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  • Sentimentalism in Nineteenth-Century America

    Literary and Cultural Practices

    Edited by Mary G. De Jong ...
    Sentimentalism emerged in eighteenth-century Europe as a moral philosophy founded on the belief that individuals are able to form relationships and communities because they can, by an effort of the imagination, understand one another’s feelings. American authors of both sexes who accepted these views cultivated readers’ sympathy with others in order to promote self-improvement, motivate action to ... Read more

    $47.99 USD

  • Crazy Cock

    by Henry Miller, Mary V. Dearborn ...
    Series series Miller, Henry
    In 1930, Henry Miller moved from New York to Paris, leaving behind — at least temporarily — his tempestuous marriage to June Smith and a novel that had sprung from his anguish over her love affair with a mysterious woman named Jean Kronski. Begun in 1927, Crazy Cock is the story of Tony Bring, a struggling writer whose bourgeois inclinations collide with the disordered bohemianism of his much ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Scritch-Scratch, What's That Batch?

    A Shrew's Tale of Compost, Friendship and New Beginnings

    by Floor de Jonge ...
    Illustrated by Oxana Bondarenko ...
    A tiny adventure with a big heart: discover the secret magic of the garden compost heap!When thunder shakes Old Oak Wood, and rain washes away their snug burrow, a family of shrews must leave the only home they've ever known. Guided by the adventurous and spirited Pip, the family embarks on a journey that leads them far beyond the forest floor and into the mysterious world of a garden compost heap ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • English Language Learners in the Southeastern United States

    Considerations for Practice, Policy, and Advocacy

    by Ester J. de Jong, Eric Dwyer, Mary Elizabeth Wilson-Patton, Zijing An, Elisabeth L. Chan, Maria R. Coady, Ryan W. Pontier, Joan Lachance0, Eleni Pappamihiel1, Susan Spezzini2, Linda Harklau3, Anna Her Yang4, Tu Thi Cam Dang5, Leslie Mendez6, Donita Grissom7, Joyce Nutta8, Kisha Bryan-Jordan9, Amber N. Warren0, Jenna Davis1, Lou Anne Wilkes2, Judith Hobson3 ...
    This book examines the impact of and response to the rapidly growing English language learner (ELL) populations in the southeastern United States on K-16 schooling. Using examples of policy and practice from seven states (Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, and Tennessee), the book explores how the contemporary context of accountability regimes and neoliberal tenets affect ... Read more

    $93.99 USD

  • Toward a Female Genealogy of Transcendentalism

    by Helen R. Deese, Eric Gardner, Laura Dassow Walls, Sarah Ann Wider, Susan M. Stone, Carol Strauss Sotiropoulos, Sterling Delano, Katherine Adams, Noelle Baker, Dorri Beam, Mary De Jong, Monika Elbert, Ivonne Garcia, Daniel Malachuk, Jeffrey A. Steele, Gary Williams ...
    Traditional histories of the American transcendentalist movement begin in Ralph Waldo Emerson’s terms: describing a rejection of college books and church pulpits in favor of the individual power of “Man Thinking.” This essay collection asks how women who lacked the privileges of both college and clergy rose to thought. For them, reading alone and conversing together were the primary means of ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

  • Sing Them Over Again to Me

    Hymns and Hymnbooks in America

    by Mark A. Noll, Mary Louise VanDyke, Candy Gunther Brown, John R. Tyson, Mary G. De Jong, Dennis C. Dickerson, Susan V. Gallagher, Bruce D. Hindmarsh, Samuel J. Rogal, Heather D. Curtis0, Professor Edith L. Blumhofer2 ...
    Series series Religion and American Culture
    Hymns and hymnbooks as American historical and cultural icons.This work is a study of the importance of Protestant hymns in defining America and American religion. It explores the underappreciated influence of hymns in shaping many spheres of personal and corporate life as well as the value of hymns for studying religious life. Distinguishing features of this volume are studies of the most popular ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

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  • Tropic of Capricorn

    by Henry Miller ...
    Series series Miller, Henry
    This companion volume to Miller’s Tropic of Cancer, banned in America for almost thirty years because of its explicit sexual content, chronicles his life in 1920s New York City.Famous for its frank portrayal of life in Brooklyn’s ethnic neighborhoods and Miller’s outrageous sexual exploits, The Tropic of Capricorn is now considered a cornerstone of modern literature.“Miller has once and for all ... Read more

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  • Tropic of Cancer

    by Henry Miller ...
    Henry Miller's famously banned book is "a matter-of-fact celebration of chucking one's dreary life and following your heart to Paris" (Richard Price).Now hailed as an American classic, Tropic of Cancer, Henry Miller's masterpiece, was banned as obscene in this country for twenty-seven years after its first publication in Paris in 1934. Only a historic court ruling that changed American censorship ... Read more

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  • The Portable Anais Nin

    by Anais Nin ...
    The Portable Anaïs Nin is not only the first anthology of the author's work to appear digitally, it is also the first comprehensive collection in nearly forty years, during which time the Nin catalogue has doubled with the release of the erotica and unexpurgated diaries. This book can be used in two ways: as a source book by which readers can make informed choices when considering newly appearing ... Read more

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  • Women

    A Novel

    by Charles Bukowski ...
    With all of Charles Bukowski's trademark humor and gritty, dark honesty, Women, the 1978 follow-up to Post Office and Factotum, is an uncompromising account of life on the edge.Low-life writer and unrepentant alcoholic Henry Chinaski was born to survive. After decades of slacking off at low-paying dead-end jobs, blowing his cash on booze and women, and scrimping by in flea-bitten apartments, ... Read more

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  • Fanny

    Being the True History of the Adventures of Fanny Hackabout-Jones

    by Erica Jong ...
    A "rollicking and bawdy" tale of eighteenth-century England, inspired by Fanny Hill, from the New York Times–bestselling author of Fear of Flying ( The Plain Dealer).Galloping from England to Africa to the high seas of the Caribbean, bestselling author Erica Jong's "perverse epic" follows the amorous adventures of a woman of pleasure and pluck ( The New York Times). Falling in with randy ... Read more

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  • Under a Glass Bell

    by Anais Nin ...
    Often considered Anais Nin's finest work of fiction, this collection of short stories was self-published by Nin with an old-fashioned hand press in 1944. Among the titles are "Houseboat," "The Mouse," "The Labyrinth," and "Birth." ... Read more

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