A Room of One's Own by Buccaneer Books $27.95
"A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction." First published in 1929, Virginia Woolf's pioneering work on women in literature is an accessible yet fiercely astute essay. It is a crystallization of the intelligent analysis behind her novels, and confirms her as a writer not only of style, but of undeniable substance. Ranging from discussing Austen's pandering to a...
The Middle Place by Voice $23.95
"The Middle Place is about calling home. Instinctively. Even when all the paperwork -- a marriage license, a notarized deed, two birth certificates, and seven years of tax returns -- clearly indicates you're an adult, but all the same, there you are, clutching the phone and thanking God that you're still somebody's daughter."For Kelly Corrigan, family is everything.At thirty-six, she had a...
Time to Be in Earnest: A Fragment of Autobiography by Random House Inc (T)
Penhally (Southern Classics Series) by J.S. Sanders Books $14.95
This narrative of a landed Kentucky family, traced over four generations, shows the decline of its patriarchal order, overwhelmed in the twentieth century by an irresponsible individualism. “The best American novel I know.”—Ford Madox Ford. Southern Classics Series.
Green Centuries (Southern Classics Series) by J.S. Sanders Books $14.95
This tragic novel traces the barbarization of the white settlers of the Appalachian frontier, culminating in the destruction of the Cherokee nation and the moral corruption of its conquerors. Southern Classics Series.
The Sentimental Education of the Novel by Princeton University Press $65.00
The nineteenth-century French novel has long been seen as the heroic production of great men, who confronted in their works the social consequences of the French Revolution, it is true that French realism, as developed by Balzac and Stendhal, was one of the most influential novelistic forms invented. Margaret Cohen, however, challenges the traditional account of the genesis of realism by...
Clint Eastwood and Issues of American Masculinity by Fordham University Press $24.00
In this risk-taking book, a major feminist philosopher engages the work of the actor and director who has progressed from being the stereotypical man's manto pushing the boundaries of the very genres-the Western, the police thriller, the war or boxing movie-most associated with American masculinity. Cornell's highly appreciative encounter with the films directed by Clint Eastwood revolve around...
Life Itself! by Little, Brown Book Group $16.99
Elaine Dundy, a New Yorker born in the 1930s, is the author of The Dud Avocado, based on a year she spent in Paris. Here she presents her memoirs which begin in classy apartments on Park Lane before the Crash, include a wild and funny time as an actress in Paris and London, and reveal all about her disastrous marriage to theater critic Kenneth Tynan. Her literary and theatrical circle—which...
The Eloquent Edge: 15 Maine Women Writers by Margery Wilson $6.95