Writers' Letters

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

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...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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...

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

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

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

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. 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,...

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...

A landmark work of cultural history that tells the story of how four young poets, John Ashbery, Frank O'Hara, James Schuyler, and Kenneth Koch, rei...

Reducere. Blaise Pascal, the remarkable seventeenth-century mathematician, physicist, and religious thinker, rigorously refutes the belief that to become a C...

Reducere. Impoverished young Americans had no greater champion during the Depression than Eleanor Roosevelt. As First Lady, Mrs. Roosevelt used her newspaper...

Reducere. Two New York Times fact-checkers spark a multidisciplinary meditation on truth and fictionThis volume connects two seemingly contradictory paradigm...

Reducere. In this new, vivid, nuanced portrait, now in paperback, prize-winning historian Woody Holton uses original sources and letters for the first time i...

Reducere. It's the Alphabet Look-Alike Contest, the game that awards CASH MONEY to the capital and lowercase pair that look the most alike! Hosted By Hashtag...

Reducere. In 1888, young Helen Keller traveled to Boston with her teacher, Annie Sullivan, where they met a man who would change her life: Boston Transcript ...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Francis PongeTranslator: Lane Dunlop." . . And now, dear reader, for your intellectual toilet, here is a little piece of so...

Reducere. Eighteen-year-old Astrid Bjorklund has always dreamed of becoming a doctor. She had intended to study medicine in Chicago or Grand Forks, but when ...

Reducere. Lydia Davis is one of our most original and influential writers. She has been called -an American virtuoso of the short story form- (Salon) and -on...

Reducere. In this delightful dive into the bygone world of Kenneth Grahame's The Wind in the Willows staunch Mole, sociable Water Rat, severe Badger, and tro...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Editor: Alex PierceEditor: Mimi MondalLuminescent Threads celebrates Octavia E. Butler, a pioneer of the Science Fiction genre who ...

DescriptionThe Christian faith depends to a great degree on persuasion. In one of his letters to early Christians, the apostle Paul wrote, "Let you...

Sylvia Plath (1932-1963) was one of the writers that defined the course of twentieth-century poetry. Alongside a selection of photographs and Plath...

Reducere. Virgil Caudill has never gone looking for trouble, but this time he's got no choice -- his hell-raising brother Boyd has been murdered. Everyone kn...

Writer's Letters is a collection of fascinating letters written by great writers, from Dickens to De BeauvoirPublisher: Frances Lincoln Publishers ...

Reducere. Description" A] testament to a great spirit, a woman who lived in terrifying proximity to one of the greatest writers of all time, and who understo...

This is the story of the Dyess Colony, created in 1934 as part of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal to aid in the nation's economic recove...

Reducere. More than thirty years after it was written, the autobiography of Carson McCullers, Illumination and Night Glare, will be published for the first t...

Reducere. DescriptionIn One Hundred Autobiographies, poet and scholar David Lehman applies the full measure of his intellectual powers to cope with a frighte...

Reducere. DescriptionSixty years after his murder by the Nazis, Bruno Schulz, one of the twentieth century's greatest and most enigmatic writers, is experien...

Reducere. "This is poetry worth loving, hating, and fighting over."--The New York Times Book ReviewHere is the definitive collection of poetry from one of Am...

Reducere. The Journal of Joyce Carol Oates, edited by Greg Johnson, offers a rare glimpse into the private thoughts of this extraordinary writer, focusing on...

Reducere. At his death in 1990, Walker Percy left a considerable legacy of uncollected nonfiction. Assembled in Signposts in a Strange Land, these essays on ...

Not long after, Auster received a letter from Coetzee, suggesting they begin exchanging letters on a regular basis and, 'God willing, strike sparks...

Reducere. With the publication of Naked Lunch in 1959, William Burroughs abruptly brought international letters into the postmodern age. Beginning with his v...

Reducere. Isaac Asimov was one of the most prolific authors of our time. When he died in 1992 at the age of seventy-two, he had published more than 470 books...

Reducere. Not What I Expected is a beautifully crafted memoir of adventure and seeking, the world crossing journey of an artist and journalist. It is one of ...

Reducere. Over 60 brilliant stories, poems and essays from ?dozens of small presses, ?as selected from 900 presses worldwide by ?more than ?200 distinguished...

"Stories in this book are as variegated as a stained glass window." Grady Harp, Author of War SongsStained Glass Myths is a collection of twenty-ei...

The Coquette tells the much-publicized story of the seduction and death of Elizabeth Whitman, a poet from Hartford, Connecticut. Written as a serie...

Reducere. Have you ever wanted to write a letter to an author who was important to you? In her Letters to Men of Letters, Diane Joy Charney writes to the aut...

Reducere. This Norton Critical Edition includes: The 1925 first American edition text, introduced and annotated by Anne Fernald. A map of Mrs. Dalloway's Lon...

Reducere. Few writers are more quotable than Henry David Thoreau. His books, essays, journals, poems, letters, and unpublished manuscripts contain an inexhau...

Reducere. With the death of her aunt, the narrator is left to sift through an apartment full of faded photographs, old postcards, letters, diaries, and heaps...

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 ...

Reducere. '...If you wanted to go on from the end of The Hobbit I think the ring would be your inevitable choice as the link. If then you wanted a large tale...

Reducere. In 1966, Edward Hoagland made a three-month excursion into the wild country of British Columbia and encountered a way of life that was disappearing...

A carefully chosen selection from the correspondence of Hugh Trevor-Roper, one of the most gifted and famous historians of his generation and one o...

Reducere. An intimate portrait of one of America's most beloved writers is revealed in this 1889 work from editor Ednah Dow Cheney. Originally published just...

Reducere. What lips my lips have kissed, and where, and why, I have forgotten* One hundred years ago, Bohemian author and editor of the radical Masses magazi...

Reducere. Donald Goines was a pimp, truck driver, heroin addict, factory worker, and career criminal. He was also one of the most popular Black contemporary ...

Reducere. Funny and frightening, moving and unsettling, the prose poems in Mark's debut collection take readers on a wild ride The Babies, by Sabrina Orah Ma...

Reducere. "A celebration of the adventure that is other people." --Ariel Levy, author of The Rules Do Not Apply Lauren Groff, Elizabeth Kolbert, Pam Houston,...

Reducere. Cambridge Studies in Romanticism: Romantic Women Writers, Revolution, and Prophecy: Rebellious Daughters, 1786-1826 Series Number 98 Convinced that...

Reducere. Celtic Lore and Legend includes tales of the heroes and gods from the Great Myth Cycles and tales of witches, ghosts, and fairies--from Sir Walter ...