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  • Less than a year before his death in 1972, John Berryman signed a contract with his publisher for a book of prose, The Freedom of the Poet, for which he had made a selection from his published and…
    Freedom of the Poet

    Freedom of the Poet

    By John Berryman rating of short cover   ( 12 customer ratings) Farrar, Straus and Giroux, April 1976 ISBN: 9781466808003 Essays & Letters, Essays Language:  English
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  • The works of Friedrich Nietzsche have fascinated readers around the world ever since the publication of his first book more than a hundred years ago. As Walter Kaufmann, one of the world’s leading…
    The Portable Nietzsche

    The Portable Nietzsche

    By Friedrich Nietzsche rating of short cover   ( 4555 customer ratings) Penguin Group US, January 1977 ISBN: 9781440674198 Philosophy, Modern Language:  English
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  • In the four and a half centuries since Machiavelli’s death, no single and unanimously accepted interpretation of his ideas has succeeded in imposing itself upon the lively debate over the meaning of…
    The Portable Machiavelli

    The Portable Machiavelli

    PORTABLE LIBRARY By Niccolo Machiavelli rating of short cover   ( 202 customer ratings) Penguin Group US, January 1979 ISBN: 9781101128091 Philosophy, Political Language:  English
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  • The first of John McPhee’s works in his series on geology and geologists, Basin and Range is a book of journeys through ancient terrains, always in juxtaposition with travels in the modern world—a…
    Basin and Range

    Basin and Range

    By John McPhee rating of short cover   ( 1169 customer ratings) Farrar, Straus and Giroux, April 1982 ISBN: 9780374708566 Essays & Letters, Essays Language:  English
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  • The journeys of Paul Theroux take place not only in exotic, unexpected places of the world but in the thoughts, reading, and emotions of the writer himself. A gathering of people, places, and ideas in…
    Sunrise with Seamonsters

    Sunrise with Seamonsters

    By Paul Theroux rating of short cover   ( 269 customer ratings) Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, May 1986 ISBN: 9780547525464 Essays & Letters, Essays Language:  English
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  • With Escape from the Anthill, his first volume of essays, Hubert Butler became universally acclaimed as one of Ireland's most enduring and distinctive writers. In this long-awaited sequel he writes…
    The Children of Drancy

    The Children of Drancy

    By Hubert Butler The Lilliput Press, January 1988 ISBN: 9781843513568 Essays & Letters, Essays Language:  English
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  • From stories about cattlemen, fellow critics, his beloved desert, cities, and technocrats to thoughts on sin and redemption, this is one of our most treasured writers at the height of his powers.
    One Life at a Time, Please

    One Life at a Time, Please

    By Edward Abbey rating of short cover   ( 357 customer ratings) Henry Holt and Co., February 1988 ISBN: 9781466806399 Essays & Letters, Essays Language:  English
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  • "When are the 1970s going to begin?" ran the joke during the Presidential campaign of 1976. With his own patented combination of serious journalism and dazzling comedy, Tom Wolfe met the question…
    Mauve Gloves and Madmen, Clutter and Vine

    Mauve Gloves and Madmen, Clutter and Vine

    By Tom Wolfe rating of short cover   ( 225 customer ratings) Farrar, Straus and Giroux, April 1988 ISBN: 9781429961226 Essays & Letters, Essays Language:  English
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  • In 1944, William Faulkner wrote to Malcolm Cowley, "I'm telling the same story over and over which is myself and the world. That's all a writer ever does, he tells his own biography in a thousand…
    Faulkner and the Craft of Fiction

    Faulkner and the Craft of Fiction

    University Press of Mississippi, July 1989 ISBN: 9781604738131 Essays & Letters, Essays Language:  English
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  • This book is the fruit of a collaboration between author-anthropologist Terence Barrow and artist-illustrator Ray Lanterman. It is a worthy successor to their INCREDIBLE HAWAil published by the…
    More Incredible Hawaii

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    More Incredible Hawaii

    By Barrow, Terence Tuttle Publishing, December 1989 ISBN: 9781462901401 Essays & Letters, Essays Language:  English
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