Letters of a Javanese Princess
Previous slide Next slide This collection of letters was written by Raden Adjeng Kartini, the daughter of a Javanese civil servant in […]
Genre: Letters and Essays
Aspects of the Novel
Previous Next E. M. Forster’s Aspects of the Novel is based on a series of lectures he delivered at Trinity College, Cambridge, […]
Letters to a Young Poet
Previous slide Next slide In this slim collection of ten letters, written to an aspiring poet in the early 1900s, Rilke speaks […]
The Essential Emma Goldman
Previous slide Next slide Emma Goldman, the anarchist feminist political philosopher, was known throughout her lifetime as the “High Priestess of Anarchy.” […]
My Own Dear Darling Boy
One of the greatest playwrights in the English language, Oscar Wilde was also a legendary wit and a poetic provocateur. He was […]
The Stones of Florence
. Previous Next Eloquent and assured, Mary McCarthy’s The Stones of Florence beckons the reader on a brisk but sweeping tour of […]