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By Langston Hughes. 1995
By Garrison Keillor. 2014
By Daniel Pinkwater, Daniel M. Pinkwater, Jill Pinkwater, Daniel Manus Pinkwater. 2001
Author and NPR commentator relates anecdotes--bizarre, outlandish, and poignant--about the dogs in his life and lessons he and the dogs…
have learned. Pinkwater has faced numerous training challenges, from the Pekingese presented to him in infancy by Uncle Boris to the malamutes acquired after his marriage. For senior high and older readers. 2001. For senior high and older readers. 2001By Esmé Raji Codell, LeUyen Pham. 2006
The author has pulled events from her own fifth-grade diaries to give the reader a taste of what it was…
like growing up in Chicago in 1978 as a member of a free-spirited family. For grades 5-8 and older readersBy Rick Bragg. 2015
Essays about life in the American South by the author of popular memoirs like All Over but the Shoutin' (DB…
46142). The seventy-two essays, many of which originally appeared in Southern Living magazine, are broken down into categories of "Home," "Table," "Place," "Craft," and "Spirit."2015By Kevin Kling. 2009
National Public Radio commentator pens good-humored autobiographical stories about holidays throughout the year. Describes celebrating his fourth birthday inside a…
glass "cage" at the Shriners Hospital for Crippled Children, after measles postponed his operation, and holding his breath--and fainting--during Easter services at church. 2009By Eric Dregni. 2017
By Amado Nervo. 2017
La primera novela de Amado Nervo, El bachiller, representa el inicio de una fértil carrera literaria, mientras que en El…
donador de almas el lector se sorprenderá con un radical giro en su narrativa. "Debía dormir también allá en el fondo misterioso del biselado cristal, con un sueño levísimo de fantasma..." Amado Nervo, reconocido poeta, fue también diplomático, cronista y un extraordinario narrador. Aclamado por ser uno de los poetas modernistas mexicanos más importantes, su obra en prosa irradia la misma fuerza que sus poemas. Presentamos por primera vez en un solo volumen tres novelas fundamentales y poco difundidas para comprender la evolución narrativa del autor, así como las distintas facetas que abarcó su producción -desde la influencia romántica de El bachiller hasta los rasgos fantásticos de El donador de almas-, seguidas de una selección de susmejores cuentos. La edición de las obras aquí reunidas se realizó a partir de las últimas versiones publicadas o reescritas por Amado Nervo. Selección, prólogo, notas y cronología a cargo de Gustavo Jiménez Aguirre, doctor en Letras por la UNAM y especialista en la obra de Nervo.By Frederick Douglass, Peter J. Gomes, Gregory Stephens. 1997
Born into a life of bondage, Frederick Douglass secretly taught himself to read and write. It was a crime punishable…
by death, but it resulted in one of the most eloquent indictments of slavery ever recorded. His gripping narrative takes us into the fields, cabins, and manors of pre-Civil War plantations in the South and reveals the daily terrors he suffered as a slave. Written more than a century and a half ago by an African-American who went on to become a famous orator, U.S. minister to Haiti, and leader of his people, this timeless classic still speaks directly to our age. It is a record of savagery and inhumanity that goes far to explain why America still suffers from the great injustices of the past. With an Introduction by Peter J. Gomes and an Afterword by Gregory StephensBy Frederick Douglass, Peter Gomes, Gregory Stephens. 1997
Born into a life of bondage, Frederick Douglass secretly taught himself to read and write. It was a crime punishable…
by death, but it resulted in one of the most eloquent indictments of slavery ever recorded. His gripping narrative takes us into the fields, cabins, and manors of pre-Civil War plantations in the South and reveals the daily terrors he suffered as a slave. Written more than a century and a half ago by an African-American who went on to become a famous orator, U.S. minister to Haiti, and leader of his people, this timeless classic still speaks directly to our age. It is a record of savagery and inhumanity that goes far to explain why America still suffers from the great injustices of the past. With an Introduction by Peter J. Gomes and an Afterword by Gregory StephensBy Richard Wright. 1945
Richard Wright grew up in the woods of Mississippi, with poverty, hunger, fear, and hatred. He lied, stole, and raged…
