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Jonathan Franzen

The Comedy of Rage

by Professor Philip Weinstein
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2015

Jonathan Franzen: The Comedy of Rage is the first critical biography of one of today's most important novelists. Drawing on unpublished emails and both published and private interviews, Philip Weinstein conveys the feel and heft of Franzen's voice as he ponders the purposes and problems of his life...
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by Philip Yancey
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2008

“There is no writer in the evangelical world that I admire and appreciate more.”Billy GrahamPhilip Yancey helps reveal what two thousand years of history covered upWhat happens when a respected Christian journalist decides to put his preconceptions aside and take a long look at the Jesus described...
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by Philip Gilbert Hamerton
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 1996

This classic exploration of the intellectual life has fully retained its unique value since initial publication in 1904, and is a valuable addition to any discerning reader's collection. No subsequent work fully compares to this rare mixture of personal insight, ethics, taste, psychology, and...
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First Books

The Printed Word and Cultural Formation in Early Alabama

by Philip D. Beidler
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2012

This case study in cultural mythmaking shows how antebellum Alabama created itself out of its own printed texts, from treatises on law and history to satire, poetry, and domestic novels.   Early 19th-century Alabama was a society still in the making. Now Philip Beidler tells how the...
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The Prague Orgy

A Novel

by Philip Roth
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2013

The Prague Orgy takes the American novelist Nathan Zuckerman on a quixotic journey to search for the stories of an unknown Yiddish writer. The entries from Zuckermans notebooks are rich with comedy and dense with observation, detailing his relationship with the oppressed artists of communist Prague....
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Lost Earth

A Life of Cezanne

by Philip Callow
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2003

Only now can we see Paul Cézanne as the invisible genius at the very inception of modern art. Recent exhibitions of his early works reveal an artist very different from the serene landscapist we thought we knew. What was it that made these disturbingly dark and troubled paintings, with their violence...
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Breath

Poems

by Philip Levine
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2011

Always a poet of memory and invention, Philip Levine looks back at his own life as well as the adventures of his ancestors, his relatives, and his friends, and at their rites of passage into an America of victories and betrayals. He transports us back to the street where he was born “early in the...
Book cover of Pentecostal Modernism: Lovecraft, Los Angeles, and World-Systems Culture
by Professor Stephen Shapiro, Professor Philip Barnard
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2017

Bringing together new accounts of the pulp horror writings of H.P. Lovecraft and the rise of the popular early 20th-century religious movements of American Pentecostalism and Social Gospel, Pentecostal Modernism challenges traditional histories of modernism as a secular avant-garde movement based...
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Out of Mao's Shadow

The Struggle for the Soul of a New China

by Philip P. Pan
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2008

From an award-winning journalist for The Washington Post and one of the leading China correspondents of his generation comes an eloquent and vivid chronicle of the world's most successful authoritarian state -- a nation undergoing a remarkable transformation. Philip P. Pan's groundbreaking...
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by Philip Haythornthwaite
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2012

Throughout the wars undertaken by Frederick the Great, probably his greatest resource was his infantry. It is a mark of the king's determination that despite wars which almost destroyed both Prussia and its army (such as the Seven Years' War), he was able to maintain its numbers – even if the quality...
Book cover of The London of Jack the Ripper: Then and Now
by Robert Clack, Philip Hutchinson
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2010

The London of Jack the Ripper: Then and Now' is a photographic journey through the London of Jack the Ripper as it was when he stalked the mean streets and alleyways of the Capital.Robert Clack and Philip Hutchinson take the reader on a step-by-step tour of the crime scenes, giving a detailed history...
Book cover of The Future of Darkness: 30+ Dystopias in One Edition
by Ayn Rand, H. G. Wells, Jack London
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2018

Musaicum Books presents to you this unique SF collection, designed and formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. Contents: Ayn Rand: Anthem Jack London: Iron Heel H. G. Wells: The Time Machine The First Men in the Moon When The Sleeper Wakes Edward Bulwer-Lytton:...
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Yesteryears of Henry M. King

Recollections and Poems

by Henry M. King, Philip L. Carroll
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2014

Philip L. Carroll brings to life the recollections, memories and poems of his late uncle Henry M. King in this unique and fascinating collection. Henry M. King was born in India in 1911 in the Garrison town of Allahabad. At that time, in the British Military Zone, the British Raj was strong and the...
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For Everything a Season

Simple Musings on Living Well

by Philip Gulley
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2009

Filled with a cast of lovable, quirky characters, punctuated with simple wonders, the everyday truths found in this book offer much needed clarity to our own befuddled world. No matter where you live, no matter what your season, come along for the journey. When Philip Gulley began writing newsletter...
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