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Relates the story of the only French writer to be executed for treason during World War II, from his rise during the 1930s to his trial and death in front of a firing squad.
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In an exposT of contemporary library policies, the best-selling author of Vox describes how such institutions have dismantled collections of original bound newspapers and so-called brittle books to ...
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In this comprehensive collection of essays, Martin Amis tackles such diverse subjects as Elvis, Margaret Thatcher, Andy Warhol, the Guinness Book of Records, Abraham Lincoln, poker, chess, and ...
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This anecdotal study explores the marks readers leave behind in books as they read. Sometimes readers mourn what's not present in the margin: Fermat's last theorem is famously missing because he ...
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Fourteen essays by novelist and philosopher William H. Gass, about literature, society, and politics. A New York Times Notable Book for 2002.
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< b > Quarrel & amp; Quandary < /b > < i > < /i > showcases the manifold talents of one of our leading and award-winning critics and essayists. < br > < br > In nineteen opulent essays, Cynthia ...
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This collection of 13 essays (10 of which were published previously in literary journals) focuses on how poems have a mind of their own unbeknownst to the poet. Subject matter includes the work of ...
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" Gass's commitment to ideas, concentrated energy and originality shine through on every page. . . . [These] pieces deal with Ezra Pound as a failed modernist; the lives of Nietzsche and Wittgenstein ...
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The best-selling books in France during the waning decades of the ancien regime were not the outlawed works of great philosophers such as Voltaire and Rousseau, but other books, also banned by the ...
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Essays exploring the lives and literary achievements of twelve women writers--including Eudora Welty, Ayn Rand, Doris Lessing, Zora Neale Hurston, and Mary McCarthy--focus on how they shaped beliefs ...
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