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By Adrien Arpel. 1977
By 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 languageBy 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. 1977By Howard J Ruff. 1979
A basic survival guide for the battered pocketbook of the average American of today. The author offers specific investment techniques…
and prescribes purchases of gold, silver, and diamonds. He also outlines a plan for storing food and supplies to last at least one year. BestsellerBy Bernard Miles. 1976
By Henry James. 1963
By Maya Angelou. 1978
By Marco Polo. 1953
Written while he was a prisoner of war at Genoa, this is the Venetian explorer's own account of his travels…
in Asia in the 13th century, a tale which was widely read but little believed by his contemporariesBy Edmund Wilson. 1977
By James Baldwin. 1976
Homosexuality and the physical aspects of male love are explored in a Paris setting where the narrator, a young American,…
is involved both with a woman and man, and is eventually compelled to make a choiceBy Noel Perrin. 1978
Twenty humorous essays from a former New Yorker who now owns and runs his own farm in Vermont. He writes…
of maple sugaring, trading, raising sheep, and some of the pit-falls of country lifeBy G. K Chesterton. 1965
By Anthony Trollope, Charles Mozley. 1973
Plantagenet Palliser, Duke of Omnium and Prime Minister of England, attempts as a widower to launch his grown children into…
life. All three of the high-spirited children come near to breaking their father's heart. Sixth and last in the series of Palliser novelsBy Anthony Trollope. 1962
First published in 1867, this novel is concerned with the trials and tribulations of Reverend Josiah Crawley, a country clergyman…
who is unjustly accused of stealing twenty pounds. Meanwhile, his daughter falls in love with the son of the ArchdeaconBy Alfred Kazin. 1951
By Anne Sexton. 1977
Arresting glimpse of a gifted, death-obsessed poet who, after a number of suicide attempts, finally succeeded in taking her own…
life in 1974. She was recipient of many awards, including the Pulitzer Prize for her intensely personal poems. Some strong languageBy James Boswell. 1992
Classic biography of the eighteenth-century English man of letters, originally published in 1791. Based on detailed notes compiled by Boswell…
during their twenty-year friendship, the text for the most part comprises conversations and statements of Johnson's strong opinions. 1791By E. B White. 1976
By Mark Twain. 1976