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Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Language
English
Description
Selected poems by the Nobel Prizewinning Irish poet are taken from Heaney's twelve previous collections and includes work published since 1987. This volume gathers the landmark poems from the poets twelve previous collections, & brings the reader up to date with the work published since 1987. Annotation. As selected by the author, Opened Ground includes the essential work from Heaney's twelve previous books of poetry, as well as new sequences drawn...
Author
Series
Publisher
Wesleyan University Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
223 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Since his celebrated first book of poetry, Peter Gizzi has been hailed as one of the most significant and distinctive voices writing today. Gathered from over five collections, and representing close to twenty-five years of work, the poems in this generous selection strike a dynamic balance of honesty, emotion, intellectual depth and otherworldly resonance--in Gizzi's work, poetry itself becomes a primary ground of human experience. Haunted, vibrant,...
Author
Language
English
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Description
""In a career of sixty years marked by unwavering integrity and steady growth, Edward Hopper, created a series of unforgettable images of modern America. His art was based on the ordinary aspects of the contemporary United States, in city, town and country, seen with uncompromising truthfulness. No artist has painted a more revealing portrait of twentieth-century America. But he was not merely an objective realist. His art was charged with strong...
Author
Series
Irish drama selections volume 4
Publisher
Catholic University of America Press
Pub. Date
1987
Physical Desc
407 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Author
Series
Hoover Institution Press publication volume 677
Publisher
Hoover Institution Press, Stanford University
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
xii, 246 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
In this book, Robert Leeson and Charles Palm have assembled an amazing collection of Milton Friedman's best works on freedom. Even more amazing is that the selection represents only 1 percent of the 1,500 works by Friedman that Leeson and Palm have put online in a user-friendly format and an even smaller percentage if you include their archive of Friedman's audio and television recordings, correspondence, and other writings. This book and the larger...
11) A Capote reader
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
©1987
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
vii, 722 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
This selection of Capote's works is divided into six parts: short stories, novellas, travel sketches, reportage, portraits, and essays.
13) Emma
Author
Language
English
Description
"Emma, perhaps the most technically accomplished of all of Austen's novels, is also, after Pride and Prejudice, her most popular one. Its numerous film and television adaptations testify to the world's enduring affection for the headstrong, often misguided Emma Woodhouse and her many romantic schemes. Like the previous volumes in Harvard's celebrated annotated Austen series, Emma: An Annotated Edition is a beautiful and illuminating gift edition that...
Author
Series
Library of America volume 38
Publisher
Distributed to the trade in the U.S. and Canada by Viking
Pub. Date
©1987
Physical Desc
1379 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Examines the role of religion in human lives, the nature of the universe, truth, pragmatism, war, politics, and metaphysics.
15) Collected essays
Author
Series
Library of America volume 98
Publisher
Library of America
Pub. Date
c1998
Physical Desc
x, 869 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
17) The tempest
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Language
English
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Description
This edition of The Tempest is the first dedicated to its stage history. Drawing on a wide variety of sources, it examines four centuries of mainstream, regional, and fringe productions in Britain (including Dryden and Davenant's Restoration adaptation), nineteenth- and twentieth-century American stagings, and recent Australian, Canadian, French, Italian, and Japanese productions. In a substantial, illustrated Introduction Dymkowski analyses the cultural...
Author
Publisher
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
Language
English
Description
The author of The Color Purple meditates on planetary concerns as well as on feminist and political issues in her most deeply spiritual work yet. She writes of our intimate connection with nature, focuses on racial questions, reports on trips to China, Bali, and Jamaica, and more.
Author
Series
Publisher
Prestel
Pub. Date
©2004
Physical Desc
28 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
Presents an introduction to the life and art of American pop artist Andy Warhol, discussing his working methods and sources of inspiration, and telling about his special exhibition of paintings of toys.
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