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By presenting more than 75 personal essays, including influential forerunners from ancient Greece, Rome, and the Far East, masterpieces from the 16th ... More

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Universally acclaimed when it was first published in 1968, "Slouching Towards Bethlehem" has become a modern classic. More than any other book of its ... More

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"Screech's translation brilliantly captures the directness, energy, and pithiness of Montaigne's writing."--"The Christian Science Monitor."

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The nine captivatingly meditative essays in "The Practice of the Wild" display the deep understanding and wide erudition of Gary Snyder in the ways ... More

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George Orwell's collected nonfiction, written in the clear-eyed and uncompromising style that earned him a critical following One of the most ... More

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"Standing on the bare ground--my head bathed by the blithe air and uplifted into infinite space--all mean egotism vanishes, " Emerson wrote in Nature ... More

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A captivating portrait of history creating itself, this study was written as Europe was struggling to recover from the Napoleonic Wars, when the ... More

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Together in one volume, Emerson's "Nature" and Thoreau's "Walking, " is writing that defines our distinctly American relationship to nature.

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For more than four hundred years, the personal essay has been one of the richest and most vibrant of all literary forms. Distinguished from the ... More

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In this exciting new anthology by the editors of the popular "In Short, " 72 authors use imagination as a way to explore reality.

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Six Memos for the Millennium is a collection of five lectures Italo Calvino was about to deliver at the time of his death. Here is his legacy to us: ... More

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Six essays and one address outline Emerson's moral idealism and hint at later scepticism. In addition to title essay, this volume includes "History," ... More

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"Richard Hugo's free-swinging, go-for-it remarks on poetry and the teaching of poetry are exactly what are needed in classrooms and in the world." ... More

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`Taken together, The Pleasure of the Text and S/Z force us to notice how much of the most interesting thought today is being carried forward in what ... More

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A comprehensive and illuminating survey of literary journalism with both historical and international scope, this anthology is the only one of its ... More

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Representative sampling of Thoreau's most frequently read and cited essays: "On the Duty of Civil Disobedience" (1849), "Life without Principle" ... More

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The 8 essays included in this selection have not been chosen in order to trace the evolution of Montaigne's thought since other anthologies following ... More

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The renowned author of 36 Children turns his attention to children's literature and the power of stories in education, from Robin Hood to the ... More

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An essay on aesthetics by the Japanese novelist, this book explores architecture, jade, food, and even toilets, combining an acute sense of the use ... More

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In Waist-High in the World, Mairs explores in her inimitable voice the subject that has always been in the background of her writing, but which she ... More

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Delights and surprises await the reader in this rich gathering of "Shorts" (ranging from several paragraphs to 2,000 words). From Diane Ackerman's ... More

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