Selected Writings

Thanks to Boswell's monumental biography of Samuel Johnson, we remember Dr. Johnson today as a great wit and conversationalist, the rationalist epi...

This is the only general anthology of Ruskin's writing currently available.Growing status of Ruskin as a major Victorian writer; his centenary in 2...

Reducere. These classic translations of Montaigne are presented with the authoritative French text on facing pages and provide an introduction and extensive ...

Reducere. Available for the first time in an English translation, this selection gives non-Francophone readers the chance to encounter the many incarnations ...

The key writings of the explorer and scientist, studying South and Central American history, denouncing slavery, and other ideas pioneering in cont...

This volume in the 21st Century Oxford Authors series offers students an authoritative, comprehensive selection of the work of Thomas Hardy (1840-1...

John Ruskin was the most powerful and influential art critic and social commentator of the Victorian nineteenth century. A true polymath, he wrote ...

A gorgeous anthology of poetry, fiction and essays about friendship from your favorite classic authors.Editor(s): Michele Mendelssohn

A gorgeous anthology of poetry, fiction and essays about food from your favorite classic authors.Editor(s): Annie Gray

This volume in the 21st-Century Oxford Authors series offers students an authoritative, comprehensive selection of the work of John Keats (1795-182...

Simplicity in forms of worship, opposition to violence, and the importance of compassionate living and thoughtful listening are hallmarks of the sp...

Reducere. This selection from over a dozen books covers the spirituality of the desert, Carretto's reflections on God, the church, prayer, engagement with th...

A gorgeous anthology of poetry, fiction and essays about solitude from your favorite classic authors.Editor(s): Zachary Seager

Reducere. Selected Writings of Gertrude Stein, Paperback

This volume in the 21st-Century Oxford Authors series offers students an authoritative, comprehensive selection of the work of Algernon Charles Swi...

Publisher: New Directions Publishing CorporationAuthor(s): Guillaume ApollinaireTranslator: Roger ShattuckNumber of pages: 284Publication date: 198...

Robin Murray (1940-2017) was a radical economist whose work spanned fair trade, industrial strategy and technological change. This special collecti...

The first entirely new translation of Galileo's major writings for more than fifty years, this marvelous volume includes selections from all of his...

William Hazlitt (1778-1830) developed a variety of identities as a writer: essayist, philosopher, critic of literature, drama and art, biographer, ...

A sparkling and up-to-date new cover for one of Fontana Press's strongest-selling titles.

Reducere. Excerpts from the novels, plays, and poems of the French convict, prostitute, and literary artist join notes from his film, The Penal Colony, lette...

In these writings, available here in English for the first time, the distinguished Japanese composer Toru Takemitsu reflects on his contemporaries,...

A writer who defies categorization, Daniil Kharms has come to be regarded as an essential artist of the modernist avant-garde. This selection of pr...

In this edition of Ernst-Wolfgang Boeckenfoerde's definitive work in constitutionalism, law and politics, readers have access to the legal discours...

Reducere. Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Reducere. A new translation of the influential teachings of the great Stoic philosopher DESPITE BEING BORN into slavery, Greco-Roman philosopher Epictetus be...

"Artaud remains one of the significant and influential theorists of modern theatre."--Gerald Rabkin, Rutgers University

Reducere. Hubert Crackanthorpe (1870-1896) made a critically significant contribution to the evolution of the modernist short story in Britain. His unexplain...

Publisher: Hackett Publishing Co, IncAuthor(s): Heinrich Von KleistNumber of pages: 480Publication date: 2004Dimensions: 218 x 142 x 25Cover type: ...

Anna Freud was one of the most creative and innovative thinkers in the history of psychoanalysis, whose pioneering work in child analysis and devel...

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Reducere. Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Reducere. The Pope Emeritus is starting to speak again, and has decided to make available this collection of his homilies, most previously unpublished, in wh...

Reducere. Thomas More is perhaps most familiar to us from his courageous struggle with Henry VIII, unforgettably portrayed in Robert Bolt's classic, A Man fo...

Reducere. Here is an essential collection of essays and speeches from 1889 to 1933, long unavailable in the United States, on women's equality, labor, peace ...

Publisher: UCL PressIllustration(s): Halftones, black and white; Halftones, colorPublication date: 2022Dimensions: 155 x 233 x 36Cover type: Paperb...

