A collection of Thoreau's essays traces his trajectory as a writer and presenter, in a chronologically organized work that follows the Transcendentalist's ideas as they developed over time.
The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats, Volume V: Later Essays is part of a fourteen-volume series overseen by eminent Yeats scholars Richard J. Finneran and George Mills Harper. The series includes virtually all of the Nobel laureate's published work, with authoritative and explanat…
A former poet laureate presents a new collection of essays delivering an unexpected view from the vantage point of very old age.
Essays and musings considering the elusive and evocative idea of perfection that traverse topics that are at once ordinary and elemental: the house she and her husband once thought was "perfect," being a mother and being a daughter, alcoholism, middle age.
"Part memoir, part manifesto, this exploration of the underside of America's obsession with safety is prompted by the author's visit to a thrillingly alarming adventure playground in Tokyo "How fully can the world be explored," asks Amy Fusselman ". if you are also trying not to…
"At the beginning of the twentieth century, Indian Territory, which would eventually become the state of Oklahoma, was a multicultural space in which various Native tribes, European Americans, and African Americans were equally engaged in struggles to carve out meaningful lives …
The collected works of Langston Hughes
by Hubbard, Dolan, Rampersad, Arnold, De Santis, Christopher C., Sanders, Leslie Catherine, Johnson, Dianne, Tracy, Steven C., (Steven Carl), McLaren, Joseph, Martin-Ogunsola, Dellita, Miller, R. Baxter, Hughes, Langston, Harper, Donna Akiba Sullivan