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1	Story and Its Writer: An Introduction to Short Fiction more books like this by Ann Charters add to wishlist During her many years of teaching introduction to fiction courses, Ann Charters developed an acute sense of which stories work most effectively in the classroom. She also discovered that writers, not editors, have the most interesting and useful things to say about the making and the meaning of fiction. Accordingly, her choice of fiction in the ... see all copies from £4.96! new only from £12.98! \| first editions
2	The Story and Its Writer, Compact Edition: An Introduction to Short Fiction more books like this by Ann Charters add to wishlist During her many years of teaching introduction to fiction courses, Ann Charters developed an acute sense of which stories work most effectively in the classroom. She also discovered that writers, not editors, have the most interesting and useful things to say about the making and the meaning of fiction. Accordingly, her choice of fiction in the ... see all copies from £19.18! new only from £28.79!
3	Literature and Its Writers: A Compact Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, and Drama more books like this by Ann Charters (Editor), Samuel Charters (Editor) add to wishlist Literature is a conversation -- between writers and other writers, and writers and readers. In their introduction to literature anthology, Ann Charters, editor of the bestselling "The Story and Its Writer," and Samuel Charters, a much-published poet and novelist, bring students into this conversation through a distinctive set of features, ... see all copies from £5.57! new only from £19.78!
4	The Portable Beat Reader more books like this by Various, Ann Charters (Editor) add to wishlist Beginning in the late 1940's, American literature discovered a four-letter word, and the word was "beat." Beat as in poverty and beatitude, ecstasy and exile. Beat was Jack Kerouac touring the American road in prose as fast and reckless as a V-8 Chevy. It was the junk-sick surrealism of William Burroughs; the wild, Whitmanesque poetry of Allen ... see all copies from £5.57! new only from £9.91! \| first editions
5	Literature and Its Writers: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, and Drama more books like this by Ann Charters add to wishlist Uniquely emphasizing how writers of fiction, poetry, and drama talk about what they do, this introduction to literature lets the words of writers guide students in their exploration of the many ways to read, think, and write about literature. see all copies from £5.57! new only from £22.26! \| first editions
6	The American Short Story and Its Writer: An Anthology more books like this by Ann Charters, Ann Xcharters add to wishlist This groundbreaking anthology is the first to offer a truly inclusive survey of the American short story along with a unique array of major critical statements and commentaries by the writers themselves. see all copies from £14.82! new only from £39.93! \| first editions
7	The Portable Sixties Reader more books like this by Various, Ann Charters (Editor) add to wishlist In this anthology of more than 100 selections of essays, poetry, and fiction by some of America's most gifted writers, Charters sketches the unfolding of this most turbulent decade. see all copies from £5.57! new only from £9.13! \| first editions
8	The Story and Its Writer Compact: An Introduction to Short Fiction by Ann Charters add to wishlist This brief edition of the most widely adopted book of its kind offers all of the editorial features of the longer book with about half the stories and writer commentaries in a shorter, less expensive format. see all copies from £6.00!
9	Women of the Beat Generation: The Writers, Artists, and Muses at the Heart of Revolution more books like this by Brenda Knight (Editor), Ann Charters (Afterword by), Anne Waldman (Introduction by) add to wishlist The author brings to the forefront long-overlooked Beat figures such as Jane Bowles, Eileen Kaufman, Mary Korte, Hettie Jones, Denise Levertov, Joanna McClure, Josephine Miles, and Ruth Weiss, among others. see all copies from £5.57! new only from £9.68! \| signed copies \| first editions
10	I Love You Mouse more books like this by Graham add to wishlist Just right for reading to the very young at bedtime or anytime, this long-out-of-print title about a little boy and his love of animals now reappears in a larger format, re-illustrated by beloved artist dePaola. Full color. see all copies from £4.95! new only from £6.66! \| first editions
11 view cover	Kerouac: Selected Letters: Volume 2: 1957-1969 more books like this by Jack Kerouac, Ann Charters (Editor) add to wishlist This second and final volume of letters, written between 1957, the year "On the Road" was published, to one day before his death in 1969 at age forty-seven, tell Kerouac's life story through his candid correspondence with friends, confidants, and editors. see all copies from £6.39! new only from £9.60!
