Author: Henry Thornton Wharton
Publisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 158
Book Description
This book presents beautiful Victorian-era translations of Sapho's work. In the preface, the author gives his notes on how important was the role of the Greek poet and philosopher on the establishment of modern culture. The book also contains an intro to the biography of Sapho based on her memoirs.
Murder Among Friends
Author: Candace Fleming
Publisher: Anne Schwartz Books
ISBN: 0593177428
Category : Young Adult Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 385
Book Description
How did two teenagers brutally murder an innocent child...and why? And how did their brilliant lawyer save them from the death penalty in 1920s Chicago? Written by a prolific master of narrative nonfiction, this is a compulsively readable true-crime story based on an event dubbed the "crime of the century." In 1924, eighteen-year-old college students Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb made a decision: they would commit the perfect crime by kidnapping and murdering a child they both knew. But they made one crucial error: as they were disposing of the body of young Bobby Franks, whom they had bludgeoned to death, Nathan's eyeglasses fell from his jacket pocket. Multi-award-winning author Candace Fleming depicts every twist and turn of this harrowing case--how two wealthy, brilliant young men planned and committed what became known as the crime of the century, how they were caught, why they confessed, and how the renowned criminal defense attorney Clarence Darrow enabled them to avoid the death penalty. Following on the success of such books as The Rise and Fall of Charles Lindbergh and The Family Romanov, this acclaimed nonfiction writer brings to heart-stopping life one of the most notorious crimes in our country's history.
Publisher: Anne Schwartz Books
ISBN: 0593177428
Category : Young Adult Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 385
Book Description
How did two teenagers brutally murder an innocent child...and why? And how did their brilliant lawyer save them from the death penalty in 1920s Chicago? Written by a prolific master of narrative nonfiction, this is a compulsively readable true-crime story based on an event dubbed the "crime of the century." In 1924, eighteen-year-old college students Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb made a decision: they would commit the perfect crime by kidnapping and murdering a child they both knew. But they made one crucial error: as they were disposing of the body of young Bobby Franks, whom they had bludgeoned to death, Nathan's eyeglasses fell from his jacket pocket. Multi-award-winning author Candace Fleming depicts every twist and turn of this harrowing case--how two wealthy, brilliant young men planned and committed what became known as the crime of the century, how they were caught, why they confessed, and how the renowned criminal defense attorney Clarence Darrow enabled them to avoid the death penalty. Following on the success of such books as The Rise and Fall of Charles Lindbergh and The Family Romanov, this acclaimed nonfiction writer brings to heart-stopping life one of the most notorious crimes in our country's history.
Sappho: Memoir, text, selected renderings, and a literal translation
Author: Henry Thornton Wharton
Publisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 158
Book Description
This book presents beautiful Victorian-era translations of Sapho's work. In the preface, the author gives his notes on how important was the role of the Greek poet and philosopher on the establishment of modern culture. The book also contains an intro to the biography of Sapho based on her memoirs.
Publisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 158
Book Description
This book presents beautiful Victorian-era translations of Sapho's work. In the preface, the author gives his notes on how important was the role of the Greek poet and philosopher on the establishment of modern culture. The book also contains an intro to the biography of Sapho based on her memoirs.
Memoirs of Famous Female Sovereigns
Author: Mrs. Jameson (Anna)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Queens
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Queens
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
Memoir, Text, Selected Renderings, and a Literal Translation
Author: Sappho
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 246
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 246
Book Description
The Faraway Nearby
Author: Rebecca Solnit
Publisher: Granta Books
ISBN: 1847087337
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
Gifts come in many guises. One summer, Rebecca Solnit was bequeathed three boxes of ripening apricots, which lay, mountainous, on her bedroom floor - a windfall, a riddle, an emergency to be dealt with. The fruit came from a neglected tree that her mother, gradually succumbing to memory loss, could no longer tend to. From this unexpected inheritance came stories spun like those of Scheherazade, who used her gifts as a storyteller to change her fate and her listener's heart. As she looks back on the year of apricots and emergencies, Solnit weaves her own story into fairytales and the lives of others - the Marquis de Sade, Mary Shelley and Ernesto 'Che' Guevara. She tells of unexpected invitations and adventures, from a library of water in Iceland to the depths of the Grand Canyon. She tells of doctors and explorers, monsters and moths. She tells of warmth and coldness, of making art and re-making the self.
