The Best American Essays of the Century, Paperback

Reducere. DescriptionThe Cambridge Companion to Modern American Poetry comprises original essays by nineteen distinguished scholars. It offers a critical ove...

A dazzling anthology of essays by some of the best writers of the past quarter century--from Barry Lopez and Margo Jefferson to David Sedaris and S...

Reducere. DescriptionPaul Laurence Dunbar (1872 1906) overcame racism and poverty to become one of the best-known authors in America, and the first African A...

Reducere. From Rube to Robinson brings together the best Negro League baseball scholarship that the Society of American Baseball Research (SABR) has ever pro...

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPR • From the renowned author of “The Lottery” and The Haunting of Hill House, a spectacular new volume...

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

Reducere. The Cambridge Companion to Latin American Poetry provides historical context on the evolution of the Latin American poetic tradition from the sixte...

Best known for his radical land art of the 1960s and early 1970s, Robert Smithson (1938-1973) is now widely recognised as one of the most influenti...

Reducere. In fifteen essays, sigmund freud explains his most controversial theories exposing the darkest corners of the human psyche. Best known for his rese...

Reducere. In this lavishly illustrated biography of silversmith and graphic artist William Spratling (1900--1967), Taylor D. Littleton reintroduces one of th...

By embracing the full storytelling and archetypal potential of the American Southwest, Frank Waters wrote some of the finest literature of the 20th...

Reducere. Democracy in Print captures many of the most influential voices from a century of United States history who have spoken out on the struggle to make...

Reducere. A modern-day explorer's guide to the Old West From the famed Oregon Trail to the boardwalks of Dodge City to the great trading posts on the Missour...

Reducere. NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE GLOBE AND MAIL Norman Mailer was one of the towering figures of twentieth-century American letters a...

Reducere. The Broken Wings is a poetic novel written by Kahlil Gibran and first published in Arabic in 1912. It is a tale of tragic love, set in turn-of-the-...

The fundamental litmus test for American democracy-its economy, government, criminal justice system, education, mass media, and culture-remains: ho...