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“I am large, I contain multitudes” A Penguin Classic When Walt Whitman self-published his Leaves of Grass in July 1855, he altered the course of literary history. One of the greatest masterpieces of American literature, it redefined the rules of poetry while describing the soul of the American character. Throughout his great career, Whitman continuously revised, expanded, and republished Leaves of Grass, but many critics believe that the book that matters most is the 1855 original. Penguin Classics proudly presents that text in its original and complete form, with an introductory essay by the writer and poet Malcolm Cowley. “I celebrate myself, and sing myself, And what I assume you shall assume, For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you.” For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

This volume, edited by Carl Bode in collaboration with Malcolm Cowley, presents the essential Emerson, selected from works that eloquently express the philosophy of a worldly idealist. The Portable Emerson comprises essays, including “History,” “Self-Reliance,” “The Over-Soul,” “Circles,” and “The Poet”; Emerson’s first book, Nature , in its entirety; twenty-two poems, including “Uriel,” “The Humble-Bee,” and “Give All to Love”; orations, including “The American Scholar,” “The Fugitive Slave Law,” and “John Brown”; English Traits , complete; and biographical essays on Plato, Napoleon, Henry David Thoreau, Thomas Carlyle, and others.

Bound in the publisher's original quarter cloth and paper over boards. Dust jacket is sunned at the spine and has light wear to extremities.

Winesburg, Ohio je cyklus poviedok z roku 1919 od Sherwooda Andersona. Dielo je štruktúrované okolo života protagonistu Georga Willarda, od jeho detstva až po rastúcu nezávislosť a konečné opustenie Winesburgu ako mladého muža. Príbeh sa odohráva v fiktívnom meste Winesburg, Ohio. Väčšina textu bola napísaná od konca roku 1915 do začiatku roku 1916, pričom niektoré poviedky boli dokončené bližšie k publikovaniu. Dielo pozostáva z dvadsiatich dvoch poviedok, pričom prvá poviedka, "Kniha grotesiek", slúži ako úvod. Každá z poviedok zdieľa konkrétny charakterový príbeh o boji s osamelosťou a izoláciou, ktoré prenikajú mestom. Štýlovo, vďaka dôrazu na psychologické postrehy postáv a jednoduchému jazyku, je Winesburg, Ohio považované za jedno z najskorších diel modernistickej literatúry. Dielo bolo kriticky prijaté, aj keď s niektorými výhradami k jeho morálnemu tónu a nekonvenčnému rozprávaniu. Napriek poklesu reputácie v 30. rokoch 20. storočia sa od tej doby opäť dostalo do popredia a dnes je považované za jeden z najvplyvnejších portrétov predindustriálneho života v malých mestách v USA.

An Anthology of the Novel from Cervantes to Hemingway

"Exile's Return (1934) is one of the volumes that cinched Cowley's reputation as the Boswell of the "Lost Generation" of writers and artists who flocked to Paris following World War I. More than just another catalog of anecdotes on the expatriate games of Stein, Hemingway, Joyce, etc., this documents the transition of American literature and culture during one of its greatest periods of change." From Library Journal.

Covers a 130-year period in the history of Yoknapatawpha county and its citizens as revealed by the author who was one of them