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1	Foreign Affairs more books like this by Alison Lurie add to wishlist Lurie's novel is the story of two English professors from Corinth University who spend a semester in London. Vinnie Miner is 54 years old, shy, and a scholar of children's literature; Fred Turner is a young, untenured professor. Each of them gets involved in a complicated love affair, as a result of which their views on England, America, love, and ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.98! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
2	Boys and Girls Forever: Children's Classics from Cinderella to Harry Potter more books like this by Alison Lurie add to wishlist Pulitzer Prize-winning author Lurie explores children's classics from many eras and relates them to the authors who wrote them--from "Little Women" author Louisa May Alcott to Salman Rushie--and shows how these gifted writers used children's literature to transfigure the struggles of their own experiences. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
3	Don't Tell the Grown-Ups: Subversive Children's Literature more books like this by Alison Lurie add to wishlist In this witty collection of essays, Alison Lurie considers authors such as A.A.Milne, E.Nesbit, Frances Hodgson Burnett, Lewis Carroll and J.R.R.Tolkien, and demonstrates that their enduring quality lies partly in the way they satirize adult society and speak with subversive directness to the imagination of the young reader. Together with fairy ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.04! \| signed copies \| first editions
4	Don't Tell the Grown-Ups: The Subversive Power of Children's Literature more books like this by Alison Lurie add to wishlist Sixteen essays on children's literature, including pieces on such authors as J. M. Barrie, E. Nesbit, J. R. R. Tolkien, Kate Greenaway, T. H. White, and Frances Hodgson Burnett. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $10.31! \| first editions \| SVS
5	Familiar Spirits: A Memoir of James Merrill and David Jackson more books like this by Alison Lurie add to wishlist In this memoir, novelist Alison Lurie remembers the relationship between poet James Merrill and his partner David Jackson. In particular, she recalls their inspiring encounters with the supernatural during their experimentation with a Ouija board that led to Merrill's THE CHANGING LIGHT AT SANDOVER. She also discusses Jackson's role in the ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
6	War Between the Tates more books like this by Alison Lurie add to wishlist Originally published in 1974, a humorous novel set against an American academic background, telling of how a professor's stable relationship and family life comes apart when he embarks upon an ill-advised affair with a female student. By the author of REAL PEOPLE, ONLY CHILDREN and FOREIGN AFFAIRS. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
7	Language of Clothes more books like this by Alison Lurie add to wishlist In this history of what people wear, and why, Alison Lurie takes into account the important roles that changes in sex roles, revolution and the spread of democracy, and the realities of class have played in the ritual of getting ourselves dressed in the morning. see all copies from $3.99! first editions
8	The Last Resort more books like this by Alison Lurie add to wishlist Jenny has devoted her life to her husband, the naturalist Wilkie Walker. She is as rare a creature as the endangered species he works to preserve. But this year, as winter comes on, Wilkie seems distant and depressed. In desperation Jenny persuades him to visit Key West, but the sun and tropical scenery do nothing to cheer him up. As he grows even ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
9	Real people more books like this by Alison Lurie add to wishlist Janet Smith, a self-confessed sensitive writer, compares Illyria, a luxurious retreat for artists, to heaven when she first arrives. But before long she starts to see its guests as children, madmen and demons, as she makes disturbing discoveries about everyone there - including herself. From the author of WOMEN AND GHOSTS. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
10	Only Children more books like this by Alison Lurie add to wishlist When two families spend a weekend on an idyllic farm, it becomes increasingly difficult to tell which of the party are adults and which are children. By the author of "Love and Friendship", "Imaginary Friends", "Real People", "Foreign Affairs" and "The Truth About Lorin Jones". see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.95! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
11	Love & Friendship more books like this by Alison Lurie add to wishlist Wealthy Emmy's marriage to a poor, dull lecturer suffers from various tensions. When she has a highly sensual affair with a non-creating musician-in-residence, her intensely jealous husband suspects everyone but the right man. The author won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for "Foreign Affairs". see all copies from $1.99! new only from $10.89! \| first editions \| SVS
12 view cover	The Oxford Book of Modern Fairy Tales more books like this by Alison Lurie (Editor) add to wishlist Novelist Alison Lurie, who is also an expert on children's literature in general and fairy tales in particular, compiles this selection of tales written in the 19th and 20th centuries, including stories by Oscar Wilde, Charles Dickens, Carl Sandburg, James Thurber, Ursula K. LeGuin, and Louise Erdrich. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $19.01! \| first editions
