Literary Collections
-
The Letters of Ernest Hemingway Hardback Set Volumes 2 and 3: Volume 2-3The Letters of Ernest Hemingway document the life and creative development of a gifted artist and legendary personality whose work would both reflect and transform his times. Volume 2 (1923-1925) follows Hemingway's literary apprenticeship in expatriate Paris and the experiences that forged his earliest...
- CHF 76.27
- CHF 76.27
- Unit price
- per
-
Women's Writing of Ancient Mesopotamia: An Anthology of the Earliest Female AuthorsWomen's Writing of Ancient Mesopotamia presents fresh and engaging translations of works that were composed or edited by female scribes and elite women of the ancient Near East. These texts provide insight into the social status, struggles, and achievements of women during the earliest...
- CHF 202.34
- CHF 202.34
- Unit price
- per
-
Between Eternities: And Other WritingsAn exhilarating collection of critical and personal writings--spanning more than twenty years of work--from the internationally renowned author of The Infatuations and A Heart So White. Javier Marías is a tireless examiner of the world around us: essayist, novelist, translator, voracious reader, enthusiastic debunker...
- CHF 25.80
- CHF 25.80
- Unit price
- per
-
Giai Phẩm Hạ 2022Giai Phẩm Hạ 2022Giai Phẩm Hạ 2022 đến với quý độc Giả hơi trể khi tiết trời bắt đầu vào Thu. Nhà Xuất bản xin dịch một đoạn trong bài Summer of Love thay cho lời xin lỗiIt was the summer of loveA delicate...
- CHF 16.64
- CHF 16.64
- Unit price
- per
-
One Man's Maine: Essays on a Love AffairMaine is a talisman of the American imagination, offering beauty and wildlife to tourists and natives. Over the last few years, Jim has published many essays about the wonders and challenges of Maine's environment, and One Man's Maine collects and edits them into sixteen...
- CHF 32.26
- CHF 32.26
- Unit price
- per
-
The Fountain of Life: (Fons Vitae)Solomon ibn Gabirol is now best known for his work Fons Vit ('Fountain of Life') and for his philosophical doctrine that all things, including soul and intellect, are composed of matter and form, and for his emphasis on Divine Will. Fons Vit is a...
- CHF 15.58
- CHF 15.58
- Unit price
- per
-
HARDBACK GUEST BOOK, Visitors Book, Comments Book, Guest Comments Book, House Guest Book, Party Guest Book, Vacation Home Guest Book: For events, funcHARDBACK, gloss finish cover 8.5" x 8.5" (216mm x 216 mm) 96 lined quality white pages Welcome page with space to add your personalized message Open layout - each page is headed 'Guests' with an open layout for you to use as you wish....
- CHF 31.88
- CHF 31.88
- Unit price
- per
-
Letters To My ExCici. B's debut novel, Letters To My Ex, is a collection of letters written to a past love over a three year period of time that was never sent to him---but they are far from your typical love letters. If you are looking for...
- CHF 25.87
- CHF 25.87
- Unit price
- per
-
Principles of NatureOne of the most difficult thngs for a person to do is to admit they are wrong. Elihu Palmer, the author of Principles of Nature, had the strength of character and love of honesty to not only admit he was wrong to embrace and...
- CHF 26.26
- CHF 26.26
- Unit price
- per
-
Nature's Nightmare: Analyzing David Foster Wallace's OblivionFrom the author of Elegant Complexity comes a cogent analysis of David Foster Wallace's Oblivion. Nature's Nightmare is the first book of criticism devoted to Wallace's masterful story collection. Carlisle gives an in-depth narrative analysis of each story: "Mr. Squishy," "The Soul is Not...
- CHF 36.95
- CHF 36.95
- Unit price
- per
-
The Coney Island Amateur Psychoanalytic Society and Its CircleOn the afternoon of August 28th, 1909, Sigmund Freud visited Coney Island's famous Dreamland amusement park. A hundred years later, this lively, imaginative book examines his legacy in Coney Island, a history which might have been. It begins with Norman Klein's reconstruction of his...
- CHF 41.60
- CHF 41.60
- Unit price
- per
-
The Portable Ana'is NinThe Portable Anais Nin is the first comprehensive collection of the author's work in nearly 40 years, during which time her catalogue has doubled with the release of the erotica and unexpurgated diaries. A handy source book of Nin's most important writings, arranged chronologically...
- CHF 34.58
- CHF 34.58
- Unit price
- per
-
The Poetry of Louis Dudek: Definitive CollectionWhen Dudek selected and arranged the poems in the book he intended this to be the definitive collection of his poems. Tis contains selections from 20 of his previous book between 1944 and 1997. Louis Dudek ... prolific poet, critic and literary activist ......
- CHF 20.78
- CHF 20.78
- Unit price
- per
-
With These Hands: Women Working on the LandAlthough millions of women in the United States have worked on the land, With These Hands is the first history of their work. This collection begins with the agricultural work of Native American women, and traces to the eighties their experience as well as...
- CHF 21.84
- CHF 21.84
- Unit price
- per
-
Snow Lit Rev, No. 11Eleventh issue of annual print-only literary and arts review.Fiction, poetry, essays, art, music, film, from UK, USA, Italy, France, Kenya, Japan, China. Includes essay by Pierre Crépon on Black Cultural Nationalism and music, and by Léa Dreyer on Franco-Swedish sound artist Lars Fredrikson; poems...
- CHF 55.47
- CHF 55.47
- Unit price
- per
-
Worshipful Company of FletchersMasterfully drawing on a variety of voices and characters, James Tate joyfully offers his first book since winning the Pulitzer Prize in 1992 for his "Selected Poems."Author: James TatePublisher: Ecco PressPublished: 12/01/1995Pages: 96Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.25lbsSize: 8.28h x 5.48w x 0.32dISBN: 9780880014311Award: National Book...
- CHF 24.24
- CHF 24.24
- Unit price
- per
-
The Mystical Theology of St. Bernard: Volume 120This classic study placed the saint squarely among the outstanding theologians of the Middle Ages, and stripped away the sentimentality in which popular piety had wrapped him. Gilson demonstrates in Bernard's works his blend of monastic tradition and the new learning of the early...
- CHF 44.29
- CHF 44.29
- Unit price
- per
-
You'll Be Okay: My Life with Jack KerouacYou have a unique viewpoint from which to write about Jack as no one else has or could write. I feel very deeply that this book must be written. And no one else, I repeat, can write it.--William S. BurroughsEdie Parker was eighteen years...
- CHF 20.72
- CHF 20.72
- Unit price
- per
-
Forest of a Thousand Daemons: A Hunter's Saga"His total conviction in multiple existences within our physical world is as much an inspiration to some of the most brilliant fiction in Yoruba writing as it is a deeply felt urge to 'justify the ways of God to man.'"Wole Soyinka, translator and Nobel...
- CHF 22.12
- CHF 22.12
- Unit price
- per
-
Fathers Playing Catch with Sons: Essays on Sport (Mostly Baseball)The essays in Fathers Playing Catch with Sons are a wonderful mixture of reminiscence and observation, of baseball and of fathers and sons, of how a game binds people together and bridges generations.In the pantheon of great sports literature, not a few poets have...
- CHF 23.57
- CHF 23.57
- Unit price
- per