Author : Virginia Hamilton
Publisher : Blue Sky Press (AZ)
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 26,8 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780439271936
Twenty-six works by the distinguished children's book author illuminate the creative energy behind her artistry while speaking to a new generation of readers, introducing them to her literary vision and stunning body of writing which include Newbery Medal and National Book Award winners.
Author : William Faulkner
Publisher : Modern Library
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 35,95 MB
Release : 2011-04-20
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 1588363511
An essential collection of William Faulkner’s mature nonfiction work, updated, with an abundance of new material. This unique volume includes Faulkner’s Nobel Prize acceptance speech, a review of Hemingway’s The Old Man and the Sea (in which he suggests that Hemingway has found God), and newly collected gems, such as the acerbic essay “On Criticism” and the beguiling “Note on A Fable.” It also contains eloquently opinionated public letters on everything from race relations and the nature of fiction to wild-squirrel hunting on his property. This is the most comprehensive collection of Faulkner’s brilliant non-fiction work, and a rare look into the life of an American master.
Author : Susan Sontag
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 28,89 MB
Release : 2007-03-06
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0374100721
"At the Same Time" gathers 16 essays and addresses written in the last years of Sontag's life, when her work was being honored on the international stage, that reflect on the personally liberating nature of literature, her deepest commitment, and on political activism and resistance to injustice as an ethical duty.
Author : Hans-Georg Gadamer
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 50,51 MB
Release : 1998-01-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780300073102
This collection of speeches and essays clarifies Gadamer's thoughts on the power of language, the social role and influence of science, and the idea of reason. He argues that the theoretical pursuit of truth is valuable for its own sake, and devalued when pursued explicitly for practical purposes.
Author : Martin Luther King (Jr.)
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 49,97 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780312199906
Quotations by the civil rights leader cover such issues as race, justice, and human dignity.
Author : Jane Addams
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 17,73 MB
Release : 2006-03-24
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780826488541
The pragmatist philosopher Jane Addams (1860-1935) is celebrated as the founder of Hull House, the settlement house for disadvantaged people in Chicago, where for many years she put into practice her progressive ideas for social reform. Addams was also deeply involved in international peace efforts. Remaining a pacifist throughout World War I, she was a founder of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom and went on to receive the Nobel Peace Prize in 1931. Her books and essays on peace are frequently cited but long out of print and hard to obtain. Interest in Jane Addams is rapidly growing. As the American government withdraws from international treaties, her call for international law and cooperation has a new relevance. And in our increasingly dangerous world, her call for peace is being heard again. This volume contains the most complete collection ever made of Addams's essays, articles, and speeches on peace and international relations, written between 1899 and 1935. >
Author : William Faulkner
Publisher : New York : Random House
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 42,45 MB
Release : 1966
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN :
An essential collection of William Faulkner's mature nonfiction work, updated, with an abundance of new material. This unique volume includes Faulkner's Nobel Prize acceptance speech, a review of Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea (in which he suggests that Hemingway has found God), and newly collected gems, such as the acerbic essay "On Criticism" and the beguiling "Note on A Fable." It also contains eloquently opinionated public letters on everything from race relations and the nature of fiction to wild-squirrel hunting on his property. This is the most comprehensive collection of Faulkner's brilliant non-fiction work, and a rare look into the life of an American master.
Author : Marlo Thomas
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 49,11 MB
Release : 2004-01-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780743446501
"For everyone who needs a hero or loves a good story, here is an inspiring collection of personal revelations from more than 100 remarkable men and women who share a moment when words changed their lives"--Jacket.
Author : Roberto Bolaño
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 40,63 MB
Release : 2011-05-30
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0811218147
Collection of most of Bolaño's newspaper columns, articles (many about other literary authors), prefaces, and texts of talks or speeches given by Bolaño during the last five years of his life. "Taken together, they make a surprisingly rounded whole . . . a kind of fragmented 'autobiography.'"--Introduction, p.1.
Author : Toni Morrison
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 13,77 MB
Release : 2020-01-14
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0525562796
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Here is the Nobel Prize winner in her own words: a rich gathering of her most important essays and speeches, spanning four decades that "speaks to today’s social and political moment as directly as this morning’s headlines” (NPR). These pages give us her searing prayer for the dead of 9/11, her Nobel lecture on the power of language, her searching meditation on Martin Luther King Jr., her heart-wrenching eulogy for James Baldwin. She looks deeply into the fault lines of culture and freedom: the foreigner, female empowerment, the press, money, “black matter(s),” human rights, the artist in society, the Afro-American presence in American literature. And she turns her incisive critical eye to her own work (The Bluest Eye, Sula, Tar Baby, Jazz, Beloved, Paradise) and that of others. An essential collection from an essential writer, The Source of Self-Regard shines with the literary elegance, intellectual prowess, spiritual depth, and moral compass that have made Toni Morrison our most cherished and enduring voice.
