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Publisher
The Lilliput Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Archipelago is one of the most important and influential literary magazines of the lasttwenty years. Running to twelve editions, it was edited by Andrew McNeillie, with theassistance later of James McDonald Lockhart, and began as an attempt to reimagine therelationships between the islands of Ireland and Britain. Archipelago has brought togetherestablished and emerging artists in creative conversations that have transformed the studyof islands, coasts...
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
1997
Language
English
Description
A collection of writing produced in the American South, including autobiographies, diaries, memoirs, journalism, and stories and selections from novels, organized within four sections that correspond to major periods in the South's history, beginning with the slave era of the late eighteenth century and continuing through the 1990s.
Author
Publisher
Dover Publications
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
The self-described "most famous unknown author in the world," Djuna Barnes (1892 - 1982) is increasingly regarded as an important voice of feminism, modernism, and lesbian culture. Best remembered for her 1936 novel Nightwood, Barnes began her career by writing poetry, short stories, and articles for avant-garde literary journals as well as popular magazines. She took the grotesque nature of reality as her recurrent theme, a pessimistic world view...
10) The book of love
Publisher
W.W. Norton
Pub. Date
c1998
Language
English
Description
A collection of writings about love; includes poems, fiction, personal essays, and memories that deal with the many different emotions and aspects of love.
Series
Publisher
Indiana University Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"In the mythical town of Winesburg, Indiana, there lives a cleaning lady who can conjure up the ghost of Billy Sunday, a lascivious holy man with an unusual fetish and a burgeoning flock, a park custodian who collects the scat left by aliens, and a night janitor learning to live with life's mysteries, including the zombies in the cafeteria. Winesburg, Indiana, is a town full of stories of plans made and destroyed, of births and unexpected deaths,...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
This first literary collection from the Nobel Prize—winning author of The Sun Also Rises contains some of his earliest work.
Three Stories and Ten Poems was originally published in a small print run in Paris in 1923. Of this collection's three stories, two are all that remained after a suitcase containing his manuscripts was stolen in the Gare de Lyon, while the third was written the previous year in Italy. Their tight, economical prose is typical...
16) On Liberty
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
John Stuart Mill's resolute dedication to the cause of freedom inspired this 1859 treatise. Discussed and debated from time immemorial, the concept of personal liberty went without codification until the publication of this enduring work which applies an ethical system of utilitarianism to society and the state which to this day remains well known and studied. Mills (1806-1873), a British economist, philosopher, and ethical theorist whose argument...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A generous selection of Frazier's most sophisticated and uproarious feature stories"--
"Part muckraker, part adventurer and part raconteur, the author, in a humorous collection of stories, collects his best essays and reportage from the past 10 years that beholds, captures and occasionally reimagines the spirit of the American experience. By the author of Travels in Siberia."--
Author
Publisher
TAN Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Over a span of six decades, Fr. James Schall has been one of our foremost thinkers and cultural commenters. A distinguished professor, the author of more than thirty books, and writer of countless essays-his favorite literary form-Fr. Schall has made a life of pondering the most important questions of this world and beyond. Now, in Run That by Me Again, Fr. Schall himself has selected more than fifty of his essays on the most intriguing, urgent, and...
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