Italo Calvino once said that he preferred to give false details about his biography since he felt that even the genuine data of a writer's life shed no light on the creative work.
A much-loved classic of nature writing from environmentalist and the author of Waterlog, Roger Deakin, Wildwood is an exploration of the element wood in nature, our culture and our lives.
First and foremost an outcry against injustice and inhumanity, Unto this Last is also a closely argued assault on the science of political economy, which dominated the Victorian period.
'Masterly, hilarious, truly insightful' - Philip Hensher, The Spectator A Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year 2019 The last major collection of Nabokov's published material, Think, Write, Speak brings together a treasure trove of previously uncollected texts from across the author's extraordinary career.
'Better mad with the crowd than sane all alone'In these witty, Machiavellian aphorisms, unlikely Spanish priest Baltasar Graci n shows us how to exploit friends and enemies alike to thrive in a world of deception and illusion.
Eric Gill's opinionated manifesto on typography argues that 'a good piece of lettering is as beautiful a thing to see as any sculpture or painted picture'.
The definitive Norman Mailer collection, as he writes on Marilyn Monroe, culture, ideology, boxing, Hemingway, politics, sex, celebrity and - of course - Norman MailerFrom his early 'A Credo for the Living', published in 1948, when the author was twenty-five, to his final writings in the year before his death, Mailer wrestled with the big themes of his times.
In the essays collected here William Langewiesche considers how flying has altered not only how we move about the earth, but also how we view our world and our place in it.
Lawyer, philosopher, statesman and defender of Rome's Republic, Cicero was a master of eloquence, and his pure literary and oratorical style and strict sense of morality have been a powerful influence on European literature and thought for over two thousand years in matters of politics, philosophy, and faith.
Describing bizarrely popular Victorian street slang, the madness of crowds, stock market mania (from the South Sea Bubble to Tulip fever), popular fashions, fads, crazes, schemes and scams, this brilliantly entertaining and ever-more relevant study of human folly shows that we are always susceptible to hysteria and bamboozlement.
In this hilarious, inspiring and provocative series of essays, Kingsley Amis introduces every reader to the wonders and value of science fiction writing.
A startling and immensely pleasurable collection of American writings on belief, from the Civil War to Occupy Wall Street Beginning with Walt Whitman singing hymns at a wounded soldier’s bedside during the Civil War, this surprising and vivid anthology ranges straight through to the twenty-first century to end with Francine Prose crying tears of complicated joy at the sight of Whitman’s words in Zuccotti Park during the brief days of the Occupy movement.
A moving and original literary approach to self-understanding through social media"e;The hunger for a feeling of connection that informs most everything I've written flows from a common break in a common heart, one I share with everyone I've ever really known.
Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in CriticismA leading trans scholar and activist explores cultural representations of gender transition in the modern periodIn Pleasure and Efficacy, Grace Lavery investigates gender transition as it has been experienced and represented in the modern period.
The most comprehensive one-volume collection of Goethe's writings ever published in EnglishThe Essential Goethe is the most comprehensive and representative one-volume collection of Goethe's writings ever published in English.
Henry Edwards Davis (1879-1966) began his hunting adventures as a boy riding in the saddle with his father on foxhunts and deer drives in the company of Confederate cavalry veterans.
Distributed by University Press of Florida on behalf of Florida HumanitiesFlorida Book Awards, Honorable Mention for Florida NonfictionCurated from the archives of FORUM, the award-winning magazine of Florida Humanities, this anthology presents 50 often surprising and always intriguing stories of life in Florida by some of the nations most talented writers and scholars.
Distributed by University Press of Florida on behalf of Florida HumanitiesFlorida Book Awards, Honorable Mention for Florida NonfictionCurated from the archives of FORUM, the award-winning magazine of Florida Humanities, this anthology presents 50 often surprising and always intriguing stories of life in Florida by some of the nations most talented writers and scholars.
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.
A 1949 series of articles on life in post-World War II Germany, written by an undercover German reporter for an American paper-and the story behind them.
A 1949 series of articles on life in post-World War II Germany, written by an undercover German reporter for an American paper-and the story behind them.
From a devoted reader and lifelong bookseller, an eloquent and charming reflection on the singular importance of bookstoresDo we need bookstores in the twenty-first century?
At Great Salt Lake, near Robert Smithson's iconic earthwork Spiral Jetty, a motley crew of scientists walks the mudflats to study fossils in the making.
This carefully crafted ebook: "e;Select Conversations With An Uncle & 2 Other Reminiscences (The original 1895 edition)"e; is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents.
This great collection comprises the complete literary opus of Mark Twain, including novels, short stories, satires, travel books, essays and many other works:NovelsThe Adventures of Tom SawyerAdventures of Huckleberry FinnThe Gilded AgeThe Prince and the PauperA Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's CourtThe American ClaimantTom Sawyer AbroadPersonal Recollections of Joan of ArcPudd'nhead WilsonTom Sawyer, DetectiveA Horse's TaleThe Mysterious StrangerNovelettesA Double Barrelled Detective StoryThose Extraordinary TwinsThe Recent Carnival of Crime in ConnecticutThe Stolen White ElephantThe Man That Corrupted HadleyburgCaptain Stormfield's Visit to HeavenShort Story CollectionsThe Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County and Other SketchesMark Twain's (Burlesque) Autobiography and First RomanceSketches New and OldMerry TalesThe 1,000,000 Bank Note and Other New StoriesThe $30,000 Bequest and Other StoriesThe Curious Republic of Gondour and Other Whimsical SketchesAlonzo Fitz, and Other StoriesMark Twain's Library of HumorOther StoriesEssays, Satires & ArticlesHow to Tell a Story, and Other EssaysWhat Is Man?
This carefully crafted ebook: "e;Ibsen's New Drama: an Essay by James Joyce"e; is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents.
American Book Award Winner: A "e;moving, intimate"e; account of serving as a translator for undocumented children facing deportation (The New York Times Book Review).
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