Displaying the top 100 results that match your query. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/rssapi.jsp?Re=3295&N=3+5201 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1086689 A volume of essays is comprised of top-selected pieces from the past decade and considers a broad range of topics organized under such main categories as Reading, Being, Seeing, and Feeling. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1211930 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=987426 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1009602 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1020709 A volume of essays is comprised of top-selected pieces from the past decade and considers a broad range of topics organized under such main categories as Reading, Being, Seeing, and Feeling. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=594845 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=652982 From art and actors to vice and virtue, this volume topically organizes 3109 Oscar Wilde quotations, by subject matter. Quotations are taken form such works as The Importance of Being Earnest and The Picture of Dorian Gray, his correspondence, magazine articles and newspaper editorials. Some which could not be verified are given as quoted in reliable secondary sources. Sixty-seven sections deal with topics as varied as Death, Domesticity, Friends and Enemies, with the source of each quote duly noted. There is a very large index of subjects and keywords.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=604783 Throughout his life, playwright and political activist Harold Pinter has consistently cast light on the hypocrisy of conformist truths in pure and simple terms. Death etc. brings together Pinters most poignant and political writings. From chilling psychological portraits of those who commit atrocities in the name of a higher power, to essays on the state-sponsored terrorism of present-day regimes, to solemn hymns commemorating the faceless masses that perish unrecognized, Mr. Pinters writings are as essential to the preservation of open debate as to our awareness of personal involvement in the fate of our global community.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=594834 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=583588 In Where Theres a Will, Mortimer writes about the (nonmaterial) things he believes enrich our experience of life. From the pleasures of drink and outdoor sex (though not necessarily together) to the justification of the odd lie and a vision of God as The Grand Perhaps, Where Theres a Will is Mortimers witty and wise, occasionally outrageous, and always thought-provoking examination of what it means to truly live, and live well.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=584926 Heaven, Jeffrey Archers final volume in his trilogy of prison diaries, covers the period of his transfer from a medium security prison, HMP Wayland, to his eventual release on parole in July 2003. It includes a shocking account of the traumatic time he spent in the notorious Lincoln jail and the events that led to his incarceration there, and also shines a harsh light on a system that is close to its breaking point. Told with humor, compassion, and honesty, the diary closes with a though-provoking manifesto that will be applauded by reform advocates and the prison population alike. Book jacket.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=566982 Lackbrain, oysterwench, wantwit, clotpoll - Samuel Johnsons famous dictionary of 1755 contained some of the ripest insults in the English language. In Samuel Johnsons Insults, Jack Lynch has compiled more than 300 of the curmudgeonly lexicographers mightiest barbs, along with definitions only the master himself could elucidate. Word lovers will delight in flexing their linguistic muscles with devilishly descriptive vituperations that pack a wicked punch. Many of these zingers have long lain dormant. Some have even come close to extinction. Now theyre back in all their prickly glory, ready to be relished once more.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=567042 Beirut - where plastic surgery meets the emotional intensity of Umm Kulthum, and Lebanese foodies go on the rampage. Transit Beirut is an anthology of complex urban experience that brings together personal writing, essays, journalism, short stories, photography and animation. The view is wide: from fiction to documentary and everything in between. Beirut is undergoing an energetic process of rediscovery and reinvention by its own inhabitants, many of whom are only now returning to the city. With new and established Arab writers together for the first time, Transit Beirut oscillates between sarcastic humour and serious exploration of the tensions and conflicts in a society undergoing reconstruction. Things are never what they seem; students express themselves in the language of military conquest and athletes train to defeat cholesterol. In Transit Beirut, the intersecting lines of TE Lawrence, Orientalism and a PLO grandmothers revolutionary milk implode, and a pine forest becomes a graveyard.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=567052 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=492568 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=498088 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=500979 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=479325 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=459748 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=661946 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=426234 Edited and with a new Introduction by renowned Swift scholar Claude Rawson, this edition includes A Tale of a Tub, Gullivers Travels, and A Modest Proposal, Swifts most famous poetry and most important letters, in addition to newly commissioned explanatory notes by Professor Ian Higgins. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=451373 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=415396 The best of Booker Prize-winning author Rushdies nonfiction pieces from the past decade are assembled in this collection on wide-ranging and often unexpected topics. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=415386 Although best known as the author of Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-four, George Orwell left an even more lastingly significant achievement in his voluminous essays, which dealt with all the great social, political, and literary questions of the day and exemplified an incisive prose style that is still universally admired. Included among the more than 240 essays in this volume are Orwells famous discussion of pacifism, My Country Right or Left; his scathingly complicated views on the dirty work of imperialism in Shooting an Elephant; and his very firm opinion on how to make A Nice Cup of Tea. In his essays, Orwell elevated political writing to the level of art, and his motivating ideas - his desire for social justice, his belief in universal freedom and equality, and his concern for truth in language - are as enduringly relevant now, a hundred years after his birth, as ever.