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by Charles Dickens
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2016
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WE intend this Collection of Letters to be a Supplement to...
by Jonathan Swift
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2009
The political dilemma of Ireland; the state of faith in England; the charms of the Beggar's Opera; the importance of puns . . . This selection gathers together some of Swift's most brilliant prose, from high politics to social gossip, from savage tirades to lighthearted social satire. In addition...
The Synge Letters
Bishop Edward Synge to His Daughter Alicia, Roscommon to Dublin 1746-1752
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1996
Edward Synge wrote 221 letters to Alicia, his daughter, betweeen May and October of 1746 to 1752. He was an adoring though not uncritical father, advising, gossiping and instructing her from his country estate. Synge was a wealthy man and Alicia a considerable heiress; his concern about her need to...
The Purloined Clinic
Selected Writings
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2013
The Purloined Clinic is a retrospective of essays, reviews, and reports that reflect the range and depth of Janet Malcolm's engagement with psychology, criticism, art, and literature.
She examines aspects of "that absurdist collaboration," the psychoanalytic dialogue, from which come...
My Generation
Collected Nonfiction
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2015
A vital, illuminating collection of the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winner’s elegant, passionately engaged nonfiction
My Generation is the definitive gathering of William Styron’s nonfiction, exposing the core of this greatly gifted, highly convivial, and profoundly serious artist...
by Abraham Lincoln
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2012
Abraham Lincoln never wrote a book: his ideas are contained in speeches, letters, and occasional writings. By bringing these works together into a single anthology, this book shows that Lincoln deserves to be counted among the great political philosophers.In addition to many examples of Lincoln’s...
The Civil War in North Carolina, Volume 1: The Piedmont
Soldiers' and Civilians' Letters and Diaries, 1861-1865
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2018
“I think that we can hold our position here against any force that the enemy can bring against us, as we have an admirable position & are all ready. I can give you no idea when the general attack will take place. It may be this evening, tomorrow or at any moment as both parties are apparently...
The Civil War in North Carolina, Volume 2: The Mountains
Soldiers' and Civilians' Letters and Diaries, 1861-1865
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2018
“You will perceive by this I am at least in the Confederate service…. Since I have been here I have had a severe sickness but am glad to say at present I am well though I fear my sickness would have incapacitated me for active service…. In all probability our regiment will be stationed here...
Secrets of God
Writings of Hildegard of Bingen
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 1996
Visionary, mystic, poet, musician, naturalist, healer, theologian—the Rhineland nun Hildegard of Bingen (1098–1179) was a Renaissance woman long before there was a Renaissance. This is the first book in English to offer a representative selection of writings from all of her amazing range of work.
Hildegard...
Love Letters from Golok
A Tantric Couple in Modern Tibet
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2016
Love Letters from Golok chronicles the courtship between two Buddhist tantric masters, Tāre Lhamo (1938–2002) and Namtrul Rinpoche (1944–2011), and their passion for reinvigorating Buddhism in eastern Tibet during the post-Mao era. In fifty-six letters exchanged from 1978 to 1980, Tāre Lhamo...
by Iris Morales
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2018
Latinas: Struggles & Protests in 21st Century USA is a timely collection of poetry and prose reflecting on women’s lived experiences and the ways that Latinas address the relationship between gender and social change. The contributors are poets, activists, educators, artists, and journalists...
by Mark Twain
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2018
This carefully crafted ebook: "The Complete Works of Mark Twain" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. This is The Complete Works of America's favourite storyteller Mark Twain. The eBook contains over 60 novels and shorter texts (short stories, essays,...
by Andrew Lang
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Classic essays about Oxford University. The Preface begins: "These papers do not profess even to sketch the outlines of a history of Oxford. They are merely records of the impressions made by this or that aspect of the life of the University as it has been indifferent ages. Oxford is not an easy place...
Think, Write, Speak
Uncollected Essays, Reviews, Interviews, and Letters to the Editor
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2019
A rich compilation of the previously uncollected Russian and English prose and interviews of one of the twentieth century's greatest writers, edited by Nabokov experts Brian Boyd and Anastasia Tolstoy
"I think like a genius, I write like a distinguished author, and I speak like a child":...