Meditative essays from novelist Barbara Kingsolver, on life in the desert, working motherhood, landlocked hermit crabs, and other subjects. A sample: "In my first three years of high school, the number of times I got asked out on a date was zero. This is not an approximate number."
This collection of essays recounts what took place on the long morning after the 1960s, when everyone was coming down from their particular bad trip. Didion observes the dramas that explode as America goes into collective detox: the mother abandoning her five-year-old daughter on the central reservation of Interstate 5; Huey Newton and the Black ...
Hyacinth Bucket - pronounced "Bouquet" - star of the BBC1 comedy series, "Keeping Up Appearances", imparts her personal views on protecting one's social standing. There are sections on etiquette in the home, entertaining, social obligations, how to strike up an acquaintance with members of the aristocracy, and improving the mind. They all give an ...
WELCOME TO THE MONKEY HOUSE is a collection of Kurt Vonnueguts shorter works. Originally printed in publications as diverse as The Magazine of Fantasy and Science fiction and The Atlantic Monthly, what these superb stories share is Vonnegut's audacious sense of humor and extraordinary range of creative vision.
First published in 1914, TENDER BUTTONS is considered by many to be one of the greatest works of experimental writing in this century. Divided into three sections--Objects, Food, and Rooms--the prose poems that make up the work are beautiful but notoriously obscure, more committed to grammatical and musical innovation than to conventional sense ...
As Vivian Gornick puts it, "In every work of literature there's both a situation and a story. The situation is the context or circumstance, sometimes the plot; the story is the emotional experience that preoccupies the writer: the insight, the wisdom, the thing one has come to say." In addition to her own experience with the form, Gornick also ...
Nineteen essays, most of which originally appeared in the "Des Moines Register," including Waller's first published piece, "Riding Along in Safety with Kennedy and Keralt."
Beautifully written, full of vitality, humor, love of life, and the free spirit, these short pieces and essays are classics to be read, savored, and read again. Here, in matchless style, E.B. White writes about everything from cicadaas to Khrushchev.
A hilarious collection of the many articles written by Stephen Fry for magazines, newspapers and radio. It includes selected wireless essays of Donald Trefusis, the ageing professor of philology brought to life in Fry's novel "The Liar", and the best of Fry's weekly column for the Daily Telegraph.
This is a collection of papers from the Bart Collection on the history of farting. The collection was started by Benjamin Bart on discovering several papers in his grandmother Emily's cedar chest, and are available with the help of the Australian Literature Council. The book encompasses all aspects of the history of farting, from the place of ...
An omnibus collection of writings--critical, political, and personal--from one of the most venerable figures in American letters. Vidal tackles such subjects as the Kennedys, Tennessee Williams, Americans and sex, and the fiction of France. This volume won the National Book Award in 1993.
A collection of 30 stories, essays and musings, first published in 1942, by the distinguished American humorist, James Thurber. Complete with his familiar bizarre drawings, the collection offers glimpses of the world Thurber evoked with his dry humour.
From the always entertaining (and often thought-provoking) Nicholson Baker, this volume of decidedly offbeat essays gathers his opinions on such subjects as commas, reading aloud, model airplanes, nail clippers, and wine stains. Baker specializes in phenomena that all of us notice in passing; he, however, doesn't just notice but actually analyzes ...
Important advice and tips for every cat about town This well-known compendium of comic cat capers, which cat lovers will adore, is one of the bestselling Little Instruction Books and gives essential advice on how to be the best cat on the block. It will be in a new series of four stylishly redesigned Instruction Books (Life's, Dog's and Gardener ...
In this book Woody Allen revenges himself upon such significant subjects as death, obesity, organized crime, the invention of the sandwich, adult education, laundry lists of famous people, and Latin American revolutionaries.
This hilarious, tongue-in-cheek, self-help parody is a "musthave" for dog owners who are baffled by their dog's quirky habits and questionable conduct. Whether Fido compulsively chews up old blankets, obsessively licks the hardwood floor, or barks uncontrollably at an empty corner, bestselling humor author Stephen Baker offers "expert" advice on ...
This is a collection of essays which span most of the author's writing career exploring such issues as waste, economy and pleasure, the responsibility of a writer, racism and stewardship of the Earth.
For the first time in one hardcover edition, here are three best-selling books by one of 20th century's greatest movie directors. Woody Allen is an American cultural icon -- funny, philosophical, and controversial in his work and personal life. In this side-splitting collection, containing Without Feathers, Getting Even, and Side Effects. the ...
As a novelist, playwright, editor, educator, and critic, Robertson Davies has made a substantial contribution to the cultural life of his native Canada. This is a collection of his journalistic work.
James Thurber, American humourist, was not a man to shrink from danger - as long as he was safely ensconced behind his typewriter or drawing board. This is a collection of his ruminations on everyday villainy: stories, articles, essays, drawings and reflections on the evil that men and women do.
This collection of non-fictional prose, following "Assorted Prose", "Picked-up Pieces" and "Hugging the Shore", looks at subjects as diverse as national monuments, the female body, the Gospel of Mathew and popular music. The book concludes with the authors thoughts on his own work.
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