1126 results for '"Johnson, Samuel'

ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: Jennifer Szalai, The New York Times; The New York Times Book Review; NPR; Publishers Weekly “This absorbing and important book recounts the titanic struggle over...

Molloy, the first of the three masterpieces which constitute Samuel Beckett's famous trilogy, appeared in French in 1951, followed seven months later by Malone Dies (Malone meurt) and two years later...

This fascinating and shocking history of the rise of the Nazis draws together a multitude of expatriate voices - even Charles Lindbergh and Samuel Beckett - into a powerful narrative charting this...

How vocabularies once associated with outsiders became objects of fascination in eighteenth-century BritainWhile eighteenth-century efforts to standardize the English language have long been...

In this book, Samuel Sandmel traces the history, institutions and ideas of Judaism from 200 B.C. to 175 A.D. Drawing on sources ranging from the Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha, the Rabbinic literature,...

1968 was an unprecedented year in terms of upheaval on numerous scales: political, military, economic, social, cultural. In the United States, perhaps no one was more undone by the events of 1968...

"The essays collected in Science serialized examine the variety of ways in which the nineteenth-century periodical press represented science to general and specialised readerships ... Among the...

If opera had existed in Elizabethan London, the world's Top Bard, as W.H. Auden called him, might have become the world's Top Librettist. As Gary Schmidgall shows in this illuminating study,...

A compelling history of the national conflicts that resulted from efforts to produce the first definitive American dictionary of English In The Dictionary Wars, Peter Martin recounts the patriotic...

Cicero in Letters is a guide to the first extensive correspondence that survives from the Greco-Roman world. The more than eight hundred letters of Cicero that are its core provided literary models...

Second Edition has expanded the significant works of literary criticism to include critics representing twentieth-century tendencies ranging from New Criticism to Deconstructionism. Thirty...

Papers from the Symposium on Literary Style, Bellagio, Italy, 1969. Published by Oxford University Press, Twenty papers. 427 pages. International scholars. Includes Roland Barthes; JOSEPHINE MILES;...

This work covers turn-of-the-century New Orleans and the formative years for jazz, from Buddy Bolden's aboriginal rise and fall to Jim Robinson's funeral. The author writes of figures like Freddie...

Celebrating its 75th anniversary, the beloved classic from legendary children’s book creators Ruth Krauss and Crockett Johnson, nowin a board book that's perfect for little hands!When a little boy...

Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award - American Library Association (ALA) In this intergenerational collection of poetry by new and established African American writers, fatherhood is celebrated with...

One day in 2004, Gardiner Harris, a pharmaceutical reporter for The New York Times, was early for a flight and sat down at an airport bar. He struck up a conversation with the woman on the barstool...

In the aftermath of a shattering illness, Lonni Sue Johnson—a renowned artist who regularly produced covers for The New Yorker, a gifted musician, a skilled amateur pilot, and a joyful presence to...

"The Quotable Voltaire is an illustrated treasury of about 1,200 quotes by and about Voltaire, including comments about the witty French sage and man of letters by contemporaries like Dr. Johnson,...

An accurate text of Shamela (Fielding's satire of Samuel Richardson'sPamela, the most popular epistolary novel of the eighteenth century) aswell as An Essay on the Knowledge of the Characters of Men,...

"A compelling history of the national conflicts that resulted from efforts to produce the first definitive American dictionary of English. ... [English professor] Peter Martin recounts the patriotic...