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Available in: NOOK Book (eBook), Paperback, Hardcover, Audiobook. Kirkus (STARRED review) Churchwell... has written an excellent book... she’s earned the right to play on [Fitzgerald's] court. Prodigious research and fierce affection illumine every remark

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Find Mark Twain's America - by Harry L. Katz ( 9780316209397 ) Hardcover and more. Browse more book selections in Literary books at Books-A-Million’s online book store

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Available in: NOOK Book (eBook), Hardcover. When America entered World War II in 1941, we faced an enemy that had banned and burned over 100 million books and caused fearful citizens to hide or destroy many more. Outraged librarians launched a

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With brilliant scholarship and storytelling verve, Paul Collins delves into Poe's life and his professional world, from his stormy relationship with his rich adoptive father and interest in cryptograms to hits such as "The Raven" and flops like Eureka, his late-career crank literature outing. Edgar Allan Poe is an informative and supremely entertaining account of one of the most singular talents in American letters.

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A professor, critic, and insatiable reader, Jenny Davidson investigates the passions that drive us to fall in love with certain sentences over others and the larger implications of our relationship with writing style. At once playful and serious, immersive and analytic, her memoir/critique shows how style elicits particular kinds of moral judgments and subjective preferences, which turn reading into a highly personal and political act.

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On the fiftieth anniversary of Quotations from Chairman Mao, this pioneering volume examines the book as a global historical phenomenon.

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The Scarlett Letters

The Making of the Film Gone With the Wind

John Wiley, Jr.

Rowman & Littlefield

Taylor Trade Publishing

Pub Date Oct 8 2014

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Authors of Books About Books at the 2014 AWP panel: Kristin Swenson (Bible Babel), Ellen Firsching Brown (Margaret Mitchell's Gone With the Wind: A Bestseller's Odyssey), Andrea Pitzer (The Secret History of Vladimir Nabokov), and Colin Dickey (Afterlives of the Saints)

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Ann Beman guest-blogging from AWP 2014: Books About Books: A Nonfiction Conundrum / moderated by Brook Wilensky-Lanford, with panelists Kristin Swenson, Ellen F. Brown, Andrea Pitzer, Colin Dickey...

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Available in: NOOK Book (eBook), Hardcover. The Fresh Air book critic investigates the enduring power of The Great Gatsby -- The Great American Novel we all think we've read, but really haven't.Conceived nearly a century ago by a man who died b

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Is the Book of Mormon the Great American Novel? Decades before Melville and Twain composed their great works, a farmhand and child seer named Joseph Smith unearthed a long-buried book from a haunted hill in western New York State that told of an epic history of ancient America, a story about a family that fled biblical Jerusalem and took a boat to the New World. Using his prophetic gift, Joseph translated the mysterious book into English and published it under the title The Book of Mormon. The book caused an immediate sensation, sparking anger and violence, boycotts and jealousy, curiosity and wonder, and launched Joseph on a wild, decades-long adventure across the American West. Today The Book of Mormon, one of the most widely circulating works of American literature, continues to cause controversy—which is why most of us know very little about the story it tells. Avi Steinberg wants to change that. A fascinated nonbeliever, Steinberg spent a year and a half on a personal quest, traveling the path laid out by Joseph’s epic. Starting in Jerusalem, where The Book of Mormon opens with a bloody murder, Steinberg continued to the ruined Maya cities of Central America—the setting for most of the The Book of Mormon’s ancient story—where he gallivanted with a boisterous bus tour of believers exploring Maya archaeological sites for evidence. From there the journey took him to upstate New York, where he participated in the true Book of Mormon musical, the annual Hill Cumorah Pageant. And finally Steinberg arrived at the center of the American continent, Jackson County, Missouri, the spot Smith identified as none other than the site of the Garden of Eden.Threaded through this quirky travelogue is an argument for taking The Book of Mormon seriously as a work of American imagination. Literate and funny, personal and provocative, the genre-bending The Lost Book of Mormon boldly explores our deeply human impulse to write bibles and discovers the abiding power of story.

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