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Classics for pleasure
By 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. 2006Washington Irving: an American original
By Brian Jay Jones. 2008
Biography of Washington Irving (1783-1859), author of The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (DB 51748, BR 8876). Chronicles Irving's New York…
upbringing, his years abroad, the 1809 death of his fiancée, and the publication of the satirical Knickerbocker's History of New York, which secured his literary reputation and celebrity. 2008Defines plagiarism, copyright, and fair use, specifically applying these legal concepts to students. Discusses research projects, citations, music and software…
downloads, and the permissions process. Provides advice on protecting your own creative work. For junior and senior high readers. 2008Nobody knows my name: more notes of a native son (Vintage International)
By James Baldwin. 1993
Essays drawn from Baldwin's personal experiences in America and Europe. Baldwin writes about race relations, the writer's role in society,…
a Paris conference of black artists and writers, and his association with novelists Richard Wright and Norman Mailer. Sequel to Notes of a Native Son (RC 33260). 1954The adventures of a cello
By Carlos Prieto. 2006
Internationally acclaimed concert cellist details the history of the Piatti cello, made by Antonio Stradivari in 1720. Chronicles its owners…
and travels from eighteenth-century Italy to twenty-first-century North America. Discusses violin making, cello repertoire, and composers and cellists. 1998Notes of a native son (Beacon Paperback Ser.)
By James Baldwin. 1984
Collection of autobiographical essays depicting the author's early life in Harlem and his later experiences as an African American living…
abroad. The selections reflect his personal focus on the black experience, calling it "the gate I had to unlock before I could hope to write about anything else." 1955Katherine Anne Porter: the life of an artist (Willie Morris books in memoir and biography)
By Darlene Harbour Unrue. 2005
Professor uses personal letters to pen a biography of American author Katherine Anne Porter (1890-1980). Describes Porter's impoverished childhood and…
numerous unsuccessful marriages as well as her health scares with tuberculosis and the 1918 Spanish flu. Analyzes the political and social conditions that influenced Porter's writing. 2005Here if you need me: a true story
By Kate Braestrup. 2007
A chaplain for the Maine Warden Service relates being widowed with four children after her state-trooper husband was killed. Explains…
her decision to follow his dream of becoming a Unitarian Universalist minister. Describes her deep faith and comforting of those who lost loved ones. 2007How to enjoy Shakespeare
By Robert Thomas Fallon. 2005
Concise guide to understanding aspects of Shakespeare's plays that can seem unfamiliar and troublesome to contemporary readers or theatergoers. In…
simple, direct prose, the author elucidates daunting language, convoluted plots, and oftentimes perplexing theme, staging, and character issues, frequently referencing episodes and quotations from the bard's work. 2005The bedside book of birds: an avian miscellany
By Graeme Gibson. 2005
A compilation of stories, poems, essays, and scientific observations exploring human fascination with birds. Selections span the centuries from Aristotle…
and Ovid to Charles Darwin, Edgar Allan Poe, Peter Matthiessen, and Margaret Atwood. Dorothy Hartley explains in "Goose Grease" the characteristics and uses of this fat. 2005Brave new world revisited (Perennial Classics Ser.)
By Aldous Huxley. 2000
Series of essays in which the author examines various threats to human freedom predicted in his 1930s satirical novel Brave…
New World (DB 47108). Discusses overpopulation, government propaganda, brainwashing, chemically induced as well as subconsciously suggested persuasion, and education, along with possible countermeasures. 1958Seaworthy: adrift with William Willis in the golden age of rafting
By T. R Pearson. 2006
Chronicles the life of German-born sailor William Willis (1893-1968), highlighting his voyages aboard small crafts of his own design and…
construction. Describes his 1954 115-day, trans-Pacific solo journey (with a cat and a parrot), during which he endured injuries, ailments, storms, and other calamities and survived by drinking seawater. 2006Break, blow, burn: Camille Paglia Reads Forty-three Of The World's Best Poems
By Camille Paglia. 2005
Concise interpretive commentaries on forty-three of the world's best poems. Ranges from well-known works by Shakespeare, Donne, Wordsworth, Shelley, Dickinson,…
and Yeats to more modern pieces by Langston Hughes, Theodore Roethke, Sylvia Plath, Wanda Coleman, and Joni Mitchell. 2005The poet's guide to life: the wisdom of Rilke
By Rainer Maria Rilke. 2005
Philosophical nuggets selected from seven thousand letters that convey the early-twentieth-century poet Rainer Maria Rilke's contemplations on topics such as…
work, solitude, death, language, art, love, and enjoying a full life. Selections, translations from French and German, and introduction by New York University professor Ulrich Baer. 2005Letters to a young poet
By Rainer Maria Rilke. 2002
In ten letters written to an aspiring poet, Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926) reveals his own creative genius. Rilke's correspondence provides…
insights into his greatest poetry as well as his ideas of art, love, and death. Translated from German and introduced by Reginald Snell. 1903A year in the life of William Shakespeare, 1599: 1599
By James Shapiro. 2005
Professor highlights a seminal year in Shakespeare's life that included the writing of four plays--Henry V, Julius Caesar, As You…
Like It, and Hamlet--and the building of the Globe Theatre. Portrays turmoil surrounding rebellion in Ireland, creation of the East India Company, and political intrigue. 2005Elevator music: a surreal history of Muzak, easy-listening, and other moodsong
By Joseph Lanza. 2007
Surveys the twentieth-century development of background music--a subdued, unobtrusive genre such as that used in elevators, hotels, and restaurants. Chronicles…
the history of the Muzak corporation from the 1920s and the parallel growth of easy-listening instrumentals, while discussing prominent musicians, various applications, and cultural prejudice. Includes discography. 2004The coldest winter: a stringer in liberated Europe
By Paula Fox. 2005
Memoir of the young writer Paula Fox, who in 1946 earned enough money to sail from New York to London.…
She recounts her travels in post-war Europe with little money but many adventures and encounters with interesting people. Sequel to Borrowed Finery (BR 14313). 2005Frédéric Chopin et George Sand: de la rupture aux souvenirs
By Xavier Vezzoli. 2010
" La liaison de George Sand et Frédéric Chopin a souvent été source de controverses et de polémiques. Surtout en…
ce qui concerne leur rupture et les deux années qui suivirent. Durant cette période, la romancière se plaignit souvent que Chopin la dénigrait sous l'inspiration de sa fille Solange. A la lecture de certaines lettres du musicien, on constatera que cela n'était pas toujours faux. Après la disparition de Chopin, on écrivit au contraire que suite à leur rupture, il n'exprimait aucune récrimination envers George Sand et ne parlait jamais d'elle avec aigreur. On affirma même qu'il répétait souvent combien celle-ci lui manquait, et que son décès fut provoqué par le chagrin de cette rupture. Sa mort devint alors une version masculine de La Dame aux camélias. Cet essai a pour but de mieux comprendre les raisons de ces contradictions afin de se rapprocher au plus près de la vérité. Pour cela il aura été nécessaire de commencer par étudier les circonstances qui précédèrent la rupture, de continuer avec les polémiques qui suivirent celle-ci, pour conclure sur les premières biographies de Chopin et les souvenirs que les deux artistes conservèrent l'un de l'autre. " -- 4e de couv