Literary essays

This collection of Twain’s fiction and nonfiction on the subject “provides insight into the war’s influence on this great American writer” (The Post and Courier, Charleston).

Once you recall that Miss Thistlebottom was your elementary-school teacher who laid down all manner of taboos concerning the use of language, you will have an idea of what this book is about.

Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility.

In a collection of musings that is as much historical record as it is memoir, Coleen Grissom provides a unique view of life on and off an American university campus.

The best of modern American drama is represented in the seventeen essays of this collection.

In Portraits and Miniatures, Roy Jenkins brings his penetrating intelligence and elegant prose to subjects ranging from literature and political history to wine and croquet.

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An expansive collection of texts providing insight into the inner life, creativity, and practice of the innovative American artist Anne Truitt Spanning more than fifty years, this comprehensive volume collects the letters, journal entries, interviews, lectures, reviews, and remembrances of the groundbreaking twentieth-century artist Anne Truitt (1921-2004).

In The Book of the Courtier (1528), Baldesar Castiglione, a diplomat and Papal Nuncio to Rome, sets out to define the essential virtues for those at Court.

Africa, UK, and Ireland: Writing Politics and Knowledge Production comprises 6 scholarly/nonfiction essays, 7 short stories, 67 poems, and 2 plays from writers and poets based in the UK, Africa and Ireland the diasporas.

'The best evocation I've read of London in the '80s' Neil Tennant'I loved Souvenir .

Among Stephen Jay Gould's many gifts was his ability to write eloquently about baseball, his great passion.

Bestselling author and New Yorker writer Adam Gopnik embarks on a wildly creative inquiry into perhaps the oldest question: how do we learn a new skill?

Notable writers-including UK poet laureate Simon Armitage, Julian Barnes, Margaret MacMillan, and Jenny Uglow-celebrate our fascination with the houses of famous literary figures, artists, composers, and politicians of the pastWhat can a house tell us about the person who lives there?

Edited and with a contribution by Elizabeth Benedict, thirty of today's brightest literary lights turn their attention to the question of mentorship and influence.

The unforgettable collection of autobiographical essays from Jill Soloway, the creator and director of Transparent and Emmy-nominated writer for Six Feet Under.

FOREWORD BY ALI SMITHWITH AN INTRODUCTION BY FRANCESCA WADEWho better to serve as a guide to great books and their authors than Virginia Woolf?

First Place Winner in Non-Fiction from the 2023 Next Generation Indie Book AwardsPart literary history, part personal memoir, Alice Brittan's beautifully written The Art of Astonishment explores the rich intellectual, religious, and philosophical history of the gift and tells the interconnected story of grace: where it comes from and what it is believed to accomplish.

Committed to developing frameworks for defining and evaluating Black poetry, literary scholar Stephen E.

When Michael Ramos enlisted in the Navy and was assigned to serve as a chaplains bodyguard thirteen days before 9/11, he had no idea he would soon be sent to Iraq.

From the author of the magnificent, award-winning novels GILEAD, HOME and LILA comes this wonderful, heart-warming collection of essays about reading.

In an updated edition of his hugely successful student introduction to English literature from 1100 to 1500, J.

Candid essays on personal and cultural American nostalgia, focusing on the author’s working-class, Rust Belt family history.

Michelle Fishburne did the unthinkable during the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic: she motor-homed 12,000 miles all over the United States and sat down with hundreds of people face to face.

#1 New York Times best-selling, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Anthony Doerr brings his“stunning sense of physical detail and gorgeous metaphors” (San Francisco Chronicle) to selecting The Best American Short Stories 2019.

De acuerdo con una de las líneas preferentes en la investigación cervantista del autor, y en sintonía con sus aportaciones en Inspiración y pretexto, publicado en esta misma colección en 2005, este nuevo volumen profundiza en el estudio de la obra de Cervantes, se centra en particular en los aspectos textuales y en la recepción del universo literario cervantino, y presta especial atención a las recreaciones del Quijote desde su publicación hasta nuestros días (sobre todo en la narrativa escrita en lengua española) y al tratamiento literario que se dispensa tanto a Cervantes, convertido en personaje de ficción, como a su principal obra en la narrativa de las primeras décadas del siglo XXI.

In his fourth book of essays, acclaimed cultural critic Arthur Krystal surveys the world of letters in its academic, literary, and populist incarnations--just to make sure those divisions still apply.

A new collection of poetry from an American literary legend, her first in twenty-five yearsJoyce Carol Oates is one of our most insightful observers of the human heart and mind, and, with her acute social consciousness, one of the most insistent and inspired witnesses of a shared American history.

Für Ian McEwan ist die Geschichte der Wissenschaft eine faszinierende Saga voller intellektuellem Mut, harter Arbeit, tausendfachem Scheitern und kurzen Momenten der Inspiration.

Twenty years, a thousand pages, and now a single beautiful edition of Arundhati Roy's complete non-fiction.

"e;A nimble case for pretentiousness as a willingness to take risks.

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

DIE VERMESSUNG SOZIALER WAHRSCHEINLICHKEITENDAS ARCHIV MEINER SOZIALEN WUTGeschichten von der UNTEREN KLASSE, Literatur über SOZIALE HERKUNFT – meist sind das Erzählungen von AUFBRUCH und AUFSTIEG.

Reading 1759 investigates the literary culture of a remarkable year in British and French history, writing, and ideas.

For many years, Ana Maria Spagna has stayed put, mostly, in a small mountain valley at the head of a glacier-carved lake.

This revealing book presents a selection of lost articles from "e;Our Osage Hills,"e; a newspaper column by the renowned Osage writer, naturalist, and historian, John Joseph Mathews.

A thrilling tour of the sea's most extreme species, coauthored by one of the world's leading marine scientistsThe ocean teems with life that thrives under difficult situations in unusual environments.

A compendium of profiles, interviews, and reviews published by the South Carolina book review editorArt and Craft presents the hand-picked fruit of Bill Thompson's three decades covering writers and writing as book review editor of Charleston, South Carolina's Post and Courier.

In seinen ›Heidelberger Poetikvorlesungen‹ (Mai/Juni 2010) denkt der Autor Bernhard Schlink darüber nach, was ihn beim Schreiben bewegt und welche Maximen für ihn dabei Gültigkeit haben.

'When Dickens has described something you see it for the rest of your life' George OrwellIn 1844, Charles Dickens took a break from novel writing to travel through Italy for almost a year, and Pictures from Italy is an illuminating account of his experiences there.

From one of the most talented young thinkers in the US, a warm, funny and intellectually dazzling call for excess, ecstasy and disorder in an age of sterility and minimalismTIME MAGAZINE'S 100 MUST-READ BOOKS OF 2024NEW YORK TIMES' 100 MOST NOTABLE BOOKS OF 2024PROSPECT BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2024'Scintillating writing of breadth and power' Observer'Seriously precise and very funny' Telegraph'A radical and important book' James WoodOur culture's embrace of minimalism and uniformity has left our souls impoverished.

'One of the greatest writers of our time.