Reducere. An absorbing look at the early beginnings of one of America's finest writers, The Mortgaged Heart is an important collection of Carson McCullers's ...

This volume ranges from studies of Baudelaire, Brecht, and the historian Carl Jochmann to appraisals of photography, film, and poetry. At their cor...

A classic collection of critical essays, poems, and letters from one of the greatest minds of nineteenth-century America.

One of the most important and controversial figures in the history of race relations in America and the world at large, Marcus Garvey was the first...

In Praise of Nahum Tate covers a wide range of reading experiences including poetry, short stories, reviews and politics. It features an eclectic p...

Reducere. DescriptionJim Corbett, ace hunter and inimitable raconteur, was also a gifted observer, not just of the jungle but also of the people around him. ...

The list of translators for this volume is distinguished. Among them are Lionel Abel, L onie Adams, Malcolm Cowly, James Kirkup, C. Day Lewis, Jack...

Reducere. 'People do not understand German, but I will not write for them in journalese ...' Karl Kraus (1874-1936) ranks as one the greatest twentieth-centu...

Essays and conversations from the unclassifiable American advocate for surrealism and predecessor of pop art, William N. CopleyFor readers interest...

A new collection of key texts from a leading critic of modern art

This collection enables the reader to engage with the full range of Georg Simmel's dazzling contributions to the study of culture. It opens with hi...

Discusses works by great painters such as Delacroix and Ingres. This title features writings on Poe, Flaubert and Gautier.

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers IncAuthor(s): E (Ed) GriffinNumber of pages: 160Publication date: 2017Dimensions: 136 x 203 x 12Cover type: Pap...

Reducere. Curtis Wilson was a revered tutor and two-time dean at St. John's College in Annapolis for over fifty years. He was also an eminent historian of sc...

Reducere. In the course of making nearly 400 films over the past 50 years, "Stan Brakhage" became synonymous with independent American filmmaking, particular...

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Reducere. Kathy Acker pushed literary boundaries with a vigor and creative fire that made her one of America's preeminent experimental writers and her books ...

This collection of Stuart Hall's key writings on Marxism surveys the formative questions central to his interpretations of and investments in Marxi...

Hildegard, the "Sybil of the Rhine, " was a Benedictine nun and one of the most prolific and original women writers of the Middle Ages. Arranged th...

Reducere. DescriptionThe philosophical writings of Lady Mary Shepherd (1777-1847) reveal an astute and lively intellect. In An Essay upon the Relation of Cau...

Radical critic of a European civilization plunging into darkness, yet commemorator of the humane traditions of the old bourgeoisie--such was Walter...

Featuring the works from Marx's enormous corpus, this title covers Marx's development from the Hegelian idealism of his youth to the mature sociali...

Including articles, essays, letters, broadcasts and interviews, some previously unpublished, this volume brings together more than seventy written ...

Reducere. Throughout his career Stuart Hall engaged with Marxism in varying ways, actively rethinking it to address the political and cultural exigencies of ...

Reducere. This first major collection of former Los Angeles Times reporter and columnist Ruben Salazar's writings, is a testament to his pioneering role in t...

Providing a selection of Marx's writings, this book includes extracts from the whole range of Marx's most important pieces. It also includes a bibl...

Over the course of his distinguished career, Robert Hughes wrote with brutal honesty about art, architecture, culture, religion--and himself. The S...

The first book-length study of this influential artist's work, focusing on the participatory role of the human subject rather than the art object.M...

Publisher: Lawrence & Wishart LtdAuthor(s): Doreen MasseyNumber of pages: 248Collection: Selected Writings SeriesPublication date: 2022Dimensions: ...

Reducere. indispensable for most libraries. Library Journal Maximus the Confessor: Selected Writings translation and notes by George C. Berthold introduction...

Reducere. Nikola Tesla's accomplishments are today still underrated. While Edison is credited with being the inventor of the light bulb, it is Tesla's altern...

Reducere. "We continue to live within the intellectual shadow cast by Nietzsche." --New York Times Book Review Best known for his seminal works on religion, ...

Reducere. The spirituality of St. Dominic and his early followers was a dynamic force in thirteenth-century Europe. In this volume the writings of Dominic's ...

Writings by the conceptual artist Michael Asher-including notes, proposals, exhibition statements, and letters to curators and critics-most publish...