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  • American Breakdown

    The Trump Years and How They Befell Us

    by David Bromwich ...
    How Trump got to the Oval Office—and how both parties and the mainstream media are keeping him thereDonald Trump’s residency in the White House is not an accident of American history, and it can’t be blamed on a single cause. In American Breakdown, David Bromwich provides an essential analysis of the forces in play beneath the surface of our political system. His portraits of political leaders and ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Turn of the Screw

    by Henry James ...
    'A most wonderful, lurid, poisonous little tale' Oscar WildeThe Turn of the Screw, James's great masterpiece of haunting atmosphere and unbearable tension, tells of a young governess sent to a country house to take charge of two orphans, Miles and Flora. Unsettled by a dark foreboding of menace within the house, she soon comes to believe that something, or someone, malevolent is stalking the ... Read more

    $7.39 USD

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  • On Democracy

    by Walt Whitman ...
    **Gathered together for the first time, Walt Whitman's urgently needed prose writings on the democratic spirit and the soul of the nation.12 short works encapsulate the American Bard's fiery passions and timeless wisdom for today.**Here for the first time in a convenient pocket edition are all of Walt Whitman’s essential prose writings on democracy, including his unforgettable reflections on the ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • Selected Poetry of William Wordsworth

    by William Wordsworth ...
    Series series Modern Library Classics
    Selected Poetry of William Wordsworth represents Wordsworth’s prolific output, from the poems first published in Lyrical Ballads in 1798 that changed the face of English poetry to the late “Yarrow Revisited.” Wordsworth’s poetry is celebrated for its deep feeling, its use of ordinary speech, the love of nature it expresses, and its representation of commonplace things and events. As Matthew Arnold ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • The Fight

    Selected Essays

    by William Hazlitt ...
    A lively, wide-ranging collection of writing by nineteenth-century luminary William Hazlitt—a pioneering art and theatre critic, a radical political commentator, and one of the English language’s greatest essayists.“I am no politician, and still less can I be said to be a party-man: but I have a hatred of tyranny, and a contempt for its tools; and this feeling I have expressed as often and as ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

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  • Moral Imagination

    Essays

    by David Bromwich ...
    Compelling essays from one of today's most esteemed cultural criticsSpanning many historical and literary contexts, Moral Imagination brings together a dozen recent essays by one of America's premier cultural critics. David Bromwich explores the importance of imagination and sympathy to suggest how these faculties may illuminate the motives of human action and the reality of justice. These wide ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Writing Politics

    An Anthology

    Edited by David Bromwich ...
    Explore the tradition of the political essay with this brilliant anthology.David Bromwich is one of the most well-informed, cogent, and morally uncompromising political writers on the left today. He is also one of our finest intellectual historians and literary critics. In Writing Politics, Bromwich presents twenty-seven essays by different writers from the beginning of the modern political world ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Humanistic Judgment

    Ten Experiments in Reading

    Edited by Benjamin Barasch, David Bromwich, Bryan Garsten ...
    A defense of individual judgment as the core of humanistic studyWhy do some works of art and thought speak to us for generations while the vast majority are quickly forgotten? What insights do we gain from our experience of exceptional literature, philosophy, and art? How are we changed by our encounters with those works? Professional scholars in the humanities have lately grown uncomfortable, ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature

    Thirtieth-Anniversary Edition

    by Richard Rorty, David Bromwich ...
    Series series Princeton Classics
    When it first appeared in 1979, Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature hit the philosophical world like a bombshell. In it, Richard Rorty argued that, beginning in the seventeenth century, philosophers developed an unhealthy obsession with the notion of representation: comparing the mind to a mirror that reflects reality. Rorty's book is a powerful critique of this imagery and the tradition of ... Read more

    $17.29 USD

  • Selected Poems

    by Thomas Hardy ...
    A generous selection of poems by a major Victorian writer, a virtuoso of traditional forms who came to be recognized as a uniquely inventive and original voice in modern poetryThis selection of poems by Thomas Hardy (1840–1928), edited by David Bromwich, covers the range of Hardy’s extraordinary work: songs, ballads, and sonnets, dramatic monologues and elegies, along with poems that mark epochal ... Read more

    $36.89 USD

  • How Words Make Things Happen

    by David Bromwich ...
    Sooner or later, our words take on meanings other than we intended. How Words Make Things Happen suggests that the conventional idea of persuasive rhetoric (which assumes a speaker's control of calculated effects) and the modern idea of literary autonomy (which assumes that 'poetry makes nothing happen') together have produced a misleading account of the relations between words and human action. ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Nature and Value

    by David Bromwich, Bina Gogineni, Nikolas Kompridis, Anthony Laden, Kyle Nichols, Joanna Picciotto, Robert Pollin, Jedediah Purdy, Sanjay Reddy, Carol Rovane, Jonathan Schell, James Hamilton Tully, Jan Zalasiewicz ...
    Today, as we confront an unprecedented environmental crisis of our own making, it is more urgent than ever to consider the notion of nature and our place within it. This book brings together essays that individually and as a whole present a detailed and rigorous multidisciplinary exploration of the concept of nature and its wider ethical and political implications.A distinguished list of scholars ... Read more

    $25.99 USD