A Guide to Composition Pedagogies
By: Gary Tate
3.74
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
Reflecting the rich complexity of contemporary college composition pedagogy, this unique collection…
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1. Robinson Crusoe
By: Virginia Woolf , Daniel Defoe , Gerald McCann
3.68
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Daniel Defoe relates the tale of an English sailor marooned on a desert island for nearly three dec… read more
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"For sudden Joys, like Griefs, confound at first. "-Virginia Woolf, Robinson Crusoe
"On a horse? I was married on a horse? Gillian looked like she could kill the groom"-Virginia Woolf, Robinson Crusoe
"All evils are to be considered with the good that is in them, and with what worse attends them."-Virginia Woolf, Robinson Crusoe
"for me to think of such a voyage was the most preposterous thing that ever man in such circumstances could be guilty of."-Virginia Woolf, Robinson Crusoe
2. Song of Solomon
By: Toni Morrison
4.14
Format: 338 pages, Paperback
Milkman Dead was born shortly after a neighborhood eccentric hurled himself off a rooftop in a vain… read more
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"Her passions were narrow but deep."-Toni Morrison, Song of Solomon
"He can't value you more than you value yourself."-Toni Morrison, Song of Solomon
"If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it."-Toni Morrison, Song of Solomon
"You got a life? Live it! Live the motherfuckin' life!"-Toni Morrison, Song of Solomon
3. Howl and Other Poems
By: William Carlos Williams , Allen Ginsberg
4.13
Format: 56 pages, Hardcover
A beat movement icon and visionary poet, Allen Ginsberg broke boundaries with his fearless, pyrotec… read more
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"You too must seek the sun..."-William Carlos Williams, Howl and Other Poems
"America this is quite serious"-William Carlos Williams, Howl and Other Poems
"The beauty is in the eye of the beholder."-William Carlos Williams, Howl and Other Poems
"We are great writers on the same dreadful typewriter"-William Carlos Williams, Howl and Other Poems
4. Zone One
By: Colson Whitehead
3.26
Format: 259 pages, Hardcover
In this wry take on the post-apocalyptic horror novel, a pandemic has devastated the planet. The pl… read more
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"A society manufactures the heroes it requires."-Colson Whitehead, Zone One
"He told himself: Hope is a gateway drug, don't do it."-Colson Whitehead, Zone One
"We never see other people anyway, only the monsters we make of them."-Colson Whitehead, Zone One
"Pain could be killed. Sadness could not, but the drugs did shut its mouth for a time."-Colson Whitehead, Zone One
5. Invisible Man
By: Ralph Ellison
3.91
Format: 581 pages, Paperback
First published in 1952 and immediately hailed as a masterpiece, Invisible Man is one of those rare… read more
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"When I discover who I am, I’ll be free."-Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man
"You're very insistent, but I'm very busy."-Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man
"I could hardly get to sleep for dreaming of revenge."-Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man
"They could laugh at him but they couldn't ignore him"-Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man
6. The St. Martin's Guide to Teaching Writing
By: Cheryl Glenn , Melissa A. Goldthwaite
3.70
Format: None pages, Paperback
This guide to teaching writing and to major theoretical issues includes a brief anthology of schola… read more
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- academic
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7. First-Year Composition: From Theory to Practice
By: Deborah Coxwell-Teague , Ronald F. Lunsford
3.00
Format: 508 pages, Paperback
Responding to a widespread belief that the field of composition studies is less unified than it was… read more
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- teaching
- writing
8. Native Speaker
By: Chang-rae Lee
3.60
Format: 404 pages, Paperback
In Native Speaker, author Chang-rae Lee introduces readers to Henry Park. Park has spent his entire… read more
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9. Utopia
By: Paul Turner , Thomas More
3.55
Format: 113 pages, Paperback
In his most famous and controversial book, Utopia, Thomas More imagines a perfect island nation whe… read more
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"The change of the word does not alter the matter"-Paul Turner, Utopia
"Isn't this conception of absolute justice absolutely unjust?"-Paul Turner, Utopia
"Dünyada kaygısız, rahat yürekle, sevinçle yaşamaktan daha büyük zenginlik olabilir mi?"-Paul Turner, Utopia
"Anyone who campaigns for public office becomes disqualified for holding any office at all."-Paul Turner, Utopia
10. Looking Backward: 2000-1887
By: Edward Bellamy , Walter James Miller
3.99
Format: 380 pages, Paperback
Edward Bellamy's classic look at the future has been translated into over twenty languages and is t… read more
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11. Gulliver’s Travels
By: Louis Rhead , Jonathan Swift , William Dean Howells , Robert DeMaria Jr.
