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Essays of Elia
Av Charles Lamb
Häftad, 2003
278 kr
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Charles Lamb, one of the most engaging personal essayists of all time, began publishing his Elia essays in the ""London Magazine"" in 1820; they were so immediately popular that a book-length collection was published in 1823. Inventing the persona of ""Elia"" allowed Lamb to be shockingly honest …
Harvard Black Rock Forest
Häftad, 2004
155 kr
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Originally published in the June 11, 1984, New Yorker, this lengthy essay is a sharp-edged inquiry into the generational institutions of our national life. With the same iconoclastic spirit and multilayered prose that he interwove in his classic Within the Context of No Context, George Trow tells …
Shadow Girl
A Memoir of Attachment
Av Deb Abramson
Inbunden, 2002
261 kr
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As the good little girl in an unhappy family who hid her darker troubles, Deb Abramson felt like she was living with another girl, a shadowy being who would neither leave nor make herself known. Crushed beneath the burden of her parents' rigid expectations yet driven to satisfy their needs, …
Fauna and Flora, Earth and Sky
Brushes with Nature's Wisdom
Av Trudy Dittmar, Patricia Hampl m. fl.
Inbunden, 2003
313 kr
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In essays with settings that range from the Wind River Mountains of Wyoming, to the mountain town of Leadville, Colorado, Trudy Dittmar weaves personal experience with diverse threads of subject matter to create unexpected connections between human nature and nature at large.
Great Chain of Life
Häftad, 2009
178 kr
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Originally published in 1956, ""The Great Chain of Life"" brings a humanist's keen eye and ear to one of the great questions of the ages: 'What am I?' A scholar of literature and theater, toward the end of his career Joseph Wood Krutch turned to the study of the natural world. Bringing his keen …
And the Monkey Learned Nothing
Dispatches from a Life in Transit
Av Tom Lutz
Häftad, 2016
148 kr
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Tom Lutz is on a mission to visit every country on earth. And the Monkey Learned Nothing contains reports from fifty of them, most describing personal encounters in rarely visited spots, anecdotes from way off the beaten path. Traveling without an itinerary and without a goal, Lutz explores the …
