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Coriolanus
[Special Illustrated Edition] [Free Audio Links]
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2013
Coriolanus is a tragedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written between 1605 and 1608. The play is based on the life of the legendary Roman leader Caius Marcius Coriolanus.
[Critical appraisal]
A. C. Bradley described this play as "built on the grand scale," like King...
See What Can Be Done
Essays, Criticism, and Commentary
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2018
A New York Times Critic's Top Pick of the Year
This essential, enlightening, truly delightful collection shows one of our greatest writers parsing the political, artistic, and media landscape of the past three decades. These sixty-six essays and reviews, culled from the pages of The New York...
Forty-one False Starts
Essays on Artists and Writers
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2013
A National Book Critics Circle Finalist for Criticism
A deeply Malcolmian volume on painters, photographers, writers, and critics.
Janet Malcolm's In the Freud Archives and The Journalist and the Murderer, as well as her books about Sylvia Plath and Gertrude Stein, are canonical in the...
Long Day's Journey Into Night
Critical Edition
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2014
Toward the end of the nineteenth century, the British embarked on a concerted series of campaigns in South Africa. Within three years they waged five wars against African states with the intent of destroying their military might and political independence and unifying southern Africa under imperial control....
by Anaïs Nin
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2012
Essays, lectures, and interviews—on everything from gender relations to Ingmar Bergman to adventure travel—from the renowned diarist.
In this collection, the author known for “one of the most remarkable diaries in the history of letters” shares her unique perceptions of people, places,...
by Elizabeth Hardwick, Darryl Pinckney
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2017
The first-ever collection of essays from across Elizabeth Hardwick's illustrious writing career, including works not seen in print for decades.
Elizabeth Hardwick wrote during the golden age of the American literary essay. For Hardwick, the essay was an imaginative endeavor, a serious form,...
Ponteach, or the Savages of America
A Tragedy
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2010
Pontiac, or Ponteach, was a Native American leader who made war upon the British in what became known as Pontiac's Rebellion (1763 to 1766). One of the earliest accounts of Pontiac is a play, written in 1766 by the famous frontier soldier Robert Rogers, of the Rangers. Ponteach, or the Savages of...
Soul at the White Heat
Inspiration, Obsession, and the Writing Life
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2016
A new collection of critical and personal essays on writing, obsession, and inspiration from National Book Award-winning and New York Times bestselling author Joyce Carol Oates.
"Why do we write?"
With this question, Joyce Carol Oates begins an imaginative exploration of the writing...
What Light Can Do
Essays on Art, Imagination, and the Natural World
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2012
Universally lauded poet Robert Hass offers a stunning, wide-ranging collection of essays on art, imagination, and the natural world—with accompanying photos throughout.
What Light Can Do is a magnificent companion piece to the former U.S. Poet Laureate’s Pulitzer Prize and National Book...
Don't Save Anything
Uncollected Essays, Articles, and Profiles
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
James Salter was an extremely beloved author and this is the first publication of his work to be published posthumously.
Salter is a PEN/Faulker and PEN/Malamud award winner
An important addition for accounts with serious literary sections, with shelving also encouraged in travel and criticism
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Music in the Air
The Selected Writings of Ralph J. Gleason
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2016
The co-founder of Rolling Stone magazine, Ralph J. Gleason was among the most respected journalists, interviewers, and critics writing about popular music in the latter half of the twentieth century. As a longtime contributor to the San Francisco Chronicle, Down Beat, and Ramparts, his expertise and...
by Inger Christensen
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2018
For the first time available in English, a selection of some of Inger Christensen’s most insightful essays and poetic prose pieces
The Condition of Secrecy is a poignant collection of essays by Inger Christensen, widely regarded as one of the most influential Scandinavian writers of the twentieth...
by Tony Hoagland
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2019
An award-winning poet and teacher demystifies poetry’s most elusive element.
In this accessible and distilled craft guide, acclaimed poet Tony Hoagland approaches poetry through the frame of poetic voice, that mysterious connective element that binds the speaker and reader together. A poem...
Rereadings
Seventeen writers revisit books they love
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2006
Is a book the same book-or a reader the same reader-the second time around? The seventeen authors in this witty and poignant collection of essays all agree on the answer: Never.
The editor of Rereadings is Anne Fadiman, and readers of her bestselling book Ex Libris (FSG, 1998) will find this...