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The Book of Virtues: A Treasury of Great Moral Stories

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Price: $7.00

Publisher: Simon & Schuster: November 1993

Seller ID: 43818

ISBN: 0671683063

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Responsibility. Courage. Compassion. Honesty. Friendship. Persistence. Faith. Everyone recognizes these traits as essentials of good character. In order for our children to develop such traits, we have to offer them examples of good and bad, right and wrong. And the best places to find them are in great works of literature and exemplary stories from history.

William J. Bennett has collected hundreds of stories in "The Book of Virtues, " an instructive and inspiring anthology that will help children understand and develop character -- and help adults teach them. From the Bible to American h...
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Speaking with the Angel

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Price: $4.00

Publisher: Riverhead Books: February 2001

Seller ID: 72664

ISBN: 1573228583

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Nick Hornby...Giles Smith...Helen Fielding...Roddy Doyle...Irvine Welsh...Zadie Smith...Dave Eggers...Robert Harris...Melissa Bank...Patrick Marber...Colin Firth...John O'Farrell

Compiled by bestselling author Nick Hornby and featuring brand new stories from the hottest writers on both sides of the Atlantic, Speaking with the Angel is a fresh and funny collection that is sure to be the literary anthology of the year.

Here is a book that was inspired by a very special boy and a very special school. Some money from each copy of Speaking with the Angel sold will benefit a...
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The Best American Short Stories of the Century (The Best American Series (R))

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Price: $7.50

Publisher: Mariner Books: April 2000

Seller ID: 112007

ISBN: 0395843677

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Since the series' inception in 1915, the annual volumes of The Best American Short Stories have launched literary careers, showcased the most compelling stories of each year, and confirmed for all time the significance of the short story in our national literature. Now THE BEST AMERICAN SHORT STORIES OF THE CENTURY brings together the best of the best - fifty-five extraordinary stories that represent a century's worth of unsurpassed accomplishments in this quintessentially American literary genre. Here are the stories that have endured the test of time: masterworks by such writers as Ernest He...
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Irish Writing: An Anthology of Irish Literature in English 1789-1939 (Oxford World's Classics)

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Price: $4.00

Publisher: Oxford University Press: Oct-08

Seller ID: 438284

ISBN: 199549826

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

The Portable Beat Reader (Viking Portable Library)

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Price: $4.00

Publisher: Penguin Books: November 1992

Seller ID: 445057

ISBN: 0140151028

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Through poetry, fiction, essays, song lyrics, letters, and memoir this authoritative single-volume collection of Beat literature captures the triumphant energy of a movement that swept through American letters with hurricane force. Featuring: Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, William Burroughs, Gary Snyder, Neal Cassady, Gregory Corso, Diane Di Prima, Bob Dylan, Ken Kesey, Charles Bukowski, Michael McClure, and more.
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The Portable Beat Reader (Viking Portable Library)

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Price: $5.00

Publisher: Penguin Books: November 1992

Seller ID: 443818

ISBN: 0140151028

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Caribbeana: An Anthology of English Literature of the West Indies, 1657-1777

By: N/A

Price: $7.00

Publisher: The University of Chicago Press: Dec-99

Seller ID: 456167

ISBN: 226453928

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Tokyo Stories: A Literary Stroll (Voices from Asia) (Volume 12)

By: N/A

Price: $6.00

Publisher: University of California Press: Jun-02

Seller ID: 457676

ISBN: 520217888

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Desert Songs of the Night: 1500 Years of Arabic Literature

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Price: $8.00

Publisher: Saqi Books: Nov-15

Seller ID: 460575

ISBN: 863561756

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

From Karamzin to Bunin: An Anthology of Russian Short Stories

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Price: $4.00

Publisher: Indiana University Press: January 1969

Seller ID: 464685

ISBN: 0253325064

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

... highly recommended.... This anthology of faithful translations of the classics is by far the best of its kind to come out for a long time." --Canadian Slavic Review

The Beat Book: Writings from the Beat Generation

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Price: $6.00

Publisher: Shambhala: Jul-07

Seller ID: 429931

ISBN: 1590304551

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

The Beat movement exploded into American culture in the early 1950s with the force of prophecy. Not just another literary school, it was an artistic and social revolution. William S. Burroughs proclaimed that the Beat writers were "real architects of change. There is no doubt that we're living in a freer America as a result of the Beat literary movement, which is an important part of the larger picture of cultural and political change in this country during the last forty years, when a four-letter word couldn't appear on the printed page and minority rights were ridiculous."

