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Cornell University Press The Education of Cyrus
Book SynopsisIn The Education of Cyrus, Xenophon confronts the vexing problem of political instability by exploring the character and behavior of the ruler.Trade ReviewThe Education of Cyrus is a major work of classical political philosophy that provides a portrait of extraordinary political ambition.... Ambler's precise translation makes it possible to engage in a close textual reading that establishes Xenophon as an important political thinker. * Translation Review *There are many reasons to welcome this fresh, precise, and graceful English rendering of the Cyropaedia, the first since 1914. It is, of course, a central text for the study of Greek military technique in the age of professional warfare that leads up to Alexander. But it is much, much more.... Ambler's superb translation, accompanied by a glossary that matches key terms in the Greek with their semantic fields in English, and excellent notes, is an unfailing guide to the nuances of the Greek text and is bound to become the standard English reference edition. * Journal of Military History *Wayne Ambler's elegant translation deserves to become the standard English version of this work. * The Weekly Standard *
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Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press Second Nature A Gardeners Education
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Stanford University Press Classical Japanese Prose An Anthology
Book SynopsisThis volume brings together in convenient form a rich selection of Japanese prose dating from the ninth to the seventeenth centuries, a period during which the preeminent cultural and aesthetic values were those of the Heian court. It contains 22 works representing all the major indigenous literary forms, either complete or in generous excerpts, and is particularly rich in writing by women and in autobiographical writings. This anthology contains longer selections than the only other available anthology, which was published in the 1950s, and each selection is preceded by an introduction reflecting the most recent scholarship. With three exceptions, all the translations are by the compilers, and almost all of them are published here for the first time.Because of space limitations, the compiler has omitted the two long masterpieces of the age, The Tale of Genji and The Tale of Heike, which deserve to be read in their entirety, and which are available in papTrade Review"McCullough deserves our thanks and gratitude for compiling this anthology."—Monumenta NipponicaTable of ContentsContents A. B.
£31.50
Edinburgh University Press James Boswells Life of Johnson
Book SynopsisThe third and penultimate volume in the Yale Research Edition's genetic transcription of the manuscript of Boswell's biographical masterwork.
£95.00
Pathfinder Books Ltd How Far We Slaves Have Come South Africa and Cuba
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Prospect Books John Evelyn Cook The Manuscript Recipe Book of
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Liberty Fund Inc Union and Liberty Political Philosophy of John
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Liberty Fund Inc In Defense of Freedom Related Essays
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Gallery Books Black Joy: Stories of Resistance, Resilience, and
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Random House USA Inc Let Me Tell You What I Mean
Book SynopsisNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From one of our most iconic and influential writers, the award-winning author of The Year of Magical Thinking: a timeless collection that reveals what would become Joan Didion''s subjects, including the press, politics, California robber barons, women, and her own self-doubt. Didion’s remarkable, five decades-long career as a journalist, essayist, novelist, and screen writer has earned her a prominent place in the American literary canon, and the twelve early pieces collected here underscore her singularity.—O Magazine With a forward by Hilton Als, these pieces from 1968 to 2000, never before gathered together, offer an illuminating glimpse into the mind and process of a legendary figure. They showcase Joan Didion''s incisive reporting, her empathetic gaze, and her role as an articulate witness to the most stubborn and intractable truths of our time (The New York Ti
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Alfred A. Knopf Murakami T
Book SynopsisThe famously reclusive novelist opens his eclectic closet, showing readers his extensive and personal T-shirt collection, and providing short, frank essays that have been translated into English for the first time. Illustrations.
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Harvard University Press Lives Volume XI
Book SynopsisPlutarch (ca. AD 45–120) wrote on many subjects. His forty-six Parallel Lives are biographies planned to be ethical examples in pairs, one Greek figure and one similar Roman, though the last four lives are single. They not only record careers and illustrious deeds but also offer rounded portraits of statesmen, orators, and military leaders.
