Product Description: This book contextualises and details Herman Melville's artistic career and outlines the relationship between Melville and Ralph Waldo Emerson. Michael McLoughlin divides Melville's professional career as a novelist into two major phases corresponding to the growth and shift in his art...read more

Pickering's greatest themes, including nature, family, and living life to the fullest are captured in more than two dozen of the author's finest essays--including 'Still Life' and 'Magic.' (view table of contents)

Collection of non-fiction prose provides a look at another facet of the American novelist's literary talent

Product Description: When they first met in 1925, Martin Heidegger was a star of German intellectual life and Hannah Arendt was his earnest young student. What happened between them then will never be known, but both would cherish their brief intimacy for the rest of their lives...read more

A thirteenth collection by the National Book Award-winning author includes fifty-nine 'Stern Sonnets' that consist of an average of twenty lines rather than the traditional fourteen and follow such themes as time and loss, the dichotomy of light and darkness, and the possibility of joy. Reprint.

Publisher's description: One of the most written-about literary figures in the past decade, Arthur Rimbaud left few traces when he abandoned poetry at age twenty-one and disappeared into the African desert. Although the dozen biographies devoted to Rimbaud's life depend on one main source for information--his own correspondence--a complete edition of these remarkable letters has never been published in English. Until now. A moving document of decline, Rimbaud's letters begin with the enthusiastic artistic pronouncements of a fifteen-year-old genius, and end with the bitter what-ifs of a man whose life has slipped disastrously away. But whether soapboxing on the essence of art, or struggling under the yoke of self-imposed exile in the desert of his later years, Rimbaud was incapable of writing an uninteresting sentence. As translator and editor Wyatt Mason makes clear in his engaging Introduction, the letters reveal a Rimbaud very different from our expectations. Rimbaud, presented by many biographers as a bohemian wild man, is unveiled as 'diligent in his pursuit of his goals ... wildly, soberly ambitious, in poetry, in everything.' I Promise to Be Good: The Letters of Arthur Rimbaud is the second and final volume in Mason's authoritative presentation ofRimbaud's writings. Called by Edward Hirsch 'the definitive translation for our time' Mason's first volume, Rimbaud Complete (Modern Library, 2002), brought Rimbaud's poetry and prose into vivid focus. In I Promise to Be Good, Mason adds the missing epistolary pieces to our picture of Rimbaud. 'These letters' he writes, 'are proofs in all their variety--of impudence and precocity, of tenderness and rage--for the existence of Arthur Rimbaud.' I Promise to Be Good allows English-language readers to see with new eyes one of the most extraordinary poets in history.

Gathers letters written by Merton to Evelyn Waugh, Czeslaw Milosz, Boris Pasternak, Ernesto Cardenal, James Baldwin, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Henry Miller, Walker Percy, and William Carlos Williams

Product Description: Bernard Shaw was twenty-four and Sidney Webb twenty-one when they met in October 1880 at a gathering of a debating club called the Zetetical Society. Having sympathetic interests, both men decided, after some personal and joint exploration, to devote their lives to improving the human condition...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Collects more than six hundred letters to and from the editors of Poetry that were written about and by such figures as Ezra Pound, T.S. Eliot, Robert Frost, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and Wallace Stevens. 10,000 first printing.

The letters children wrote to the First Lady during the Great Depression find a voice here, in a unique collection of correspondance that reveal FDR's wife as a source of inspiration in a time of dire economic crisis. (History)

Product Description: Volume 11 from The Complete Works of George OrwellThe most important document that has come to light regarding Orwell's Spanish experiences is the deposition charging him and Eileen with espionage and high treason, a charge unknown to them...read more

Product Description: At the close of 1830 John Marshall (1755-1835) had completed his third decade as chief justice of the United States. The preceding four years had been among the busiest of his long and active life. Between April 1827 and December 1830, Chief Justice Marshall delivered numerous circuit court opinions as well as six Supreme Court opinions that addressed issues of constitutional law...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Tennessee Williams wrote to family, friends and fellow artists with equal measures of piety, wit, and astute self-knowledge. Presented with a running commentary to separate Williams' often hilarious, but sometimes devious, counter-reality from the truth, the letters form a kind of autobiography...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: In this limited, numbered, and signed boxed set are first editions of every volume in the official correspondence of don Diego de Vargas: By Force of Arms, To the Royal Crown Restored, Blood on the Boulders, That Disturbances Cease, and A Settling of Accounts...read more

Product Description: This volume continues the best and most detailed study of the Revolutionary War in the South. The period covered here, 1 October 1782 through 21 May 1783, was a time of both triumph and travail for General Nathanael Greene. His greatest moment of triumph took place on 14 December, when the British evacuated Charleston, South Carolina...read more

Presents correspondence between the Murphys and the rest of the famous literary set (view table of contents)

Product Description: During his service in the Confederate army, Major General Lafayette McLaws (1821-1897) served under and alongside such famous officers as Robert E. Lee, Joseph E. Johnston, James Longstreet, and John B. Hood. He played a significant role in some of the most crucial battles of the Civil War, including Harpers Ferry, Antietam, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, and Gettysburg...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Sharing for the first time the life-long correspondence between Walter Pach--artist, author, art critic, art consultant, teacher, museum lecturer--and many of the most influential members of the literary and art worlds of his day, this book reveals Pach to be one of the unsung heroes who promoted European and American modern art during the first half of the twentieth century...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Archibald McDonald was one of the most important fur traders in the region west of the Rockies. He is particularly remembered as a factor at Forts Langley, Kamloops, and Colville, and as one of the traders who enabled the Hudson's Bay Company to gain control of the vast region west of the Rockies...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Trekkie Ritchie Parsons, a painter and book illustrator, was married to the publisher Ian Parsons. When she met and fell in love with Leonard Woolf, rather than splitting with Ian, convinced both men that life would be best if Leonard moved in next door...read more