Author: George Haven Putnam
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English essays
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
Prose Masterpieces from Modern Essayists
Author: George Haven Putnam
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English essays
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English essays
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
Prose masterpieces from modern essayists [ed. by G.H.P.
Author: Prose masterpieces
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 310
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 310
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Modern Masterpieces of Short Prose Fiction
Author: Alice Vinton Waite
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 442
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 442
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Unknown Masterpieces
Author: Edwin Frank
Publisher: New York Review of Books
ISBN: 9781590170779
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
In this original collection, several of today's finest writers introduce little-known treasures of literature that they count among their favorite books. Here Toni Morrison celebrates a great Guinean storyteller whose novel of mystical adventure and surprising revelation transforms our image of Africa, while Susan Sontag raises the curtain on a distant summer when three of the greatest poets of the twentieth century exchanged love letters like no others. Here too John Updike analyzes the rare art of an English comic genius, Jonathan Lethem considers a hard-boiled and heartbreaking story of prison life, and Michael Cunningham uncovers the secrets of what may well be the finest short novel in modern American literature. Other contributors include such noted authors as Arthur C. Danto, Lydia Davis, Elizabeth Hardwick, Francine Prose, Lucy Sante, Colm Tóibín, Eliot Weinberger, and James Wood. Lucid, polished, provocative, inspiring, these essays are models of critical appreciation, offering personal, impassioned, thoughtful responses to a wide range of wonderful books. Unknown Masterpieces is a treat for all lovers of great writing and a useful and stimulating guidebook for readers eager to venture off literature's beaten tracks. Eliot Weinberger on Hindoo Holiday by J.R. Ackerley Arthur C. Danto on The Unknown Masterpiece by Honoré de Balzac John Updike on Seven Men by Max Beerbohm Jonathan Lethem on On the Yard by Malcolm Braly Toni Morrison on The Radiance of the King by Camara Laye Colm Tóibín on The Go-Between by L.P. Hartley Francine Prose on A High Wind in Jamaica by Richard Hughes Susan Sontag on Letters: Summer 1926 by Boris Pasternak, Marina Tsvetayeva, and Rainer Maria Rilke Lucy Sante on Classic Crimes by William Roughead James Wood on The Golovlyov Family by Shchedrin Elizabeth Hardwick on The Unpossessed by Tess Slesinger Lydia Davis on The Life of Henry Brulard by Stendhal Michael Cunningham on The Pilgrim Hawk by Glenway Wescott
Publisher: New York Review of Books
ISBN: 9781590170779
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
In this original collection, several of today's finest writers introduce little-known treasures of literature that they count among their favorite books. Here Toni Morrison celebrates a great Guinean storyteller whose novel of mystical adventure and surprising revelation transforms our image of Africa, while Susan Sontag raises the curtain on a distant summer when three of the greatest poets of the twentieth century exchanged love letters like no others. Here too John Updike analyzes the rare art of an English comic genius, Jonathan Lethem considers a hard-boiled and heartbreaking story of prison life, and Michael Cunningham uncovers the secrets of what may well be the finest short novel in modern American literature. Other contributors include such noted authors as Arthur C. Danto, Lydia Davis, Elizabeth Hardwick, Francine Prose, Lucy Sante, Colm Tóibín, Eliot Weinberger, and James Wood. Lucid, polished, provocative, inspiring, these essays are models of critical appreciation, offering personal, impassioned, thoughtful responses to a wide range of wonderful books. Unknown Masterpieces is a treat for all lovers of great writing and a useful and stimulating guidebook for readers eager to venture off literature's beaten tracks. Eliot Weinberger on Hindoo Holiday by J.R. Ackerley Arthur C. Danto on The Unknown Masterpiece by Honoré de Balzac John Updike on Seven Men by Max Beerbohm Jonathan Lethem on On the Yard by Malcolm Braly Toni Morrison on The Radiance of the King by Camara Laye Colm Tóibín on The Go-Between by L.P. Hartley Francine Prose on A High Wind in Jamaica by Richard Hughes Susan Sontag on Letters: Summer 1926 by Boris Pasternak, Marina Tsvetayeva, and Rainer Maria Rilke Lucy Sante on Classic Crimes by William Roughead James Wood on The Golovlyov Family by Shchedrin Elizabeth Hardwick on The Unpossessed by Tess Slesinger Lydia Davis on The Life of Henry Brulard by Stendhal Michael Cunningham on The Pilgrim Hawk by Glenway Wescott
Prose Masterpieces from Modern Essayists
Author: Anthony James Froude
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781437883312
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781437883312
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
Prose masterpieces from modern essayists
Author: James Anthony Froude
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 326
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 326
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The Piazza Tales
Author: Herman Melville
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
ISBN: 9780810105508
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 876
Book Description
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
ISBN: 9780810105508
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 876
Book Description
Crowned Masterpieces of Literature that Have Advanced Civilization
Author: David Josiah Brewer
Publisher:
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 450
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 450
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Stop-Time
Author: Frank Conroy
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101549491
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
First published in 1967, Stop-Time was immediately recognized as a masterpiece of modern American autobiography, a brilliant portrayal of one boy's passage from childhood to adolescence and beyond. Here is Frank Conroy's wry, sad, beautiful tale of life on the road; of odd jobs and lost friendships, brutal schools and first loves; of a father's early death and a son's exhilarating escape into manhood.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101549491
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
First published in 1967, Stop-Time was immediately recognized as a masterpiece of modern American autobiography, a brilliant portrayal of one boy's passage from childhood to adolescence and beyond. Here is Frank Conroy's wry, sad, beautiful tale of life on the road; of odd jobs and lost friendships, brutal schools and first loves; of a father's early death and a son's exhilarating escape into manhood.
Prose Masterpieces from Modern Essayists: On the art of living with others
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English essays
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English essays
Languages : en
Pages : 312
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