A portrait of an American thinker with contributions by Barbara Kingsolver, Bill McKibben, Sven Birkerts, Wes Jackson, and more: "e;A masterful collection.
This remarkable memoir is "e;both one person's extraordinary life story and a first-hand look at life in the mountains in a time that is fading from memory"e; (Kentucky Monthly).
John Keats's biographers have rarely been fair to George Keats (17971841)pushing him to the background as the younger brother, painting him as a prodigal son, or labeling him as the "e;business brother.
Nature was always vital in Thomas Merton's life, from the long hours he spent as a child watching his father paint landscapes in the fresh air, to his final years of solitude in the hermitage at Our Lady of Gethsemani, where he contemplated and wrote about the beauty of his surroundings.
This collection of Twain's fiction and nonfiction on the subject "e;provides insight into the war's influence on this great American writer"e; (The Post and Courier, Charleston).
John Keats's biographers have rarely been fair to George Keats (1797-1841)-pushing him to the background as the younger brother, painting him as a prodigal son, or labeling him as the "e;business brother.
Nature was always vital in Thomas Merton's life, from the long hours he spent as a child watching his father paint landscapes in the fresh air, to his final years of solitude in the hermitage at Our Lady of Gethsemani, where he contemplated and wrote about the beauty of his surroundings.
The influential literary magazine The Dial is regarded as a titanic artistic and aesthetic achievement for having published most of the great modernist writers, artists, and critics of its day.
The influential literary magazine The Dial is regarded as a titanic artistic and aesthetic achievement for having published most of the great modernist writers, artists, and critics of its day.
The first deeply researched and sustained biographical treatment of a man who has become recognized as a significant figure in American publishing, transatlantic modernism, and the development of obscenity law.
In recent years Constance Fenimore Woolson (1840-1894) has been fictionalized at least three times, perhaps most notably in Colm Toibin's award-winning work The Master, a novelization of the life of Woolson's close friend Henry James.
Henry David Thoreau, one of America's most prominent environmental writers, supported himself as a land surveyor for much of his life, parceling land that would be sold off to loggers.
In this book Ralph Schoolcraft explores the extraordinary career of the modern French author, film director, and diplomata romantic and tragic figure whose fictions extended well beyond his books.
Based on previously unexploited primary sources, this is the first comprehensive biography of Yosef Haim Brenner, one of the pioneers of Modern Hebrew literature.
The resurgence of "e;world literature"e; as a category of study seems to coincide with what we understand as globalization, but how does postcolonial writing fit into this picture?
A literary cult figure on a par with Franz Kafka, Isaac Babel has remained an enigma ever since he disappeared, along with his archive, inside Stalin's secret police headquarters in May of 1939.
A woman's passion for the Nobel Prize winner yields "e;a rich hybrid of biography, literary criticism, intellectual history and memoir"e; (The Washington Post).
As Shakespeare's works are most accessible when viewed as working theatrical playscripts, "e;The Tragedie of Macbeth: A Frankly Annotated First Folio Edition"e; preserves the spelling, capitalization, and punctuation of the First Folio of 1623 while at the same time providing the most comprehensive, revelatory, and plainspoken annotation to date.
