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Nothing to Be Frightened Of

By: Barnes, Julian

Price: $7.50

Publisher: Knopf: September 2008

Seller ID: 94257

ISBN: 0307269639

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Two years after the best-selling Arthur & George, Julian Barnes gives us an essay on mortality that touches on faith and science and family as well as a rich array of exemplary figures who over the centuries have confronted the same questions he now poses about the most basic fact of life: its inevitable extinction. If the fear of death is the most rational thing in the world, how does one contend with it? An atheist at twenty, an agnostic at sixty, Barnes looks into the various arguments for and against and with God, and at the bloodline whose archivist, following his parents' death, he has b...
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Something to Declare

By: Barnes, Julian

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Publisher: August 2011

Seller ID: 151141

ISBN: 033048916X

Binding: Trade Paperback

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Eighteen witty and brilliant essays on France from Julian Barnes; Julian Barnes's long and passionate relationship with France began more than forty years ago. As sceptical observer on family motoring holidays, assistant in a school in Brittany, student of the language and literature, author of Flaubert's Parrot and Cross Channel, he has criss-crossed the country and its culture The essays collected here, written over a twenty-year period, attest to his cleareyed appreciation of the Land Without Brussels Sprouts. He ranges widely, from landscape to literature, food to Flaubert, film and song t...
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Words Onscreen: The Fate of Reading in a Digital World

By: Baron, Naomi S.

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Seller ID: 368309

ISBN: 0199315760

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

People have been reading on computer screens for several decades now, predating popularization of personal computers and widespread use of the internet. But it was the rise of eReaders and tablets that caused digital reading to explode. In 2007, Amazon introduced its first Kindle. Three years later, Apple debuted the iPad. Meanwhile, as mobile phone technology improved and smartphones proliferated, the phone became another vital reading platform. In Words Onscreen, Naomi Baron, an expert on language and technology, explores how technology is reshaping our understanding of what it means to r...
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Neverland: J.M. Barrie, the Du Mauriers, and the Dark Side of Peter Pan

By: Barrie/Dudgeon, Piers

Price: $4.00

Publisher: August 2014

Seller ID: 445337

ISBN: 1605981915

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Barrie later altered Sylvia's will after her death so that he could become the boys' legal guardian, while pushing several members of the family to nervous breakdown and suicide. Barrie's compulsion to dominate was so apparent to those around him that D. H. Lawrence once wrote: J. M Barrie has a fatal touch for those he loves. They die.

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Creators on Creating: Awakening and Cultivating the Imaginative Mind

By: Barron Frank, Montuori Alfonso

Price: $5.00

Publisher: April 2011

Seller ID: 135548

ISBN: 0874778549

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

This collection of over three dozen essays ponders the essence of creativity. Includes selections from Henry Miller, Federico Fellini, Rainer Maria Rilke, Isadora Duncan, Frank Zappa, and Mary Shelley. A New Consciousness Reader.
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Double Down: Reflections on Gambling and Loss

By: Barthelme, Frederick

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Publisher: January 2010

Seller ID: 480042

ISBN: 0395954290

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

"So each night begins. One of us picks up the other and we drive into the Mississippi darkness, headed for a place where everything is different." This first nonfiction book by Frederick Barthelme, author of BOB THE GAMBLER, and his brother and colleague Steven is both a story of family feeling and a testimony to the risky allure of casinos. Within a year and a half, the authors had lost both of their parents, less than a decade after their brother Donald died. Their exacting father had been a prominent modernist architect in Houston; their mother, the architect of this family of seven, which ...
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Painter of Modern Life and Other Essays

By: Baudelaire, Charles

Price: $6.00

Publisher: October 2016

Seller ID: 447674

ISBN: 0306802791

Binding: Trade Paperback

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Sylvia Beach and the Lost Generation: A History of Literary Paris in the Twenties & Thirties

By: Beach, Sylvia/Fitch, Noel Rile

Price: $5.00

Publisher: August 2013

Seller ID: 402918

ISBN: 0393302318

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Making use of the author's access to the Beach family papers, this account chronicles the literary circle that gathered at Beach's Paris book shop.
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Feud: Vladimir Nabokov, Edmund Wilson, and the End of a Beautiful Friendship

By: Beam, Alex

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Seller ID: 393161

ISBN: 1101870222

Binding: Hardcover

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The Feud is the deliciously ironic (and sad) tale of how two literary giants destroyed their friendship in a fit of mutual pique and egomania.

