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Pubblicato per la prima volta nel 1855 e ampliato dall'autore nel corso di oltre tre decenni, "Foglie d'erba" incarna l'ambizione di Walt Whitman di creare una nuova voce capace di catturare lo spirito e la vitalità della giovane nazione americana, celebrando al contempo “la natura senza freni con energia originale”. Scritto in versi liberi e ricco di immagini sensoriali e di un amore sfrenato per la natura e la vita in tutte le sue forme, il volume contiene poesie celebri come l'ebolliente 'Canto di me stesso' e l'elegia 'Quando i lillà fiorirono nel cortile'. "Foglie d'erba" non è solo il miglior risultato di un poeta altamente unico, ma un testo fondante per la letteratura americana e la poesia moderna. Considerato uno dei poeti più influenti della letteratura americana e pioniere del verso libero, Walt Whitman (1819–92) fu anche un prolifico scrittore di saggi e articoli. La sua vasta raccolta "Foglie d'erba" è considerata il suo capolavoro.

A comprehensive collection of writings by “the most influential writer of the nineteenth century” (Harold Bloom) Ralph Waldo Emerson’s diverse body of work has done more than perhaps any other thinker to shape and define the American mind. Literary giants including Henry David Thoreau, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Walt Whitman were among Emerson’s admirers and protégés, while his central text, Nature, singlehandedly engendered an entire spiritual and intellectual movement in transcendentalism. This long-awaited update—the first in more than thirty years—presents the core of Emerson’s writings, including Nature and The American Scholar, along with revelatory journal entries, letters, poetry, and a sermon. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

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.

Here, in what has become a classic of its kind since its publication in 1978, is the fascinating story of Jack Kerouac, "King of the Beats" and American literary legend, recorded through the voices of his friends and lovers. Authors Barry Gifford and Lawrence Lee retraced Kerouac's life at home and on the road and talked with the prophets, musicians, poets, socialites, and working people who knew Jack Kerouac. Some are famous like Allen Ginsberg, Gore Vidal, William Burroughs, Gary Snyder, among others; and some are not like Jack's boyhood buddies, his lovers, and his barroom companions. All, however, have contributed to a remarkably vibrant, riveting portrait of a life. We see Jack at Columbia University and on the scene of Greenwich Village; speeding across the tarmac of America with Neal Cassidy ("Dan Moriarty" in Kerouac's classic novel, On the Road); at home with his possessive mother; in California, drinking wine and talking Buddhism; and finally, in Florida, where his life ends tragically at forty-seven years old. Jack's Book, like Kerouac's novels, makes a unique contribution to our understanding of a man and a generation that shaped the dreams and visions of those who followed.

Gli abitanti di Winesburg, Ohio conducono tutti una doppia vita: una pubblica, noiosa, abitudinaria, rispettabile; una segreta ed intima devastata da voglie furiose e da deliri inconfessabili. Anderson con questi suoi personaggi dissociati e doppi ha inteso certo dipingerci l'umanità come egli l'ha conosciuta, descrivendo il momento delicato e doloroso della trasformazione degli Stati Uniti da paese agricolo e patriarcale in nazione moderna e industriale.

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