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Francis Bacon (1561-1626), scientist, lawyer, and statesman, occupies a unique position in English letters. His most wid......more

The Unknown Shore

The Unknown Shore

The Wager was parted from Anson s squadron in the fierce storms off Cape Horn and struggled alone up the coast of Chile ......more

The Endings of Epochs

The Endings of Epochs

  • Ingram,出版日期:1995-11-17

Essays exploring the treatment of the ends of epochs, from the sixteenth century to the present day. In these specially ......more

Labyrinths -Cp

Labyrinths -Cp

Ten essays on issues in philosophy, literary theory and intellectual history. The question of radical imperialism of the......more

Violence and Mediation Contemp Cul

Violence and Mediation Contemp Cul

This collection of essays addresses two major issues of contemporary culture: the problem of violence in relation to not......more

The Conquest of Time

The Conquest of Time

In this superb little book, written during World War II, historian, sociologist, and novelist H.G. Wells (1866-1946) con......more

Pensees

Pensees

’If we submit everything to reason our religion will be left with nothing mysterious or supernatural’ Blaise Pascal, the......more

Essays on Medieval Music: In Honor of David G. Hughes

Essays on Medieval Music: In Honor of David G. Hughes

This collection of essays presents a broad spectrum of current research that will interest students of medieval music, h......more

Montaigne: The Fool of the Farce

Montaigne: The Fool of the Farce

Pierre Leschemelle’s third book of criticism of Montaigne is clearly a synthesis of his many years of reading, writing a......more

Literature and the Supernatural: Essays for the Maynooth Bicentenary

Literature and the Supernatural: Essays for the Maynooth Bicentenary

NOTE Special Title: First Edition This text is an interesting look at the supernatural in literature through a series of......more

The New World Border: Prophecies, Poems & Loqueras for the End of the Century

The New World Border: Prophecies, Poems & Loqueras for the End of the Century

The New World Border is a carnivalesque inversion of ethnic and geo-political ideology, a disorienting free-fall into th......more

Fables and Distances: New and Selected Essays

Fables and Distances: New and Selected Essays

Fables and Distances showcases the full spectrum of the genius of John Haines. Through essays and letters, he reflects o......more

The Emerson Effect: Individualism and Submission in America

The Emerson Effect: Individualism and Submission in America

This book presents a revisionist account of Ralph Waldo Emerson’s influential thought on individualism, in particular hi......more

The Second John McPhee Reader

The Second John McPhee Reader

This second volume of The John McPhee Reader includes material from his eleven books published since 1975, including Com......more

Structures of Power: Essays on Twentieth-Century Spanish-American Fiction

Structures of Power: Essays on Twentieth-Century Spanish-American Fiction

  • Ingram,出版日期:1996-02-22

Explores the many faces of power as revealed in twentieth-century Spanish-American fiction. The many faces of power--pol......more

Giving Offense: Essays on Censorship

Giving Offense: Essays on Censorship

Winner of the 2003 Nobel Prize in Literature. J. M. Coetzee presents a coherent, unorthodox analysis of censorship from ......more

Minutes of the Lead Pencil Club: Pulling the Plug on the Electronic Revolution

Minutes of the Lead Pencil Club: Pulling the Plug on the Electronic Revolution

Have you just junked your most recent, instantly obsolete, computer? Are you thinking of buying your first computer? Do ......more

Never in a Hurry: Essays on People and Places

Never in a Hurry: Essays on People and Places

Potluck suppers with could-be relatives, junkets to exotic locales, and the importance of strangers in our lives In Neve......more

Field of Vision

Field of Vision

In this contemplative collection of essays, Lisa Knopp moves out from the prairies of Nebraska and Iowa to encompass a f......more

Tango on the Main

Tango on the Main

The National Newspaper Award judges said of these award-winning columns: Joe Fiorito of the Montreal Gazette regularly p......more

Afloat

Afloat

There are few great books about sailing on pleasure boats, but this is one of them. This is the story of Maupassant s vo......more

Shooting the Works: On Poetry and Pictures

Shooting the Works: On Poetry and Pictures

W. S. Di Piero is one of the most capable and wide-ranging poet-critics of his generation. His essays are contemplative,......more

The Professions of Authorship: Essays in Honor of Matthew J. Bruccoli

The Professions of Authorship: Essays in Honor of Matthew J. Bruccoli

A tribute to Matthew J, Bruccoli, the man whose life s work has centred on the study of authorship, this text examines t......more

The Miss Dennis School of Writing: And Other Lessons from a Woman’s Life

The Miss Dennis School of Writing: And Other Lessons from a Woman’s Life

In this collection of her essays and columns, Pulitzer Prize-winning Baltimore Sun journalist Steinbach seeks to "rescue......more

Age and Guile Beat Youth, Innocence, and a Bad Haircut

Age and Guile Beat Youth, Innocence, and a Bad Haircut

Readers may be shocked to discover that America’s most provocative (and conservative) satirist, P. J. O’Rourke, was at o......more

