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October Cities : The Redevelopment of Urban Literature (Edition 1) (Paperback)

Returning to his native Chicago after World War II Nelson Algren found a city transformed. The flourishing industry culture and literature that had placed prewar Chicago at center stage in American life were entering a time of crisis. The middle... more

Sentience Wars: Origins: The Proteus Bridge (Paperback)

Croon-ya! Rhymes with ruin-ya! Cruithne Station: an ugly hunk of rock in a wobbly orbit between Mars and Earth. Future Casablanca. Smuggler s paradise. Deep in the Info Jungle. A hive of scum and villainy where anything is had for a price. Croon-ya!... more

Pre-Owned Voices for the Future Vol. 1 : Essays on Major Science Fiction Writers 9780879721206 Used

Bringing together a group of original essays concerning major writers of science fiction whose careers had begun by the end of World War II this volume covers Isaac Asimov Ray Bradbury Arthur C. Clarke C. L. Moore Clifford D. Simak Olaf Stapledon... more

Pre-Owned Notebooks 1935-1942 (Paperback) 0156674009 9780156674003

From 1935 until his death Albert Camus kept a series of notebooks to sketch out ideas for future works record snatches of conversations and excerpts from books he was reading and jot down his reflections on death and the horror of war his feelings... more

Pre-Owned No Man s Land: The Place of the Woman Writer in the Twentieth Century Volume 3: Letters (Paperback 9780300066609) by Professor Sandra M Gilbert Susan Gubar

9780300066609. Pre-Owned: Good condition. Trade paperback. Revised ed. Language: English. Pages: 496. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 496 p. How do writers and their readers imagine the future in a turbulent time of sex war and sex change? And... more

Pre-Owned The Tale of the Next Great War 1871-1914: Fictions of Future Warfare and of Battles Still-To-Come (Paperback) 0853234698 9780853234692

This selection of short stories offers a return journey through the future as it used to be. Time speeds backwards to the 1870s to the alpha point of modern futuristic fiction when a new college of prophets and predictors first began to describe the... more

Pre-Owned From Battlefields Rising: How the Civil War Transformed American Literature (Paperback) 0199360715 9780199360710

Our books are pre-loved which means they have been read before. We carefully check all our books and believe them to be in a - USED - VERY GOOD Condition condition. If you re not completely satisfied please get in touch & we ll be happy to help.... more

Pre-Owned No Man s Land: The Place of the Woman Writer in the Twentieth Century Volume 3: Letters (Hardcover 9780300056310) by Professor Sandra M Gilbert Professor Susan Gubar

9780300056310. Pre-Owned: Good condition. Hard cover. Language: English. Pages: 496. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 496 p. How do writers and their readers imagine the future in a turbulent time of sex war and sex change? And how have... more

A Treasury Of War Poetry British And American Poems Of The World War 1914-1919 (Paperback)

This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base for future generations. So that the book is never forgotten we have represented this book in a print... more

Cross/Cultures: Refiguring Global Challenges: Literary and Cinematic Explorations of War Inequality and Migration (Hardcover)

An important task for scholars of cultural studies and the humanities as well as for artistic creators is to refigure the frames and concepts by which the world as we know it is kept in place. Without these acts of refiguration the future could only... more

One (Valancourt 20th Century Classics) (Paperback)

In a dateless future a seemingly benevolent totalitarian State has eliminated poverty crime war and religious intolerance and brought the happiness of conformity to its people. Professor Burden thinks he too is a loyal citizen but the Department of... more

America and the Long 19th Century: Bonds of Citizenship: Law and the Labors of Emancipation (Hardcover)

In this study of literature and law from the Constitutional founding through the Civil War Hoang Gia Phan demonstrates how American citizenship and civic culture were profoundly transformed by the racialized material histories of free enslaved and... more

America and the Long 19th Century: Bonds of Citizenship: Law and the Labors of Emancipation (Paperback)

In this study of literature and law from the Constitutional founding through the Civil War Hoang Gia Phan demonstrates how American citizenship and civic culture were profoundly transformed by the racialized material histories of free enslaved and... more

Pre-Owned Tale of the Next Great War 1871-1914: Fictions of Future Warfare and of Battles Still-to-come Paperback

Our books are pre-loved which means they have been read before. We carefully check all our books and believe them to be in a - USED - VERY GOOD Condition condition. If you re not completely satisfied please get in touch & we ll be happy to help.... more

Pre-Owned From Battlefields Rising: How the Civil War Transformed American Literature (Paperback 9780199360710) by Randall Fuller

9780199360710. Pre-Owned: Good condition. Trade paperback. Language: English. Pages: 272. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 272 p. Contains: Unspecified Figures. When Confederate troops fired on Fort Sumter in April of 1861 Walt Whitman declared... more

From Battlefields Rising: How the Civil War Transformed American Literature (Paperback)

When Confederate troops fired on Fort Sumter in April of 1861 Walt Whitman declared it the volcanic upheaval of the nation --the bloody inception of a war that would dramatically alter the shape and character of American culture along with its... more

Pre-Owned Artist of the Floating World (Paperback) by Kazuo Ishiguro

9780571225361. Pre-Owned: Good condition. Paperback. Language: English. It is 1948. Japan is rebuilding her cities after the calamity of World War II her people putting defeat behind them and looking to the future. The celebrated painter Masuji Ono... more