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  • Story Writing

    Do you want professional help in writing short stories? Magazine editors think highly of the advice given by Edith Mirrielees. Established authors turn to her for aid and criticism. Writers' conferences welcome her as a lecturer. Her book can help you, too.STORY WRITING by Edith Ronald Mirrieless is an up-to-date revision of THE STORY WRITER, which became one of the most popular books on writing ... Read more

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  • A Life of Shakespeare

    'You are a genuine soaker in Shakespeare, and have not read him as a task. You have him by heart.'—Bernard Shaw wrote in a letter to Hesketh Pearson.Before he became a well-known biographer, Hesketh Pearson was an actor. Few facts are known about Shakespeare, but with an actor's eye and a supreme self-confidence Pearson has drawn a recognisable portrait of Shakespeare the man—even telling us the ... Read more

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  • Across Spoon River

    An Autobiography

    The memoirs of one of Illinois' great poets, author of Spoon River Anthology, with many vignettes of the Chicago Renaissance.This intimate and provocative autobiography, first published in 1936, reveals the innermost thoughts of a great American poet. Edgar Lee Masters was a transitional figure in American literature with one foot planted in the nineteenth century and the other firmly placed on ... Read more

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  • The Highland Hawk

    First published in 1952, this book by acclaimed author Leslie Turner White is set in seventeenth-century Scotland when Cromwell tries to win over the Highlands to the Parliamentary cause.From his first battle, Davy Dugald was a marked man. Masquerading in the royal kilts of his dead master he saved the day for the soldiers of Oliver Cromwell. But Davy knew that the secret of his lowly birth and ... Read more

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  • Myth and the English Mind

    From Piers Plowman to Edward Gibbon

    Presented in this volume are the Clark Lectures which Dr. Tillyard gave in Cambridge in 1959-1960, as delivered. The lectures range over a wide field, from the Middle Ages to the end of the 18th century, and are given unity in their concern with various myths and the literary embodiment of these myths in different periods of English literature. ... Read more

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  • The Magnolia Jungle

    The Life, Times, and Education of a Southern Editor

    by P. D. East ...
    First published in 1960, this book tells of author P. D. East's trials and tribulations as a liberal editor during the times of the civil rights movement in the Deep South. It is also the story of his struggle to find his own identity and maturity out of a confused, poverty-ridden childhood in rough country towns, which created the prelude for his growing awareness of the blight of southern ... Read more

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  • A View from the Hill

    THE FORTUNE TELLER TOLD HER—"YOU AIN'T DONE LIVING YET!"In A View from the Hill, popular author of novels such as Ann Singleton (1938) and But the Morning Will Come (1949), Cid Ricketts Sumner, paints a vivid picture of a woman's mature years made rich by living life to the fullest in a series of brief essays on friendship, love, and finding new interests. ... Read more

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  • Life Was Simpler Then

    In this charming book of personal recollections, the author, Loula Grace Erdman, returns to her childhood in western Missouri and recreates the way of life as she then knew it. There is, for instance, and amusing section on the series of hired men who helped on the farm, followed by chapters on spring house cleaning, on family reunions, on church attendance, on the Chautauqua. It was a time where ... Read more

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  • Guerilla Warfare Readings

    The material in this memorandum supplements readings presented in the volume, Modern Guerrilla Warfare, edited by Franklin Mark Osanka and published in 1962, and together they will give the reader a comprehensive cross-section of the many facets of guerrilla warfare.The first two readings are a concise review of guerrilla warfare from ancient times to the present.The next three readings are ... Read more

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  • Counterpoint

    Kenneth Burke and Aristotle's Theories on Rhetoric

    Kenneth Duva Burke (1897-1993) was an American literary theorist, poet, essayist, and novelist, who wrote on 20th-century philosophy, aesthetics, criticism, and rhetorical theory. As a literary theorist, Burke was best known for his analyses based on the nature of knowledge. One of the first individuals to stray away from more traditional rhetoric and view literature as "symbolic action," Burke ... Read more

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  • PHILOPHOBIA

    The fear of falling in love

    by Natan Burns ...
    This book will help us on how to deal with Philophobia, and how to make the right choice in choosing a better partner. ... Read more

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  • Yeats's Iconography

    William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) was an Irish poet and one of the foremost figures of 20th century literature. A pillar of both the Irish and British literary establishments, he helped to found the Abbey Theatre, and in his later years served as an Irish Senator for two terms. Awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1923, Yeats—along with Lady Gregory, Edward Martyn and others—was a driving force ... Read more

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