Writers' Letters

Reducere. LINDA KING, a young, beautiful poet and sculptor lived in Los Angeles during the 1970's at the beginning of the Women's Liberation movement. She me...

Reducere. The Beat Generation freed American arts and letters from the ivy-covered shackles of academia. The names of its primary figures are familiar as old...

Reducere. This is the second annual edition of the Long List Anthology. Every year, supporting members of WorldCon nominate their favorite stories first publ...

Reducere. Essays and occasional writings from one of literature's iconic voices Samuel R. Delany is an acclaimed writer of literary theory, queer literature,...

I want to change. I need to change. I'm gradually losing touch with myself. Adultery, the provocative new novel by Paulo Coelho, best-selling autho...

Reducere. America is at a crossroads. Conflicting political and social perspectives reflect a need to collectively define our moral imperatives, clarify cult...

Reducere. "Books and reality and art are the same kind of thing for me." One of the most famous artists in history, Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890) was also a m...

Reducere. Darkness Spoken gathers together Ingeborg Bachmann's two celebrated books of poetry, as well as early and late poems not collected in book form, ov...

Reducere. The first Asian writer to win the Nobel Prize for Literature, Rabindranath Tagore mesmerized the world with his spiritual insights and finely wroug...

Reducere. DescriptionFrom a master of contemporary fiction, a tale of bohemian youth on the make in Mexico City Two young poets, Jan and Remo, find themselve...

Reducere. " I mean to live and die by my own mind, " Zora Neale Hurston told the writer Countee Cullen. Arriving in Harlem in 1925 with little more than a do...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Henry Louis GatesIn 1773, the slave Phillis Wheatley literally wrote her way to freedom. The first person of African descen...

An unlikely bookseller in New York City became the leading dealer in rare Western Americana for most of the twentieth century. After working in wes...

A New York Times Book Review Editors' ChoiceAn immersive account of the New Deal project that created state-by-state guidebooks to America, in the ...

Reducere. Hollywood historian and film reviewer Leonard Maltin invites readers to pull up a chair and listen as he tells stories, many of them hilarious, of ...

Designed for educators by the teacher who nurtured and created the Freedom Writers, this standards-based teachers' guide includes innovative teachi...

From the author of the Buru Quartet and one of the greatest writers of our time comes a remarkable memoir of imprisonment and survival. In 1965, Pr...

Reducere. Explore the Captivating History of Gilgamesh the King and the Epic of GilgameshRarely does a name survive as many millennia as Gilgamesh has. World...

Reducere. An unprecedented gathering of the correspondence of one of the great writers of twentieth century, the Collected Letters of Flann O'Brien presents ...

Reducere. C. S. Lewis and the Art of Writing is written for readers interested in C. S. Lewis, the writing life, and in becoming better writers. Lewis stands...

Reducere. A rare glimpse of a young C. S. Lewis. Spirits in Bondage reveals the earliest published thoughts of C. S. Lewis. However, we find an unfamiliar Le...

DescriptionMichael Doran has gathered texts by contemporaries of Paul C zanne (1839-1906)-including artists, critics, and writers-that illuminate t...

Reducere. DescriptionContributions by Emily Anderson, Elif S. Armbruster, Jenna Brack, Christine Cooper-Rompato, Christiane E. Farnan, Melanie J. Fishbane, V...

Reducere. Only one hundred years ago, in even the world's wealthiest nations, children died in great numbers--of diarrhea, diphtheria, and measles, of scarle...

Reducere. For many people, Urdu is indelibly associated with a bygone era: the cultural renaissance of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries in the face of...

Reducere. DescriptionBarbara Crooker's eighth book of poetry, The Book of Kells, focuses on the illuminated medieval manuscript with a series of meditations ...

Reducere. Description"This girl is a real novelist, " wrote Caroline Gordon about Flannery O'Connor upon being asked to review a manuscript of O'Connor's fir...

This is a unique collaboration between a historian and four ordinary women who were extraordinary letters-writers, family photographers and memoiri...

Reducere. This small volume brings together a number of Guenon's early articles relating to Sufism (tasawwuf), or Islamic esoterism. A later article, 'Islami...

Reducere. Iris Murdoch was an acclaimed novelist and groundbreaking philosopher whose life reflected her unconventional beliefs and values. But what has been...

This introductory study helps to set the Georgians in their original context, and revises the critical balance in favour of three lesser known writ...

Reducere. Explore twenty-four imaginative tales crafted by some of today's best writers of science fiction and fantasy, all guests on Aurora Award-winning po...

Reducere. A fascinating exploration of three individuals in fin-de-si cle France who pushed the boundaries of gender identity. Before the term "transgender" ...

Reducere. Edith Södergran's vital, compelling and very personal poems have been translated into many languages, and several times into English. Written for t...

The fictitious, highly literary Letters of Alciphron (second century CE) are mostly to invented characters. Letters of Farmers by Aelian (c. 170-23...