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=511986 Throughout his long life, William Butler Yeats produced important works in every literary genre. His early poetry is memorable and moving. His poems and plays of middle age address the human condition with language that has entered our vocabulary for cataclysmic personal and world events. The writings of his final years offer wisdom, courage, humor, and sheer technical virtuosity. The Yeats reader is the most comprehensive single volume to display the full range of Yeatss talents. It presents more than one hundred and fifty of his best-known poems plus eight plays, a sampling of his prose tales, and excerpts from his published autobiographical and critical writings. In addition, an appendix offers six early texts of poems that Yeats later revised. Also included are selections from the memoirs left unpublished at his death and complete introductions written for a projected collection that never came to fruition. These are supplemented by unobtrusive annotation and a chronology of the life. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=539886 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=411678 This is one of Dickenss parable stories centered on the fortunes of a family during the French Revolution as society is crumbling. This novel places societys regeneration in friendship, the family, and heroic self-sacrifice, each of which is based on love. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=500377 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=296847 What was life like in Shakespeares time - or, what did people then say it was like? This volume provides a picture of the age, with a selection of accounts of Elizabethan and Jacobean life taken from books, plays, poems, letters, diaries and pamphlets by and about Shakespeares contemporaries. Lively extracts have been taken from the works of a wide range of writers, including William Harrison and Fynes Moryson (providing descriptions of England), Nicholas Breton (on country life), Isabella Whitney and Thomas Dekker (on London life), Nashe (on struggling writers), Stubbes (with a Puritans view of Elizabethan enjoyments), Harsnet and Burton (on witches and spirits), John Donne (meditations on prayer and death), King James I (on tobacco) and Shakespeare himself. Also included are accounts of theatre-going, May Day celebrations, Queen Elizabeth at court, the place of women, education, garden books and herbals, clothes, food, drink and religion.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=297156 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=76243 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=416191 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=257709 Graham Crackers is the hilarious new book from Monty Pythons Graham Chapman, who has been dead for nearly 10 years. It contains everything a book should have: words, sequentially numbered pages, ink, binding - even a cover - all at no extra charge! It also contains never-before-published photos, never-before-produced comedy sketches, details on Grahams very unconventional life, thoughts on Monty Python, and tales of mad adventure with the Dangerous Sports Club, pals like the Whos Keith Moon, and more. Includes a foreword by John Cleese, a backward by Eric Idle, and a sideways by Terry Jones.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=93046 Designed to be read and used by the general reader, this companion guide has been specially prepared by the author for the American market. The lives and principal literary achievements of over 1,500 writers are outlined in essays that emphasize the links between the subjects lives and art. Authors of works in other languages are included where these are widely read in English or have influenced the development of literature in English. Kamm takes into account the contributions of individual authors to the development of national literatures and cultural traditions. Attention is also given to black, Jewish, and womens writing. The book covers novelists in numerous genres, from Petronius to Saul Bellow, Stephen King, and Mario Vargas Llosa; short-story writers from Nathaniel Hawthorne and Henry James to Mavis Gallant, Alice Munro, and Eudora Welty; poets from Homer, Virgil, and Petrarch to Seamus Heaney, Denise Levertov, and Derek Walcott; dramatists from Sophocles to Sam Shepard; diarists from Samuel Pepys to Anne Frank; as well as travelers, historians, biographers, critics, philosophers, clerics and religious reformers, and childrens writers.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=131521 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=155407 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=107074 London has always been much more than a capital city. Its allure is so powerful that the city of monarchs and merchants once prompted Samuel Johnson to declare, When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life. From the Great Fire of 1666 to the Blitz of World War II, from the building of the Tower of London to the building of Canary Wharf, this prodigious city has long stood at the heart of English national life. At one time the center of the greatest mercantile empire the world has ever known, today London remains one of the major financial hubs of the world, as well as one of the most interesting tourist destinations in the English-speaking world. In this fascinating trip through time and space, celebrated biographer and novelist A. N. Wilson gathers a collection of literature that reflects not merely a sense of place but also the teeming variety of the town that, in its very refusal to be defined, so consistently captures the worlds interest. The Norton Book of London views the city through the eyes of writers as various as Dickens and Joe Orton, Dostoyevsky and Lenin, Boswell and Martin Amis. We see criminal London, low life and high life, beggars and politicians, royal families, intellectuals and animals, in a wonderful portrait that celebrates London both past and present. From Black Beauty to Virginia Woolf, Wilson has scoured the shelves for a rich potpourri of the familiar, the diverting, and the strange.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=411313 If the Urizen books contain Blakes account of Genesis, written and depicted from the devilish perspective of a Bible of Hell, then the continental prophecies present his critical reckoning with the history of his own times, a fascinatingly complex and multi-faceted account of the struggle between revolutionary counter-revolutionary thought of the first half of the 1790s. In America, the first of the continental poems, Blake moves away from his earlier mode of historical allegory and enters the realm of prophetic utterance. In poetry and imagery alike, Blakes prophecies follow Old Testament models in the sense that they are less concerned with prediction than with the process of social and political criticism. While America still contains many historical references, these are integrated in a mythical plot that transcends the narrow confines of historical reportage and pamphleteering. In Europe and in Africa and Asia (the two parts that make up The Song of Los) Blake is even less concerned with concrete historical events than in developing the myth of Orc and Urizen, Enitharmon and Los which describes and criticizes the intricate structure of social oppression that the author saw as resulting from human kinds history under the rule of organised state religion. Each of the three books also attempts to point a way toward the prerequisites for the equally complex process of millenial liberation. The commentary aims to introduce readers of the three books to the structural unity and many-layered meaning of Blakes visual-verbal myth-making, and to guide them through the maze of critical approaches and interpretation that they have elicited.