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Honoring the author's mastery of the essay form, brings together such classic works as "Shooting an Elephant" with passages from his wartime diary and lesser-known journalistic pieces that weave together the personal and political in studies of his boyhood in an English boarding school and his experiences during the Spanish Civil War.
2) Essays
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The author famed for Treasure Island and other novels shares his own real-life adventures.
Scottish writer Robert Louis Stevenson is best known for his popular adventure classics and suspenseful tales, such as Treasure Island and The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. But in his day he was also famed for his own globetrotting life as he traveled far and wide, in spite of health problems-and for his many essays. This volume collects his writings...
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The essential collection of critical essays from a twentieth-century master and author of 1984.
As a critic, George Orwell cast a wide net. Equally at home discussing Charles Dickens and Charlie Chaplin, he moved back and forth across the porous borders between essay and journalism, high art and low.
A frequent commentator on literature, language, film, and drama throughout his career, Orwell turned increasingly to the critical essay in the 1940s,...
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This collection, written between 1907 and 1920 by beloved children's author A. A. Milne, contains the following essays:
Bruce: A Short Study of a Great Life?
The Charm of Golf
The Cupboard
On Going into a House
Goldfish
My Library
The Old Order
Changes
The Pleasure of Writing
Smoking as a Fine Art
Thoughts on Thermometers
The University Boat Race
A Word for Autumn
The author of more than twenty-five plays, ten nonfiction books, seven novels, five...
5) An Englishman Looks at the World: Being a Series of Unrestrained Remarks Upon Contemporary Matters
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First published in 1914, "An Englishman Looks At The World" is a collection of notes and essays on various contemporary issues by English writer H. G. Wells. Contents include: "The Coming of Blériot", "My First Flight", "Off the Chain", "Of the New Reign", "Will the Empire Live?", "The Labour Unrest", "The Great State", "The Common Sense of Warfare", "The Contemporary Novel", "The Philosopher's Public Library", "About Chesterton and Belloc", etc....
6) Roots Home
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Wales's best-loved contemporary poet, one of our major poets of our endangered environment, returns to prose in Roots Home. As in At the Source (2008), she does something unusual with form. She combines two elements. Seven vivid essay-meditations, informed by (among others) Dylan Thomas, George Herbert and W.B. Yeats, explore the ways in which poetry bears witness to what is and what might be, presence and transcendence in a threatened world. The...
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Author Marie Corelli's brilliant commentary on the personal and professional politics of the literary community full of colorful characters fueled by fame, criticism and competition. It's a bold and insightful depiction of nineteenth century publishing.
At the time of publication, Marie Corelli was an established writer who had been criticized for her style and subject matter. In The Silver Domino; or Side Whispers and Literary, she adopts an anonymous...
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G. K. Chesterton's biographical essays provide unique portraits of 12 of Europe's most defining figures. Written by one of the world's master essayists, this collection richly expresses Chesterton's thoughts on Charlotte Brontë, William Morris, Byron, Pope, St. Francis of Assisi, Rostand, Charles II, Stevenson, Thomas Carlyle, Tolstoy, Savonarola, and Sir Walter Scott. The book is a perfect companion for any literature, politics, or history course...
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Since W. B. Yeats wrote in 1890 that "the man of science is too often a person who has exchanged his soul for a formula," the anti-scientific bent of Irish literature has often been taken as a given. Science, Technology, and Irish Modernism brings together leading and emerging scholars of Irish modernism to challenge the stereotype that Irish literature has been unconcerned with scientific and technological change. The collection spotlights authors...
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Marvel in the beauty of 20th century English literature.
This book takes you back in time to journey among the best writers in England at the time of the first World War.
It's the July 1921 edition of The English Review magazine, which was started "in a rage that there was no place in England to print a poem by Thomas Hardy" and a place for writers to express their feelings and political concerns through their art.
It includes poems, letters,...
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The Essays (1625) is a collection of writings by Francis Bacon, one of England's most prominent philosophers and scientists whose work was central to shaping the ideals of the Renaissance and scientific revolution. Although Bacon is remembered today as the father of modern science, this collection contains his thoughts on mostly moral and civil matters, highlighting his immense skill as a philosopher and statesman.
Filled with references to and...
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This is the first publication in English of the anthology that contains Breton's definitive statement on l'humour noir, one of the seminal concepts of Surrealism, and his provocative assessments of the writers he most admired. While some of the authors featured in The Anthology of Black Humor are already well known to American readers-Swift, Kafka, Rimbaud, Poe, Lewis Carroll, and Baudelaire among them (and even then, Breton's selections are often...
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Best known for his novels and travel writing, Lawrence Durrell defied easy classification within twentieth-century Modernism. His anti-authoritarian tendencies put him at odds with many contemporaries?aesthetically and politically. However, thanks to a compelling recontextualization by editor James Gifford, these thirty-eight previously unpublished and out-of-print essays and letters reveal that Durrell's maturation as an artist was rich, complex,...
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The fourth volume in this collection of the Nobel Prize–winning prime minister's essays and journalism showcases his wide-ranging interests and talents. Legendary politician and military strategist Winston S. Churchill was a master not only of the battlefield, but of the page and the podium. Over the course of forty books and countless speeches, broadcasts, news items and more, he addressed a country at war and at peace, thrilling with victory but...
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Plongez dans le monde envoûtant du théâtre élisabéthain avec "Le Songe d'une Nuit d'Été" de William Shakespeare. Cette comédie enchanteresse vous transporte dans un tourbillon d'amour, de fantaisie et de magie. Suivez les amours compliquées de quatre jeunes amants perdus dans une forêt mystérieuse, o les fées espiègles se jouent d'eux. Entre quiproquos, malentendus et sorts magiques, cette nuit d'été promet des rebondissements aussi...
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"It is in and through Symbols that man, consciously or unconsciously, lives, works, and has his being: those ages, moreover, are accounted the noblest which can the best recognise symbolical worth, and prize it highest."
Carlyle
Without symbolism there can be no literature; indeed, not even language. What are words themselves but symbols, almost as arbitrary as the letters which compose them, mere sounds of the voice to which we have agreed...
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"Martha C. Nussbaum, Recipient of the 2012 Prince of Asturias Award for Social Sciences" Abbott Gleason is Barnaby Conrad & Mary Critchfield Keeney Professor of History at Brown University. He is the author of Totalitarianism: The Inner History of the Cold War. Jack Goldsmith is Professor of Law at Harvard University. He is the author, with Eric Posner, of The Limits of International Law. Martha C. Nussbaum is the Ernst Freund Distinguished Service...
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