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That mighty sculptor, time
Par Marguerite Yourcenar. 1992
In the title essay, Yourcenar ponders the effects of time, nature, and human judgment on art. In others, the first…
woman to be elected to the Academie francaise expresses her opinions on topics such as the killing of fur-bearing animals, erotic and mystic themes in Indian myths, and the difficulty of finding the right tone in writing a historical novelLetters, 1905-1965
Par Albert Schweitzer. 1992
Letters selected from the vast correspondence of the Nobel Peace Prize-winning man from Lambarene. Schweitzer found time to write to…
friends and to respond to mail from around the world, in addition to working as author, physician, missionary, teacher, musician, scholar, and peace activist. Such letters create a record of his everyday life as well as his philosophy of "reverence for life."The Iliad
Par Homer. 1951
Richmond Lattimore's introduction and translation of the Greek poem written during the eighth century B.C. and attributed to the Ionian…
poet, Homer. Drawn from the legends of the final days of the Trojan War, the poem relates Achilleus's wrath against Agamemnon. Although Achilleus withdraws from the fight only temporarily, the campaign falters and the results are disastrousThis anthology of 140 essays, written over four centuries by American and English practitioners of the art, covers topics large…
and small-truth, getting up on cold mornings, wasps, the departure of a guest, being the right size, symmetry and repetition, Gandhi, and movies on television. And each somehow fits Dr. Johnson's definition of an essay as a "loose sally of the mind."Toward the radical center: a Karel C̈apek reader
Par Karel C̈apek. 1990
English translations of three plays and several short stories, essays, and assorted sketches on gardening and travel provide a sampling…
of the work of this prolific Czechoslovakian writer. The word "robot" from his 1922 play "R.U.R." ("Rossum's Universal Robots,") included here, has entered everday languageThe making of middle/brow culture
Par Joan Rubin. 1992
Examines the emergence of American middlebrow culture. The author claims that efforts to study the extremes, ranging from the avant-garde…
and the intelligentsia to the popular consumer, have largely ignored the curious mix of a middle culture with commercialism. Rubin chronicles the introduction of newspaper book review sections, the Book-of-the-Month Club, the rise of "outline" series, the "great books" movement, and the radio programs about booksThe third issue of "Mixed Moss" includes feature articles about a wide variety of topics, a section titled "Events" that…
reports on activities of the society and its members, and a section titled "Little-known Ransome" that includes a 1934 autobiographical sketch. Also contains reviews of books about Ransome and his work, and brief reports from the regionsLess than one: selected essays
Par Joseph Brodsky. 1986
Begins with an autobiographical essay on Brodsky's early years and ends with one about his parents. Between are essays on…
the literary tradition and political climate of the Soviet Union, from which he was exiled in 1972. But mostly he writes about poetry and poets, touching on his decision to begin writing in English. He received the Nobel Prize for Literature and was named Poet Laureate of the United StatesPlays, prose writings and poems
Par Oscar Wilde. 1930
First published in 1930, this collection includes "The Picture of Dorian Gray," a novel about a beautiful youth whose portrait…
has supernatural qualities; "The Importance of Being Earnest," a comic, satirical play about a rakish nobleman; "Lady Windermere's Fan," a comedy of manners; "The Ballad of Reading Gaol," an autobiographical account of Wilde's imprisonment; and other short works of drama, prose, and poetryMemoirs of a dutiful daughter
Par Simone Beauvoir. 1959
In this initial volume of her autobiography, the French author traces the first twenty-one years of her life and provides…
insights into the development of her philosophy. As an adolescent she seeks to shed her family's bourgeois values while struggling to find acceptance for her ideas in a climate generally unreceptive to female intellectuals. She meets Sartre at the Sorbonne and begins their lifelong friendshipThe tragedy of Coriolanus
Par William Shakespeare. 1962
Written in the early seventeenth century, the tragedy deals with Caius Marcius, a haughty Roman general who is given the…
surname Coriolanus after defeating the Volscians in the battle of Corioli. Persuaded to seek election to the consulship, he is eventually banished from Rome by fickle plebeians. The play records his attempts to get revengeThe great code: the Bible and literature
Par Northrop Frye. 1982
A professor of English literature examines the Old and New Testaments as repositories of myth and metaphor and shows how…
this basic knowledge can enhance the reading of Western literature. He discusses the language people use in talking about the Bible and emphasizes its structural unityCall it courage
Par Armstrong Sperry. 1940
Mafatu is the son of a great chief of a Polynesian island, where courage is a man's most respected quality.…
But Mafatu is afraid of the sea. For grades 4-7. Newbery MedalBoys from different generations of the same family reveal what it is like to grow up in Europe in the…
sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Michael, apprenticed to a merchant at fourteen, asserts his rights as he forges his career. Homesick Friederich is coached by his mother about girls and spending money. Stephan Carl pays for his adventuresome spiritA Noel Perrin sampler
Par Noel Perrin. 1991
This Cambridge-educated native New Yorker is learning the rural ways of New England. In the process, which has now lasted…
well over thirty years, he has written about his experiences, ranging in place from the library to the barn, and in subject from a lampoon on poetic research to hints on saving a marriage. Nothing is sacred. Perrin takes on the pillars of academe as readily as he does his neighbors, finding a penchant for the same human foibles in eachGrumbles from the grave
Par Robert Heinlein. 1989
It was Heinlein's wish to have his letters published after his death. Virginia, his wife of forty years, has collected…
the letter, begun in 1939, to Heinlein's editors and to his longtime friend and agent Lurton Blassingame. The letters give us an insight into the psyche of the popular science fiction author. They show his thoughts on publishers, fan mail, writing material, travel, work habits, and even house buildingBio of an ogre: the autobiography of Piers Anthony to age 50
Par Piers Anthony. 1988
Fantasy writer Piers Anthony has, by his own admission, written a highly selective and subjective account of his first fifty…
years, attempting to write not only the "what" of his life but also the "why." Each of the five sections covers a decade of his lifeThe premier issue of the "Journal of the Arthur Ransome Society" focuses on Ransome's "Swallowdale." Additional articles include an account…
of the launching of the Society at the Windermere Steamboat Museum, Ransome's earliest surviving story, "The Desert Island" (1892), reprinted in full, and a section titled "Notes and Queries."Books that changed the world
Par Robert Downs. 1983
By distilling the essential ideas of books that have had the greatest influence, both for good and evil, and by…
placing such books in the context of their time, the author explores the effect they have had on western religious thought, culture, law, literature, science, and virtually every aspect of civilizationShort stories
Par Library Of Congress. 1989
This bibliography is a guide to short story anthologies in the NLS collection, in both braille and recorded formats. There…
is something here for everyone--the mystery fan, the reader of fantasy and science fiction, the lover of romances, westerns, or humor--and much more. Each book is described briefly, and the indexes provide a listing for every short story contained in the anthologies