at those around him; at six he was a "drunkard," hanging about taverns. Surly, brutal, cold, suspicious, and self-pitying, he was surrounded on one side by whites who were either indifferent to him, pitying, or cruel, and on the other by blacks who resented anyone trying to rise above the common lot. Black Boy is Richard Wright's powerful account of his journey from innocence to experience in the Jim Crow South. It is at once an unashamed confession and a profound indictment-a poignant and disturbing record of social injustice and human suffering. [This text is listed as an example that meets Common Core Standards in English language arts in grades 11-12 at http://www.corestandards.org.]By John Glassco. 2007
Memoirs of Montparnasse is a delicious book about being young, restless, reckless, and without cares. It is also the best…
and liveliest of the many chronicles of 1920s Paris and the exploits of the lost generation. In 1928, nineteen-year-old John Glassco escaped Montreal and his overbearing father for the wilder shores of Montparnasse. He remained there until his money ran out and his health collapsed, and he enjoyed every minute of his stay. Remarkable for their candor and humor, Glassco's memoirs have the daft logic of a wild but utterly absorbing adventure, a tale of desire set free that is only faintly shadowed by sadness at the inevitable passage of time.By Franz Kafka. 2020
'Being asked to write about Kafka is like being asked to describe the Great Wall of China by someone who's…
standing just next to it. The only honest thing to do is point.' Joshua Cohen, from his preface to He: Shorter Writings of Franz KafkaThis is a Kafka emergency kit, a congregation of the brief, the minor works that are actually major. Joshua Cohen has produced a frame that refuses distinctions between what is a story, a letter, a workplace memo and a diary entry, also including popular favourites like The Bucket Rider, The Penal Colony and The Burrow. Here we see Kafka's preoccupations in writing about animals, messiah variations, food and exercise, each in his signature style.Cohen's selection emphasises the stately structure of utterly coherent logic, within an utterly incoherent illogical world, showing how Kafka harnessed the humblest grammar to metamorphic power until the predominant effect ceases to be the presence of an unreliable narrator, but the absence of the universe's only reliable narrator. Who is God.By Dr Maya Angelou. 2008
A collection of wisdom and life lessons, from the beloved and bestselling author of I KNOW WHY THE CAGED BIRD…
SINGS 'A brilliant writer, a fierce friend and a truly phenomenal woman' BARACK OBAMADedicated to the daughter she never had but sees all around her, Letter to my Daughter reveals Maya Angelou's path to living well and living a life with meaning. Told in her own inimitable style, this book transcends genres and categories: it's part guidebook, part memoir, part poetry - and pure delight. 'She moved through the world with unshakeable calm, confidence and a fierce grace . . . She will always be the rainbow in my clouds' OPRAH WINFREY 'She was important in so many ways. She launched African American women writing in the United States. She was generous to a fault. She had nineteen talents - used ten. And was a real original. There is no duplicate' TONI MORRISONBy Elizabeth Von Arnim. 1899
I want to be alone for a whole summer, and get to the very dregs of life. I want to…
be as idle as I can, so that my soul may have time to grow. Nobody shall be invited to stay with me, and if anyone calls they will be told that I am out, or away, or sick . . . Wouldn't a whole lovely summer, quite alone, be delightful?'This delightful companion to the famous Elizabeth and her German Garden is a witty, lyrical account of a rejuvenating, solitary summer filled with books and Elizabeth's reflections on her beloved garden. Descriptions of magnificent larkspurs and burning nasturtiums give way to those of cooling forest walks. Yet the months aren't as solitary as she'd planned: there's still her husband to pacify and the April, May and June babies to amuse.By Helene Hanff. 1970
INCLUDES AN EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW WITH THE READERS'Your ad in the Saturday Review of Literature says that you specialize in out-of-print…
books. The phrase 'antiquarian book-sellers' scares me somewhat, as I equate 'antique' with expensive. I am a poor writer with an antiquarian taste in books and all the things I want are impossible to get over here except in very expensive rare editions, or in Barnes & Noble's grimy, marked-up schoolboy copies.'So begins the delightfully reticent love affair between Miss Helene Hanff of New York and Messrs Marks and Co, sellers of rare and secondhand books, at 84 Charing Cross Road, London. For 20 years, this outspoken New York writer and Frank Doel, a rather more restrained London bookseller carry on an increasingly touching correspondence. No doubt their letters would have continued, but in 1969, a letter informed Helene that Frank Doel had died. In the collection's penultimate entry, Helene Hanff urges a tourist friend, ''If you happen to pass by 84 Charing Cross Road, kiss it for me. I owe it so much.'By Ignacio Manuel Altamirano. 2017
