608 results for '"Virginia Woolf'

A publishing event! The first and definitive collection of letters (most of them previously unpublished) both from and to the incomparable Noël Coward, a unique and irresistible portrait of a society...

A powerful look at Loving v. Virginia—the landmark case of interracial love and marriage that changed American history and inspired the 2016 film. “White supremacy has long foiled love, and love has...

" A toutes celles qui vivent dans l'illusion que l'égalité est acquise et que l'Histoire ne revient pas en arrière, je voudrais dire que rien n'est plus précaire que les droits des femmes. A celles...

Alex Ross, renowned New Yorker music critic and author of the international bestseller and Pulitzer Prize finalist The Rest Is Noise, reveals how Richard Wagner became the proving ground for modern...

The other side of Gatsby: rediscover this sensational bestseller that unveiled the Jazz Age from the flappers' perspective Ranging from posh Beacon Hill to go-go New York City to stately Virginia, a...

How do writers and their readers imagine the future in a turbulent time of sex war and sex change? And how have transformations of gender and genre affected literary representations of...

The Nat Turner rebellion of August 1831, the iconic uprising of enslaved people in the United States, was much more extensive than we have understood. This powerful exploration of a Tidewater...

A moving family biography in which the poet traces her family history back through Jim Crow, the slave trade, and all the way to the women of the Dahomey people in West Africa. Buffalo, New York. A...

In The Cambridge Companion to Modernism, ten eminent scholars from Britain and the United States offer timely new appraisals of the revolutionary cultural transformations of the first decades of the...

* National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction Finalist * "Great American Novels are still being published in 2024 and here is one of them." --Molly Young, New York Times "Exquisitely funny... a...

A play about the imagined fault line between black and white lives by Claudia Rankine, the author of CitizenThe White Card stages a conversation that is both informed and derailed by the black/white...

Published for the traveling exhibition Jewel Rivers Virginia Museum of Fine Arts October 25, 1983 - January 2, 1994, Santa Barbara Museum of Art February 26 - April 24, 1994 and The Minneapolis...

The first major anthology devoted to women’s friendship drawn from fiction, diaries, poetry, and letters. As Marilynne Robinson writes in her 1980 novel, Housekeeping, “Having a sister or friend is...

A definitive new volume of the retirement papers of Thomas JeffersonDuring the period covered by the 575 documents in this volume, Jefferson advises President James Monroe on what later becomes known...

"The Retirement Series documents Jefferson's written legacy between his return to private life on 4 March 1809 and his death on 4 July 1826. During this period Jefferson founded the University of...

Winner of the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography: the story of the mystifying relationship between the brilliant and affable Gertrude Stein and her brooding companion, Alice B. Toklas ...

Named one of the New York Times Book Review’s 100 Notable Books of the Year ** Publishers Weekly’s Best Fiction Books of 2014 ** NPR Best Books of 2014 ** Kirkus Reviews Best Literary Fiction Books...

Cora is a slave on a cotton plantation in Georgia. When Caesar, a recent arrival from Virginia, tells her about the Underground Railroad, they decide to take a terrifying risk and escape. Though they...

"Scott McClanahan is one of those rare writers who achieves Kafka's credo that a book should be the axe that shatters the icy soul of our interior. Crapalachia, with its tongue-in-cheek title, is...

From Newbery Honor author Lesa Cline-Ransome and ALA Children’s Literature Legacy Award recipient James Ransome, this inspiring picture book biography tells the story of Mary Peake, a courageous...