Hemingway, Ernest

Summary: "The Letters of Ernest Hemingway documents the life and creative development of a gifted artist and outsized personality whose work would both reflect and transform his times. Volume 2 (1923-1925) illuminates Hemingway's literary apprenticeship in the legendary milieu of expatriate Paris in the 1920s. We witness the development of his friendships with the likes of Sylvia Beach, F. Scott...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Cambridge Univ Pr 2013

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Hemingway, Ernest

Summary: The Letters of Ernest Hemingway, Volume 3: 1926-1929, featuring many previously unpublished letters, follows a rising star as he emerges from the literary Left Bank of Paris and moves into the American mainstream. Maxwell Perkins, legendary editor at Scribner's, nurtured the young Hemingway's talent, accepting his satirical novel Torrents of Spring (1926) in order to publish what would become a...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Cambridge University Press 2015

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Hughes, Langston

Summary: "This unprecedented collection of Langston Hughes's letters is arranged by decades, with helpful interstitial material and notes throughout to guide us through Hughes's journey in all its aspects: literary, personal, political, practical. His correspondents include such luminaries as Carl Van Vechten, Blanche Knopf, Ezra Pound, Countee Cullen, Paul Robeson, and Richard Wright. The letters tell...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2014

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Hammett, Dashiell

Summary: The plot unfolds at Christmas when an eccentric inventor disappears after threatening his mistress with a lawsuit for embezzlement. His daughter begs Nick Charles to get to the bottom of the case.

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Publisher / Publication Date: 1962

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Mrozek, David J.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Arcadia Pub. 2008

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Harrison, Jim

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Publisher / Publication Date: Dell Pub. Co. 1982

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Havel, Václav.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 1991

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Kerouac, Jack

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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 1999

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Hemingway, Ernest

Summary: "This volume brings together work from the extraordinary period of 1918 to 1926, in which Hemingway's famous prose style became fully formed. It includes his work for the Toronto Star and Hearst's International News Service, the indelible stories of In Our Time (1925), The Torrents of Spring (1925), and his masterpiece, The Sun Also Rises (1926). Edited by Hemingway scholar Robert W. Trogdon,...

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Publisher / Publication Date: The Library of America 2020

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Miller, Arthur

Summary: A collection of some of the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright's most definitive works includes "All My Sons," "Death of a Salesman," "The Crucible," "A View from the Bridge," and five additional plays.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2006

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Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson)

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Publisher / Publication Date: The Library of America 1990

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Summary: Presents a collection of animated advertising films produced between 1950 and 1960 which provide insight into the marketing strategies used during the decade. Included here are a corporate-sponsored cartoon where Martians learn that oil and competition are two things that make America great and an "I like Ike" animated television commercial.

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Publisher / Publication Date: A2ZCDS.COM 2004

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Volkswagen of America, Inc

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Publisher / Publication Date: [R. Bentley] 1974

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Crane, Hart

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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2006

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Fitzgerald, F. Scott (Francis Scott)

Summary: "It was Gatsby that solidified his reputation as the chronicler of the Jazz Age and established him as one of the leading American novelists of his generation. Perhaps no other novel of the twentieth century makes a greater claim to being our Great American Novel--for its poetic prose, its exploration of the broad, intertwined themes of money, class, and American optimism (Daisy Buchanan's...

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Publisher / Publication Date: The Library of America 2022

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Frost, Robert

Contents: Volume 1. 1886-1920

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Publisher / Publication Date: Harvard Univ Pr 2014

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Hughes, Langston

Summary: Presents a collection of letters exchanged over the course of four decades between poet Langston Hughes and his mentor, Carl Van Vechten, offering an incisive look at current events and issues.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2001

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Kagan, Robert

Summary: "A comprehensive, sweeping history of America's rise to global superpower--a follow up to the author's acclaimed first volume, from our nation's earliest days to the dawn of the twentieth century"--

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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2023

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Publisher / Publication Date: 1997

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Ellison, Ralph.

Contents: Tuskeegee and New York, 1950-1955 -- Rome, Casablanca, and New York, 1955-1958 -- Los Angeles and New York, 1958-1960.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Modern Library 2000

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Ward, Ed

Summary: "Ward covers the first half of the history of rock & roll in this ... narrative--from the 1920s, when the music of rambling medicine shows mingled with the songs of vaudeville and minstrel acts to create the very early sounds of country and rhythm and blues, to the rise of the first independent record labels post-World War II, and concluding in December 1963, just as an immense change in the...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Flatiron Books 2016

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Ferguson, Niall

Summary: A definitive portrait of the American statesman, based on unprecedented access to his private papers, challenges common misconceptions to trace Kissinger's beliefs to philosophical idealism.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2015

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Contents: Introduction -- Season in New York -- Season in Chicago -- Deburau / by Sacha Guitry -- First year / by Frank Craven -- Enter Madame / by Gilda Varesi and Dolly Byrne -- Green goddess / by William Archer -- Liliom / by Frank Molnar -- Mary Rose / by J.M. Barrie -- Nice people / by Rachel Crothers -- Bad man / by Porter Emerson Browne -- Emperor Jones / by Eugene G. O'Neill -- Skin game / by...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Small, Maynard, & Co. 1921

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Summary: Presents three television documentaries that provide an in-depth examination of the presidential campaigns of 1960, 1964, and 1968, based on the books by Theodore H. White, and showing archival footage, behind-the-scenes moments, backroom deals, and scenes from the convention floor that took place during the races between Kennedy and Nixon; Johnson and Goldwater; and Humphrey, Nixon and Wallace.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Athena 2011

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