"The definitive collection of works on a subject that inspired and haunted Charles Bukowski for his entire life: alcohol. Charles Bukowski turns to the bottle in this revelatory collection of poetry and prose that includes some of the writer's best and most lasting work. A self-proclaimed "dirty old man," Bukowski used alcohol as muse and as fuel, a conflicted relationship responsible for some of his darkest moments as well as some of his most joyful...

This early work by Henry James was originally published in 1884 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. Henry James was born in New York City in 1843. One of thirteen children, James had an unorthodox early education, switching between schools, private tutors and private reading.. James published his first story, 'A Tragedy of Error', in the Continental Monthly in 1864, when he was twenty years old. In 1876, he emigrated...

Edited by Abel Debritto, the definitive collection of poems from an influential writer whose transgressive legacy and raw, funny, and acutely observant writing has left an enduring mark on modern culture.

Few writers have so brilliantly and poignantly conjured the desperation and absurdity of ordinary life as Charles Bukowski. Resonant with his powerful, perceptive voice, his visceral, hilarious, and transcendent poetry speaks

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For more than fifty-five years Ralph Waldo Emerson kept a journal, recording his thoughts on books, authors, and religion, among other subjects. In this engrossing volume editor Perry Bliss presents the best from these journals, carefully selecting passages to create both a revealing portrait of this formidable thinker and a social and historical record of the era in which he lived.

In this follow-up to his previous volume of diaries, Theft by Finding, the award-winning humorist chronicles the years 2003-2020, charting the years of his rise to fame with his trademark misanthropic charm and wry wit.

Une édition de référence de La Curée d'Émile Zola, spécialement conçue pour la lecture sur les supports numériques. « Renée, dans ses satiétés, éprouva une singulière sensation de désirs inavouables, à voir ce paysage qu'elle ne reconnaissait plus, cette nature si artistement mondaine, et dont la grande nuit frissonnante faisait un bois sacré, une de ces clairières idéales au fond desquelles les anciens dieux cachaient leurs amours...

A wry, observant masterpiece—one of the singular treasures of the French fin de siècle
Written between the age of twenty-three and his death at age forty-six, Jules Renard's Journal 1887–1910 is a triumph of introspection and wit. One of the most celebrated figures of Belle Époque Paris, Renard was also a prolific diarist whose private musings were first published in five volumes some fifteen years after his death.

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"As far as the education of children is concerned," states Natalia Ginzburg in this collection of her finest and best-known short essays, "I think they should be taught not the little virtues but the great ones. Not thrift but generosity and an indifference to money; not caution but courage and a contempt for danger; not shrewdness but frankness and a love of truth; not tact but a love of one's neighbor and self-denial; not a desire for success but...

Las críticas que aparecen en Postcapital. Crítica del futuro, fueron publicadas por Iván de la Nuez durante unos seis años y recorren el tránsito entre el siglo XX y el siglo XXI. Aparecidas en el suplemento libros de El Periódico de Catalunya, interrogan las diferentes alternativas del pensamiento contemporáneo y se desplazan desde el impacto causado por el derribo del muro de Berlín hasta el cambio suscitado por el atentado a las Torres...

Viajes y descripciones es un relato breve que transcurre a bordo de un velero y narra las peripecias de un viaje de regreso a Argentina desde Europa, pasando por Francia, España y Cuba. Juan Bautista Alberdi pocas veces se entrega en sus viajes. Los describe con palabras apasionadas, pero sin que la pasión eclipse la reflexión del pensador. De tal forma, en estos viajes se reflejan los dos aspectos de la personalidad de Alberdi: la del literato...