Essays in a Series of Letters ... The tenth edition
Title | Essays in a Series of Letters ... The tenth edition PDF eBook |
Author | John Foster |
Publisher | |
Pages | 490 |
Release | 1833 |
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Essays and Letters
Title | Essays and Letters PDF eBook |
Author | Friedrich Hölderlin |
Publisher | Penguin UK |
Pages | 328 |
Release | 2009-08-27 |
Genre | Literary Collections |
ISBN | 0141938919 |
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.
About Writing
Title | About Writing PDF eBook |
Author | Samuel R. Delany |
Publisher | Wesleyan University Press |
Pages | 433 |
Release | 2014-09-15 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 0819574244 |
From the four-time Nebula Award–winning novelist and literary critic, essential reading for the creative writer. Award-winning novelist Samuel R. Delany has written a book for creative writers to place alongside E. M. Forster’s Aspects of the Novel and Lajos Egri’s Art of Dramatic Writing. Taking up specifics (When do flashbacks work, and when should you avoid them? How do you make characters both vivid and sympathetic?) and generalities (How are novels structured? How do writers establish serious literary reputations today?), Delany also examines the condition of the contemporary creative writer and how it differs from that of the writer in the years of Hemingway, Fitzgerald, and the high Modernists. Like a private writing tutorial, About Writing treats each topic with clarity and insight. Here is an indispensable companion for serious writers everywhere. “Delany has certainly spent more time thinking about the process of generating narratives—and subsequently getting the fruits of his lucubrations down on paper?than any other writer in the genre. . . . Delany’s latest volume in this vein (About Writing) might be his best yet... Truly, as the jacket copy boasts, this book is the next best thing to taking one of Delany’s courses. . . . [R]eaders will find many answers here to the mysteries of getting words down on a page.” —Paul DiFilippo, Asimov’s Science Fiction “Useful and thoughtful advice for aspiring (and practicing apprentice) authors. About Writing is autobiography, criticism, and a guidebook to good writing all in one.” —Robert Elliot Fox, Professor of English, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale “Should go on the short list of required reading for every would-be writer.” —New York Times Book Review (on Of Doubts and Dreams in About Writing)
Why I Write
Title | Why I Write PDF eBook |
Author | George Orwell |
Publisher | Renard Press Ltd |
Pages | 15 |
Release | 2021-01-01 |
Genre | Literary Collections |
ISBN | 1913724263 |
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
Reading Emily Dickinson's Letters
Title | Reading Emily Dickinson's Letters PDF eBook |
Author | Jane Donahue Eberwein |
Publisher | Univ of Massachusetts Press |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2009 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9781558497412 |
Original essays explore a brilliant poet's written correspondence
Essays in a Series of Letters ... the Tenth Edition
Title | Essays in a Series of Letters ... the Tenth Edition PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 496 |
Release | 2020-01-24 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780461364781 |
The Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters of George Orwell: In front of your nose, 1945-1950
Title | The Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters of George Orwell: In front of your nose, 1945-1950 PDF eBook |
Author | George Orwell |
Publisher | |
Pages | 621 |
Release | 1970 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9780140187144 |
This last volume contains the letters, reviews and other pieces which George Orwell wrote during the last five years of his life; they include Such, Such Were the Joys, a reminiscence of his preparatory school. Animal Farm had eventually relieved him of financial worry, but during the drafting and writing of Nineteen Eighty-Four he was increasingly handicapped by the illness of which he died, early in 1950.