{"title":"Literary Criticism","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"the-year-of-reading-dangerously-how-fifty-great-books-and-two-not-so-great-ones-saved-my-life-paperback","title":"The Year of Reading Dangerously: How Fifty Great Books (and Two Not-So-Great Ones) Saved My Life - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAndy Miller\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAn editor and writer's vivaciously entertaining, and often moving, chronicle of his year-long adventure with fifty great books (and two not-so-great ones)--a true story about reading that reminds us why we should all make time in our lives for books.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNearing his fortieth birthday, author and critic Andy Miller realized he's not nearly as well read as he'd like to be. 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He not only lost but he was tried twice for \"grossindecency\" and sent to prison with two years' hard labor.With this publication of the uncensored trial transcripts, readers can for the first time in more than a century hearWilde at his most articulate and brilliant. \u003cem\u003eThe Real Trialof Oscar Wilde\u003c\/em\u003e documents an alarmingly swift fall fromgrace; it is also a supremely moving testament to the rightto live, work, and love as one's heart dictates.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 340\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.93 x 8 x 5.28 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 05, 2004\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55075421651243,"sku":"9780007158058","price":23.74,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1015\/0261\/5851\/files\/za6l0Nv5up9780007158058.webp?v=1787706127"},{"product_id":"every-book-its-reader-the-power-of-the-printed-word-to-stir-the-world-paperback","title":"Every Book Its Reader: The Power of the Printed Word to Stir the World - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eNicholas A. 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He shows how books that many of these people have consulted, in some cases annotated with their marginal notes, can offer tantalizing clues to the evolution of their character and the development of their thought.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e Inspired by a landmark exhibition mounted by the British Museum in 1963 to celebrate five eventful centuries of the printed word, Nicholas A. 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He shows how books that many of these people have consulted, in some cases annotated with their marginal notes, can offer tantalizing clues to the evolution of their character and the development of their thought.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 400\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.08 x 9 x 6.12 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e December 13, 2013\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55075421978923,"sku":"9780060593247","price":22.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1015\/0261\/5851\/files\/er3yTMVzGP9780060593247.webp?v=1787706129"},{"product_id":"no-other-book-selected-essays-paperback","title":"No Other Book: Selected Essays - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eRandall Jarrell\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRandall Jarrell was only fifty-one at the time of his death, in 1965, yet he created a body of work that secured his position as one of the century's leading American men of letters. Although he saw himself chiefly as a poet, publishing a number of books of poetry, he also left behind a sparkling comic novel, four children's books, numerous translations, haunting letters, and four collections of essays. Edited by Brad Leithauser, \u003cem\u003eNo Other Book\u003c\/em\u003edraws from these four essay collections, reminding us that Jarell the poet was also, in the words of Robert Lowell, \"a critic of genius.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eRandall Jarrell was only fifty-one at the time of his death, in 1965, yet he created a body of work that secured his position as one of the century's leading American men of letters. Although he saw himself chiefly as a poet, publishing a number of books of poetry, he also left behind a sparkling comic novel, four children's books, numerous translations, haunting letters, and four collections of essays. Edited by Brad Leithauser, \u003cem\u003eNo Other Book\u003c\/em\u003edraws from these four essay collections, reminding us that Jarell the poet was also, in the words of Robert Lowell, \"a critic of genius.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 400\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.05 x 9.36 x 6.1 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 20, 2000\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55075422011691,"sku":"9780060956387","price":29.79,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1015\/0261\/5851\/files\/KW13dEh7dU9780060956387.webp?v=1787706129"},{"product_id":"encounter-paperback","title":"Encounter - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMilan Kundera\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"I can't imagine reading this book without being challenged and instructed, amused, amazed and aroused, and ultimately delighted.\" --John Simon, New York Times Book Review\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMilan Kundera's brilliant collection of essays is a passionate defense of art in an era that, he argues, no longer values art or beauty. With the same dazzling mix of emotion and ideas that characterizes his bestselling novels, the internationally acclaimed author revisits the artists whose works help us better understand what it means to be human. Elegant, startlingly original, and provocative, Encounter combines many of the author's signature themes with personal reflections and stories.