1547 books (78 pages) in this category
Collected Essays on H.P. Lovecraft and Others
by George T. Wetzel
This volume collects 8 pioneering essays (and a humorous epistolary exchange) by the late H.P. Lovecraft scholar, George T. Wetzel. This is the largest single volume of Wetzel's nonfiction ever published. Included are:<P> "Biographic Notes on ...
ISBN: 9781479407699
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eBookby Cannie J McNamara
<p>Ever wonder what it is like to be disabled? Are we any different from any one else? Are we different from each other? Look at the world through my eyes. Experience a different world, cry with me, laugh with me, experience life with me. You ...
ISBN: 9781476322162
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eBookby James Broughton
<p>“Broughton writes with disarming frankness about his 80 years as an artist and as a human being seeking wholeness.” – <em>Kirkus Reviews</em></p> <p>“He was probably the most flirtatious man I’ve ever met.” – Pauline Kael, author of ...
ISBN: 9781944507022
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eBookComplete Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant (Illustrated)
by Ulysses S. Grant
<p>The first volume, as well as a portion of the second, was written before I had reason to suppose I was in a critical condition of health. Later I was reduced almost to the point of death, and it became impossible for me to attend to anything ...
ISBN: 1230001144932
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eBookby Muriel Spark
<p>In her foreword to All The Poems (2003) Muriel Spark wrote, 'Although most of my life has been devoted to fiction, I have always thought of myself as a poet. I do not write "poetic" prose, but feel that my outlook on life and my ...
ISBN: 9781784104443
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eBookConan Doyle and the Crimes Club
The Creator of Sherlock Holmes and his Criminological Friends
by Stephen Wade
<p>On 17 July 1904, an intimate group of like-minded gentlemen sat down to dinner in London's Great Central Hotel. They were united by one shared interest: a fascination with crime and the workings of the criminal mind. This meeting, occurring ...
ISBN: 1230001999174
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eBookby Jean-Jacques Rousseau
<p>This eBook edition of "Confessions" has been formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. "Confessions" is an autobiographical book which covers the first fifty-three years of ...
ISBN: 9788027244898
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eBookConfessions of an English Opium-Eater
by Thomas De Quincey
<p>Confessions of an English Opium-Eater (1821) is an autobiographical account written by Thomas De Quincey, about his laudanum (opium and alcohol) addiction and its effect on his life. The Confessions was "the first major work De Quincey ...
ISBN: 1230000506199
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eBookConfessions of an English Opium-Eater
by Thomas De Quincey
<p>WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY HOWARD MARKS</p> <p>Once upon a time, opium (the main ingredient of heroin) was easily available over the chemist's counter. The secret of happiness, about which philosophers have disputed for so many ages, could be ...
ISBN: 9781448181186
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eBookConfessions of an English Opium-Eater and Other Writings
by Thomas De Quincey
<p>'I took it: - and in an hour, oh! Heavens! what a revulsion! what an upheaving, from its lowest depths, of the inner spirit! what an apocalypse of the world within me!' Thomas De Quincey's Confessions of an English Opium-Eater (1821) launched
ISBN: 9780191637902
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eBookby Thomas de Quincey
<p>First published in 1821, <em>Confessions of an Opium Eater</em> was the book that kick-started Thomas De Quincey's literary career and the one that would ultimately lead to his canonization as the patron saint of the erudite addict.</p> ...
ISBN: 1230001440003
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eBookby Veron Lee Campbell
This three-part book is birthed out of different experiences in my life over a number of years. Part I, Confessions of My Life, is a collection of fifteen poems. Part II, Sharing My Thoughts, is a collection of thoughts that the Lord used to ...
ISBN: 9781499053234
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eBookFrancophone Caribbean Writers Interrogating Their Past
by Bonnie Thomas
<p>The Francophone Caribbean boasts a trove of literary gems. Distinguished by innovative, elegant writing and thought-provoking questions of history and identity, this exciting body of work demands scholarly attention. Its authors treat the ...
ISBN: 9781496810564
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eBookConstance Fenimore Woolson: Portrait of a Lady Novelist
by Anne Boyd Rioux
<p><strong>"Biography at its best aims at resurrection. Anne Boyd Rioux has brought the novelist Constance Fenimore Woolson back to life for us. Hurrah!" —Robert D. Richardson, author of the Bancroft Prize–winning <em>William James: In
ISBN: 9780393245103
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eBookConversations with Allen Ginsberg
by David Stephen Calonne
<p>Allen Ginsberg (1926–1997) was one of the most famous American poets of the twentieth century. Yet, his career is distinguished by not only his strong contributions to literature but also social justice. <em>Conversations with Allen ...
ISBN: 9781496823526
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eBookA Fictional Dialogue Based on Biographical Facts
by Derek Parker
<p><strong>Imagined by one of the world's leading experts on Casanova, this fictionalised conversation presents the essential biography of history's most famous lover.</strong></p> <p>A quiet chat with Casanova turns into a catalogue of racy ...
ISBN: 9781786782373
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eBookConversations with Colson Whitehead
by Derek C. Maus
<p>Since the publication of his first novel, <em>The Intuitionist</em>, in 1999, Colson Whitehead (b. 1969) has been considered an important new voice in American literature. His seven subsequent books have done little to contradict that initial
ISBN: 9781496821485
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eBookConversations with Colum McCann
by Mary C. Ingersoll & Earl G. Ingersoll
<p><em>Conversations with Colum McCann</em> brings together eighteen interviews with a world-renowned fiction writer. Ranging from his 1994 literary debut, <em>Fishing the Sloe-Black River</em>, to a new and unpublished interview conducted in ...
ISBN: 9781496812957
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eBookConversations with Edmund White
by Will Brantley & Nancy McGuire Roche
<p><em>Conversations with Edmund White</em> brings together twenty-one interviews with an author known for chronicling gay culture. Ranging from a 1982 discussion of his early works to a new and unpublished interview conducted in 2016, these ...
ISBN: 9781496813565
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eBookConversations with Edwidge Danticat
by Maxine Lavon Montgomery
<p>This volume sheds a much-needed light on Edwidge Danticat (b. 1969) and her ability to depict timely issues in sparkling prose that delves deep into the borderlands, an uncharted in-between space located outside fixed geographic, cultural, ...
ISBN: 9781496812568
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