Category: Literature

This exceptional collection provides new insight into the life of North Carolina writer and activist Paul Green (1894-1981), the first southern playwright to attract international acclaim for his socially conscious dramas. Green, who taught philosophy and drama at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, won the Pulitzer Prize in 1927 for In Abraham's Bosom, an authentic drama of black life. Among his other Broadway productions were Native Son and Johnny Johnson. From the 1930s onward, Green created fifteen outdoor historical productions known as symphonic dramas, thereby inventing a d...
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A Southern Life: Letters of Paul Green, 1916-1981 (Fred W. Morrison Series in Southern Studies)

Price: $45.00

Publisher: University of North Carolina Press : March 1994

Seller ID: 79026

ISBN-13: 9780807821053

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Like New

This exceptional collection provides new insight into the life of North Carolina writer and activist Paul Green (1894-1981), the first southern playwright to attract international acclaim for his socially conscious dramas. Green, who taught philosophy and drama at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, won the Pulitzer Prize in 1927 for In Abraham's Bosom, an authentic drama of black life. Among his other Broadway productions were Native Son and Johnny Johnson. From the 1930s onward, Green created fifteen outdoor historical productions known as symphonic dramas, thereby inventing a d...
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Aaron's Rod

Price: $3.00

Publisher: Viking Compass : January 1968

Seller ID: 44244

ISBN: B002CC2HVY

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren, Joseph Blotner (Foreword by)

Price: $3.00

Publisher: by Robert Penn Warren, Joseph Blotner (Foreword by) : July 2009

Seller ID: 15386

ISBN: B004HSMJ32

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

American Women Writers

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Gallery Books : January 1991

Seller ID: 75585

ISBN-13: 9780831703523

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

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Anglo-American Travelers and the Hotel Experience in Nineteenth-Century Literature: Nation, Hospitality, Travel Writing (Routledge Studies in Nineteenth Century Literature)

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Publisher: Routledge : December 2019

Seller ID: 68050

ISBN-13: 9780367878467

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Like New

This volume examines the hotel experience of Anglo-American travelers in the nineteenth century from the viewpoint of literary and cultural studies as well as spatiality theory. Focusing on the social and imaginary space of the hotel in fiction, periodicals, diaries, and travel accounts, the essays shed new light on nineteenth-century notions of travel writing. Analyzing the liminal space of the hotel affords a new way of understanding the freedoms and restrictions felt by travelers from different social classes and nations. As an environment that forced travelers to reimagine themselves or th...
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Barchester Towers

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Publisher: The Franklin Library : January 1982

Seller ID: 70735

ISBN: B006WRTNBM

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

Barchester Towers & the Warden

Price: $35.00

Publisher: DOUBLEDAY DORAN & CO INC

Seller ID: 44198

ISBN: B000SNZVXK

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Limited edition of 1000 copies; this is copy 881. Boxed edition; box shows wear. Book is in good condition; slight looseness of front cover but book is well bound.
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Beowulf (Barnes & Noble Classics)

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Publisher: Barnes & Noble Classics : November 2005

Seller ID: 47226

ISBN-13: 9781593082666

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

Beowulf is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics: New introductions commissioned from today's top writers and scholarsBiographies of the authorsChronologies of contemporary historical, biographical, and cultural eventsFootnotes and endnotesSelective discussions of imitations, parodies, poems, books, plays, paintings, operas, statuary, and films insp...
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Beowulf: A New Verse Translation

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Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux : February 2000

Seller ID: 80827

ISBN-13: 9780374111199

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Like New

A brilliant and faithful rendering of the Anglo-Saxon epic from the Nobel laureate. Composed toward the end of the first millennium of our era, Beowulf is the elegiac narrative of the adventures of Beowulf, a Scandinavian hero who saves the Danes from the seemingly invincible monster Grendel and, later, from Grendel's mother. He then returns to his own country and dies in old age in a vivid fight against a dragon. The poem is about encountering the monstrous, defeating it, and then having to live on in the exhausted aftermath. In the contours of this story, at once remote and uncannily familia...
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Beowulf: A New Verse Translation (Bilingual Edition)

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Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company : February 2001

Seller ID: 72427

ISBN-13: 9780393320978

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Like New

Composed toward the end of the first millennium, Beowulf is the elegiac narrative of the adventures of Beowulf, a Scandinavian hero who saves the Danes from the seemingly invincible monster Grendel and, later, from Grendel's mother. He then returns to his own country and dies in old age in a vivid fight against a dragon. The poem is about encountering the monstrous, defeating it, and then having to live on in the exhausted aftermath. In the contours of this story, at once remote and uncannily familiar at the beginning of the twenty-first century, Nobel laureate Seamus Heaney finds a resonance ...
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Book of Middle English

Price: $3.00

Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell : April 1992

Seller ID: 60500

ISBN-13: 9780631167266

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

By John Updike - Of the Farm (1965-10-27) [Hardcover]

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf

Seller ID: 34988

ISBN: B014BH4MGA

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Tightly bound.
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By Pearl S. Buck The Three Daughters Of Madame Liang (Book Club (BCE/BOMC)) [Hardcover]

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Joh Day : December 1968

Seller ID: 22879

ISBN: B002XMDT8S

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

Conversations with Elizabeth Spencer (Literary Conversations Series)

Price: $3.00

Publisher: University Press of Mississippi : September 1991

Seller ID: 63807

ISBN-13: 9780878055289

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

Collections of interviews with notable modern writers
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Critical Essays on Jonathan Swift (Critical Essays on British Literature)

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Publisher: G K Hall : February 1993

Seller ID: 18651

ISBN-13: 9780783800035

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Like New

Critical Terms for Literary Study

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Publisher: University of Chicago Press : June 1995

Seller ID: 13729

ISBN-13: 9780226472034

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

Since its publication in 1990, Critical Terms for Literary Study has become a landmark introduction to the work of literary theory--giving tens of thousands of students an unparalleled encounter with what it means to do theory and criticism. Significantly expanded, this new edition features six new chapters that confront, in different ways, the growing understanding of literary works as cultural practices. These six new chapters are Popular Culture, Diversity, Imperialism/Nationalism, Desire, Ethics, and Class, by John Fiske, Louis Menand, Seamus Deane, Judith Butler, Geoffrey Galt Harpham, an...
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Erotique Noire: Black Erotica

Price: $3.00

Publisher: Anchor Books; Doubleday : January 1992

Seller ID: 68169

ISBN: B002BN2V88

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

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Category: Literature