Aquel hombre era el Zarco el famoso bandido cuyo renombre hab a llenado de terror toda la comarca…
Aqu se re nen dos de las novelas m s famosas del maestro Altamirano referente de las letras mexicanas del siglo XIX La Navidad en las monta as nos conduce al ut pico encuentro la v spera de Navidad entre un militar liberal en la Guerra de Reforma y un cura de aldea quien resulta un genuino gu a espiritual Esa noche ambos presencian el desenlace de una historia de amor entre el hu rfano del pueblo y la sobrina del alcalde El Zarco novela de bandidos narra las peripecias entre un apuesto jefe criminal de los Plateados banda que asol Yautepec antes de la Intervenci n Francesa y Manuela la muchacha m s bella del pueblo quien corresponde a sus amores sin imaginar los peligros a los que se expone mientras la poblaci n organiza grupos de autodefensa Esta nueva edici n estuvo a cargo de Luz Am rica Viveros doctora en Letras por El Colegio de M xico acad mica de la UNAM y miembro del Sistema Nacional de Investigadores Edici n de LUZ AM RICA VIVEROSBy Manuel Payno. 2017
Los mejores libros jam s escritos La presente edici n es la nica en el…
mercado basada en la versi n original publicada por Payno como novela de follet n en 1861 Y qu sabemos si con el tiempo no podr usted subir m s alto en este pa s de est pidos Aunque Manuel Payno sea reconocido por novelas como Los bandidos de R o Fr o o El fistol del diablo -obras fundacionales de la literatura mexicana- El hombre de la situaci n revela a un Payno m s concentrado m s puro y s mucho m s breve En apenas diecinueve cap tulos el autor narra con buen humor y mucha cr tica las peripecias de tres generaciones de Fulgencios Garc a Julio en el M xico del siglo XIX personajes ignorantes y ego stas traicioneros y oportunistas m s p caros que inteligentes que se encontraron con un contexto tristemente favorable al absurdo en el cual gozaron de fortuna riqueza y poder pol tico Edici n a cargo de la doctora Yliana Rodr guez Gonz lez acad mica de El Colegio de San Luis y miembro del Sistema Nacional de InvestigadoresBy Maurice Yacowar. 2010
Maurice Yacowar challenges genre and form in Roy & Me, a cross between memoir and fiction, truth and distortion. It…
is the exploration of Yacowar’s relationship with Roy Farran—soldier, politician, author, mentor—and his conflict with Farran’s anti-Semitic past.Best known for his service with the British Special Air Service during World War II, Roy Farran served as a politician in the Legislative Assembly of Alberta for Premier Peter Lougheed. During his time in Israel as a soldier, Farran allegedly kidnapped and murdered a sixteen-year-old member of the Lehi group, also known as the Stern Gang.Roy & Me is a memoir that edges toward fiction by venturing into Roy Farran’s thoughts, drawing simultaneously on his writings and Yacowar’s own imagination.By George Grossmith, Weedon Grossmith. 1999
'The funniest book in the world' Evelyn Waugh'The jewel at the heart of English comic literature' William Trevor Mr Pooter…
is a man of modest ambitions, content with his ordinary life. Yet he always seems to be troubled by disagreeable tradesmen, impertinent young office clerks and wayward friends, not to mention his devil-may-care son Lupin with his unsuitable choice of bride. In the bumbling, absurd, yet ultimately endearing character of Pooter, the Grossmith brothers created a wonderful portrait of the class system and the inherent snobbishness of the suburban middle-class suburbia - one which sends up the late Victorian crazes for Aestheticism, spiritualism and bicycling, as well as the fashion for publishing diaries by anybody and everybody. This edition contains the original illustrations by Weedon Grossmith and an introduction by Ed Glinert, author of The London Compendium, discussing the novel's serialisation in Punch, the growth of the suburbs and the figure of Mrs Pooter.George Grossmith (1847-1912) initially worked as a journalist, reporting Police Court proceedings for The Times. In 1870 he began his career as a singer and entertainer, creating some of the most memorable characters in Gilbert and Sullivan's operettas. Weedon Grossmith (1854-1919) brother of George, was educated at the Slade and the Royal Academy with a view to following a career as a painter, and exhibited at the Grosvenor Gallery and the Royal Academy. Joining a theatre company in 1885, he toured the provinces and America. The best-known of his many plays, The Night of the Party, was published in 1901.'True humour ... with its mixture of absurdity, irony and affection ... a masterpiece, immortal' J.B. Priestley