Results for "Taylor, Benjamin"

“Chasing Bright Medusas should appeal to anyone — novice or expert — ready to explore Cather’s life and work in the company of a critic so alert to the shimmering subtlety of her style and the hard years of effort that went into crystallizing it.” —The Washington PostA tender biography of one of the... Read More about Chasing Bright Medusas: A Life of Willa Cather

Into the Open is a philosophical and literary inquiry into the deeper meanings of genius. What precisely do we mean when we describe someone this way? What legacy do we invoke when we apply this term? To address this question, Benjamin Taylor here explores how three great minds--Walter Pater, Paul V... Read More about Into the Open: Reflections on Genius and Modernity

Finalist for the National Jewish Book Award A deeply felt, beautifully crafted meditation on friendship and loss in the vein of A Year of Magical Thinking, and a touching portrait of Philip Roth from his closest friend.I had a baseball question on the tip of my tongue: What was the name of "the... Read More about Here We Are: My Friendship with Philip Roth

Title: Glasgow Streets and Places. Notes and memoranda ... Edited ... with a memoir, by B. Taylor. L.P.Publisher: British Library, Historical Print EditionsThe British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest research libraries holding over 150 million ... Read More about Glasgow Streets and Places. Notes and Memoranda ... Edited ... with a Memoir, by B. Taylor. L.P.

This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not... Read More about Attractions of Language, or a Popular View of Natural Language: In All Its Varied Displays, in the a