Ralph Waldo Emerson issued a call for a great poet to capture and immortalize the unique American experience. In 1855, an answer came with Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass. Today, this masterful collection remains not only a seminal event in American…
"The Lost Orwell" is a biography.
Featuring superb, full-color photographs and illustrations, the guide captures the excitement of our conquest of the air and the fascinating world of flying machines.
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The author of Animal Farm and 1984 was a brilliant, eccentric, complicated man. Born into a comfortable English family and educated at Eton, he was, at various times, a member of the colonial police force in Burma, a tramp, a dishwasher, a critic an…
Despite displaying unspectacular scientific aptitude at school - he even managed to fail CSE woodwork, eliciting a lament from his astonished teacher ('All you have to do is recognise wood!') - Peter has secured his place in science fiction history,…
A major literary event the long-awaited publication of George Orwell's diaries, chronicling the events that inspired his greatest works.
This extraordinary account, by a participant who knew them all, offers vivid reminiscences of Robert Lowell, Adrienne Rich, Stanley Kunitz, Sylvia Plath, Richard Wilbur, Anne Sexton, W. S. Merwin, and many others who interacted with each other and s…
The volume contains Richard II, Henry IV Part One, henry IV Part Two, and Henry V. Each play possesses its own distinctive mood, tone and style, and together they inhabit the turbulent period of change from the usurpation of the throne of Richard II…
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