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This book is a collection of articles Frank Terranella has written over the last seven years, all and more that can be found on his blog "Tales of the Tarantula"

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The first collection of writings by a noted artist and activist whose work has focused on the AIDS epidemic.

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A collection of James' essays on American letters, together with some of his miscellaneous writings on other American subjects, which is a pivotal document in the reassessment of James as less cloistered - and more American - than previously supposed.

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Riley in the introduction identifies three main characteristics of newspaper column writing much in evidence in this selection: humanity, wit and freedom of speech. He also sketches a brief history of the newspaper column. This work then presents 77 of America's best local columnists from 41 states

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This reading of "The Canterbury Tales" is in contempoarary English prose to appeal to the student and general reader alike. It tells the story of a pilgrimage to Canterbury in which men and women drawn from all classes of society lighten their journey by telling tales.

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Brings together a selection of Cistercian Order's works. Featuring writings by St Bernard of Clairvaux (c. 1090-1153), this bvolume also includes a description of Clairvaux, biogarphies of abbots and a series of stories, all drawing on the Scriptures to express personal forms of monastic theology.

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"Mark Twain is best known as one of this country's finest humorists and novelists. As this collection confirms, he was one of our finest essayists as well. Gathered here in a single volume, these piece"

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Brings together eleven of the author's shorter fairy stories as well as his essay "The Fantastic Imagination". This title includes fairy stories that range from traditional fantasy - good and wicked fairies, children embarking on elaborate quests, and journeys into unsettling dream worlds.

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"This is the first and most complete collection of all 136 humorous sketches and tales that Samuel Clemens (1835--1910), a.k.a. Mark Twain, started writing as a young reporter for various newspapers and"

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"Scottish novelist, poet, and essayist Robert Louis Stevenson (1850--1894) was a writer of power and originality, who penned such classics as Treasure Island, Kidnapped, and The Weir of Hermiston. The e"

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W H Auden's first ten years in the United States were marked by rapid and extensive change in his life and thought. He became an American citizen, fell in love with Chester Kallman, and began to reflect on American culture. This volume contains prose that Auden wrote during these years, including essays and reviews he published under pseudonyms.

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From the number-one travel magazine in the country, a collection of travel tales from some of today's finest writers.

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Composed in a series of web-like sketches, this novel is narrated by a young woman writer who leaves the city to work one summer in the Maine seaport of Dunnet Landing. She writes a New England idyll rooted in friendship, weaving stories and conversations, the tang of salt air and aromatic herbs into an organic 'fiction of community'.

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A collection of fiction, poetry, and essays from "Crisis", the magazine that launched the literature of the Harlem Renaissance. Contributors include Langston Hughes, Countee Cullen, Jean Toomer, Arna Bontemps, E. Franklin Frazier, and Alain Locke.

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A discourse on the connection between sex, eroticism and love in literature by the Nobel Prize-winning poet and essayist.

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This title shares the 40-year correspondence between a story-writer and her New Yorker editor. Witty and affectionate, it is an addition to the literature of friendship.

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From colonial times to the present, traveler and immigrant writers have seen America with new eyes. They have perceived and recorded the American experience as few native-born writers could do, yet their lives and words have often been left out of traditional American studies.

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