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Harvard University Press History of the Peloponnesian War Volume III
Book SynopsisThe Peloponnesian War was really three conflicts (431–421, 415–413, and 413–404 BC) that Thucydides was still unifying into one account when he died some time before 396 BC. Although unfinished and as a whole unrevised, in brilliance of description and depth of insight this history has no superior.
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Harvard University Press Jottings under Lamplight
Book SynopsisLu Xun (1881–1936) is widely considered the greatest writer of twentieth-century China. Although primarily known for his two slim volumes of short fiction, he was a prolific, inventive essayist. These 62 essays—20 translated for the first time—showcase his versatility as a master of prose forms and his brilliance as a cultural critic.Trade ReviewOffers readers insight into one of the most prolific and tormented minds of twentieth-century Chinese letters. The essays in Jottings reveal Lu Xun’s responses to the political and cultural issues of the day, and are a record as well as an analysis of China’s modern dilemma: a country enmeshed in its abiding Confucian traditions of autocracy and hierarchy while aspiring to be an equal to the great world civilization…It is timely to encounter these works today, for although the People’s Republic is anything but voiceless under Xi Jinping, it has paradoxically become silent. -- Geremie Barmé * New York Review of Books *Jottings under Lamplight is a long-awaited, well-curated selection of some of Lu Xun’s best essays. It lays bare his ambivalence and uncertainty, rather than glossing over them…Lu Xun was a master of high snark…In this collection [his] vicious little gems shine…Lu Xun remains largely unknown among English-language readers, but hopefully increasing access to his works will generate more interest in one of the 20th century’s most influential figures. -- Liz Carter * Los Angeles Review of Books *Jottings under Lamplight makes an invaluable contribution to the study of modern China and modern world literature. This collection brings some of Lu Xun’s best-known essays together with occasional writings that capture his brilliance as a scholar and his biting wit as an observer of culture and politics. -- Michael Gibbs Hill, College of William & Mary[The editors] have done a masterful job of selecting and organizing these essays…It is now a century after Lu Xun’s earlier work. His appeal remains today, certainly to all who care about modern Chinese literature. One might ask how he is faring with his own people now: his themes are still relevant to them. As in his own time, the authorities of today surely resist his influence. This outstanding collection provides clear evidence that Lu Xun will remain a powerful voice to successive generations in China and around the world. -- Edward S. Krebs * Chinese Historical Review *Editors Cheng and Denton have assembled an often searing and sometimes startling collection of essays by renowned early 20th-century Chinese author Lu Xun…Animating every essay is Lu Xun’s deeply felt humanity. He relentlessly points out cruelty, be it a circus company half-starving a bear on gruel or the murder of dissident writers. While some essays are slight, the totality adds up to a portrait of a country struggling with uncertainty and transition, a picture just as relevant to the West today as to early-20th-century China. * Publishers Weekly *Cheng and Denton make [an] important addition to the literature by showing English readers Lu Xun’s brilliance as an essayist. The book comprises 62 of Lu Xun’s essays, translated into English by some of the best scholars in the field. -- G. Zhou * Choice *
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Interlink Publishing Group, Inc Writings On The Wall: Palestinian Oral Histories
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The New York Review of Books, Inc Ecstasy and Terror: From the Greeks to Game of
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Rocky Mountain Books Out Here: Wisdom from the Wilderness
Book SynopsisCarolyn Highland's outdoor writing will drive readers and outdoor enthusiasts to get outside and experience all that the natural world has to offer.Out Here is a collection of essays that explores what the wilderness has to teach us about the human experience, using outdoor endeavours as extended metaphors for greater truths. Each carefully chosen piece embarks on a different physical and metaphorical journey: managing expectations and reality during a medical emergency in a 40-mile ski mountaineering race; staring down fear and consequences on exposed ski lines in Alaska; re-examining self-reliance and decision-making through heartbreak and snow science; and leaving room for unexpected magic as a female travelling through Patagonia.Highland's first book inspires a deeper connection to the wilderness, a deeper connection to ourselves, and will leave readers wanting more from this fresh new voice in mountain writing.