Reducere. Katherine Mansfield (1888-1923) published three collections of short stories -- In a German Pension, Bliss, and The Garden Party -- during her trag...

This is the first general book on Greek and Latin letter-writing in Late Antiquity (400300-600 CE). Allen and Neil examine early Christian Greek an...

Reducere. This collection of ninety-six stories was first published in 1953 and presents the best of Erskine Caldwell's short fiction from his most productiv...

Reducere. In September, 1922, the internationally known British writer D. H. Lawrence arrived with his wife, Frieda, at the railroad station in Lamy, New Mex...

Reducere. For nearly a century, Japanese writers gave voice to the anxieties of a nation headed inexorably toward war. Not just any war, but one that in the ...

Reducere. As the modern celebration of Christmas took shape across the nineteenth century, American writers gave it new meaning in the pages of countless boo...

Reducere. In his short life (1865-1921), Mikhah Yosef Berdichevsky was a versatile and influential man of letters: an innovative Hebrew prose stylist; a coll...

Reducere. Phyllis Cole Braunlich sketches the life story of Lynn Riggs (18991954), the playwright best known as the author of Green Grow the Lilacs, the play...

Reducere. This is a phrase-by-phrase commentary and exposition of the New Testament books of 1 & 2 Thessalonians. This commentary is in use as a college text...

In addition to a broad selection of the poems, the volume includes over 100 images (16 in color), emphasizing the centrality of pictorial represent...

Reducere. One of the most important Christian books of the 20th century, C.S. Lewis's classic, Mere Christianity, is now available in a beautiful keepsake ed...

Reducere. Travel back in time and witness both everyday life and great moments in history in this fascinating compilation of diaries through the ages. Bringi...

One of the towering figures of world literature, Goethe has never held quite as prominent a place in the English-speaking world as he deserves. Thi...

Reducere. In September, 1922, the internationally known British writer D. H. Lawrence arrived with his wife, Frieda, at the railroad station in Lamy, New Mex...

Reducere. The publication of the complete extant correspondence of H. P. Lovecraft and Clark Ashton Smith is a landmark in the study of weird fiction. These ...

Reducere. Type is the bridge between writer and reader, between thought and understanding. Type is the message bearer: an art-form that impinges upon every l...

Reducere. In this book, Jaime Harker uncovers a largely forgotten literary renaissance in southern letters. Anchored by a constellation of southern women, th...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: H. P. LovecraftAuthor: Robert E. HowardEditor: S. T. JoshiH. P. Lovecraft and Robert E. Howard are two of the titans of wei...

Reducere. Awarded the Silver Medal by the Military Writers Society of America - Sent into the deadly Central Highlands of Vietnam, the true story of my dad a...

Reducere. It is safe to say that Donald Wandrei (1908-1987) was one of Lovecraft's leading correspondents. In 1924 Wandrei came in touch with his literary id...

With fresh insight and contemporary relevance, Radium of the Word argues that a study of the form of language yields meanings otherwise inaccessibl...

Reducere. DescriptionThis Armenian language textbook is one-of-its kind, innovative tool for everyone who wants to learn Armenian from A to Z. It is easy, fu...

An essential collection of unabridged correspondence from one of the defining writers of the 20th century, it provides an intimate and candid insig...

Reducere. Clark Ashton Smith came in touch with August Derleth in 1930, when, following H. P. Lovecraft's instruction, Smith forwarded to Derleth the manuscr...

The letters of the writers Elizabeth Hardwick and Robert Lowell across the final seven years of Lowell's life and the end of the pair's marriage. A...

Beginning in 1949, the German novelist and essayist Ernst J nger began a correspondence with the philosopher Martin Heidegger that lasted until Hei...

Reducere. DescriptionThe Black Prairie Archives: An Anthology recovers a new regional archive of "black prairie" literature, and includes writing that ranges...

Reducere. This new, compact Selected Poems offers for the first time a balanced survey of Robert Creeley's entire sixty years of poetic accomplishment. It sh...

Reducere. In To Make Negro Literature Elizabeth McHenry traces African American authorship in the decade following the 1896 legalization of segregation. She ...

Reducere. Read and Reflect on Scripture alongside C. S. Lewis.C. S. Lewis was one of the intellectual giants of the twentieth century and arguably one of the...

Reducere. Included in this vast correspondence with 20th century artist and writers and publishers are brief bios and photos. "Patchen was "a rebel all down ...

From the longest-running, most influential book review in America, here is its best, funniest, strangest, and most memorable coverage over the past...

Luis Bu uel: A Life in Letters provides access for the first time to an annotated English-language version of around 750 of the most important and ...

Reducere. Nearly a century after his wrenching death, the Portuguese poet Fernando Pessoa (1888-1935) remains one of our most enigmatic writers. Believing he...

Hearing Things is a meditation on sound's work in literature. Drawing on critical works and the commentaries of many poets and novelists who have p...