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Welcome to the second volume of Nocturnal Musings. As with the first volume of Nocturnal Musings, you’ll discover a variety of ponderings and essays. This time you won’t find any short stories, though.In this version, I added shorter meditations about topics you might wonder about as well....

Contains letters from Francis Jeffrey (1773-1850) to Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) and Jane Welsh Carlyle (1801-1866). The letters in this title present a personal and intellectual narrative of nineteenth-century Britain.

In this original study, Milne moves between close readings of letters, postcards and emails, and investigations of the material, technological infrastructures of these forms, to answer the question: How does presence function as an aesthetic and rhetorical strategy within networked communication practices?...

Parliamentary historian, chronicler of Titanic’s sinking and Churchill’s ascent, annotator of Kipling and of Kenneth Grahame: GMW Wemyss is, admittedly, these, but much more is he the West Country’s beloved essayist, the wry, fond observer of rural humour, chalk-streams, proper gardens, and...

Sparkling essays on a variety of subjects--literature, art, popular culture, autobiography--by a renowned young American novelist. In her brilliant and daring novels The Blindfold and The Enchantment of Lily Dahl, Siri Hustvedt has won critical acclaim and a rapidly expanding international...

Moving and unexpected, this first nonfiction offering by Robert Anthony Siegel is the literary equivalent of The Royal Tenenbaums Essays from this collection have won awards and been and prestigiously published, including: "Sean" in The Harvard Review, which won a Pushcart Prize;...

In this first book-length study of Ayn Rand's anti-utopia Anthem, essays explore the historical, literary, and philosophical themes presiding in this novella written in opposition to the totalitarianism of the Soviet Union (and Nazi Germany). Written in 1937, published in 1938 in Britain, and subsequently...

Love Letters is a host of expressions and thoughts of love I wrote to my future wife whom I met overseas. Most of the letters have little nuggets of truth I feel any couple could use to gain a clear insight into the inner workings of a mutually advantageous relationship.

From a carcass competition in the Karoo to a shambolic murder trial in Cape Town, William Dicey’s essays freewheel across an open terrain of interests. Dicey is curious and inventive, weaving strands of essay, journalism, fiction and self-reportage into something uniquely his own. Mongrel investigates...

In 1925, the 22-year-old Kenneth Clark (1903–1983) and the legendary art critic and historian Bernard Berenson (1865–1959) met in Italy. From that moment, they began a correspondence that lasted until Berenson’s death at age 94. This book makes available, for the first time, the complete correspondence...

Although Neil M. Gunn is well-known as one of Scotland's foremost writers of the 20th century, he is less well-known as a perceptive and meditative essayist who wrote on a variety of. In this collection the focus is on landscape and the stimulus it provides for a journey of an enquiring mind from...

Victoria (1819-1901) was a queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and also the Empress of India. By the the time Victoria inheritated the throne, a strict political system had been established in the UK. According to that system the monarch possessed no actual political power. Victoria...

Victoria (1819-1901) was a queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and also the Empress of India. By the the time Victoria inheritated the throne, a strict political system had been established in the UK. According to that system the monarch possessed no actual political power. Victoria...

ictoria (1819-1901) was a queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and also the Empress of India. By the the time Victoria inheritated the throne, a strict political system had been established in the UK. According to that system the monarch possessed no actual political power. Victoria...