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Book Cover for: Love and its Critics: From the Song of Songs to Shakespeare and Milton's Eden, Michael Bryson

Love and its Critics: From the Song of Songs to Shakespeare and Milton's Eden

Michael Bryson
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Prynne reminds me of the cleric shouting Friday sermons in the mosque near my childhood memories (Love and its Critics: From the Song of Songs to Shakespeare and Milton’s Eden Michael Bryson Arpi Movsesian) https://t.co/3oV5gAFvH4

Hardcover, 2017

$51.95$26.95 + Free shipping50% off your first book(max discount $25)
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Book Cover for: Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse, Anne Carson

Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse

Anne Carson
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Next time someone advises you against adjectives, tell them that adjectives are "the latches of being"! Anne Carson, Autobiography of Red. https://t.co/ZD8lMyUOrT

Paperback, 1999

$20.00$10.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Midnight's Children, Salman Rushdie

Midnight's Children

Salman Rushdie
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To understand just one life, you have to swallow the world. Salman Rushdie, Midnight's Children.

Paperback, 2006

$19.00$9.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Invisible Cities, Italo Calvino

Invisible Cities

Italo Calvino
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“Cities, like dreams, are made of desires and fears, even if the thread of their discourse is secret, their rules are absurd, their perspectives deceitful, and everything conceals something else.” ― Italo Calvino, Invisible Cities

Paperback, 1978

$18.99$9.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor, Flannery O'Connor

The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor

Flannery O'Connor
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I do not like the raw sound of the human voice in unison unless it is under the discipline of music. — Flannery O'Connor, The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor.

Paperback, 1988

$25.00$12.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: The Catcher in the Rye, J. D. Salinger

The Catcher in the Rye

J. D. Salinger
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She has red hair and is "roller-skate skinny," a metaphor that, Salinger seems to be saying, is like jazz; you either understand it when you hear it, or you never will. Cliffs Notes. The Catcher in the Rye.

Paperback, Mass Market, 1991

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Book Cover for: Life of Pi, Yann Martel

Life of Pi

Yann Martel
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When you've suffered a great deal in life, each additional pain is both unbearable and trifling. Yann Martel, Life of Pi

Paperback, 2003

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Book Cover for: Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury

Fahrenheit 451

Ray Bradbury
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Why I prefer walking over driving: "I sometimes think drivers don’t know what grass is, or flowers, because they never see them slowly. If you showed a driver a green blur, Oh yes! he’d say, that’s grass! A pink blur! That’s a rose garden!" Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury

Paperback, 2012

$17.00$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Great Gatsby

F. Scott Fitzgerald
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I was within and without, simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life. — Fitzgerald F. Scott, The Great Gatsby

Paperback, 2004

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Book Cover for: Love's Work, Gillian Rose

Love's Work

Gillian Rose
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children left unanchored from love get this: “A soul that is unbound is as mad as one with cemented borders.” ― Gillian Rose, Love's Work.

Paperback, 2011

$16.95$8.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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