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This volume contains a collection of critical literary essays written by George Saintsbury. The writers dealt with in these criticisms include De Quincey, Sydney Smith, George Crabbe, and many more.……続きを見る

This vintage book contains Thomas De Quincey's 1821 autobiographic account, "Confessions of an English Opium-Eater". Within this volume, De Quincey describes his addiction to opium and explains, in ……続きを見る

This vintage book contains Robert Louis Stevenson's "Edinburgh: Picturesque Notes". First published in 1879, this book is one of the most personal and lucid of Stevenson's works. Half guide book, ha……続きを見る

This volume contains Robert Louis Stevenson's "Familiar Studies of Men and Books", being a fascinating exploration of the life and work of a number of seminal authors from across the globe. It conta……続きを見る

This volume contains a collection of articles on the nature of America and of being American, composed from lectures originally addressed to British audiences by George Santayana. This fascinating c……続きを見る

This volume contains a collection of essays by Robert Louis Stevenson. The themes tackled within these essays are varied, ranging from love and marriage, to morality and hope. This fantastic collect……続きを見る

This vintage book contains a collection of essays written by Nathaniel Hawthorne during his stay in England from 1853 to 1853. In these writings, Hawthorne's humour, empathy, patriotism, and sharp j……続きを見る

This volume contains a collection of essays and memoirs by Robert Louis Stevenson, including "Across the Plains" (1892). "Across the Plains" forms the middle section of Stevenson's three-part travel……続きを見る

This volume contains a collection of essays written by G. K. Chesterton. These essays were originally published in the 'Daily News', and cover a range of topics ranging from Gargoyles to strolls aro……続きを見る

The most important writings by the great and controversial Victorian polemicist. Carlyle was one of the great figures of his age: thunderous, passionate, irascible, sceptical and idealistic. This se……続きを見る

Here are G. K. Chesterton's most influential non-fiction books collected here in one binding. In Orthodoxy, Gilbert K. Chesterton explains how and why he came to believe in Christianity and more spe……続きを見る

Cunning Plans collects several of NYT-bestselling author Warren Ellis' lectures on the nature of the haunted future and the secrets of deep history, given in recent years at events in London, New Yo……続きを見る

Del Donjuanismo al Vampirismo Sexual, es un ensuyo sobre la sexualidad humana, fanifestada en dos formas. Una es la seducción, representada por Don Juan, y otra es el vampirismo sexual, representada……続きを見る

30 Autoren aus Literatur, Kunst, Wissenschaft, Wirtschaft, Religion und Politik heute denken nach über alte Begriffe. Helden und Legenden - das ruft Phantasien auf, Erinnerungen an einst Gehörtes. A……続きを見る

À M. César Daly Pendant que vous voyagez, mon cher Daly, et que le souvenir de vos amis ne sait où vous prendre, voici quelque chose (je n’ose pas dire un livre) qui vous atten……続きを見る

A mash-up of Ted Kooser's Local Wonders, Roger Welch's Shingling the Fog and Ms. Colburn's lifetime as an environmental journalist. Prairie Landscapes represents the ramblings of one mind prowling t……続きを見る

"Die Wahrheit tritt nicht in unser Leben, um uns mit Küssen und Tränen zu wecken, aber wir alle sind unruhig, wir alle sind bereit", schreibt der Schweizer Autor und Regisseur Milo Rau in seinem 200……続きを見る

Closing the Book: Travels in Life, Loss, and Literature explores the intersection of literature and life in personal essays about traveling, teaching, reading, writing, living, and dying. Each essay……続きを見る

After the Cold War, the 'Hot War' has made its comeback in Afghanistan and Iraq. Exhuming Kipling's 'Great Game', we have gone back to the clash between Islam and Christianity. The ghost of the Yell……続きを見る

Extrait : " Inflexible comme le destin, il enregistre avec le même sang-froid les actes de tous les gouvernements qui se sont succédé depuis quarante ans. Le Moniteur n'est pas un journal de discuss……続きを見る

Since 1980, Shraddhavan has been teaching English in Auroville through close readings of Sri Aurobindo's revelatory epic Savitri: a legend and a symbol. In August 1998 these classes were resumed at ……続きを見る

Extrait : "Ce ne serait pas remplir le but que je me propose, et ce serait laisser croire peut-être que je n'ai pas bien compris tout l'intérêt qui s'attache à ces documents, si je n'en donnais que ……続きを見る

Extrait : " Il faut reprendre et répandre cet apophtegme, notamment; car à l'observer, que d'auteurs gagneraient, sans compter le public ! C'est ce que pensait La Fontaine, lorsqu'il disait de son t……続きを見る

Extrait : "Le nom de Molière manquait aux fastes de l'Académie. Cette foule d'étrangers, que nos arts attirent parmi nous, en voyant dans ce sanctuaire des lettres les portraits de tant d'écrivains ……続きを見る

Extrait : "Imaginez le lendemain de la Révolution de Juillet. Il n'y avait plus trace de barricades ; Paris était tout à fait pacifié. Au printemps, on ne rencontrait le long des rues que petites ch……続きを見る

Extrait : "Je suis de l'avis de Lamartine : il y a vraiment des lieux prédestinés. Au quinzième siècle, par exemple, le mouvement de la Renaissance partit de la province idéale que j'ai baptisée la ……続きを見る

In-depth and personal interviews by Rita Guibert of Pablo Neruda, Jorge Luis Borges, Miguel Angel Asturias, Octavio Paz, Julio Cortázar, Gabriel García Márquez and Guillermo Cabrera Infante. The Nob……続きを見る

In Show Me Your Environment, a penetrating yet personable collection of critical essays, David Baker explores how a poem works, how a poet thinks, and how the art of poetry has evolvedーand is still……続きを見る

In this issue, Oliver Bullough travels to Ukraine and Crimea in the wake of revolution; Kerry Howley writes about cage fighting and giving birth in Texas; Molly Brodak remembers her father, a compul……続きを見る

A critical analysis of the first album released by the hip hop duo the Insane Clown Posse. I explore the relationship between between the album and the mythological figure Azazel from the Abrahamic ……続きを見る