John Keats: A poet and His Manuscripts traces the life and career of the poet through the surviving manuscripts of many of his finest poems and letters. Mostly shown in their entirety, many at actual size, Keats's original manuscripts provide a unique visual record of his creative processes and rapid literary progress. Nearly 200 years after they were first written, they have lost none of their immediacy. Charged with a restless intensity, the poet's...

"This collection of Twain's favorite and most memorable writings includes such selected tales and sketches as "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County," "How I Edited an Agricultural Journal Once," "Jim Baker's Blue-Jay Yarn," and "A True Story." It also features excerpts from his novels and travel books (Roughing It, The Innocents Abroad, and Life on the Mississippi, among others); autobiographical and polemical writings; as well as selected...

"Pope Francis draws on wisdom from Superiors General of the Jesuit order in the past to confront painful ordeals in the church today"-- "La obra está dividida en dos partes. La primera consiste en una collección de ocho cartas de dos padres generals de la Compañía de Jesús, Lorenzo Ricci y Jan Roothaan. Fueron escritas en los siglos XVIII y XIX en momentos en que la Compañía sufrió dudas y persecuciones. Asimismo, constituyen un tratado acera...

An anthology of top-selected "Rolling Stone" articles offers insight into both the late Thompson's early career and the magazine's fledgling years, in a volume that includes the stories of his infamous Freak Party sheriff campaign and his observations about the Bush-versus-Kerry presidential rivalry.

"From Funny Or Die senior writer and former artistic director at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre comes a collection of absurdist, hilarious stories and essays on relationships, technology, and contemporary society. A brave archaeologist journeys into a suburban man cave. Leif Eriksson writes Christopher Columbus a long overdue letter. A corporate flack admonishes a room of marijuana sales people to get their revenues up. A young man's penis turns...

Cultural critic Roiphe delves deeply into one of the most layered of subjects: marriage. Drawn in part from the private memoirs, personal correspondence, and long-forgotten journals of the British literary community from 1910 to the Second World War, here are seven "marriages à la mode"--each rising to the challenge of intimate relations in more or less creative ways: H.G. and Jane Wells; Katherine Mansfield; Vera Brittain and George Gordon Catlin;...