13 view cover	Clever Gretchen and Other Forgotten Folktales more books like this by Alison Lurie add to wishlist A re-telling of traditional tales, with heroines who are not only beautiful but good, brave and clever, and a match for any kind of danger. They include Clever Gretchen, Kate Crackernuts and Mother Holle. The American author is known for her adult novels. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $9.35! \| first editions \| SVS
14 view cover	Imaginary Freinds more books like this by Alison Lurie add to wishlist Two sociologists studying a cult that believes the messiah will arrive on a flying saucer find that the cult's beliefs affect not only their objectivity but their very sanity. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions
15 view cover	Truth and Consequences more books like this by Alison Lurie add to wishlist Two couples exchange partners in this academic novel by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Alison Lurie. Jane and Alan Mackenzie's marriage falters when architecture professor Alan's back injury forces university administrator Jane to wait on Alan hand and foot. Meanwhile, Delia, the new visiting scholar at the program Jane runs--and a serious prima ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
16 view cover	Fabulous Beasts more books like this by Lurie add to wishlist As if they actually exist, this book provides detailed information about mythical creatures. For example, readers will learn that dragons are made of earth, air and fire; that tree geese grow on magical trees on the island of Pomonia; and that unicorn horns, when ground, can cure fevers. Illustrated with color paintings. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions
17 view cover	Truth about Lorin Jones more books like this by Lurie add to wishlist In this comic novel Polly Alter is a painter who is fascinated with another artist--Lorin Jones, who is dead. In her attempts to research a biography on Jones, Polly encounters other painters, husbands, lovers, and ultimately herself. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
18 view cover	Don't Tell the Grown-Ups: Why Kids Love the Books They Do more books like this by Alison Lurie add to wishlist Sixteen essays on children's literature, including pieces on such authors as J. M. Barrie, E. Nesbit, J. R. R. Tolkien, Kate Greenaway, T. H. White, and Frances Hodgson Burnett. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $32.75! \| first editions \| SVS
19 view cover	Women and Ghosts: Tales by Alison Lurie add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
20 view cover	Women and Ghosts more books like this by Alison Lurie add to wishlist Nine ghost stories whose central characters are women. They include one who, about to marry, is haunted by the depressed spirit of her fiance's first wife; a secretary on a diet who begins to see fat people everywhere; and a woman whose dead fiance appears to her whenever she kisses another man. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.06! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
21	Fabulous Beasts more books like this by Monika Beisner (Illustrator), Alison Lurie add to wishlist As if they actually exist, this book provides detailed information about mythical creatures. For example, readers will learn that dragons are made of earth, air and fire; that tree geese grow on magical trees on the island of Pomonia; and that unicorn horns, when ground, can cure fevers. Illustrated with color paintings. see all copies from $1.99! first editions \| SVS
22 view cover	Baba Yaga and the Stolen Baby more books like this by Alison Lurie (Retold by), Jessica Souhami (Illustrator) add to wishlist The black geese have been seen flying over the village, stealing children for the witch Baba Yaga. So Elena should be looking after her baby brother. But instead she runs off to play with her friends, leaving the baby alone on the grass...Jessica Souhami's colourful collage gives a contemporary flavour to this lively Russian Baba Yaga folk tale, ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.81!
23	Lang of Clothes V713 more books like this by Alison Lurie add to wishlist In this history of what people wear, and why, Alison Lurie takes into account the important roles that changes in sex roles, revolution and the spread of democracy, and the realities of class have played in the ritual of getting ourselves dressed in the morning. see all copies from $5.00! new only from $184.46! \| first editions
24	Not in front of the grown-ups : subversive children's literature more books like this by Alison Lurie add to wishlist Most of the enduring works of great children's literature are subversive in one way or another, maintains the author. In this book she looks at authors who have written with "dangerous" directness to the young. see all copies from $1.99!
25 view cover	Imaginary Friends more books like this by Alison Lurie add to wishlist Tom McCann, a professor of sociology, and his young assistant Roger, infiltrate a religious cult group based in New York State, deciding that it will make excellent study material. But they find it hard to maintain their deception, especially as Verena, the cult's leader, is an attractive woman. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.59! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS

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