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Author
Series
Best American Food Writing volume 0
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Formats
Description
A collection of the year's top food writing, selected by guest editor Sohla El-Waylly and series editor Silvia Killingsworth.
Culinary creator, writer and community advocate, Sohla El-Waylly selects the best twenty articles published in 2021 that celebrate the many innovative, comforting, mouthwatering, and culturally rich culinary offerings of our country.
2) Victory
Author
Publisher
The Modern library
Pub. Date
[c1921]
Language
English
Description
Raised by a single Swedish philosopher, Axel Heyst inherits his father's pessimistic view of society. As a child, he is taught about all the dark inclinations of humankind, warping his mind. Axel struggles with these beliefs and the atmosphere of the environment in which he grew up. Because of this, he has a mix of complicated feelings when his father passes away. He decides to leave London and travel the world, which lead him to both adventures and...
3) Piazza tales
Author
Series
His Complete works volume 9
Publisher
Hendricks House
Pub. Date
1948
Language
English
Description
The Piazza Tales (1856) is a collection of short stories by American writer Herman Melville. Before publication, five of its six stories appeared in Putnam's Monthly during a period of productivity with which Melville sought to achieve popular success as a writer of literary fiction. After the failure of his novels Moby-Dick (1851) and Pierre: or, The Ambiguities (1852), Melville struggled to find a publisher who would accept his work, and contemporary...
Series
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
20 science and nature essays that represent the best examples of the form published in 2022.
The essays in this year's Best American Science and Nature Writing probe at the ordinary and urge us to think more deeply about our place in the world around us. From a hopeful portrait of a future for people with Alzheimer's disease, to a fascinating exploration of the rise of nearsightedness in children, to the heroic story of a herd of cows that evaded...
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
1928, c1925
Language
English
Description
Though many of the essays and poems produced in the aftermath of the Titanic disaster have been lost to time, a few memorable works about the sinking were completed by literary greats of the era. The English novelist and poet Thomas Hardy, for instance, wrote "The Convergence of the Twain," a haunting poem that frames the Titanic sinking as a contrast between the hubris of mankind and the power of nature. Joseph Conrad, the Polish-born author best...
6) Typhoon
Author
Series
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
1999
Language
English
Description
Captain MacWhirr cannot fathom anything outside the facts of his own life. His first mate, Mr. Jukes, is the perfect contrast as an imaginative man prone to speaking in figurative language. Though they are opposites, MacWhirr and Jukes respect each other and run a tight ship, until the crew notices the barometer predicting a serve storm. Jukes and the crew suggest alternate paths to MacWhirr, but he is unconvinced. Since MacWhirr has not experienced...
Author
Publisher
Doubleday, Page
Pub. Date
1923
Language
English
Description
Featuring five works of short fiction from the critically acclaimed author, Joseph Conrad, Tales of Unrest is a fascinating exploration of human struggle and philosophy. Karain: A Memory adopts elements of a traditional ghost story, setting an eerie mood as it explores the duality common among colonial and post-colonial people. The Idiots depict a family driven to murder after a couple stains to raise their intellectually disabled children. With the...
Publisher
Hub City Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"This fierce collection celebrates the incredible diversity in the contemporary South by featuring essays by twenty-one of the finest young writers of color living and working in the region today, who all address a central question: Who is welcome? Kiese Laymon navigates the racial politics of publishing while recording his audiobook in Mississippi. Regina Bradley moves to Indiana and grapples with a landscape devoid of her Southern cultural touchstones,...
Author
Publisher
University of North Carolina Press
Pub. Date
c1987
Language
English
Description
This volume brings back into print a remarkable record of black life in the 1920s, chronicled by Edward C.L. Adams, a white physician from the area around the Congaree River in central South Carolina. It reproduces Adams's major works, Congaree Sketches (1927) and Nigger to Nigger (1928), two collections of tales, poems, and dialogues from blacks who worked his land, presented in the black vernacular language. They are supplemented here by a play,...
10) One of ours
Author
Series
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Claude Wheeler, the sensitive, aspiring protagonist of this beautifully written Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, resembles the youngest son of a peculiarly American fairy tale. His fortune is ready-made for him, but he refuses to settle for it. Alienated from his parents, all but rejected by his wife, and dissatisfied with farming, Claude is an idealist without an ideal to cling to. It's only when America enters the First World War that Claude finds...
11) Les Misérables
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Considered to be French novelist Victor Hugo's masterpiece, Les Misérables is a sprawling historical and philosophical epic first published in 1862. Covering the years from 1815 through the Paris Uprising in 1832, it is notable for its many subplots and digressions from the main storyline. The novel's stated aim is ""a progress from evil to good, from injustice to justice, from falsehood to truth,"" which can be seen most clearly in the story of...
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"Dawnland Voices calls attention to the little known but extraordinarily rich literary traditions of New England's Native Americans. This pathbreaking anthology includes both classic and contemporary literary works from ten New England indigenous nations: the Abenaki, Maliseet, Mi'kmaq, Mohegan, Narragansett, Nipmuc, Passamaquoddy, Penobscot, Schaghticoke, and Wampanoag. Through literary collaboration and recovery, Siobhan Senier and Native tribal...
Author
Language
English
Description
“A charming fish tale and a pretty gift for your favorite seafood cook or fishing monomaniac. But in the last analysis, it’s a bitter ecological fable for our time.” –Los Angeles Times
An unexpected, energetic look at world history via the humble cod fish from the bestselling author of Salt and The Basque History of the World
Cod is the biography of a single species of fish, but it may...
An unexpected, energetic look at world history via the humble cod fish from the bestselling author of Salt and The Basque History of the World
Cod is the biography of a single species of fish, but it may...
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
©2020
Language
English
Description
This is a beautifully illustrated volume of Longfellow's celebrated poem The Village Blacksmith. Engraved by many of the same illustrators as The Wreck of the Hesperus in this collection, this is the perfect book for youths in the early 20th century who were instructed to memorize and recite poetry in school.
Author
Publisher
Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
c1980
Language
English
Description
The importance of Edgar Allan Poe to literary history can hardly be exaggerated; his genius and originality, both in terms of language and technique, influenced the French Symbolists of the late 19th century and thus changed the course of modern literature. Although chiefly remembered for his short stories, poetry was his first love, and this magnificently decorated edition presents Poe's complete poems in addition to his most important critical essays...