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Random House USA Inc White
Book SynopsisOwn it, snowflakes: you've lost everything you claim to hold dear.White is Bret Easton Ellis's first work of nonfiction. Already the bad boy of American literature, from Less Than Zero to American Psycho, Ellis has also earned the wrath of right-thinking people everywhere with his provocations on social media, and here he escalates his admonishment of received truths as expressed by today's version of the left. Eschewing convention, he embraces views that will make many in literary and media communities cringe, as he takes aim at the relentless anti-Trump fixation, coastal elites, corporate censorship, Hollywood, identity politics, Generation Wuss, woke cultural watchdogs, the obfuscation of ideals once both cherished and clear, and the fugue state of American democracy. In a young century marked by hysterical correctness and obsessive fervency on both sides of an aisle that's taken o
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Caligula
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Carcanet Press Ltd Teller and the Tale
Book Synopsis'We seem to live, intellectually and emotionally, in sealed-off universes,' writes Gabriel Josipovici in an essay on Hebrew poetry in medieval Spain, just one in a lively multiverse of writings gathered in The Teller and the Tale. The book draws on a quarter of a century's worth of critical reflection on modern art and literature, Biblical culture, Jewish theology, European identity, the nature of beginnings, and the bittersweetness of writing fiction - to name but a few of the subjects upon which Josipovici's ranging, pansophic attention rests. The author describes paths between these distant regions of space and time with characteristic warmth and ingenuity. Proust, Kafka, Woolf, Pasternak, Eliot, Spark, Valery, and Beckett dwell here alongside Dante, Shakespeare, Sterne, Cervantes, and the Brothers Grimm. Each of these great writers is a point of departure for personal reflection, and a series of critical essays takes on a second life as a book of intimate recollections and fond remembrances, recalling departed friends and peers, evoking the pain and ecstasy of childhood, the personal struggle to be a writer, and the life-long project of becoming a person.Here is a snapshot of influences on one of the English language's most distinctive voices, and an opinionated, sensual, and informed exposition on Western literature and culture.Trade Review'I do not think there is any writer working in English at present who is more subtly inventive and more original.' Tales from the Reading Room; 'One of the very best writers now at work in the English language.' Guardian; 'Josipovici is one of the UK's most distinguished and fearless writers...' Deborah Levy, Jewish Quarterly
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Harvard University Press The Critical Writings of Oscar Wilde
Book SynopsisThough best known for his drama and fiction, Oscar Wilde was also a pioneering critic. He introduced the idea that criticism was an act of creation, not just appraisal. Wilde transformed the genre by extending its ambit beyond art to include society itself, all while injecting it with his trademark wit and style.Trade ReviewNo, it’s not poetry, but it’s the next best thing: prose that floats along on rhyme and rhythm…Rejoice in a book made up of what one essay calls ‘passages…[of]…pure and perfect beauty.’ * The Tablet *A remarkable collection…Students and scholars of literature will relish these witty, acerbic outings. * Publishers Weekly (starred review) *This is an absorbing volume for which all Wilde fans should be grateful. -- D. J. Taylor * Washington Examiner *A lucid guide to the dissident thought of Oscar Wilde, who attacked the genteel gender norms and philanthropic pieties of imperial Britain. At this moment of cultural crisis in the dwindling humanities, Wilde's eloquent defense of individualism, as well as his celebration of the beauty and power of art, could not be more timely. -- Camille Paglia, author of Sexual PersonaeWilde was a first-rate critic and an essayist and a thoughtful provocateur years before he became a successful playwright, a scandalous novelist, or a queer icon: he’s still a terrific critic today, with a range wider than almost anyone knows. Here are essays you’ve read if you care about Wilde already (‘The Decay of Lying’) and essays even scholars may not have seen. Here is the impossible socialist, anti-populist radical, anti-Platonic creator of Platonic dialogues, infinitely insatiable individualist, and, of course, ‘The Critic as Artist.’ If you’re like me, you owe it to yourself to return to him and check him out. We shall not see his like again. -- Stephanie Burt, author of Don’t Read PoetryIt is refreshing to see Wilde the critic take center stage. This is an astute selection showing the full range of the essays, dialogues, and reviews that helped make Oscar's name, brought together expertly by Nicholas Frankel, whose characteristically insightful introduction is essential reading. -- Kate Hext, author of Walter Pater
