Poisoned Pens: Literary Invective from Amis to Zola
Frances Lincoln, August 2010. Trade Paperback. A delicious compendium of literary feuds, slights, spleen and venom, drawn from the Guardian newspaper column 'Writers on Writers'.
Frances Lincoln, August 2010. Trade Paperback. A delicious compendium of literary feuds, slights, spleen and venom, drawn from the Guardian newspaper column 'Writers on Writers'.
Walker & Company, November 2009. Hardcover. One of America's foremost language experts presents an annotated edition of A mbrose Bierce's classic catalog of correct speech. Ambrose Bierce is best known for The Devil's Dictionary, but the prolific journalist, satirist, and fabulist was also a usage maven. In 1909, he published.....
Harvard University Press, February 1984. Hardcover. Now available as an audio CD, in Eudora Welty's own voice, or as a book. Eudora Welty was born in 1909 in Jackson, Mississippi. In a continuous thread of revelation she sketches her autobiography and tells us how her family and her surroundings contributed.....