Edward: 7422 books
Early Auden, Later Auden
A Critical Biography
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2017
Presented in one volume for the very first time, and updated with new archival discoveries, Early Auden, Later Auden reintroduces Edward Mendelson's acclaimed, two-part biography of W. H. Auden (1907–73), one of the greatest literary figures of the twentieth century. This book offers a detailed...
by Edward Elgar
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2016
This is the complete score for Sir Edward Elgar 1899 song cycle, “Sea Pictures, Op. 37”. It consists of five songs written by a number of poets set for contralto and orchestra. The songs include: "Sea Slumber Song" by Roden Noel; "In Haven (Capri)" by Caroline Alice Elgar,...
On Late Style
Music and Literature Against the Grain
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2008
In this fascinating book, Edward Said looks at the creative contradictions that often mark the late works of literary and musical artists. Said shows how the approaching death of an artist can make its way into his work, examining essays, poems, novels, films, and operas by such artists as Beethoven,...
by 愛德華‧威爾森(Edward O. Wilson)
Language: Chinese
Release Date: November 2, 2017
Language: Chinese
Release Date: November 2, 2017
人類從原始生物開始一路演化，這個過程本身就是一部壯闊的史詩，
但時至今日，科技的進展已讓人類面臨有史以來最大的道德困境，
讓人類對自身存在的意義陷入迷惑，人類的未來將往哪裡去？
我們的生命是否有其發展的目的？
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兩度獲得普立茲獎的當代科學大儒、眾所公認的全球生物學家及自然歷史學家翹楚，
愛德華**•**威爾森（Edward...
by Edward St Aubyn
Language: Italian
Release Date: December 4, 2014
Language: Italian
Release Date: December 4, 2014
Sono i giorni dell’Elysian Prize a Londra, e l’intera società letteraria del Commonwealth è in fermento. Benché sia confinato al mucchio di ceneri imperiali di un’istituzione cara forse soltanto alla Regina, il Premio è uno dei riconoscimenti più ambiti negli illustri salotti letterari...
by Edward Baugh
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2014
Frank Collymore: A Biography is the first book-length biography of Frank Collymore, Barbadian educator, poet, editor, stage actor, mentor and tireless promoter of West Indies Literature. Born at Woodville Cottage in Saint Michael in 1893, Collymore became an invaluable contributor to the arts and...
Mimesis
The Representation of Reality in Western Literature (New Expanded Edition)
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2013
More than half a century after its translation into English, Erich Auerbach's Mimesis remains a masterpiece of literary criticism. A brilliant display of erudition, wit, and wisdom, his exploration of how great European writers from Homer to Virginia Woolf depicted reality has taught generations how...
by Edward Hoagland
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2011
Called the best essayist of his time by luminaries like Philip Roth, John Updike, and Edward Abbey, Edward Hoagland brings readers his ultimate collection. In Sex and the River Styx, the author's sharp eye and intense curiosity shine through in essays that span his childhood exploring the woods in...
by Jacob Abbott, Edward Shepherd Creasy, Michael Dougherty
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2015
“History is written by the winners.”
― Napoleon Bonaparte.
The Norman Conquest of England, Christopher Columbus, Richard III, a fight with a Royal Bengal tiger, the most famous prison diary of the American Civil War and a biography of George Washington – it’s all here in Strategy...
The Catalogue of Shipwrecked Books
Christopher Columbus, His Son, and the Quest to Build the World's Greatest Library
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2019
“Like a Renaissance wonder cabinet, full of surprises and opening up into a lost world.” —Stephen Greenblatt
“A captivating adventure…For lovers of history, Wilson-Lee offers a thrill on almost every page…Magnificent.” —The New York Times Book Review
Named a Best Book...
by Edward Gibbon
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2013
This Modern Library eBook edition collects all three volumes of Edward Gibbon’s towering masterpiece of classical history The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire—complete and unabridged.
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Edward Gibbon’s magnum opus narrates the history of the Roman Empire from the second century A.D....
The Modern Library Essential World History 4-Book Bundle
The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Abridged); Montcalm and Wolfe; History of the Conquest of Mexico; The Naval War of 1812
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2012
Revisit a world of conquest, exploration, and imperial adventure with this Modern Library eBook bundle that includes Edward Gibbon’s The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Francis Parkman’s Montcalm and Wolfe, William H. Prescott’s History of the Conquest of Mexico, and Theodore Roosevelt’s...
The Devil's Tub
Collected Stories
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2016
From the pages of the New Yorker, Esquire, and the Paris Review, “Edward Hoagland’s collected stories are dazzling” (Ann Beattie).
Saul Bellow called him “one of the very best writers of his generation.” Newsweek praised him as “a marvelous writer.” Edward Hoagland, renowned travel...
by Rear Admiral Edward Ellsberg
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2014
June 6, 1944, D-Day: Allied forces took the beaches at Normandy—and the naval engineering genius of Edward Ellsberg would play a crucial part.
Before World War II, Edward Ellsberg had already established himself as a true innovator and master naval engineer, revolutionizing the salvage and...