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The journey with Jonah: play (An Ariel book)
By Madeleine L'Engle. 1967
Winged words: American Indian writers speak
By Laura Coltelli. 1990
Eleven Native American novelists and poets, of whom six are women, discuss their recollections and ideas in interviews with Coltelli.…
Each writer expresses his or her thoughts about oral traditions in Indian culture, mixed ancestry, the writing process, and the world of literary criticism. Coltelli provides an introduction to her conversational format, and a biographical sketch and bibliography for each writerThe Mexican scholar presents twenty-three essays--eighteen in Spanish and five in English--that deal with fundamental concerns of Chicano and Mexican…
letters. He discusses the myth of Aztlan, Chicano literature versus Mexican literature, the literature of the borderland, and the influences of Mexican history and culture in contemporary literature. English/Spanish languageHacia la liberacion del lector Latinoamericano
By Ariel Dorfman. 1984
The Chilean novelist and critic presents an in-depth analysis of five important literary works of Latin America. The books are…
Alejo Carpentier's "Reasons of State," Jose Maria Arguedas's "Deep Rivers," Pablo Neruda's "Canto General," Antonio Skarmeta's "The Insurrection," and Ernesto Cardenal's "Epigrams." Spanish languageProust: a biography
By Ronald Hayman. 1990
Once Proust was known as a bon vivant, but he became a virtual recluse devoting his energies to writing his…
semi-autobiographical opus, Remembrance of Things Past. During these years the countless letters he wrote became his major source of human contact. Hayman reevaluates the life and work of Proust, based on his observation of previously unexplored primary sources, including vast numbers of these lettersIndia: a million mutinies now
By V. S Naipaul. 1990
Naipaul first visited his ancestral homeland in 1962. Now, more than 25 years later, he returns to find a vastly…
different country. He interviews people of all castes, sects, ethnic and religious groups, and political parties. 1990.My life of absurdity: the later years : the autobiography of Chester Himes
By Chester B Himes, Chester B. Himes. 1990
Himes moved to Paris in the early 1950s. He records both his pleasure as a member of Parisian cafe society,…
and his loneliness and pain as an expatriate and African-American writer in this milieu. Sequel to The Quality of Hurt: The Early Years; The Autobiography of Chester Himes (RD 6427). Some strong language and explicit descriptions of sexThe best of Plimpton
By George Plimpton. 1990
A collection of the author's journalistic writings, in which he discusses activities such as football, music and fireworks, personalities such…
as John F. Kennedy and Muhammad Ali, and landmarks such as Las Vegas and Palm Desert. c1990.Words with power: being a second study of "the Bible and literature"
By Northrop Frye. 1990
The author explores the role of mythology and folklore in the Bible. His thesis is that even the most primitive…
elements of folklore find their way into literature and can be understood as symbols. Understanding symbolism, poetic imagery, and other literary devices opens our access to truth as it is revealed in poetic works, including the BibleUh-oh: Some Observations From Both Sides Of The Refrigerator Door
By Robert Fulghum. 1991
In these humorous and inspirational essays, a bride gets the hiccups while reciting her vows, and a young boy plays…
the role of a pig in the kindergarten production of "Cinderella". Bestseller 1991.Books that changed the world
By Robert B. Downs, Robert Bingham Downs. 1983
By distilling the essential ideas of books that have had the greatest influence, both for good and evil, and by…
placing such books in the context of their time, the author explores the effect they have had on western religious thought, culture, law, literature, science, and virtually every aspect of civilizationDickens
By Peter Ackroyd. 1990
A comprehensive biography portrays Charles Dickens as the best-loved writer in the English language during his lifetime. It gives the…
nineteenth-century author a contemporary voice to converse with characters from his own novels and depicts London as it was known to Dickens. It also examines the home life, business transactions, achievements, and all the often-contradictory elements of this great geniusAn anthology of selections from Hurston's articles, short stories, autobiography, essays, fiction, and African-American and West Indian folklore. Hurston was…
part of the Harlem Renaissance. Her writings, plus commentary by Mary Helen Washington and Alice Walker, provide insight into this most prolific black woman writer during the 1930s and 1940sThe death of literature
By Alvin B Kernan. 1990
The decline of literature's high cultural role during the age of print results from the rise of the electronic age.…
Attacks from academic critics promoting theories of deconstruction have also been devastating. How will literature survive? Kernan states that "whatever literature will be in the future, it will inescapably depend on reading and talking about books."The C.S. Lewis hoax
By Kathryn Ann Lindskoog. 1988
C.S. Lewis told Lindskoog, "You know my work better than anyone else I've met." High praise from one of the…
bestselling authors of all time! In this volume Lindskoog addresses some of the irregularities that have arisen in regard to Lewis and his posthumous works since his death in 1963Rotten reviews: a literary companion
By Mary Kornblum. 1987
A collection of adverse statements that have been written, said, or reported about literary classics and their authors. For example,…
Aristophanes referred to Euripides as "a cliche anthologist ... and maker of ragamuffin manikins." The editor includes other writers' "further thoughts on the art of reviewing."Astounding days: a science fictional autobiography
By Arthur C. Clarke, Arthur C Clarke. 1990
A history of the magazine that started in 1930 as Astounding Stories of Super-Science and has evolved over the years…
into Analog Science Fiction-Science Fact. Centering on the tenures of editors Harry Bates, F. Orlin Tremaine, and John W. Campbell, Jr., Clarke gives his reaction to the writers and tells how they aroused his interest in science fiction. Along the way he offers memories of his youthLetters of Katherine Anne Porter
By Katherine Anne Porter, Isabel Bayley. 1990
Katherine Anne Porter, novelist and short-story writer, carried on a voluminous correspondence with many of the best-known writers of the…
twentieth century. A large selection of her letters, written during her major working years, reveals some of her favorite themes. They also form a kind of autobiography, shedding light on her philosophy, sources of joy and sorrow, thoughts, and course of writingThe life of Graham Greene: Volume 1, 1904-1939
By Norman Sherry. 1989
The first thirty-five years in the life of a major figure of the modern literary world. The author covers Greene's…
unhappy childhood years when, he attended Berkhamsted School as the son of the schoolmaster. He also shows that Greene's conversion to Roman Catholicism in 1926, in order to marry Vivien Dayrell, and his extensive travels in West Africa and Mexico profoundly influenced his novelsJohn Barleycorn: or, alcoholic memoirs'
By Jack London, H. T. Dunn. 1981
London's account of his lifelong struggle with "demon rum." First published in 1913, and written following one of the worst…
of his alcoholic binges, "John Barleycorn" is London's argument for prohibition. Introduced to beer at age five when he fetched a pail of it for his alcoholic stepfather, London never gave up drinking entirely and died of kidney disease in 1916 at the age of forty