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What's in a name?In our "look at me" era, everyone's a brand. Privacy now seems a quaint relic, and self-effacement is a thing of the past. Yet, as Nom de Plume reminds us, this was not always the case. Exploring the fascinating stories of more than a dozen authorial impostors across several centuries and cultures, Carmela Ciuraru plumbs the creative process and the darker, often crippling aspects of fame. Biographies have chronicled the lives...

A Washington Post Most Notable Nonfiction Book of the Year“Delicious and infuriating . . . unputdownable.�‿Sadie Stein,  The New York Times“A tour de force. . . . The stories are gripping, horrific and sometimes funny, but most important of all they are important.�‿The Washington Post“A compulsively readable book.�‿The Wall Street Journal“Enthralling . . . incendiary reading.�‿Daphne Merkin, Air MailIn Lives of the Wiv...

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A witty, provocative look inside the tumultuous marriages of five writers, illuminating the creative process as well as the role of money, power, and fame in these complex and fascinating relationships."With an ego the size of a small nation, the literary lion is powerful on the page, but a helpless kitten in daily life?dependent on his wife to fold an umbrella, answer the phone, or lick a stamp."The history of wives is largely one of silence,...

An ideal gift with elegant packaging, including full-cloth cover, sewn binding and silk ribbon markers and headbands. Part of a new series devoted to the world's classic poets.

A celebration of fathers and fatherhood, this anthology features the richly varied voices of sons and daughters, and of fathers and grandfathers themselves.

Every poet is a mother's child, and many of the greatest poets have immortalized this elemental relationship. Here are poets as diverse as Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Sylvia Plath, Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Gwendolyn Brooks, Alice Walker and Seamus Heaney.

Exploring the fascinating stories of more than a dozen authorial impostors across several centuries and cultures, Carmela Ciuraru plumbs the creative process and the darker, often crippling aspects of fame.Only through the protective guise of Lewis Carroll could a shy, half-deaf Victorian mathematician at Oxford feel free to let his imagination run wild. The "three weird sisters" from Yorkshire—the Brontës—produced instant bestsellers that tra...

This rousing anthology features the work of more than twenty-five writers from the great twentieth-century countercultural literary movement. Writing with an audacious swagger and an iconoclastic zeal, and declaiming their verse with dramatic flourish in smoke-filled cafés, the Beats gave birth to a literature of previously unimaginable expressive range.The defining work of Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac provides the foundation for this colle...

Celebrates all kinds of equine characters, from nags to war horses.

A literary sanctuary for what Shakespeare called "sessions of sweet silent thought, ” this exquisite gathering of poems speaks to the consolations of solitude. Here is Wordsworth wandering "lonely as a cloud”, Poe confiding "all I loved, I loved alone”, Yeats's communion with "the deep heart's core”, and Han Shan's heart of a hermit, "clean as a white lotus.” From Sir Edward Dyer's "My Mind to Me a Kingdom Is, ” to the spiritual searching of t...

A collection of poems which capture the experience of solitude- by day or night, in the city or in the country, in waking or in dreams. And for readers who either seek or escape from solitude, all of the poets in this anthology - from Sappho and Callimachus to Mark Strand and Richard Wilbur - offer words to console and inspire.

Collection of poems spanning more than 500 years in an elegant hardback cover, with gold stamping and a highly distinctive design. Poets include: Chaucer, Byron and T.S. Eliot.

In time for Father's Day, an anthology celebrating fathers and fatherhood--in the richly varied voices of daughters and sons, and of fathers and grandfathers themselves.

The defining work of Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac provides the foundation for this collection, which also features the improvisational verse of such Beat legends as Gregory Corso, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Gary Snyder and Michael McClure and the work of such women writers as Diane di Prima and Denise Levertov.

A captivating anthology that celebrates one of nature's most majestic creatures and the age-old bond between humans and horses.All kinds of equine characters grace these pages, from magnificent warhorses to cowboys' trusty steeds, from broken-down nags to playful colts, from wild horses to dream horses. We encounter the famous Trojan horse in Virgil's Aeneid, and then see it from a wholly different perspective in Matthea Harvey's whimsical "In...

From Chaucer to Billy Collins and from basset hounds to brindle bull terriers, Doggerel presents a robust brood of the most charming verse tributes ever offered to our beloved canine companions.The rich and assorted cadences of some of the most distinguished poets across the centuries ring out from these pages-from Spenser, Shakespeare, and Pope to Merrill, Merwin, and Muldoon-celebrating pooches of every pedigree and persuasion. Here is Marga...