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.
First recorded 1500 years ago, but taking its origins from a far earlier oral tradition, the Pancatantra is ascribed by legend to the celebrated, half-mythical teacher Visnu Sarma.
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 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.
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?
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.
Dieses eBook: "Gesammelte Werke: Novellen + Roman + Gedichte + Essays" ist mit einem detaillierten und dynamischen Inhaltsverzeichnis versehen und wurde sorgfältig korrekturgelesen.
This carefully crafted ebook collection is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents:Novels:Frankenstein (Original Edition, 1818)Frankenstein (Revised Edition, 1831)The Last ManMathildaValpergaThe Fortunes of Perkin WarbeckLodore (The Beautiful Widow)FalknerShort Stories:The Sisters of AlbanoFerdinando EboliThe Evil EyeThe DreamThe MournerThe False RhymeA Tale of the Passions; or, The Death of DespinaThe Mortal ImmortalTransformationThe Swiss PeasantThe Invisible GirlThe Brother and SisterThe ParvenueThe PoleEuphrasiaThe Elder SonThe PilgrimsOn GhostsThe Hair of MondolfoMaurice, or The Fisher's CotPlays:ProserpineMidas Travel Narratives:History of a Six Weeks' TourRambles in Germany and Italy in 1840, 1842, and 1843Notes to the Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe ShelleyThe Life & Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley by Florence Ashton Marshall
The Complete Works of Robert Louis Stevenson (Illustrated Edition) offers readers a comprehensive collection of Stevenson's literary masterpieces, including Treasure Island, Dr.
This meticulously edited Henry James collection includes his complete novels and short stories, as well as literary essays, plays, travel sketches and reports of the great author.
Dieses eBook: "Gesammelte Werke: Romane + Erzählungen + Literaturkritiken + Autobiographie" ist mit einem detaillierten und dynamischen Inhaltsverzeichnis versehen und wurde sorgfältig korrekturgelesen.
This carefully crafted ebook: "The Complete Works of Leo Tolstoy: Novels, Short Stories, Plays, Memoirs, Letters & Essays on Art, Religion and Politics" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents.
Gustave Flauberts Buch 'Gustave Flaubert & George Sand: Briefe' bietet einen faszinierenden Einblick in die Korrespondenz zwischen Flaubert und der bekannten Schriftstellerin George Sand.
