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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United...

From discursive essay-poems to tightly constructed lyrics, Ed Falco's X in the Tickseed examines a world that reveals itself through its mysteries, reflecting upon the ephemeral nature of all things. In the series of poems that bookend the collection, a...

France’s great Catholic author and Nobel Prize winner unfolds his thoughts on a variety of topics in a series of letters written to such men as Albert Camus, Jean Cocteau, Pierre Schaeffer and Jacques Rivière. Readers of “Proust’s Way”, “Men I Hold...

Rate your pain on a scale of one to ten. What about on a scale of spicy to citrus? Is it more like a lava lamp or a mosaic? Pain, though a universal element of human experience, is dimly understood and sometimes barely managed. Pain Woman Takes Your...

A Banquet for the SoulIf a day passes, does it leave a mark? If a year falls away, what do we gain from it? These questions strike a special chord with our own times, when the living of life has become a lost art. Over one hundred years ago the writer...

Don't ask author Gary Mielo what it was like to grow up in North Bergen, New Jersey. He's likely to relate personal essays and anecdotes that include 'the most heinous experience, the one which can easily produce the deepest and most lasting of scars, is...

In the fall of 1960, during a three-month visit to Hungary, Arthur Kahn unsuccessfully asked his hosts to arrange a meeting with Gyorgy Lukacs, a persona non grata to the Communist regime. Kahn arranged to meet Lukacs on his own and proposed translating...

Right Angles and Other Obstinate Truths is a fascinating collection of commentaries on current issues, famous and infamous individuals, passing fads, Baby Boomer memories and personal experiences.The more than 70 short essays by Michael M. Bates are...

"The prerequisite to being truthful to yourself is to feel connection with another. Simple, everyday stories we all experience should be written in simple, everyday language we all use. The best stories deal with the small concerns of life and you don't...

Bright Orange Sweater-Coat is the product of four years of musings in the most formative period of this young author. Encompassing a wide range of subjects, it is a potpourri of thoughtful ruminations and light-hearted reflections.This talented young...

Christine Downing has graced the campus of San Diego State University, returning like Persephone each spring for the past ten years to deliver the annual lecture named in her honor. Printed here in their entirety, the talks are autobiographical,...

This is the first collection of essays since George Sherburn's landmark monograph The Early Career of Alexander Pope (1934) to reconsider how the most important and influential poet of eighteenth-century Britain fashioned his early career. The volume...

Greg Dorchak's family moved to upstate New York in 1965 when he was just a baby. For the next 13 years his playground was the High Peaks Region of the Adirondack Park, 6 million acres of lakes, trees, mountains and colorful people.Though he has been gone...

"Nene's Prose is composed of twelve essays written by Ancel Mondia.P.O.W.E.R. highlights wishes on a twenty-seventh birthday.L.I.V.E. divulges coping ways on mental health struggles.Isms tackles discrimination that ought to be changed.SCAR states the...

This book "Uzbek Modern Storytelling" is a collection of research articles by Barno Eshmurzayeva, a poetess and scholar from Uzbekistan. It contains 8 essays ranging from Image of human spirituality and psychology in the works of Uzbek writers,...

So vielschichtig, verzweigt und zugleich faszinierend wie das Geflecht von Krümmungen und Linien einer Handfläche mutet die Lektüre von Klaus Bonns "Handschaften" an.Diese einzigartige Textsammlung rund um das Thema Hände versammelt neben kurzen,...

Mann und Weib, Geschlecht und Psyche -die Frauenrechtlerin Rosa Mayreder wirft in ihren Essays zur Weiblichkeit zentrale Themen der Frauenbewegung auf. Sie stemmt sich gegen die Vorstellung geschlechtsabhängiger Charakterunterschiede und betrachtet den...

Fanny Lewald: Für und wider die Frauen. Vierzehn BriefeErstdruck in: Westermanns Monatshefte, Braunschweig (Westermann) Bd. 28, 1870; erste Buchausgabe: Berlin (Otto Janke) 1870.Vollständige Neuausgabe mit einer Biographie der Autorin.Herausgegeben von...

Heinrich Heine: Englische FragmenteZuerst gedruckt in: Neue allgemeine politische Annalen, Jg. 1828, und in: Das Ausland, Jg. 1828 uns 1829.Vollständige Neuausgabe mit einer Biographie des Autors.Herausgegeben von Karl-Maria Guth.Berlin 2015...

Heinrich von Kleist: Ästhetische, philosophische und politische SchriftenVollständige Neuausgabe mit einer Biographie des Autors.Herausgegeben von Karl-Maria Guth.Berlin 2014.Textgrundlage ist die Ausgabe:Heinrich von Kleist: Werke und Briefe in vier...

Heinrich Heine: Französische ZuständeDie politischen Berichte über Frankreich entstanden vom Dezember 1831 bis September 1832 für die Augsburger Allgemeine Zeitung. Erste Buchveröffentlichung (mit verstümmelter Vorrede): Hamburg (Hoffmann und Campe) 1833...

Heinrich Heine: Die romantische SchuleEntstanden 1832/35. Teildrucke in: L'Europe littéraire (Paris), Frühjahr 1833, Erstdruck unter dem Titel Zur Geschichte der neueren schönen Literatur in Deutschland, Paris (Heideloff und Campe) 1833, erweitert und...

Adolph Freiherr von Knigge: Ueber Eigennutz und UndankErstdruck: Leipzig (Jacobaer) 1796.Vollständige Neuausgabe mit einer Biographie des Autors.Herausgegeben von Karl-Maria Guth.Berlin 2014.Textgrundlage ist die Ausgabe:Adolph Freiherr von Knigge: Ueber...

Heinrich Heine: Lutetia. Berichte über Politik, Kunst und VolkslebenHeine schrieb die Korrespondenzberichte 1840-43 für die Augsburger Allgemeine Zeitung, wo sie z.T. entstellt erschienen. Zwischen 1851 und 1854 wurden sie von ihm gründlich überarbeitet...

Heinrich Heine: Französische MalerDie Artikelserie entstand 1831 für Cottas Morgenblatt für gebildete Stände. Erste Buchveröffentlichung in: Der Salon, 1. Bd., Hamburg (Hoffmann und Campe) 1834.Vollständige Neuausgabe mit einer Biographie des Autors...

Heinrich Heine: ElementargeisterEntstanden 1834/1837. Französischer Teildruck in: De l'Allemagne. Paris 1835; deutscher Erstdruck in: Der Salon, Bd. 3, Hamburg (Hoffmann und Campe) 1837.Neuausgabe mit einer Biographie des Autors.Herausgegeben von...

Johann Gottfried Herder: Journal meiner Reise im Jahr 1769Entstanden 1769/70. Erstdruck in: E.G. v. Herder, Herders Lebensbild, Erlangen 1846.Vollständige Neuausgabe mit einer Biographie des Autors.Herausgegeben von Karl-Maria Guth.Berlin 2013...

Johann Gottfried Herder: Gott. Einige Gespräche über Spinoza's System nebst Shaftesbury's NaturhymnusErstdruck: Gotha (Ettinger) 1787. Der Text folgt der 2. erweiterten Ausgabe: Gotha (Ettinger) 1800.Vollständige Neuausgabe mit einer Biographie des...

"Für mich war sein Schreiben vorbildlich, weil es grundiert war von einer sehr hohen Moral, nämlich der des Anstands, die unserer Zeit so sehr fehlt ..."- so der Literat Franz Littmann über die Arbeiten seines Kollegen Peter Kohl.Dreißig Jahre lang...