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David Madden: A Writer for All Genres

David Madden: A Writer for All Genres

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Having compiled the volume to “help all readers understand Madden better,” co-editors Randy Hendricks and James A. Perkins have assembled eight essays by various authors devoted to analyzing and understanding the legendary David Madden ...
Abducted by Circumstance: A Novel

Abducted by Circumstance: A Novel

David Madden

To render that empathy and imagination, Madden channels everything that the people around her say and do through Carol's perceptions so intimately that he shifts frequently and without transition into her thoughts, which focus mostly on the ...
The Last Bizarre Tale: Stories by David Madden

The Last Bizarre Tale: Stories by David Madden

David Madden

The title story, The Last Bizarre Tale, involving a corpse that has hung on a hook in a funeral home garage for decades, is evocative of Poe and, in its dark, grotesque humor, Flannery O’Connor and Carson McCullers. “Process is as ...
The infirmities of genius

The infirmities of genius

Richard Robert Madden

Richard Robert Madden. that he was repeatedly blooded for it, and subsequently the only relief he could obtain was by the daily use of opium to the extent of three or four grains. The propriety of this bleeding, at the age of seventy-three, for a ...
Cain's craft

Cain's craft

David Madden

Analyzes the master of the hard-boiled novel. LIT004230
Enrico Dandolo and the Rise of Venice

Enrico Dandolo and the Rise of Venice

Thomas F. Madden

Culminating with the crisis precipitated by the failure of the Fourth Crusade, Madden's groundbreaking work reveals the extent to which Dandolo and his successors became torn between the anxieties and apprehensions of Venice's citizens and ...
Venice: A New History

Venice: A New History

Thomas F. Madden

An extraordinary chronicle of Venice, its people, and its grandeur Thomas Madden’s majestic, sprawling history of Venice is the first full portrait of the city in English in almost thirty years.
Learn to Speed Read

Learn to Speed Read

Kris Madden

"Kris Madden is the guy we all wish we met the first day of school. The key to speed reading is how you process the words on a page. Most of us read like we did when we were a child. Kris trains us in how to consolidate this process.
Learn to Speed Read

Learn to Speed Read

Kris Madden

"Kris Madden is the guy we all wish we met the first day of school. The key to speed reading is how you process the words on a page. Most of us read like we did when we were a child. Kris trains us in how to consolidate this process.
A Pocketful of Prose: Vintage Short Fiction

A Pocketful of Prose: Vintage Short Fiction

David Madden

Priced to be affordably packaged with two or even three other volumes, each book in the Pocketful series can also be used separately.
London Bridge in Plague and Fire: A Novel

London Bridge in Plague and Fire: A Novel

David Madden

"I am still living on London Bridge myself. The world of this novel has merged with my life.
Pocketful of Essays: Rhetorically Arranged

Pocketful of Essays: Rhetorically Arranged

David Madden

A student essay, written for a first-year composition course, provides an excellent example of how students can effectively structure and develop their writing using a variety of the writing strategies presented in this volume.
James M. Cain: Hard-Boiled Mythmaker

James M. Cain: Hard-Boiled Mythmaker

David Madden

With its significant in-depth analysis and a foreword by Edgar-award winning author Max Allan Collins, this volume will be of interest to Cain scholars as well as anyone interested in 20th century American literature and film.
The Tangled Web of the Civil War and Reconstruction: ...

The Tangled Web of the Civil War and Reconstruction: ...

David Madden

Arlene Reynolds, an actress, discovered the manuscript of Mrs. Custer's memoir of the war years, and the Civil War Center secured its publication. Gene Salecker, a campus policeman at Northwestern University and an independent scholar, ...
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Lauren Ball, Warner Ballard, Robin Carley, James A. Carlin, Patricia Carrasco, Anita L. Chafetz, John Dermont, Monica Dougherty, Thomas W. Ellington, John D . Madden, Jan L. McLane, Connee Petty, Margaret Powers, David Pratt, John ...
ABBIE ANN

ABBIE ANN

George Madden 1866-1936 Martin

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.

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