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1.

Lives of Great English Writers from Chaucer to Browning » Read Now
by Walter S. Hinchman, Francis B. Gummere. 569 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...Nicholas Grimald, and uncertain authors," appearing in its first edition...known just how: perhaps by the famous cloak incident, when he spread...shorter poems, some of...
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The Fine Art of Literary Mayhem: A Lively Account of Famous Writers and Their Feuds » Read Now
by Myrick Land. 244 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...Mayhem A LIVELY ACCOUNT OF FAMOUS WRITERS AND THEIR FEUDS...acknowledgment is made to the following authors, agents, executors, and publishers...writer of some of the most...
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Titans of Literature: From Homer to the Present » Read Now
by Burton Rascoe. 496 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...the ancients that Asclepius was a famous physician from Thessalian Trikka. He enjoyed the happy fate of many famous mortals of being made into a god long...hymn or...
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The Nobel Prize Winners in Literature » Read Now
by Annie Russell Marble. 316 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...who is ranked among French authors, although he is distinctively...poetry. Twenty years before, a famous barber, Jacques Jasmin of...and Scott were his favorite authors...
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Sixteen Modern American Authors: A Survey of Research and Criticism » Read Now
by Jackson R. Bryer. 678 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...1950 -- which is perhaps the most famous, most influential, most brilliantly stated...extended a remarkably acute analysis of this famous story into a general discussion of...
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A Group of English Essayists of the Early Nineteenth Century » Read Now
by C. T. Winchester. 250 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...their title for his famous little bundles of apothegm...giving expression to the authors personality, and affording...work in Jeffreys own famous words "This will...
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Asian-American Writers » Read Now
by Harold Bloom. 260 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

-- Brings together the best criticism on the most widely read poets, novelists, and playwrights
-- Presents complex critical portraits of the most influential writers in the English-speaking world -- from the English medievalists to contemporary writers
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Modern Black American Fiction Writers » Read Now
by Harold Bloom. 167 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library
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Winged Words: American Indian Writers Speak » Read Now
by Laura Coltelli. 212 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

In Winged Words Laura Coltelli interviews some of America's foremost Indian poets and novelists, including Paula Gunn Allen, Michael Dorris, Louise Erdrich, and others. They candidly discuss the debt to old and the creation of new traditions, the proprieties of age and gender, and the relations...
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In Winged Words Laura Coltelli interviews some of America's foremost Indian poets and novelists, including Paula Gunn Allen, Michael Dorris, Louise Erdrich, and others. They candidly discuss the debt to old and the creation of new traditions, the proprieties of age and gender, and the relations between Indian writers and non-Indian readers and critics, and between writers and anthropologists and historians.
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Fifty Caribbean Writers: A Bio-bibliographical Critical Sourcebook » Read Now
by Daryl Cumber Dance. 532 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

"Even when available elsewhere, information on these 50 English-language authors is sparse; the in-depth treatment here includes biography, description of major works and themes, summary of critical reception, and an exhaustive bibliography of works by and about each author. Both academic and public...
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"Even when available elsewhere, information on these 50 English-language authors is sparse; the in-depth treatment here includes biography, description of major works and themes, summary of critical reception, and an exhaustive bibliography of works by and about each author. Both academic and public libraries will want to accept this invitation to another world." Library Journal
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Russian Writers: Their Lives and Literature » Read Now
by Janko Lavrin. 370 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...DENISIVANOVICHI FONVIZIN 1745-1792 , FAMOUS RUSSIAN DRAMATIST 3. Denis...from some fashionable French authors. Yet his version of Voltaires...end, this description of the...
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Modern Irish Writers: A Bio-critical Sourcebook » Read Now
by Alexander G. Gonzalez. 458 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

This reference provides alphabetically arranged entries for more than 70 modern Irish writers. Each entry includes a brief biography, a discussion of the author's major works and themes, an overview of the writer's critical reception, and a bibliography of primary and secondary sources. An opening...
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This reference provides alphabetically arranged entries for more than 70 modern Irish writers. Each entry includes a brief biography, a discussion of the author's major works and themes, an overview of the writer's critical reception, and a bibliography of primary and secondary sources. An opening essay surveys the critical response to Irish literature after 1885, and an extensive bibliography concludes the volume.
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Fifty Southern Writers after 1900: A Bio-bibliographical Sourcebook » Read Now
by Joseph M. Flora, Robert Bain. 630 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

..."The scholarship is meticulous and the essays are lucid and perceptive..." Library Journal
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Authors Today and Yesterday: A Companion Volume to Living Authors (1933) » Read Now
by Stanley J. Kunitz, Howard Haycraft, Wilbur C. Hadden. 742 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library
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African American Authors, 1745-1945: Bio-bibliographical Critical Sourcebook » Read Now
by Emmanuel S. Nelson. 528 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

There has been a dramatic resurgence of interest in early African American writing. The works of dozens of 18th and early 20th century black writers have been recovered and reprinted; there has been a significant revival of interest in the Harlem Renaissance; and several major assessments of 18th...
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There has been a dramatic resurgence of interest in early African American writing. The works of dozens of 18th and early 20th century black writers have been recovered and reprinted; there has been a significant revival of interest in the Harlem Renaissance; and several major assessments of 18th and 19th century African American literature have recently been published. This reference book provides alphabetically arranged entries for 78 African American writers active between 1745 and 1945. Each entry is written by an expert contributor and includes a biography, a discussion of major works and themes, a summary of the critical response to the author, and primary and secondary bibliographies. A selected, general bibliography concludes the volume.
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Hired Pens: Professional Writers in America's Golden Age of Print » Read Now
by Ronald Weber. 340 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library