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Wallace Stegner: Collected Stories - Book

In a literary career spanning more than fifty years, Wallace Stegner created a remarkable record of the history and culture of twentieth-century America. Each of the thirty-one stories contained in this volume embody some of the best virtues and values to be found in contemporary fiction, demonstrating why the author is acclaimed as one of America's master storytellers.

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Production Year: 2006
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Wallace Stegner: Collected Stories - Book

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Angle of Repose

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Angle of Repose

Wallace Stegner's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel is a story of discovery personal, historical, and geographical. Confined to a wheelchair, retired historian Lyman Ward sets out to write his grandparents' remarkable story, chronicling their days spent carving civilization into the surface of America's western frontier. What emerges is an enthralling portrait of four generations in the life of an American family.

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Production Year: 2000
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On Teaching and Writing Fiction

Wallace Stegner founded the acclaimed Stanford Writing Program whose alumni include such literary luminaries as Larry McMurtry and Raymond Carver. Here Lynn Stegner brings together eight of Stegner's previously uncollected essays, including four unpublished pieces, on writing fiction and teaching creative writing. His insights will benefit anyone interested in writing fiction or exploring ideas about fiction's role in the broader culture.

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Production Year: 2002
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On Teaching and Writing Fiction

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Book of Longing (Paperback)

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Book of Longing (Paperback)

Leonard Cohen's first book of poetry in more than 20 years was written during his 5-year stay at a Zen monastery. This dazzling collection of poetry is enhanced by the author's playful and provocative drawings.

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Production Year: 2007
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Masterpiece Classic: Persuasion Book

Anne Elliot is Jane Austen's most adult heroine. Happily betrothed to a naval officer, Frederick Wentworth, she breaks off the engagement when persuaded by her friend Lady Russell that such a match is unworthy. When later Wentworth returns from sea a rich and successful captain, he finds Anne's family on the brink of financial ruin and his own sister a tenant in the Elliot estate. Will Anne and Wentworth be reunited in their love?

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Masterpiece Classic: Little Dorrit DVD & Book, Save $5

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Masterpiece Classic: Little Dorrit DVD & Book, Save $5

This timeless rag's to riches story concerns the vacillating fortunes of the Dorrit family. The kind-hearted Amy looks after her proud father William who is a long-term inmate of Marshalsea debtors' prison in London. But their fate is transformed by the unexpected arrival of the benevolent Arthur Clennam. As the Dorrits meet a variety of characters from rich to poor, a dark villain Rigaud threatens to spill a long-held family secret.

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Masterpiece Classic: The Old Curiosity Shop DVD & Book, Save $5

Based on Dickens classic novel The Old Curiosity Shop tells the tale of Little Nell Trent who lives with her doting grandfather in his London shop known as The Old Curiosity Shop, unaware that her grandfather has a ruinous gambling addiction that has left them nearly penniless and on the run from a loan shark. The pair fall in with a number of colorful characters, some villainous and some affectionate in a tragic and heartbreaking journey.

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Masterpiece Classic: The Old Curiosity Shop Book

The sensational bestselling story of Little Nell, the beautiful child thrown into a shadowy, terrifying world, seems to belong less to the history of the Victorian novel than to folklore, fairy tale, or myth. The sorrows of Nell and her grandfather are offset by Dickens's creation of a dazzling contemporary world inhabited by some of his most brilliantly drawn characters.

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Masterpiece Classic: Little Dorrit Book (Softcover)

When Arthur Clennam returns to England after many years abroad, he takes a kindly interest in Amy Dorrit, his mother's seamstress, and in the affairs of Amy's father, William Dorrit, a man of shabby grandeur, long imprisoned for debt in the Marshalsea. A masterly evocation of the state and psychology of imprisonment, Little Dorrit is one of the supreme works of Dickens's maturity.

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Masterpiece Classic: Little Dorrit Book (Softcover)

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Masterpiece Classic: Sense and Sensibility DVD & Book, Save $5!

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Masterpiece Classic: Sense and Sensibility DVD & Book, Save $5!

Hattie Morahan plays levelheaded Elinor Dashwood and Charity Wakefield is her impulsive sister Marianne. Though poor, they attract a trio of very promising gentlemen. Will the sisters learn that sense must mix with sensibility if they are to find personal happiness in a society where status and money govern the rules of love? Adapted by Andrew Davies comes a new adaptation of Jane Austen's classic novel. Buy the DVD and book together and save.

