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1	New York Jew more books like this by Alfred Kazin add to wishlist Critic Alfred Kazin recalls his youth, recreating the world of the liberal Jewish intellectual that was to have such a profound influence on American culture in the 20th century. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $15.01! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
2	Writing Was Everything more books like this by Alfred Kazin add to wishlist A blend of autobiography, history, and criticism that moves from New York in the 1930s to wartime England, to the postwar South. "Writing Was Everything" emerges as a reaffirmation of literature in an age of deconstruction and critical dogma. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.88! \| first editions \| SVS
3	A Walker in the City more books like this by Alfred Kazin add to wishlist Kazin's classic memoir about growing up in the Brownsville section of Brooklyn is a classic description of Jewish immigrant culture of the 1930s. Kazin said he had sought to write something like Whitman's "Leaves of Grass" or Hart Crane's "The Bridge" in prose. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.74! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
4	The Portable William Blake more books like this by William Blake, Alfred Kazin (Editor) add to wishlist 'SONGS OF INNOCENCE' AND 'SONGS OF EXPERIENCE', COMPLETE SELECTION FROM THE 'PROPHETIC BOOKS' AND FROM OTHER WORKS OF POETRY AND PROSE. THE COMPLETE DRAWINGS OF "THE BOOK OF JOB" 'AN INSPIRED SELECTION' - THE NEW YORK TIMES. "BLAKE IS NOWHERE BETTER PRESENTED FOR THE GENERAL READER. THE INTRODUCTION IS .. PROBABLY THE BEST ESSAY YET COMPOSED ON ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.50! \| SVS
5	On native grounds, an interpretation of modern American prose literature more books like this by Alfred Kazin add to wishlist Kazin's 1942 reinterpretation of the works of Howells, Wharton, Lewis, Cather, Fitzgerald, Hemingway and Faulkner established him as one of the bright young critics of his time and set a new standard for literary criticism in America. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.20! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
6	Starting Out in the Thirties more books like this by Alfred Kazin add to wishlist In this affecting memoir, critic Alfred Kazin recounts his childhood and adolescence as a son of immigrants in the Brownsville section of Brooklyn. see all copies from $2.32! new only from $53.97! \| signed copies \| first editions
7	God and the American Writer more books like this by Alfred Kazin add to wishlist An examination of how notions of God and religion influenced the work of America's most accomplished writers during the last two centuries. Kazin, a literary critic and professor of English at City University of New York, considers the religious attitudes of authors as diverse as Ralph Waldo Emerson, William James, and Flannery O'Connor. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
8	The Inmost Leaf: A Selection of Essays more books like this by Alfred Kazin add to wishlist One of America's foremost literary critics presents twenty-eight essays on American and European writers, including Joyce, Flaubert, Fitzgerald, Melville, Dostoevsky, and Faulkner. see all copies from $1.99! first editions
9	Adirondack Portraits: A Piece of Time more books like this by Jeanne Robert Foster, Noel Riedinger-Johnson (Photographer), Alfred Kazin (Designed by) add to wishlist see all copies from $34.50! new only from $34.50!
10	Lifetime Burning in Every Moment: From the Journals of Alfred Kazin more books like this by Alfred Kazin add to wishlist A collection of writings from Alfred Kazin's diaries, covering the years from the 1930s to the 1990s. Entries on Saul Bellow, Bernard Malamud, Hannah Arendt are included, as well as Kazin's own views about politics, literature, post-Holocaust Jewish life, and American society in general. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $12.49! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
11	Alfred Kazin's America: Critical and Personal Writings more books like this by Ted Solotaroff, Alfred Kazin add to wishlist These excerpts from the writings of noted literary critic Alfred Kazin (1915-1998) include portions of his autobiographical work as well as his thoughts on writers past and present. Introduction by Ted Solotaroff. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
12	An American Procession more books like this by Alfred Kazin add to wishlist In this illuminating study of the "crucial century" (1830-1930), Alfred Kazin views the major figures in American writing, beginning in the 1830s when Ralph Waldo Emerson founded a national literature on the basis of a religious revolution, and ending on the eve of the 1930s with modernism--Eliot, Pound, Hemingway, Fitzgerald--and with the ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $16.58! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
13 view cover	A Lifetime Burning Every Moment: From the Journals of Alfred Kazin by Alfred Kazin add to wishlist A collection of writings from Alfred Kazin's diaries, covering the years from the 1930s to the 1990s. Entries on Saul Bellow, Bernard Malamud, Hannah Arendt are included, as well as Kazin's own views about politics, literature, post-Holocaust Jewish life, and American society in general. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $12.57! \| SVS
14	An Am.Procession more books like this by Alfred Kazin add to wishlist In this illuminating study of the "crucial century" (1830-1930), Alfred Kazin views the major figures in American writing, beginning in the 1830s when Ralph Waldo Emerson founded a national literature on the basis of a religious revolution, and ending on the eve of the 1930s with modernism--Eliot, Pound, Hemingway, Fitzgerald--and with the ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.75! \| first editions
15	A Writer's America more books like this by Alfred Kazin add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
16	An F. Scott Fitzgerald Companion by John Peale; Shah Bishop, Amar; Hemmingway, Ernest; Kazin, Alfred; Schulberg, Budd add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.99! \| SVS
17	The Open Form: Essays for Our Time more books like this by Alfred Kazin add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! signed copies \| first editions
18	Our New York more books like this by Alfred Kazin add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
19	Contemporaries. more books like this by Alfred Kazin add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! first editions
20	The stature of Theodore Dreiser; a critical survey of the man and his work. more books like this by Alfred Kazin (Editor), Charles Shapiro add to wishlist see all copies from $4.99! first editions \| SVS
21	Bright Book of Life: American Novelists and Storytellers from Hemingway to Mailer more books like this by Alfred Kazin add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! first editions \| SVS
22	Selected short stories. more books like this by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Alfred Kazin add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99!
23	Contemporaries, from the 19th Century to the Present more books like this by Alfred Kazin add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! first editions
24 view cover	Alfred Kazin's America: Critical and Personal Writings more books like this by Alfred Kazin, Ted Solotaroff (Editor) add to wishlist Over the course of sixty years, Alfred Kazin's writings confronted virtually all of our major imaginative writers, from Emerson to Emily Dickinson to James Wright and Joyce Carol Oates -- including such unexpected figures as Lincoln, William James, and Thorstein Veblen. This son of Russian Jews wrote out of the tensions of the outsider and the ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| SVS
25	On Native Ground by Alfred Kazin add to wishlist see all copies from $5.50!

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