Letters to the Tremulous Hand
Title | Letters to the Tremulous Hand PDF eBook |
Author | Elizabeth Campbell |
Publisher | |
Pages | 67 |
Release | 2007 |
Genre | Australian poetry |
ISBN | 9780977578764 |
Elizabeth Campbell's poems always seem daimonic, running along an edge of surprise. They are in fact written very slowly, sculpted to a dense inner clarity. It helps that she is a master of the rhythms of free-verse lines, their questings, turns, and landings. She explores the mind's readiness both to misconceive and ti find a solid world. Her poems are full of tangible objects yielding significance, whether the theme is travelling, singing, dreams, or sacred or secular love - or a recurrent observation of horses: their physical presence, and the veering of their barely graspable consciousness. The ten poems of the title sequence, addressed to a little-known-about medieval scribe, scrupulously view the smallness of the leavings of lives underlying history. These are a remarkable meditation on thinking and solitude.
New Letters of Thomas Carlyle
Title | New Letters of Thomas Carlyle PDF eBook |
Author | Thomas Carlyle |
Publisher | |
Pages | 366 |
Release | 1904 |
Genre | Authors, Scottish |
ISBN |
The Letters of Ralph Waldo Emerson
Title | The Letters of Ralph Waldo Emerson PDF eBook |
Author | Ralph Waldo Emerson |
Publisher | Columbia University Press |
Pages | 536 |
Release | 1939 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 9780231101837 |
V. 1. 1813-1835 -- v. 2. 1836-1841 -- v. 3. 1842-1847 -- v. 4. 1848-1855 -- v. 5. 1856-1867 -- v. 6. 1868-1881 -- v. 7. 1807-1844 -- v. 8. 1845-1859. -- v. 9. 1860-1869. -- v. 10. 1870-1881, and an index of proper names for volumes seven to ten.
New Letters
Title | New Letters PDF eBook |
Author | Thomas Carlyle |
Publisher | |
Pages | 362 |
Release | 1904 |
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ISBN |
Cord and Creese
Title | Cord and Creese PDF eBook |
Author | James De Mille |
Publisher | |
Pages | 210 |
Release | 1869 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
Varieties of Disturbance
Title | Varieties of Disturbance PDF eBook |
Author | Lydia Davis |
Publisher | Macmillan + ORM |
Pages | 277 |
Release | 2007-05-15 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1466806273 |
Lydia Davis has been called "one of the quiet giants in the world of American fiction" (Los Angeles Times), "an American virtuoso of the short story form" (Salon), an innovator who attempts "to remake the model of the modern short story" (The New York Times Book Review). Her admirers include Grace Paley, Jonathan Franzen, and Zadie Smith; as Time magazine observed, her stories are "moving . . . and somehow inevitable, as if she has written what we were all on the verge of thinking." In Varieties of Disturbance, her fourth collection, Davis extends her reach as never before in stories that take every form from sociological studies to concise poems. Her subjects include the five senses, fourth-graders, good taste, and tropical storms. She offers a reinterpretation of insomnia and re-creates the ordeals of Kafka in the kitchen. She questions the lengths to which one should go to save the life of a caterpillar, proposes a clear account of the sexual act, rides the bus, probes the limits of marital fidelity, and unlocks the secret to a long and happy life. No two of these fictions are alike. And yet in each, Davis rearranges our view of the world by looking beyond our preconceptions to a bizarre truth, a source of delight and surprise. Varieties of Disturbance is a 2007 National Book Award Finalist for Fiction.
The Letters of P. D. Stanhope, Earl of Chesterfield, Including Numerous Letters Now First Published; Edited, with Notes, by Lord Mahon
Title | The Letters of P. D. Stanhope, Earl of Chesterfield, Including Numerous Letters Now First Published; Edited, with Notes, by Lord Mahon PDF eBook |
Author | Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield |
Publisher | |
Pages | 542 |
Release | 1845 |
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