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361) Essays
Author
Series
Everyman's library volume 242
Language
English
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Description
The articles collected in George Orwell's Essays illuminate the life and work of one of the most individual writers of this century-a man who elevated political writing to an art. This outstanding collection brings together Orwell's longer, major essays and a fine selection of shorter pieces that includes "My Country Right or Left," "Decline of the English Murder," "Shooting an Elephant," and "A Hanging."
With great originality and wit, Orwell unfolds...
Author
Series
Everyman's library volume 256
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
In this collection of Chandler's four later novels, "The Lady in the Lake" follows Marlowe out of his natural habitat, into the mountains of L.A. and deep into trouble. In "The Little Sister," he uncovers a little blackmail, a lot of drugs, and more murder. In "The Long Goodbye," a war-scarred drunk, his nymphomaniac wife, and Marlowe are on the run from a psychotic gangster. In "Playback," there is a well-endowed redhead, murder and, of course, Marlowe....
367) Blues poems
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
The blues-a musical tradition uniquely American-has had a powerful influence on American poets, and this scintillating anthology offers a richness of poetry as varied and vital as the music that inspired it.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
Easily the most influential book published in the nineteenth century, Darwin's The Origin of Species is also that most unusual phenomenon, an altogether readable discussion of a scientific subject. On its appearance in 1859 it was immediately recognized by enthusiasts and detractors alike as a work of the greatest importance: the revolutionary theory of evolution by means of natural selection that it presented provoked a furious reaction that continues...
Author
Series
Everyman's library volume 267
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
Contains three novels and five short stories by American author James M. Cain, including "The Postman Always Rings Twice" about a drifter who embarks on a course of destruction when he falls for the wife of Nick, the genial owner of a roadside cafe.
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Poets have always drawn inspiration from the wild fancies of dream-life. We spend a third of our lives asleep, and throughout history our nocturnal visions have engaged the interpretive talents of our greatest writers. This treasury of poets?Sidney, Donne, Blake, Keats, Wordsworth, Whitman, Rilke, Plath, Graves, Roethke, Bishop, Moore, Updike, and many more?encompasses lullabies, invocations, aubades, songs, epigrams, and stories, in every conceivable...
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