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A charmed collection of some of the best essays from the widely-known "City" section of the New York Times
"There are eight million stories in the Naked City." This famous line from the 1948 film The Naked City has become an emblem of New York City itself. One publication cultivating many of New York City's greatest stories is the City section in The New York Times. Each Sunday, this section of The New York Times, distributed only in papers in the...
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In State of the Heart, Aïda Rogers has crafted an artful love letter to our state, with contributions from a host of nationally and regionally recognized writers who've written short essays on the South Carolina places that they cherish. This anthology provides a multifaceted historical and personal view of the Palmetto State. Thematically organized, this collection offers a geographic and emotional scope that is as diverse as its contributors. Sportswriters...
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Dad loves to garden, and at eighty-three-years of age, he, along with mom, Bernice, maintain a property of thirteen acres; the house is surrounded with beautiful perennial gardens, overlooks a spring fed pond, and the woods beyond. Through last year, his vegetable gardens were enough to feed a small village. Gene's garden articles were inspired by his decades, long participation in his parish's Stewardship Committee. Many of his articles, first...
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A new assemblage of masterly essays from a foremost scholar of American history and culture
Alan Trachtenberg has always been interested in cultural artifacts that register meanings and feelings that Americans share even when they disagree about them. Some of the most beloved ones-like the famous last photograph of Abraham Lincoln, taken at the time of his second inaugural-are downright puzzling, and it is their obscure, riddle like aspects that...
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Este Epistolario íntimo reúne una selección de las cartas que escribió el poeta a lo largo de su obra. El volumen puede leerse como la carta de navegación del signo Vallejo. Es en las epístolas enviadas a compañeros de ruta como Juan Larrea, Gerardo Diego o Mariátegui donde Vallejo devela de forma más prístina las reflexiones que motivan su escritura. A través de ellas también se puede reconstruir el itinerario vital que operó como motor...
86) Cartas
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Las Cartas de Vasco Núñez de Balboa son un testimonio directo de la conquista de Panamá. Núñez de Balboa muestra una prosa encendida y vivaz que transmite el ímpetu del Nuevo Mundo. Nótese que estas cartas fueron escritas tras quince años de permanencia en el trópico. Por ello la visión de Núñez de las selvas de Panamá tiene una precisión insospechada.
Asimismo sus cartas al rey Fernando el Católico intentan seducir a la corona con...
87) Yonder: Essays
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Sparkling essays on a variety of subjects-literature, art, popular culture, autobiography-by a renowned young American novelist.
In her brilliant and daring novels The Blindfold and The Enchantment of Lily Dahl, Siri Hustvedt has won critical acclaim and a rapidly expanding international audience. But she is also a wide-ranging essayist and critic, frequently reexamining in her fascinating nonfiction many of the central leitmotifs of her fiction.
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In this surprisingly vulnerable collection, twenty-eight talented fathers explore the complex, enigmatic bond they have with their daughters. These endearing, often funny and sometimes heartbreaking stories have in common an overpowering sense of responsibility and a depth of affection that is unflinchingly tender. Through their shared experiences, they examine relationships fraught with challenges and struggles, but always filled with love. The gentle...
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Spanning a wide geographical range, this collection features many of the now prominent first generation of African writers and draws attention to a new generation of writers. Powerful, intriguing and essentially non-Western, these stories will be welcome by an audience truly ready for multicultural voices.
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The View from Highway 1 is television critic Michael J. Arlen's second essay collection, originally published in 1976. In twenty-one diverse and perceptive essays, he ranges over such matters as Howard Cosell's sports-announcing style and Tom Snyder's intriguingly abrasive news delivery. He discusses the odd combination of anger and comedy that animates All in the Family and the buried eroticism in certain detergent commercials. He provides a masterful...
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Susan Sontag has said that her earliest idea of what a writer should be was "someone who is interested in everything." Thirty-five years after her first collection of essays, the now classic Against Interpretation, our most important essayist has chosen more than forty longer and shorter pieces from the last two decades that illustrate a deeply felt, kaleidoscopic array of interests, passions, observations, and ideas.
"Reading" offers ardent, freewheeling...
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Followers of the Seasons is a collection of the life's work of renown Pilipino American writer Oscar Peñaranda. It is divided into five suites that cover topics of history, struggle, family, friendship and concerns for humanity. The work takes us from locations in various aspects of the writers life: the Philippines, student cultural and political activism at SF State campuses, work as an Alaskero in the canneries, to San Francisco's Manilatown.
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En el momento en que se impone la idea de que la realidad natural, social y humana pueden y deben ser materia novelable, aparecen nuevas ideas acerca de cómo puede ser este género artístico. A partir de entonces se abre un amplio debate que no cesa.
La obra de don Juan Valera aparece en medio de este contexto literario proclamando el arte por el arte, y rechazando todo criterio moral. La novela como género fue el debate ideológico y literario...
94) On Death
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Dean of St. Paul's, John Donne was feted in his day not just as a poet but also as an inspired and inspiring preacher, and these four extended meditations on death are amongst his most powerful and dramatic writings. The magnificent "Death's Duel" is published here alongside his Lent sermons for the two previous years (1628 and 1629), along with his Easter Day sermon of 1619, preached on the occasion of the King's sickness. Together they create a...
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Get the Summary of Betty Smith's A Tree Grows in Brooklyn in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Betty Smith's "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" follows Francie Nolan's life in early 20th-century Brooklyn. Francie's childhood is marked by poverty, but she finds solace in reading and her vivid imagination. Her father, Johnny, is a singing waiter with a drinking problem, and her mother, Katie, is a janitress who instills the...
96) Libro de palacio
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El Libro de palacio de Pero López de Ayala es un poema didáctico-moral cristiano de finales del siglo XIV. Contiene largas elucubraciones sobre las desdichas de Job en 2.170 estrofas. En esta obra, el autor utiliza la cuaderna vía, estrofa típica del mester de juglaría.
El Libro de palacio tiene partes didácticas, políticas, religiosas y filosóficas. En ella se refleja a la perfección la sociedad castellana del siglo XIV y los problemas que...
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In this collection of literary criticism, West undertakes the question of art's value, examining the works of her contemporaries and their places in history. "The Strange Necessity," one of the twelve essays collected here and first published in 1928, anchors West's quest to understand why art matters and how aesthetics of every caliber can not only inspire but reveal the author's inner world. Whether juxtaposing Ulysses's prose with Pavlov's research,...
98) Correspondencia
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La Correspondencia de Juan Valera es un reflejo de su intensa vida como viajero y diplomático. Sus cartas, dirigidas inicialmente a sus padres están llenas de referencias a numerosas celebridades de su época y son, además, un inteligente testimonio del estado de cosas de la política y la economía europeas durante la segunda mitad del siglo XIX.
Sirva de ejemplo para entender la amplitud de miras de la Correspondencia de Juan Valera esta breve...
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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, his celebrated Harvard University commencement address, and his trenchant examinations of Cervantes, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, and Borges.
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El autor de Visiones y visitas de Torres con don Francisco de Quevedo por la Corte es Diego de Torres Villarroel. Era hijo de un librero, estudió con una beca en la Universidad de Salamanca y llevó una vida de aventuras. Fue militar, buhonero, diácono, autor y editor de almanaques astrológicos. Firmaba con el seudónimo de «El Gran Piscator de Salamanca», catedrático de matemáticas, exorcista y, finalmente, sacerdote.
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