A Company of Readers

A Company of Readers
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Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Total Pages : 328
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ISBN-10 : 9780743202626
ISBN-13 : 0743202627
Rating : 4/5 (26 Downloads)

Synopsis A Company of Readers by : Wystan Hugh Auden

A collection of 45 columns and essays by the three eminent writers, originally written for the bulletin of the Readers' Subscription Book Club.

The Cross of Redemption

The Cross of Redemption
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Publisher : Vintage
Total Pages : 401
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ISBN-10 : 9780307275967
ISBN-13 : 0307275965
Rating : 4/5 (67 Downloads)

Synopsis The Cross of Redemption by : James Baldwin

From one of the most brilliant and provocative literary figures of the past century—a collection of essays, articles, reviews, and interviews that have never before been gathered in a single volume. “An absorbing portrait of Baldwin’s time—and of him.” —New York Review of Books James Baldwin was an American literary master, renowned for his fierce engagement with issues haunting our common history. In The Cross of Redemption we have Baldwin discoursing on, among other subjects, the possibility of an African-American president and what it might mean; the hypocrisy of American religious fundamentalism; the black church in America; the trials and tribulations of black nationalism; anti-Semitism; the blues and boxing; Russian literary masters; and the role of the writer in our society. Prophetic and bracing, The Cross of Redemption is a welcome and important addition to the works of a cosmopolitan and canonical American writer who still has much to teach us about race, democracy, and personal and national identity. As Michael Ondaatje has remarked, “If van Gogh was our nineteenth-century artist-saint, Baldwin [was] our twentieth-century one.”

One Man's Chorus

One Man's Chorus
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Publisher : Carroll & Graf Pub
Total Pages : 380
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ISBN-10 : 0786706996
ISBN-13 : 9780786706990
Rating : 4/5 (96 Downloads)

Synopsis One Man's Chorus by : Anthony Burgess

In a collection of nonfiction writings, the British novelist addresses his childhood, his experiences in Malaysia and Monaco, his own work and its critics, and the work of his contemporaries

Nabokov's Butterflies

Nabokov's Butterflies
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Publisher : Beacon Press
Total Pages : 820
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ISBN-10 : 0807085405
ISBN-13 : 9780807085400
Rating : 4/5 (05 Downloads)

Synopsis Nabokov's Butterflies by : Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov

"Literature and Lepidoptera dance an elaborate pas de deux through seventy years of Vladimir Nabokov's life, from his boyhood in Russia to his life as an emigre in the Crimea, Berlin, France, the United States, and finally in Switzerland. An American literary giant, Nabokov also produced first-rate work as a scientist, and in his fiction and elsewhere eloquently advocated attention to the details of the natural world and promoted the delights of discovery." "Nabokov's Butterflies presents Nabokov's twin passions through an astonishingly rich array of novel selections, stories, poems, screenplay, autobiography, criticism, lecturers, articles, reviews, interviews, letters, and notes, plus a wealth of beautiful and fanciful drawings by Nabokov and photographs of him in the field."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

The Uncollected Essays of Elizabeth Hardwick

The Uncollected Essays of Elizabeth Hardwick
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Publisher : National Geographic Books
Total Pages : 0
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ISBN-10 : 9781681376233
ISBN-13 : 1681376237
Rating : 4/5 (33 Downloads)

Synopsis The Uncollected Essays of Elizabeth Hardwick by : Elizabeth Hardwick

Essays on music, art, pop culture, literature, and politics by the renowned essayist and observer of contemporary life, now collected together for the first time. The Uncollected Essays of Elizabeth Hardwick is a companion collection to The Collected Essays, a book that proved a revelation of what, for many, had been an open secret: that Elizabeth Hardwick was one of the great American literary critics, and an extraordinary stylist in her own right. The thirty-five pieces that Alex Andriesse has gathered here—none previously featured in volumes of Hardwick’s work—make it clear that her powers extended far beyond literary criticism, encompassing a vast range of subjects, from New York City to Faye Dunaway, from Wagner’s Parsifal to Leonardo da Vinci’s inventions, and from the pleasures of summertime to grits soufflé. In these often surprising, always well-wrought essays, we see Hardwick’s passion for people and places, her politics, her thoughts on feminism, and her ability, especially from the 1970s on, to write well about seemingly anything.

