By Helen Addison Howard
The fashion of Indian poetry --
Alice Cunningham Fletcher --
Frances Densmore --
Mary Hunter Austin --
Natalie Curtis (Burlin) --
Alice Corbin Henderson --
Constance Lindsay Skinner --
Lew Sarett --
Eda Lou Walton.
By Helen Addison Howard
The fashion of Indian poetry --
Alice Cunningham Fletcher --
Frances Densmore --
Mary Hunter Austin --
Natalie Curtis (Burlin) --
Alice Corbin Henderson --
Constance Lindsay Skinner --
Lew Sarett --
Eda Lou Walton.
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By Jaime Clarke
Conversations with Jonathan Lethem collects fourteen interviews, carried out over a decade and a part, with the Brooklyn-born writer of such novels as lady in panorama, Motherless Brooklyn, The castle of Solitude, persistent urban, etc. Winner of the nationwide e-book Critics' Circle Award, Lethem (b. 1964) covers a variety of matters, from what it ability to include style into literature, to the influence of the dying of his mom on his existence and paintings, to his being an enduring "sophomore on go away" from Bennington collage, in addition to his flight from Brooklyn to California and its lasting influence on his fiction. Lethem additionally finds the various literary and pa tradition impacts that experience expert his writing life.Readers will locate Lethem as captivating and beneficiant and clever as his paintings. His exam of what it capability to reside an artistic lifestyles will reverberate and enlighten students and lovers alike. His techniques on technology fiction, highbrow estate, literary realism, style, videos, and rock 'n' roll are articulated with el?n in the course of the assortment, as are his reviews on his personal improvement as a craftsman.
By Jaime Clarke
Conversations with Jonathan Lethem collects fourteen interviews, carried out over a decade and a part, with the Brooklyn-born writer of such novels as lady in panorama, Motherless Brooklyn, The castle of Solitude, persistent urban, etc. Winner of the nationwide e-book Critics' Circle Award, Lethem (b. 1964) covers a variety of matters, from what it ability to include style into literature, to the influence of the dying of his mom on his existence and paintings, to his being an enduring "sophomore on go away" from Bennington collage, in addition to his flight from Brooklyn to California and its lasting influence on his fiction. Lethem additionally finds the various literary and pa tradition impacts that experience expert his writing life.Readers will locate Lethem as captivating and beneficiant and clever as his paintings. His exam of what it capability to reside an artistic lifestyles will reverberate and enlighten students and lovers alike. His techniques on technology fiction, highbrow estate, literary realism, style, videos, and rock 'n' roll are articulated with el?n in the course of the assortment, as are his reviews on his personal improvement as a craftsman.
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By Joe Haldeman
Joe Haldeman burst onto the technological know-how fiction scene with The without end War, an unforgettable novel that marked the coming of a thrilling, unique new voice. clever, artistic, and acutely socially acutely aware, Haldeman is an writer whose paintings has all the maximum features linked to the genre.
Infinite goals collects Haldeman’s brief tales from the early days of his profession. There’s the poignant “26 Days, On Earth,” which follows a boy from the moon as he writes a magazine approximately his time on the earth and falls for an area lady. Then there’s the funny “All The Universe in a Mason Jar,” chronicling the event extraterrestrial beings have with a moonshine-drunk farm boy. within the satirical “A Time to Live,” a frozen billionaire wakes up sooner or later, simply to get back to his personal time in a distinct physique. additionally integrated is the Hugo Award–winning “Tricentennial,” a couple of journey to collect antimatter from a mysterious binary process. Haldeman’s whip-smart stories end up to be as a lot a deal with now as they have been after they have been written.
This booklet gains an illustrated biography of Joe Haldeman together with infrequent pictures from the author’s own collection.
By Joe Haldeman
Joe Haldeman burst onto the technological know-how fiction scene with The without end War, an unforgettable novel that marked the coming of a thrilling, unique new voice. clever, artistic, and acutely socially acutely aware, Haldeman is an writer whose paintings has all the maximum features linked to the genre.
Infinite goals collects Haldeman’s brief tales from the early days of his profession. There’s the poignant “26 Days, On Earth,” which follows a boy from the moon as he writes a magazine approximately his time on the earth and falls for an area lady. Then there’s the funny “All The Universe in a Mason Jar,” chronicling the event extraterrestrial beings have with a moonshine-drunk farm boy. within the satirical “A Time to Live,” a frozen billionaire wakes up sooner or later, simply to get back to his personal time in a distinct physique. additionally integrated is the Hugo Award–winning “Tricentennial,” a couple of journey to collect antimatter from a mysterious binary process. Haldeman’s whip-smart stories end up to be as a lot a deal with now as they have been after they have been written.
This booklet gains an illustrated biography of Joe Haldeman together with infrequent pictures from the author’s own collection.
