The Loves and Love Poems of Edna St. Vincent MillayThis is the story of a rare sort of American genius, who grew up in grinding poverty in Camden, Maine. Nothing could save the sensitive child but her talent for words, music, and d...9999903095514Epstein, Daniel Mark
Holt Paperbacks
viernes, 15 de marzo de 2024
An Anthology of the World's Greatest Diarists"A diary is an assassin's cloak which we wear when we stab a comrade in the back with a pen, (William Soutar). This remarkable anthology includes entries from more than 170 diarist...9999903092568Irene Taylor, Alan Taylor...
Canongate Books
sábado, 9 de marzo de 2024
On Dishonest TimesMark Greif is one of the most exciting writers of his generation. In Against Everything, he make us rethink the ordinary, taking our own lives seriously, exploring how we might liv...9999903091929Mark Greif
Verso
viernes, 8 de marzo de 2024
New and Selected EssaysThroughout his career, Adam Phillips has lent a fresh and incisive dimension to the art of the literary essay. This title collects nineteen pieces that have best defined his thinki...9999903091868Adam Phillips
Penguin
viernes, 8 de marzo de 2024
Essays and Reviews, 1971-2000This volume consists of a selection of the author's reviews and essays over the past quarter-century. It covers the work of other writers and topics including chess, nuclear weapon...9999903089025Martin Amis,
Vintage
jueves, 7 de marzo de 2024
The MLA Handbook is published by the Modern Language Association, the authority on MLA documentation style. Widely adopted in high schools, colleges, and publishing houses, the MLA...9999903088462Modern Language Associati...
Editors Varis
jueves, 7 de marzo de 2024
Sixth Edition Volume 1An anthology introducing the major authors and works of English literature from the Middle Ages through the Restoration and the Eighteenth Century.9999903088295Meyer Howard Abrams
W. W. Norton & Company
jueves, 7 de marzo de 2024
Drawing on his experience as both a writer and a book reviewer, Braine's practical hand-book is considered by many to be a classic guide to the art of writing a novel. The author's...9999903088158John Braine
Methuen Publishing Ltd
jueves, 7 de marzo de 2024
Essays, 1992-2000In an anthology of essays, Vidal shares his thoughts on a wide range of literary, historical, political, and personal subjects, from appreciation for Mark Twain to distressing deve...9999903087250GORE VIDAL
Vintage
sábado, 2 de marzo de 2024
Why Writers DrinkWhy is it that some of the greatest works of literature have been produced by writers in the grip of alcoholism, an addiction that cost them personal happiness and caused harm to t...9999903083375Olivia Laing
Canongate Books Ltd
sábado, 17 de febrero de 2024
An incredibly useful guide for aspiring authors and playwrights. This volume categorizes every dramatic situation which could occur in a story and describes them in a list of 36 si...9999903082514Polti Georges Polti Georg...
Editors Varis
sábado, 10 de febrero de 2024
A bullet train of a book, fast-paced, hilarious, rich with action. A harbinger of good things to come in mysterious ways. It all began at a cocktail party at Wallace Stegner's for ...9999903081760Ken Babbs
Editors Varis
sábado, 10 de febrero de 2024
An electrifying celebration of science writingA SPECTATOR BEST BOOK OF 2021'Richard Dawkins is a thunderously gifted science writer.' Sunday Times'It may be a collection of shorter parts, but the book is in no sense Dawkins ma...9999903081753Richard Dawkins
Editors Varis
sábado, 10 de febrero de 2024
Life with John SteinbeckAs the son of a celebrated literary icon, John Steinbeck IV grew up in a privileged world peopled by the literati and the intellectual elite. Sadly, it was also a world of alcoholi...9999903081746John Steinbeck Nancy Stei...
Prometheus Books
sábado, 10 de febrero de 2024
Or, How to Be an AnarchistAn engaging invitation to rediscover Henry Miller ??and to learn how his anarchist sensibility can help us escape ??the air-conditioned nightmare ? of the modern worldThe America...9999903081722John Burnside
Princeton University Press
sábado, 10 de febrero de 2024
Why He Matters More Than Ever'If a thing loves, it is infinite' William Blake A short, impassioned argument for why the visionary artist William Blake is important in the twenty-first century The visionary p...9999903081715John Higgs
Weidenfeld and Nicolson
sábado, 10 de febrero de 2024
Life of William Blake, Pictor IgnotusLIVES THAT NEVER GROW OLD Part of a radical new series - edited by Richard Holmes - that recovers the great classical tradition of English biography. Gilchrist's 'The Life of Willi...9999903081692Alexander Gilchrist
HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
sábado, 10 de febrero de 2024
A Biography of George Orwell's 1984George Orwell's last novel has become one of the iconic narratives of the modern world. Its ideas have become part of the language - from 'Big Brother' to the 'Thought Police', 'Do...9999903081685Dorian Lynskey
Picador
sábado, 10 de febrero de 2024
A Memoir, 1945-1951Christopher Isherwood settled in California in 1939 and spent the war years writing for Hollywood, but by 1945 he had all but ceased to write fiction and even abandoned his habit o...9999903080947Isherwood, Christopher
Editors Varis
jueves, 8 de febrero de 2024
For over three decades, on both sides of the Atlantic, Tynan was at the hot centre of the theatre and film worlds. He knew everybody; and everybody wanted to know him. His diaries ...9999903071433Kenneth Tynan
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
sábado, 20 de enero de 2024
This first English language biography of Bertolt Brecht (1898 ??1956) in two decades paints a strikingly new picture of one of the twentieth century's most controversial cultural i...9999903068037Stephen Parker
Bloomsbury UK
miércoles, 17 de enero de 2024
A LifeOne of the most popular and mysterious figures in American literary history, author of the classic Catcher in the Rye, J. D. Salinger eluded fans and journalists for most of his li...9999903067887Kenneth Slawenski
Vintage
miércoles, 17 de enero de 2024
You have an idea. A great idea. Now what? Whether you dream of having your name on the cover of a successful book (and 81% of Americans believe they have a book in them), or you ?r...9999903061304Arielle Eckstut David Ste...
Workman Publishing Company
lunes, 8 de enero de 2024
Selected EssaysFrom Svevo, Saba and Joyce in Trieste to Borges, Rushdie and psychopathology, Tim Parks' new collection of essays confirms his mastery of the essay form. Other subjects include Sar...9999903056928Tim Parks
London : Vintage, 2002.
sábado, 23 de diciembre de 2023
James Joyce is known most widely as a "difficult" writer, even if he is no longer thought of as a "dirty" one. This book shows how even the shortest passage of Joyce's writing can ...9999903056843Derek Attridge
Granta Books
sábado, 23 de diciembre de 2023
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