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Twentieth-century work on Welsh manuscripts has been dependent on the publications of Gwenogvryn Evans a century ago. This text provides a coherent view of the Welsh manuscript tradition and detailed studies which have transformed our understanding of some of the key manuscripts.

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A selection of 60 thoughtful Thoreau quotations and placed them alongside the wisdom words of writers, philosopohers, and teachers from around the world. Bound in a lovely and compact format, the book totes easily along in your pocket, backpack, or picnic basket. Solitude never felt so cozy.

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This text features essays from Ammiel Alcalay covering Mediterranean culture, Arabic literature, the war in Bosnia, the Israeli/Palestinian conflict, the destruction of Carthage, and much more.

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Mexico is a top travel destination. This book offers a vision of Mexico by some of Mexico's contemporary writers of fiction and literary prose. It provides information on the people of the beaches, the deserts, jungles, snow-capped mountains and megacities. It is a journey from the Pacific to the Gulf, from Yucatan to border slums, and more.

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"As featured on the podcast Moms Don't Have Time to Read Books with Zibby Owens"--Cover.

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A superb achievement, one that successfully brings together in accessible form the work of two major writers of Renaissance France. This is now the default version of Montaigne in English. --Timothy Hampton, Professor of French and Comparative Literature, University of California, Berkeley

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The moving story of a mischievous pooch who touched and brightened the lives of an entire...

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Featuring the work of a variety of writers, this collection of essays explores the relationship that exists between the people of northern Minnesota and the rugged landscape that surrounds them.

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"The hunger for a feeling of connection that informs most everything I've written flows from a common break in a common heart, one I share with everyone I've ever really known."--Note Book Every single morning since early 2007, Princeton English professor Jeff Nunokawa has posted a brief essay in the Notes section of his Facebook page. Often just

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Setting out from middle-class California to invent herself as a European-style intellectual, Sontag raised the bar of critical discourse and offered up a model of a freethinking, imaginative, and sensual woman. This book offers a reflection on the work, influence, and personality of Sontag.

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"[Lombardo] has brought his laconic wit and love of the ribald. . . to his version of the Odyssey. His carefully honed syntax gives the narrative energy and a whirlwind pace. The lines, rhythmic and clipped, have the tautness and force of Odysseus' bow." Chris Hedges, The New York Times Book Review

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Two works that are resources for students on the path of self-development.

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Representing the author's interest spanning over thirty-five years, the essays expose White's evocation of dimensions other than material reality, his preoccupation with epiphanies and mythmaking, and his constant forging of a poetic style.

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The first collection of essays in English by the winner of the 2013 Cames Prize and the 2014 Neustadt Prize.

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Brief collage-style essays that explore the ephemeral and fractured nature of life in the digital age.

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A smart, sardonic, and entertaining collection of short nonfiction with broad reader appealAuthor is well-known as a firebrand; he was banned from the U.S. during a border incidentFeatures over 50 essays and diatribes on popular culture, politics, science, fiction, religion, and more

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Keepsake, guidebook, and wunderkammer of enthusiasms, Sturdevant's essays offer new ways of thinking about urban spaces and the contemporary Midwest.

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A young widow and her five dogs confront life.