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Irving Fisher
To one who has been an eye-witness of the wonderful achievements of American medical science in the conquest of acute communicable and pestilential diseases in those regions of the earth…
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Irving Howe
A World More Attractive is a collection of essays by Irving Howe, one of the foremost literary critics and socialist intellectuals of the 20th century. In these insightful and engaging…
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This book, first published in 1979, is a representative sample of some of the best articles that have appeared in DISSENT, the American democratic socialist quarterly. They provide a two-sided…
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What is the Emersonian spirit? What inspired it, what propelled it? And what does it mean to us today? Howe lays before us the intellectual and personal tragedy of the…
In this fourth edition of his celebrated critical study, Mr. Howe analyzes all of Faulkner’s works, emphasizing the themes that run throughout the novels and stories. Mr. Howe is a…
Essential Works of Socialism is the most authoritative one-volume collection of major socialist writings to appear in English. Edited by Irving Howe, the well-known social historian and literary critic, it…
Pierre Sauvage
Pierre Sauvage takes readers on a visual and culinary journey through the world's most stylish gatherings.
Following the international triumph of Be My Guest, Sauvage delves deeper into the realms…
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Charles Dickens
Imprisonment is a theme in many of Dickens’s novels, but is perhaps most fully realized in Little Dorrit . Discuss the attitudes of Mr. Dorrit and Little Dorrit toward the…
An indispensable collection of one of America’s most outspoken and original critics of the second half of the twentieth century
Franz Kafka
A fantasy novel, depicting human attempts to arrive closer to God, considered to be a symbolic classic.
Irving Howe,Ilana W. Howe
Collects a variety of stories, which are each no longer than eight pages, by such authors as James Thurber, Doris Lessing, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, and Leo Tolstoy.
Sherwood Anderson
A story set in a mid-American place - Winesburg, Ohio.
Irving Howe,David Bromwich
This study clarifies the role of revolutionary ideas in fiction, establishing the role of the political novel and tracing the growth of this type of novel in the 20th century…
Traces the story of Eastern Europe’s Jews to America and offers a rich portrayal of the East European Jewish experience in New York. It is useful reading for those interested…
Rudyard Kipling
A Penguin Classic
The Portable Kipling contains selections from The Jungle Books and Soldiers Three; more than twenty stories, including The Man Who Would Be King,The Cat that Walked…
A collection of Yiddish stories that aims to bring alive a forgotten world. With an introduction and translations, this collection is a tribute to a thriving and often neglected literary…
Gerald Sorin
An illuminating biography of an American intellectual and one of the century’s most important public thinkers whose commitment to social reform was balanced by his love of fiction, poetry, baseball…
Discusses Howe’s critical reputation from the 1940s to the 1990s. This work presents a selection of essays and reviews about the work of Irving Howe (1920-93), a vocal radical humanist…
A selection of essays and reviews about Irving Howe (1920-93), a vocal radical humanist and the influential American socialist intellectual of his generation. Howe authored eighteen books, edited twenty-five more…
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John Rodden
Wide-ranging anthology of criticism devoted to the literary, cultural and political work of the writer Irving Howe.
Edward Alexander
For over fifty years, from the 1940s to the 1990s, Irving Howe was a seminal, if controversial figure in American intellectual life, writing about politics, literature, and Jews with the…
A compilation of Irving Howe’s interviews during the last fifteen years of his life. It presents what could be viewed as the sequel to Howe’s intellectual autobiography, A Margin of…
Ignazio Silone
Set and written in fascist Italy, this book exposes that regime’s use of brute force for the body and lies for the mind. Through the story of the once-exiled Pietro…
Irving Howe,Primo Levi,William Weaver
Primo Levi was among the greatest witnesses to 20th-century atrocity. In this novel, based on a true story, he reveals the extraordinary lives of the Russian, Polish and Jewish partisans…
This pioneering effort links history and personality by pairing intellectual friends, most notably Lionel Trilling and Irving Howe, but also Thomas Carlyle and John Stuart Mill, D
Delmore Schwartz
A new edition of the definitive book on the depression-era immigrant experience in New York City.
James Irving
Edward Irving
Written by a renowned astronomer, this book is a comprehensive introduction to astronomy. Covering everything from the basics of stargazing to the latest astronomical research, Irving's book is an excellent…
Irv Wermont
This Manuscript Consists Of Five Easily Learned Lessons That Will Help You Improve Your Memory To A Remarkable Degree. These Lessons Will Show You How You Can Readily Remember Names…
Irving Tressler
2014 Reprint of 1937 Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. How to Lose Friends and Alienate People is a bare-faced satire on the…
Irving Zeiger
Reading Jack Welch’s biography, “Jack, Straight from the Gut,” telling about his manner of running General Electric, dealing with employees, management and investment decisions, etc., I found myself thinking, “Hell…
Irving Crespi
This work presents a process model that answers these questions by defining public opinion in a way that also identifies an approach to studying it. The model serves as a…
Hubert Howe Bancroft, Irving Stone
This comprehensive collection of books covers the history of the Western United States, Central America, and the Pacific. It includes detailed historical accounts of the Spanish conquest of Mexico and…
Hubert Howe Bancroft,Irving Stone
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the…
