Category: Essays | Reading Level: very good
Georges Perec produced some of the most entertaining and spirited essays of his age. His literary output was amazingly varied in form and style and this generous selection of Perec's non-fictional work also demonstrates his characteristic lightness of touch, wry humour and accessibility.
Category: Essays | Reading Level: good
Category: Natural History | Series: Classics Ser. | Reading Level: good
With their call for "simplicity, simplicity, simplicity!", for self-honesty, and for harmony with nature, the writings of Henry David Thoreau are perhaps the most influential philosophical works in all American literature. The selections in this volume represent Thoreau at his best. Included in their en ...Show more
Category: Essays | Reading Level: very good
An exceptional work from one of our foremost poets and critics
Category: Essays | Reading Level: good
Angela Carter's polemic enlisting the Marquis de Sade in an argument about women's sexual freedom.
Category: Poetry | Series: Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Closer to Dylan Thomas than Matthew Arnold in his 'creative violence' and insistence on the sound of poetry, Gerard Manley Hopkins was no staid, conventional Victorian. On entering the Society of Jesus at the age of twenty-four, he burnt all his poetry and 'resolved to write no more, as not belonging to ...Show more
Category: Hardback fiction | Reading Level: good
More than sixty stories, poems, and essays are included in this wide-ranging collection by the extravagantly versatile Raymond Carver. Two of the stories--later revised for What We Talk About When We Talk About Love--are particularly notable in that between the first and the final versions, we see clear ...Show more
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