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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 civilizationShort stories
By 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
By 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
By 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
By 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 readerThe dangerous summer
By 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
By 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
By 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 SnyderThe Great War and modern memory
By 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
By 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). 2001Come, Read With Me
By Margriet Ruurs, Christine Wei. 2021
Production note: This title was created through eBOUND's Literary Image Description project. The author and illustrator wrote or consulted on…
the image descriptions, which are included in the body and narration of the text. In this picture book about stories and reading, contemporary children are whisked through an imaginary world while interacting with characters from classic fairy tales.