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Abroad: British Literary Traveling between the War...
$10.27
A book about the meaning of travel, about how important the topic has been for writers for two and a half centuries, and about how excellent the literature of travel happened to be in England and America in the 1920s and 30s. Author: Fussell, Paul Publisher: Oxford University Press Binding: Paperbac..
Abroad: British Literary Traveling Between the War...
$11.11
Distinguishing the art of travel from today's tourism, this nostalgic, controversial study eulogizes the final age of travel between 1918 and 1939 in the fascinating context of British travel writings Author: Fussell, Paul Publisher: Oxford University Press Binding: Hardcover Language: English ISBN-..
Class: A Guide Through the American Status System
$10.98
The bestselling, comprehensive, and carefully researched guide to the ins-and-outs of the American class system with a detailed look at the defining factors of each group, from customs to fashion to housing.Based on careful research and told with grace and wit, Paul Fessell shows how everything peop..
Doing Battle: The Making of a Skeptic
$9.28
In this highly-praised autobiographical work, the author of "The Great War and Modern Memory" recounts his own experience of combat in WWII and how it became a determining force in his life. "Doing Battle" is at once a summing-up of one man's life and profoundly thoughtful portrait of America's own ..
Fussell Exercises for Ensemble Drill
$10.02
These exercises are uniquely presented in one book which may be used by any and all instruments together. The book is divided into three main sections. The warm-up exercises consist of fully harmonized chords for the entire band; the technical exercises are scored in unison and cover fundamental sca..
I Hear America Cooking: The Cooks, Regions and Rec...
$10.07
Focuses on six culinary frontiers from Alaska to Florida, with recipes and lore that represent each area's history, population, and ecology, from breakfasts to opulent dinnertime desserts Author: Fussell, Betty Publisher: Penguin Books Binding: Paperback Language: English ISBN-10: 0140263322 ISBN-13..
Muscle: Confessions of an Unlikely Bodybuilder
$8.11
At age 26, scrawny, Oxford-educated Samuel Fussell entered a YMCA gym in New York to escape the terrors of big city life. Four years and 80 lbs. of firm, bulging muscle later, he was competing for bodybuilding titles in the "Iron Mecca" of Southern California-so weak from intense training and starva..
Samuel Johnson : The Life of Writing
$20.58
Samuel Johnson : The Life of Writing Author: Fussell, Paul Publisher: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich Binding: Hardcover Language: English ISBN-10: 0151792666 ISBN-13: 9780151792665..
Samuel Johnson and the Life of Writing
$13.54
“Fresh, alert, commanding and likely to be a landmark in 18th century studies. . . .Readers who care about English literature will relish this lucid, often controversial re-examination.” Book-of-the-Month-Club News Not everyone is as innocent as this engaging complainant. Most people who read know ..
Thank God for the Atom Bomb and Other Essays
$8.84
Essays discuss nuclear war, George Orwell, tourism, chivalry, nudism, the Indy 500 race, Yugoslavia, modernism, and modern American manners Author: Fussell, Paul Publisher: Summit Books Binding: Hardcover Language: English ISBN-10: 0671638661 ISBN-13: 9780671638665..
The Boy Scout Handbook and Other Observations
$26.75
284 pages of fascinating insight and humor such as " A scout does not bomb and invade a neutral country, and then lie about it". Author: Fussell, Paul. Publisher: Oxford University Press Binding: Hardcover Language: English ISBN-10: 0195031024 ISBN-13: 9780195031027..
The Boy Scout Handbook and Other Observations
$10.75
A collection of literary, cultural, social, ethical, and political commentary by the noted critic explores a wide range of diverse topics, events, activities, objects, and beliefs Author: Fussell, Paul Publisher: Oxford University Press Binding: Paperback Language: English ISBN-10: 0195035798 ISBN-1..
The Great War and Modern Memory
$20.52
The year 2000 marks the twenty-fifth anniversary of the publication of The Great War and Modern Memory, winner of the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and recently named by the Modern Library one of the twentieth century's 100 Best Non-Fiction Books. Fussell's landmark st..
The Norton Book of Modern War
$9.15
Here are moments on the battlefields of this century captured in the words of writers who faced wars in their newest and most brutal permutation. Divided into the First World War, the Wars in Asia, and includes prose and poetry from literary figures such as Rupert Brooke, Ernest Hemingway, and James..