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South-Watching
Selected Essays by Gerald W. Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2018
Gerald W. Johnson of North Carolina and Baltimore was one of the most prominent American journalists of the twentieth century and one of the outstanding essayists of any age. The author of some three dozen books of history, biography, and commentary on American politics and culture, he was an editorial...
Charles Lamb
Selected Writings
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2003
Charles Lamb (1775-1834), essayist, poet, humorist, critic and letter-writer, has an enduring reputation for his early "Tales from Shakespeare" (1807), written in collaboration with his sister Mary, and his " Essays of Elia," first published in the "London Magazine." This thematic selection of Lamb's writings - essays, dramatic criticism, verse and
The Neoconservative Persuasion
Selected Essays, 1942-2009
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2011
Irving Kristol, the "godfather" of neoconservatism and one of our most important public intellectuals, played an extraordinarily influential role in the development of American intellectual and political culture over the past half century. These essays, many hard to find and reprinted here...
The Splendour Falls
Essays
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
Alexander Smith stated that a good essayist needed “an ability to discern the infinite suggestiveness of common things.” Arthur Benson seconded the idea, saying an essayist needed a “far-ranging curiosity.” For three decades Sam Pickering has written essays, his words rolling in a fine frenzy...
Ambition and Survival
Becoming a Poet
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2013
"That calling, at once religious, ethical, and aesthetic, is one that only a genuine poet can hear—and very few poets can explain it as compellingly as Mr. Wiman does. That gift is what makes Ambition and Survival, not just one of the best books of poetry criticism in a generation, but a spiritual...
The Best American Series
16 Short Stories & Essays
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2016
The Best American series is the premier annual showcase for the country’s finest short fiction and nonfiction.
This special edition contains selections from the following 2016 editions:
The Best American Essays edited by Jonathan Franzen
The Best American Mystery Stories edited by...
Pushkin's Children
Writing on Russia and Russians
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2012
“Tolstaya’s essays in this compact, historically significant volume offer a fascinating, highly intelligent analysis of Russian society and politics” (Publishers Weekly).
These twenty essays address the politics, culture, and literature of Russia with both flair and erudition. Passionate...
Rules for Others to Live By
Comments and Self-Contradictions
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
**“Richard Greenberg turns life upside down and sideways. Reading the provocative *Rules for Others to Live By *is like having dinner with a friend whose point of view shakes up and invariably runs counter to conventional thinking. He’s a debunker of the pretensions of daily life.” **
**—Delia...
Hers
Through Women's Eyes
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2012
A collection of sixty-five of the most memorable essays to appear in the “Hers” column in The New York Times
Among the talented writers who examined the private and public issues facing women are Lois Gould, Gail Godwin, Gail Sheehy, Joyce Maynard, Maxine Hong Kingston, Mary Cantwell, Linda...
Frederick Douglass and Herman Melville
Essays in Relation
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
Frederick Douglass (1818-1895) and Herman Melville (1819-1891) addressed in their writings a range of issues that continue to resonate in American culture: the reach and limits of democracy; the nature of freedom; the roles of race, gender, and sexuality; and the place of the United States in the...
De wereld van Maarten 't Hart
De beste stukken over natuur, literatuur, religie en muziek
Language: Dutch
Release Date: August 29, 2017
Waar 't Hart vol van is
In 1976 verscheen, onder de titel De kritische afstand, de eerste essaybundel van Maarten 't Hart. Zijn vak, de ethologie, vormde de inspiratiebron voor prikkelende beschouwingen over het gedrag van mensen, bekeken via de omweg van diergedrag. In 1978 volgde de tweede...
by Nicolas Rothwell
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2016
Winner of the 2017 Prime Minister’s Literary Award for Non-Fiction
*Quicksilver *begins on a quiet day in contemplation of a lizard deep in the heart of the outback but quickly moves to the Russia of Tolstoy and Gorky, and on to other lands and times, bringing into play universal questions...
Reading Texts, Reading Lives
Essays in the Tradition of Humanistic Cultural Criticism in Honor of Daniel R. Schwarz
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2012
Our culture attempts to separate competing ideological factions by denying relationships between multiple perspectives and influences outside of one’s own narrow interpretive community. The distinguished essayists in this volume find Daniel R. Schwarz’s pluralistic, self-questioning approach to...
by Percy Bysshe Shelley
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2013
Percy Bysshe Shelley is more widely known as one of the great Romantic Poets. Yet in his short life he was active politically but also as an essayist where his thoughts and ideas were fresh and innovative. Included in this collection is In Defence Of Poetry which contains the quite wonderful suggestion...