Brazil through the Eyes of William James
In 1865, twenty-three-year-old William James began his studies at the Harvard Medical School. When he learned that one of his most esteemed professors, Louis Agassiz, then director of the recently established Museum of Comparative Zoology, was pre...
Antonio Machado
Regarded by many as the finest poet of twentieth-century Spain, Antonio Machado y Ruiz (1875-1939) is not well known outside the Spanish-speaking world. This volume will introduce him to Anglo-American readers, enabling them to experience at first...
Writings of William James
In his introduction to this collection, John McDermott presents James's thinking in all its manifestations, stressing the importance of radical empiricism and placing into perspective the doctrines of pragmatism and the will to believe. The critic...
William T. Sherman
This book tells the life story of William T. Sherman, one of the Civil War's most accomplished generals and an American military professional who changed how wars were fought. William T. Sherman: A Biography provides readers with a glimpse into th...
Machado de Assis
Acclaimed as "the greatest writer ever produced in Latin America" by Susan Sontag, as well as "another Kafka" by Allen Ginsberg, Machado de Assis (1839-1908) was famous in his time for his psychologically probing tales of fin-d...
Helena
J. M. Machado de Assis (1839-1908) har kallats den brasilianska litteraturens fader. Det var inte mycket som talade för att han skulle bli författare. Han kom från ett arbetarhem och han led av epilepsi, och sin bildning fick han skaffa sig på egen hand. Han blev antagen som lärling på ett tryckeri och började sin skrivarbana som poet. Med tiden blev han en uppburen författare och han valdes på livstid till ordförande i den Brasilianska Litteraturakademien. Helena utkom 1876 och tillhör författarens tidigare verk där den romantiska stilen är påtaglig. Den har alltid utövat stor tjuskraft på läsarna i Brasilien där den är en levande klassiker och fortfarande kommer ut i stora upplagor. Intrigen är sinnrikt uppbyggd och slutet är överraskande. "Boken är trots att det gått mer än 100 år sedan den kom ut lättläst, och den känns fortfarande aktuell. Dygd och moral, sanning och oärlighet gestaltas i olika spörsmål som personerna, genom ödets nyck eller försynen (?) 'drabbas' av. ... En utmärkt latinamerikansk klassiker." - Monica Morén, BTJ:s sambindningslista
P. G. T. Beauregard
First published in 1955 to wide acclaim, T. Harry Williams' P. G. T. Beauregard is universally regarded as ""the first authoritative portrait of the Confederacy's always dramatic, often perplexing"" general (Chicago Tribune). C...
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Collected Stories of Machado de Assis
A progenitor of twentieth-century Latin American fiction, Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis (1839-1908), was hailed in his lifetime as Brazil's greatest writer. This majestic translation combines all his short-story collections appearing in his lifet...
William Carlos Williams
Paterson is both a place-the New Jersey city in whom the person (the poet's own life) and the public (the history of the region) are combined. Originally four books (published individually between 1946 and 1951), the structure of Paterson (in Dr. ...
Straight James / Gay James
Straight James / Gay James
William Morris
William Morris-the great 19th century craftsman, architect, designer, poet and writer-remains a monumental figure whose influence resonates powerfully today. As an intellectual (and author of the seminal utopian News From Nowhere), his concern wit...
William Edmondson
A reassessment of self-taught artist William Edmondson, exploring the enduring relevance of his work This richly illustrated volume reintroduces readers to American sculptor William Edmondson (1874-1951) more than 80 years after his historic solo ...
William Blake
'To see the world in a grain of sand, and to see heaven in a wild flower, hold infinity in the palm of your hands, and eternity in an hour' William Blake William Blake was a poet and artist. Born in Soho in the eighteenth century, the son of a sho...
WILLIAM LEAVITT
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William Wilberforce
William Hague has written the life of William Wilberforce who was both a staunch conservative and a tireless campaigner against the slave trade. Hague shows how Wilberforce, after his agonising conversion to evangelical Christianity, was able to l...
William Goldman
A collection of five screenplays by this Academy Award-winning writer. Includes: All the President's Men * Magic * Harper * Maverick * The Great Waldo Pepper. Also features essays by Goldman: "Getting Even or Creative Accounting " "...
William Blake
This selection of Blake's poetry is packaged in an attractive and collectible format and marketed at an attractive price for the customer. It is part of a series of poetry titles designed to be seen as a set.
William Helburn
William Helburn was the go-to photographer for many of the top advertising agencies in New York in the 1950s and 1960s. Shock value and an unrelenting hunger for success helped Helburn to a pioneer's share in the revolutionary era of advertising a...
William Wordsworth
In this series, a contemporary poet selects and introduces a poet of the past. By their selection of verses and by the personal and critical reactions they express in their introductions, the selectors offer a passionate and accessible introductio...
William Blake
In his 'illuminated' books, William Blake combined his handwritten text with his exuberant imagery on pages the like of which had not been seen since the great decorated books of the Middle Ages. To have Blake's great prophetic poems - Jerusalem a...
William Whiston
William Whiston succeeded Sir Isaac Newton as Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge in 1703. Like his predecessor, Whiston presents an interesting combination of the scientific and the theological mind, but whereas Newton carefully concea...
William Faulkner
Considered by many to be the most influential US novelist the world has known, William Faulkner's roots and his writing are planted in a single obscure county in the Deep South. A foremost international modernist, Faulkner's subjects and character...
William Blake
In this series, a contemporary poet selects and introduces a poet of the past. By their choice of poems and by the personal and critical reactions they express in their prefaces, the editors offer insights into their own work as well as providing ...