From Homer to Tim O'Brien, war literature remains largely the domain of male writers, and traditional narratives imply that the burdens of war are carried by men. But women and children dispropo...więcej »
The sale is not complete until the money is in the bank...but you must collect it first. Collections are uncomfortable for everyone involved on both ends of the unfinished transact...więcej »
Collected Couteau features an anthology the author's early writings and publications. It contains the only complete, unabridged versions of interviews with Ray Bradbury and Last Exit to Broo...więcej »
Ralph Waldo Emerson, born May 25, 1803, is one of America's finest essayists and poets. His seminal essay Nature is considered to be the pivotal writing on Transcendentalism of its time, and his Co...więcej »
Ralph Waldo Emerson, born May 25, 1803, is one of America?s finest essayists and poets. His seminal essay Nature is considered to be the pivotal writing on Transcendentalism of its time, and his Co...więcej »
The Collected Ghost Stories of M. R. James is the title of M. R. James' omnibus collection of ghost stories, published in 1931, bringing together all but four of his ghost stories (which had yet...więcej »
‘I was conscious of a most horrible smell of mould, and of a cold kind of face pressed against my own, and moving slowly over it, and of several - I don't know how many - legs and arms or ten...więcej »
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and r...więcej »
This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base for future generations. So that the book is never f...więcej »
As well as being one of the major literary figures of the twentieth century and the recipient of the 1923 Nobel Prize for Literature, William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) is the greatest lyric poet tha...więcej »
In later life, while living in London, George Claessen returned to poetry, often interrogating the same metaphysical themes he explored in his abstracts. The fruits of t...więcej »
Wilde, glamorous and notorious, more famous as a playwright or prisoner than as a poet, invites readers of his verse to meet an unknown and intimate figure. The poetry of his formative years includ...więcej »
Poems in this book span at least three generations of important historical periods in Africa, North and South America as well as the Caribbean. These were periods marked by social upheavals, protes...więcej »
Sweeping through crumbling towns, travelling fairs and windswept ports, Gabriel García Márquez introduces a host of extraordinary characters and communities in his mesmerising tales o...więcej »
Katherine Mansfield is widely regarded as a writer who helped create the modern short story. Born in Wellington, New Zealand in 1888, she came to London in 1903 to attend Queen's College and return...więcej »
That is not dead that can eternal lie And with strange aeons even death may die Millenia ago, the Old Ones ruled our planet. Since that time, they have but slumbered. But when a massive sea tremor ...więcej »
Edgar Poe was born the son of itinerant actors on January 19th, 1809 in Boston, Massachusetts. Abandoned by his father and the later death of his mother, he was taken into the foster care of John A...więcej »