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Cinderella in Reverse

Freshwater: A Comedy

by Virginia Woolf, edited by Lucio P. Ruotolo

The Letters of Virginia Woolf Volume I: 1888-1912

edited by Nigel Nicolson, edited by Joanne Trautman

Virginia Woolf and Her World

by John Lehmann


Driving Out Demons

The Uses of Enchantment: The Meaning and Importance of Fairy Tales

by Bruno Bettelheim


The American Revolution: Was There “A People”?

A New Age Now Begins: A People's History of the American Revolution

by Page Smith

1776, Year of Illusions

by Thomas Fleming

Empire or Independence, 1770-1776: A British-American Dialogue on the Coming of the American Revolution

by Ian R. Christie and Benjamin W. Labaree

A People Numerous and Armed: Reflections on the Military Struggle for American Independence

by John Shy

In the Common Cause: American Response to the Coercive Acts of 1774

by David Ammerman

The Politics of Command in the American Revolution

by Jonathan G. Rossie

Party Politics in the Continental Congress

by H. James Henderson

The Spirit of '76: The Growth of American Patriotism Before Independence

by Carl Bridenbaugh

A Cultural History of the American Revolution

by Kenneth Silverman

American Art 1750-1800: Towards Independence

Yale University Art Gallery and Victoria and Albert Museum and Charles F. Montgomery and Patricia E. Kane general editors

The Enlightenment in America

by Henry May

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South Africa’s White War

The Great Anglo-Boer War

by Byron Farwell


Only in America

World of Our Fathers

by Irving Howe


Hi ho, Silver!

Six Guns and Society: A Structural Study of the Western

by Will Wright

The Missouri Breaks

directed by Arthur Penn

Buffalo Bill and the Indians

directed by Robert Altman


American Plastic: The Matter of Fiction

Writing Degree Zero and Elements of Semiology

by Roland Barthes

S/Z

by Roland Barthes, translated by Richard Miller

The Pleasure of the Text

by Roland Barthes, translated by Richard Miller

The New Fiction: Interviews with Innovative American Writers

by Joe David Bellamy

Come Back, Dr. Caligari

by Donald Barthelme

Snow White

by Donald Barthelme

Unspeakable Practices, Unnatural Acts

by Donald Barthelme

City Life

by Donald Barthelme

Sadness

by Donald Barthelme

Guilty Pleasures

by Donald Barthelme

The Dead Father

by Donald Barthelme

The Little Disturbances of Man: Stories of Men and Women at Love

by Grace Paley

Enormous Changes at the Last Minute

by Grace Paley

Omensetter's Luck

by William Gass

In the Heart of the Heart of the Country

by William Gass

The Floating Opera

by John Barth

The End of the Road

by John Barth

The Sot-Weed Factor

by John Barth

Giles Goat-Boy

by John Barth

Lost in the Funhouse

by John Barth

Chimera

by John Barth

V.

by Thomas Pynchon

The Crying of Lot 49

by Thomas Pynchon

Gravity's Rainbow

by Thomas Pynchon

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Musical Rx for a Political Season

Francesco Landini

by Thomas Binkley director and lutenist and Andrea von Ramm soprano and Richard Levitt countertenor and Sterling Jones stringed instruments

Guillaume de Machaut: Chansons I and Chansons II (2 records)

by Thomas Binkley director and lutenist and Andrea von Ramm soprano and Richard Levitt countertenor and Sterling Jones stringed instruments. Studio for Early Music, Cologne. EMI Records


Coming Up for Air

Sweet William

by Beryl Bainbridge

Heat and Dust

by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

Selected Stories

by Nadine Gordimer

Jill

by Philip Larkin


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