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by Jim Shepard
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2017
**"Shepard may be the best lesser-known film critic." —The New York Times Book Review
The first book of nonfiction from one of our great fiction writers.**
Given that most Americans proudly consider themselves non-political, where do our notions of collective responsibility...
by Arthur Christopher Benson
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2015
A classic collection of essays by Arthur Christopher Benson.
by Henry Williamson
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2014
'Genius of Friendship', long out of print, is a memoir by Henry Williamson recounting his friendship with T. E. Lawrence – ‘Lawrence of Arabia’. This was a friendship through correspondence, for the two men actually met only twice. It had its beginning in a long letter critiquing Williamson's...
by Eunice De Souza
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2008
Rina Ferreira, middle-aged and single, lecturer in English literature, tentative poet, owner of two parrots and a flat in Queen’s Diamonds building. Daily she comes across some ‘dangerlok’: autorickshaw-walas who clog her lane; the neighbour who objects to the kept woman in the flat below hers;...
I'll Tell You Mine
Thirty Years of Essays from the Iowa Nonfiction Writing Program
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2015
The University of Iowa is a leading light in the writing world. In addition to the Iowa Writers’ Workshop for poets and fiction writers, it houses the prestigious Nonfiction Writing Program (NWP), which was the first full-time masters-granting program in this genre in the United States. Over the...
Studies And Essays
“the biggest tragedy of life is the utter impossibility to change what you have done”
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
John Galsworthy first published in 1897 with a collection of short stories entitled “The Four Winds”. For the next 7 years he published these and all works under his pen name John Sinjohn. It was only upon the death of his father and the publication of “The Island Pharisees” in 1904 that he...
by Alexander Pope
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2013
The Works of Alexander Pope: Contains Several Hundred Unpublished Letters, and Other New Materials
AN ESSAY ON CRITICISM.
Written in the year 1709. With the Commentary and Notes of W. Warburton, A.M. 4to.
The Essay on Criticism has no date, but on the title page of the "Essay...
by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2019
American essayist, philosopher and poet Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882) lead Transcendentalism in the early nineteenth century and greatly influenced the later New Thought movement. Summing up his work, Emerson said that his primary principle was "the infinitude of the private man", and...
Bradbury Speaks
Too Soon from the Cave, Too Far from the Stars
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
He is an American treasure; a clear-eyed fantasist without peer; a literary icon who has created wonder for the better part of seven decades. He has a moon crater named after him and a star on Hollywood Boulevard's Walk of Fame. He has been showered with accolades and honored with prizes galore, everything...
by G. K. Chesterton
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2004
A unique collection of essays by one of the literary geniuses of the past hundred years, edited by none other than the award-winning Argentinian writer, Alberto Manguel.
Alberoused to "read books to Nobel Laureate Jorge Luis Borges in hisltter years. Borges sai o Chesterton:
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by T.S. Eliot
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
T.S. Eliot was an American-born British author who is considered to be one of the greatest poets of the 20th century. Eliot, whose most popular works include The Waste Land and The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1948. This edition of The Sacred Wood: Essays on Poetry and Criticism includes a table of contents.
What They Did For Love
The Extraordinary Ways Ordinary People Express the Heart's Finest Emotion
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2013
A powerful collection of stories that is at once heart-warming and heart-wrenching as writers offer stories of love in its many forms set against the challenges of modern life.
Over the years Reader’s Digest has published stories of couples, families, friends, and even strangers that touch...
Every Grain of Sand
Canadian Perspectives on Ecology and Environment
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2009
Universal in scope, yet focusing on recognizable Canadian places, this collection of essays connects individuals’ love of nature to larger social issues, to cultural activities, and to sustainable technology. Subjects include activism in Cape Breton, eco-feminism, Native perspectives on the history...
Miscellany
Essays By Young(ish) Amercian Vocies (From the Fringe)
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2018
Miscellany is a collection of essays that runs the gamut on subject, tone, and format. The one single element that brings these overtly disparate essays together, makes them somehow similar and alike is their voice. Theirs is the voice of an outsider, a voice that occupies that space beyond the...