Poems, Essays, and Leaves from a Note Book
Author : George Eliot
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Page : 588 pages
File Size : 12,46 MB
Release : 1904
Category : English literature
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Author : George Eliot
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Page : 588 pages
File Size : 12,46 MB
Release : 1904
Category : English literature
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Author : George Eliot
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Page : 620 pages
File Size : 39,42 MB
Release : 1899
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Author : George Eliot
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Page : 332 pages
File Size : 24,31 MB
Release : 1884
Category : Authorship
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Author : George Eliot
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Page : 346 pages
File Size : 49,25 MB
Release : 1908
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Author : Luis Alberto Urrea
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 26,55 MB
Release : 1999-01-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780816518661
Fleeing a failed marriage and haunted by ghosts of his past, Luis Alberto Urrea jumped into his car several years ago and headed west. Driving cross-country with a cat named Rest Stop, Urrea wandered the West from one year's Spring through the next. Hiking into aspen forests where leaves "shiver and tinkle like bells" and poking alongside creeks in the Rockies, he sought solace and wisdom. In the forested mountains he learned not only the names of trees—he learned how to live. As nature opened Urrea's eyes, writing opened his heart. In journal entries that sparkle with discovery, Urrea ruminates on music, poetry, and the landscape. With wonder and spontaneity, he relates tales of marmots, geese, bears, and fellow travelers. He makes readers feel mountain air "so crisp you feel you could crunch it in your mouth" and reminds us all to experience the magic and healing of small gestures, ordinary people, and common creatures. Urrea has been heralded as one of the most talented writers of his generation. In poems, novels, and nonfiction, he has explored issues of family, race, language, and poverty with candor, compassion, and often astonishing power. Wandering Time offers his most intimate work to date, a luminous account of his own search for healing and redemption.
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Page : 194 pages
File Size : 38,94 MB
Release : 1888
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Author : Andrew Wilson
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 31,20 MB
Release : 2024-05-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 3385464099
Reprint of the original, first published in 1882.
Author : Antonie Gerard van den Broek
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 50,97 MB
Release : 2016-09-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 131547607X
Presents George Eliot's shorter poetry. This volume includes an introduction, which discusses Eliot's interest in poetry verse and its relation to her prose and prose fiction; her recurring themes and motifs; the poetry's critical reception and its value to modern readers.
Author : A. S. Byatt
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 578 pages
File Size : 45,53 MB
Release : 2005-04-07
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0141958723
The works collected in this volume provide an illuminating introduction to George Eliot's incisive views on religion, art and science, and the nature and purpose of fiction. Essays such as 'Evangelical Teaching' show her rejecting her earlier religious beliefs, while 'Woman in France' questions conventional ideas about female virtues and marriage, and 'Notes on Form in Art' sets out theories of idealism and realism that she developed further in Middlemarch and Daniel Deronda. It also includes selections from Eliot's translations of works by Strauss and Feuerbach that challenged many ideas about Christianity; excerpts from her poems; and reviews of writers such as Wollstonecraft, Goethe and Browning. Wonderfully rich in imagery and observations, these pieces reveal the intellectual development of this most challenging and rewarding of writers.
Author : Donald Hall
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 21,22 MB
Release : 2018-07-10
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1328826317
Former poet laureate of the United States Donald Hall’s final collection of essays, from the vantage point of very old age, once again “alternately lyrical and laugh-out-loud funny.”* *(New York Times) “Why should a nonagenarian hold anything back?” Donald Hall answers his own question in these self-knowing, fierce, and funny essays on aging, the pleasures of solitude, and the sometimes astonishing freedoms arising from both. Nearing ninety at the time of writing, he intersperses memories of exuberant days in his youth, with uncensored tales of literary friendships spanning decades—with James Wright, Richard Wilbur, Seamus Heaney, and other luminaries. Cementing his place alongside Roger Angell and Joan Didion as a generous and profound chronicler of loss, this final work is as original and searing as anything Hall wrote during his extraordinary literary lifetime.