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By Henry David Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau wrote 4 full-length works, accumulated the following for the 1st time in one quantity. Subtly interweaving ordinary remark, own event, and old lore, they show his brilliance not just as a author, yet as a naturalist, pupil, historian, poet, and thinker. "A Week at the harmony and Merrimack Rivers" is predicated on a ship journey all in favour of his brother from harmony, Massachusetts to harmony, New Hampshire. "Walden," one in every of America's nice books, is instantly a private assertion of independence, social test, voyage of religious discovery, guide of self-reliance, and masterpiece of favor. "The Maine Woods" and "Cape Cod" painting landscapes altering irreversibly at the same time he wrote. the 1st combines shut commentary of the unexplored Maine desert with a far-sighted plea for conservation; the second one is a superb and unsentimental account of survival on a barren peninsula within the face of adversarial parts, old switch, and traditional decay.
By Henry David Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau wrote 4 full-length works, accumulated the following for the 1st time in one quantity. Subtly interweaving ordinary remark, own event, and old lore, they show his brilliance not just as a author, yet as a naturalist, pupil, historian, poet, and thinker. "A Week at the harmony and Merrimack Rivers" is predicated on a ship journey all in favour of his brother from harmony, Massachusetts to harmony, New Hampshire. "Walden," one in every of America's nice books, is instantly a private assertion of independence, social test, voyage of religious discovery, guide of self-reliance, and masterpiece of favor. "The Maine Woods" and "Cape Cod" painting landscapes altering irreversibly at the same time he wrote. the 1st combines shut commentary of the unexplored Maine desert with a far-sighted plea for conservation; the second one is a superb and unsentimental account of survival on a barren peninsula within the face of adversarial parts, old switch, and traditional decay.
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By Elizabeth Rolls, Michelle Willingham, Marguerite Kaye, Ashley Radcliff, Bronwyn Scott
A suite of 5 sensual tales. heritage hasn't ever been so hot!A Scandalous Liaison through Elizabeth RollsViscount St. Austell hasn't ever forgotten the illicit evening he shared with Loveday Trehearne. Now, as secret surrounds her, he'll rediscover all her sensuous curves….Pleasured by way of the Viking by means of Michelle WillinghamInnocent Auder ? Reilly's afraid she will not fulfill her husband-to-be within the marriage mattress. So Viking Gunnar Dalrata bargains to teach her the pleasures of creating love….The Captain's depraved bet by means of Marguerite KayeCaptain Ewan Dalgleish makes Isabella Mansfield a scandalous guess: in go back for the money she wishes, she needs to spend 3 nights with him….The Samurai's Forbidden contact via Ashley RadcliffThe purely love and event Miku's stumbled on is in her poetry. yet left by myself with samurai warrior Takeshi, tantalizing new cravings are aroused….Arabian Nights with a Rake by means of Bronwyn ScottSusannah Sutcliffe is held captive in a Bedouin camp. to flee, she needs to persuade good-looking English diplomat Alex Grayfield to rescue her—by seducing him!
By Elizabeth Rolls, Michelle Willingham, Marguerite Kaye, Ashley Radcliff, Bronwyn Scott
A suite of 5 sensual tales. heritage hasn't ever been so hot!A Scandalous Liaison through Elizabeth RollsViscount St. Austell hasn't ever forgotten the illicit evening he shared with Loveday Trehearne. Now, as secret surrounds her, he'll rediscover all her sensuous curves….Pleasured by way of the Viking by means of Michelle WillinghamInnocent Auder ? Reilly's afraid she will not fulfill her husband-to-be within the marriage mattress. So Viking Gunnar Dalrata bargains to teach her the pleasures of creating love….The Captain's depraved bet by means of Marguerite KayeCaptain Ewan Dalgleish makes Isabella Mansfield a scandalous guess: in go back for the money she wishes, she needs to spend 3 nights with him….The Samurai's Forbidden contact via Ashley RadcliffThe purely love and event Miku's stumbled on is in her poetry. yet left by myself with samurai warrior Takeshi, tantalizing new cravings are aroused….Arabian Nights with a Rake by means of Bronwyn ScottSusannah Sutcliffe is held captive in a Bedouin camp. to flee, she needs to persuade good-looking English diplomat Alex Grayfield to rescue her—by seducing him!
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By Marc Gascoigne, Christian Dunn
Repeating the successful formulation confirmed by means of "Let the Galaxy Burn", this bumper anthology unites vintage brief tales with brand-new stories. it really is an enticing package deal that may entice Warhammer lovers and all fans of significant delusion fiction.
By Marc Gascoigne, Christian Dunn
Repeating the successful formulation confirmed by means of "Let the Galaxy Burn", this bumper anthology unites vintage brief tales with brand-new stories. it really is an enticing package deal that may entice Warhammer lovers and all fans of significant delusion fiction.
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By Harry Blamires (auth.)
By Harry Blamires (auth.)
