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Armed Only with Faith
The Civil War Correspondence of Chaplain William Lyman Hyde, 112th New York Infantry
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2015
The 112th New York Infantry Regiment served 1,017 days during the Civil War, from 1862 to 1865. They campaigned in four states, fought in 16 battles and lost 324 men, including two regimental commanders. This unit history is based on the personal papers of Chaplain William Lyman Hyde, including his...
The Decay of Lying: And Other Essays
And Other Essays
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2010
In 'The Decay of Lying' Oscar Wilde uses his decadent ideology in an attempt to reverse and therefore reject his audiences' 'normal' conceptualizations of nature, art and morality. Wilde's views of life and art are illustrated through the use of Platonic dialogue where the character Vivian takes on...
by Oscar Wilde
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2017
Book-length collection of essays. According to Wikipedia: "Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (1854 - 1900) was an Irish playwright, novelist, poet, and author of short stories. Known for his barbed wit, he was one of the most successful playwrights of late Victorian London, and one of the greatest...
More Mirth of a Nation
The Best Contemporary Humor
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011
More seriously funny writing from American's most trusted humor anthology
Witty, wise, and just plain wonderful, the inaugural volume of this biennial, Mirth of a Nation, ensured a place for the best contemporary humor writing in the country. And with this second treasury, Michael J. Rosen has once...
by Niccolo Machiavelli
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 1979
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 1979
In the four and a half centuries since Machiavelli’s death, no single and unanimously accepted interpretation of his ideas has succeeded in imposing itself upon the lively debate over the meaning of his works. Yet there has never been any doubt about the fundamental importance of Machiavelli’s...
Settling the Score
Essays on Music
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2013
Ned Rorem explores the state of contemporary classical music in a magnificent collection of personally selected essays and critiques of masterworks, lesser works, and their legendary creators
Pulitzer Prize–winner Ned Rorem’s musical compositions are considered some of the finest produced...
Zelda Fitzgerald
The Tragic, Meticulously Researched Biography of the Jazz Age's High Priestess
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2012
A biography about the glamour, romance, and tragedy of “the first American flapper” (F. Scott Fitzgerald).
Zelda Fitzgerald was seen as the mythical American Dream Girl of the Roaring Twenties. Her romance with F. Scott Fitzgerald became a symbol of Jazz Age glamour and spectacle. But not...
by Karl Ove Knausgaard
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2018
The second volume in his autobiographical quartet based on the seasons, Winter is an achingly beautiful collection of daily meditations and letters addressed directly to Knaugsaard's unborn daughter
2 December - It is strange that you exist, but that you don't know anything about what the world...
by Mahmoud Darwish
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2012
"Every beautiful poem is an act of resistance," asserts Darwish. Both voice of the Palestinian people and one of the most transcendent poets of his generation, Mahmoud Darwish also wrote several remarkable volumes of autobiographical essays over the course of his life. First published in...
Don't Call Me Princess
Essays on Girls, Women, Sex and Life
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2018
The New York Times bestselling author of Girls & Sex and Cinderella Ate My Daughter delivers her first ever collection of essays—funny, poignant, deeply personal and sharply observed pieces, drawn from three decades of writing, which trace girls’ and women’s progress (or lack thereof) in...
by Lenny Everson
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2017
This is a collection of short essays and brief “thoughts” on Shakespeare’s play, Hamlet. It includes analyses of the plot and characters as seen through more modern eyes than most essays. These may be of use to students struggling to find something original among all the discussions of the play....
What Do Women Want?
Essays by Erica Jong
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2007
Erica Jong's two rules of writing are "never cut funny" and "keep the pages turning." And Jong delivers in these twenty-six essays, coupling frank and risqu? stories about her own life with provocative pieces on her passion for politics, literature, Italy, and-yes-sex. Originally...
The Thorny Grace of It
And Other Essays for Imperfect Catholics
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
Best-selling and award-winning essayist Brian Doyle knows that the heartbeat of Catholicism is found not in papal decrees and pageantry, but in the parish halls, potluck dinners, and the believing community. In this spirited collection of more than 40 essays, Doyle employs his trademark wit, candor,...
This I Believe
Philadelphia
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2015
This I Believe is an international project engaging people in writing, sharing, and discussing the core values that guide their daily lives. And it all started in Philadelphia more than seven decades ago with a local radio series that became an international sensation.This book features thirty essays...