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Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
xiii, 385 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Description
"A collection of literary gossip and intimate sidelights on the lives of the authors." "The dictionary defines an anecdote as 'a short account of an entertaining or interesting incident', and the anecdotes in this collection more than live up to that description. Many of them are funny, often explosively so. Others are touching, outrageous, sinister, inspiring, or downright weird. They show writers in the English-speaking world from Chaucer to the...
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Pub. Date
2014.
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237 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 19 cm
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"For those who purr with delight at the thought of relaxing with a good read and a sweet, furry friend curled up on their lap, this compilation makes a perfect companion, bringing together cat facts, fables, poems, quotations, trivia, and behavioral tips."--Jacket.
12) Macbeth
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Presents the original text of Shakespeare's play side by side with a modern version, with marginal notes and explanations and full descriptions of each character.
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"Since she burst spectacularly into view with her debut novel, White Teeth, almost two decades ago, Zadie Smith has established herself not just as one of the world's preeminent fiction writers, but also as a brilliant and singular essayist. She contributes regularly to The New Yorker and The New York Review of Books on a range of subjects, and each piece of hers is a literary event in its own right. Arranged into five sections--In the World, In the...
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Pub. Date
2006.
Physical Desc
xxviii, 626 pages ; 22 cm
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The second revision in sixty years, this sublime collection ranges over the verse, stories, essays, and journalism of one of the twentieth century's most quotable authors. There are some stories new to the Portable, "Such a Pretty Little Picture," along with a selection of articles written for such disparate publications as Vogue, McCall's, House and Garden, and New Masses. At the heart of her serious work lies her political writings racial, labor,...
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