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By: Ahearn, Allen,Ahearn, Patricia
Price: $22.95
Publisher: Putnam Adult: June 1995
Seller ID: 59360
ISBN: 0399140492
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Used - Like New
By: Alberto Manguel
Price: $11.95
Publisher: Knopf Canada: January 2004
Seller ID: 18227
ISBN: 0676975909
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Used - Good
Price: $14.95
Publisher: HarperCollins: April 2003
Seller ID: 6415
ISBN: 0060514469
Binding: Trade Paperback
Condition: Used - Good
In his national bestseller, A Gentle Madness, Nicholas Basbanes explored the sweet obsession people feel to possess books. Now, Basbanes continues his adventures among the "gently mad" on an irresistible journey to the great libraries of the past -- from Alexandria to Glastonbury -- and to contemporary collections at the Vatican, Wolfenbuttel, and erudite universities. Along the way, he drops in on eccentric book dealers and regales us with stories about unforgettable collectors, such as the gentleman who bought a rare book in 1939 "by selling bottles of his own blood."
Takin...
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By: Christie, Agatha
Price: $13.95
Publisher: William Morrow: October 2016
Seller ID: 63753
ISBN: 006242517X
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Used - Like New
A charming, beautifully designed collection of bite-sized wisdom from Agatha Christie's beloved detective Hercule Poirot--delightful, witty, and perceptive quotations and bon mots to stimulate every fan's little grey cells.
"My name is Hercule Poirot and I am probably the greatest detective in the world." Perhaps the most famous detective of all time worldwide, Hercule Poirot is one of the most unique characters ever created. Fastidious, faint of stomach, a literal egghead, and a perpetual curser of patent leather shoes--the French-speaking Belgian may have his eccentricities...
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By: Ellington, Elisabeth,Freimiller, Jane
Price: $9.95
Publisher: Sourcebooks: November 2002
Seller ID: 51538
ISBN: 1570719357
Binding: Trade Paperback
Condition: Used - Good
By: Goldstone, Lawrence, Goldstone, Nancy
Price: $9.95
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin: November 2002
Seller ID: 33503
ISBN: 0312304285
Binding: Trade Paperback
Condition: Used - Good
By: Hornby, Nick
Price: $8.95
Publisher: McSweeney's: September 2006
Seller ID: 48044
ISBN: 1932416595
Binding: Trade Paperback
Condition: Used - Good
By: Kaplan, Rob,Rabinowitz, Harold
Price: $15.95
Publisher: Crown: July 2001
Seller ID: 60687
ISBN: 0609608525
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Used - Very Good
Price: $6.95
Publisher: Penguin Group Canada: February 1986
Seller ID: 50698
ISBN: 0140071369
Binding: Trade Paperback
Condition: Used - Good
By: Manguel, Alberto
Price: $16.50
Publisher: Viking Adult: September 1996
Seller ID: 51242
ISBN: 0670843024
Binding: Trade Paperback
Condition: Used - Good
By: Miller, Andy
Price: $12.50
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers: April 2012
Seller ID: 23224
ISBN: 0007255756
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Used - Good
By: Miller, J. B.
Price: $9.95
Publisher: Thomas Dunne Books: January 2003
Seller ID: 23321
ISBN: 0312305443
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Used - Good
By: Mukherjee, Ankhi
Price: $69.95
Publisher: Stanford University Press: November 2013
Seller ID: 52095
ISBN: 080478521X
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Used - Good
What Is a Classic? revisits the famous question posed by critics from Sainte-Beuve and T. S. Eliot to J. M. Coetzee to ask how classics emanate from postcolonial histories and societies. Exploring definitive trends in twentieth- and twenty-first century English and Anglophone literature, Ankhi Mukherjee demonstrates the relevance of the question of the classic for the global politics of identifying and perpetuating so-called core texts. Emergent canons are scrutinized in the context of the wider cultural phenomena of book prizes, the translation and distribution of world literatures,...
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By: Nafisi, Azar
Price: $9.95
Publisher: The Viking Press: October 2014
Seller ID: 56501
ISBN: 0670026069
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Used - Good
By: Pearl, Nancy
Price: $11.95
Publisher: Sasquatch Books: August 2010
Seller ID: 63250
ISBN: 1570616507
Binding: Trade Paperback
Condition: Used - Very Good
By: Pollak, Usukawa, Saeko, Kenward, Lucy
Price: $14.50
Publisher: Douglas & McIntyre: January 1999
Seller ID: 61852
ISBN: 1550547364
Binding: Trade Paperback
Condition: Used - Very Good
Price: $17.95
Publisher: Viking: January 1997
Seller ID: 46879
ISBN: 0670870803
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Used - Good
By: Rose, Phyllis
Price: $7.95
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux: May 2015
Seller ID: 48649
ISBN: 0374535361
Binding: Trade Paperback
Condition: Used - Good
Phyllis Rose, after a career of reading from syllabuses and writing about canonical books, decided to read like an explorer. She "wanted to sample, more democratically, the actual ground of literature." Casting herself into the untracked wilderness of the New York Society Library's stacks, she chose a shelf of fiction almost at random and read her way through it. Unsure of what she would find, she was nonetheless certain "that no one in the history of the world had read exactly this series of novels."
What results is a spirited experiment in "Off-Road or Extreme Reading." Rose's shelf of...
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By: Rosenberg, Margot, Marcowitz, Bern
Price: $9.95
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin: March 2004
Seller ID: 32232
ISBN: 0312326033
Binding: Trade Paperback
Condition: Used - Good
Price: $8.95
Publisher: The Idealogical Press: December 1997
Seller ID: 60690
ISBN: 0878380256
Binding: Trade Paperback
Condition: Used - Very Good