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A collection of fiction, poetry, and essays from "Crisis", the magazine that launched the literature of the Harlem Renaissance. Contributors include Langston Hughes, Countee Cullen, Jean Toomer, Arna Bontemps, E. Franklin Frazier, and Alain Locke.

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A collections of anecdotes, reviews and essays, written with the humour and warmth one associates with Brian Aldiss.

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A discourse on the connection between sex, eroticism and love in literature by the Nobel Prize-winning poet and essayist.

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Offers an array of topics from sex in cinema to drugs, graffiti, Bob Dylan, cyberculture, 9/11, book touring and Marlon Brando. This book simmers with direct challenges to conventional wisdom and deep insights into the kaleidoscopic nature of artistic vision, and the way the author's own experiences have fuelled his creative passions.

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This title shares the 40-year correspondence between a story-writer and her New Yorker editor. Witty and affectionate, it is an addition to the literature of friendship.

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This unique one-volume collection contains writings by one of the 20th century's most gifted and effective African-American intellectual-activists. It includes two short never-before-published plays along with Johnson's complete novel "Autobiography of an Ex-Coloured Man" and much more.

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From colonial times to the present, traveler and immigrant writers have seen America with new eyes. They have perceived and recorded the American experience as few native-born writers could do, yet their lives and words have often been left out of traditional American studies.

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Following The Broken Estate, The Irresponsible Self, and How Fiction Works books that established James Wood as the leading critic of his generation The Fun Stuff confirms Woods pre-eminence, not only as a discerning judge but also as an appreciator of the contemporary novel.

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A powerful collection of personal essays on displacement, being different and living between two worlds, told with humour and self-reflection.

'A book for our times, written with wit, lyricism, cynicism and tenderness.' Rachel House

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Depicting the lives of the saints in an array of both factual and fictional stories, "The Golden Legend" was perhaps the most widely read book, after the Bible, during the late Middle Ages. This title captures the immediacy of this image-filled work, and offers an important guide for readers interested in medieval art and literature.

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Depicting the lives of the saints in an array of both factual and fictional stories - some preposterous, some profound, and some shocking - "The Golden Legend" was perhaps the most widely read book, after the Bible, during the late Middle Ages. This title presents an English translation of the complete text.

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Jacob Burckhardt (1818-97) was one of the greatest historians of classical and Renaissance art, architecture and culture. The Greeks and Greek Civilization describes, in detail, the lives of the ancient Greeks and the origins of their culture. This book has never appeared before in English.

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The Green Thread is an interdisciplinary collection of essays that takes the risk of departing from the long-standing human perception of plants-- including autonomy, agency, and consciousness--to explore new territories where the re-conceptualization of vegetable beings as active agents in social and cultural environments becomes possible.

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"From Abdera (an ancient city in Thrace) to Zeus (chief god of the Greeks), this authoritative handbook covers all the major aspects of Greek and Roman literature, mythology, and civilization. It featu"

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This collection of passionate and polemical essays deal with drama, from its origin in the human mind to its use in history and the present. It elucidates on the hidden working of drama behind the state, religion, family, crime and war.

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An anthology of nearly two hundred "hieroglyphics," or allegorical emblems, said to have been used by the Pharaonic scribes in describing natural and moral aspects of the world. This work tells how various types of natural phenomena, emotions, virtues, philosophical concepts, and human character-types were symbolized.

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These essays cover a range of topics, including art and architecture, religion, and literature in a collage of ideas, commentary, and criticism from snake handling to Wallace Stevens.

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This book offers a selection of superb photographs by the famous turn-of-the-century photographer Herbert Gleason. Retracing one of Thoreau's early journeys, Gleason produced moving and dramatic pictures of life along the rivers of New England. Originally published in 1984. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology t

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The common thread in Wood's latest collection of essays is what makes us laugh - and the book is an attempt to distinguish between the perhaps rather limited English comedy (as seen in Waugh, for example) and a 'continental' tragic-comedy, which he sees as real, universal and quixotic.

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