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Thoreau's Morning Work
A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers and Walden, the only works Thoreau conceived and brought to conclusion as books, bear a distinctively important relation to each other …
A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers
Thoreau's account of his 1839 boat trip is a finely crafted tapestry of travel writing, essays, and lyrical poetry. Thoreau interweaves descriptions of natural phenomena, the rural …
Thomas Cole's Refrain
Thomas Cole, an internationally renowned artist, centered his art and life in Catskill, New York. From his vantage point near the village, he cast his eyes on the wonders of the …
Oxford World's Classics: The Deerslayer
The Deerslayer (1841) is the last-written of Cooper's Leatherstocking Tales, but the first in the development of the hero, Natty Bumppo. Here, Cooper returns Leatherstocking to his …
New Essays on The Last of the Mohicans
The Last of the Mohicans is the most widely read and internationally acclaimed of James Fenimore Cooper’s Leatherstocking tales, and has traditionally been regarded as an exciting …
A Year in Thoreau's Journal
From 1837 to 1861 Henry David Thoreau kept a journal that began as a conventional record of ideas, grew into a writer's notebook, and eventually became the principal imaginative …
Lives Of Daniel Boone And Benjamin Lincoln (1847)
The Attention of a Traveller
New essays that illuminate and interpret William Bartram’s journey through what would become the southeastern United States William Bartram, author of Travels through North and …
Tabloid Tales
Coverage of the Clinton-Lewinsky saga followed in a long trail of media exposures of the more personal details of the lives of public figures. Many commentators have seen stories …
Culture/Contexture
The rapprochement of anthropology and literary studies, begun nearly fifteen years ago by such pioneering scholars as Clifford Geertz, Edward Said, and James Clifford, has led not …
Pilates Perfect
An exercise physiologist uses the Pilates method to build strength and increase aerobic endurance, showing readers how to achieve greater flexibility, enhance range of motion, and …