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Book reviews of Daughters of the Great Star by Diana Rivers; Becoming the Villainess by Jeannine Hall Gailey and Naomi Mitchison, a Profile of Her Life and Work by Lesley Hall. Review of the film, F……続きを見る

Charles Lamb (1775-1834), essayist, poet, humorist, critic and letter-writer, has an enduring reputation for his early "Tales from Shakespeare" (1807), written in collaboration with his sister Mary,……続きを見る

Percy Bysshe Shelley is more widely known as one of the great Romantic Poets. Yet in his short life he was active politically but also as an essayist where his thoughts and ideas were fresh and inno……続きを見る

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A brilliant personal history from the award-winning author of ‘The Corrections’. Jonathan Franzen, bestselling author of ‘Freedom’ and the highly acclaimed ‘The Corrections’, arrived late, and last,……続きを見る

“These thirty-three prose inventions of Christopher Middleton constitute the fourth pillar of an extraordinary literary oeuvre, the other three being his poetry, translations, and literary essays. W……続きを見る

The four pieces that make up this work are taken from Muldoon's Oxford Clarendon Lectures of 1998. Together, they take the form of an A-Z, or abecedary of Irish literature, in which his imagination ……続きを見る

'The problem of the twentieth-century is the problem of the color-line.' Originally published in 1903, The Souls of Black Folk is a classic study of race, culture, and education at the turn of the t……続きを見る

Alexandre Dumas's novels are notable for their suspense and excitement, their foul deeds, hairsbreadth escapes, and glorious victories. In The Black Tulip (1850), the shortest of Dumas's most famous……続きを見る

'The mystery of Life, the mystery Of Death, I see Darkly as in a glass...' Christina Rossetti (1830-94) is perhaps the most contradictory of the great Victorian poets. She writes of the world's beau……続きを見る

Published in 1913, Essays and Lectures by Oscar Wilde presents the array of ideas held by the author. Expressing his views on the development of art and literature in Europe, he also discusses Ameri……続きを見る

Will Self and Ralph Steadman join forces once again in a further post-millennial meditation on the vexed relationship of psyche and place in a globalised world; Psycho Too brings together a second h……続きを見る

“The ground bass is failure; America is the key signature; Pauline Bardal is the lyrical tune that sings at the center; Minneota, Minnesota, is the staff on which the tunes are written.” So begins t……続きを見る

First published in 1943, this is a selection of writings from Dr. Sitwell's private notebooks. It includes essays on prosody, the role of the poet, the nature of poetry, and includes her full length……続きを見る

This collection was designed for optimal navigation on eReaders and other electronic devices. It is indexed alphabetically, chronologically and by category, making it easier to access individual boo……続きを見る

Since the earliest scholarship on The Lord of the Rings and The Silmarillion, critics have discussed how the works of J. R. R. Tolkien seem either to ignore women or to place them on unattainable pe……続きを見る

Liphar on Literature, Photography and Art It is 2015 , do you know where your mind has been? I hope so, because Liphar Magazine has been traversing with a mix of stimulating material in this energiz……続きを見る

Although several of Robert Louis Stevenson's major works -- Treasure Island, Kidnapped, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde -- have been enshrined in the Western canon of popular literature,……続きを見る

Francis Bacon's classic collection of essays on various subjects. Includes the following essays: Of Truth, Of Death, Of Unity in Religion, Of Revenge, Of Adversity, Of Simulation and Dissimulation, ……続きを見る

'I can promise to be candid, not, however, to be impartial.' A selection of the most insightful maxims and reflections from one of Germany's greatest ever thinkers. Introducing Little Black Classics……続きを見る

'Because of his baldness and hairiness, he announced it was a capital offence for anyone either to look down on him as he passed or to mention goats in any context.' The biography of the brutal, cra……続きを見る

Dieses eBook: "Wilhelm Meisters theatralische Sendung, Lehrjahre & Wanderjahre" ist mit einem detaillierten und dynamischen Inhaltsverzeichnis versehen und wurde sorgfältig korrekturgelesen. Wilhelm……続きを見る

A Cafe in Space, Vol. 9 contains several excerpts from Anais Nin's unpublished 1950s diary in which she describes the "trapeze life," swinging back and forth across the country from her husband in N……続きを見る

This work is born a bit seriously and a bit by joke and it tends to considerate the couple by a different perspective in spite of the previous ones about love, in which the discussion mainly verged ……続きを見る

Se "the matrix", una parabola moderna e' la filosofia questa seconda serie, "Essere Reale", essere reali, e' il punto di partenza di un lavoro. Questi libri non vogliono essere a……続きを見る

Disgruntled: Other Art is a compilation of texts written over the past thirty years by curators and artists for grunt gallery, an artist-run centre in Vancouver, BC. Ranging in style from critical e……続きを見る

'Intellectual freedom depends on material things. Poetry depends on intellectual freedom. And women have always been poor...' In these two classic essays of feminist literature, Woolf argues passion……続きを見る

Jovan Dučić (Trebinje, 1871 – Geri, Indijana, SAD, 1943) je bio srpski pesnik, pisac i diplomata. "Blago cara radovana" je zbirka filozofsko-književnih eseja 続きを見る

Volume 10 contains explosive new material on the much-disputed relationship between Anais Nin and Gore Vidal. Kim Krizan produces proof that Vidal mischaracterized the nature of the bond for decades……続きを見る

Man's nature is to live by bias rather than reason. That is the reason that looking at the facts of any issue is important. I suggest that this collection of seven essays looks at familiar and accep……続きを見る