Anne Waldman, ...
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The Best American Short Stories 2020 (The Best American Series )

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Price: $12.50

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt: November 2020

Seller ID: 468530

ISBN: 1328485366

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

New York Times best-selling author Curtis Sittenfeld selects the twenty best short stories
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The Portable Beat Reader (Viking Portable Library)

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Price: $5.00

Publisher: Penguin Books: November 1992

Seller ID: 473464

ISBN: 0140151028

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Through poetry, fiction, essays, song lyrics, letters, and memoir this authoritative single-volume collection of Beat literature captures the triumphant energy of a movement that swept through American letters with hurricane force. Featuring: Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, William Burroughs, Gary Snyder, Neal Cassady, Gregory Corso, Diane Di Prima, Bob Dylan, Ken Kesey, Charles Bukowski, Michael McClure, and more.
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All That Is Evident Is Suspect: Readings from the Oulipo: 1963 - 2018

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Price: $8.00

Publisher: McSweeney's Publishing: Nov-18

Seller ID: 460515

ISBN: 1944211527

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Since its inception in Paris in 1960, the OuLiPo--ouvroir de litt rature potentielle, or workshop for potential literature--has continually expanded our sense of what writing can do. It's produced, among many other marvels, a detective novel without the letter e (and a sequel of sorts without a, i, o, u, or y); an epic poem structured by the Parisian m tro system; a story in the form of a tarot reading; a poetry book in the form of a game of go; and a suite of sonnets that would take almost 200 million years to read completely.
Lovers of literature are likely familiar with the novels of th...
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Breaking Ice: An Anthology of Contemporary African-American Fiction

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Price: $5.00

Publisher: Penguin Books: October 1990

Seller ID: 455146

ISBN: 0140116974

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Edited by the critically acclaimed Terry McMillan, the award-winning author of five previous novels and recipient of the Essence Award for Excellence in Literature, this is a striking collection of works from contemporary African-American authors, both established and emerging.
This is the first original anthology of African-American writing in over a decade. Featuring works by over fifty African-American writers and a preface by John Edgar Wideman, this amazing anthology showcases some of our best contemporary writers, including: Terry McMillan, Clarence Major, Wanda Coleman, Ntozake Shan...
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Writing New York: A Literary Anthology: A Library of America Special Publication

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Price: $12.50

Publisher: Library of America: January 2008

Seller ID: 471735

ISBN: 1598530216

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

?Few cities, ? writes Phillip Lopate in his introduction to this historic anthology, ?have inspired as much great writing as New York.? Here Lopate and The Library of America present a sweeping literary portrait of the city as seen through the eyes of over a hundred writers. Residents and tourists, novelists and poets, architects, politicians, social reformers, naturalists, humorists?in unexpected and dazzling ways the writers in this volume take on the challenge of capturing New York's enduring spirit, its constantly changing public spectacle, its gossip, amusements, hard-luck stories, and tr...
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Book of Love

By: Ackerman, Diane

Price: $5.00

Publisher: May 2011

Seller ID: 467481

ISBN: 0393045897

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Here is a panorama of fine writing about love's many moods and majesties, from all the veils of flirtation, seduction, and marriage to the tempests of suspicion, jealousy, and heartache. Here is a treasury of more than two hundred selections from Andrew Marvell's "To His Coy Mistress" to Elizabeth Barrett Browning's "How Do I Love Thee?" There are excerpts from Romeo and Juliet, Madame Bovary, Justine, The Odyssey, Lady Chatterley's Lover, as well as the letters from Baudelaire to Sabatier, George Eliot to Herbert Spencer, and Henry Miller to ...
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110 Stories: New York Writes after September 11

By: Baer, Ulrich

Price: $4.00

Publisher: November 2011

Seller ID: 169458

ISBN: 0814799051

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

New York is a city of writers. And when the city was attacked on 9/11, its writers began to do what writers do, they began to look and feel and think and write, began to struggle to process an event unimaginable before, and even after, it happened. The work of journalists appeared immediately, in news reports, commentaries, and personal essays. But no single collection has yet recorded how New York writers of fiction, poetry, and dramatic prose have responded to 9/11.

Now, in 110 Stories, Ulrich Baer has gathered a multi-hued range of voices that convey, with vivid immediacy...
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American Satire: An Anthology of Writings from Colonial Times to the Present

By: Bakalar, Nicholas

Price: $6.00

Publisher: Plume: April 1997

Seller ID: 465166

ISBN: 0452011744

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

This entertaining, informative collection covers the best of American satire--from Ben Franklin's cutting satiric attacks to Nathaniel Hawthorne's Celestial Railroad, Calvin Trillin's Old Marrieds, Mark Twain's American Abroad to P.J. O'Rourke's The Innocents Abroad--Updated, a late 20th-century take on Twain's classic piece. "Entertaining and satisfying...An excellent introduction."--Amazon.com.
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Best American Nonrequired Reading 2002

By: Best American N/Eggers, Dave

Price: $5.00

Publisher: March 2015

Seller ID: 68757

ISBN: 0618246940

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

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Category: Fiction Anthologies