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MAJOR WRITER ON MAJOR WRITERS: In the New York Review of Books, Joyce Carol Oates expressed her admiration for her equally prolific contemporary: ?Among [Jerome] Charyn?s writerly gifts is a dazzling energy. . . . [He is] an exuberant chronicler of the mythos of American life?; the Los Angeles Times...

An anthology of never-before-published short essays by America's literary greats. Each October at the PEN Gala, well-known authors take the stage of the Folger Shakespeare Library's Theatre to ponder the meaning of such universal mysteries as "obsession," "illusion," "first...

William Hazlitt (1778-1830) was an English critic, social commentator and essayist. In this compendium of impressions of his contemporaries, Hazlitt’s cutting and witty style both celebrates and critiques the intellectual landscape of his time. The collection includes poets, authors, politicians...

In this luminous new collection of poems, Franz Wright expands on the spiritual joy he found in his Pulitzer Prize-winning Walking to Martha’s Vineyard. Wright, whom we know as a poet of exquisite miniatures, opens God’s Silence with “East Boston, 1996,” a powerful long poem that looks back...

The Ancient Classics series provides eReaders with the wisdom of the Classical world, with both English translations and the original Latin and Greek texts. This comprehensive eBook presents the complete works of Aeschylus, with beautiful illustrations, informative introductions and the usual Delphi...

In the fall of 1948 H. L. Mencken, then at the top of his unmatchable form (he had spoken at a meeting of the American Philosophical Society in Philadelphia only a little while before), suffered a stroke. He soon recovered his physical vigor, but writing was for him a thing of the past. Some months...

Sarah Hutchinson has never been much more than a name, though a name connected with some of the greatest in English literature. The sister of Mrs. Wordsworth, and a member of the Wordsworth household for thirty years, Coleridge's beloved Asra to whom many of his poems were written, Southey's friend...

Part of the Jewish Encounters series The first comprehensive biography of one of the most beloved authors of all time: the creator of Tevye the Dairyman, the collection of stories that inspired Fiddler on the Roof.   Novelist, playwright, journalist, essayist, and editor, Sholem Aleichem was...

Two former political activists confront each other and the events which led to their sudden falling-out years ago.

Developed in workshops with award-winning actors, these are the works in Fugard's canon that most directly confront the dehumanizing brutality of apartheid. Includes: Sizwe Bansi is Dead, The Island, and Statements After an Arrest Under the Immorality Act.

Bienvenue dans la collection Les Fiches de lecture d’Universalis Il faut se figurer, d’un siècle l’autre, ce que représenta la parution de L’Ombilic des limbes dans la prestigieuse collection Une œuvre, un portrait des éditions de La Nouvelle Revue française, accompagnée d’un...

Bienvenue dans la collection Les Fiches de lecture d’Universalis Bien qu’il soit difficile de cerner avec exactitude la notion de symbolisme, on peut essayer d’en dégager quelques traits : la fuite hors de ce monde par le repli sur soi, l’esthétisme de l’étrange et le culte des...

Extrait : "C'est dans un bois sinistre et formidable, au nord De la Gaule. Roisi par un suprême effort, Les chênes monstrueux supportent avec rage Les grands nuages noirs d'où va tomber l'orage ; Le matin frissonnant s'éveille, et la clarté De l'aube mord déjà le ciel ensanglanté."À PROPOS DES...

Extrait : "Trente ans se sont à peine écoulés depuis la glorieuse expédition de l'armée d'Orient, et déjà elle semble appartenir aux âges reculés, tant elle se détache des autres campagnes de la révolution par un caractère tout particulier et sa couleur antique : le vieux soldat qui la raconte...