These Fevered Days: Ten Pivotal Moments in the Making of Emily Dickinson
By: Martha Ackmann
4.11
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
An engaging, intimate portrait of Emily Dickinson, one of America’s greatest and most-mythologized …
Want to Read $ 9.99"Housekeeping, to her, was a way to cultivate a woman’s submission and steal time, and she wanted nothing of it."-Martha Ackmann, These Fevered Days: Ten Pivotal Moments in the Making of Emily Dickinson
"Housekeeping, to her, was a way to cultivate a woman’s submission and steal time, and she wanted nothing of it."-Martha Ackmann, These Fevered Days: Ten Pivotal Moments in the Making of Emily Dickinson
"Housekeeping, to her, was a way to cultivate a woman’s submission and steal time, and she wanted nothing of it."-Martha Ackmann, These Fevered Days: Ten Pivotal Moments in the Making of Emily Dickinson
"She wanted to think through the questions of faith herself, and she held fast to the belief that heaven on Earth would always outweigh heaven above."-Martha Ackmann, These Fevered Days: Ten Pivotal Moments in the Making of Emily Dickinson
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1. What We See When We Read
By: Peter Mendelsund
3.70
Format: 425 pages, Paperback
A gorgeously unique, fully illustrated exploration into the phenomenology of reading-how we visuali… read more
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"The animated cartoon has a lot to teach the writer, above all how to define characters and objects with a few strokes."-Peter Mendelsund, What We See When We Read
"Audition requires different neurological processes than vision, or smell. And I would suggest that we hear more than we see while we are reading."-Peter Mendelsund, What We See When We Read
2. My Emily Dickinson
By: Susan Howe
4.23
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
My Emily Dickinson does more than just explore Dickinson's life and poetics, although it does that … read more
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3. A Loaded Gun: Emily Dickinson for the 21st Century
By: Jerome Charyn
3.64
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
“Remarkable insight ... [a] unique meditation/investigation ... Jerome Charyn the unpredictable, el… read more
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4. The Gorgeous Nothings: Emily Dickinson's Envelope Poems
By: Emily Dickinson , Susan Howe
4.14
Format: None pages, Hardcover
The Gorgeous Nothings-- the first full-color facsimile edition of Emily Dickinson's manuscripts eve… read more
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5. Selected Letters
By: Emily Dickinson , Thomas H. Johnson
3.31
Format: 267 pages, Paperback
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6. Sapphira and the Slave Girl
By: Willa Cather , Hermione Lee
3.84
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
Sapphira Dodderidge, a Virginia lady of the 19th century, marries beneath her and becomes irrationa… read more
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8. Duende
By: Tracy K. Smith
4.02
Format: 424 pages, Paperback
Every poem is the story of itself. Pure conflict. Its own undoing. Breeze of dreams, then certain d… read more
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9. The Art of Memoir
By: Mary Karr
4.56
Format: 200 pages, Hardcover
Credited with sparking the current memoir explosion, Mary Karr's The Liars' Clubspent more than a y… read more
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10. Bettyville
By: George Hodgman
4.55
Format: 160 pages, Hardcover
When George Hodgman leaves Manhattan for his hometown of Paris, Missouri, he finds himself--an unli… read more
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By: Ralph Waldo Emerson , None
3.99
Format: None pages, Hardcover
This first Library of America volume of Emerson's writing covers the most productive period of his … read more
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The early fiction of one of the nation's most celebrated writers, Truman Capote, as he takes his fi… read more
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13. The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
By: Emily Dickinson , Thomas H. Johnson
3.85
Format: None pages, Paperback
THE ONLY ONE-VOLUME EDITION CONTAINING ALL 1,775 OF EMILY DICKINSON'S POEMS Only eleven of Emily Di… read more
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By: Donna Leon
4.40
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By: Mary Ruefle
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16. Lives Like Loaded Guns: Emily Dickinson and Her Family's Feuds
By: Lyndall Gordon
3.17
Format: None pages,
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17. Skunk and Badger (Skunk and Badger, #1)
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4.06
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No one wants a skunk.They are unwelcome on front stoops. They should not linger in Important Rock R… read more
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18. Chasing Bright Medusas: A Life of Willa Cather
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3.73
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A tender biography of one of the greatest authors of the twentieth century and an elegant explorati… read more
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19. Old School
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3.84
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The protagonist of Tobias Wolff’s shrewdly—and at times devastatingly—observed first novel is a boy… read more
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"The stories you have to write will always make someone hate your guts. If they don't you're just producing words."-Tobias Wolff, Old School
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3.75
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
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4.16
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
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By: Amanda Flower
3.81
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
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23. Zero at the Bone: Fifty Entries Against Despair
By: Christian Wiman
4.14
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Christian Wiman braids poetry, memoir, and criticism to create an inspired, career-defining work. … read more
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24. Loot
By: Tania James
3.82
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A spellbinding historical novel set in the eighteenth century - a hero’s quest, a love story, the s… read more
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"She is reading; he loves the lost expression on her face when she reads."-Tania James, Loot
25. Emily Dickinson Face to Face
By: Martha Gilbert Dickinson Bianchi
4.14
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
Long out of print, a uniquely intimate portrait of Emily Dickinson written by her niece. What wo… read more
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4.06
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27. These Fevered Days: Ten Pivotal Moments in the Making of Emily Dickinson
By: Martha Ackmann
4.11
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
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"She wanted to think through the questions of faith herself, and she held fast to the belief that heaven on Earth would always outweigh heaven above."-Martha Ackmann, These Fevered Days: Ten Pivotal Moments in the Making of Emily Dickinson
"Whether she knew it then or not, she would bore into her own interior, confronting an unknown as wild and uncertain as any new world a missionary had seen. A place as rare as Noah’s."-Martha Ackmann, These Fevered Days: Ten Pivotal Moments in the Making of Emily Dickinson
"She thought accepting religious maxims meant abdicating independence and not personally struggling with profound questions. It was like learning chemistry by a book rather than an experiment."-Martha Ackmann, These Fevered Days: Ten Pivotal Moments in the Making of Emily Dickinson
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3.95
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4.49
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30. On Wings of Words: The Extraordinary Life of Emily Dickinson
By: Jennifer Berne
4.20
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