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn these provocative and deeply personal essays, Kundera confronts the essential questions of European culture: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eA Defense of Art: \u003c\/b\u003e A passionate argument for beauty in an era Kundera sees as increasingly hostile to the aesthetic itself.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eEncounters with Genius: \u003c\/b\u003e Incisive reflections on literary giants from Dostoyevsky to Céline, viewed through the personal lens of a master novelist.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eModern Art and Music: \u003c\/b\u003e A stunning analysis of Francis Bacon's brutal portraiture and a moving exploration of composers from Beethoven to Schoenberg.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eThe Novelist's Perspective: \u003c\/b\u003e Personal meditations on the craft, heritage, and future of the novel, paying homage to figures from Rabelais to Carlos Fuentes.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMilan Kundera's brilliant new collection of essays is a passionate defense of art in an era that, he argues, no longer values art or beauty. 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These essays are both brilliantly ambitious\u003c\/strong\u003e--\u003cstrong\u003eone random passage in her last piece, on 'writing and the threshold life, ' flows 14th-century Japanese poet Ono no Komachi (whose poems she has translated in the past) into Czeslaw Milosz into Emily Dickinson and Walt Whitman\u003c\/strong\u003e--\u003cstrong\u003eand confidently clear.\" -- \u003cem\u003eVillage Voice\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNine essays on the connection poetry forges between inner and outer lives, from esteemed poet and thinker Jame Hirshfield. \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eNine Gates\u003c\/em\u003e begins with a close examination of the roots of poetic craft in \"the mind of concentration\" and concludes by exploring the writer's role in creating a sense of community that is open, inclusive and able to bind the individual and the whole in a way that allows each full self-expression. in between, \u003cem\u003eNine Gates\u003c\/em\u003e illumines the nature of originality, translation, the various strategies by which meaning unfolds itself in language, poetry's roots in oral memory and the importance of the shadow to good art.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDelving into the nature of poetry, Jane Hirshfield also writes on the nature of the human mind, perception and experience. \u003cem\u003eNine Gates\u003c\/em\u003e is about the underpinnings of poetic craft, but it is also about a way of being alive in the world: alertly, musically, intelligently, passionately, permeably.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn part a primer for the general reader, \u003cem\u003e Nine Gates \u003c\/em\u003eis also a manual for the working writer, with each \"gate\" exploring particular strategies of language and thought that allow a poem to convey meaning and emotion with clarity and force. 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In straightforward unapologetic prose, Dan Fante lays bare his family′s story from his point of view, with the rage and passion of a writer, which he feels was his true inheritance and his father′s greatest gift.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNo two lives could have been more different, yet similar in a few essential ways than John and Dan Fante′s. As father and son, John and Dan Fante were prone to fights, resentment and extended periods of silence. As men, they were damaged by alcoholism. As writers, they were compelled by anger, rage and unstoppable passion. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e In FANTE, Dan Fante traces his family′s history from the hillsides of Italy to the immigrant neighborhoods of Colorado to Los Angeles. 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In doing so, he celebrates a prose form that possesses the unique ability to transcend national and language boundaries in order to reveal some previously unknown aspect of human existence.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut what is the unique knowledge only the novel can provide?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eThe Art of the Novel: \u003c\/b\u003e Kundera's deeply personal definition of a prose form that exists to tear through the \"curtain\" of pre-interpreted reality.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eA History of Forgetting: \u003c\/b\u003e An exploration of how memory transforms and erases, and why the novel is a unique fortress against the fleeting, ghostly nature of the past.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eCentral European Modernism: \u003c\/b\u003e A passionate defense of Kafka, Broch, and Musil, and how their antilyrical, analytical novels charted a different course for European literature.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eAesthetics and Existence: \u003c\/b\u003e Why concepts like kitsch, vulgarity, and the comical are not just artistic terms but keys to understanding the human condition.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A magic curtain, woven of legends, hung before the world. 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The book is an exhilarating reading experience, especially at a time when a new audience has opened up for the greatest writer in English.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShakespeare's plays are usually studied by literary scholars and historians and the books about him from those perspectives are legion. It is most unusual for a trained philosopher to give us his insight, as Colin McGinn does here, into six of Shakespeare's greatest plays--A Midsummer Night's Dream, Hamlet, Othello, Macbeth, King Lear, and The Tempest. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e In his brilliant commentary, McGinn explores Shakespeare's philosophy of life and illustrates how he was influenced, for example, by the essays of Montaigne that were translated into English while Shakespeare was writing. 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