Browsing the "Literary Collections" category: 216 books
ISBN: 5551059014 / Xlibris Corporation / Pub Date: Aug 2000 / File Size: 106K
ISBN: 140080938X / Princeton Univ. Press / Pub Date: Oct 2001 / File Size: 644K
"When I wrote the following pages, or rather the bulk of them, I lived alone, in the woods, a mile from any neighbor, in a house which I had built myself, on the shore of Walden Pond, in Concord, Massachusetts, and earned my living by the labor of my ...more »
ISBN: 1589291050 / PocketPCpress / Pub Date: Oct 2000 / File Size: 885K
In 1845 Henry David Thoreau left his pencil-manufacturing business and began building a cabin on the shore of Walden Pond near Concord, Massachusetts. This lyrical yet practical-minded book is at once a record of the 26 months Thoreau spent in withdr ...more »
ISBN: 0679642021 / Modern Library / Pub Date: Oct 2000 / File Size: 970K
The greatest essayist who ever lived writes of cannibals and more. ...more »
ISBN: 1589290763 / PocketPCpress / Pub Date: Oct 2000 / File Size: 454K
ISBN: 555105876X / Xlibris Corporation / Pub Date: Aug 2000 / File Size: 188K
The fearsome struggle with illness touches everyone. Now the revised edition of On Doctoring captures the pain and triumphs associated with the practice of medicine in an extraordinary collection. Written by physicians as well as non-physicians, this ...more »
ISBN: 0743218884 / The Free Press / Pub Date: Aug 2001 / File Size: 447K
A newly discovered novella written by Jack Kerouac. ...more »
ISBN: 0970611013 / LiveREADS / Pub Date: Nov 2000 / File Size: 1038K
Presents the legends, songs, and sayings of Uncle Remus, following the text of the first edition of Joel Chandler Harris' attempt to record traditional black stories of his time. ...more »
ISBN: 0786504358 / Penguin / Pub Date: Sep 1982 / File Size: 756K
Like the works of Bailey White and Fannie Flagg, this collection of warm and wise essays on values, family, and Southern culture conveys humor, insight, and inspiration in the details of life as it is lived on a daily basis. ...more »
ISBN: 1588360296 / Random House / Pub Date: Jul 2001 / File Size: 202K
The Rise of Historical Criticism, The English Rennaisance of Art, House Decoration, Poems in Prose and other brilliant writings of Wilde ...more »
ISBN: 1589290720 / PocketPCpress / Pub Date: Oct 2000 / File Size: 325K
The complete essays of Francis Bacon; wisdom as timely, but far more profound, than today's newspaper. ...more »
ISBN: 158929193X / PocketPCpress / Pub Date: Jan 2001 / File Size: 248K
America's maestro reporter/novelist gives America an MRI at the dawn of a new age. In "Hooking Up", Wolfe ranges from coast to coast, chronicling everything from the sexual manners and mores of teenagers to fundamental changes in the way human beings ...more »
ISBN: 0374700710 / Farrar, Straus, & Giroux / Pub Date: Oct 2000 / File Size: 648K
A collection of horror stories from this Bram Stoker Award-winning author. Includes the acclaimed novelet, "Mama Ghost," of which Peter Straub (author of Ghost Story) writes: "'Mama Ghost' really must be one of the best, and certainly one of the most ...more »
ISBN: 1587158213 / Wildside Press / Pub Date: Apr 2000 / File Size: 199K
ISBN: 5551059960 / Xlibris Corporation / Pub Date: Aug 2000 / File Size: 324K
Trollope did not write for posterity," observed Henry James. "He wrote for the day, the moment; but these are just the writers whom posterity is apt to put into its pocket." Considered by contemporary critics to be Trollope's greatest novel, The Way ...more »
ISBN: 067964203X / Modern Library / Pub Date: Oct 2000 / File Size: 1104K
ISBN: 5551059979 / Xlibris Corporation / Pub Date: Aug 2000 / File Size: 321K
The author of the bestselling The Deep End of the Ocean and the acclaimed The Most Wanted offers her clear-eyed takes on the complexities of everyday life--assembled from her syndicated column, "The Rest of Us." 272 pp. Author appearances ...more »
ISBN: 0786510986 / Penguin / Pub Date: Jun 2001 / File Size: 565K
A collection of essays spanning two decades of work by a great American writer ...more »
ISBN: 0374702012 / FSG / Pub Date: Nov 2001 / File Size: 372K
This insightful collection of controversial and personal essays from one of America's favorite writers were originally broadcast to great acclaimon National Public Radio's All Things Considered. ...more »
ISBN: 0743211545 / Scribner Book Co. / Pub Date: Oct 2000 / File Size: 208K
ISBN: 5551059898 / Xlibris Corporation / Pub Date: Apr 2001 / File Size: 86K
ISBN: 5551059510 / Xlibris Corporation / Pub Date: Aug 2000 / File Size: 109K
ISBN: 555105893X / Xlibris Corporation / Pub Date: Aug 2000 / File Size: 70K
ISBN: 5551058816 / Xlibris Corporation / Pub Date: Aug 2000 / File Size: 202K
ISBN: 555105909X / Xlibris Corporation / Pub Date: Aug 2000 / File Size: 164K
