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I can't go on, I'll go on: a selection from Samuel Beckett's work
Par Samuel Beckett. 1976
Stephen King's Danse macabre
Par Stephen King. 1981
A successful horror story writer presents an informal history of the horror genre between the years 1950 and 1980. Discusses…
horror literature in books, comics, television shows, and movies. Includes biographical and autobiographical anecdotes of famous horror story writers. Some strong languageOne man's meat
Par E. B White. 1944
27 wagons full of cotton, and other one-act plays
Par Tennessee Williams. 1953
Thirteen one-act plays that compress the basic meaning of life into one small scene or a few moments of dialogue.…
Includes "Last of My Solid Gold Watches," about a traveling salesman, and "This Property is Condemned," about delinquent children. 1966, c1953.Bloomsbury: a house of lions
Par Leon Edel. 1979
Bloomsbury was a school of writers and esthetes that flourished in the early twentieth century. Edel provides a biographical framework…
for the literary group that included the Woolfs, the Bells, Maynard Keynes, Lytton Strachey, painter Duncan Grant, and art critic Roger FryThe autobiography of Alice B. Toklas
Par Gertrude Stein. 1933
The American writer uses her trusted friend and companion, Alice B. Toklas, as a vehicle for her own biography. She…
tells of her childhood in California, her years at medical school in Baltimore, and especially her eventful life in Paris, where she knew and influenced many artists and writersAmazing Athletes: An All-Star Look at Canada's Paralympians
Par Howard Scott, Phyllis Aronoff, Marie-Claude Ouellet. 2021
The strange ride of Rudyard Kipling: his life and works
Par Angus Wilson. 1978
A British novelist and critic examines Kipling's work in terms of his life, revealing him as a writer who created…
an external type of art because he feared to look within himselfJanet Flanner's world: uncollected writings, 1932-1975
Par Janet Flanner. 1979
Contains more than seventy-five pieces originally published in "The New Yorker" where for fifty years Flanner reported on life, the…
arts, and politics in the Western world. These essays were dispatched from such places as Berlin, Rome, Prague, Budapest, and ViennaThe odyssey
Par Homer. 1963
A Greek epic poem attributed to Homer narrates the ten years' adventures of Odysseus during his return home to Ithaca…
after the Trojan War. This translation won the 1961 Bollingen Award for the best translation of a poem into EnglishDesolate angel: Jack Kerouac, the Beat generation, and America
Par Dennis McNally. 1979
Follows the life of the Beat writer from his childhood in the mill town of Lowell, Massachusetts, to his early…
years at Columbia University. There his friendship with Allen Ginsberg and Neal Cassady becomes a life-time obsession, culminating in frenetic cross-country journeys and experiments with drugs and sexuality. Strong languagePatriotic gore: studies in the literature of the American Civil War
Par Edmund Wilson. 1962
The Little book of limericks
Par Warren Lyfick. 1978
The elements of style
Par William Strunk. 1979
Printed privately by Professor Strunk for the use of his students at Cornell in 1919, the "little book" was revised…
in 1957 by his student, the noted essayist E.B. White. For the third edition, Mr. White has reworked and freshened this classic guide to clear, effective proseA critical history of English literature
Par David Daiches. 1970
Who is wayne gretzky? (Who Was?)
Par Gail Herman. 2016
After breaking or tying more than sixty records in hockey, it's no wonder that Wayne Gretzky is known as "The…
Great One." Born in Brantford, Ontario, on January 26, 1961, in a nation obsessed with the sport, he threw himself into the game practically from the time he first laced up a pair of skates. When he retired from the NHL in 1999, he had led several teams to Stanley Cup victories, competed in the Olympics, and changed the way hockey was played forever. Known for his love for family and as a truly decent human being, Wayne Gretzky is revealed as more than a sports legend in this easy-to-read biographyThe writing business
Par Donald MacCampbell. 1978
A New York literary agent offers an introduction to the business side of writing. Covers the literary marketplace from the…
preparation of the manuscript to selecting an agent and deciding on a publisher and contracts. Some strong languageTolkien: a biography
Par Humphrey Carpenter. 1977
J.R.R. Tolkien's life, from his childhood in South Africa through the lonely period that followed the deaths of both parents…
and ended with his marriage. Recounts his years as a distinguished Oxford professor and recalls the acclaim he enjoyed as the author of the Hobbit series (DB 48978 and others). 1977. 1977Favorite tales from Shakespeare
Par Bernard Miles. 1976
Portrait of a lady
Par Henry James. 1963