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Cambridge University Press Tacitus
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Cambridge University Press Martial Select Epigrams Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics
Book SynopsisDespite his enduring popularity, Martial has recently suffered from serious critical neglect. The present work is the first edition of selections from Martial to be published for decades, and includes a fully representative selection of the oeuvre of the poet, who has often been criticised, unfairly, the authors argue, for obscenity and flattery of the Emperor Domitian. The epigrams included in the selection are organised under various heads, e.g. Martial and poetry, sexual mores, satirical pieces. A very full introduction deals with such topics as the prejudices and predilections of his audience which conditioned Martial's choice of subject matter, Martial's language, the structure and style of the epigrams, the epigrammatic tradition and Martial's creative engagement with it. The detailed commentary is suitable for use with undergraduates and is distinguished by its focus on social history as well as literary interpretation.Trade Review'The commentary is meticulous, clear in its style and organization and exceptionally well informed … we could not hope for a better account of martial in his cultural, historical and literary context. As martial approaches his bimillenium, uninhibited once more, Watson & Watson will be the standard introduction.' The Times Literary SupplementTable of ContentsPreface; Abbreviations; Introduction; Select epigrams; 1. Martial and poetry; 2. Poet and patron; 3. Martial and the city of Rome; 4. Women; 5. Sexual mores; 6. Satirical epigrams; 7. Epideictic epigrams; 8. Funerary epigrams; Commentary; Bibliography; Indexes.
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Cambridge University Press The Courtship of Olivia Langdon and Mark Twain 101 Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture Series Number 101
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Cambridge University Press Theocritus A Selection Idylls 1 3 4 6 7 10 11 and 13 Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics
Book SynopsisThis is the first full-scale commentary on poems by Theocritus since Gow's edition of 1950, and the first to exploit the recent revolution in the study of Hellenistic and Roman poetry; the poems included in this volume (Idylls 1, 3, 4, 6, 7, 10, 11 and 13) are principally the bucolic poems which, through their influence on Virgil, established the Western pastoral tradition. The focus of the commentary is literary - both on how Theocritus exploited the classical heritage for a new type of poetry, and on what that poetry meant in the third century BC. The commentary, together with the introductory essays to each poem, makes a major contribution to the understanding of this extraordinary poetic form. The Introduction explores the meaning of 'bucolic', the presentation of a stylised countryside, the importance of eros in the bucolic world, and Theocritus' verbal and metrical style.Trade Review'… rich in brilliant and original ideas … this is an admirable volume'. EVPHROSYNE'… splendid volume … this is a stimulating and learned volume, which will do much to encourage all areas of Theocritean studies.' Classical ReviewTable of ContentsIntroduction; 1. Theocritus; 2. Bucolic poetry; 3. Loci amoeni; 4. Metre; 5. Language; 6. Transmission; Theocritus, a selection; Commentary.
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Cambridge University Press Cambridge Contributions
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Cambridge University Press Suetonius Diuus Claudius
Book SynopsisThe first-century emperor Claudius did not leave the fledgling Roman Empire as he had found it: his contribution was to turn its developing institutions into an imperial tradition. But the ancient sources represent him as an odd personality - active but manipulated by his inferiors, at once distracted and awkward and cruel. Suetonius' biography is a rich offering of both solid fact and the prejudicial anecdotes that his contemporaries and the generation that followed thought worth repeating, raw material for exploring the man and his reign. This commentary provides context for the text's abundant information, but form is not neglected, and attention is given to Suetonius' intelligent and conscious marshalling of his material, and guidance offered to students reading the biographer's often densely compressed style. This is the first English commentary on the Claudius Life to deal with both historical and stylistic issues.Trade Review'Hurley brings us the first English commentary on Suetonius' Life of Claudius to deal with both historical and stylistic issues … Hurley's commentary situates the Life of Claudius squarely at the centre of our attention and enriches our understanding of the Principate, the author, and the emperor.' Journal of Roman StudiesTable of ContentsIntroduction: 1. Suetonius and his career; 2. Biography and De uita Caesarum; 3. Claudius and his story; 4. Structure and style; 5. Text and afterlife; C. SVETONI TRANQVILLI DE VITA CAESARVM LIBER V DIVVS CLAVDIVS; Commentary.