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University of Texas Press We Are All Armenian
Book SynopsisA collection of essays about Armenian identity and belonging in the diaspora.Trade ReviewThe 18 essays in this collection delve into questions of Armenian identity, belonging and displacement from the perspective of a community whose past often goes unacknowledged. * New York Times *Every essay from this compelling group of featured authors brings a unique and powerful perspective on what it means to search for one’s authentic identity when disconnected from homeland, language, and heritage. Textured and emotionally resonant, these entries ask the question What does it mean to be 'Armenian enough'? Together, the anthology honors the history of the lives lost and forever changed by the Armenian Genocide and resulting diaspora and charts a course forward through the power of telling and retelling important stories. It’s both a stunning achievement and a welcome addition to our literary record. * Chicago Review of Books *Part party and part opera—both delightful and wrenching, altogether joyful...Each essay builds on the last, deepening the reader’s understanding of the multi-generational impact of genocide on families and prompting contemplation on notions of ethnicity. The essays do not flinch in the face of sometimes harrowing events, but every one also offers sweetness, grace, and resolve to face these truths and to move forward with hope and compassion. It’s an exquisite collection of essays. * TriQuarterly *With passion and insight, the writers [in We Are All Armenian] explore and express the joys of and obstacles to constructing an affiliation with their ethnic and diasporic communities that does not bind them to a prescribed mode of identity and belonging. Often inventive and surprising, these accounts of searching for association without unwelcome constraints will enrich the still-expanding narrative on expressive and analytic discourses of minority identities and commitments...Highly recommended. * CHOICE *A lovely, much-needed compilation that presents a culture of great import, examining diasporic experiences in deeply-felt prose. * Nowruz Journal *Table of Contents Editor’s Note Introduction How Armenian Funeral Halva Helped My Family Find Home in America (Liana Aghajanian) Hava Nagila (Naira Kuzmich) “Where Are You From? No, Where Are You Really From?” (Sophia Armen) An Inter/Racial Love History (Kohar Avakian) Language Lessons (Nancy Kricorian) A Good, Solid Name (Olivia Katrandjian) My Armenia: Imagining and Seeing (Chris McCormick) Inside the Walls: Reflections on Revolutionary Armenians (Nancy Agabian) Going Home Again (Chris Bohjalian) Lost and Found (Aline Ohanesian) A Letter to My Great-Grandson (Raffi Joe Wartanian) Open Wounds (Anna Gazmarian) Բառէրը-the Words (J. P. Der Boghossian) The Road to Belonging (Raffy Boudjikanian) The Story of My Body (Hrag Vartanian) Valley View: An Armenian Diasporic Account in Lieu of a Glendale Biennial Review (Mashinka Firunts Hakopian) Perspectives on Artsakh from a Black Armenian Angeleno (Carene Rose Mekertichyan) We Are All Armenian (Scout Tufankjian) Acknowledgments Reading List of Armenian Writers Notes on the Contributors
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Legare Street Press Fragmente aus dem Nachlasse eines jungen Physikers ein Taschenbuch für Freunde der Natur Erstes Bändchen
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LEGARE STREET PR The Moral Obligation to be Intelligent
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£24.65
LEGARE STREET PR Selected Letters of Cicero
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Princeton University Press Pleasure and Efficacy
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Awards, Criticism Category"
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LEGARE STREET PR The Concept of Nature
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LEGARE STREET PR Ancient Ballads and Legends of Hindustan
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Renard Press Ltd A Hanging: And An Appeal for Publishing the Truth
Book SynopsisGeorge 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. A Hanging, the ninth in the Orwell’s Essays series, tells the story of the execution of an unnamed convict in Burma. With the veracity of the story unknown, but thought to be loosely based on Orwell’s own experiences in Burma, the haunting tale leaves the reader contemplating the heavy topic of colonialism, and the right of one to take the life of another.Trade Review'One of Orwell’s earliest essays, but already a demonstration of his superb and subtle craftsmanship.' (Los Angeles Times)
