First you take a drink, F. Scott Fitzgerald once noted, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you. Fitzgerald wrote alcohol into almost every one of his stories. On Booze gathers debutantes and dandies, rowdy jazz musicians, lost children and ragtime riff-raff into a newly compiled collection taken from The Crack-Up, and other works never before published by New Directions. On Booze portrays The Jazz Age as Fitzgerald experienced it: roaring, rambunctious, and lush with quite a hangover."
First you take a drink, F. Scott Fitzgerald once noted, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you. Fitzgerald wrote alcohol into almost e...
Spring and All is a manifesto of the imagination a hybrid of alternating sections of prose and free verse that coalesce in dramatic, energetic, and beautifully cryptic statements of how language re-creates the world. Spring and All contains some of Williams s best-known poetry, including Section I, which opens, By the road to the contagious hospital, and Section XXII, where Williams penned his most famous poem, The Red Wheelbarrow. Now, almost 90 years since its first publiction, New Directions publishes this facsimile of the original 1923 Contact Press edition, featuring a...
Spring and All is a manifesto of the imagination a hybrid of alternating sections of prose and free verse that coalesce in dramatic, energeti...
Taken from Nikolai Gogol s first successful work, the story collectionEvenings on a Farm Near Dikanka, The Night Before Christmas is available here for the first time as a stand-alone novella and is a perfect introduction to the great Russian satirist. "
Taken from Nikolai Gogol s first successful work, the story collectionEvenings on a Farm Near Dikanka, The Night Before Christmas is availabl...