In 1940, Edmund Wilson was the undisputed big dog of American letters. Vladimir Nabokov was a near-penniless Russian exile seeking asylum in the States. Wilson became a mentor to Nabokov, introducing him to every editor of note, assigning him book reviews for The New Republic, engineering a Guggenheim Fellowship. Their intimate friendship blossomed over a shared interest in all things Russian, ruffled a bit by political disagreements....
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All Said and Done

By: Beauvoir, Simone De

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Publisher: Warner Books> C/o Little Br: January 1976

Seller ID: 473623

ISBN: 0446811920

Binding: Trade Paperback

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Beckett Remembering/Remembering Beckett: A Centenary Celebration

By: Beckett, Samuel

Price: $7.50

Seller ID: 347034

ISBN: 1559707720

Binding: Hardcover

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Reading Godot

By: Beckett, Samuel/Gordon,Luis

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Seller ID: 343055

ISBN: 0300092865

Binding: Hardcover

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Waiting for Godot has been acclaimed as the greatest play of the twentieth century. It is also the most elusive: two lifelong friends sing, dance, laugh, weep, and question their fate on a road that descends from and goes nowhere. Throughout, they repeat their intention "Let's go," but this is inevitably followed by the direction "(They do not move.)." This is Beckett's poetic construct of the human condition.

Lois Gordon, author of The World of Samuel Beckett, has written a fascinating and illuminating introduction to Beckett's great work for general readers, students...
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Long Sonata of the Dead

By: Beckett, Samuel/Robinson

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Seller ID: 404797

ISBN: E551

Binding: Trade Paperback

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Conversations with Samuel Beckett and Bram Van Velde (French Literature Series)

By: Beckett, Samuel/Velde

Price: $15.00

Seller ID: 373860

ISBN: 1564785319

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Itself a mixture of idolatry, deft characterization, and critical insight, "Conversations with Samuel Beckett and Bram Van Velde" is both an entertaining and insightful contribution to our understanding of the lives and thoughts of two masters.
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To Jerusalem and Back: A Personal Account

By: Bellow, Saul

Price: $9.00

Publisher: The Viking Press: October 1976

Seller ID: 171662

ISBN: 0670717290

Binding: Hardcover

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It All Adds Up, From the Dim Past to the Uncertain Future

By: Bellow, Saul

Price: $6.00

Publisher: June 2013

Seller ID: 240575

ISBN: 0670853313

Binding: Hardcover

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It All Adds Up: From The Dim Past To The Uncertain Future

By: Bellow, Saul

Price: $5.00

Publisher: March 2013

Seller ID: 447048

ISBN: 0140233652

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Saul Bellow's fiction, honored by a Nobel Prize and a Pulitzer, among other awards, has made him a literary giant. Now the man himself and a lifetime of his insightful views on a range of topics spring off the page in this, his first nonfiction collection, which encompasses articles, lectures, essays, travel pieces, and an "Autobiography of Ideas." It All Adds Up is a fascinating journey through literary America over the last forty years, guided by one of the "most gifted chroniclers in the Western World" (The London Times).
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Saul Bellow: Letters

By: Bellow, Saul

Price: $7.50

Publisher: Viking: November 2010

Seller ID: 481181

ISBN: 0670022217

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

A never-before-published collection of letters - an intimate self-portrait as well as the portrait of a century. Saul Bellow was a dedicated correspondent until a couple of years before his death, and his letters, spanning eight decades, show us a twentieth-century life in all its richness and complexity. Friends, lovers, wives, colleagues, and fans all cross these pages. Some of the finest letters are to Bellow's fellow writers-William Faulkner, John Cheever, Philip Roth, Martin Amis, Ralph Ellison, Cynthia Ozick, and Wright Morris. Intimate, ironical, richly observant, and funny, these lette...
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