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A Year in Thoreau's Journal
By Henry David Thoreau, H. Daniel Peck. 1990
Stories and Essays
By William Dean Howells.
The Works of Max Beerbohm
By Max Beerbohm.
Join the Revolution, Comrade
By Charles Foran. 2008
In this collection of essays, Foran visits places in Vietnam that have been 'colonized' by western war films, talks to…
Shanghai residents about their colossal city, and commiserates with the people of Bali about the effects of terrorist bombs on their island. He also 'encounters' Miguel de Cervantes, the Buddha of Compassion, and the pumped-up American Tom Wolfe.Character
By Samuel Smiles.
Virginibus Puerisque and Other Papers
By Robert Louis Stevenson.
A Romance of the South Seas
By Herman Melville.
Essays
By Alice Meynell.
To Keep Love Blurry
By Craig Morgan Teicher. 2012
To Keep Love Blurry is about the charged and troubled spaces between intimately connected people: husbands and wives, parents and…
children, writers and readers. These poems include sonnets, villanelles, and long poems, as well as two poetic prose pieces, tracing how a son becomes a husband and then a father. Robert Lowell is a constant figure throughout the book, which borrows its four-part structure from that poet's seminal Life Studies. Craig Morgan Teicher won the Colorado Prize for Poetry. He is poetry reviews editor for Publishers Weekly magazine and served as vice president on the board of the National Book Critics Circle.Visions and Revisions: Coming of Age in the Age of AIDs
By Dale Peck. 2015
Novelist and critic Dale Peck's latest work--part memoir, part extended essay--is a foray into what the author calls "the second…
half of the first half of the AIDS epidemic," i.e., the period between 1987, when the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power (ACT UP) was founded, and 1996, when the advent of combination therapy transformed AIDS from a virtual death sentence into a chronic manageable illness.Reminiscent of Joan Didion's The White Album and Kurt Vonnegut's Palm Sunday, Visions and Revisions is a sweeping, collage-style portrait of a tumultuous era. Moving seamlessly from the lyrical to the analytical to the reportorial, Peck's story takes readers from the serial killings of gay men in New York, London, and Milwaukee, through Peck's first loves upon coming out of the closet, to the transformation of LGBT people from marginal, idealistic fighters to their present place in a world of widespread, if fraught, mainstream acceptance.The narrative pays particular attention the words and deeds of AIDS activists, offering a streetlevel portrait of ACT UP with considerations of AIDS-centered fiction and criticism of the era, as well as intimate, sometimes elegiac portraits of artists, activists, and HIV-positive people Peck knew. Peck's fiery rhetoric against a government that sat on its hands for the first several years of the epidemic is tinged with the idealism of a young gay man discovering his political, artistic, and sexual identity. The result is a visionary and indispensable work from one of America's most brilliant and controversial authors.Stories by Modern English Authors
By Julian Hawthorne.
Peter Plymley's Letters and Selected Essays
By Sydney Smith.
Women's Early American Historical Narratives
By Various, Sharon M. Harris. 2003
This fascinating collection presents a rare look at women writers' first-hand perspectives on early American history. In the late eighteenth…
and early nineteenth centuries many women authors began to write historical analysis, thereby taking on an essential role in defining the new American Republicanism. Like their male counterparts, these writers worried over the definition and practice of both public and private virtue, human equality, and the principles of rationalism. In contrast to male authors, however, female writers inevitably addressed the issue of inequality of the sexes. This collection includes writings that employ a wide range of approaches, from straightforward reportage to poetical historical narratives, from travel writing to historical drama, and even accounts in textbook format, designed to provide women with exercises in critical thinking--training they rarely received through their traditional education.Life and Work: Writers, Readers, and the Conversations between Them
By Tim Parks. 2016
Acclaimed novelist and critic Tim Parks has long been fascinated by the complicated relationship between an author's life and work.…
Dissatisfied with the dominant modes of reading he encountered, he began exploring the underlying values and patterns that guide authors in both their writing and their lives. In a series of provocative, incisive, and unflinching essays written over the past decade and collected for the first time here, he reveals how style and content in a novel reflect a whole pattern of communication and positioning in the author's ordinary and daily behavior. We see how life and work are deeply enmeshed in the work of writers as diverse as Charles Dickens, Feodor Dostoevsky, James Joyce, Anton Chekhov, Philip Roth, Julian Barnes, Peter Stamm, and Geoff Dyer, among others. Parks further shows us how readers' reactions to these writers and their works are inevitably connected to these communicative patterns, establishing a relationship that goes far beyond aesthetic appreciation. This original and daring collection takes us into the psychology of some of our greatest writers and challenges us to see with more clarity how our lives become entangled with theirs through our reading of their novels.The Unseen World and Other Essays
By John Fiske.
Mother
By Maxim Gorky.
Sing Ons Nou Van Kersfees
By Petro Ebersohn, Michael D Young. 2014
Kersliedere gee die gees van Kersfees weer soos niks anders kan nie, en Sing ons nou van Kersfees gee lewe…
aan geliefde Kersliedere soos nog nooit tevore nie.Stap in die voetspore van die goeie koning Wenceslas. Ervaar van nuuts af die klokke op Kersdag. Reis saam met 'n soldaat wat sy stem verloor het, wanneer hy deel word van die wonderwerk van Stille Nag. Ervaar al hierdie, en nog meer, in die innige, onderhoudende verhale wat bygedra is deur 'n groep skrywers vanoor die hele V.S.A., wat saamgespan het vir 'n goeie doel.*Die versameling, wat 25 verhaaltjies bevat, een vir elke dag tot en met Kersdag, staan op die punt om 'n nuwe Kerstradisie vir jou en jou gesin te begin!* Alle inkomste uit die verkope van die boek word geskenk aan die nasionale Downsindroomvereniging van die V.S.A.It Happened At Christmas
By Penny Jordan, Helen Brooks, Carol Wood. 2007
Experience the love, warmth and magic Christmas brings, with this heartwarming collection from three favorite Harlequin authorsSo much stands between…
Lancashire mill owner Haywood Denshaw and his new housekeeper Marianne Brown. But even disparate social standing and rumors of disreputable pasts can't get in the way of their love. Only Marianne's refusal to compromise her principlescan,in a captivating story byPENNY JORDAN. Wealthy farmer Luke Hudson gets more than he bargained for when he plucks a destitute young woman from the workhouse. He may have rescued Connie Summers from a life of penury and hard labor, but her spirit and warmth give him a new outlookand a second chance at love, in an enthralling story byHELEN BROOKS. Modern-thinking doctor Harry Fleet and compassionate but old-school nurse Tilly Dainty clash at the Tap House surgery in 1920s East London. But working together to care for the sick and needy turns out to be a healing balm on both their hearts, in an emotional story byCAROL WOOD.Oh, Well, You Know How Women Are!' and 'Isn't That Just Like a Man!'
By Irvin S. Cobb. 2012
Best Gay Romance 2013
By Richard Labonté. 2013
Best Gay Romance 2013 has both heat and sweet. These stories of meet-cutes, first times and long time loves are…
tales well told with relatable characters you root for from beginning to end. Cream-of-the-crop editor Richard Labonté gathers the very best in gay romance each year for a collection that runs the gamut from hearts and flowers to down and dirty. In Best Gay Romance, the chocolate you may give to your lover will likely be used in many other creative ways! What Labonté does best is represent gay men of every age and every walk of life experiencing every kind of love. These heady, head-over-heels, heart-pounding stories of gay romance make for inspiring bedtime reading!