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Expert contributors survey the current state of African literature and discuss such topics as language and postcoloniality, women and African literature, and historical and ideological concerns.

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From writings on food and sex to a mini portrait of his great friend and rival, Albert Camus, this volume brings together a collection of Sartrean gems.

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An anthology of fiction, essays and poetry on the theme of motherhood. From a woman's choice to become a mother to the inner working of a mother's relationship with her children, the full cycle of motherhood is covered in works by authors such as Maya Angelou and Amy Tan.

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This gathering of short fiction and essays traces the artistic resume of Ed McClanahan.

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George Orwell was first and foremost an essayist. From his earliest published article in 1928 to his untimely death in 1950, he produced an extraordinary array of short non-fiction that reflected - and illuminated - the fraught times in which he lived and wrote. This book charts Orwell's development as a master of the narrative-essay form.

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A luminous and remarkable memoir of a singular life in art and nature.

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Emily Hahn, staff writer for "The New Yorker" for more than 70 years, describes her experiences traveling alone in the Belgian Congo at age 25, her liaisons with a Chinese poet and a British spy, and her life as a writer in Greenwich Village.

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Contains essays that describe what it means to be black in America. This book describes the tragedies that are inflicted by racial segregation and presents a poignant account of the author's first journey to 'the Old Country', the Southern states.

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Now for the first time in English comes Borges's literary guide to his native--and beloved--Argentina and Buenos Aires, 128 pp.

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In the tradition of such writing guides as "The Writing Life" by Annie Dillard, "On Writing" is a master class in the art by one of its most distinguished and innovative practitioners. Now available for the first time in an English-language edition.

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Set in England, Africa and Italy this collection of Steinbeck's World War II news correspondence was written for the New Yolk Herald Tribune in the latter part of 1943.

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A modern collection of speeches by southerners on the themes that have shaped the history and culture of the region. This anthology spans eighty tumultuous years of southern history, and reflects the strategies of southern orators as they attempted to defend the indefensible, as well as those few who advocated a more compassionate South.

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A modern collection of speeches by southerners on the themes that have shaped the history and culture of the region. This anthology spans eighty tumultuous years of southern history, and reflects the strategies of southern orators as they attempted to defend the indefensible, as well as those few who advocated a more compassionate South.

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This text gathers 23 essays from America's senior Zen Roshi and author, Robert Aitken. The essays shed light on Aitken's life and the effect he has had on American Zen Buddhism.

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This simple, utilitarian edition offers sixth-form and undergraduate students an introduction to the enchanted, sometimes violent, often sad, often funny world of the "Metamorphoses". The brief introduction places the book in its ancient context. Notes aid comprehension of the Latin and a vocabulary is included.

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