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Product Description: He skipped his senior year at college to go to Europe, where he was befriended by a Countess, was kept a prisoner in a castle by a mad Count, and almost met Mussolini—close enough to land him in an Italian jail. Wright Morris returned to the States and went on to become probably the most experimental American novelist of the last century...read more

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9781469185491 | Xlibris Corp, January 31, 2013, cover price $29.99 | About this edition: He skipped his senior year at college to go to Europe, where he was befriended by a Countess, was kept a prisoner in a castle by a mad Count, and almost met Mussolini—close enough to land him in an Italian jail.

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Product Description: Author of The Big Sky series, The Way West, and the screenplay for the classic film Shane, among other timeless stories of frontier mountain men, icon of Western literature A. B. “Bud” Guthrie Jr. brought blazing realism to the story of the West...read more

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9780803222861 | Univ of Nebraska Pr, May 1, 2009, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Author of The Big Sky series, The Way West, and the screenplay for the classic Shane, among many other timeless stories of frontier mountain men, icon of Western literature A.

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9780803243583 | Reprint edition (Bison Books, November 1, 2012), cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Author of The Big Sky series, The Way West, and the screenplay for the classic film Shane, among other timeless stories of frontier mountain men, icon of Western literature A.

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Product Description: In a career spanning more than fifty years, Wallace Stegner (1909–93) emerged as the greatest contemporary author of the American West—writing more than two dozen works of history, biography, essays, and fiction, including the Pulitzer Prize-winning Angle of Repose and the bestselling Crossing to Safety...read more

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9780670862221 | Viking Pr, November 1, 1996, cover price $32.95 | About this edition: A chronicle of the author Wallace Stegner moves from Stegner's prairie childhood in Saskatchewan to his prominence in the environmental movement and literary world

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9780803225374 | Bison Books, May 1, 2009, cover price $26.95 | About this edition: In a career spanning more than fifty years, Wallace Stegner (1909–93) emerged as the greatest contemporary author of the American West—writing more than two dozen works of history, biography, essays, and fiction, including the Pulitzer Prize-winning Angle of Repose and the bestselling Crossing to Safety.
9780140247961 | Penguin USA, November 1, 1997, cover price $20.00 | About this edition: A chronicle of the author Wallace Stegner moves from Stegner's prairie childhood in Saskatchewan to his prominence in the environmental movement and literary world

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Product Description: Walter Van Tilburg Clark, author of the classic novel The Ox-Bow Incident, was one of the important writers of the twentieth century. This work is an examination of a complex, anguished writer and an assessment of Clark's pivotal place in the literary history of the West...read more

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9780874176919 | Univ of Nevada Pr, July 27, 2006, cover price $21.95 | About this edition: Walter Van Tilburg Clark, author of the classic novel The Ox-Bow Incident, was one of the important writers of the twentieth century.

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Product Description: Walter Van Tilburg Clark was one of the West's most important literary figures, a writer who contributed mightily to the tradition of viewing the West realistically and not through the veil of myth and romance. As a comparatively young man, he published three compelling novels and a collection of short stories, then remained almost silent for the rest of his life, the victim of a paralyzing case of writer's block...read more

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9780874175899 | Univ of Nevada Pr, August 23, 2004, cover price $34.95 | About this edition: Walter Van Tilburg Clark was one of the West's most important literary figures, a writer who contributed mightily to the tradition of viewing the West realistically and not through the veil of myth and romance.

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John Steinbeck's writing was fuelled by the need to observe things first-hand. This collection of non-fiction pieces address issues from all over the world and demonstrate just how important journalism was to his career as a writer.
By Jackson J. Benson (editor)

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9780141187235 | New edition (Gardners Books, July 3, 2003), cover price $30.45 | About this edition: John Steinbeck's writing was fuelled by the need to observe things first-hand.

