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Before We Get Started
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Bret Lott`s novel JEWEL was chosen by Oprah for her book club, lifting Lott out of his struggling-writer lifestyle. But in this very literary memoir, he recalls the days before success found him, and draws lessons for other writers.
Keats's Boyish Imagination
Marggraf Turley examines how, for Keats, an insistence on 'boyishness' in the midst of apparent mature imagery is the very essence of his political contestation of the literary establishment.
William Dean Howells and the Ends of Realism
William Dean Howells and the Ends of Realism helps us to see him as a writer very much aware of his limitations and of his enormous importance in the development of an American literary tradition.
Comedy of Errors (Unabridged)
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The Comedy of Errors is likely the very first play Shakespeare ever wrote, and for that reason alone it deserves a special place in literary history....
My Life As a Man
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Philip Roth's fiction has often come very close to fact, and in MY LIFE AS A MAN (1974), his sixth novel (and first post-PORTNOY Copyright (C) Muze Inc. 2005. For personal use only. All rights reserved.
Blind Ambitions
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Desi Sheridan, a 30-something and very minor actress, is suddenly offered the starring role in a new TV series. What could possibly be the downside? Needless to say, Desi finds out, and it involves not only the machinations of corporate bad guys b...