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A new collection of critical and personal essays on writing, obsession, and inspiration from National Book Award-winning and New York Times bestselling author Joyce Carol Oates.
"Why do we write?"
With this question, Joyce Carol Oates begins an imaginative exploration of the writing life, and all its attendant anxieties, joys, and futilities, in this collection of seminal essays and criticism. Leading her quest is a desire to understand
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An Athenian aristocrat decides to enter a philosophical school in order to sharpen his argumentative skills. Walking through the wilderness, two men encounter a monstrous king and find themselves captured by a group of enraged birds. A heroic woman starts a campaign to bring an end to the Peloponnesian War. The Plays of Aristophanes is a classic of Ancient Greek literature.
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Published in 1915, this is a collection of four never-before printed essays: "Tom Hood: The Man, the Wit, and the Poet"-an expanded version of a lecture delivered in California-"Henry Carey: The Author of 'Sally in Our Alley,'" "George Lillo and 'The London Merchant,'" and "Samuel Richardson: The Father of the English Novel."
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Dedicated to Ralph Waldo Emerson, this 1893 collection of critical writings includes assessments of classic poets and philosophers: Dryden, Shakespeare, Lessing, and Rousseau. Also included are chapters on "Witchcraft," "New England Two Centuries Ago," and "The Sentimentalists."
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