In The Order of Books, Chartier examines the different systems required to regulate the world of writing through the centuries, from the registration of titles to the classification of works.

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In the course of this book, Whalen has managed to revise many of the common assumptions about Poe's career as a writer. Simply stated, this is a major book."--Lilian Weissberg, University of Pennsylvania

Most writers fitting such a description are long forgotten, but if the novel is The Catcher in the Rye and the writer is J. D. Salinger . . . well, he's the stuff of legends, the most famously reclusive writer of the twentieth century.

Based on revealing letters and other documents from archives, Hemingway and His Conspirators has the dramatic personae of a Hollywood production--with a cast starring not only Hemingway and Perkins, but F. Scott Fitzgerald, Helen Hayes, ...

Fish has reconciled the two camps by subsuming their claims in a single overarching thesis.

For this edition of Jack London's observations on the craft of writing—culled from essays, reviews, letters, and autobiographical writings—a significant amount of new material has been added.

Bloom leads readers through the labyrinthine paths which link the writers and critics who have informed and inspired him for so many years.

" -Aldous Huxley, Those Barren Leaves (1925) Those Barren Leaves (1925) is a satirical novel by Aldous Huxley, the title of which comes from William Wordworth's poem The Tables Turned (1798): "Enough of Science and of Art; Close up those ...

Focusing on British and American novels, Rogers takes a sociological look at the business of literature, the book industry, and the experiences of novelists and readers.