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This introduction to the life and work of Bert Coombes should be valuable not just for its assessment of Coombes, but for the light that it sheds on the social and industrial context in which he lived. His writing articulated the social and economic injustice of contemporary capitalism.

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Benjamin Franklin - American Writers 19 was first published in 1962. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions.

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A new critical biography of the influential playwright, writer, poet and activist, Bertolt Brecht (1898 - 1956). Known for his experimental, modernist Epic Theatre and its 'alienation effect', Brecht sought to break down the division between high art and popular culture. The Threepenny Opera Mother Courage and Galileo

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F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby is considered by many to be one of America's great novels. Richard Webb's Boats Against the Current is an essential document for anyone who has read Gatsby and wondered at the fantastic world whose story it tells.

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This amalgam of essay, literary criticism, and memoir blends into a tribute to the world of books. Chicago...

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Borderlines is a memoir of Greece, its life, culture, writers and people.

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Twelve extensive interviews covering twenty years of aesthetic and spiritual insights from a beloved American poet.

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Carl Sandburg - American Writers 97 was first published in 1972. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions.

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Caroline Gordon - American Writers 59 was first published in 1966. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions.

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Carson McCullers was first published in 1969. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions.

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In this biography, both the man and his ministry are captured.

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Conrad Aiken - American Writers 38 was first published in 1964. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions.

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The second collection from award-winning poet Jim Tilley, who writes "finely crafted poems in which readers will find bits and pieces of their own lives" (Stephen Dobyns).

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A moving story of rebellion, lost love, criminal daring, and restless searching.Leonard Gardner, author of Fat City

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Dashiell Hammett changed the face of crime fiction. A controversial political activist who stood for civil liberty, he was also a very private man. In this biography, the author uses fresh research, including interviews with Hammett's family and Hellman's heir, to reexamine his life and works.

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A full portrait of the complex and brilliant Spanish poet and dramatist Federico Garcia Lorca.

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A transformative memoir by a queer disabled brown femme and abuse survivor: an intersectional, tragicomic story told with wild abandon.

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The first definitive, authorised biography of the late Elizabeth Jolley - one of the most distinctive and remarkable voices in Australian literature. Brian Dibble draws on Jolley's private letters and diaries as well as extensive interviews with family and friends in this revealing and surprising biography.