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=260110 The best-selling author of London Fields and Times Arrow visits Salman Rushdie, observes the making of Robocop II, ruminates on the death of John Lennon, covers the 1992 Republican Convention, converses with John Updike, and tells us about it all (and much more) in his dazzling, razor-sharp prose. Martin Amis on traveling with Elton Johns soccer team: When it comes to banqueting, the Chinese have something else to teach the West: speeches come first, at which stage sobriety and greed can be relied upon to keep them short. On Kasparov versus Karpov: Stressful tales of venue-fixing, spy-planting, rule-bending - or cheating, if you prefer. The outsider, who thinks that chess is pure and cerebral, tends to be shocked by such suggestions. But the insider is not shocked, because he knows that chess, like the human brain, is partly reptilian. On Mick Jagger: This well-put-together, vitamin-packed unit of a human being does not really dance anymore: its simply that his head, his shoulders, his pelvis, both his arms, both his legs, both his huge feet and both his buttocks are wriggling, at great speed, independently, all the time.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=159965 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=244385 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=248260 Substantially enlarged and updated, this new edition of The Cambridge Guide to Literature in English confirms its status as the most authoritative survey of its subject now available in a single volume. Its coverage of novelists, poets, playwrights and their works embraces both the established classics of English literature and a wealth of contemporary figures from all over the English-speaking world, such as Saul Bellow, Adrienne Rich, Les Murray, Wole Soyinka, R. K. Narayan, Janet Frame, Mordecai Richler, Joseph Brodsky, J. M. Coetzee and Ben Okri. Under Ian Ousbys editorship over a hundred contributors provide detailed biographical and critical articles, not only about writers and works of literature, but also about the critics, philosophers, historians and biographers who have influenced or reacted to literature. Substantial coverage is given to popular genres such as science fiction, detective novels and childrens literature, with entries on, for example, Dr. Seuss, Margaret Mahy, Roald Dahl, Isaac Asimov, Frederik Pohl, P. D. James and Nicolas Freeling. Other entries range widely over literary groups and movements, critical schools, genres, poetic forms, critical concepts, rhetorical terms, literary terms, theatres and theatre companies. There are also substantive articles on subjects such as copyright, libraries and the English language. With a superb range of illustrations and a comprehensive cross-referencing system, The Cambridge Guide to Literature in English is both an outstanding reference book, and a delightful companion for anyone who enjoys reading.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=223896 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=986550 Wilde lived out a conflict between his public identity and his private self; and this fissure between the two is interestingl typical of his age. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=804978 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=479107 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=277676 Here is a collection of this witty and irreverent authors works--all in their most authoritative texts. Includes The Picture of Dorian Gray, The Importance of Being Earnest, and other stories and essays. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=61801 This is the first large-scale edition of Wildes work to pay proper tribute to the true breadth of his talent. Each of the literary genres which he mastered is represented. In her Introduction and Notes, Isobel Murray provides a fascinating insight into Wildes phenomenal knowledge of English, American, French, and Classical literature, enabling the reader to appreciate and admire fully the range of literary and mythological references which enrich his writing. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1602375 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=260418 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=231369 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=250173 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=74987 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=262551 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=26747 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=403327 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=62159 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=24073 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=671661 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=187978 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=37882 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=678506 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=679300 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1281281 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=679294 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=223358 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=217334 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=250224 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=223357 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=455791 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=250227 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=251616 Shakespeares comedies and tragedies retold in prose. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=255208 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=255212 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=223355 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=173591 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=223766 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=475308 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=95876 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=164196 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=94201 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=453364 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=81348 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=93177 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=250228