The Complete Letters of Oscar Wilde
10 best books like The Complete Letters of Oscar Wilde (Oscar Wilde): The Geography of Bliss: One Grump's Search for the Happiest Places in the World, The Book of Delights, The Voyage Out, The Grass Dancer, Ten Windows: How Great Poems Transform the World, The Art of Syntax: Rhythm of Thought, Rhythm of Song, The Collected Poems of Lucille Clifton 1965-2010, All About Love: New Visions, Writing Past Dark: Envy, Fear, Distraction and Other Dilemmas in the Writer's Life, For the Time Being
The Geography of Bliss: One Grump's Search for the Happiest Places in the World
| Author | Eric Weiner |
| ISBN | 0446580260 |
Weiner spent a decade as a foreign correspondent reporting from such discontented locales as Iraq, Afghanistan, and Indonesia. Unhappy people living in profoundly unstable states, he notes, inspire pathos and make for good copy, but not for good karma. So Weiner, admitted grump and self-help book...
| Author | Ross Gay |
| ISBN | 1616207922 |
Ross Gay’s The Book of Delights is a genre-defying book of essays—some as short as a paragraph; some as long as five pages—that record the small joys that occurred in one year, from birthday to birthday, and that we often overlook in our busy lives. His is a meditation on delight that takes a clear-eyed...
| Author | Virginia Woolf |
| ISBN | 0156028050 |
Woolf’s first novel is a haunting book, full of light and shadow. It takes Mr. and Mrs. Ambrose and their niece, Rachel, on a sea voyage from London to a resort on the South American coast. “It is a strange, tragic, inspired book whose scene is a South America not found on any map and reached by a boat which...
| Author | Susan Power |
| ISBN | 0425159531 |
What I said in the secrecy of my thoughts was: Fanny, mazaska, the white iron you call money, is useless to me. Even the goods I take from the sutler's store, the flour, coffee, sugar, and tobacco, the knives and blankets, are things I do not want. I give them to my cousins who live upriver.These words belong...
| Author | Jane Hirshfield |
| ISBN | 0385351054 |
A dazzling collection of essays on how the best poems work, from the master poet and essayist
"Poetry," Jane Hirshfield has said, "is language that foments revolutions of being." In ten eloquent and highly original explorations, she unfolds and explores some of the ways this is done--by the...
| Author | Ellen Bryant Voigt |
| ISBN | 1555975313 |
With intelligence and precision, Ellen Bryant Voigt parses out the deft and alluring shape of poetic language in The Art of Syntax. Through brilliant readings of poems by Bishop, Frost, Kunitz, Lawrence, and others, Voigt examines the signature musical scoring writers deploy to orchestrate meaning....
The Collected Poems of Lucille Clifton 1965-2010
| Author | Lucille Clifton |
| ISBN | 1934414905 |
"The Collected Poems of Lucille Clifton 1965-2010 may be the most important book of poetry to appear in years."--Publishers Weekly
"All poetry readers will want to own this book; almost everything is in it."--Publishers Weekly
"If you only read one poetry book in 2012, The Collected...
All About Love: New Visions
| Author | bell hooks |
| ISBN | 0688168442 |
All About Love offers radical new ways to think about love by showing its interconnectedness in our private and public lives. In eleven concise chapters, hooks explains how our everyday notions of what it means to give and receive love often fail us, and how these ideals are established in early childhood....
| Author | Bonnie Friedman |
| ISBN | 0060922001 |
“In the spirit of Annie Dillard's The Writing Life, Friedman...gives heartfelt counsel to those who need to be coaxed into the creative process."—Washington Post
An indispensable guide for writers that explores the emotional side of writing and offers insightful advice on overcoming...
| Author | Annie Dillard |
| ISBN | 0375703470 |
National Bestseller
"Beautifully written and delightfully strange--. As earthy as it is sublime, For the Time Being is, in the truest sense, an eye- opener."--Daily News
From Annie Dillard, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Pilgrim at Tinker Creek and one of the most compelling...
