In his speech at the annual banquet of the Royal Academy in 1894, among many other good things, Mr. Andrew Lang said: "T......more
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Charles Olson (1910-1970), described by William Carlos Williams as "a major poet with a sweep of understanding of the wo......more
This bold and brilliant collection is a must for all readers, writers, and students of American literature When she died......more
This is the record of one of the most interesting personal relationships of modern literature. Between 1913, when Yeats ......more
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827), the protagonist of freedom for music, disentangled music from the control of the rulin......more
This selection of thoughts on religion, ethics, politics, women, suicide, books, and much more is taken from Schopenhaue......more
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Providing a series of fascinating views of Imperial Rome, The Letters of the Younger Pliny also offer one of the fullest......more
Writings through James Joyce’s Finnegan’s Wake, Norman O. Brown, and "The Future of Music."...more
Also known as the Lettres anglaises ou philosophiques, Voltaire s response to his exile in England offered the French pu......more
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America s physical and cultural landscape is captured in these two classics of American history. Letters provides an inv......more
The philosophy of La Rochefoucauld, which influenced French intellectuals as diverse as Voltaire and the Jansenists, is ......more
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Describes the social and intellectual life of seventeenth-century France, including gossip about the court of King Louis......more
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Shadow on a Tightrope is the first anthology to come out of the fat liberation movement. This classic collection include......more
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Collects some of the works of John Ruskin, in which he argues against industrialization and reveals his strong belief th......more
Discusses truth, death, revenge, adversity, envy, marriage, love, goodness, superstition, friendship, ambition, aging, b......more
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Elizabeth and Ivy is the fascinating memoir and collection of letters from Robert Liddell. Liddell met both Ivy Compton-......more
During the past several years, Eliot Weinberger’s inventive prose has earned him a reputation as a candid social observe......more
Readers of the poetry and fiction of Delmore Schwartz (1913-66) are familiar with his penetrating psychology and his phi......more
World Outside the Window: The Selected Essays of Kenneth Rexroth brings together twenty-seven essays written over a peri......more
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One of the most important nineteenth-century schools of thought, Utilitarianism propounds the view that the value or rig......more
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"Nothing could be more spontaneous and ebullient than Chopin’s letters." -- Books "Perhaps no composer’s letters are so ......more
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Essays discuss weddings, mathematics, coffee, umbrellas, teachers, newspapers, architecture, the caste system, and India...more
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The intimacy between Nin and Miller, first disclosed in Henry and June, is documented further in this impassioned exchan......more
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With the publication of these letters, readers gain rare access to the hearts and minds of two men searching earnestly f......more
The essays in this collection were written as reviews, mainly for The New York Review of Books and The New Yorker, on bo......more
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Through his work as a fiction writer, critic and activist, Fred Pfeil has sought to extend the progressive possibilities......more
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These translations of letters home by nine Norwegian immigrants detail their perception of America and their adjustment ......more
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Columbus letters and other documents record his journeys to America...more