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A Soldier's General
The Civil War Letters of Major General Lafayette McLaws
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2003
During his service in the Confederate army, Major General Lafayette McLaws (1821-1897) served under and alongside such famous officers as Robert E. Lee, Joseph E. Johnston, James Longstreet, and John B. Hood. He played a significant role in some of the most crucial battles of the Civil War, including...
by Fenton Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2017
Part retrospective, part memoir, Fenton Johnson's collection Everywhere Home: A Life in Essays explores sexuality, religion, geography, the AIDS crisis, and more. Johnson's wanderings take him from the hills of Kentucky to those of San Francisco, from the streets of Paris to the sidewalks of Calcutta....
At Odds in the World
Essays on Jewish Canadian Women Writers
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012
At Odds in the World: Essays on Jewish Canadian Women Writers brings together a series of essays by Ruth Panofsky that probe the articulation of Jewishness and femaleness through the lens of literature. Showing how female Jewish identity is constructed in Canadian prose works that span the years 1956...
by Andrew Lang
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2014
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Of the following essays, five are new, and were written for...
Slush Pile Essays
Slush Pile Essays, #1
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2015
The Slush Pile is Bruce Anthony’s repository of short reads. The fertile mind of an author is always sprouting opinions, viewpoints, observations, and sometimes simply thoughts of wonderment that are shown to friends who continually ask, “So, what have you written lately?” They are offered here...
The Essential Essays of Woodrow Wilson
The New Freedom, When A Man Comes To Himself, The Study of Administration, Leaders of Men, The New Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2018
Musaicum Books presents to you a carefully created collection of Woodrow Wilson's essays. Woodrow Wilson, a disciple of Walter Bagehot, considered the United States Constitution to be cumbersome and open to corruption. He favored a parliamentary system for the United States and in the early 1880s...
Adapt and Overcome
Essays on the Student Veteran Experience
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2018
The essays in Adapt and Overcome: Essays on the Student Veteran Experience explore issues faced by veteran-students when they confront the demands of college. Written for students, faculty and staff, and university administrators, the text helps readers gain a deeper understanding of the veteran-student...
Brooding
Arias, Choruses, Lullabies, Follies, Dirges, and a Duet
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
This collection of more than twenty-five essays, both meditative and formally inventive, considers all kinds of subjects: everyday objects such as keys and hats, plus concepts of time and place; the memoir; writing; the essay itself; and Michael Martone’s friendship with the writers David Foster...
by Shaun Usher
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2020
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2020
An irresistible new volume of affectionate missives about our feline companions from Charles Dickens, James Joyce, Anne Frank, Elizabeth Taylor, and more, from the author of the bestselling Letters of Note collections
T. S. Eliot issues a rhyming birthday party invitation to all Jellicle cats...
by Shaun Usher
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2020
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2020
From Napoléon Bonaparte and Frida Kahlo to Nelson Mandela and Patti Smith, glimpse the ardors of artists, painters, writers, and more in this touching volume of beautiful missives, from the author of the bestselling Letters of Note collections
Beethoven yearns to see his famously unknown Immortal...
by Robert Frost
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2014
Pensive, mercurial, and often funny, the private Robert Frost remains less appreciated than the public poet. The Letters of Robert Frost, the first major edition of the correspondence of this complex and subtle verbal artist, includes hundreds of unpublished letters whose literary interest is on a par with Dickinson, Lowell, and Beckett.
by Jonathan Swift
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2017
Best remembered as the author of Gulliver's Travels, Jonathan Swift was a Dublin native whose political pamphleteering led to a London-based position as editor of a conservative periodical. This journal, written between 1710–1713, consists of 65 letters to his friend and protégée, Esther "Stella"...
by T. S. Eliot
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2014
A collection of essays grappling with some of the most significant topics of our time, Essays Ancient and Modern reveals Eliot’s thoughts on his literary contemporaries and predecessors, the role of religion in a secular society, and the continuing tradition of the classics in modern education....
The Collected Essays Volume Two
Mary McCarthy's Theatre Chronicles, 1937–1962 and On the Contrary
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2018
Candid, sharp, and entertaining essays from the #1 New York Times–bestselling author of Memories of a Catholic Girlhood and a “delightfully polished writer” (The Atlantic Monthly).
Whether penning criticism, memoir, or fiction, the New York Times–bestselling author of The Group invariably...