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The correspondence between one of the most famous couples of twentieth-century literature The Dolphin Letters offers an unprecedented portrait of Robert Lowell and Elizabeth Hardwick during the last seven years of Lowell’s life (1970 to 1977), a time of personal crisis and creative innovation...

Classic collection of essays, including: Of Modern English Poetry, Of Modern English Poetry, Fielding, Longfellow, A Friend of Keats, On Virgil, Aucassin and Nicolette, Plotinus (A.D. 200-262), Lucretius, To a Young American Book-Hunter, Rochefoucauld, Of Vers de Societe, On Vers de Societe, Richardson,...

Writing a letter can be an act of confession or celebration, while receiving one can bring joy, insight and vivid memories. Ambassadors for correspondence Marieke Hardy and Michaela McGuire have lured some of our best and brightest to the literary afternoons of Women of Letters to write and read missives...

From the author of Gettysburg: A “valuable” collection of the letters of this controversial Civil War general (James M. McPherson, The New York Review of Books).   No one played as many major roles during the Civil War as Gen. George B. McClellan, nor did any other figure write such candid letters...

Letters from a Forester, meaning stranger as also meaning peace maker or peace lover, are bits of simple and honest, and at times very argumentative writings, more like an experiment on essays because the good writer does not want to write about fantasies or fiction or even made up history or made...

From the 1920s through the 1950s Maxwell Anderson was one of the most important playwrights in America. His thirty-three produced plays make him a leader among these playwrights of America's most creative era in the theater, and a number of his plays have shown a lasting vitality and importance. What...

Memories and Portraits is a collection of essays by Robert Louis Stevenson, first published in 1887. Robert Louis Stevenson, in full Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson, (born November 13, 1850, Edinburgh, Scotland—died December 3, 1894, Vailima, Samoa), Scottish essayist, poet, and author of...

Georgia O’Keeffe mistrusted words. She claimed color as her language. Nevertheless, in the course of her long life, the great American painter wrote thousands of letters—more than two thousand survive between her and her husband, Alfred Stieglitz, alone. Jennifer Sinor’s Letters Like the Day...

Seinfeld.  For more than 33 million viewers, the Emmy Award-winning television show has become a Thursday night ritual.  Now, even though the show has ended, Jerry Seinfeld's distinct brand of humor can still be yours.   Ted L.  Nancy's first book, Letters from a Nut, with an introduction...

Dinesh D'Souza rose to national prominence as one of the founders of the Dartmouth Review, a leading voice in the rebirth of conservative politics on college campuses in the 1980s.He fired the first popular shot against political correctness with his best-selling exposé Illiberal Education. Now,...

What dark gastronomic slip does Annabel Crabb have to confess to an unsuspecting guest? How did Mary Anderson change the life of Frank Woodley - despite the fact the two of them have never met? How did a plate of steak teach Missy Higgins a firm lesson about not being too hard on herself? The...

Essays:   Nature INTRODUCTION CHAPTER I.  NATURE CHAPTER II.  COMMODITY CHAPTER III.  BEAUTY CHAPTER IV.  LANGUAGE CHAPTER V.  DISCIPLINE CHAPTER VI.  IDEALISM CHAPTER VII.  SPIRIT CHAPTER VIII.  PROSPECTS  THE CONDUCT OF LIFE...

"Nearly two decades after the death of Kurt Cobain, a friend and fellow musician not only continues to mourn his suicide, but also rages against the culture that he holds responsible. These 52 'letters' . . . combine the subject matter of the Byrds' 'So You Wanna Be a Rock and Roll Star' with...

A literary treasure of over one hundred unpublished letters from National Book Award-winning author Flannery O'Connor and her circle of extraordinary friends. Flannery O'Connor is a master of 20th-century American fiction, joining, since her untimely death in 1964, the likes of Hawthorne, Hemingway,...