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Masterpiece Classic: David Copperfield Book

David Copperfield is the story of a young man's adventures on his journey from an unhappy and impoverished childhood to the discovery of his vocation as a successful novelist. In David Copperfield--the novel he described as his "favorite child"--Dickens drew revealingly on his own experiences to create one of his most exuberant and enduringly popular works, filled with tragedy and comedy in equal measure.

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Masterpiece Classic: Sense and Sensibility Book

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Masterpiece Classic: Sense and Sensibility Book

When Marianne Dashwood falls in love with the dashing but unsuitable John Willoughby she ignores her sister Elinor's warning that her impulsive behaviour leaves her open to gossip and innuendo. Meanwhile Elinor, is struggling to conceal her own romantic disappointment. Through their parallel experience of love-and its threatened loss-the sisters learn that sense must mix with sensibility if they are to find personal happiness.

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Independent Lens: Off the Charts: The Song Poems Story DVD

In this little-known subculture, ordinary people send in their heartfelt, but often bizarre, poems to companies that, for a fee, turn them into full-fledged musical productions. Off the Charts: Song-Poem Story explores the lives and dreams of the songwriters and musicians who operation within this strange world.

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Production Year: 2003
Length: 132 minutes on 1 Disc
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Independent Lens: Off the Charts: The Song Poems Story DVD

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Masterpiece Theatre: Oliver Twist Book (Softcover)

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Masterpiece Theatre: Oliver Twist Book (Softcover)

The story of the orphan Oliver, who runs away from the workhouse only to be taken in by a den of thieves, shocked readers when it was first published. Dickens's tale of childhood innocence beset by evil depicts the dark criminal underworld of a London peopled by vivid and memorable characters. Dickens created an entirely new kind of fiction, scathing in its indictment of a cruel society, and pervaded by a sense of threat and mystery.

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Masterpiece Classic: Wuthering Heights Softcover Book

Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte's only novel, is one of the pinnacles of 19th century English literature. It's the story of Heathcliff, an orphan who falls in love with a girl above his class, loses her, and devotes the rest of his life to wreaking revenge on her family.

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Tess of the D'Urbervilles Book

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Tess of the D'Urbervilles Book

The chance discovery by a young peasant woman that she is a descendant of the noble family of d'Urbervilles is to change the course of her life. Tess Durbeyfield leaves home on the first of her fateful journeys, and meets the ruthless Alec d'Urberville. Thomas Hardy's impassioned story tells of hope and disappointment, rejection and enduring love.

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FRONTLINE: Much Ado About Something DVD

His name is synonymous with great literature, but was William Shakespeare really the greatest writer who ever lived? FRONTLINE explores the controversy over whether literary masterpieces attributed to Shakespeare were written by his contemporary, Christopher Marlowe, reportedly killed in a brawl in 1593. But some still insist he lived and continued to write under Shakespeare's name, in the biggest cover-up in literary history.

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Length: 90 minutes on 1 Disc
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FRONTLINE: Much Ado About Something DVD

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Great American Authors: 1650 To Present 4PK DVD

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Great American Authors: 1650 To Present 4PK DVD

Explore the rich, literary tradition of American storytelling along with the writers who defined the American experience and spoke out against war, poverty, racism, and alienation. This series unveils the lives and works of more than 60 of America's greatest authors, including Poe, Dickinson, Twain, Alcott, Hemingway, Wolfe, Steinbeck, Vonnegut, and Morrison. Designed for use in classrooms, the DVD features stand-alone clips and teacher's guide.

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Production Year: 2007
Length: 140 minutes on 4 Discs
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Number of Programs: 1
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The Snow Queen Book Hardcover

When the coldhearted Snow Queen abducts a young boy, Gerda begins a magical and perilous journey to find him and release him from the Snow Queen's treacherous spell. Follow Gerda in this sparkling retelling of the classic fairy tale, as she sets out on her dangerous quest to the frozen north.

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The Snow Queen Book Hardcover

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Sounds of Poetry DVD 4PK

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Sounds of Poetry DVD 4PK

Since its inception in 1986, the Geraldine R. Dodge Poetry Festival has spotlighted over 300 established and emerging poets-and attracted an audience of more than 50,000 avid listeners. This sparkling series featuring popular television journalist Bill Moyers is a dual celebration of poetry, emphasizing both the power of its highly refined language and its importance as a spoken art form.

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Production Year: 2000
Length: 243 minutes on 4 Discs
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Number of Programs: 1
Country Of Origin : United States

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