Elizabeth Ammons: 2 books
Brave New Words
How Literature Will Save the Planet
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
The activist tradition in American literature has long testified to the power of words to change people and the power of people to change the world, yet in recent years many professional humanists have chosen to distract themselves with a postmodern fundamentalism of indeterminacy and instability...
by Edith Wharton, Elizabeth Ammons
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2005
Edith Wharton’s most widely read work is a tightly constructed and almost unbearably heartbreaking story of forbidden love in a snowbound New England village.
This brilliantly wrought, tragic novella explores the repressed emotions and destructive passions of working-class people far removed...