Essays 97

Series of lectures delivered at the University of Cambridge in 1916. According to Wikipedia: "Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch(21 November 1863 12 May 1944) was a British writer, who published under ……続きを見る

Kenneth Rexroth, aka "the father of the Beats", was a major American poet from San Francisco. Though he did not achieve his much deserved recognition during his lifetime, today he is considered one ……続きを見る

There are things that happen that we can't even begin to understand. With this short work I will try to understand the force that drives someone to extreme measures. This is painful and I refuse to ……続きを見る

One of Detroit’s most defining modern characteristicsーand most pressing dilemmasーis its huge amount of neglected and vacant land. In Mapping Detroit: Land, Community, and Shaping a City, editors J……続きを見る

Writing under the pseudonym "Jotabeche," Jos? Joaqu?n Vallejo wrote forty-one short articles on Chilean life and society in the early republic. Known for their caustic wit, his writings were an inst……続きを見る

This discourse, as it is unquestionably of the same author, so it seems to have been written about the same time, with “The Tale of a Tub;” I mean the year 1697, when the famous dispute was on foot ……続きを見る

The Essays (French: Essais) of Michel de Montaigne are contained in three books and 107 chapters of varying length. Montaigne's stated design in writing, publishing and revising the Essays over the ……続きを見る

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Dans le cadre de la série « Les grands événements littéraires », Léon Deffoux nous révèle le résultat de son enquête sur la ……続きを見る

An invitation to tour the globe with a veteran world-wanderer in search of regional peculiarities and universal truths "I fly to faraway places in the hopes of finding the distinguishing thing. The ……続きを見る

This fourth collection of essays by Paul Ruffin highlights his idiosyncratic wit and practiced storytelling skills in memorable autobiographic pieces ranging from the comic to the confessional. The ……続きを見る

Thirty major contemporary writers examine life in a deeply divided New York In a city where the top one percent earns more than a half-million dollars per year while twenty-five thousand children ar……続きを見る

The writing in the unraveling scroll "The natural jungle has but disappeared" is an early environmental-global warming poem (1987) that later became the drive force for the painting 'The Car Commerc……続きを見る

Eine Tochter spricht von Veränderung und Enttäuschung, vom Traum ihrer Eltern, von DEM einen Theater. Das Berliner Ensemble, gegründet 1949 von Bertolt Brecht und seiner Frau Helene Weigel, war und ……続きを見る

If ever a writer needed an introduction Arthur Conan Doyle would not be considered that man. After all, Sherlock Holmes is perhaps the foremost literary detective of any age. Add to this canon his s……続きを見る

Encounters with Beatles. The Hamptons’ fabulous, beautiful, and absurd. Meditations on the unique natural beauty of the South Fork. The good old days before Montauk was overrun with hipsters. And he……続きを見る

Seit Frisch und Dürrenmatt hat vielleicht kein Schweizer Schriftsteller mehr solche öffentliche Wirkung gezeitigt wie Lukas Bärfuss. Wenn Lukas Bärfuss über die großen Begriffe nachdenkt: Freiheit, ……続きを見る

Quel lecteur du Seigneur des Anneaux n’a pas déjà songé à marcher dans les pas de Bilbon, de Frodon ou de Tom Bombadil sur les chemins de l’aimable pays des Hobbits ? Souvent traversée et quittée en……続きを見る

From the Introduction- What really lasts? What remains of all our thoughts and efforts? What, more than anything else, do we hope and pray and wish with all our heart to always remember? And what do……続きを見る

This anthology consists of articles on Sri Lankan literary works written (with a few exceptions) in English. For the benefit of non-Sri Lankan readers, something of the necessary historical, politic……続きを見る

The lower Mississippi River winds past the City of New Orleans between enormous levees and a rim of sand, mud, and trees called "the batture." On this remote and ignored piece of land thri……続きを見る

Spike Gillespie tells it like it is. Whether she's writing about men, mothering or money, she cuts to the chase, unabashedly recounting the exhilaration and uncertainty she is forever encountering a……続きを見る

Angola to Zydeco: Louisiana Lives is a collection of creative nonfiction pieces about the lively personalities who call south Louisiana home. Originally published in newspapers based in Lafayette-Ti……続きを見る

Bestselling and Thurber Prize–winning humorist David Rakoff was one of the most original, delightfully acerbic voices of his generation. Here, in one place, is the best of his previously uncollected……続きを見る

The poetry and prose collected in Plainwater are a testament to the extraordinary imagination of Anne Carson, a writer described by Michael Ondaatje as "the most exciting poet writing in English tod……続きを見る

Das Yoga Orakel besteht aus 180 Zahlen. Du kannst einen Zufallsgenerator im Internet anklicken (1 bis 180 einfügen) und auf Generieren klicken. Lege das Yoga Orakel immer nach den Grundsätzen Wahrhe……続きを見る

Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) was one of the most well known writers of the 20th century, chiefly remembered for his celebration of British imperialism, tales and poems of British soldiers in India, a……続きを見る

A brief look into a mans viewpoint of relationships and dating. 続きを見る

Los tiempos y lugares tan particulares en que se desarrolló el llamado "Movimiento de Oxford" torna difícil su cabal comprehensión. Aquí el esfuerzo de hacerlo inteligible para cualquier burro. Hast……続きを見る

A humorous essay on time, the election and possible catastrophic occurrences. Scientists, living and dead are quoted. Hawking, Einstein, Kepler, Darwin, Maunder, Heisenberg, Subrahmanyan Chandrasekh……続きを見る