Paradise & Method: Poetry & Praxis

Paradise & Method: Poetry & Praxis

Paradise & Method: Poetics and Praxis collects nearly two decades of work on poetics by one of the pioneers of the "lang......more

Rabindranath Tagore and Modern Sensibility

Rabindranath Tagore and Modern Sensibility

This collection of essays records a common reader’s changing perceptions to the literary achievement of Rabindranath Tag......more

Gertrude Stein’s America

Gertrude Stein’s America

She wrote, too, about Americans she met in France, the writers and artists who flocked there in the twenties and early t......more

Machine Art and Other Writings: The Lost Thought of the Italian Years

Machine Art and Other Writings: The Lost Thought of the Italian Years

Machine Art and Other Writings presents previously unpublished and rare writings by one of the literary giants of the mo......more

High Tide in Tucson: Essays from Now or Never

High Tide in Tucson: Essays from Now or Never

"Clever. . . magical. . . beautifully crafted. Kingsolver spins you around the philosophic world a dozen times." -- Milw......more

Tolstoy’s Dictaphone: Technology and the Muse

Tolstoy’s Dictaphone: Technology and the Muse

When the great Russian writer Tolstoy was first offered the use of a brand new invention called the Dictaphone, he refus......more

Writing Montana: Literature Under the Big Sky

Writing Montana: Literature Under the Big Sky

Wide-ranging collection of twenty-seven essays analyzes, argues with, and celebrates that unruly tradition of Montana wr......more

In Italics: In Defense of Ethnicity

In Italics: In Defense of Ethnicity

This collection of essays is a polemical and unblushing defense for the individual s right to a collective Imagery. Thou......more

Tyranny of the Normal: Essays on Bioethics, Theology & Myth

Tyranny of the Normal: Essays on Bioethics, Theology & Myth

Bound Together By the common thread of bioethics, these essays encompass such issues as abortion, the removal of life su......more

Bernard Shaw and Gabriel Pascal

Bernard Shaw and Gabriel Pascal

After movie-makers in England bungled film versions of Bernard Shaw s How He Lied to Her Husband and Arms and the Man, ......more

The Jazz Age

The Jazz Age

Even theAmerican Heritage Dictionary acknowledges that F. Scott Fitzgerald "epitomized the Jazz Age." And nowhere among ......more

Paul Metcalf: Collected Works, 1956-1976

Paul Metcalf: Collected Works, 1956-1976

The first of three comprehensive volumes to present the lifetime work of Paul Metcalf, one of the Black Mountain Writers......more

The Correspondence of Northrop Frye and Helen Kemp, 1932-1939: 1932-1935

The Correspondence of Northrop Frye and Helen Kemp, 1932-1939: 1932-1935

Robert D. Denham has collected in these volumes the 266 letters, cards, and telegrams that Helen Kemp and Northrop Frye ......more

The Correspondence of Northrop Frye and Helen Kemp, 1932-1939: 1936-1939

The Correspondence of Northrop Frye and Helen Kemp, 1932-1939: 1936-1939

Robert D. Denham has collected in these volumes the 266 letters, cards, and telegrams that Helen Kemp and Northrop Frye ......more

Holy Men and Holy Women: Old English Prose Saints’ Lives and Their Contexts

Holy Men and Holy Women: Old English Prose Saints’ Lives and Their Contexts

Paul E. Szarmach is Director of the Medieval Institute at Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo. He is the editor of ......more

The Oxford Book of Letters

The Oxford Book of Letters

  • Ingram,出版日期:1996-10-17

Reading other people’s letters, like reading private diaries, offers thrilling and unexpected glimpses into the lives of......more

Private Correspondences

Private Correspondences

Libby is a politician s daughter maturing amidst barely sublimated violence, sexuality, and corruption. Her tangled emot......more

Henry Handel Richardson Vol 3: 1934-1946

Henry Handel Richardson Vol 3: 1934-1946

The publication of Henry Handel Richardson s correspondence is a major event in Australian scholarly publishing. There a......more

Selected Cronicas

Selected Cronicas

"In 1967, Brazil’s leading newspaper asked the avant-garde writer Lispector to write a weekly column on any topic she wi......more

The Literary Genres of Edmund Burke: The Political Uses of Literary Form

The Literary Genres of Edmund Burke: The Political Uses of Literary Form

This study brings a literary perspective to bear upon Edmund Burke’s political writings. De Bruyn recontextualizes Burke......more

Twelve Miles from a Lemon: Selected Writings of Sydney Smith

Twelve Miles from a Lemon: Selected Writings of Sydney Smith

A stimulating and enticing selection of the writings and witticisms of the early 19th century liberal cleric and founder......more

Minutes of the Lead Pencil Club: Second Thoughts on the Electronic Revolution

Minutes of the Lead Pencil Club: Second Thoughts on the Electronic Revolution

Have you just junked your most recent, instantly obsolete, computer? Are you thinking of buying your first computer? Do ......more

The History of Rain

The History of Rain

Poetry. There are six poems in this book by a poet who claims his ambition is to write but a dozen poems in his life. C......more

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