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Philip Roth: Why Write? Collected Nonfiction 1960-2013 LOA N°300
31.50 i
Shake It Up: Great American Writing on Rock and Pop from Elvis to Jay Z
30.00 i
Susan Sontag: Later Essays LOA N°292
33.75 i
Albert Murray: Collected Essays & Memoirs LOA N°284
33.75 i
Virgil Thomson: The State of Music (LOA eBook Classic)
i
The Age of Movies: Selected Writings of Pauline Kael (paperback)
18.00 i
War No More: Three Centuries of American Antiwar & Peace Writing LOA N°278
32.00 i
Virgil Thomson: The State of Music & Other Writings LOA N°277
35.00 i
James Baldwin: Complete Fiction & Collected Essays (three volumes)
84.00 i
Farber on Film: The Complete Film Writings of Manny Farber (paperback)
20.95 i
Shakespeare in America: An Anthology from the Revolution to Now (paperback)
17.50 i
Reinhold Niebuhr: Major Works on Religion and Politics LOA N°263
32.00 i
Philip Roth at 80: A Celebration
10.00 i
Art in America 1945–1970: Writings from the Age of Abstract Expressionism, Pop Art, and Minimalism LOA N°259
32.00 i
Virgil Thomson: Music Chronicles 1940–1954 LOA N°258
33.75 i
Shakespeare in America: An Anthology from the Revolution to Now (hardcover) LOA N°251
31.50 i
The Cool School: Writing from America’s Hip Underground
19.50 i
Susan Sontag: Essays of the 1960s & 70s LOA N°246
32.00 i
Reporting Civil Rights (boxed set)
60.00 i
Aldo Leopold: A Sand County Almanac & Other Writings on Ecology and Conservation LOA N°238
31.50 i
John Muir: My First Summer in the Sierra and Selected Essays (Paperback Classic)
11.96 i
Ralph Waldo Emerson: Essays: First and Second Series (Paperback Classic)
10.36 i
H. L. Mencken: Prejudices: The Complete Series (boxed set)
55.00 i
H. L. Mencken: Prejudices: Fourth, Fifth, & Sixth Series LOA N°207
31.50 i
H. L. Mencken: Prejudices: First, Second, & Third Series LOA N°206
31.50 i
The Mark Twain Anthology: Great Writers on His Life and Works LOA N°199
17.50 i
The Lincoln Anthology: Great Writers on His Life and Legacy from 1860 to Now LOA N°192
32.00 i
Katherine Anne Porter: Collected Stories and Other Writings LOA N°186
32.00 i
American Earth: Environmental Writing Since Thoreau LOA N°182
32.00 i
American Movie Critics: An Anthology From the Silents Until Now (paperback)
14.70 i
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