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By Keith Laumer
Chronicles the background of the BOLO, a futuristic man-made computing device that symbolizes brute strength, defiance, and inflexible will and is answerable for protecting humanity opposed to an invading alien workforce.
By Keith Laumer
Chronicles the background of the BOLO, a futuristic man-made computing device that symbolizes brute strength, defiance, and inflexible will and is answerable for protecting humanity opposed to an invading alien workforce.
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By Emrys Jones
The 16th century has lengthy been said the "Golden Age" of English verse--with such names as Shakespeare, Donne, and Spenser to its credits it could actually rarely be differently. but this anthology, including either undisputed masterpieces and achievements in hitherto overlooked fields, is the 1st to bare the total diversity and variety of the century's poetic riches. What emerges is the main entire photograph to be had of the poetic energy of the 16th century.
By Emrys Jones
The 16th century has lengthy been said the "Golden Age" of English verse--with such names as Shakespeare, Donne, and Spenser to its credits it could actually rarely be differently. but this anthology, including either undisputed masterpieces and achievements in hitherto overlooked fields, is the 1st to bare the total diversity and variety of the century's poetic riches. What emerges is the main entire photograph to be had of the poetic energy of the 16th century.
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By Henry Finder, The New Yorker
The 3rd installment of a desirable decade-by-decade sequence, this anthology collects historical New Yorker items from the main tumultuous years of the 20th century—including paintings by means of James Baldwin, Pauline Kael, Sylvia Plath, Roger Angell, Muriel Spark, and John Updike—alongside new exams of the Nineteen Sixties by way of a few of today’s most interesting writers.
Here are real-time money owed of those years of turmoil: Calvin Trillin studies at the integration of Southern universities, E. B. White and John Updike combat with the enormity of the Kennedy assassination, and Jonathan Schell travels with American troops into the jungles of Vietnam. The homicide of Martin Luther King, Jr., the fallout of the 1968 Democratic conference, the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia, the Six-Day conflict: All are delivered to instant and profound lifestyles in those pages.
The New Yorker of the Nineteen Sixties used to be additionally the wellspring of a few of the actually undying works of yankee journalism. Truman Capote’s In chilly Blood, Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring, Hannah Arendt’s Eichmann in Jerusalem, and James Baldwin’s the fireplace subsequent Time all first seemed within the New Yorker and are featured the following. The journal additionally released such indelible brief tale masterpieces as John Cheever’s “The Swimmer” and John Updike’s “A & P,” along poems by way of Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton.
The arts underwent a rare transformation throughout the decade, one reflected by way of the emergence within the New Yorker of serious voices as arresting as Pauline Kael and Kenneth Tynan. one of the the most important cultural figures profiled listed below are Simon & Garfunkel, Tom Stoppard, Bob Dylan, Allen Ginsberg, Cassius Clay (before he used to be Muhammad Ali), and Mike Nichols and Elaine May.
The assembled items are given attention-grabbing modern context via present New Yorker writers, together with Jill Lepore, Malcolm Gladwell, and David Remnick. the result's an incomparable collective portrait of a very galvanizing period.
By Henry Finder, The New Yorker
The 3rd installment of a desirable decade-by-decade sequence, this anthology collects historical New Yorker items from the main tumultuous years of the 20th century—including paintings by means of James Baldwin, Pauline Kael, Sylvia Plath, Roger Angell, Muriel Spark, and John Updike—alongside new exams of the Nineteen Sixties by way of a few of today’s most interesting writers.
Here are real-time money owed of those years of turmoil: Calvin Trillin studies at the integration of Southern universities, E. B. White and John Updike combat with the enormity of the Kennedy assassination, and Jonathan Schell travels with American troops into the jungles of Vietnam. The homicide of Martin Luther King, Jr., the fallout of the 1968 Democratic conference, the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia, the Six-Day conflict: All are delivered to instant and profound lifestyles in those pages.
The New Yorker of the Nineteen Sixties used to be additionally the wellspring of a few of the actually undying works of yankee journalism. Truman Capote’s In chilly Blood, Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring, Hannah Arendt’s Eichmann in Jerusalem, and James Baldwin’s the fireplace subsequent Time all first seemed within the New Yorker and are featured the following. The journal additionally released such indelible brief tale masterpieces as John Cheever’s “The Swimmer” and John Updike’s “A & P,” along poems by way of Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton.
The arts underwent a rare transformation throughout the decade, one reflected by way of the emergence within the New Yorker of serious voices as arresting as Pauline Kael and Kenneth Tynan. one of the the most important cultural figures profiled listed below are Simon & Garfunkel, Tom Stoppard, Bob Dylan, Allen Ginsberg, Cassius Clay (before he used to be Muhammad Ali), and Mike Nichols and Elaine May.
The assembled items are given attention-grabbing modern context via present New Yorker writers, together with Jill Lepore, Malcolm Gladwell, and David Remnick. the result's an incomparable collective portrait of a very galvanizing period.
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