Malcolm Cowley Ordine dei libri (cronologico)

This volume, edited by Carl Bode in collaboration with Malcolm Cowley, presents the essential Emerson, selected from works that eloquently express the philosophy of a worldly idealist. The Portable Emerson comprises essays, including “History,” “Self-Reliance,” “The Over-Soul,” “Circles,” and “The Poet”; Emerson’s first book, Nature , in its entirety; twenty-two poems, including “Uriel,” “The Humble-Bee,” and “Give All to Love”; orations, including “The American Scholar,” “The Fugitive Slave Law,” and “John Brown”; English Traits , complete; and biographical essays on Plato, Napoleon, Henry David Thoreau, Thomas Carlyle, and others.

Bound in the publisher's original quarter cloth and paper over boards. Dust jacket is sunned at the spine and has light wear to extremities.

Collects stories that capture the emotional undercurrents hidden beneath ordinary events.

An Anthology of the Novel from Cervantes to Hemingway

"Exile's Return (1934) is one of the volumes that cinched Cowley's reputation as the Boswell of the "Lost Generation" of writers and artists who flocked to Paris following World War I. More than just another catalog of anecdotes on the expatriate games of Stein, Hemingway, Joyce, etc., this documents the transition of American literature and culture during one of its greatest periods of change." From Library Journal.

Covers a 130-year period in the history of Yoknapatawpha county and its citizens as revealed by the author who was one of them