Literary essays

'So the club rose, the blood came down, and his bitterness and his anguish and his guilt were compounded.

'A joyous multiplicity of writings incorporating collective manifestos, poetry, fiction, and autobiography.

'England is a family in which the young are generally thwarted and most of the power is in the hands of irresponsible uncles and bedridden aunts.

George Orwell's moving reflections on the English character and his passionate belief in the need for political change.

Rich girl, street punk, lost girl and icon .

'Language is a body, a living creature .

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A trailblazing collection of writing from Binyavanga Wainaina's extraordinary life, featuring an introduction from his long-time friend, Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieBinyavanga Wainaina was a seminal author and creative force, remembered as one of the greatest chroniclers of contemporary African life.

'It would be unfair to expect other people to be as remarkable as oneself'Wilde's celebrated witticisms on the dangers of sincerity, duplicitous biographers, the stupidity of the English - and his own genius.

'It's you who are the dogs.

The first in Deborah Levy's essential three-part 'Living Autobiography' on writing and womanhood.

Follow Robert Macfarlane to the furthest corners of the globe.

This literary anthology celebrates the history and romance of Coney Island with works by some of the 19th and 20th centuries' greatest authors and poets.

In her latest work of personal criticism, Nancy K.

Walter Benjamin and Gershom Scholem are regarded as two of the most influential Jewish thinkers of the twentieth century.

The Smoking Book is a dreamlike structure built on the solid foundation of two questions: how does it feel to smoke, and what does smoking mean?

We are facing unprecedented environmental challenges, including global climate change, large-scale industrial development, rapidly increasing species extinction, ocean acidification, and deforestation - challenges that require new vocabularies and new ways to express grief and sorrow over the disappearance, degradation, and loss of nature.

From the National Book Award-winning author, an absorbing biography of the esteemed editor, publisher, power broker, and rival to William Randolph Hearst.

LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2025'Unforgettable' SUNDAY TIMES'Courageous' OBSERVER'One of the most important books to be published in years' SARA COLLINS'There are few writers with Li's power' DOUGLAS STUARTThe best book I have read this year' DAVID NICHOLLS'I will return to it for the rest of my life' CHARLOTTE WOODA remarkable, defiant work of radical acceptance from acclaimed Pulitzer Prize finalist Yiyun Li as she considers the loss of her son James.

Jose Tomas de Cuellar (1830-1894) was a Mexican writer noted for his sharp sense of humor and gift for caricature.

Writing under the pseudonym "e;Jotabeche,"e; Jose Joaquin Vallejo wrote forty-one short articles on Chilean life and society in the early republic.

Novelist, scholar, journalist, statesman, and leading member of Chile's "e;Generation of 1842"e;--an intellectual movement so named for the founding of the National University--Jose Victorino Lastarria (1811-1888) lived his life at the forefront of nineteenth-century Chilean and Spanish American culture, literature, and politics.

Argentina's best-known writer during his lifetime, Leopoldo Lugones's work spans many literary styles and ideological positions.

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From Montaigne in the sixteenth century to Orwell, Eliot, and Trilling in the twentieth, the best literary essayists combine a gift for observation with an abiding commitment to books.

The forced suicide of Seneca, former adviser to Nero, is one of the most tortured--and most revisited--death scenes from classical antiquity.

Ancient greek sholarship constitutes a precious resource for classicists, but one that is underutilized because graduate students and even mature scholars lack familiarity with its conventions.

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The De Malo represents some of Aquinas' most mature thinking on goodness, badness, and human agency.

Gary Giddins's Weather Bird is a brilliant companion volume to his landmark in music criticism, Visions of Jazz, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism.

General Simon Bolivar (1783-1830), called El Liberator, and sometimes the "e;George Washington"e; of Latin America, was the leading hero of the Latin American independence movement.

This first volume of Robert Durling's new translation of The Divine Comedy brings a new power and accuracy to the rendering of Dante's extraordinary vision of Hell, with all its terror, pathos, and humor.

Given the rise of new interdisciplinary and methodological approaches to African American and Black Atlantic studies, The Oxford Handbook of the African American Slave Narrative will offer a fresh, wide-ranging assessment of this major American literary genre.

The twenty-eight essays in this handbook represent the best current thinking in the study of Latin language and literature in the Middle Ages.

Kent Greenawalt's From the Bottom Up constitutes a collection of articles and essays written over the last five decades of his career.

For readers accustomed to the relatively undramatic standard translations of Prometheus Bound, this version by James Scully, a poet and winner of the Lamont Poetry Prize, and C.

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Oedipus, the former ruler of Thebes, has died.

Based on the conviction that only translators who write poetry themselves can properly recreate the celebrated and timeless tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, the Greek Tragedy in New Translations series offers new translations that go beyond the literal meaning of the Greek in order to evoke the poetry of the originals.

From Montaigne in the sixteenth century to Orwell, Eliot, and Trilling in the twentieth, the best literary essayists combine a gift for observation with an abiding commitment to books.

For readers accustomed to the relatively undramatic standard translations of Prometheus Bound, this version by James Scully, a poet and winner of the Lamont Poetry Prize, and C.

Clorinda Matto de Turner was the first Peruvian novelist to command an international reputation and the first to dramatize the exploitation of indigenous Latin American people.

This first volume of Robert Durling's new translation of The Divine Comedy brings a new power and accuracy to the rendering of Dante's extraordinary vision of Hell, with all its terror, pathos, and humor.

Republic is the central work of the Western world's most famous philosopher.

Our personalities and our identities are intimately bound up with the stories that we tell to organize and to make sense of our lives.

The forced suicide of Seneca, former adviser to Nero, is one of the most tortured--and most revisited--death scenes from classical antiquity.

Oedipus, the former ruler of Thebes, has died.

Still the most popular of Hemingway's books, The Sun also Rises captures the quintessential romance of the expatriate Americans and Britons in Paris after World War I.

Leslie Marmon Silko's Ceremony, the most important novel of the Native American Renaissance, is among the most most widely taught and studied novels in higher education today.

This volume offers students and scholars a rich variety of interpretations from which to fashion their own views of the novel and the man who created it.