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In this sequel to Fiction & the Figures of Life, one of America's most brilliant and eclectic minds examines literature, culture, writers (their lives and works), and the nature and uses of language and the written word. Included are discussions of Valéry, Henry Miller, Sartre, Freud, Faulkner,...

Erica Jong's two rules of writing are "never cut funny" and "keep the pages turning." And Jong delivers in these twenty-six essays, coupling frank and risqu? stories about her own life with provocative pieces on her passion for politics, literature, Italy, and-yes-sex. Originally...

THIS book originated in a series of eight lectures on ‘Russian Literature during the Nineteenth Century’ which Peter Kropotkin delivered in March 1901, at the Lowell Institute, in Boston. Given the impossibility of exhausting so wide a subject as Russian Literature within the limits of one book,...

The God in the Dock; Essays on Theology and Ethics Study Guide contains a comprehensive summary and analysis of God in the Dock; Essays on Theology and Ethics by C. S. Lewis. It includes a detailed Plot Summary, Chapter Summaries & Analysis, Character Descriptions, Objects/Places, Themes, Styles, Quotes, and Topics for Discussion.

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As a journalist, critic, and novelist, Martin Amis has always turned his keen intellect and unrivaled prose loose on an astonishing range of topics—politics, sports, celebrity, America, and, of course, literature. Collected here is some of his best nonfiction work from over two decades. Amis writes...

The Kingdom of Matthias Study Guide contains a comprehensive summary and analysis of The Kingdom of Matthias by Paul E. Johnson. It includes a detailed Plot Summary, Chapter Summaries & Analysis, Character Descriptions, Objects/Places, Themes, Styles, Quotes, and Topics for Discussion.

The Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956 Study Guide contains a comprehensive summary and analysis of The Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956 by Aleksandr Isaevich Solzhenitsyn. It includes a detailed Plot Summary, Chapter Summaries & Analysis, Character Descriptions, Objects/Places, Themes, Styles, Quotes, and Topics for Discussion.

The Sam Houston and the American Southwest Study Guide contains a comprehensive summary and analysis of Sam Houston and the American Southwest by Randolph B. Campbell. It includes a detailed Plot Summary, Chapter Summaries & Analysis, Character Descriptions, Objects/Places, Themes, Styles, Quotes, and Topics for Discussion.

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The Beak of the Finch Study Guide contains a comprehensive summary and analysis of The Beak of the Finch Summary & Study Guide. It includes a detailed Plot Summary, Chapter Summaries & Analysis, Character Descriptions, Objects/Places, Themes, Styles, Quotes, and Topics for Discussion.

The Survival in Auschwitz Study Guide contains a comprehensive summary and analysis of Survival in Auschwitz by Primo Levi. It includes a detailed Plot Summary, Chapter Summaries & Analysis, Character Descriptions, Objects/Places, Themes, Styles, Quotes, and Topics for Discussion.

The Play It as It Lays Study Guide contains a comprehensive summary and analysis of Play It as It Lays by Joan Didion. It includes a detailed Plot Summary, Chapter Summaries & Analysis, Character Descriptions, Objects/Places, Themes, Styles, Quotes, and Topics for Discussion.

The Slouching Toward Bethlehem Study Guide contains a comprehensive summary and analysis of Slouching Toward Bethlehem by Joan Didion. It includes a detailed Plot Summary, Chapter Summaries & Analysis, Character Descriptions, Objects/Places, Themes, Styles, Quotes, and Topics for Discussion.