The Collected Essays of Elizabeth Hardwick

The Collected Essays of Elizabeth Hardwick
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Publisher : New York Review of Books
Total Pages : 641
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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.

The Prince's Tale and Other Uncollected Writings

The Prince's Tale and Other Uncollected Writings
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Publisher : Andre Deutsch
Total Pages : 362
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ISBN-10 : UOM:39015047454361
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (61 Downloads)

Synopsis The Prince's Tale and Other Uncollected Writings by : Edward Morgan Forster

The aim of the Abinger Editions is to provide a new, properly edited library of the literary works of E.M. Forster that does justice to his literary genius. When E.M. Forster felt that he had dried up as a novelist he turned to literary criticism, a field in which he excelled, as this compilation of his work demonstrates. Arnold Bennett called him the best reviewer in London.

Carolee Schneemann

Carolee Schneemann
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 167
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ISBN-10 : 0991558553
ISBN-13 : 9780991558551
Rating : 4/5 (53 Downloads)

Synopsis Carolee Schneemann by : Carolee Schneemann

"Edited by art historian Branden W. Joseph, the texts span diverse formats: included are journal entries, criticism, poems, essays and performance notes culled primarily from short-run magazines such as Caterpillar, Film Culture, The Fox, Manipulations and Matter, as well as academic journals such as Performing Arts Journal and Art Journal and mainstream media outlets including the New York Times and the Village Voice. The book serves as a companion to Schneemann's two earliest books - 'Parts of a Body House Book' and 'Cézanne, She Was a Great Painter' - offering new perspectives on the artist's life, work and ideas through many writings that have never been reproduced in their original form. It features Schneemann?s reflections on her own works, including 'Meat Joy,' 'Divisions and Rubble,' and 'Kitch?s Last Meal.'--Artbook& website (viewed on February 12, 2018).

My Kumaon

My Kumaon
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Publisher : OUP India
Total Pages : 162
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ISBN-10 : 9780198082897
ISBN-13 : 0198082894
Rating : 4/5 (97 Downloads)

Synopsis My Kumaon by : Jim Corbett

This collection includes Jim Corbett's unpublished writings on man-eaters, nature, and his beloved Kumaon, personal letters, articles written for newspapers and gazettes by his contemporaries, and letters exchanged between Corbett and his publisher showcasing the development of his bestselling books-all from the archives of the Oxford University Press.

Victory Is Assured

Victory Is Assured
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Publisher : National Geographic Books
Total Pages : 0
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ISBN-10 : 9781324090908
ISBN-13 : 1324090901
Rating : 4/5 (08 Downloads)

Synopsis Victory Is Assured by : Stanley Crouch

The grievous loss of Stanley Crouch, one of America’s most renowned intellectuals, is underscored by the posthumous appearance of these remarkable essays. With Stanley Crouch’s untimely death in 2020, American literature lost “a critic without peer” (Ta-Nehisi Coates). Born in Los Angeles in 1945, Crouch—a towering stylist, fearless columnist, and without question, one of the finest jazz critics of all time—was Rabelaisian both in stature and in intellectual appetite. Beloved yet cantankerous, Crouch delighted and enflamed the passions of his readers in equal measure, whether writing about race, politics, literature, or music. In these essays—some discovered on his computer, unpublished until now—Crouch tackles subjects ranging from Malcolm X (“a thorned bud standing in the shadow of sequoias”) to the films of Quentin Tarantino (“With Django, Tarantino has slipped down . . . into a shallow and bloodstained hip-hop turn that his own best work has well-refuted”). Introduced by Jelani Cobb, with an afterword by Wynton Marsalis, and collected by his longtime editor Glenn Mott, Victory Is Assured canonizes the legacy of an inimitable, indispensable American critic.