American Classics

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Richard Evelyn Byrd Jr
Exploring with Byrd: Episodes of an Adventurous Life (Admiral Byrd Classics)
As the culminating volume of Admiral Richard E. Byrd, Jr.’s renowned expeditions, this is the comprehensive autobiography of a man who knew no limits. From his earliest days as a Navy pilot in training, to his controversial flights to the North and South Poles, his lifelong passion for exploration...
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Glyn Davis
Rebel Without a Cause (BFI Film Classics)
Nicholas Ray's 1955 film Rebel Without a Cause is a globally recognised landmark of post-war American cinema. The film follows twenty-four hours in the life of troubled teen Jim Stark (James Dean), the new boy in town, who becomes drawn into a maelstrom of shifting social allegiances, emotional t...
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Willa Cather
Lucy Gayheart (Vintage Classics)
In this haunting 1935 novel, the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of My Ántonia performs crystalline variations on the themes that preoccupy her greatest fiction: the impermanence of innocence, the opposition between prairie and city, provincial American values and world culture, and the grandeur...
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Noam Chomsky
Rules and Representations (Columbia Classics in Philosophy)
As Norbert Hornstein writes in his foreword, "it underestimates Chomsky's impact in linguistics, philosophy, and psychology to describe it as immense." In Rules and Representations , Noam Chomsky lays out many of the concepts that have made his approach to linguistics and human cognition so instrum...
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Jack London
The Call of the Wild and Selected Stories (Signet Classics)
The Call of the Wild is Now a Major Motion Picture Starring Harrison Ford! Out of the white wilderness, out of the Far North, Jack London, one of America’s most popular authors, drew the inspiration for his robust tales of perilous adventure and animal cunning. Swiftly paced and vividly writte...
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Gerald Kersh
Neither Man Nor Dog (Valancourt 20th Century Classics)
This collection of 37 stories by a master of the form features tales that are sometimes funny, sometimes violent, and sometimes weird and nightmarish: in short, it is quintessential Gerald Kersh. Kersh (1911-1968) published more than thirty books, including the noir classic Night and the City (193...
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Peter Krämer
The General (BFI Film Classics)
Offering a fresh perspective on The General, arguably one of the most successful American films of the silent era, this insightful text analyses its initial critical reception and the thematic and stylistic characteristics of the film that made it difficult for critics to appreciate at the time, but...
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Jean Stafford
The Collected Stories of Jean Stafford (FSG Classics)
These Pulitzer Prize-winning stories represent the major short works of fiction by one of the most distinctively American stylists of her day. Jean Stafford communicates the small details of loneliness and connection, the search for freedom and the desire to belong, that not only illuminate whole li...
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Dr. E. J. C. Gold
Tanks for the Memories: Floatation Tank Talks (Consciousness Classics)
A definitive series of talks by two acknowledged masters of consciousness exploration on uses of the flotation tank. "The floatation tank has always been a gateway into what is unknown and what is possible. This book is a guide to making the unknown possible."  —Michael Hutchison, author, Meg...
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GOTHLETIC Girls 4th of July Outfit American Flag Dress Toddler Red White and Blue Patriotic Dresses 2T-8T
👗 Soft and Comfortable: This 4th of July dress is made of 100% Polyester, ensuring a comfortable, breathable, and skin-friendly experience for your little one. 👗 Festive Design: Featuring an A-line silhouette, striped and stars patchwork, knee-length, and the iconic Stars and Stripes in Red, W...
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Burt Kearns
Lawrence Tierney: Hollywood's Real-Life Tough Guy (Screen Classics)
Lawrence Tierney (1919–2002) was the kind of actor whose natural swagger and gruff disposition made him the perfect fit for the Hollywood "tough guy" archetype. Known for his erratic and oftentimes violent nature, Tierney drew upon his bellicose reputation throughout his career―a reputation that...
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Ted Okuda
The Monogram Checklist: The Films of Monogram Pictures Corporation, 1931-1952 (McFarland Classics S)
Monogram Pictures Corporation, one of several famed "poverty row" studios, produced over 700 feature films--cheap, often inept, frequently forgettable, but so inexpensive profit was unavoidable. The Bowery Boys and Charlie Chan series were extremely popular. This, the first such reference book, cor...
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James Schuyler
Selected Poems (FSG Classics)
In Selected Poems , we experience the full range of James Schuyler's achievement, confirming that he was among the late twentieth century's truly vital and distinctive poetic voices. One of the most significant writers of the New York School―which unofficially included John Ashbery, Frank O'Hara,...
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Jules Verne
Journey to the Centre of the Earth (Modern Library Classics)
The intrepid Professor Lindenbrock embarks upon the strangest expedition of the nineteenth century: a journey down an extinct Icelandic volcano to the Earth’s very core. In his quest to penetrate the planet’s primordial secrets, the geologist—together with his quaking nephew Axel and their dev...
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David Bromwich
Writing Politics: An Anthology (New York Review Books Classics)
Explore the tradition of the political essay with this brilliant anthology. David Bromwich is one of the most well-informed, cogent, and morally uncompromising political writers on the left today. He is also one of our finest intellectual historians and literary critics. In Writing Politics , Bro...
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Thomas P. Lowry
Attack on Taranto (Stackpole Classics)
On November 11, 1940, 21 slow, canvas-covered British warplanes, launched from the carrier Illustrious, attacked the harbor at the Italian port of Taranto and put most of the Italian navy out of commission. This all-but-forgotten operation, the authors argue, deserves historical recognition as an in...
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LIFE Mickey Mouse: LIFE Celebrates an American Icon
For over ninety years, one of the world’s greatest entertainers has technically never been alive. Conjured from the imagination of Walt Disney and brought to life by artist Ub Iwerks, Micky Mouse has starred in some of the most enduring movie classics of our time (though not as many as you’d thi...
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Walt Whitman
Leaves of Grass (Vintage Classics)
In 1855, an unknown but wildly ambitious young poet self-published the first edition of Leaves of Grass , consisting of twelve untitled poems and an explanatory preface. Walt Whitman spent the rest of his life engaged in expanding and revising this work, through six editions and nearly four decades...
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GOTHLETIC Girls 4th of July Outfit American Flag Dress Toddler Red White and Blue Patriotic Dresses 2T-8T
👗 Soft and Comfortable: This 4th of July dress is made of 100% Polyester, ensuring a comfortable, breathable, and skin-friendly experience for your little one. 👗 Festive Design: Featuring an A-line silhouette, striped and stars patchwork, knee-length, and the iconic Stars and Stripes in Red, W...
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Michael Eaton
Chinatown (BFI Film Classics)
Directed in 1974 by Roman Polanski from a script by Robert Towne, Chinatown is a brilliant reworking of film noir set in a drought-stricken Los Angeles of the 1930s. Jack Nicholson stars as J. J. Gittes, a private eye who, despite his best intentions, can bring only disaster on Evelyn Mulwray (Fay...
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