Literary Collections : Essays

''There is no one quite like Barbara Kingsolver in contemporary literature,'' raves the Washington Post Book World, and it is right. She has been nominated three times for the ABBY award, and her critically acclaimed writings consistently enjoy spectacular commercial success as they entertain and touch her legions of loyal fans. In High Tide in Tucson, she returnsto her familiar themes of family, community, the common good and the natural world. The title essay considers Buster, a hermit crab that accidentally stows away on Kingsolver's return trip from the Bahamas to her desert home, and turns out to have manic-depressive tendencies. Buster is running around for all he's worth -- one can only presume it's high tide in Tucson. Kingsolver brings a moral vision and refreshing sense of humor to subjects ranging from modern motherhood to the history of private property to the suspended citizenship of human beings in the Animal Kingdom. Beautifully packaged, with original illustrations by well-known illustrator Paul Mirocha, these wise lessons on the urgent business of being alive make it a perfect gift for Kingsolver's many fans. more...

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Indulge Yourself with the best classic literature on Your PDA. Navigate easily to any novel from Table of Contents or search for the words or phrases. more...

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Indulge Yourself with the best classic literature on Your PDA. Navigate easily to any novel from Table of Contents or search for the words or phrases. Features.:.; Navigate from Table of Contents or search for words or phrases.; Designed for optimal navigation on PDA, Smartphone, Tablet, and desktop devices.; Formatted to display on all electronic devices including Smartphones and Mobile Devices with a small display.; Make bookmarks, notes, highlights.; Searchable and interlinked.; Access the e-book anytime, anywhere - at home, on the train, in the subway.; Automatic synchronization between the handheld and the desktop PC. You could read half of the book on the handheld, then finish reading on the desktop. Table of Contents. Leo Tolstoy Biography. List of Works Included in this Collection. Bibliography by year. Novels :: Dramatic Plays :: Autobiographical writings :: Stories :: Essays. Novels:. Anna Karenina. Boyhood. Childhood. The Cossacks, A Tale of 1852. The Death of Ivan Ilych. Master and Man. The Kreutzer Sonata. Resurrection; or, The Awakening. War and Peace. Youth. Dramatic Plays:. Fruits of Culture. Redemption, also known as The Man who was Dead, or, Reparation, or The Living Corpse. The Power of Darkness. Autobiographical writings:. A Confession. First Recollections. A History of Yesterday. Stories:. Albert. The Candle. Family Happiness. Father Sergius. The Godfather. Katia. A Lost Opportunity. Polikushka: The Lot of a Wicked Court Servant. The Porcelain Doll. Strider: the Story of a Horse. Two Hussars. Fables for Children. The Forged Coupon and Other Stories. - The Forged Coupon. - After The Dance. - Alyosha The Pot. - My Dream. - There Are No Guilty People. - The Young Tsar. Twenty-three Tales:. - God Sees the Truth, But Waits, later re-translated as Exiled to Siberia. - The Prisoner of the Caucasus. - The Bear Hunt. - What Men Live By. - A Spark Neglected Burns the House. - Two Old Men. - Where Love is, There God is Also. - Ivan The Fool. - Evil Allures more...

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From the author of the award-winning bestseller The Content of Our Character comes a new essay collection that tells the untold story behind the polarized racial politics in America today. In A Dream Deferred Shelby Steele argues that a second betrayal of black freedom in the United States--the first one being segregation--emerged from the civil rights era when the country was overtaken by a powerful impulse to redeem itself from racial shame. According to Steele,1960s liberalism had as its first and all-consuming goal the expiation of America guilt rather than the careful development of true equality between the races. This "culture of preference" betrayed America's best principles in order to give whites and America institutions an iconography of racial virtue they could use against the stigma of racial shame. In four densely argued essays, Steele takes on the familiar questions of affirmative action, multiculturalism, diversity, Afro-centrism, group preferences, victimization--and what he deems to be the atavistic powers of race, ethnicity, and gender, the original causes of oppression. A Dream Deferred is an honest, courageous look at the perplexing dilemma of race and democracy in the United States--and what we might do to resolve it. more...

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The first and only collection of unpublished works by Kurt Vonnegut since his death is a fitting tribute to the author and an essential contribution to the discussion of war, peace, and humanity's tendency toward violence. more...

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