3.58
Format: 306 pages, Paperback
A wickedly clever satire uses comic inversions to offer telling insights into the nature of man and… read more
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"Anlamadığınız bir insanı "delidir" diye nitelemek o kadar kolaydır ki!"-Louis Rhead, Gulliver’s Travels
"we neither of us are able to deliver our conceptions in a manner intelligible to the other."-Louis Rhead, Gulliver’s Travels
"معظم ابناء جلدتك هم أخبث سلالة من الحشرات المؤذية البغيضة التي سمحت لها الطبيعة بالزحف على وجخ الأرض"-Louis Rhead, Gulliver’s Travels
"... a wife should be always a reasonable and agreeable companion, because she cannot always be young."-Louis Rhead, Gulliver’s Travels
12. Rewriting: How To Do Things With Texts
By: Joseph Harris
4.42
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
"Like all writers, intellectuals need to say something new and say it well. But unlike many other w… read more
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13. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
By: Mark Twain , E.W. Kemble , John Seelye , Guy Cardwell
3.83
Format: 327 pages, Paperback
A nineteenth-century boy from a Mississippi River town recounts his adventures as he travels down t… read more
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"งั้นก็เอาละ เราจะลงนรก..."-Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
"Confound it, it's foolish, Tom"-Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
"He had a dream and it shot him."-Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
"Tom Sawyer said I was a numskull."-Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
14. Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
By: Harriet Ann Jacobs
3.85
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
The true story of an individual's struggle for self-identity, self-preservation, and freedom, Incid… read more
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15. Passing
By: Nella Larsen
3.93
Format: 141 pages, Paperback
Nella Larsen's fascinating exploration of race and identity--the inspiration for the upcoming Netfl… read more
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"Well, what of it? If sex isn’t a joke, what is it"-Nella Larsen, Passing
"Everything can't be explained by some general biological phrase."-Nella Larsen, Passing
"I think that being a mother is the cruellest thing in the world."-Nella Larsen, Passing
"It hurt. It hurt like hell. But it didn’t matter, if no one knew."-Nella Larsen, Passing
16. Recitatif
By: Toni Morrison
4.31
Format: 19 pages, Audiobook
A beautiful, arresting short story by Toni Morrison—the only one she ever wrote—about race and the … read more
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"Difficult to “move on"-Toni Morrison, Recitatif
17. The Plot (The Book Series, #1)
By: Jean Hanff Korelitz
3.82
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Jean Hanff Korelitz’s The Plot is a psychologically suspenseful novel about a story too good not to… read more
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"To Jake, the world that comprised the relationship between a writer and their spark was “responsibility."-Jean Hanff Korelitz, The Plot (The Book Series, #1)
"Anyone could be an idiot or a jerk, separately, but the combination of ignorance and meanspiritedness--that was special."-Jean Hanff Korelitz, The Plot (The Book Series, #1)
"Entweder man hat einen guten Plot oder nicht. Wenn´s kein guter Plot ist, dann hilft auch die beste Schreibe nichts. Und wenn´s ein guter Plot ist, dann macht ihn auch die mieseste Schreibe nicht kap…"-Jean Hanff Korelitz, The Plot (The Book Series, #1)
"...I've always thought there was a kind of beauty to it, the way narratives get told and retold. It's how stories survive through the ages. You can follow an idea from one author's work to another, a…"-Jean Hanff Korelitz, The Plot (The Book Series, #1)
18. Naming What We Know: Threshold Concepts of Writing Studies
By: Linda Adler-Kassner
3.88
Format: 280 pages, Paperback
Naming What We Know examines the core principles of knowledge in the discipline of writing studies … read more
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- writing
19. A Guide to Composition Pedagogies
By: Gary Tate
3.74
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
Reflecting the rich complexity of contemporary college composition pedagogy, this unique collection… read more
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- textbooks
- education
20. Naming What We Know, Classroom Edition: Threshold Concepts of Writing Studies
By: Linda Adler-Kassner
3.92
Format: 122 pages, Kindle Edition
Naming What We Know, Classroom Edition examines the core principles of knowledge in the discipline … read more
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- education
- read for school
21. A Short History of Writing Instruction: From Ancient Greece to The Modern United States
By: James J. Murphy
3.50
Format: 378 pages, Kindle Edition
This newly revised Thirtieth Anniversary edition provides a robust scholarly introduction to the hi… read more
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