Although ancient writing offers our first glimpse of history, people and institutions, its origins remain mysterious. This book presents the most up-to-date analysis of the origins of ancient writing.
The eleven essays ad tales in this collection include about half of Flaubert?s early experiments in writing.
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
Collects several of Pound's early poems and prose, including "The Seafarer," "Revolt," "Autumn," "What I Feel About Walt Whitman," and "The Serious Artist."
Standage traces the story of the rise, fall and rebirth of social media over the past 2,000 years offering an illuminating perspective on the history of media, and revealing that social networks do not merely connect us today – they also ...
Of course, Margaret Atwood would question conventional female behavior, arguing for the right to smoke cigars. Other writers featured in this volume include Amy Tan, Paul Bowles, Michael Crichton, Ursula K. LeGuin, Tobias Wolff, and more.
Almost all of this work remains unknown; much of it appeared in the self-produced magazines of the Lower East Side's mimeo revolution, and many other pieces were never published.
A work of incalculable historical and cultural significance, The First Writings of Karl Marx is the first complete single-volume edition of Karl Marx's doctoral dissertation to appear in English. This...
Jules Laforgue rather than Pater is the proper model, Pound argues, and in response to a remark by Thomas Hardy that the poem should be retitled “Propertius Soliloquizes,” Pound explains that “what I do is borrow a term—aesthetic—a term ...
The Mohammadan dynasties chronological and genealogical tables with historical introductions. Westminister: Archibald Constable, 1894. xxviii, 361p. A historical introduction and a chronological list of its princes and a genealogical ...