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Autobiography & Selected Letters L479 V 2 (Trans. Norman)(Greek)

A professing pagan in an aggressively Christian empire, a friend of the emperor Julian and acquaintance of St. Basil, a potent spokesman for private and political causes-Libanius can tell us much abou...

Letters v 1

The Younger Pliny was born in 61 or 62 CE, the son of Lucius Caecilius of Comum (Como) and the Elder Pliny's sister. He was educated at home and then in Rome under Quintilian. He was at Misenum at the...

Euripides

With its savage indictment of the horrors of war as they affect women and children on the losing side, Euripides Troades has been one of the most regularly read, performed and adapted of Greek tragedi...

Collected Prose

Paul Celan (1920-1970) stands as one of the greatest post-war European poets, a writer whose painful struggle with the possibilities and limitations of German, his native language, has helped to defin...

The Blue Jay's Dance

New York Times bestselling and award-winning author Louise Erdrich&;s moving meditation on the experience of motherhood&;the first nonfiction work by one of the most acclaimed authors of our time.Loui...

Book of My Lives

One of the great writers of our time pays tribute to the two different cities of his youth--Sarajevo, where he spent his time poking at the pretensions of the city's elders, and Chicago, where he and...

High Tide in Tucson

The bestselling author of Pigs in Heaven and Animal Dreams now turns her talents to the world of nonfiction in an exciting, illustrated collection of 25 essays. Beautifully packaged, and featuring ori...

Selected Essays

Famed for his singular prose style as much as for his controversial aestheticist principles, Walter Pater (1839-1894) was one of the great essayists in a century of great essayistic writing. His first...

Sesame and Lilies. Two Lectures Delivered At Manchester in 1864.

This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digit...

The Best American Essays 2019

A collection of the year's best essays selected by Robert Atwan and guest editor Rebecca Solnit.

The Double Flame

In this series of essays Paz explores the intimate connection between sex, eroticism, and love in literature throughout the ages. Rich in scope, The Double Flame examines everything from taboo to repr...

Pieces of Hate and Other Enthusiasms

A selection of articles and essays from "New York World," "New York Tribune," "Vanity Fair," "Collier's Weekly," "The Bookman," and other places. Originally published in 1922.

The Bunkhouse Chronicles