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  • Understanding Cormac McCarthy

    by Steven Frye ...
    Series series Understanding Contemporary American Literature
    A roadmap to the dark and mythic topography of McCarthy's fictionNamed by Harold Bloom as one of the most significant American novelists of our time, Cormac McCarthy has been honored with the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award for All the Pretty Horses, the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and the Pulitzer Prize for The Road, and the coveted MacArthur Fellowship. In ... Read more

    $26.39 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Unguessed Kinships

    Naturalism and the Geography of Hope in Cormac McCarthy

    by Steven Frye ...
    Series series Studies in American Literary Realism and Naturalism
    Literary naturalism at play in one of America’s most visionary novelists: Cormac McCarthyIt took six novels and nearly thirty years for Cormac McCarthy to find commercial success with the National Book Award–winning All the Pretty Horses, followed by major prizes, more best sellers, and Hollywood adaptations of his work. Those successes, though, have obscured McCarthy’s commitment to an older form ... Read more

    $33.59 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Understanding Larry McMurtry

    by Steven Frye ...
    Series series Understanding Contemporary American Literature
    An inviting, detailed analysis of the work and characters created by this Pulitzer Prize–winning writerBest known for his Pulitzer Prize–winning novel Lonesome Dove and his Academy Award–winning screenplay for Brokeback Mountain, Larry McMurtry is the author of twenty-nine novels, three memoirs, two collections of essays, and more than thirty screenplays. In Understanding Larry McMurtry, Steven ... Read more

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  • The Cambridge Companion to Cormac McCarthy

    Edited by Steven Frye ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    Cormac McCarthy both embodies and redefines the notion of the artist as outsider. His fiction draws on recognizable American themes and employs dense philosophical and theological subtexts, challenging readers by depicting the familiar as inscrutably foreign. The essays in this Companion offer a sophisticated yet concise introduction to McCarthy's difficult and provocative work. The contributors, ... Read more

    $29.59 CAD

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    Unguessed Kinships

    Naturalism and the Geography of Hope in Cormac McCarthy

    by Steven Frye ...
    Narrated by Danny Campbell ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 51 min

    It took six novels and nearly thirty years for Cormac McCarthy to find commercial success with All the Pretty Horses, followed by major prizes, more bestsellers, and Hollywood adaptations of his work. Those successes, though, have obscured McCarthy's commitment to an older form of literary expression: naturalism. McCarthy's work tends to darker themes: violence, brutality, the cruel indifference ... Read more

    $28.84 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • When Hell Came to Sharpsburg

    The Battle of Antietam and its Impact on the Civilians Who Called it Home

    by Steven Cowie ...
    Discover a forgotten chapter of American history with Steven Cowie's riveting account of the Battle of Antietam.The Battle of Antietam, fought in and around Sharpsburg, Maryland, on September 17, 1862, was the bloodiest day in American history. Despite the large number of books and articles on the subject, the battle's horrendous toll on area civilians is rarely discussed. When Hell Came to ... Read more

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  • Cormac McCarthy in Context

    Edited by Steven Frye ...
    Series series Literature in Context
    Cormac McCarthy is a writer informed by an intense curiosity. His interests range from the natural world, to philosophy and religion, to history and culture. Cormac McCarthy in Context offers readers the opportunity to understand how various influences inform his rich body of work. The collection explores the relationship McCarthy has with his favourite authors, writers such as Herman Melville, ... Read more

    $149.59 CAD

  • The Cambridge Companion to the Literature of the American West

    Edited by Steven Frye ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    This Companion provides a comprehensive introduction to one of the most vibrant and expansive traditions in world literature. The American West occupies a unique place in the global imagination, and the literature it produced transcends the category of 'region' in theme and form. Written by prominent international scholars, the essays cover a diverse group of key texts and authors, including major ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • Rhetoric and Democracy in a Post-Truth Era

    by Joshua J. Frye, Steven R. Goldzwig ...
    Rhetoric and Democracy in a Post-Truth Era offers a timely examination of public communication and political culture in the United States and the systemic feedback loops that have amplified democratic dysfunction and violence.Informed by both deductive and inductive analysis of four key perils (post-truth; polarization; [social media] platform; and populism) in the interplay of complex systems, ... Read more

    $136.79 CAD

  • The Last of the Mohicans

    by James Fenimore Cooper ...
    Series series Knickerbocker Classics
    In this classic adventure story, frontiersman Natty Bumppo and his Mohican comrades battle hostile Huron warriors in their daring rescue of the kidnapped Munro sisters.James Fenimore Cooper’s classic novel The Last of the Mohicans is set in the British province of New York during the French and Indian War of 1754-1763. Far and away the most popular volume of Cooper’s Leatherstocking Tales ... Read more

    $18.39 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobooks

    Also available as: Audiobooks

  • Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

    by Mark Twain ...
    Series series Knickerbocker Classics
    Revel in Huck Finn's adventure on the Mississippi River in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, the American masterpiece by Mark Twain."All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called 'Huckleberry Finn'." - Ernest HemingwayA favorite among young readers and adults alike, Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, first published in 1884, is considered to be the author's ... Read more

    $18.39 CAD

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    Also available as: Audiobooks

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  • Roughing It (Mobi Classics)

    by Mark Twain ...
    Roughing It is semi-autobiographical travel literature written by American humorist Mark Twain. It was authored during 1870-71 and published in 1872 as a prequel to his first book Innocents Abroad. Roughing It follows the travels of young Mark Twain through the "Wild West" during the years 1861-1867. After a brief stint as a Confederate cavalry militiaman, he joined his brother who had been ... Read more

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