Collected Essays
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Author |
: Elizabeth Hardwick |
Publisher |
: New York Review of Books |
Total Pages |
: 641 |
Release |
: 2017-10-17 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781681371542 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1681371545 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (42 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Collected Essays of Elizabeth Hardwick by : Elizabeth Hardwick
The first-ever collection of essays from across Elizabeth Hardwick's illustrious writing career, including works not seen in print for decades. A New York Times Notable Book of 2017 Elizabeth Hardwick wrote during the golden age of the American literary essay. For Hardwick, the essay was an imaginative endeavor, a serious form, criticism worthy of the literature in question. In the essays collected here she covers civil rights demonstrations in the 1960s, describes places where she lived and locations she visited, and writes about the foundations of American literature—Melville, James, Wharton—and the changes in American fiction, though her reading is wide and international. She contemplates writers’ lives—women writers, rebels, Americans abroad—and the literary afterlife of biographies, letters, and diaries. Selected and with an introduction by Darryl Pinckney, the Collected Essays gathers more than fifty essays for a fifty-year retrospective of Hardwick’s work from 1953 to 2003. “For Hardwick,” writes Pinckney, “the poetry and novels of America hold the nation’s history.” Here is an exhilarating chronicle of that history.
Author |
: Ralph Ellison |
Publisher |
: Modern Library |
Total Pages |
: 817 |
Release |
: 2011-06-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780307797025 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0307797023 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (25 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Collected Essays of Ralph Ellison by : Ralph Ellison
Compiled, edited, and newly revised by Ralph Ellison’s literary executor, John F. Callahan, this Modern Library Paperback Classic includes posthumously discovered reviews, criticism, and interviews, as well as the essay collections Shadow and Act (1964), hailed by Robert Penn Warren as “a body of cogent and subtle commentary on the questions that focus on race,” and Going to the Territory (1986), an exploration of literature and folklore, jazz and culture, and the nature and quality of lives that black Americans lead. “Ralph Ellison,” wrote Stanley Crouch, “reached across race, religion, class and sex to make us all Americans.”
Author |
: James Baldwin |
Publisher |
: Library of America James Baldw |
Total Pages |
: 904 |
Release |
: 1998-02 |
ISBN-10 |
: UOM:39015041612683 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (83 Downloads) |
Synopsis James Baldwin: Collected Essays (LOA #98) by : James Baldwin
"Chronology. Notes.
Author |
: Barbara Ehrenreich |
Publisher |
: Twelve |
Total Pages |
: 384 |
Release |
: 2020-03-24 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781455543687 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1455543683 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (87 Downloads) |
Synopsis Had I Known by : Barbara Ehrenreich
Winner of the 2021 PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay, HAD I KNOWN contains the most provocative, incendiary, and career-making pieces by bestselling author, essayist, political activist, and "veteran muckraker" Barbara Ehrenreich (The New Yorker). A self-proclaimed "myth buster by trade," Barbara Ehrenreich has covered an extensive range of topics as a journalist and political activist, and is unafraid to dive into intellectual waters that others deem too murky. Now, Had I Known gathers the articles and excerpts from a long-ranging career that most highlight Ehrenreich's brilliance, social consciousness, and wry wit. From Ehrenreich's award-winning article "Welcome to Cancerland," published shortly after she was diagnosed with breast cancer, to her groundbreaking undercover investigative journalism in Nickel and Dimed, to her exploration of death and mortality in the New York Times bestseller, Natural Causes, Barbara Ehrenreich has been writing radical, thought-provoking, and worldview-altering pieces for over four decades. Her reviews have appeared in the New York Times Book Review, the Washington Post, the Atlantic Monthly, and the Los Angeles Times Book Review, among others, while her essays, op-eds and feature articles have appeared in the New York Times, Harper's Magazine, the New York Times Magazine, Time, the Wall Street Journal, and many more. Had I Known pulls from the vast and varied collection of one of our country's most incisive thinkers to create one must-have volume.
Author |
: Henry David Thoreau |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 744 |
Release |
: 2001-04-23 |
ISBN-10 |
: UOM:39015050470585 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (85 Downloads) |
Synopsis Henry David Thoreau: Collected Essays and Poems (LOA #124) by : Henry David Thoreau
A collection of essential writings features Thoreau's poetry and essays on nature, materialism, conformity, and politics; including such works as "Slavery in Massachusetts," "Civil Disobedience," "A Winter Walk," and "Life Without Principle."
