Author : D. J. Enright
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 21,9 MB
Release : 2008-10-01
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0199556520
The inescapable reality of death has given rise to much of literature's most profound and moving work. D. J. Enright's wonderfully eclectic selection presents the words of poet and novelist, scientist and philosopher, mystic and sceptic. And alongside these 'professional' writers, he allows the voices of ordinary people to be heard; for this is a subject on which there are no real experts and wisdom lies in many unexpected places.
Author : Dennis Joseph Enright
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 41,52 MB
Release : 1987
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN :
A book of death might seem a strange and dubious venture. A book for no one? Or, since the subject, the editor suggests, is 'of exceptionally common concern' - a book for everyone?
Author : Ben Bradley
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 517 pages
File Size : 21,99 MB
Release : 2015
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0190271450
This Handbook consists of 21 new essays on the nature and value of death, the relevance of the metaphysics of time and personal identity for questions about death, the desirability of immortality, and the wrongness of killing.
Author : Joyce Carol Oates
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 788 pages
File Size : 26,85 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780195092622
This volume offers a survey of American short fiction in 59 tales that combine classic works with 'different, unexpected gems', which invite readers to explore a wealth of important pieces by women and minority writers. Authors include: Amy Tan, Alice Adams, David Leavitt and Tim O'Brien.
Author : John Gross
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 40,95 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0199543410
In The New Oxford Book of Literary Anecdotes, master anthologist John Gross brings together a delectable smorgasbord of literary tales, offering striking new insight into some of the most important writers in history. Many of the anecdotes here are funny, others are touching, outrageous, sinister, inspiring, or downright weird. They show writers from Chaucer to Bob Dylan acting both unpredictably and deeply in character. The range is wide--this is a book which finds room for Milton and Shakespeare, Mark Twain and Walt Whitman, Kurt Vonnegut and P. G. Wodehouse, Chinua Achebe and Salman Rushdie, James Baldwin and Tom Wolfe. It is also a book in which you can find out which great historian's face was once mistaken for a baby's bottom, which film star experienced a haunting encounter with Virginia Woolf not long before her death, and what Agatha Christie really thought of her popular character Hercule Poirot. It is in short an unrivalled collection of literary gossip offering intimate glimpses into the lives of authors ranging from Shakespeare to Philip Roth--a book not just for lovers of literature, but for anyone with a taste for the curiosities of human nature.
Author : Robin Hanbury-Tenison
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 595 pages
File Size : 18,18 MB
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 0192805568
Selected by Robin Hanbury-Tenison, whom the Sunday Times called the 'greatest explorer of the last twenty years', this is a comprehensive anthology of the writings of explorers through the ages, now fully revised and updated. The ultimate in travel writing, these are the words of those who changed the world through their pioneering search for new lands, new peoples, and new experiences. Divided into geographical sections, the book takes us to Asia with Vasco da Gama, Francis Younghusband, and Wilfred Thesiger, to the Americas with John Cabot, Sir Francis Drake, and Alexander Von Humboldt, to Africa with Dr David Livingstone and Mary Kingsley, to the Pacific with Ferdinand Magellan and James Cook, and to the Poles with Robert Peary and Wally Herbert. Driven by a desire to discover that transcends all other considerations, the vivid writings of these extraordinary people reveal what makes them go beyond the possible and earn the right to be known as explorers.
Author : Muriel Rukeyser
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 15,49 MB
Release : 2018
Category : History
ISBN : 9781946684219
Written in response to the Hawk's Nest Tunnel disaster of 1931 in Gauley Bridge, West Virginia, The Book of the Dead is an important part of West Virginia's cultural heritage and a powerful account of one of the worst industrial catastrophes in American history. The poems collected here investigate the roots of a tragedy that killed hundreds of workers, most of them African American. They are a rare engagement with the overlap between race and environment in Appalachia. Published for the first time alongside photographs by Nancy Naumburg, who accompanied Rukeyser to Gauley Bridge in 1936, this edition of The Book of the Dead includes an introduction by Catherine Venable Moore, whose writing on the topic has been anthologized in Best American Essays.
Author : John Mortimer
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 431 pages
File Size : 37,20 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Villains in literature.
ISBN : 9780192141958
Gathers selections from literature and history depicting both real and fictitious criminals, murderers, confidence men, hypocrites, traitors, spies, and tyrants
Author : Patricia Craig
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 554 pages
File Size : 14,29 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Detective and mystery stories, English
ISBN : 9780192829689
Essential reading for all armchair detectives, this collection of 33 classic whodunits is the cream of crime writing.
Author : Maria-José Blanco
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 31,66 MB
Release : 2014-10-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1782384340
The social and cultural changes of the last century have transformed death from an everyday fact to something hidden from view. Shifting between the practical and the theoretical, the professional and the intimate, the real and the fictitious, this collection of essays explores the continued power of death over our lives. It examines the idea and experience of death from an interdisciplinary perspective, including studies of changing burial customs throughout Europe; an account of a“dying party” in the Netherlands; examinations of the fascination with violent death in crime fiction and the phenomenon of serial killer art; analyses of death and bereavement in poetry, fiction, and autobiography; and a look at audience reactions to depictions of death on screen. By studying and considering how death is thought about in the contemporary era, we might restore the natural place it has in our lives.
