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The Essential Thoreau

by Henry David Thoreau

Collected here in this omnibus edition are Henry David Thoreau's most important works including A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers; The Selected Essays of Henry David Thoreau, including Civil Disobedience;...


Eileen McCullough

by W. Gunther Plaut & Jonathan V. Plaut

Eight Decades is a selection of previously published articles and essays by one of reform Judaisms most acclaimed twentieth-century rabbis and scholars, W. Gunther Plaut.


Imaginary Homelands: Essays and Criticism 1981-1991

by Salman Rushdie

In Imaginary Homelands, Salman Rushdie presents ten years' worth of concentrated thought on topics from the most cherished literary traditions and authors of India, Europe, and America to the politics of oppression,...


Strong Opinions

by Vladimir Nabokov

In this collection of interviews, articles, and editorials, Nabokov ranges over his life, art, education, politics, literature, movies, and modern times, among other subjects.  Strong Opinions offers his trenchant,...


Venices

by Paul Morand & Euan Cameron

A poetic evocation of the French diplomat’s encounters and experiences, filtered through the one constant in his life—Venice.

Diplomat, writer and poet, traveller and socialite, friend of Proust, Giraudoux...


Venices

by Paul Morand & Euan Cameron

A poetic evocation of the French diplomat’s encounters and experiences, filtered through the one constant in his life—Venice.

Diplomat, writer and poet, traveller and socialite, friend of Proust, Giraudoux...


A Radiant Life: The Selected Journalism of Nuala O'Faolain

by Nuala O'Faolain

A Radiant Life presents the unequivocal voice of Nuala O'Faolain tackling a vast range of subjects from Catholicism to feminism, from Sinatra to Africa, and from Irish American culture to Islam and the West....


Sister Age

by M.F.K. Fisher

In these fifteen remarkable stories, M.F.K. Fisher, one of the most admired writers of our time, embraces age as St. Francis welcomed Brother Pain. With a saint to guide us, she writes in her Foreword, perhaps...


As They Were

by M.F.K. Fisher

This marvelous collection of autobiographical essays by the celebrated, much-adored Fisher covers her life, family, food and adventures.


Paris in American Literatures: On Distance as a Literary Resource

by Jeffrey Herlihy-Mera & Vamsi K. Koneru

This collection brings together new perspectives on the novels, memoirs, poetry, and journalism concerning Paris written by Americans. By examining the implications of foreignness as a creative device, this...


Paperwork: Selected Prose

by David Citino

David J. Citino's Paperwork is a collection of previously published essays, pieces of memoir, and poetry set within the borders of Ohio. A native of Cleveland, Citino has lived in Ohio all his life. Although...


Compromise Formations

by Vera J. Camden

These essays are collected from the Fourth International Conference on Literature and Psychology held at Kent State University, 7-9 August 1987. In selecting the essays for this first collection to emerge from...


Dreaming by the Book

by Elaine Scarry

A pathbreaking work about the way literature teaches us to use our imagination.

We often attribute to our imaginative life powers that go beyond ordinary perception or sensation. In Dreaming by the Book, the...


The Cushion in the Road: Meditation and Wandering as the Whole World Awakens to Being in Harm's Way

by Alice Walker

In her newest collection of wide-ranging meditations on our intertwined personal, spiritual, and political destinies, Alice Walker writes that “we are beyond a rigid category of color, sex, or spirituality...


On Zen Practice: Body, Breath, and Mind

by Bernard Tetsugen Glassman, Hakuyu Taizan Maezumi & Robert Aitken

This landmark volume brings together teachings formative to a whole generation of American Zen teachers and practitioners. On Zen Practice addresses every critical aspect of Zen Practice: beginning meditation,...


Engaged Buddhism in the West

by Christopher S. Queen

Selected as one of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles (2000), Engaged Buddhism in the West is founded on the belief that genuine spiritual practice requires an active involvement in society. This book illuminates...


Myself with Others

by Carlos Fuentes

In Myself with Others, Fuentes has assembled essays reflecting three of the great elements of his work: autobiography, love of literature, and politics. They include his reflections on his beginning as a writer,...


Garlic, Mint, and Sweet Basil: Essays on Marseilles, The Mediterranean, and Noir Fiction

by Jean-Claude Izzo

Available for the first time in English in Howard Curtis’s brilliant translation this collection of personal essays shows Izzo at his most contemplative and insightful. He writes beautifully about the city...


Passionate Minds: Women Rewriting the World

by Claudia Roth Pierpont

With a masterful ability to connect their social contexts to well-chosen and telling details of their personal lives, Claudia Roth Pierpont gives us portraits of twelve amazingly diverse and influential literary...


Signs of Power in Habsburg Spain and the New World

by Jason McCloskey & Ignacio López Alemany

Signs of Power in Habsburg Spain and the New World consists of ten chapters that examine the representation of political, economic, military and symbolic power both in Spain and the New World under the Habsburgs....