Publisher: Granta Books
ISBN: 1847087337
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
Gifts come in many guises. One summer, Rebecca Solnit was bequeathed three boxes of ripening apricots, which lay, mountainous, on her bedroom floor - a windfall, a riddle, an emergency to be dealt with. The fruit came from a neglected tree that her mother, gradually succumbing to memory loss, could no longer tend to. From this unexpected inheritance came stories spun like those of Scheherazade, who used her gifts as a storyteller to change her fate and her listener's heart. As she looks back on the year of apricots and emergencies, Solnit weaves her own story into fairytales and the lives of others - the Marquis de Sade, Mary Shelley and Ernesto 'Che' Guevara. She tells of unexpected invitations and adventures, from a library of water in Iceland to the depths of the Grand Canyon. She tells of doctors and explorers, monsters and moths. She tells of warmth and coldness, of making art and re-making the self.
British Books
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 774
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 774
Book Description
Memoirs
Author: Robert Lowell
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 0374712182
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
A complete collection of Robert Lowell’s autobiographical prose, from unpublished writings about his youth to reflections on the triumphs and confusions of his adult life. Robert Lowell's Memoirs is an unprecedented literary discovery: the manuscript of Lowell’s lyrical evocation of his childhood, which was written in the 1950s and has remained unpublished until now. Meticulously edited by Steven Gould Axelrod and Grzegorz Kosc, it serves as a precursor or companion to his groundbreaking book of poems Life Studies, which signaled a radically new prose-inflected direction in his work, and indeed in American poetry. Memoirs also includes intense depictions of Lowell’s mental illness and his determined efforts to recover. It concludes with Lowell’s reminiscences of other writers, among them T. S. Eliot, Robert Frost, Ezra Pound, John Berryman, Anne Sexton, Hannah Arendt, and Sylvia Plath. Memoirs demonstrates Lowell’s expansive gifts as a prose stylist and his powers of introspection and observation. It provides striking new evidence of the range and brilliance of Lowell’s achievement. Includes black-and-white photographs
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 0374712182
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
A complete collection of Robert Lowell’s autobiographical prose, from unpublished writings about his youth to reflections on the triumphs and confusions of his adult life. Robert Lowell's Memoirs is an unprecedented literary discovery: the manuscript of Lowell’s lyrical evocation of his childhood, which was written in the 1950s and has remained unpublished until now. Meticulously edited by Steven Gould Axelrod and Grzegorz Kosc, it serves as a precursor or companion to his groundbreaking book of poems Life Studies, which signaled a radically new prose-inflected direction in his work, and indeed in American poetry. Memoirs also includes intense depictions of Lowell’s mental illness and his determined efforts to recover. It concludes with Lowell’s reminiscences of other writers, among them T. S. Eliot, Robert Frost, Ezra Pound, John Berryman, Anne Sexton, Hannah Arendt, and Sylvia Plath. Memoirs demonstrates Lowell’s expansive gifts as a prose stylist and his powers of introspection and observation. It provides striking new evidence of the range and brilliance of Lowell’s achievement. Includes black-and-white photographs
The Works of Plato a New and Literal Version, Chiefly from the Text of Stallbaum
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 548
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 548
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Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott
Author: John Gibson Lockhart
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 480
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 480
Book Description
Sale-catalogues of Second-hand Books on Sale by Henry Sotheran & Co
Author: Sotheran, Henry and Co
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1008
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1008
Book Description