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Cambridge University Press Cambridge Contributions
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Cambridge University Press Posidonius Volume 3 The Translation of the Fragments
Book SynopsisThis book translates the surviving evidence for one of the most important intellectual figures of the Graeco-Roman world, whose interests spread widely over philosophy, history and the sciences. The translations are accompanied by contextual introductions and explanatory notes, and a general introduction assesses the importance of Posidonius and his contribution.Trade Review"...an enjoyable read in themselves, as they open up a panoply of thought and give us amazing insight into the philosophical milieu of the Augustan and later ages." W. G. Sayles, The Celator"The success of this project cannot be overstated. It has transformed the study of Posidonius and later ancient thought in a decisive manner, especially in the English-speaking world." Brad Inwood, Bryn Mawr Classical Review"It wiil be a welcome and valuable reference for those investigating many aspects of ancient thought,especially for those interested in the history of science, historiography, and philosophy." Arthur Marmorstein, Religious Studies Review"Kidd, academia's preeminent authority on Posidonius, advances his reputation still further with this translation...The introduction alone makes the book worth owning, but this volume delivers much more...The translation is a valuable tool to anyone interested in Posidonius, Stoicism, and the intellectual life of the first century.Table of ContentsPart I. Testimonia: Life and influence; Characteristics of Posidonius' philosophy; Doubtful testimonies; Part II. Fragments and Titles of Named Books: Physics; Ethics; Logic; Sciences and history; Doubtful fragments; Part III. Fragments Not Assigned to Books: Divisions and Content of Philosophy; Physics; Ethics; Logic; Sciences; History; History of philosophy; Miscellaneous; Indices.
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Cambridge University Press Posidonius Volume 2 Commentary Part 1
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Cambridge University Press Posidonius Frag v2 Comm Part 2 Fragments Volume 2 Commentary Part 2 Cambridge Classical Texts and Commentaries Series Number 14
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Cambridge University Press Cicero
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Cambridge University Press Cicero
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Cambridge University Press Cicero
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Cambridge University Press Cicero Letters Atticus v6 Bk 1416 Letters to Atticus Volume 6 Books 1416 8 Cambridge Classical Texts and Commentaries Series Number 8
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Cambridge University Press Cicero
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Cambridge University Press Cicero
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Cambridge University Press Cicero Letters Atticus v7 Inx 16 Letters to Atticus Volume 7 Indexes 16 9 Cambridge Classical Texts and Commentaries Series Number 9
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Cambridge University Press The Classical Papers of A. E. Housman
Book SynopsisA complete collection, in three volumes, of the classical articles and reviews of A. E. Housman. These papers were originally published between 1882 and 1936 in a variety of academic journals, many of which are now difficult to obtain.Table of ContentsPreface; List of editions consulted; Abbreviations; The Classical Papers.
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Cambridge University Press The Classical Papers of A. E. Housman
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Cambridge University Press Classical Papers Housman v2 Volume 2 1897 1914
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Cambridge University Press Cicero
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Cambridge University Press Cicero Epistulae ad Familiares v2 Epistulae Ad Familiares Volume 2 47 43 BC Cambridge Classical Texts and Commentaries Series Number 17
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Cambridge University Press Cicero Epist Quintum Fra et Brutum Epistulae Ad Quintum Fratrem Et M Brutum 22 Cambridge Classical Texts and Commentaries Series Number 22
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Cambridge University Press Cicero Cato Maior De Senectute 28 Cambridge Classical Texts and Commentaries Series Number 28
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Cambridge University Press Demosthenes On the Crown Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics
Book SynopsisDemosthenes' speech On the Crown is one of the finest artistic achievements of Greek prose. Delivered in an Athenian court in 330 BCE, and circulated in written form soon afterwards, the speech made an immediate impression on contemporary Greeks and for centuries served the writers and speakers of antiquity as the primary model of forceful argument and vigorous style. In this volume Harvey Yunis presents a new edition of the speech. The book contains an introductory essay outlining the historical situation that gave rise to the speech, the nature of Demosthenes' rhetorical art, and the history of the text. A new Greek text of the speech is accompanied by a select textual apparatus. The greater part of the book consists of a commentary, which elucidates the text and makes clear how Demosthenes achieved his objectives.Trade Review"I am very grateful to have this up-to-date English commentary on Demosthenes' greatest speeches available for my own research and for use in advanced Greek courses. Yunis has done the field a great service." New England Classical JournalTable of ContentsPreface; List of abbreviations; Map of Greece, Macedon and the Aegean; Introduction; 1. Athenian politics in response to Macedonian expansion; 2. The graphē paranomōn and the trial on Demosthenes' crown; 3. Explaining Chaeronea; 4. Demosthenes' rhetorical art; 5. Speech, text, transmission; Demosthenous Hyper Ktesiphontos Peri Tou Stephanou; Commentary; Appendix I. Synopsis of the argument; Appendix II. Timeline of major events; Bibliography; Index of Greek words; General index.
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Cambridge University Press Antiphon the Sophist The Fragments 39 Cambridge Classical Texts and Commentaries Series Number 39
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Cambridge University Press Constructing Literature in the Roman Republic
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to John Herschel
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to John Herschel
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Cambridge University Press A Change of Class
A Change of Class provides freshly edited texts, based on surviving manuscripts and typescripts, of twenty short stories published between 1931 and 1937. Important readings, edited out at the Post and other magazines, have been restored. The volume includes facsimiles, historical annotations, and a full record of emendation.
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Cambridge University Press Decoding Anne Lister
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Cambridge University Press The Literary Criticism of Samuel Johnson
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Cambridge University Press Image and Imagination
Book SynopsisThis selection from the writings of C. S. Lewis gathers together forty book reviews, never before reprinted, as well as four major essays which have been unavailable for many decades. A fifth essay, ''Image and Imagination'', is published for the first time. Taken together, the collection presents some of Lewis''s finest literary criticism and religious exposition. The essays and reviews substantiate his reputation as an eloquent and authoritative critic across a wide range of literature, and as a keen judge of contemporary scholarship, while his reviews of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings will be of additional interest to scholars and students of fantasy.Trade Review'C. S. Lewis [was] one of the very best critics writing in English in the twentieth century, vivid, provoking, and eloquent, as well as deeply learned in the literature of Europe from the ancient classics to his own time, with a special mastery of medieval and Renaissance poetry. He is now popularly better known for his fiction and his religious writings than his literary criticism. But it is his gifts as a critic which will endure as his truly pre-eminent legacy. Like Samuel Johnson, on whose personality and writings Lewis modelled himself, he is a commentator whose insights and opinions are enriching even when one disagrees with them, raising central questions and offering challenging perspectives … There is no essay by Lewis on any writer that does not provoke attention and inspire awe at his energy and clarity of mind.' Claude Rawson, Yale University'Almost nothing Lewis wrote is without apercu, often unexpected, always cogently expressed.' Times Literary SupplementTable of ContentsPart I. Reflections on Literature; Part II. The Inklings; Part of The Lord of the Rings); Part of The Lord of the Rings); The Return of the King (being the Third Part of The Lord of the Rings); Part of The Lord of the Rings); Part III. Reflections on Christianity; Part IV. Classical Literature; Part V. Medieval and Renaissance Literature; Part VI. Milton and Later English Literature.
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Cambridge University Press M Fabii Quintiliani Institutionis Oratoriae Liber I Edited with Introduction and Commentary
Book SynopsisOriginally published in 1924, this book contains the Latin text of the first book of Quintillian's Institutionis Oratoriae. Quintillian's work on oratorical principles was much respected during the revival of Classical learning in the Renaissance, but largely forgotten subsequently. Colson supplies a detailed exegetical commentary, as well as a thorough history of the composition of Quintillian's work and its transmission through the ages. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in ancient oratory or in this long-neglected text.Table of ContentsPreface; Contents; Introduction; Text and commentary; Analysis and summary; Additional notes; Conspectus of differences between the text of Halm, Meister and Radermacher and this edition; The codes Joannensis; Bibliographical notes; Note on some variations in spelling in the text, etc.; Indexes.
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Cambridge University Press Fitzgerald My Lost City
Book SynopsisFitzgerald planned to publish a collection of his personal essays, but never did. Fortunately he left behind a table of contents, and it has been possible to reconstruct the collection that he envisioned, as My Lost City. This volume features authoritative texts, a textual apparatus, and full explanatory notes.Trade Review'The result is a wealth of context for these very contemporary essays …' Peter Shillingsburg, De Montfort UniversityTable of ContentsIntroduction; Part I. Fitzgerald's Selections, 1936: 1. Who's Who - and Why (1920); 2. Princeton (1927); 3. What I Think and Feel at 25 (1922); 4. How to Live on $36,000 a Year (1924); 5. How to Live on Practically Nothing a Year (1924); 6. Imagination - and a Few Mothers (1923); 7. 'Wait Till You Have Children of Your Own!' (1924); 8. How to Waste Material (1926); 9. One Hundred False Starts (1933); 10. Ring (1933); 11. A Short Autobiography (1929); 12. Girls Believe in Girls (1930); 13. My Lost City (1935/1940); 14. 'Show Mr. and Mrs. F. to Number' (1934); 15. Echoes of the Jazz Age (1931); 16. The Crack-Up (1936); 17. Pasting It Together (1936); 18. Handle with Care (1936); Part II. Additional Essays, 1936–1940: 19. Auction - Model 1934 (1934); 20. Sleeping and Waking (1934); 21. Author's House (1936); 22. Afternoon of an Author (1936); 23. An Author's Mother (1936); 24. Early Success (1937); 25. My Generation (1939); Record of Variants; Explanatory notes; Illustrations; Appendix 1. 'Show Mr. and Mrs. F. to Number -'; Appendix 2. Publication and Earnings.
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Cambridge University Press Essays from the Guardian
Book SynopsisWalter Pater (183994) was the foremost Victorian writer on art and on aesthetic experience. Published alongside Pater's collected works of 19001, this collection reprints his literary essays from The Guardian, composed in the late 1880s. They include reviews of new publications of English and French poetry and prose.Table of Contents1. English literature; 2. Amiel's Journal Intime; 3. Browning; 4. Robert Elsmere; 5. Their Majesties' servants; 6. Wordsworth; 7. Mr. Gosse's poems; 8. Ferdinand Fabre; 9. The Contes of M. Augustin Filon.
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to Nineteen EightyFour
George Orwell''s Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949) remains a book of the moment. This Companion builds on successive waves of generational inheritance and debate in the novel''s reception by asking new questions about how and why Nineteen Eighty-Four was written, what it means, and why it matters. Chapters on a selection of the novel''s interpretative contexts, the literary histories from which it is inseparable, the urgent questions it raises, and the impact it has had on other kinds of media, ranging from radio to video games, open up the conversation in an expansive way. Established concerns (e.g. Orwell''s attitude to the working class, his anxieties about the socio-political compartmentalization of the post-war world) are presented alongside newer ones (e.g. his views on evil, and the influence of Nineteen Eighty-Four on comics). Individual essays help us see in new ways how Orwell''s most famous work continues to be a novel for our times.
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Cambridge University Press Dante Convivio
Book SynopsisDante''s Convivio, composed in exile between 1304 and 1307, is a series of self-commentaries on three of Dante''s long poems. These allegorical love poems and philosophical verse become the basis for philosophical, literary, moral, and political exposition. The prose is written in Italian so that those who were not educated in Latin could take part in what Dante called his ''banquet of knowledge''. In this edition, eminent Dante translator-scholar Andrew Frisardi offers the first fully annotated translation of the work into English, with an extensive introduction, making Dante''s often complex writings accessible to scholars and students. The parallel Italian text is also included for the first time in an English translation of the Convivio. Readers of this work can gain a strong understanding of the philosophical themes across Dante''s work, including the Divine Comedy, as well as the logic, politics and science of his time.Trade Review'As well as a translation, [Frisardi] offers the most recent Italian text, … along with a long thoughtful introduction and more than 200 pages of notes. … The Convivio … demands application and reflection. Frisardi provides serious, up-to-date help for the willing anglophone reader - substantial nourishment.' Peter Hainsworth, The Times Literary Supplement'Andrew Frisardi's new dual-language translation situates itself carefully into [a] flourishing current of contemporary work, and makes a most welcome addition to the available literature. … Frisardi's excellent edition-translation and its apparatus is to be welcomed for its concern to present afresh the Convivio to an anglophone readership and for the ways it foregrounds its importance and multifaceted character as one of Dante's most important 'other works'.' Simon Gilson, Speculum'I welcome this book as one of the finest heralds of an upcoming, new phase in the life of Dante's Convivio.' Ambrogio Camozzi Pistoja, Temenos Academy ReviewTable of ContentsTranslator's preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction: the Convivio: a portrait; Dante and Lady Philosophia-Sapientia; Dante's quest for knowledge; Dante and nobility; Convivio: Book I; Book II; Book III; Book IV; Appendix: prose translations of the 'Three Canzoni'; Abbreviations; Notes; Bibliography; Index.
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to The Canterbury Tales
Book SynopsisChaucer''s best-known poem, The Canterbury Tales, is justly celebrated for its richness and variety, both literary - the Tales include fabliaux, romances, sermons, hagiographies, fantasies, satires, treatises, fables and exempla - and thematic, with its explorations of courtly love and scatology, piety and impiety, chivalry and pacifism, fidelity and adultery. Students new to Chaucer will find in this Companion a lively introduction to the poem''s diversity, depth, and wonder. Readers returning to the Tales will appreciate the chapters'' fresh engagement with the individual tales and their often complicated critical histories, inflected in recent decades by critical approaches attentive to issues of gender, sexuality, class, and language.Trade Review'This essay collection lives up to its aim, as stated in the back matter: to 'deliver an accessible introduction to the variety, depth, and wonder of Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales.' Grady (Univ. of Missouri, St. Louis) emphasizes the volume's utility not just for students but also for faculty assigned to teach Chaucer and for the general reading public.' D. W. Hayes, Choice'… this collection is a welcome addition to the field of Chaucer studies that will provide its intended readers with a plethora of approaches, questions, and suggestions to refresh their reading of this venerated author.' Josephine A. Koster, Speculum: A Journal of Medieval StudiesTable of ContentsList of illustrations; List of contributors; Preface; Note on the text; Chronology; List of abbreviations; 1. The form of the Canterbury tales Marion Turner; 2. Manuscripts, scribes, circulation Simon Horobin; 3. The general prologue Steven Justice; 4. The knight's tale and the estrangements of form Mark Miller; 5. The miller's tale and the art of solaas Maura Nolan; 6. The man of law's tale Catherine Sanok; 7. The wife of bath's prologue and tale Elizabeth Scala; 8. The friar's tale and the summoner's tale in word and deed David K. Coley; 9. Griselda and the problem of the human in the clerk's tale Holly A. Crocker; 10. The franklin's symptomatic sursanure Peter W. Travis; 11. The pardoner and his tale Kathy Lavezzo; 12. The prioress's tale Steven F. Kruger; 13. The nun's priest's tale Mishtooni Bose; 14. Moral Chaucer Frank Grady; 15. Chaucer's sense of an ending Patricia Clare Ingham and Anthony Bale; 16. Postscript: How to talk about Chaucer with your friends and colleagues; Reading Chaucer: Easier than you think? David Matthews; Scholarship or distraction? new forums for talking about Chaucer Ruth Evans; Talking about Chaucer with school teachers David Raybin; Who will pay? Stephanie Trig; Further reading, Index.
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Small Wonder
Book SynopsisIn twenty-two wonderfully articulate essays, Barbara Kingsolver raises her voice in praise of nature, family, literature, and the joys of everyday life while examining the genesis of war, violence, and poverty in our world From the author of High Tide in Tucson, comes Small Wonder, a new collection of essays that begins with a parable gleaned from recent news: villagers search for a missing infant boy and find him, unharmed, in the cave of a dangerous bear that has mothered him like one of her own. Clearly, our understanding of evil needs to be revised. What we fear most can save us. From this tale, Barbara Kingsolver goes on to consider the chasm between the privileged and the poor, which she sees as the root cause of violence and war in our time. She writes about her attachment to the land, to nature and wilderness, trees and mountains-the place from which she tells her stories. Whether worrying about the dangers of genetically engineered food crops, or creating opportuniti
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc The Collected Prose
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Time Bites Views and Reviews
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Emersons Essays First and Second Series
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Testaments Betrayed
Book SynopsisA defense of fiction and a lesson in the art of reading. —New York Times Book ReviewTestaments Betrayed is to be savored paragraph by paragraph. . . . It must be purchased, read, pondered, and argued within the margins. And frequently reread. — Washington PostA brilliant and thought-provoking essay from one of the twentieth century’s masters of fiction, Testaments Betrayed is written like a novel: the same characters appear and reappear throughout the nine parts of the book, as do the principal themes that preoccupy the author. Kundera is a passionate defender of the moral rights of the artist and the respect due a work of art and its creator’s wishes. The betrayal of both—often by their most passionate proponents—is one of the key ideas that informs this strikingly original and elegant book.
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc High Tide in Tucson Essays from Now or Never
Book SynopsisClever. . . magical. . . beautifully crafted. Kingsolver spins you around the philosophic world a dozen times. — Milwaukee SentinelThere is no one quite like Barbara Kingsolver in contemporary literature, raves the Washington Post Book World, and it is right. Kingsolver''s critically acclaimed writings always entertain and touch her legions of loyal fans. In High Tide in Tucson, she returns to her familiar themes of family, community, the common good, and the natural world. The title essay considers Buster, a hermit crab that accidentally stows away on Kingsolver''s return trip from the Bahamas to her desert home, and turns out to have manic-depressive tendencies. Buster is running around for all he''s worth—one can only presume it''s high tide in Tucson. Kingsolver brings a moral vision and refreshing sense of humor to subjects ranging from modern motherhood to the history of private pr
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Modern American Memoirs
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Aphrodite
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Maps and Legends
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