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc How We Do It
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St Martin's Press Zero at the Bone
Book SynopsisChristian Wiman braids poetry, memoir, and criticism to create an inspired, career-defining work. Few contemporary writers ask the questions about faith, morality, and God that Christian Wiman does, and even fewerperhaps nonedo so with his urgency and eloquence. Wiman, an award-winning poet and the author of My Bright Abyss, lays the motion of his mind on the page in this genre-defying work, an indivisible blend of poetry, criticism, theology, and searing memoir. As Marilynne Robinson wrote, [Wiman's] poetry and his scholarship have a purifying urgency that is rare in this world . . . [It] enables him to say new things in timeless language, so that the reader's surprise and assent are one and the same.Zero at the Bone begins with Wiman's preoccupation with despair, and through fifty brief pieces, he unravels its seductive appeal. The book is studded with the poetry and prose of writers who inhabit Wiman's thoughts, and the voices of Wallace Stev
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc The Best American Food and Travel Writing 2024
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Anaya Publishers El Libro de la Esperanza
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University of Minnesota Press Making Love with the Land
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Jacana Media (Pty) Ltd Rethinking Africa: Indigenous Women Re-Interpret
Book SynopsisThis book critically opens new pathways for de-colonial scholarship and the reclamation of indigenous self-definition by women scholars. Indigenous peoples around the world are often socially egalitarian and gender equal, matricentric, matrifocal, matrilineal, less violent, beyond heteronormative, ecologically sensitive, and with feminine or two-gender deities or spirits, and more. Bernedette Muthien has contributed to several publications over the years, while June Bam has made numerous key contributions in the field of rethinking and rewriting the African past more generally. In this book, indigenous women write their own herstory, define their own contemporary cultural and socio-economic conditions, and ideate future visions based on their lived realities. All chapters herstoricise the accepted 'histories' and theories of how we have come to understand the African past, how to problematise and rethink that discourse, and provide new and different herstorical lenses, philosophies, epistemologies, methodologies and interpretations. In a first of its kind in Africa and the world, this collection of essays is written by, with and for indigenous southern African women from matricentric societies.
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Penguin Books Ltd The Happy Reader 17
Book SynopsisFor avid readers and the uninitiated alike, this is a chance to reengage with classic literature and to stay inspired and entertained.The concept of the magazine is simple: the first half is a long-form interview with a notable book fanatic and the second half explores one classic work of literature from an array of surprising and invigorating angles.
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Carcanet Press Ltd Midnight in the Kant Hotel: Art in Present Times
Book SynopsisMidnight in the Kant Hotel is an absorbing account of contemporary art, composed over twenty years. The essays revisit the same artists as they develop, following them in time, changing perspectives as he, and they, develop. Mengham is a significant curator, organising exhibitions: 'There is no more productive engagement with someone else's artworks than finding the right way to show it, since artworks are always direct statements or questions about articulations of space, and the curator's job obviously is to enhance such questions and statements.' This discipline gives the writer a series of uniquely privileged perspectives, touching, lifting, moving and re-moving the objects: 'nothing compares to living with art'. The book opens with themes: what is domestic space? what does the atrocity exhibition tell us? what is the refugee aesthetic? Essays on particular artists follow, including Marc Atkins, Stephen Chambers, Jake and Dinos Chapman, Tony Cragg, Antony Gormley, Damien Hirst, Ilya and Emilia Kabakov, Anselm Kiefer, Laura Owens, Doris Salcedo, Agnes Thurnauer, Koen Vanmechelen and Alison Wilding. Always, he is in dialogue with the work, rather than with the artist.Trade Review'One of the many reasons that Rod Mengham is such a compelling writer is the clarity of thought and the fine-tuned nature of his sensibilities as both poet and critic. I've never read a dull sentence of his... He's amongst the very best (and equally one of the most under-rated) writers on art of his generation.' - Tim Marlow
