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Jude Hopkins. Novel "Babe in the Woods" available now. Essays in Los Angeles Times, The Belladonna, other places, other times. https://t.co/rVDSC0Ufiy

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Book Cover for: Born Losers: A History of Failure in America, Scott A. Sandage

Born Losers: A History of Failure in America

Scott A. Sandage
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"The losers among us, people who bear failure as an identity, embody the American fear that our fondest hopes and our worst nightmares may be one and the same" — Scott A. Sandage, "Born Losers" #SundaySentence https://t.co/D3GBmwttdA

Paperback, 2006

$32.00$16.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: The Eve of St. Agnes: A Poem..., John Keats

The Eve of St. Agnes: A Poem...

John Keats
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It's John Keats's b-day as well as Halloween. Who but an English teacher to connect the two? Keats's poem "Isabella or the Pot of Basil" celebrates both man and eeriness in a poem featuring Izzy beheading her murdered lover and putting said head in a flower pot w/basil. https://t.co/6BL0ztoY06

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Book Cover for: Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë

Jane Eyre

Charlotte Brontë
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Don't let the chilblains get your toes in this blast of cold winter air. Charlotte Bronte gives us a description of such a malady in "Jane Eyre": https://t.co/8e3iKaqYCl

Paperback, 2006

$9.00$4.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Melancholic Joy: On Life Worth Living, Brian Treanor

Melancholic Joy: On Life Worth Living

Brian Treanor
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“All things shine,” Brian Treanor writes in “Melancholic Joy,” "if only we know how to look." No host of angels needed, he writes, just receptivity to the “bittersweet feeling associated with a brief moment of transcendent beauty." https://t.co/YrOml8Z8Oh

Paperback, 2021

$30.95$15.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: There Is No Frigate Like a Book: He Ate and Drank the Precious Words, A Drop Fell on the Apple Tree, Emiy Dickinson

There Is No Frigate Like a Book: He Ate and Drank the Precious Words, A Drop Fell on the Apple Tree

Emiy Dickinson
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How tragic that young students slipped in math and reading skills. As for reading, kids need to know "there is no frigate like a book / To take us lands away" (Dickinson). Books are crucial. Whenever I read to my college freshmen, they were stilled, rapt. Stories, friends.

Hardcover, 2017

$16.95$8.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Ulysses, James Joyce

Ulysses

James Joyce
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It's James Joyce's birthday. "Plenty to see and hear and feel yet...Feel live warm beings near you...Warm fullblooded life" — "Ulysses"

Paperback, 1990

$19.00$9.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Alice: The Classic Victorian Play for Children: Adapted from "Alice in Wonderland" by Lewis Carroll, Lewis Carroll

Alice: The Classic Victorian Play for Children: Adapted from "Alice in Wonderland" by Lewis Carroll

Lewis Carroll
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"She tried to fancy what the flame of a candle is like after the candle is blown out" — Lewis Carroll, "Alice in Wonderland" #sundaysentence https://t.co/iUa7TEU900

Paperback, 2015

$8.95$4.47 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Tess of the d'Urbervilles, Thomas Hardy

Tess of the d'Urbervilles

Thomas Hardy
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"If an offense come out of the truth, better it is that the offense come than that the truth be concealed" — Thomas Hardy, "Explanatory Note to the 1st ed. of 'Tess of the D'urbervilles'" #SundaySentence https://t.co/JbH8n9ZxNp

Hardcover, 2020

$25.00$12.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: The Sacred Fount: Novel, Henry James

The Sacred Fount: Novel

Henry James
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"Who can imagine free selection —which is the beautiful, terrible whole of art—without free difficulty?" —Henry James, "The Art of the Novel" #SundaySentence https://t.co/KAe1qoj6Ol

Paperback, 1995

$18.95$9.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: The Art of the Novel: Critical Prefaces, Henry James

The Art of the Novel: Critical Prefaces

Henry James
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"Who can imagine free selection —which is the beautiful, terrible whole of art—without free difficulty?" —Henry James, "The Art of the Novel" #SundaySentence https://t.co/KAe1qoj6Ol

Paperback, 2011

$30.00$15.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book