of a man who ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD

  • Poe

    by James M. Hutchisson ...
    Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) was an American original-a luminous literary theorist, an erratic genius, and an analyst par excellence of human obsession and compulsion. The scope of his literary achievements and the dramatic character of Poe's life have drawn readers and critics to him in droves.And yet, upon his death, one obituary penned by a literary enemy in the New York Daily Tribune cascaded ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • Poe

    by James M. Hutchisson ...
    Series series Willie Morris Books in Memoir and Biography
    Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849) was an American original—a luminous literary theorist, an erratic genius, and an analyst par excellence of human obsession and compulsion. The scope of his literary achievements and the dramatic character of Poe’s life have drawn readers and critics to him in droves.And yet, upon his death, one obituary penned by a literary enemy in the New York Daily Tribune cascaded ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD

  • Edgar Allan Poe

    Beyond Gothicism

    by James M. Hutchisson, Amy C. Branam, Dennis Eddings, Benjamin F. Fisher, Peter Goodwin, Kevin J. Hayes, Leon Jackson, John F. Jebb, Daniel Phillippon, Laura Saltz, C T. Walters, Justin Wert ...
    Most frequently regarded as a writer of the supernatural, Poe was actually among the most versatile of American authors, writing social satire, comic hoaxes, mystery stories, science fiction, prose poems, literary criticism and theory, and even a play. As a journalist and editor, Poe was closely in touch with the social, political, and cultural trends of nineteenth-century America. Recent ... Read more

    $62.99 CAD

  • Conversations with Paul Auster

    Edited by James M. Hutchisson ...
    Series series Literary Conversations Series
    Paul Auster (b. 1947) is one of the most critically acclaimed and intensely studied authors in America today. His varied career as a novelist, poet, translator, and filmmaker has attracted scholarly scrutiny from a variety of critical perspectives. The steadily rising arc of his large readership has made him something of a popular culture figure with many appearances in print interviews, as well ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

  • Conversations with Paul Auster

    Edited by James M. Hutchisson ...
    Series series Literary Conversations Series
    Paul Auster (b. 1947) is one of the most critically acclaimed and intensely studied authors in America today. His varied career as a novelist, poet, translator, and filmmaker has attracted scholarly scrutiny from a variety of critical perspectives. The steadily rising arc of his large readership has made him something of a popular culture figure with many appearances in print interviews, as well ... Read more

    $45.99 CAD

  • The Job

    by Sinclair Lewis ...
    Series series Foundations of Feminist Fiction
    Sinclair Lewis' scandalous tale of Una Golden, who dared to work, marry, divorce and find success in the male-dominated society of New York in the early 1900s.Sinclair Lewis, the first American to win the Nobel Prize for literature, and a writer lauded both for his craft and his principles, wrote The Job as a statement of female empowerment, and self-determination over societal expectation. ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

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    by Sinclair Lewis ...
    Arrowsmith has been inspirational for several generations of med students. Martin Arrowsmith agonizes over his career and life decisions never sure if he’s making the correct descisions. While the book details Arrowsmith's pursuit of the noble ideals of medical research for the benefit of mankind and of selfless devotion to the care of patients, Lewis throws many less noble temptations and self ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD

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  • Main Street

    by Sinclair Lewis ...
    Main Street by Sinclair Lewis is a powerful novel of American literature, offering a compelling social commentary on the tensions between tradition and modernity in small-town Middle America. Set in a rural community, Lewis intricately explores the struggle of individualism against the pressures of conformity. Through the lens of his protagonist, Carol Kennicott, the novel critiques the stifling ... Read more

    $1.99 CAD

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  • Marguerite de Valois

    by Alexandre Dumas ...
    Queen Marguerite of Valois, sister of Charles IX and wife of Henry of Navarre, is surrounded by political and amorous intrigue during the Massacre of St. Bartholomew. The author, according to his custom, introduces a vast array of characters, for the most part historical, all spiritedly drawn and well sustained. M. Dumas may, in various respects, be held up as an example to our history spoilers, ... Read more

    $1.99 CAD

  • A Mystery of Mysteries

    The Death and Life of Edgar Allan Poe

    by Mark Dawidziak ...
    An Agatha, Edgar, Anthony, Macavity, and Ohioana Award nominee!A Mystery of Mysteries is a brilliant biography of Edgar Allan Poe that examines the renowned author’s life through the prism of his mysterious death and its many possible causes.It is a moment shrouded in horror and mystery. Edgar Allan Poe died on October 7, 1849, at just forty, in a painful, utterly bizarre manner that would not ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

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  • The Modern Library Writer's Workshop

    A Guide to the Craft of Fiction

    by Stephen Koch ...
    “Make [your] characters want something right away—even if it’s only a glass of water. Characters paralyzed by the meaninglessness of modern life still have to drink water from time to time.” —Kurt Vonnegut“‘The cat sat on the mat’ is not the beginning of a story, but ‘the cat sat on the dog’s mat’ is.” —John Le CarréNothing is more inspiring for a beginning writer than listening to masters of the ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD