Literary essays

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 vivid historical imagining of life in the early United States';One of the richest books ever to come my way.

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.

Roger N.

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.

'I am greatly relieved that the universe is finally explainable.

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.

This dive into the Yamashita family archive and Japanese internment runs a documentary impulse through filters that shimmer with imagination.

A place comes into existence through the depth of relationships that underwrite a physical location with layers of sedimented names.

This dive into the Yamashita family archive and Japanese internment runs a documentary impulse through filters that shimmer with imagination.

WINNER - Prix du livre d'Ottawa 2016WINNER - Prix Jean-Ethier-Blais 2015WINNER - Prix Gabrielle-Roy 2014FINALIST - Prix litteraire Trillium 2015From the founding of New France to the present day, Quebec women have had to negotiate societal expectations placed on their gender.

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 collection of 36 extraordinary stories originally told on stage, featuring work by writers, entertainers, thinkers, and community leaders.

The term feminism is often treated as a stable and universalizing politics and practice.

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.

The beloved New York Times bestselling author reflects on home, family, friendships and writing in this deeply personal collection of essays.

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?

Este nuevo "Morir no es poco II.

A memoir of leaving the evangelical church and the search for radical new ways to build community.

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.

"Narradores somos todos.

Select Conversations With An Uncle & 2 Other Reminiscences presents H.

The Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated Edition) gathers the extraordinary range of Twain's fiction, essays, sketches, travel writing, and social criticism, presenting a panoramic view of nineteenth-century American letters.

Este libro es un manual de instrucciones para tener sueños lúcidos, dirigido tanto a niños como a personas encarceladas (literalmente o no).

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).

Dieses eBook: "Gesammelte Werke: Novellen + Roman + Gedichte + Essays" ist mit einem detaillierten und dynamischen Inhaltsverzeichnis versehen und wurde sorgfältig korrekturgelesen.

Este ebook presenta Novelas y ensayos de Clarín, con un sumario dinámico y detallado.

Colleges and universities benefit from diversity in their leadership roles and profess to value diversity--of thought, of experience, of person.

Latinas in the Workplace highlights the stories of eight exceptional women.

"e;A lively grab bag of essays, fiction and poetry that reads at times like a who's who of contemporary Chicago writers/residents"e;(Chicago Tribune).

The Collected Works of Mary Shelley (Illustrated Edition) gathers the remarkable range of a writer too often reduced to Frankenstein alone.

The Complete Works of Robert Louis Stevenson (Illustrated Edition) offers readers a comprehensive collection of Stevenson's literary masterpieces, including Treasure Island, Dr.

»Ein Prophet der klaren Worte.

'A brilliant concept, executed with enviable elegance' Lucy Worsley'A gem of a book.

Professionals and readers alike are praising this book:"e;An inspired road map for living with a distractible brain.

This carefully crafted ebook: "The Complete Poetry of John Keats" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents.

The Complete Works of Herman Melville gathers the full range of a writer whose imagination moved from maritime adventure to metaphysical inquiry, from comic satire to tragic epic.

The diva - a central figure in the landscape of contemporary popular culture: gossip-generating, scandal-courting, paparazzi-stalked.

How do you see Britain?

Dit boek geeft een scherpzinnig en humoristisch beeld van ons leven anno nu van geboorte tot aan het onvermijdelijke einde.

The Complete Works of Henry James (Illustrated Edition) gathers the fiction and prose of one of the central architects of literary modernity, from the international novels of manners to the ghostly ambiguities of The Turn of the Screw and the late, intricately psychological masterpieces.

Was ist vom wirkmächtigen, bis in die Antike zurückreichenden Ideal einer stoischen Lebensführung heute noch geblieben?

Dieses eBook: "Gesammelte Werke: Romane + Erzählungen + Literaturkritiken + Autobiographie" ist mit einem detaillierten und dynamischen Inhaltsverzeichnis versehen und wurde sorgfältig korrekturgelesen.