Short Shorts is a delightful anthology of miniature masterpieces. Here are thirty-eight brief, brilliant flashes of fiction, both classic and contemporary. Each work is superb, intense, and speaks to the human condition in a profound, often provocative way-a truly outstanding collection by some of the worlds greatest authors.
George Orwell's celebrated 1948 vision of a world subsumed in tyranny and war. It describes the process of events by which Winston Smith, a London clerk at the Ministry of Truth, comes to understand the true nature and aims of the government he works for, and portrays his doomed attempt to create a private life for himself and his lover Julia. One ...
A leading literary critic and the author of "World of Our Fathers"--looks back on his life from the early 1930s through the 1970s. A perceptive account of Howe's intellectual growth. Index.
While no single volume can fully explain this issue, Bridges and Boundaries: African Americans and American Jews provides us with a means to challenge, and perhaps even to verify, our sense of the past - and in so doing to better understand the present. Fifteen critical essays by leading historians, scholars, and political and religious figures of ...
In six thoughtful, engagingly written essays, Howe surveys a movement he has known firsthand since the 1930s and reflects on its future. "Howe is a marvelously thorough and suggestive critic" (San Francisco Chronicle).
This collection of twelve highly esteemed novellas - introduced by one of the most notable literary critics of the twentieth century - range in character from universally acknowledged masterpieces to major works by great modernist writers.
"Politics and the Novel" clarifies the role of revolutionary ideas in fiction, establishing the role of the political novel, and tracing the growth of this novel into the 20th century. Examples are drawn from such classics as Stendhal's "The Red and the Black", Dostoevsky's "The Possessed", Conrad's "The Secret Agent" and Turgenev's "Fathers and ...
In these essays celebrating a career of forty years, Howe provides the lineage for modern literary tastes, social attitudes, and political persuasions. An invaluable record of a stunningly original and consistently idealistic American mind. Foreword by Michael Walzer.
When he died in 1993, Howe left behind a collection of brief essays on fiction, assembled here and introduced by his son Nicholas Howe. Included are notes on Fielding, Sterne, Dickens, Eliot, Gissing, Tolstoy, Kipling, and Dostoevsky, as well as more general reflections on farce, and on the idea of the self in fiction.
With a large cast of characters, this is a social novel, a family saga set against the rise of capitalism and of a Jewish bourgeoisie in Lodz. It tells the story, through an interwoven plot, of the clash between old traditions and growing desires.
In this fourth edition of his celebrated critical study, Mr. Howe analyzes all of Faulkner's works, emphasizing the themes that run throughout the novels and stories.
A bilingual anthology of modern Yiddish poetry, with English translations. The work which aims to delineate the modern Jewish experience, includes samplings of 6 major poets and selections from the works of 33 others, with an introduction placing the poetry in its historic and critical context.
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