Essays Letters category: 7676 books
Horace Walpole's Letters
Masculinity and Friendship in the Eighteenth Century
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2011
In looking closely at Horace Walpole's Correspondence, George E. Haggerty shows how these letters, when taken in aggregate, offer an astonishingly vivid account of the vagaries of eighteenth-century masculinity. Walpole talks about himself obsessively: his wants, his needs, his desires; hies physical...
by Plutarch
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2006
One of the greatest essayists of the Graeco-Roman world, Plutarch (c. AD 46 -120) used an encyclopedic knowledge of the Roman Empire to produce a compelling and individual voice. In this superb selection from his writings, he offers personal insights into moral subjects that include the virtue of...
by Madame Sevigne
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2007
One of the world's greatest correspondents, Madame de Sévigné (1626-96) paints an extraordinarily vivid picture of France at the time of Louis XIV, in eloquent letters written throughout her life to family and friends. A significant figure in French society and literary circles, whose close friends...
Affirming
Letters 1975-1997
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2017
‘IB was one of the great affirmers of our time.’ John Banville, New York Review of Books
The title of this final volume of Isaiah Berlin’s letters is echoed by John Banville’s verdict in his review of its predecessor, Building: Letters 1960–75, which saw Berlin publish some of his...
The Reckonings
Essays
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2018
“Unflinching and honest…both timely and timeless” (Houston Chronicle), this extraordinary collection of essays by the award-winning writer of The Other Side—rooted in her own experience with sexual assault—pursues questions that strike at the heart of our national conversation about the...
by C. Patrick Neagle
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012
This second volume of author and photographer C. Patrick Neagle's series is even bigger and better than the first, containing 36 travel-sized essays and 30 photographs from around the globe (but mostly from Arabia, Asia, and the Mediterranean). Written while the author taught college classes on board...
Witness to Freedom
The Letters of Thomas Merton in Times of Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 1995
Witness to Freedom is the fifth and final volume in the extraordinary correspondence of "one of the most original and challenging minds of the mid-twentieth century" (John Tracy Ellis, The New York Times Book Review). Dramatic and revealing, these letters deal with periods of serious crisis...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1954
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1954
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...
Love letters from a widower
The mystery of soul mates in light of ancient wisdom
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2018
Theologians maintain that just the presence of a feeling of God in Man's heart, is, in itself, a proof of His existence. Since –as they assure us- that feeling is innate, it's actually a reminiscence. Well, if it's as they say, Blanca, then, along with a feeling of God (and, as I hope to demonstrate...
In Other Words
40 Years of Writing on Indonesia
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2017
A wide-ranging and beautiful collection of essays from one of world literature’s most important writers.
Goenawan Mohamad is one of Indonesia’s foremost public intellectuals, and this translated volume of essays-spanning from 1968 to the present day-demonstrates the breadth of his perceptive...
Letters from Langston
From the Harlem Renaissance to the Red Scare and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2016
Langston Hughes, one of America's greatest writers, was an innovator of jazz poetry and a leader of the Harlem Renaissance whose poems and plays resonate widely today. Accessible, personal, and inspirational, Hughes’s poems portray the African American community in struggle in the context of a turbulent...
Citizen Doctorow: Notes on Art & Politics
The Nation Essays 1978-2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2015
The novelist E.L. Doctorow, who died in 2015, will long be remembered for his highly imaginative historical fiction. In intricate and profound works like Ragtime, Billy Bathgate, The March and many others, Doctorow helped redefine American fiction by subverting our received ideas about the past and...
Colonial Consequences
Essays in Irish Literature and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1991
Colonial Consequences contains sixteen essays in Irish literature and culture by Belfast-born, Vancouver-based critic John Wilson Foster. The essays survey texts, genres and cultural backgrounds, from eighteenth-century landscape verse, the origins of Irish modernism, Yeats's great poem 'Easter 1916',...
by Zafar Anjum
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2011
This book contains four well-researched original essays that deal with India and China. In the opening essay, "The unmaking of the East—India and China in the age of globalisation", journalist Zafar Anjum examines the high-octane economic growth of India and China in the light of the wisdom...