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The Norton Anthology of American Literature, Shorter Eighth Edition, features a diverse and balanced variety of works and thorough but judicious editorial apparatus throughout. The new edition, which also newly includes much-requested authors and selections and 130 in-text images, remains an unmatched value for students.
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Nature Ralph Waldo Emerson - Nature is an essay written by Ralph Waldo Emerson, published by James Munroe and Company in 1836. In the essay Emerson put forth the foundation of transcendentalism, a belief system that espouses a non-traditional appreciation of nature. Transcendentalism suggests that the divine, or God, suffuses nature, and suggests that reality can be understood by studying nature. Emerson's visit to the Muséum National d'Histoire...
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You are the dark shape I find On nights of the spilling moon, Pale in the pool of heaven. You are spirit, you are that Which summons me and confirms My passage. You know my name--from "Revenant."
Since receiving the Pulitzer Prize in 1969 for his novel House Made of Dawn, N. Scott Momaday has had one of the most remarkable careers in twentieth-century American letters. Here he passionately explores themes of loneliness, sacredness, and aggression...
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This book is different from any other Edward Abbey book. It includes essays, travel pieces and fictions to reveal Ed's life directly, in his own words.
The selections gathered here are arranged chronologically by incident, not by date of publication, to offer Edward Abbey's life from the time he was the boy called Ned in Home, Pennsylvania, until his death in Tucson at age 62. A short note introduces each of the four parts of the book and attempts...
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"This is my last column, after a year that has scared and inspired me.." With these words, Elena Ferrante bid farewell to her year-long collaboration with the Guardian newspaper. For a full year, she wrote weekly articles, the subjects of which had been suggested by Guardian editors, making the writing process a sort of prolonged interlocution. The subjects ranged from first love to climate change, from enmity among women to the experience of seeing...
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Sampler of contemporary writing from Wyoming authors: Annie Proulx, David Romtvedt, Linda M. Hasselstrom, Jon Billman, John D. Nesbitt, Robert Roripaugh, Page Lambert, Barbara Smith, Geoffrey O'Gara, Charles Levendosky, Warren Adler, B.J. Buckley, C.L. Rawlins, Vicki Lindner, Dainis Hazners, Alyson Hagy, Mark Jenkins, Tim Sandlin.
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"Here, in these four crisp essays on writing and reading by the internationally bestselling author of My Brilliant Friend and The Lying Life of Adults, Ferrante offers a rare look at the origins of her literary powers. She writes about her influences, her struggles, and her formation as both a reader and a writer; she describes the perils of "bad language" and suggests ways in which it has long excluded women's truth; she proposes a choral fusion...
