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The Great War and modern memory
Par Paul Fussell. 2013
Fussell, a professor of English literature and winner of the 1976 National Book Award for Arts and Letters, explores how…
historical events and society's record of those events interact. He looks at the British experience during World War I through the eyes of the writers Siegfried Sassoon, Robert Graves, and Edmund Blunden; through the poetry of David Jones, Isaac Rosenberg, and Wilfred Owen; and through amateur memoirs of the men in the trenchesPatches of Godlight: Father Tim's favorite quotes
Par Jan Karon. 2001
Collection of favorite quotes and passages that have a special meaning for fictional Father Tim. They are drawn from the…
works of poets, humorists, clerics, philosophers, and others. Companion to A Continual Feast (DB 62403). 2001The dangerous summer
Par Ernest Hemingway. 1985
Chronicles the main events of the 1959 bullfighting season in Spain and the rivalry between two brothers-in-law, each at the…
peak of his career. The novelist befriended the younger man, Antonio Ordonez, and this account favors him over Luis Miguel Dominguin, who was trying to reestablish his supremacy after a period of retirementFyodor Dostoyevsky, a writer's life
Par Geir Kjetsaa. 1987
A leading Norwegian scholar quotes extensively from Dostoyevsky's notebooks and from his letters to wives and lovers. Kjetsaa chronicles the…
great Russian novelist's personal life and development as a writer and provides a stirring portrait of a driven manThis narrative poem of fifty "runos," or songs, centers around the three cultural heroes of Finnish mythology, Vainamoinen, the sage…
and singer; Ilmarinen, the smith; and Lemminkainen, the brash adventurer. Includes a historical and analytical introductionThe poet's art
Par M. L Rosenthal. 1987
The author, a noted critic, offers a model of humanistic criticism that emphasizes the vulnerability, honesty, and subjectivity of poetry.…
Quotations for illustration are drawn from a wide range of poets including Dante, Sylvia Plath, Ezra Pound, Langston Hughes, and Gary SnyderShort stories
Par Library Of Congress. 1989
This bibliography is a guide to short story anthologies in the NLS collection, in both braille and recorded formats. There…
is something here for everyone--the mystery fan, the reader of fantasy and science fiction, the lover of romances, westerns, or humor--and much more. Each book is described briefly, and the indexes provide a listing for every short story contained in the anthologiesThe scorpion-fish
Par Nicolas Bouvier. 1987
This account of the Swiss writer's travels in Sri Lanka is a meditation on how we perceive the world in…
which we live, the natural and the mystical. The author's great passion is entomology; he watches and describes in detail such local creatures as centipedes, cockroaches, scorpions, and termitesNew and selected essays
Par Robert Warren. 1989
Thirteen essays, six appearing in book form for the first time, reveal Warren as a literary critic, especially of American…
writers such as Mark Twain, William Faulkner, and Nathaniel Hawthorne. His better-known role as writer of poetry and fiction is shown in "Pure and Impure Poetry" and "A Poem of Pure Imagination: An Experiment in Reading."Education of a wandering man
Par Louis L'Amour. 1989
A personal reflection by the prolific and beloved writer of westerns. At fifteen Louis L'Amour left school, trusting his education…
to his own curiosity and the world's vastness. Armed with books, he roamed the world, cow-punching, working as a circus roustabout, mining, prize-fighting, hoboing, and serving as a merchant seaman. He shares the richness and variety of his education with the readerGrumbles from the grave
Par Robert Heinlein. 1989
It was Heinlein's wish to have his letters published after his death. Virginia, his wife of forty years, has collected…
the letter, begun in 1939, to Heinlein's editors and to his longtime friend and agent Lurton Blassingame. The letters give us an insight into the psyche of the popular science fiction author. They show his thoughts on publishers, fan mail, writing material, travel, work habits, and even house buildingBio of an ogre: the autobiography of Piers Anthony to age 50
Par Piers Anthony. 1988
Fantasy writer Piers Anthony has, by his own admission, written a highly selective and subjective account of his first fifty…
years, attempting to write not only the "what" of his life but also the "why." Each of the five sections covers a decade of his lifeThe premier issue of the "Journal of the Arthur Ransome Society" focuses on Ransome's "Swallowdale." Additional articles include an account…
of the launching of the Society at the Windermere Steamboat Museum, Ransome's earliest surviving story, "The Desert Island" (1892), reprinted in full, and a section titled "Notes and Queries."Books that changed the world
Par Robert Downs. 1983
By distilling the essential ideas of books that have had the greatest influence, both for good and evil, and by…
placing such books in the context of their time, the author explores the effect they have had on western religious thought, culture, law, literature, science, and virtually every aspect of civilizationThis anthology of 140 essays, written over four centuries by American and English practitioners of the art, covers topics large…
and small-truth, getting up on cold mornings, wasps, the departure of a guest, being the right size, symmetry and repetition, Gandhi, and movies on television. And each somehow fits Dr. Johnson's definition of an essay as a "loose sally of the mind."Toward the radical center: a Karel C̈apek reader
Par Karel C̈apek. 1990
English translations of three plays and several short stories, essays, and assorted sketches on gardening and travel provide a sampling…
of the work of this prolific Czechoslovakian writer. The word "robot" from his 1922 play "R.U.R." ("Rossum's Universal Robots,") included here, has entered everday languageThe making of middle/brow culture
Par Joan Rubin. 1992
Examines the emergence of American middlebrow culture. The author claims that efforts to study the extremes, ranging from the avant-garde…
and the intelligentsia to the popular consumer, have largely ignored the curious mix of a middle culture with commercialism. Rubin chronicles the introduction of newspaper book review sections, the Book-of-the-Month Club, the rise of "outline" series, the "great books" movement, and the radio programs about booksThe third issue of "Mixed Moss" includes feature articles about a wide variety of topics, a section titled "Events" that…
reports on activities of the society and its members, and a section titled "Little-known Ransome" that includes a 1934 autobiographical sketch. Also contains reviews of books about Ransome and his work, and brief reports from the regionsLess than one: selected essays
Par Joseph Brodsky. 1986
Begins with an autobiographical essay on Brodsky's early years and ends with one about his parents. Between are essays on…
the literary tradition and political climate of the Soviet Union, from which he was exiled in 1972. But mostly he writes about poetry and poets, touching on his decision to begin writing in English. He received the Nobel Prize for Literature and was named Poet Laureate of the United StatesPlays, prose writings and poems
Par Oscar Wilde. 1930
First published in 1930, this collection includes "The Picture of Dorian Gray," a novel about a beautiful youth whose portrait…
has supernatural qualities; "The Importance of Being Earnest," a comic, satirical play about a rakish nobleman; "Lady Windermere's Fan," a comedy of manners; "The Ballad of Reading Gaol," an autobiographical account of Wilde's imprisonment; and other short works of drama, prose, and poetry