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Celebrating the centenary of his birth, Steinbeck's last published work is available once again, accompanied by his finest journalistic endeavors, including the newspaper articles that inspired his literary masterpiece, The Grapes of Wrath, his writings on San Francisco, Monterey, and other locations, and his reflections on such friends as Henry Ford, Robert Capa, and Ed Ricketts. 22,500 first printing. (view table of contents)

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9780670030620 | Viking Pr, February 1, 2002, cover price $27.95 | About this edition: Presents the author's last published work, accompanied by his newspaper articles that inspired 'The Grapes of Wrath,' his writings on San Francisco, Monterey, and other locations, and his reflections on such friends as Henry Ford, Robert Capa, and Ed Ricketts.
9780070674394, titled "Principles of Neurology" | 6th edition (McGraw-Hill, November 1, 1997), cover price $89.95 | also contains America and Americans, Principles of Neurology

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The author describes his work on a Stenbeck autobiography, facts about Steinbeck's life, and the reasons behind the political bias against Steinbeck

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9780806121550 | Univ of Oklahoma Pr, December 1, 1988, cover price $32.95 | About this edition: The author describes his work on a Stenbeck autobiography, facts about Steinbeck's life, and the reasons behind the political bias against Steinbeck

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9780874174977 | Reprint edition (Univ of Nevada Pr, March 1, 2002), cover price $21.95

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Product Description: Jackson J. Benson, the noted literary biographer and critic, offers a collection of essays on novelist Wallace Stegner. Stegner’s fiction was frequently autobiographical, and Benson’s essays evaluate the man, his work, and the close connections between the two...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9780874174465 | Univ of Nevada Pr, November 1, 2001, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Jackson J.

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9780070003347, titled "Principles of Neurology: Companion Handbook" | 4 sub edition (McGraw-Hill, April 1, 1991), cover price $27.50 | also contains Principles of Neurology: Companion Handbook

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Product Description: Series Editors: Gary Scharnhorst, University of New Mexico and Eric Haralson, State University of New York, Stony Brook This is the only series to provide in-depth critical introductions to major modern and contemporary short story writers worldwide...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9780805716696 | Twayne Pub, October 1, 1998, cover price $53.00 | About this edition: Series Editors: Gary Scharnhorst, University of New Mexico and Eric Haralson, State University of New York, Stony Brook This is the only series to provide in-depth critical introductions to major modern and contemporary short story writers worldwide.

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Product Description: With an Overview by Paul Smith and a Checklist to Hemingway Criticism, 1975–1990New Critical Approaches to the Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway is an all-new sequel to Benson’s highly acclaimed 1975 book, which provided the first comprehensive anthology of criticism of Ernest Hemingway’s masterful short stories...read more
By Jackson J. Benson (editor)

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9780822310655 | Duke Univ Pr, January 1, 1991, cover price $64.95 | About this edition: With an Overview by Paul Smith and a Checklist to Hemingway Criticism, 1975–1990New Critical Approaches to the Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway is an all-new sequel to Benson’s highly acclaimed 1975 book, which provided the first comprehensive anthology of criticism of Ernest Hemingway’s masterful short stories.

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9780822310679 | Duke Univ Pr, January 1, 1991, cover price $32.95 | About this edition: With an Overview by Paul Smith and a Checklist to Hemingway Criticism, 1975–1990New Critical Approaches to the Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway is an all-new sequel to Benson’s highly acclaimed 1975 book, which provided the first comprehensive anthology of criticism of Ernest Hemingway’s masterful short stories.

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Recounts the life of the American writer, including his campaigns for the rights of the 'little people', his stand on the Vietnam War, his Hollywood film scripts, and his winning of the Nobel Prize for literature.

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9780140144178 | Penguin USA, November 1, 1990, cover price $40.00 | About this edition: Recounts the life of the American writer, including his campaigns for the rights of the 'little people', his stand on the Vietnam War, his Hollywood film scripts, and his winning of the Nobel Prize for literature.

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Thirty critical, analytical, and interpretive studies of Hemingway's short fiction examine sources, influences, techniques, themes, and achievements and are supplemented by a checklist of all relevant commentary and criticism in English
By Jackson J. Benson (editor)

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9780822303862 | Reissue edition (Duke Univ Pr, March 1, 1986), cover price $20.95 | About this edition: Thirty critical, analytical, and interpretive studies of Hemingway's short fiction examine sources, influences, techniques, themes, and achievements and are supplemented by a checklist of all relevant commentary and criticism in English

A definitive portrait of the celebrated and controversial Nobel laureate author chronicles the events of Steinbeck's life, his formative development as a writer, and his archetypical literary images of modern American culture

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9780670166855 | Viking Pr, January 1, 1984, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: A definitive portrait of the celebrated and controversial Nobel laureate author chronicles the events of Steinbeck's life, his formative development as a writer, and his archetypical literary images of modern American culture

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