This little book is intended to serve as an elementary introduction to the study of Egyptian Literature. Its object is to present a short series of specimens of Egyptian compositions, which represent all the great periods of literary activity in Egypt under the Pharaohs, to all who are interested in ... more »

A Student Guide to College Composition is meant to serve as a conventional textbook, though it can also be used by students independently to help them do well in composition. Part I: Succeeding in Composition describes teacher expectations in various models of the composition course. It then elaborates ... more »

By a brief survey of present day Hopi culture and an examination into the myths and traditions constituting the unwritten literature of this people, this bulletin proposes to show that an intimate connection exists between their ritual acts, their moral standards, their social organization, even their ... more »

In July 1997, twenty-five of America's most influential journalists sat down to try and discover what had happened to their profession in the years between Watergate and Whitewater. What they knew was that the public no longer trusted the press as it once had. They were keenly aware of the pressures ... more »

Henry Miller's best-known and most famous work (on anybody's top 100 list, and among this year's top 50 sellers), was first published by Girodias's father in 1934. The book itself was accepted by Jack Kahane in '31, but the economy and Kahane's legal struggles led him to continually delay launching the ... more »

The wide use of the author's History of English Literature, the favor with which it has been received in all parts of the United States, and the number of earnest requests for a History of American Literature on the same plan, have led to the writing of this book. It has not appeared sooner because the ... more »

To the Romans themselves, as they looked back two hundred years later, the beginnings of a real literature seemed definitely fixed in the generation which passed between the first and second Punic Wars. The peace of B.C. 241 closed an epoch throughout which the Roman Republic had been fighting for an ... more »

Forgetfulness occurs when those who have been long inured to civilized order can no longer remember a time in which they had to wonder whether their crops would grow to maturity without being stolen or their children sold into slavery by a victorious foe....They forget that in time of danger, in the ... more »

Romanticism, says De Stendhal, is the art of presenting to the nations the literary works which, in the actual state of their habits and beliefs, are capable of giving them the greatest possible pleasure: classicism, on the contrary, presents them with what gave the greatest possible pleasure to their ... more »

***AVAILABLE IN E-BOOK FORMAT ONLY*** Based on Lawrence Block's extremely popular seminar for writers. Discover Block's tips for overcoming writer's block and unleashing your creativit... more » more »

The largest and most dynamic collection of words ever assembled -- the English language -- continues to expand. As hundreds of new words are added annually, older ones are sacrificed. Here's a marvelous exploration of unusual and charming archaic words and phrases, providing an enticing glimpse into ... more »

Henry Miller's brief yet vibrant account of his days in the Paris suburb. The work also features the author on the road with some intriguing adventures in the low countries. This title was first published by Olympia in 1956, and later made into a film with Miller's approval. more »