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This 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
By 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
By 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
By 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
By 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 poetryMemoirs of a dutiful daughter
By Simone Beauvoir. 1959
In this initial volume of her autobiography, the French author traces the first twenty-one years of her life and provides…
insights into the development of her philosophy. As an adolescent she seeks to shed her family's bourgeois values while struggling to find acceptance for her ideas in a climate generally unreceptive to female intellectuals. She meets Sartre at the Sorbonne and begins their lifelong friendshipThe tragedy of Coriolanus
By William Shakespeare. 1962
Written in the early seventeenth century, the tragedy deals with Caius Marcius, a haughty Roman general who is given the…
surname Coriolanus after defeating the Volscians in the battle of Corioli. Persuaded to seek election to the consulship, he is eventually banished from Rome by fickle plebeians. The play records his attempts to get revengeThe great code: the Bible and literature
By Northrop Frye. 1982
A professor of English literature examines the Old and New Testaments as repositories of myth and metaphor and shows how…
this basic knowledge can enhance the reading of Western literature. He discusses the language people use in talking about the Bible and emphasizes its structural unityCall it courage
By Armstrong Sperry. 1940
Mafatu is the son of a great chief of a Polynesian island, where courage is a man's most respected quality.…
But Mafatu is afraid of the sea. For grades 4-7. Newbery MedalBoys from different generations of the same family reveal what it is like to grow up in Europe in the…
sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Michael, apprenticed to a merchant at fourteen, asserts his rights as he forges his career. Homesick Friederich is coached by his mother about girls and spending money. Stephan Carl pays for his adventuresome spiritA Noel Perrin sampler
By Noel Perrin. 1991
This Cambridge-educated native New Yorker is learning the rural ways of New England. In the process, which has now lasted…
well over thirty years, he has written about his experiences, ranging in place from the library to the barn, and in subject from a lampoon on poetic research to hints on saving a marriage. Nothing is sacred. Perrin takes on the pillars of academe as readily as he does his neighbors, finding a penchant for the same human foibles in eachGrumbles from the grave
By 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 buildingMythologies québécoises (Collection Palabres)
By Sarah-Louise Pelletier-Morin. 2021
Je suis née entre le débat constitutionnel et le référendum de 1995 sur l'indépendance du Québec. J'ai grandi avec l'idée…
que le Québec était une société distincte, libre et capable d'assumer son destin. S'il a toujours été évident, à mes yeux, que le peuple québécois avait une identité forte et un caractère propre, il me semble encore aujourd'hui laborieux de décrire avec précision cette spécificité sans revenir inlassablement aux mêmes lieux communs: la langue française, le statut politique de la province, le Code civil, le passé catholique, l'hiver, le hockeyPerformance
By Simon Liberati. 2023
Performance, ou la rencontre explosive entre un romancier en perdition, sa ravissante belle-fille et les Rolling Stones de la première…
époque. Un écrivain de 71 ans, déserté par l'inspiration après un AVC et menacé d'interdit bancaire, se voit proposer une série télévisuelle sur les débuts des Stones, de leur arrestation pour usage de stupéfiants en 1967 à la mort de Brian Jones en 1969. Voilà qui va lui permettre de vivre son histoire d'amour scandaleuse et passionnée avec Esther, dont un demi-siècle le sépare. Tous deux le savent, leur amour est condamné : elle a la beauté du diable, lui approche du terme fixé par le diable de Faust, de Don Juan, de Dracula. Mais la grâce de la jeunesse perdue fait miraculeusement ressurgir de l'abîme Marianne Faithfull, Anita Pallenberg et Brian Jones. Ce roman au souffle éblouissant met en scène la dernière aventure d'un écrivain qui vampirise l'innocence d'un amour réprouvé pour insuffler vie à ses personnagesBio of an ogre: the autobiography of Piers Anthony to age 50
By 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
By 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 civilization60 songs that explain the '90s
By Rob Harvilla. 2023
A companion to the #1 music podcast on Spotify, this book takes readers through the greatest hits that define a…
weirdly undefinable decade. The 1990s were a chaotic and gritty and utterly magical time for music, a confounding barrage of genres and lifestyles and superstars, from grunge to hip-hop, from sumptuous R&B to rambunctious ska-punk, from Axl to Kurt to Missy to Santana to Tupac to Britney. In 60 SONGS THAT EXPLAIN THE '90s, Ringer music critic Rob Harvilla reimagines all the earwormy, iconic hits Gen Xers pine for with vivid historical storytelling, sharp critical analysis, rampant loopiness, and wryly personal ruminations on the most bizarre, joyous, and inescapable songs from a decade we both regret entirely and miss desperatelyThe way of chai: Recipes for a meaningful life
By Kevin Wilson. 2023
In this celebration of the comfort and community to be found in a warm, well-made cup of chai, Kevin Wilson…
offers readers his famous chai recipes alongside meditations on how to live a simple yet full life. Dubbed "the CEO of Chai" by Bon Appétit magazine, Kevin Wilson is an expert on all things chai. When Wilson was a teenager, his family in Sri Lanka applied to come to America, but his was the only visa approved. A world away from his country and so many of his loved ones, he stayed connected to his culture and his family through chai. One day Wilson made a TikTok about how to make the perfect cup of chai—carefully crushing cardamom, cloves, peppercorns, and cinnamon bark, boiling them in milk, adding tea leaves, and stirring until he saw what he describes as "the color of a happy brown boy." The video went viral and earned Wilson many fans who come for the useful guidance on how to make chai but stay for his wise meditations on how the perfect "cuppa" can soothe and sustain us—even in the most trying of times. In this book, Wilson shares his most popular recipes and introduces readers to making chai as a spiritual practice that involves patience and attunement to meld just the right combination of spices. In The Way of Chai Wilson beautifully describes how something as simple as a well-made cup of tea can bring us solace amid our struggles. While a steaming cup of chai can’t solve everything, it can help us tap into the power of patience, clarity, and intention