Leaves of Grass: The Death-Bed Edition (with an Introduction by John Burroughs), Paperback - Walt Whitman Former Owner

In response to Ralph Waldo Emerson's call for the United States to have its own unique poetic voice, Walt Whitman rose to the challenge to create w...

In 1855, Walt Whitman published -- at his own expense -- the first edition of Leaves of Grass, a visionary volume of twelve poems. Showing the infl...

Reducere. Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman. Leaves of Grass is a poetry collection by the American poet Walt Whitman (1819-1892). Although the first edition w...

DescriptionIn 1855, an unknown but wildly ambitious young poet self-published the first edition of Leaves of Grass, consisting of twelve untitled p...

Ralph Waldo Emerson issued a call for a great poet to capture and immortalize the unique American experience. In 1855, an answer came with Leaves o...

Reducere. Resist much, obey littleThe Complete PoemsA work in progress through over four decades, Leaves of Grass contains poetry that spans the human elemen...

DescriptionThe poems of Leaves of Grass are loosely connected, with each representing Whitman's celebration of his philosophy of life and humanity....

Whitman is today regarded as America's Homer or Dante, and his work the touchstone for literary originality in the New World. In Leaves of Grass, h...

A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for Whitman's Leaves of Grass, a novel of poems that has become a c...

Reducere. This unabridged edition of Leaves of Grass presents the original 1855 versions and limited formatting of Whitman's most famous poems, including "So...

Walt Whitman was a poetic Visionary. He published the first edition of this monumental work in 1855 and began his magnum opus with the words, "Amer...

Whitman's most transcendental, life-affirming and poignant poems, demonstrating his direct and unembellished style. A }Macmillan Collector's Librar...

The iconic American poet's pioneering and influential expression of presence, enthusiasm and attention, first published in 1855, is brought out in ...

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A timeless collection of hundreds of poems that resonate to the American spirit. Leaves of Grass is a timeless collection of poems and essays penne...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Walt WhitmanEditor: Michael MoonWhile continuing to provide leading commentary on Whitman by major twentieth-century poets ...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: SophoclesTranslator: E. H. PlumptreIntroduction by: John William WhiteThe second Theban play written by Sophocles, "Oedipus...

First published in 1842, "Dead Souls" is the story of Chichikov, a young middle-class gentleman who comes to a small town in Russia with a dubious ...

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Reducere. The Praise Of Folly: Translated By John Wilson With An Introduction By Mrs. P. S. Allen This book is a result of an effort made by us towards makin...

All you need to do is take your Soma pills. Discover the brave new world of Aldous Huxley's classic novel, written in 1932, which prophesied a soci...

Reducere. DescriptionFirst published serially from 1847 to 1848, "Vanity Fair" is William Makepeace Thackeray's most famous work in which the author reflects...

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The Autobiography Manuscript of Major Amos Stoddard is part biography, and part autobiography. It is the story of the life and times of Major Amos ...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Carol EdgarianAn international bestseller, now available in this twentieth-anniversary revised edition, Rise the Euphrates ...

Reducere. One of the most creative and individual poets America has produced, Walt Whitman was also a prolific diarist, note-taker, and essayist whose intima...

Reducere. Mark Doty has always felt haunted by Walt Whitman's bold, perennially new American voice, and by his equally radical claims about body and soul and...

Reducere. English poet John Milton's 17th century epic poem, "Paradise Lost, " is the work for which he is best known and which would solidify his reputation...

"Walt Whitman's verse gave the poetry of America a distinctive national voice. It reflects the unique vitality of the new nation, the vastness of t...

Reducere. With the first publication of "Leaves of Grass" in 1855, Walt Whitman was solidified as an American poet of undeniable importance. The poems contai...

A classic in the field of political economy, reissued here with a new, incisive introduction. The global financial crisis that Strange predicted in...

A classic in the field of political economy, reissued here with a new, incisive introduction. The global financial crisis that Strange predicted in...

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"Antigone, " the first Theban play written by Sophocles yet chronologically last in the cycle, is a masterpiece of classical antiquity which examin...

Reducere. DescriptionWritten in 1759 by Scottish philosopher and political economist Adam Smith, "The Theory of Moral Sentiments" provides much of the founda...

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY GILES FODENLondon is under threat. Frequent bomb threats and disturbances interrupt the lives of the city's inhabitants, wh...

Reducere. Jack London's 1904 novel "The Sea Wolf" is the story of Humphrey van Weyden, an effete gentleman who finds himself shipwrecked when the San Francis...

A kind of Trigger Happy correspondence, his innocent requests, queries, complaints, demands and suggestions to hotels, airlines, multi-national cor...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: William ShakespeareOther: Henry N. HudsonIntroduction by: Charles Harold HerfordConsidered by many as Shakespeare's masterp...

The three short novels in this collection, The Scorpion God, show Golding at his playful, ironic and mysterious best. And 'Envoy Extraordinary' is ...

Fame, success, fortune, a drink problem slipping over the edge into alcoholism, a dead marriage, the incurable itches of middle-aged lust. For Wilf...

A tightly constructed drama which is regarded as one of the William Shakespeare's finest; "Othello" is the story of its titular character, a Mooris...

Publisher: Vintage PublishingAuthor(s): Bryan TalbotNumber of pages: 240Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 217 x 306 x 26Cover type: HardbackRedesco...

The beloved cult classic from the winner of the 2020 Goldsmiths Prize: a novel of life-changing moments, incredible descriptions of landscape and t...

'Readers who've not yet read Jane Bowles are almost to be envied, like people who've still to read Austen or Mansfield or Woolf' ALI SMITH Seven sh...