Cet auteur s'est fait connaître principalement comme biographe, se concentrant sur des figures marquantes de l'histoire et de la culture américaines. Son profond intérêt pour les héros et leurs héritages transparaît dans ses portraits perspicaces. En tant que rédacteur en chef de Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, il a fait preuve d'une maîtrise exceptionnelle du langage et de sa résonance historique.
In Pocket Aristotle the author, Justin D. Kaplan brings to life selections from Aristotle. Included in this edition are the most widely read, studied, and quoted works of the great philosopher. The editor's notes give the reader a convenient and concise review of each work.
Si vous n'avez pas lu les aventures de Tom Sawyer, vous ne savez pas qui je suis ... alors vous avez là une occasion unique de me lire dans une nouvelle aventure
Traces the lives of cousins William Waldorf Astor and John Jacob Astor IV, rivals who pursued separate ambitions, built the original Waldorf-Astoria hotel, and influenced social behavior before John Jacob perished aboard the Titanic.
This Library of America edition is the most comprehensive volume of the work of Walt Whitman ever published. It includes all of his poetry and what he considered his complete prose. It is also the only collection that includes, in exactly the form in which it appeared in 1855, the first edition of Leaves of Grass . This was the book, a commercial failure, which prompted Emerson’s famous message to Whitman: “I greet you at the beginning of a great career.” These twelve poems, including what were later to be entitled “Song of Myself” and “I Sing the Body Electric,” and a preface announcing the author’s poetic theories, were the first stage of a massive, lifelong work. Six editions and some thirty-seven years later, Leaves of Grass had become one of the central volumes in the history of world poetry.