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Publisher's description: One of English literature's most famous families, the Brontës are known as much for their short lives as for the unforgettable works they produced: Charlotte's Jane Eyre, Emily's Wuthering Heights, and Anne's Agnes Grey, among others. Now, in one encyclopedic resource, readers can explore the life and work of each writer as an individual and as part of an unusually creative family. The Brontës A to Z is an indispensable,...
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Devoted to the organization, function, and history of the US Supreme Court, this reference places each Court, together with its justices and individual cases, in historic context, from 1790 to the present. Each chapter presents as background the important events that occurred during the Court's tenure, then provides biographies of the Chief Justice and each of the associate justices, and analyzes the details of the important cases decided by that...
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"This first biography of Susan Sontag (1933-2004) is now fully revised and updated, providing an even more intimate portrayal of the influential writer's life and career. The authors base this revision on Sontag's newly released private correspondence--including emails--and the letters and memoirs of those who knew her best. The authors reveal as never before her early years in Tucson and Los Angeles, her conflicted relationship with her mother, her...
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Publisher's description: Although he spent much of his career in obscurity, Herman Melville has since become known as one of America's greatest novelists, short story writers, and poets. The author of Moby-Dick, Billy Budd, Typee, White-Jacket, "Bartleby the Scrivener," and many other classic works, Melville was rediscovered in the 1920s by a new generation of writers who saw in his work an evolving sense of modernism. His work is now an integral...