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A lyrical, sensuous and thoroughly engrossing memoir of one critical year in the life of an organic peach farmer, Epitaph for a Peach is "a delightful narrative . . ....
In the tradition of Laurence Sterne and Jonathan Swift -- and as a clear forerunner of the works of Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Jorge Luis Borges -- Epitaph of a Small Winner, first published in 1880, is one of the wittiest self-portraits in ...
Green documents the descent into radicalism of these unions and concludes that as currently constituted and led, they no longer serve the public or national interest. The existence of this book testifies to a reversal of my own thinking.
This book examines a number of facets of Western epitaph culture since antiquity, with particular emphasis on post-medieval developments in the major European countries as well as in North America....
An examination of how the dead were memorialised in late medieval French literature.
Don M. Wolfe [ New Haven : Yale University Press , 1953 ) , 566 ) . M. H. Abrams discusses the centrality of the sermo humilis in Wordsworth's poetry as a whole in his Natural Supernaturalism : Tradition and Revolution in Romantic ...
Epitaph and Icon: A Field Guide to the Old Burying Grounds of Cape Cod, Martha's Vineyard, and Nantucket