Nearly everyone who's had a brush with American lit knows the story of Emily Dickinson - her poetry unpublished in her lifetime, and then even after her death, her verses seeing the light of day only after having been "improved" on by an editor who found her rhymes imperfect and her meter "spasmodic." He even went so far as to make her metaphors "sensible." The fact is, Thomas Wentworth Higginson, to whom Dickinson had sent her poems, was a representative of the poetic establishment, and as with all artistic establishments then and now, was too rigid in his thinking and too impoverished in his imagination to comprehend a new voice of genius.
The Complete Works of William Shakespeare
A collection that includes both SONNETS and DRAMA.
The 37 plays, 154 sonnets and miscellaneous verse constitute the literary cornerstone of Western civilization.
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The Complete Idiot's Guide to American History
279 pages
For all those who slept through class, Alan Axelrod has a gift for bringing history to life.
Included are all the "main events", plus little known facts and fascinating characters.
With wit, wisdom and insight, Axelrod puts history in perspective and makes it fun, engrossing and memorable.
The Complete Works of William Shakespeare
This Figure, that thou here seest put,
It was for gentle Shakespeare cut,
Wherein the Graver had a strife
with Nature, to out-doo the life:
O, could he but have drawne his wit
As well in brasse, as he hath hit
His face ; the Print would then surpasse
All, that was ever writ in brasse.
But, since he cannot, Reader, looke
Not on his Picture, but his Booke
Anne Rice - Complete Vampire Chronicles Collection
Interview with the Vampire, The Vampire Lestat, The Queen of the Damned, The Tale of the body Thief plus the new titles from Anne Rice.
For the first time you can find all your favorite night-stalking, blood-guzzling undead--Lestat, Claudia, Louis, Akasha, Armand, and Memnoch--all in the same place at the same time. Here, collected in one archive, are the four bestselling, original titles of Anne Rice's sprawling vampire series plus I`ve added the new titles too and so you get 12 books in one archive.
