Writing with Intent: Essays, Reviews, Personal Prose: 1983-2005Basic Books, 21 ապր, 2009 թ. - 288 էջ From one of the world's most passionately engaged and acclaimed literary citizens comes Writing with Intent, the largest collection to date of Margaret Atwood's nonfiction, ranging from 1983 to 2005. Composed of autobiographical essays, cultural commentary, book reviews, and introductory pieces to great works of literature, this is the award-winning author's first book-length nonfiction publication in twenty years. Arranged chronologically, these writings display the development of Atwood's worldview as the world around her changes. Included are the Booker Prize -- winning author's reviews of books by John Updike, Italo Calvino, Toni Morrison, and others, as well as essays in which she remembers herself reading Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse at age nineteen, and discusses the influence of George Orwell's 1984 on the writing of The Handmaid's Tale. Atwood's New York Times Book Review piece that helped make Orhan Pamuk's Snow a bestseller can be found here, as well as a look back on a family trip to Afghanistan just before the Soviet invasion, and her "Letter to America," written after September 11, 2001. The insightful and memorable pieces in this book serve as a testament to Atwood's career, reminding readers why she is one of the most esteemed writers of our time. |
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Beloved by Toni Morrison | 46 |
A Jest of God by Margaret Laurence | 52 |
Great Aunts | 56 |
Life of Pi by Yann Martel | 224 |
Tishomingo Blues by Elmore Leonard | 227 |
Tiff and the Animals | 237 |
To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf | 240 |
The Birthday of the World and Other Stories by Ursula K Le Guin | 243 |
Ground Works Christian Bök editor | 254 |
Doctor Glas by Hjalmar Söderberg | 260 |
High Latitudes by Farley Mowat | 265 |
Reading Blind The Best American Short Stories 1989 | 68 |
Women Writers at Work The Paris Review Interviews George Plimpton editor | 80 |
The Warrior Queens by Antonia Fraser | 89 |
Writing Utopia | 92 |
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Nine Beginnings | 105 |
The General in His Labyrinth by Gabriel García Márquez III | 111 |
Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery | 115 |
The Grunge Look | 139 |
From the Beast to the Blonde | 147 |
An Experiment in Love by Hilary Mantel | 154 |
Trickster Makes This World Mischief | 177 |
First Job Waitressing | 189 |
She by H Rider Haggard | 198 |
When Afghanistan Was at Peace | 205 |
Atanarjuat The Fast Runner a film by Zacharias Kunuk | 220 |
Child of My Heart by Alice McDermott | 268 |
Napoleons Two Biggest Mistakes | 277 |
Letter to America | 280 |
Writing Oryx and Crake | 284 |
Some Personal Connections | 287 |
Enough Staying Human in an Engineered Age by Bill McKibben | 294 |
Victory Gardens A Breath of Fresh Air by Elise Houghton | 305 |
Carol Shields Who Died Last Week Wrote Books That Were Full of Delights | 313 |
Reading Lolita in Tehran A Memoir in Books by Azar Nafisi | 317 |
The Complete Stories Volume 4 | 322 |
Mortifications | 343 |
Snow by Orhan Pamuk | 356 |
Frozen in Time The Fate of the Franklin | 375 |
Acknowledgments | 399 |
About the Author | 427 |
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Էջ 25 - Entreat me not to leave thee, or to " return from following after thee : for whither " thou goest, I will go ; and where thou lodgest I " will lodge : thy people shall be my people, and " thy God my God : where thou diest, will I die, " and there will I be buried : the Lord do so to " me, and more also, if ought but death part thee
Էջ 400 - He prayeth well, who loveth well Both man and bird and beast. He prayeth best, who loveth best All things both great and small; For the dear God who loveth us, He made and loveth all.
Էջ 53 - And it shall come to pass, that in the place where it was said unto them, Ye are not my people ; there shall they be called the children of the living God.
Էջ 111 - Welcome, O life! I go to encounter for the millionth time the reality of experience and to forge in the smithy of my soul the uncreated conscience of my race.
Էջ 53 - Boy lapping in the puddle near her feet, and suddenly there was Sweet Home rolling, rolling, rolling out before her eyes, and although there was not a leaf on that farm that did not make her want to scream, it rolled itself out before her in shameless beauty. It never looked as terrible as it was and it made her wonder if hell was a pretty place too.
Էջ 272 - But even so, amid the tornadoed Atlantic of my being, do I myself still for ever centrally disport in mute calm; and while ponderous planets of unwaning woe revolve round me, deep down and deep inland there I still bathe me in eternal mildness of 'joy.