Anchor Books proudly launches an annual essay series. Acclaimed essayist Phillip Lopate has selected the most surprising, important, and exquisite pieces published during the last twelve months. Bringing together materials from both periodicals and books, "The Anchor Essay Annual 1997 also includes essays never before published, as well as translations from abroad. The result is as rich and unique as it is cosmopolitan. <BR>In her ...

Collections of interviews with notable modern writers ...

Readers familiar with Sam Pickering's delightful essays will certainly hope that the title of his latest collection is not intended as prophecy. A true original, Pickering offers observations on everyday life that never fail to sparkle with wit, insight, amusement, and wonder.<P>Freely blending fact with fiction -- "Writing makes liars of us all", he notes -- Pickering ranges easily and amiably from his home base in Storrs, Connecticut, to ...

In over, 1,100 pages of first-class writing, the reader will find works by Martin Amis, Saul Bellow, John Berryman, Keith Botsford, G.V. Desani, Herbert Gold, Mark Harris, Arthur Miller, S.J. Perelman, Philip O'Connor, and many more. Plus fascinating, unseen writing by D.H. Lawrence, Louis Guilloux and Victor Hugo. Little in this anthology has been published before in book form. ...

Albert Goldbarth's "essays" (for want of a better term) stitch together elements of the memoir, the short story, the stand-up comedy shtick, the scholarly thesis, and the richly textured prose poem, into what critic Robert Atwan calls "a whole new breed" of personal essay. Goldbarth, says Atwan, "has spliced together strands of the old genre with a powerful new gene - and the results are miraculous". Great Topics of the World investigates ...

A novel of spine-tingling terror from Bram Stoker, author of DRACULA. (This jacketless hardcover edition is intended for the library trade.) ...

For generations, readers have enjoyed classic literature. They have delighted in the romance of Jane Austen, thrilled at the adventures of Jules Verne, and pondered the lessons of Aesop. Introduce young readers to these familiar volumes with Great Illustrated Classics. In this series, literary masterworks have been adapted for young scholars. Large, easy-to-read type and charming pen-and-ink drawings enhance the text. Students are sure to enjoy ...

This is the only current work where you'll find all of Thoreau's major essays in one volume. Includes Thoreau's "reform" essays, "walking" essays and his "natural history" essays. ...

In this widely praised anthology, twenty-six American writers illuminate the motivations at the heart of their creative lives in original essays that are as surprising and varied as their fiction. ...

Where "Mutiny on the Bounty" meets "Treasure Island," this is a tale of a young boy's adventure on the seas and his search for Captain William Kidd's hidden treasure. ...