One of Germany's greatest poets, Johann Christian Friedrich Hölderlin (1770-1843) was also a prose writer of intense feeling, intelligence and perception. This new translation of selected letters and essays traces the life and thoughts of this extraordinary writer. Hölderlin's letters to friends and fellow writers such as Hegel, Schiller and Goethe describe his development as a poet, while those written to his family speak with great passion of his beliefs and aspirations, as well as revealing money worries and, finally, the tragic unravelling of his sanity. These works examine Hölderlin's great preoccupations - the unity of existence, the relationship between art and nature and, above all, the spirit of the writer.

Essay Writing and Letter Writing has always been a part of English curriculum in almost every school for all students studying English irrespective of the fact whether they are studying in Class 3 or Class 10. The Descriptive English section covers essay and letter writing to evaluate the effective writing skills of the students. The present book contains ample number of school essays and letters (formal & informal). The present book on School Essays & Letters has been divided into eight sections covering the wide range of essays namely Current Affairs, Society & Social Issues, Economy & Infrastructure, Science & Technology, Environment & Ecology, Great Personalities, Proverbs & Sayings and Miscellaneous. The Current Affairs section covers Asian Games 2014, Kailash Satyarthi, 2014 FIFA World Cup, India’s Odyssey to Mars, The Dread of Ebola, Telangana: Emergence of a New State, etc whereas the Society & Social Issues section covers Brain Drain, Nuclear Family vs Joint Family, Gender Discrimination, Has Politics in India Lost its Way?, etc. The Economy & Infrastructure has been divided into Mineral Wealth in India, Indian Economy, Urbanisation, Green Revolution, etc whereas the Science & Technology section covers Social Networking: Pros & Cons, Charms & Challenges of Cyber World, Robotics: The Future is Here, Super Computers, etc. The Environment and Ecology section has been divided into Ozone Layer Depletion, Disaster Management, Non-Conventional Sources of Energy, River Linking Projects, Poaching in India, Earthquakes, etc whereas the following section covers Great Personalities like Satyendra Nath Bose, Bhagat Singh, Nelson Mandela, Mary Kom, Rabindranath Tagore, Swami Vivekananda, Mother Teresa, etc. The Proverbs & Sayings covers Health is Wealth, When the Going Gets Tough, the Tough Gets Going, Look Before You Leap, etc whereas the Miscellaneous section covers My Dream School, Our Metro, A House on Fire, Career Selection, Vocational Education, Importance of Moral Values, Our Universe, etc. After the collection of essays, a number of sample letters are also covered in the book. Also quotes for General Use and Increased Word Power through Phrases and Proverbs have been covered at the end. As the book contains ample number of sample essays and letters of varied types, it for sure will prove to be an inspiring and useful book for all school students.

George Orwell set out ‘to make political writing into an art’, and to a wide extent this aim shaped the future of English literature – his descriptions of authoritarian regimes helped to form a new vocabulary that is fundamental to understanding totalitarianism. While 1984 and Animal Farm are amongst the most popular classic novels in the English language, this new series of Orwell’s essays seeks to bring a wider selection of his writing on politics and literature to a new readership. In Why I Write, the first in the Orwell’s Essays series, Orwell describes his journey to becoming a writer, and his movement from writing poems to short stories to the essays, fiction and non-fiction we remember him for. He also discusses what he sees as the ‘four great motives for writing’ – ‘sheer egoism’, ‘aesthetic enthusiasm’, ‘historical impulse’ and ‘political purpose’ – and considers the importance of keeping these in balance. Why I Write is a unique opportunity to look into Orwell’s mind, and it grants the reader an entirely different vantage point from which to consider the rest of the great writer’s oeuvre. 'A writer who can – and must – be rediscovered with every age.' — Irish Times

Provides teachers with a method to help students develop into passionate, life-long readers.

This collection brings together the political writings and short essays of Lysander Spooner for the first time in a single volume. Spooner’s editorials span topics ranging from abolitionism and the Civil War, to free banking and currency, to the trial of President Garfield’s assassin, to government corruption in Massachusetts during the Gilded Age – all with biting wit and an uncompromising disdain for politicians. Containing over 40 years of newspaper editorials as well as the complete set of Spooner’s contributions to the magazine Liberty, many of these essays have been out of print for over a century. For any fan of Spooner’s political philosophy, and the idea of human liberty generally, this collection is essential reading. The American Institute for Economic Research in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, was founded in 1933 as the first independent voice for sound economics in the United States. Today it publishes ongoing research, hosts educational programs, publishes books, sponsors interns and scholars, and is home to the world-renowned Bastiat Society and the highly respected Sound Money Project. The American Institute for Economic Research is a 501c3 public charity.

A selection of essays and letters by the 1st century Roman philosopher.