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Paperback:
9780691623009 | Princeton Univ Pr, December 8, 2015, cover price $55.00
Product Description: An insightful biography of Florence?s famous son Acclaimed biog rap her R.W.B. Lewis traces the life and complex development? emotional, artistic, philosophical?of this supreme poet-historian. Here we meet the boy who first encounters the mythic Beatrice, the lyric poet obsessed with love and death, the grand master of dramatic narrative and allegory, and his monumental search for ultimate truth in The Divine Comedy...read more
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9780786237555 | Large print edition (Thorndike Pr, December 1, 2001), cover price $28.95 | About this edition: An insightful biography of Florence?
9780670899098 | Viking Pr, June 1, 2001, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: A biography of the great medieval Italian poet and historian examines his life from his youth in Florence to his creation of 'The Divine Comedy,' his masterful allegorical poem of redemption and self-discovery.
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9780736671422 | Unabridged edition (Books on Tape, November 1, 2001), cover price $40.00 | About this edition: Dante Alighieri was born in Florence in 1265.
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9780736668101 | Abridged edition (Books on Tape, June 1, 2001), cover price $24.95
9780736670364 | Unabridged edition (Books on Tape, May 1, 2001), cover price $32.00 | About this edition: Dante Alighieri was born in Florence in 1265.
Paperback:
9780143116417 | Reprint edition (Penguin USA, November 24, 2009), cover price $15.00
Presents a visual and literary review of famous Americans
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9780300078954 | Yale Univ Pr, September 1, 1999, cover price $60.00 | About this edition: Presents a visual and literary review of famous Americans
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9780300079456 | Yale Univ Pr, January 1, 2001, cover price $45.00 | About this edition: Presents a visual and literary review of famous Americans
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9780300070743 | Yale Univ Pr, April 1, 1999, cover price $32.50
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9780231102483, titled "A Century of Arts and Letters: The History of the National Institute of Arts & Letters and the American Academy of Arts & Letters As Told, Decade by Decade, by Eleven Members" | Columbia Univ Pr, June 1, 1998, cover price $50.00
Hardcover:
9780374124045 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, December 1, 1994, cover price $27.50 | About this edition: A traveler's journey through Florence offers a historic portrait that gives insight into the city's influence on modern Western culture and its civil legacy from the Middle Ages, and covers the Arno, Duomo, Ponte Vecchio, Santa Croce, and other landmarks
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9780805046304 | Reprint edition (Henry Holt & Co, April 1, 1996), cover price $22.99 | About this edition: A traveler's journey through Florence offers a historic portrait that gives insight into the city's influence on modern Western culture and its civil legacy from the Middle Ages, and covers the Arno, Duomo, Ponte Vecchio, Santa Croce, and other landmarks
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9780684185859 | Scribner, June 1, 1988, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Offers a collection of the American novelist's previously unpublished correspondence, which includes letters to fellow writers, friends, critics, and her lover, Morton Fullerton
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9780020344001 | Rep edition (Collier Books, May 1, 1994), cover price $16.00 | About this edition: Offers a collection of the American novelist's previously unpublished correspondence, which includes letters to fellow writers, friends, critics, and her lover, Morton Fullerton
A full-scale critical biography of the turn-of-the-century American novelist, detailing the relation between her life and works, assessing her literary dedication and accomplishment, and arguing her place as a writer of the first importance
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9780880640206 | Reissue edition (Fromm Intl, October 1, 1993), cover price $20.00 | About this edition: A full-scale critical biography of the turn-of-the-century American novelist, detailing the relation between her life and works, assessing her literary dedication and accomplishment, and arguing her place as a writer of the first importance
Product Description: Lewis (emeritus, English & American studies, Yale) has written an extended preface to this collection of essays, some of which have never before been published. His subjects extend from the Greek and Roman classics to modern European and American writers, and he takes a special interest in the hist...read more
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9781555531607 | Northeastern Univ Pr, June 1, 1993, cover price $40.00 | About this edition: Lewis (emeritus, English & American studies, Yale) has written an extended preface to this collection of essays, some of which have never before been published.
Product Description: Even if the James family hadn't given us both William the philosopher and psychologist, and Henry the novelist, the story of this quirky, wealthy, socially prominent clan would still be riveting. Full of incidents that would become legendary, The Jameses brings to life 150 years of unforgettable American history...read more
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9780374178611 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, August 1, 1991, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: Places the lives of Henry James, the writer, his brother, William, the philospher, and their sister, Alice, in the context of their family history
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9780385424950 | Reprint edition (Anchor Books, February 1, 1993), cover price $15.00 | About this edition: Even if the James family hadn't given us both William the philosopher and psychologist, and Henry the novelist, the story of this quirky, wealthy, socially prominent clan would still be riveting.
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9780684193045 | Scribner, May 1, 1991, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: A collection of twenty-one of Edith Wharton's best short stories includes 'A Journey,' 'The Descent of Man,' 'Mr.
Product Description: Edith Wharton was an American novelist, poet and short story writer whose works display her mastery over the realistic fiction genre. Although she grew up in a world of refined manners and fashionable people, she was also aware of its superficiality, a theme that frequently appeared in her works...read more
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9780026261616 | Reprint edition (Macmillan Pub Co, September 1, 1989), cover price $50.00 | About this edition: Edith Wharton was an American novelist, poet and short story writer whose works display her mastery over the realistic fiction genre.
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9780312028350 | St Martins Pr, June 1, 1974, cover price $24.15 | About this edition: Poetry and prose illustrate the major themes and currents of American literature from the 17th century
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