Author: Robert NicholPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
Essays on interesting subjects, with letters, addressed to a friend, on the origin and progress of learning and philosophy ... The second edition, with considerable improvements and additions
Author: Robert NicholMrs. E. B. Browning's Life, Letters & Essays: Letters ... addressed to Richard Hengist Horne
Author: Elizabeth Barrett BrowningPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 382
Book Description
Out of the Dark
Author: Helen KellerPublisher:
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Category : Blind
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
The hand of the world -- How I became a socialist -- An appeal to reason -- The workers' right -- The modern woman -- An apology for going to college -- To the new college girl -- A letter to an English woman-suffragist -- How to become a writer -- Our duties to the blind -- What the blind can do -- Preventable blindness -- The plain truth -- the truth again -- The conservation of eyesight -- The training of a blind child -- A letter to Mark Twain -- The heaviest burden on the blind -- What to do for the blind -- The unemployed blind -- The education of the deaf -- The gift of speech -- The work of De L'Epee -- The message of Swedenborg -- Christmas in the dark -- A new chime for the Christmas bells.
The Collected Essays & Addresses of the Rt. Hon. Augustine Birrell, 1880-1920 ...
Author: Augustine BirrellPublisher:
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
The Reading Zone
Author: Nancie AtwellPublisher: Scholastic Professional
ISBN: 9780545948746
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Provides teachers with a method to help students develop into passionate, life-long readers.
Letters and Essays ...: Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, addressed to Richard Hengist Horne
Author: Elizabeth Barrett BrowningPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 442
Book Description
Pound/Joyce; the Letters of Ezra Pound to James Joyce
Author: Ezra PoundPublisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811201599
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
Donated by Michael Dillon, June 2009.
Precision and Soul
Author: Robert MusilPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226554090
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 331
Book Description
"We do not have too much intellect and too little soul, but too little precision in matters of the soul."—Robert Musil Best known as author of the novel The Man without Qualities, Robert Musil wrote these essays in Vienna and Berlin between 1911 and 1937. Offering a perspective on modern society and intellectual life, they are concerned with the crisis of modern culture as it manifests itself in science and mathematics, capitalism and nationalism, the changing roles of women and writers, and more. Writing to find his way in a world where moral systems everywhere were seemingly in decay, Musil strives to reconcile the ongoing conflict between functional relativism and the passionate search for ethical values. Robert Musil was born in 1880 and died in 1942. His first novel, Young Törless, is available in English. A new two-volume translation by Burton Pike and Sophie Wilkins of The Man without Qualities is forthcoming from Alfred A. Knopf. "Now we have these thirty-one invaluable and entertaining pieces, from an article on 'The Obscene and Pathological in Art' to the equally provocative talk 'On Stupidity,' which, with a new translation of The Man without Qualities forthcoming . . . amount to a literary event for the reader of English comparable to Constance Garnett's massive translation of Chekhov's stories."—Joseph Coates, Chicago Tribune "Musil is one of the few great moderns, one of the handful who ventured to confront the issues that shape and define our time. . . . He has a range and a striking capacity every bit as great as that of Mann, Joyce, or Beckett."—Boston Review "These essays are crucial in understanding a writer and critic whose lifelong task was an attempt to resolve the dichotomy between the precision of scientific form and the soul—the matter of life and art."—Choice
Catalogue of the Library of the Society of Brothers in Unity, Yale College, April, 1846
Author: Society of Brothers in Unity (Yale College). LibraryPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
Why I Write
Author: George OrwellPublisher: Renard Press Ltd
ISBN: 1913724263
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 15
Book Description
George Orwell set out ‘to make political writing into an art’, and to a wide extent this aim shaped the future of English literature – his descriptions of authoritarian regimes helped to form a new vocabulary that is fundamental to understanding totalitarianism. While 1984 and Animal Farm are amongst the most popular classic novels in the English language, this new series of Orwell’s essays seeks to bring a wider selection of his writing on politics and literature to a new readership. In Why I Write, the first in the Orwell’s Essays series, Orwell describes his journey to becoming a writer, and his movement from writing poems to short stories to the essays, fiction and non-fiction we remember him for. He also discusses what he sees as the ‘four great motives for writing’ – ‘sheer egoism’, ‘aesthetic enthusiasm’, ‘historical impulse’ and ‘political purpose’ – and considers the importance of keeping these in balance. Why I Write is a unique opportunity to look into Orwell’s mind, and it grants the reader an entirely different vantage point from which to consider the rest of the great writer’s oeuvre. 'A writer who can – and must – be rediscovered with every age.' — Irish Times