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An illuminating collection of an author widely regarded as one of the twentieth century's great unsung heroes of American literature.
As a fiction editor at The New Yorker from 1936 to 1975, William Maxwell helped shaped several generations' sense of the literary short story. At the same time, Maxwell himself was also an exceptional novelist, short story writer, essayist, children's author, and memoirist.
Given unique, unfettered access to Maxwell's...
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The Folded Leaf, first published in 1945, is a classic American coming-of-age novel. In the suburbs of Chicago in the 1920s, two boys initiate an unusual friendship: Lymie Peters, a skinny and somewhat clumsy boy who always gets good grades, and newcomer Spud Latham, a star athlete and mediocre student. Spud accepts Lymie's devotion without questioning it, but once high school ends and the boys enter college, tensions begin to arise between them....
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The Marvell family is on the move, driving from their Wisconsin farm to visit the children's grandmother in Virginia. The night before their departure, Mr. Marvell talks to Roger, Heather, and the twins about the wonders of the night sky and explains the zodiac - a beautiful trail traveled by the sun in the daytime and by the moon and planets at night. The pathway's 12 sections, called the "signs" of the zodiac, contain clusters of stars. Long ago...
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"Winner of a 2016 American Book Award, Before Columbus Foundation" "One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2015" "A St. Louis Post-Dispatch Best Book of 2015" "Shortlisted for the 2016 MSA Book Prize, Modernist Studies Association" William J. Maxwell is professor of English and African and African American studies at Washington University in St. Louis. His F.B. Eyes Digital Archive presents copies of 51 of the FBI files discussed in this...
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This ebook is purpose built and is proof-read and re-type set from the original to provide an outstanding experience of reflowing text for an ebook reader. Despite the rather prosaic title, these two volumes contain some of the best eye-witness accounts of the Peninsular War. Maxwell wrote a number of books on the Napoleonic Wars himself, the research for which put him in contact with numerous ex-soldiers. In these two volumes, he assembled their...
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The FBI's secret dossier on the legendary and controversial writer.
Decades before Black Lives Matter returned James Baldwin to prominence, J. Edgar Hoover's FBI considered the Harlem-born author the most powerful broker between black art and black power. Baldwin's 1,884-page FBI file, covering the period from 1958 to 1974, was the largest compiled on any African American artist of the Civil Rights era. This collection of once-secret documents, never...
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This ebook is purpose built and is proof-read and re-type set from the original to provide an outstanding experience of reflowing text for an ebook reader. Despite the rather prosaic title, these two volumes contain some of the best eye-witness accounts of the Peninsular War. Maxwell wrote a number of books on the Napoleonic Wars himself, the research for which put him in contact with numerous ex-soldiers. In these two volumes, he assembled their...
9) The Red Gift
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A magical version of modern Los Angeles, an ex-druid down on his luck. Some people spend New Years Eve alone, some with family, some in celebration with a bunch of raucous strangers. Peregrine Dunn (the protagonist of the upcoming novel, SILENCE IN THE CHAPEL, and the narrator of this story) spends this time quieter than most. In a version of Los Angeles where angels actually do come on the Solstice, this is probably a wise thing. Too bad that's not...
10) Shadowpath
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Dr. Elisabeth Frost, conventional psychologist, part-time author, finds herself drawn into an investigation with no apparent motive, other than to pull her into it. To solve this brutal murder, she's going to have to look past her preconceptions and into the world of the shadows, where a select few wield powers that stretch the imagination. There is a war going on out there, a war in the darkness. Dr. Frost has just been sent an invitation to it,...