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The Portable Benjamin Franklin

de Benjamin Franklin

It takes a very inclusive anthology to encompass the protean personality and range of interests of Benjamin Franklin, but The Portable Benjamin Franklin succeeds as no collection has. In addition to the complete...

Lifelines: The Black Book of Proverbs

de Yvonne Mccalla Sobers, Askhari Johnson Hodari & Archbishop Desmond Tutu

This little book contains the wisdom of the ages, and is guaranteed to produce a smile of appreciation at the sheer sense of the proverbs you will find inside. From advice you wish your mother had given you,...

The Book That Changed My Life: 71 Remarkable Writers Celebrate the Books That Matter Most to Them

de Roxanne J. Coady

Now in paperback, a delightful collection of essays on the transformative power of reading In The Book That Changed My Life, our most admired writers, doctors, professors, religious leaders, politicians, chefs,...

The Portable Charles W. Chesnutt

de Charles W. Chesnutt

Collections from two of our most influential African American writers-under the general editorship of Henry Louis Gates, Jr. An icon of nineteenth-century American fiction, Charles W. Chesnutt-an incisive storyteller...

Once Again to Zelda: The Stories Behind Literature's Most Intriguing Dedications

de Marlene Wagman-Geller

A fascinating look at the stories behind the dedications of 50 literary classics.

Mary Shelley dedicated Frankenstein to her father, her greatest champion. Charlotte Brönte dedicated Jane Eyre to William Makepeace...

Great Philosophers Who Failed at Love

de Andrew Shaffer

Few people have failed at love as spectacularly as the great philosophers. Although we admire their wisdom, history is littered with the romantic failures of the most sensible men and women of every age, including:...

The Selected Letters of Thornton Wilder

de Thornton Wilder, Jackson R. Bryer & Robin Gibbs Wilder

The author of such classics as Our Town and The Bridge of San Luis Rey, Thornton Wilder was a born storyteller and dramatist—rare talents on glorious display in this volume of more than three hundred letters...

The Collected Prose

de Zbigniew Herbert

Polish poet and essayist Zbigniew Herbert easily stands beside Nobel Prize laureates Milosz and Szymborska as part of a remarkable literary tradition. Though Herbert is very much an Eastern European writer,...

In Rough Country: Essays and Reviews

de Joyce Carol Oates

In twenty-nine provocative essays, Joyce Carol Oates maps the "rough country" that is both the treacherous geographical and psychological terrain of the writers she so cogently analyzes—Flannery O'Connor,...

Smothered in Hugs: Essays, Interviews, Feedback, and Obituaries

de Dennis Cooper

Selected from the range of Cooper's essays and reportage in Artforum, Bookforum, Detour, Interview, LA Weekly, Spin, and the Village Voice, among other publications, Smothered in Hugs presents the best nonfiction...

Who Is Mark Twain?

de Mark Twain

Who Is Mark Twain? is a collection of twenty six wickedly funny, thought-provoking essays by Samuel Langhorne Clemens—aka Mark Twain—none of which have ever been published before, and all of which are completely...

Scout, Atticus, and Boo: A Celebration of Fifty Years of To Kill a Mockingbird

de Mary McDonagh Murphy

To Kill a Mockingbird may well be our national novel. It is the first adult novel that many of us remember reading, one book that millions of us have in common. It sells nearly a million copies a year, more...

Playing the Game

de Robert Baden-Powell & Mario Sica

Drawing on Baden-Powell's extensive archive, Playing the Game is a rich and evocative selection of his writings, on peace - a major theme throughout his career and the theme of the 2007 centenary celebrations,...

Words and Deedes

de W. F. Deedes

For seventy-five years, W. F. Deedes has reported on the most important events, affairs and issues that have affected Britain, Europe and the World. Words and Deedes brings together a life's work, selecting...

Sentimentalism in Nineteenth-Century America: Literary and Cultural Practices

de Mary G. De Jong

Tracing the eighteenth-century origins of sentimentalism, the collection illustrates its proliferation in nineteenth-century America. Sentimental writings by both sexes played a major role in the formation of...

Recovering Five Generations Hence: The Life and Writing of Lillian Jones Horace

de Nikki Brown, Alisha Knight & Brian M. Jack

Born in the 1880s in Jefferson, Texas, Lillian B. Jones Horace grew up in Fort Worth and dreamed of being a college-educated teacher, a goal she achieved. But life was hard for her and other blacks living and...

The Best American Crime Reporting 2009

de Jeffrey Toobin, Otto Penzler & Thomas H. Cook

Thieves, liars, and killers—it's a criminal world out there, and someone has to write about it. A thrilling collection of the year's best reportage by the aces of the true-crime genre, The Best American Crime...

Crediting Poetry: The Nobel Lecture

de Seamus Heaney

The Nobel Lecture??Seamus Heaney received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1995 ‘for works of lyrical beauty and ethical depth, which exalt the every day miracles and the living past’.??Crediting Poetry...

Selected Prose

de Derek Mahon

Derek Mahon, best known as a poet, has also published a considerable body of prose. Previous work in this line, much of it journalism (feature articles, book reviews), appeared in Journalism (Gallery, 1996)...

The Collected Drama of H. L. Mencken: Plays and Criticism

de S. T. Joshi

In The Collected Drama of H. L. Mencken: Plays and Criticism, S. T. Joshi has assembled for the first time Mencken’s dramatic works, comprising six one-act plays and the lengthy three-act play Heliogabalus....