Mark Twain fue un aventurero incansable que encontró en su propia vida la inspiración para sus obras literarias. Su estilo popular y lleno de humor de los comienzos, y su ironía y sarcasmo de sus úl……続きを見る
An intellectual who did not like intellectuals, a socialist who did not trust the state, a writer of the left who found it easier to forgive writers of the right, a liberal who was against free mark……続きを見る
A collection of short stories, some true, others fiction. Which is which? You may be surprised.
A boating trip gone bad, an untrained serviceman, of brothers and birds, moments that are remembered, ……続きを見る
The Voyage Out (1915) is the story of a rite of passage. When Rachel Vinrace embarks for South America on her father's ship she is launched on a course of self-discovery in a modern version of the m……続きを見る
Siete generaciones de mujeres siete momentos distintos que se entrelazan en este recorrido que inicia en el siglo XVIII en África hasta llegar al siglo XXI en Guadalajara México. Sus historias testi……続きを見る
Wives and Daughters, Elizabeth Gaskell's last novel, is regarded by many as her masterpiece. Molly Gibson is the daughter of the doctor in the small provincial town of Hollingford. Her widowed fathe……続きを見る
著者:BJ Ward
出版社: North Atlantic Books
発売日: 2013年10月22日
BJ Ward, an award-winning poet whose poetry and essays have been featured on National Public Radio and in publications such as The Sun Magazine, TriQuarterly, The Literary Review, and the New York T……続きを見る
著者:Charles Dickens
出版社: Random House Publishing Group
発売日: 2000年10月31日
American Notes is the fascinating travel journal of one of nineteenth-century America's most celebrated visitors: Charles Dickens. A lively chronicle of his five-month trip around the United States ……続きを見る
'The nearest the general run get to art is Action: sex is their form of art: the battle for existence is their picture.' Tarr tells the blackly comic story of the lives and loves of two artists, pla……続きを見る
出版社: University Press of Mississippi
発売日: 2012年04月03日
Essays by Susan V. Donaldson, Lael Gold, Adam Gussow, Martin Kreiswirth, Jay Parini, Noel Polk, Judith L. Sensibar, Jon Smith, and Priscilla Wald
William Faulkner once said that the writer "collects……続きを見る
John McGahern was the most admired Irish novelist of the past fifty years. His accessible fiction won him a wide readership throughout Ireland, but the accomplishment of his craft ensured that he al……続きを見る
Set in Hobart in the mid 1870s 21 year old Meg Hamilton arrives from England to discover why she has not heard from her grandmother for two years.
After learning from cousins, Rissa and Angus MacGre……続きを見る
This file includes: Celtic Twilight, Four Years, Rosa Alchemica, The Secret Rose, Stories of Red Hanrahan, and Synge and the Ireland of His Time. According to Wikipedia: "William Butler Yeats (13 Ju……続きを見る
P. J. ORourke said, “Creative writing teachers should be purged until every last instructor who has uttered the words Write what you know is confined to a labor camp… The blind guy with the funny li……続きを見る
Nothing would have given Will Percy greater delightーhe died in January 1942ーthan this Collected Poems, for although he was lawyer, soldier, cosmopolitan, plantation-owner, and patriot, it was as a……続きを見る
We have all experienced loneliness at some stage in our life. Whether it is sitting alone in a doctor's office or witnessing some poor soul sleeping on a flattened carton, loneliness is there in dif……続きを見る
`The contact with . . .primitive nature and primitive man brings sudden and profound trouble into the heart.' (Joseph Conrad) `Flowers look loveliest in their native soil . . .plucked, they fade, An……続きを見る
著者:William Inge
出版社: Random House Publishing Group
発売日: 2013年04月03日
“Inge reveals the powerful mysteries in our lives.”ーTennessee Williams
Four plays by a quintessential twentieth-century playwrightーCome Back, Little Sheba; Picnic, winner of the Pulitzer Prize; Bu……続きを見る
Drawing on his experiences as a rural Missouri goat farmer, the author has produced a short collection of essays that will bring a smile of recognition to those who love the people, the land, and th……続きを見る
Here are three French plays from the Enlightenment Period dealing with the subject of slavery. ISLE OF SLAVES, by Pierre de Marivaux, is the longest and most challenging of the three. It postulates ……続きを見る
著者:Franz Wright
出版社: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
発売日: 2009年03月12日
PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • In this radiant new collection, Franz Wright shares his regard for life in all its forms and his belief in the promise of blessing and renewal. As he watches the “Resurrectio……続きを見る
The sermon as crafted by the early New England preachers was the most prominent literary form of its day, yet the earliest Puritan texts have as a rule been available only in rare-book collections. ……続きを見る
Four journeys by early Americans Mary Rowlandson, Sarah Kemble Knight, William Byrd II, and Dr. Alexander Hamilton recount the vivid physical and psychological challenges of colonial life. Essential……続きを見る
A Moment In Time is Eric Brook's first novel, almost entirely written on an iPhone.
Set in Sydney, the book is set on Thursday 1 April 2010. It follows women working in Sydney from various points of……続きを見る
著者:Amy Gerstler
出版社: Penguin Publishing Group
発売日: 2009年09月29日
A surreal new collection from an acclaimed poet
Hallucinogenic plants chant in chorus. A thoughtful dog grants an interview. A caterpillar offers life advice. Amy Gerstler’s newest collection of poe……続きを見る
著者:Robert Roche
出版社: University of Oklahoma Press
発売日: 2012年09月06日
Long before moving pictures were invented, youngsters from eight to eighty were being charmed by a special kind of animated cartoonーthe word sketches of Mark Twain. His descriptions and episodes in……続きを見る