Author: William Cullen BryantPublisher:
ISBN:
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Languages : en
Pages : 450
Book Description
Essays, tales, and orations
Author: William Cullen BryantPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 450
Book Description
Essays, tales, and orations
Author: William Cullen BryantProse Writings: Essays, tales, and orations
Author: William Cullen BryantPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 446
Book Description
Essays, Tales, and Orations
Author: William Cullen BryantMy Magazine. Being a Series of Poems, Tales, Sketches, Essays, Orations, Etc
Author: Edward HindProse Writings...
Author: William Cullen BryantPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 431
Book Description
Tales, Speeches, Essays, and Sketches
Author: Mark TwainPublisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0140434178
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 449
Book Description
These short fiction and prose pieces display the variety of Twain's imaginative invention, his diverse talents, and his extraordinary emotional range. Twain was a master of virtually every prose genre; in fables and stories, speeches and essays, he skilfully adapted, extended or satirized literary conventions, guided only by his unruly imagination. From the comic wit that sparkles in maxims from 'Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar,' to the parodic perfection of 'An Awful - Terrible Medieval Romance,' to the satirical delights of The Innocents Abroad and Roughing It; from the warm nostalgia of 'Early Days' to the bitter, brooding tone of 'The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg' to the anti-imperial vehemence of 'To the Person Sitting in the Darkness' and the poignant grief expressed in 'Death of Jean', Twain emerges in this volume in many guises, all touched by genius. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
At the Same Time
Author: Susan SontagPublisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 1429922974
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
"A writer is someone who pays attention to the world," Susan Sontag said in her 2003 acceptance speech for the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade, and no one exemplified this definition more than she. Sontag's incisive intelligence, expressive brilliance, and deep curiosity about art, politics, and the writer's responsibility to bear witness have secured her place as one of the most important thinkers and writers of the twentieth century. At the Same Time gathers sixteen essays and addresses written in the last years of Sontag's life, when her work was being honored on the international stage, that reflect on the personally liberating nature of literature, her deepest commitment, and on political activism and resistance to injustice as an ethical duty. She considers the works of writers from the little-known Soviet novelist Leonid Tsypkin, who struggled and eventually succeeded in publishing his only book days before his death; to the greats, such as Nadine Gordimer, who enlarge our capacity for moral judgment. Sontag also fearlessly addresses the dilemmas of post-9/11 America, from the degradation of our political rhetoric to the appalling torture of prisoners in Abu Ghraib. At the Same Time, which includes a foreword by her son, David Rieff, is a passionate, compelling work from an American writer at the height of her powers, who always saw literature "as a passport to enter a larger life, the zone of freedom."
Author: William C. Bryant
Author: Edward Hind