12 view cover	The Portable Jack Kerouac more books like this by Ann Charters (Editor), Jack Kerouac add to wishlist This anthology combines excerpts from all Kerouac's major novels as well as several short stories and selections of poetry. Also includes his meditations on Buddhism and the Beat aesthetic. see all copies from £5.57! new only from £8.05! \| first editions
13 view cover	Kerouac: A Biography more books like this by Ann Charters add to wishlist Now that Kerouac's major novel, On the Road is accepted as an American classic, academic critics are slowly beginning to catch up with his experimental literary methods and examine the dozen books comprising what he called 'the legend of Duluoz.' Nearly all of his books have been in print internationally since his death in 1969, and his writing ... see all copies from £1.97! new only from £8.94! \| signed copies \| first editions
14 view cover	The Story & Its Writer more books like this by Ann Charters add to wishlist see all copies from £5.57! new only from £26.01!
15 view cover	Speed and Kentucky Ham more books like this by William S Burroughs, Ann Charters (Foreword by) add to wishlist Author Burroughs' son, who died at of the age of 34, penned two shattering autobiographical novels which offer his vision of alienated youth at its most raw and uncensored. "A compelling narrative that balances the methedrine horrors with the outcast's romantic search for identity".--Rolling Stone. see all copies from £4.54! new only from £6.41!
16 view cover	Kerouac: Selected Letters: Volume 1 1940-1956 more books like this by Ann Charters (Editor), Jack Kerouac add to wishlist In his prolific correspondence Jack Kerouac set down the raw material of the life that he would later transmute into his multi-volume "Legend of Duluoz". He also refined the seemingly freewheeling and spontaneous prose style that became his trademark. This volume contains many letters written between 1940, when Kerouac was a college freshman and ... see all copies from £9.52! new only from £9.52! \| first editions
17 view cover	Jack Kerouac: Selected Letters: Volume 2 more books like this by Ann Charters (Introduction by), Jack Kerouac add to wishlist Volume Two of Kerouac's letters includes correspondence with Burroughs, Ginsberg, Ferlinghetti, and other Beats. see all copies from £5.57! new only from £11.79! \| first editions
18 view cover	The Portable Jack Kerouac more books like this by Jack Kerouac, Ann Charters (Editor) add to wishlist This anthology combines excerpts from all Kerouac's major novels as well as several short stories and selections of poetry. Also includes his meditations on Buddhism and the Beat aesthetic. see all copies from £5.57! new only from £9.42! \| first editions
19 view cover	Beat Down to Your Soul: What Was the Beat Generation? more books like this by Ann Charters (Introduction by) add to wishlist This treasure trove of Beat-era paraphernalia by one of the leading scholars of the movement includes a section on writers responding to several aspects of Beat culture, including William Carlos Williams's response to "Howl" and many takes on NAKED LUNCH, including Mary McCarthy's. Women of the Beat generation are given a prominent voice; a ... see all copies from £13.28! new only from £14.86!
20 view cover	Literature and Its Writers more books like this by Ann Charters (Editor), Samuel Charters (Editor) add to wishlist see all copies from £5.57! new only from £7.58!
21	I Love: The Story of Vladimir Mayakovsky and Lili Brik more books like this by Ann Charters add to wishlist see all copies from £1.24! new only from £29.65! \| first editions
22 view cover	Blues Faces: A Portrait of the Blues more books like this by Samuel Barclay Charters, Ann Charters add to wishlist Featuring photographs of blues musicians taken by Ann Charters, this text presents a portrait of one of America's most vital musical artforms. Sam Charters provides a commentary to accompany the portraits. see all copies from £9.05! new only from £19.14! \| first editions
23	Resources for Teaching "Literature and Its Writers" more books like this by Ann Charters, Samuel Charters add to wishlist see all copies from £4.95! new only from £7.27!
24 view cover	Kerouac's Crooked Road more books like this by Tim Hunt, Ann Charters (Foreword by) add to wishlist Debunking much of the mythology about Kerouac, this study shows the author of "On the Road" and "Visions of Cody" working out the literary strategies that link him to Herman Melville, Mark Twain, and other American novelists. This book provides an insight into Kerouac's conscious literary artistry. see all copies from £7.19! new only from £19.81! \| first editions
25	Resources for Teaching Major Writers of Short Fiction more books like this by Ann Charters add to wishlist see all copies from £5.57! new only from £12.92!

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