Author |
: |
Publisher |
: Macmillan |
Total Pages |
: 292 |
Release |
: 2002-05 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0805070850 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780805070859 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (50 Downloads) |
Synopsis Writers on Writing by :
Collects inspirational essays celebrating the art of writing, including contributions from Russell Banks, Saul Bellow, and E.L. Doctorow.
Author |
: Simon Leys |
Publisher |
: New York Review of Books |
Total Pages |
: 577 |
Release |
: 2013-07-30 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781590176382 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1590176383 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (82 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Hall of Uselessness by : Simon Leys
An NYRB Classics Original Simon Leys is a Renaissance man for the era of globalization. A distinguished scholar of classical Chinese art and literature and one of the first Westerners to recognize the appalling toll of Mao’s Cultural Revolution, Leys also writes with unfailing intelligence, seriousness, and bite about European art, literature, history, and politics and is an unflinching observer of the way we live now. The Hall of Uselessness is the most extensive collection of Leys’s essays to be published to date. In it, he addresses subjects ranging from the Chinese attitude to the past to the mysteries of Belgium and Belgitude; offers portraits of André Gide and Zhou Enlai; takes on Roland Barthes and Christopher Hitchens; broods on the Cambodian genocide; reflects on the spell of the sea; and writes with keen appreciation about writers as different as Victor Hugo, Evelyn Waugh, and Georges Simenon. Throughout, The Hall of Uselessness is marked with the deep knowledge, skeptical intelligence, and passionate conviction that have made Simon Leys one of the most powerful essayists of our time.
Author |
: Thomas Henry Huxley |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 360 |
Release |
: 1896 |
ISBN-10 |
: RUTGERS:39030037843598 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (98 Downloads) |
Synopsis Collected Essays by : Thomas Henry Huxley
Author |
: Graham Greene |
Publisher |
: Random House |
Total Pages |
: 287 |
Release |
: 2010-10-02 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781409040323 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1409040321 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (23 Downloads) |
Synopsis Collected Essays by : Graham Greene
Collected Essays contains nearly eighty essays, reviews and occasional pieces composed between novels, plays and travel books over four prolific decades. From Henry James and Somerset Maugham to Ho Chi Minh and Kim Philby, the range of subjects is eclectic and stimulating; his subjects brought vividly to life. The resulting collection is as revealing as autobiography and characteristically rich in humour, insight and doubt.
Author |
: Fernando Flores |
Publisher |
: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 2013-04-25 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1478378484 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781478378488 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (84 Downloads) |
Synopsis Conversations for Action and Collected Essays by : Fernando Flores
How do we create value for ourselves and others while at the same time participating in today's free market economy? How do we produce results while at the same time developing relationships where we take care of each other in the process? Today, instead of productively and joyfully engaging with broad networks of people, we are increasingly stressed by our working relationships. With networked technology, disconnecting is becoming increasingly more difficult. In order to build productive and trusting relationships, we must learn skills that will enable us to build trust, coordinate our commitments more effectively, listen to each other and build networks of commitments for the sake of producing value for ourselves, for our families, for the organizations in which we participate, for our communities, and for our world as a whole. The essays in this collection offer a framework for developing more effective, productive relationships in the workplace or in any context where a person must coordinate with others to make something happen. The essays describe how to effectively make commitments that allow us to create something of value. Describing Flores' network of commitments/conversations for action framework, a framework that has been cited in more than three thousand books, the author paints a vivid view of language as action rather than just words that transfer information from one place (the speaker) to another (the listener). When people engage in conversations, commitments are made, and spaces of possibilities are opened up. Therefore, the theme is of "instilling a culture of commitment" in our working relationships, allowing us to focus on what we are creating of value together rather than the ongoing stress of attempting to calculate tradeoffs of individual interests. Edited by Maria Flores Letelier, it was Maria's mission to make available works that had rested as private papers in hard copy form only for twenty to thirty years. She selected and edited a group of essays and placed them in an effective order for the reader.