New York: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., 1993. Second, revised edition. Softcover. This Norton Critical Edition presents the work of one of America's foremost poets. It moves well beyond the scope of its predecessor, Adrienne Rich's Poetry (1975), in giving proper recognition to Rich's extraordinary achievements in both poetry and... More about Adrienne Rich's Poetry and Prose
Totowa, NJ: Littlefield, Adams & Co, 1967. Reprint. Paperback. "Thoughtful Essays of a Profound Thinker". An inspiring collection of essays, in which Albert Einstein addresses the topics that fascinated him as a scientist, philosopher, and humanitarian Divided by subject matter—“Science,” “Convictions and Beliefs,” “Public Affairs,” etc.—these essays consider everything..... More about Out of My Later Years
Cambridge, UK: Polity Press, 1996. First Trade Paperback Edition. Paperback. Is there a future for sociology? To many, sociology seems to have lost its way. Born of the ideas of Auguste Comte in the nineteenth century, sociology established itself as 'the science of modernity', linked to a progressive view of... More about In Defence of Sociology (Essays, Interpretations & Rejoinders
Harmondsworth, Middlesex: Penguin Books, 1975. John Sewell (cover illustration). Paperback. A Pelican book. #A1581. A biography and overview of Wittgenstein and his philosophy. More about Wittgenstein
New York: W.W. Norton & Company Inc, 1979. First Edition. Softcover. More about Ben's Jonson's Plays and Masques (Texts of the Plays and Masques, Jonson On His Work,...
London: Faber and Faber, 1978. First Edition. Hardcover. More about Beyond East & West: Memoirs, Portraits & Essays
Sceptre Books, 1986. Reprint. Paperback. It was a great relief to many when in October 1982 Bernard Levin returned to the pages of The Times. In his eighteen months' leave from regular journalism (during which he was alarmed to discover that he didn't miss it) there were those less fortunate... More about The Way We Live Now
London: Unwin Books, 1975. Reprint. Paperback. Bertrand Russell was regarded as one of the twentieth century’s greatest minds. Well known for his profound knowledge and controversial approach to a myriad of different issues and subjects, his prolific works also exhibited great intellectual wit and humour. Bertrand Russell’s Best is a...... More about Bertrand Russell's Best: Sillhouettes in Satire
New York: Dover Publications, Inc, 1961. Menten Inc. (cover design). Reprint. Revised with a new introduction. Softcover. This 1961 edition is a verbatim reprint of the first 310 pages and chapters of Refractory and Conformity of Sense to Sound of Gleanings for the Curious from the Harvest-Fields of Literature, third... More about Oddities and Curiosities of Words and Literature (Gleanings for the Curious
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1963. First Edition. Hardcover. Four essays about DeVoto: The Historian by Catherine Drinker Bowen, The Writer by Edith R. Mirrielees, The Citizen, by Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., and The Personality by Wallace Stegner. Introduction by Wallace Stegner. More about Bernard de Voto: Four Portraits and One Subject (with a bibliography of his writings
Hong Kong: Musical Stones Publishing Ltd, 2019. Steven Schroeder (cover art). Softcover. In Issue 47 of Voice & Verse Poetry Magazine (May 2019), we will publish an English-language section on "Loneliness in the City". What are some of the possible relationships between the individual and a city? What are cultural... More about Voice & Verse Poetry Magazine Issue 47 (May 2019
New York: Monarch Press, 1984. Second Printing. Paperback. More about How to Analyze Drama
Scribner, 2004. Paperback. More about Sex, Drugs and Cocoa Puffs
West Cornwall, CT: Locust Hill Press, 1989. First Edition (presumed). Hardcover. Locust Hill Literary Studies No. 3. About the author: Claude Prance (1906-2002) was born in Portsmouth, England, and was educated at the Philological School and St John’s College at Southsea. He joined the Midland Bank in 1923... More about Essays of a Book Collector: Reminiscences on Some Old Books and Their Authors
London: Verso, 1986. First Edition. Paperback. The essays in this book develop a socialist-feminist perspective on a wide range of crucial and diverse issues in feminist theory and cultural criticism. They explore the present and past of feminist debates on sexuality, from Wollsontecraft through Millett and Rich. Using both psychoanalysis... More about Sea Changes: Essays on Culture and Feminism (Questions for Feminism series
Norman: University of Oklahoma, 2019. Volume 93, Number 2. Journal. World Literature Today is an American magazine of international literature and culture, published bimonthly at the University of Oklahoma, Norman. The magazine presents essays, poetry, fiction, and book reviews from all over the world in a format accessible to a.... More about World Literature Today, Spring 2019 (The City Issue: Hong Kong
New York: Mason & Lipscomb Publishers, 1974. First Edition. Hardcover. The definitive and authorized biography of one of the greatest literary humorists of all time. More about P.G. Wodehouse: A Portrait of a Master
London: Faber and Faber, 2010. David Byrne (photo and illus.). Reprint. Paperback. Since the early 1980s, David Byrne has been riding a bicycle as his principal means of transportation in New York City. A few years later he discovered folding bikes, and started taking them with him on music tour... More about Bicycle Diaries
Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1960. Revised Edition, Eighth Printing. Softcover. No. P180. Limited his discussion to an intensified treatment of those writers whom he considers "the giants of the modern English novel" -- Conrad, Joyce, Lawrence, and, to a lesser degree, Virginia Woolf -- Mr. Daiches shows... More about The Novel and the Modern World
New York: E.P. Dutton, Inc, 1967. First Edition. Paperback. An encyclopedic handbook of facts and allusions in Dubliners and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. More about Notes For Joyce: Dubliners and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
New York: Persea Books, Inc., 1977. First U.S. Edition (stated). Hardcover. Very rare. Edited by Barry Alpert. More about The Poet in the Imaginary Museum: Essays of Two Decades
New York: State University of New York Press, 1992. First Paperback Edition. Second Printing. Softcover. This is the first comprehensive anthology of the Chinese sexology classics, the world's oldest and most advanced tradition of sexual yoga. While remaining accessible to the general reader, the translation of these texts, most never... More about Art of the Bedchamber: The Chinese Sexual Yoga Classics Including Women's Solo Meditation Texts
London: Oxford University Press, 1922. Hardcover. With essays by Wordsworth, Coleridge, William Blake, Charles Lamb, Percy Shelley, Hazlitt, Joh Keble, John Henry Newman, Thomas Carlyle, James Henry Leigh Hunt, Matthew Arnold, John Ruskin, John Stuart Mill, Walter Bagehot, Walter Horatio Pater, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and James Russell Lowell. More about English Critical Essays of the XIX Century
New York: Pantheon Books, 1985. First Trade Paperback Edition, Seventh Printing. Softcover. A collection of essays by some of the leading scholars in literature and feminist theory, including Sandra Gilbert, Susan Gubar, Carolyn Heilbrun, Annette Kolodny, Nancy Miller, Lillian Robinson, and others. More about The New Feminist Criticism: Essays on Women, Literature and Theory
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