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English
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"The View from the Cheap Seats brings together... more than sixty pieces of his outstanding nonfiction. Analytical yet playful, erudite yet accessible, this cornucopia explores a broad range of interests and topics, including (but not limited to): authors past and present; music; storytelling; comics; bookshops; travel; fairy tales; America; inspiration; libraries; ghosts; and the title piece, at turns touching and self-deprecating, which recounts...
Publisher
Frank Carlson Library
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Members of the Concordia, Kansas, community were invited to write original poems and essays on the topic "What Kansas means to me." The work residents of Cloud County, Kansas, and those with connections to the area are included.
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Library of America volume 55, etc
Publisher
Library of America
Pub. Date
1991
Language
English
Publisher
Pelican
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
The literature of Halloween began in a time when poets, playwrights, and storytellers told tales inspired by fear of fate, the unknown, and the inexplicable--stories about dead souls and otherworldly creatures who drifted through the dark only on Halloween, when the spirit world seemed close enough to touch. This sourcebook of Halloween lore spans British, Irish, Scottish, French, Canadian, and American literature from the sixteenth to the twentieth...
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Series
Publisher
Library of America : Distributed to the trade in the U.S. by Penguin Books
Pub. Date
c1997
Language
English
Description
This first collected edition of the poems of one of the greatest American poets also includes his book of essays, The Necessary Angel, and some 50 previously uncollected prose pieces, together with aphorisms and selections from his notebooks, journals, and correspondence that have been newly edited from manuscript sources
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Publisher
Distributed to the trade by Penguin Group
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
Comprised mostly of memoirs with some fiction, this volume gathers selections from the writings of 85 immigrants from 45 countries that illustrate the changing views of immigrants in the United States.
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English
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The definitive collection of works by one of the twentieth century's most acclaimed writers and philosophers Kahlil Gibran produced some of the world's most remarkable poems and philosophical essays throughout his almost thirty-year career. This enriching collection of his works includes more than 150 of his stories, prose poems, verse, parables, and autobiographical essays. From The Broken Wings, about the tragic end of a first love, to A Self Portrait,...
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