Both a one-time "near-great junior tennis player" and a lifelong connoisseur of the finer points of the game, David Foster Wallace wrote about tennis with the authority of an insider, the showmanship of a literary pyrotechnician, and ... Zobraziť viac
Nancy Hale was considered one of the preeminent short story artists of her era, a prolific writer whose long association with The New Yorker rivalled that of her contemporary John Cheever. But few readers today will recognize her name. Acclaimed author... Zobraziť viac
''No one,'' Hannah Arendt observed, ''has ever counted truthfulness as a political virtue.'' But why do politicians lie? What is the relationship between political lies and self-delusion? And how much organized deceit can a democracy endure before it... Zobraziť viac
Philosopher and psychologist William James was the best known and most influential American thinker of his time.The 5 books and nineteen essays collected in this Library of America volume represent all his major work from 1902 until his death in 1910... Zobraziť viac
Upon publication in 1935, W.E.B. Du Bois''s Black Reconstruction offered a revelatory new assessment of Reconstruction - and of American democracy itself. Black Reconstruction is a pioneering work of revisionist scholarship that, in the wake of... Zobraziť viac
Imagine it, if you can bear to look back: long ago, in a galaxy far, far away, the writing of science fiction was dominated by men, or what Ursula K. Le Guin once described as a ''baboon patriarchy'' - its female characters figments of adolescent... Zobraziť viac
In collections such as Will You Please Be Quiet, Please? and What We Talk About When We Talk About Love, Raymond Carver wrote with unflinching exactness about men and women enduring lives on the knife-edge of poverty and other deprivations... Zobraziť viac
The most authoritative edition ever published: Read Gatsby exactly as Fitzgerald intended - and get an inside look at its composition and publication. Boats against the current, we are borne back ceaselessly to The Great Gatsby. Now, in this deluxe... Zobraziť viac
The three novels collected in this volume represent for many readers the summit of Macdonald’s art. They remain thrilling for their searing psychological truth-telling, daring flights of narrative invention, and their... Zobraziť viac
