Throughout his life Flaubert made it a game to eavesdrop for the clich , the platitude, the borrowed and unquestioned id......more
Selected from the Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium, Seneca’s Letters from a Stoic are a set of ’essays in disguise’ from on......more
In his Introduction, Herschel Baker writes, "Although Romance, the dominant genre of secular literature throughout the l......more
For the great Roman orator and statesman Cicero, ’the good life’ was at once a life of contentment and one of moral virt......more
Welch s talk on his practice as a poet, plus his prose writings....more
Donald Allen, the late great editor of the Evergreen Review at Grove Press and editor of the seminal anthology The New A......more
This miniature presents a lively selection of Thoreau’s writings, topically arranged....more
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Rousseau s last great work, Reveries of the Solitary Walker is part reminiscence, part meditation, as the philosopher tr......more
The letters of Lew Welch and the correspondence of his friends....more
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Notes on Thought and Vision by Imagist poet H.D. (Hilda Doolittle) is an aphoristic meditation on how one works toward a......more
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Spanning fifty-four years, this collection record the creative growth of one of the twentieth century s most influential......more
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Tolstoy’s passionate and iconoclastic writings--on issues of faith, immortality, freedom, violence, and morality--reflec......more
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Kagero Nikki, translated here as The Gossamer Years, belongs to the same period as the celebrated Tale of Genji by Muras......more
From the author to the reader: Show-and-Tell was the very best part of school for me, both as a student and as a teacher......more
Unsupported Assertions is Hugh Hood s third book of essays, following The Governor s Bridge Is Closed (1973) and Trustin......more
In plays such as Isn’t It Romantic, Uncommon Women and Others, and the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Heidi Chronicles, Wend......more
Details the author s experiences after leaving the East coast to live on a 10-acre farm called La Junta in northern New ......more
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Essential reading exploring the wild terrain of personal and political change....more
From Soweto to Chicago, the Middle Passage to the Final Solution, from intimate letters to scathing parodies, Dreams in ......more
This book is the very simple story of the love affair between Miss Helene Hanff of New York and Messrs Marks and Co, sel......more
Uh-oh embraces Here we go again and Now What? and You never can tell what s going to happen next and So much for......more
Born in 1875, the great German lyric poet Rainer Maria Rilke published his first collection of poems in 1898 and went on......more
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This is the third collection of essays by the doyen of American essayists, author of Person and Institution (1970) and T......more
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This double volume of poems is the first U.S. publication of one of the most important and exciting contemporary English......more
THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER I once began a list of the contradictory notions I hold: Look before you leap. He who hesi......more
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I should not talk so much about myself if there were anybody else whom I knew as well Eschewing a conventional residence......more
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This work is a new printing of a guide and history of W.B. Yeats tower, Thoor Ballylee. It includes skethes by Lady Gre......more
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Jerzy Kosinski is one of the most important and original writers of our times. Passing By serves as his legacy, a collec......more
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’If we submit everything to reason our religion will be left with nothing mysterious or supernatural’ Blaise Pascal, the......more
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