Essays Letters category: 7676 books
by Frederick Glaysher
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2010
Much of The Grove of the Eumenides forms the background study for Glaysher's epic poem, The Parliament of Poets, which he discusses in a new 2015 Preface. Twenty years in the making, The Grove of the Eumenides invokes a global vision beyond the prevailing postmodern...
by Edward E. Rochon
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2015
Volume 5 of my collected essays includes 17 new essays: Space as Infinity II: An Essay (Double Space) divides space into finite and infinite space to solve problems in physics. Dirigiplane: An Essay offers a balloon/plane hybrid. Waterworks: An Essay proposes pumping flood runoff upstream into aquifers...
by Tony Hoagland
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2014
A fearless, wide-ranging book on the state of poetry and American literary culture by Tony Hoagland, the author of What Narcissism Means to Me
Live American poetry is absent from our public schools. The teaching of poetry languishes, and that region of youthful neurological terrain capable...
by Dale Shaw
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2014
A collection of remarkable and completely made-up correspondence from the great and the good across history. Many books have collated the exceptional letters and personal writing of the famous, offering a fascinating insight into well-known figures’ personal lives and hidden desires. But what of...
Inside a Gestapo Prison
The Letters of Krystyna Wituska, 1942-1944
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2006
On the eve of World War II, Krystyna Wituska, a carefree teenager attending finishing school in Switzerland, returned to Poland. During the occupation, when she was twenty years old, she drifted into the Polish Underground. By her own admission, she was attracted first by the adventure, but her youthful...
The Filled Pen
Selected Non-Fiction of P.K. Page
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2007
P.K. Page is best known as one of Canada's finest poets, but over the course of her career she has also written a number of essays – meditations – on her life and work, on the nature of art and the imagination, and on Canadian works of literature, painting, and film that have had special significance...
by Alexander Hamilton
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2018
The vital words of Alexander Hamilton, including essays, private correspondence, and public statements
Alexander Hamilton is best known as the United States’ first Secretary of the Treasury and the author of the majority of The Federalist Papers, a series of essays that outlined the basic...
Our Roots Are Deep with Passion
New Essays by Italian-American Writers
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2015
Thoughtful, poignant, and hilarious personal essays collected by the editors of Creative Nonfiction explore the meanings of Italian-American identity.
In the twenty-one nonfiction narratives collected in Our Roots Are Deep with Passion, established and emerging writers with family ties to Italy...
William Wilfred Campbell
Selected Poetry and Essays
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2012
This is a representative collection of the writings of a neglected Canadian author, William Wilfred Campbell (1858-1918).
Among the 112 poems in William Wilfred Campbell: Selected Poetry and Essays are the familiar “Indian Summer” and “How One Winter Came in the Lake Region,” along...
In Translation
The Gabrielle Roy-Joyce Marshall Correspondence
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2006
Gabrielle Roy was one of the most prominent Canadian authors of the twentieth century. Joyce Marshall, an excellent writer herself, was one of Roy's English translators. The two shared a deep and long-lasting friendship based on a shared interest in language and writing. In Translation offers a critical...
I Rest My Case
Unpublished Letters to The Daily Telegraph
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011
The third book in the bestselling and hilarious series of ‘Am I Alone . . . ?’ books
From bin Laden to Pippa Middleton’s bottom, and from riots to Rebekah Wade, Telegraph readers offer their maverick and hilarious take on the year’s events, in the letters the paper didn’t publish,...
Imaginative Conservatism
The Letters of Russell Kirk
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2018
Russell Kirk (1918--1994) is renowned worldwide as one of the founders of postwar American conservatism. His 1953 masterpiece, The Conservative Mind, became the intellectual touchstone for a reinvigorated movement and began a sea change in the nation's attitudes toward traditionalism. A prolific author...
Beste fanatici
drie essays
Language: Dutch
Release Date: November 9, 2017
'De rode draad in deze essays is mijn wens met een persoonlijke blik te kijken naar verschillende kwesties die ons land diep verdelen, waarbij enkele een zaak van leven of dood lijken te zijn. Dit is voor mij een poging gehoord te worden door mensen die een andere mening hebben dan ik.' Aldus Amos...
Dear Donald, Dear Bennett
The War Time Letters of Bennett Cerf and Donald Klopfer
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2011
Donald Klopfer and Bennett Cerf had been partners in Random House for seventeen years, but Donald decided that he had to become a part of an even greater endeavor—the defeat of Nazi Germany. Not long after Pearl Harbor, Donald, who was then forty years old, took a leave from Random House and joined...