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By Paul Auster, J. M. Coetzee. 2013
Collection of letters exchanged between J.M. Coetzee, Nobel Prize winner for literature, and Paul Auster, author of Winter Journal (DB…
75501), begun in July 2008, shortly after they met. Coetzee and Auster discuss the nature of friendship, cultural taboos, and books they have read, among other topics. 2013By William Zinsser. 2012
Collection of fifty-eight of journalist Zinsser's essays previously published on the American Scholar website. Topics include culture and arts, the…
craft of writing, the tech age, and language. In "Hats Off" Zinsser ruminates on the state of men's hats and where to store them. 2013By Robert Louis Stevenson. 2011
By Peter Ackroyd. 2005
Brief account of fourteenth-century poet Geoffrey Chaucer, author of The Canterbury Tales (BR 13235). Discusses Chaucer's royal service to the…
Duke of Clarence and Edward III and his legal problems. Examines Chaucer's poem Troilus and Criseyde, which is considered the first modern work of English literature. 2004By Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov. 1989
Autobiographical sketches chronicle the author's upper-class childhood in Russia, the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution that forced his family into exile in…
Europe, and his 1940 move to the United States. First published in 1951 under the title Conclusive Evidence and revised in 1966. 1947By Benjamin Franklin. 2000
Selections from Benjamin Franklin's almanacs, which were published for a quarter-century beginning in 1732 and included agricultural predictions, meteorological data,…
and maxims. This edition focuses on observations and aphorisms such as "eat to live, not live to eat." Introduction by humorist Dave Barry. 2000By Christopher Hitchens. 2012
Hitchens (1949-2011), author of Why Orwell Matters (DB 74336), chronicles his battle with esophageal cancer, which began with his diagnosis…
in June 2010. Describes accepting the inevitability of death and the questions of faith he dealt with as an avowed atheist. Includes afterword by Hitchens's widow Carol Blue. Bestseller. 2012By Jean-Claude Perrier. 2010
" Issue d'un Empire ottoman flamboyant et puissant, la Turquie moderne, fondée sous l'impulsion de Mustafa Kemal - surnommé Atatürk…
( Père des Turcs ) - en 1923, fascine toujours les voyageurs et questionne les politiques. Istanbul en est la ville emblématique, qui s'étend sur les deux rives du Bosphore, à cheval sur l'Europe et l'Asie. Mais il faut aussi évoquer Ankara, sa capitale, Izmir ou Brousse, visiter les temples d'Éphèse, s'arrêter à Smyrne (devenue Izmir), dans les stations balnéaires du Sud, visiter l'aride Cappadoce... La Turquie, ce pays d'antique civilisation , selon l'expression d'André Malraux, offre en effet des visages multiples. Voyage au pays des sultans, des soufis, des derviches tourneurs, des bazars, des narghilés, des pâtisseries et des mosquées, en compagnie d'Homère, Virgile, Soliman le Magnifique, Jean Racine... " -- 4e de couvBy Amy Sickels. 2010
Examines the lives and works of eight renowned African American authors. Includes short biographies, summaries, and literary analyses on Maya…
Angelou, Toni Morrison, Ernest J. Gaines, Walter Dean Myers, Alice Walker, August Wilson, Charles Johnson, and Gloria Naylor. For senior high and older readers. 2010By Elie Wiesel. 2011
" De violentes douleurs à la poitrine, un médecin rassurant : "Rien au coeur" Quelques jours après, pourtant, ce dernier…
flanche. Incrédule, récalcitrant, Elie Wiesel est opéré à New York, in extremis. Au bloc, il a toutes les raisons de croire qu'il va s'enfoncer dans un silence définitif. Ce passage de la vie à la mort - tout sauf un vide, découvre-t-il - se peuple d'émotions, de visages, de mémoires, d'interrogations sur lui-même et sur Dieu. Bilan d'une existence et d'une mission. Revenu à la vie, le Prix Nobel de la paix, auteur immortel de La Nuit, inlassable ambassadeur de la tolérance, Juif universel qui n'a, au moment de partir, qu'une seule certitude, sa foi, livre le récit si rare de cette traversée du mur invisible. " -- 4e de couvBy Victoria Hanley. 2008
Presents creative-writing tips and exercises, from freewriting to understanding the elements of fiction. Provides examples for character development, motivation, and…
perspective. Assesses difficult aspects of writing fiction, such as creating the setting and mood, and infusing your style and voice into the story. For junior and senior high readers. 2008Discusses the Great Books of the Western World, a fifty-four-volume anthology that debuted in 1952 and took the country by…
storm--generating thousands of book-discussion groups. Examines the men and marketing behind the project and the reasons the series, containing works by dead white males, eventually fell out of favor. 2008By Cooper Edens. 2009
Western adventures of explorers, cowboys, and Indians are commemorated in poems, songs, and stories. Includes folk legends of Pecos Bill…
and Paul Bunyan, and real-life exploits of Lewis and Clark and Daniel Boone. For grades 5-8 and older readers. 2009By Ursula K. Le Guin. 2016
A collection of talks, essays, introductions, and book reviews from the well-known award-winning science fiction author. These pieces focus on…
investigating the depth and breadth of contemporary fiction to explore the world through the lens of deep consideration. 2016By Thomas Keneally. 2008
Author of Schindler's List (RC 20835, BR 9689) describes his novel-writing process. Recalls his 1980 chance encounter with Holocaust survivor…
Leopold Pfefferberg in Beverly Hills, which led to Keneally writing about Oskar Schindler, a Nazi who saved hundreds of Jews from death camps. Some strong language. 2007By Fred Kaplan. 2008
Explores the life of Abraham Lincoln through the language of his writings. Posits that Lincoln's boyhood readings of Burns, Byron,…
Shakespeare, Aesop's fables, and the Bible shaped his ideas about liberty, love, and human nature and led to his use of clear, common speech to convey morality and democracy. 2008By Michael Dirda. 2007
Pulitzer Prize-winning book critic introduces roughly ninety literary authors and recommends some of his favorite works of fantasy, science fiction,…
horror, adventure, biography, history, and poetry. Contains essays on writers Ovid, Petronius, Agatha Christie, and Philip K. Dick and on Arthurian romances and H. Rider Haggard's She. 2007Novelist explores the relationships among five writers of the transcendentalist movement who clustered around the home of wealthy Ralph Waldo…
Emerson in Concord, Massachusetts, during 1840-1868. Highlights their intertwined families and the love affairs that contributed to the creation of their literary masterpieces. 2006By Maya Angelou. 2008
Author of I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (RC 57200, BR 15665) shares life lessons in the form of…
reminiscences, poems, and short essays with her thousands of young daughters all over the world. In "Senegal" Angelou commits a social faux pas that her hostess graciously ignores. Bestseller. 2008By J. G. Ballard. 2013
Autobiography of the author of Empire of the Sun (DB 22409). Describes his youth in Shanghai, incarceration in a Japanese…
prison camp, and later life in England. Includes introduction by China Mieville, author of The City and the City (DB 72153). 2008