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Bloomsbury Publishing USA Girlhood
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Rupa & Co Rabindranath Tagore Omnibus IV
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company No Time to Spare
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Verso Books One-Way Street: And Other Writings
Book SynopsisWalter Benjamin is one of the most fascinating and enigmatic intellectual figures of this century. Not only was he a thinker who made an enormous impact with his critical and philosophical writings, he shattered disciplinary and stylistic conventions. This collection, introduced by Susan Sontag, contains the most representative and illuminating selection of his work over a twenty-year period, and thus does full justice to the richness and the multi-dimensional nature of his thought. Included in these pages are aphorisms and townscapes, esoteric meditation and reminiscences of childhood, and reflections on language, psychology, aesthetics and politics.Trade ReviewThe most important German aesthetician and literary critic of this century -- George SteinerBenjamin was one of the unclassifiable ones ... whose work neither fits the existing order nor introduces a new genre. -- Hannah ArendtBenjamin was the interlocutor of all the demons and angels of storytelling. And this is why he knew its endless secrets. Listen to him. -- John BergerA complex and brilliant writer * J. M. Coetzee *
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Liberty Fund Inc The Selected Works of Edmund Burke Thoughts on
Book SynopsisPart of a three-volume set, this text presents selected work of Edmund Burke on English history and political thought. This first volume contains Burke's defence of the American colonists' complaints of British policy and includes "Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents"(1770).
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Little, Brown Book Group Kants Little Prussian Head and Other Reasons Why
Book SynopsisArranged in three parts, Kant''s Little Prussian Head and Other Reasons Why I Write opens with Claire''s most personal essays - reflections on a childhood divided between cultures, and between dueling models of womanhood. It is here, in these early years, that we see the seeds of Messud''s inquiry into the precarious nature of girlhood, the role narrative plays in giving shape to a life and the power of language. As the book progresses, we then see how these questions translate into Messud''s rich body of criticism. In sections on literature and visual arts, Claire opens up the ''radical strangeness'' of childhood in Kazuo Ishiguro''s NEVER LET ME GO; the search for the self in Saul Friedlander; the fragility and danger of girlhood captured by Sally Mann; and the search for justice in Valeria Luiselli''s THE LOST CHILDREN ARCHIVE. But it is the idea of the relationship between form and meaning to which this collection returns again and again. It is ''the tension bTrade ReviewIn this moving and evocative essay collection, novelist Messud reflects on family, art, and why she writes . . . These intimate, contemplative and probing essays reveal Messud's rich inner life and generosity of spirit * Publishers Weekly (Starred review) *Powerful and inspirational: Messud is as fine a critic as she is a novelist * Publishers Weekly (starred review) *All writing is autobiographical, but almost never in the ways we presume. This is a profound book about the intrication of literature and life, about the modest, miraculous ways art helps us to live. Claire Messud, with her lapidary intelligence and dizzying sense of history, is among the most luminous writers at work today -- Garth Greenwell, author of Cleanness and What Belongs to YouClaire Messud's essays are generous visions of the world, informed by her razor-sharp intellect and uncompromising honesty -- Maaza Mengiste * Observer (Best books of 2020) *Claire Messud's collection of essays and reviews from the past 20 years - titled Kant's Little Prussian Head & Other Reasons Why I Write - is an uplifting work: complex, precise and bracing . . . The family section is rendered vividly, in sentences beautifully formed and built to last. Some of the scenes Messud conjures feel unforgettable . . . The strength and delicacy of these chapters leave you trusting Messud's taste and judgment before you sample her criticism, which doesn't disappoint -- Susie Boyt * Financial Times *
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Headline Publishing Group A Few Rules for Predicting the Future
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Documentext Telling Time: Essays of a Visionary Filmmaker
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Picador USA Against Interpretation
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General Press India The World as I See It
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