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    A Sexy Guide to Screenwriting for Film and TV

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    Series series Pine Street Books
    "In the Days of Serfdom" and Other Stories, originally published in 1911, presents in miniature themes developed in Tolstoy's longer works War and Peace and Anna Karenina. The compelling stories in this collection have largely been ignored by contemporary scholars and teachers because of their general unavailability. Available once again, the stories reveal new thematic and stylisitic dimensions ... Read more

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    Translated by Louise Maude, Aylmer Maude ...
    Series series Pine Street Books
    "In the Days of Serfdom" and Other Stories, originally published in 1911, presents in miniature themes developed in Tolstoy's longer works War and Peace and Anna Karenina. The compelling stories in this collection have largely been ignored by contemporary scholars and teachers because of their general unavailability. Available once again, the stories reveal new thematic and stylisitic dimensions ... Read more

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  • Dictionary of Midwestern Literature, Volume 2

    Dimensions of the Midwestern Literary Imagination

    by Crystal S. Anderson, David D. Anderson, Kathie Ryckman Anderson, Patricia Anderson, Marilyn Judith Atlas, Thomas Fox Averill, Paul Baggett, William Barillas, Jill Barnum, Anne Beck, Robert Beasecker, James M. Boehnlein, Sheena Denney Boran, Victoria Brehm, Rachel Breneman, Roger Bresnahan, Emily Thornton Calvo, Sharon Carlson, Jennifer Cathey, Andrew R. L. Cayton, Haeja K. Chung, Emily Churilla, Hannah L. Coffey, Daniel P. Compora, Sheila Marie Contreras, Leslie Czechowski, Edward Dauterich, Todd Fleming Davis, Theresa Delgadillo, Jill Doerfler, Robert Dunne, Maureen N. Eke, Carol Fadda-Conrey, Katherine Fama, Timothy C. Frazer, Philip L. Gerber, Kenneth B. Grant, Marsha O. Greasley, Øyvind T. Gulliksen, Benjamin Hale, Willie J. Harrell, Stephen C. Holder, Ashley Hopkins, Jeffrey Hotz, William E. Huntzicker, Katherine Joslin, Immaculate Kizza, Sara Kosiba, Joyce R. Ladenson, Clarence Lindsay, Larry Lockridge, Loren Logsdon, Paul W. Miller, David Newquist, Marcia Noe, Mary DeJong Obuchowski, Sally E. Parry, Steve Paul, David Perusek, John R. Pfeiffer, Rod Phillips, Denise Pilato, Ronald Primeau, David Radavich, Kristy Nelson Raine, Milton Reigelman, Garyn G. Roberts, John Rohrkemper, Robert L. Root, Margaret Rozga, Herbert K. Russell, Mike Ryan, David K. Sauer, Ann L. Seaton, James Seaton, Marc Kelly Smith, Joyce Caldwell Smith, Crystal Stallman, Jeffrey Swenson, Guy Szuberla, Thom Tammaro, Jon C. Teaford, Catherine Tobin, Ellen Serlen Uffen, Lance Weldy, Johnnie Wilcox, Keith Wilhite, Douglas Wixson, Joseph Wydeven, Susan Yanos ...
    The Midwest has produced a robust literary heritage. Its authors have won half of the nation's Nobel Prizes for Literature plus a significant number of Pulitzer Prizes. This volume explores the rich racial, ethnic, and cultural diversity of the region. It also contains entries on 35 pivotal Midwestern literary works, literary genres, literary, cultural, historical, and social movements, state and ... Read more

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  • A Quote A Day for Writers: 365 Quotations on the Art, Craft, Humor, Heartbreak, Joys & Magic of Writing

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