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Dreams Within a Dream
$45.00“What we see, and what we seem, are but a dream, a dream within a dream.” Michael Bliss views Miranda’s voice-over at the beginning of Picnic at Hanging Rock as…
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Edith Wharton on Film
$45.00Edith Wharton (1862–1937), who lived nearly half of her life during the cinema age when she published many of her well-known works, acknowledged that she disliked the movies, characterizing them…
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Editorializing “The Indian Problem”
$22.95Drawing on four decades of New York Times editorials, Robert Hays demonstrates the magnitude of the conflict between Native American and white European cultures as settlers and adventurers spread rapidly…
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Eight Months in Illinois
$17.50The Illinois frontier offered abundant opportunity, noted English traveler William Oliver after his journey to America in 1841–42, but life there was hard. Accordingly, Oliver advised the wealthy and comfortable…
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Elementary Classical Greek, Revised Edition
$32.00Now in paperback for the first time, Elementary Classical Greek is a trusted handbook for learning the language that does not presuppose a knowledge of Latin. Based on the premise…
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Entertaining the Nation
$38.00In this survey of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century American drama, Tice L. Miller examines American plays written before a canon was established in American dramatic literature and provides analyses central to…
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Errors, Lies, and Libel
$30.00Peter E. Kane takes a critical look at the development of the present law through a discussion of seventeen landmark libel cases.One of the many points Kane clarifies is the…
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Escape Betwixt Two Suns
$19.95Although the northern Illinois chapters of the story of Susan “Sukey” Richardson’s escape from slavery on the Underground Railroad are documented, the part played by southern Illinois in that historic…
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Essays on Classical Rhetoric and Modern Discourse
$35.00Eighteen essays by leading scholars in English, speech communication, education, and philosophy explore the vitality of the classical rhetorical tradition and its influence on both contemporary discourse studies and the…
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Ethnicity and Nation Building in the Nordic World
$50.00Few people would include Denmark, Norway, Sweden, and Finland—four stable and apparently homogeneous countries lying on the northern periphery of Europe— within the context of the reemergence of ethnic nationalism…
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Evergreen
$30.00A founding father of British filmmaking, Victor Saville created such classics as I Was a Spy, Evergreen, Goodbye, Mr. Chips, The Mortal Storm, A Woman’s Face, and Green Dolphin Street….
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Experience and Value
$45.00Experience and Value: Essays on John Dewey and Pragmatic Naturalism brings together twelve philosophical essays spanning the career of noted Dewey scholar, S. Morris Eames. The volume includes both critiques…