Writers' Letters

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

"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...

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. DescriptionA fascinating compilation of weather forecasts, recipes, jokes, and aphorisms, Poor Richard's Almanack debuted in 1732. This new edition...

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

"One of her greatest achievements, a book whose afterlife continues to inspire new generations of writers and readers." -- The Guardian This modern...

Reducere. Poetry. Caribbean Studies. Ida Faubert (1882--1969) is a 20th-century Haitian-French poet considered a Caribbean--and especially Haitian--literary ...

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. This volume examines what Caribbean literature looked like before 1920 by surveying the print culture of the period. The emphasis is on narrative, ...

Frederick Buechner is one of the most gifted writers of his generation, and his legacy casts a long shadow over Christian letters today. As a memoi...

The author of more than 2, 000 books and pamphlets, Voltaire (François-Marie Arouet, 1694-1778) was one of the most prolific writers of the eightee...

Reducere. "Few writers in any genre can match Penny's ability to combine heartbreak and hope." -Publishers Weekly (starred review)It is Winter Carnival in Qu...

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. "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. 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...

Contributor(s): Editor: Ossian WardText by (Art/Photo Books): Nicholas LogsdailText by (Art/Photo Books): Alex LogsdailFeaturing work by more than ...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Cynthia KingPreface by: William B. IrvineMusonius Rufus (c. AD 30-100) was one of the four great Roman Stoic philosophers, ...

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

'A seminal meditation on race by one of our greatest writers' Barack Obama'We, the black and the white, deeply need each other here if we are reall...

Reducere. James Augustine Aloysius Joyce (2 February 1882 - 13 January 1941) was an Irish novelist and poet, considered to be one of the most influential wri...

A tragedy in three letters: THE masterpiece of one of Japan's greatest writers The Hunting Gun follows the consequences of a tragic love affair. To...

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

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

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

Reducere. Ray Johnson (1927-1995) blurred the boundaries of life and art, of authorship and intimacy. Correspondence is the defining character of all of John...

Reducere. James Salter's exalted place in American letters is based largely on the intense admiration of other writers, but his work resonates far beyond the...

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. 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. 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...

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...

In the twenty-one poems of the Heroides, Ovid gave voice to the heroines and heroes of epic and myth. These deeply moving literary epistles reveal ...

Female loyalists occupied a nearly impossible position during the American Revolution. Unlike their male counterparts, loyalist women were effectiv...

Female loyalists occupied a nearly impossible position during the American Revolution. Unlike their male counterparts, loyalist women were effectiv...

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...

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. 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 ...

From Italy, an epistolary novel like no other, full of Tabucchi's special "enchantment, which trans-figures even as it captivates" (TLS).In It's Ge...

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

Exuberantly mocking the vices and pretensions of his Roman contemporaries, Horace's Satires are stuffed full of comic vignettes, moral insights, an...

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...

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

William Faulkner (1897-1962) remains the pre-eminent literary chronicler of the American South and a giant of American arts and letters. Creatively...

Reducere. This rich and multifaceted collection is Grace Paley's vivid record of her life. As close to an autobiography as anything we are likely to have fro...

An elegant introduction to one of America's most complex and influential writers. From his childhood in a family of leading American intellectuals ...

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. Juan Francisco Manzano and Gabriel de la Concepci n Vald s (Pl cido) were perhaps the most important and innovative Cuban writers of African descen...

Abbott "Pete" Smith, D.V.M. was an icon in southeastern Ohio. Raised in Maine, a cowboy in Colorado, finally to Ohio and his own Milliron Clinic, D...

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...

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

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. Cat sitter, insomniac, former schoolteacher. Ania worries she is a "stand-in occupant, " a substitute in her own life. When she receives a request ...

Reducere. Bukowski Erasure Poetry Anthology is a collection of erasure poems based on the novels, letters, and poetry of Charles Bukowski. The 41 poets who c...

Reducere. Selected by guest editor Diane Schoemperlen, the 2021 edition of Best Canadian Stories continues not only a series, but a legacy in Canadian letter...

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 ...

Reducere. For the first time, and against the backdrop of Bolsonaro's emboldened far-right regime, Brazil's legendary and pioneering queer writers appear tog...

Reducere. The Making of the Modern Law: Legal Treatises, 1800-1926 includes over 20, 000 analytical, theoretical and practical works on American and British ...

Reducere. Winner of the Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction from the Academy of Arts and Letters and the Great Lakes Colleges Association New Writers Award. ...

Reducere. Whether you've finished your manuscript or just have the seeds of a book idea, PUBLISHING 101 shows you how to approach editors and agents with you...

Reducere. Alain de Botton combines two unlikely genres--literary biography and self-help manual--in the hilarious and unexpectedly practical How Proust Can C...

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. Shore is one of America's leading Christian writers on the subject of gay people and Christianity. His essays are widely credited with being centra...

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...

Description"One of the greatest writers of the twentieth century . . . Simenon was unequaled at making us look inside, though the ability was maske...

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

Description'I write to try to see you as you were, or what you have become. You left no forwarding address: that was part of your intention. For wh...

How does a Mexican-American, the son of immigrants, a child of the border, la frontera, leave home and move to the heart of gringo America? How doe...

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...

Reducere. DescriptionFrontier Cabin Story is a rare architectural biography of a long-forgotten 18th-century log farmhouse in Shepherdstown, West Virginia. J...