Selected Essays

Selected Essays
Author: Gore Vidal
Publisher: Abacus (UK)
Total Pages: 468
Release: 2007
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN:

This new selection brings together the best of Gore Vidal's essays, comment and criticism from his fifty-year writing career. With mercurial intelligence and often courageous - and outrageous! - forthrightness, Vidal explores his keystone subjects: primarily the worlds of literature and US politics; but also showbiz, sexuality and modern manners. His gaze ranges from the fiction of Calvino and Updike to the politics of pornography to the Clinton and Bush administrations, America post-September 11 and contemporary imperial ambitions. These essays are a witty and brilliant assessment of our times from the most memorable of American literary masters.

A History of the American Bar

A History of the American Bar
Author: Charles Warren
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 601
Release: 2013-07-04
Genre: History
ISBN: 1107668417

This 1912 book is a historical sketch of law and lawyers in America from the Revolutionary War until 1860.

American Glass

American Glass
Author: George Skinner McKearin
Publisher: Crown
Total Pages: 894
Release: 1941
Genre: Glass manufacture
ISBN: 9780517001110

Reference to types of glass and the history of numerous glass houses.

What Is Art and Essays on Art

What Is Art and Essays on Art
Author: Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy
Publisher: Read Books Ltd
Total Pages: 327
Release: 2020-10-16
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1528769643

Originally published in 1930, this book contains the widely respected essay 'What Is Art', by the well-known Russian writer Leo Tolstoy, and is highly recommended for inclusion on the bookshelf of any fan of his works. Many of these earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

Mexico

Mexico
Author: Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
Total Pages: 730
Release: 1990
Genre: Architecture, Mexico
ISBN: 0870995952

Precolumbian art -- Viceregal art -- Nineteenth century art -- Twentieth century art.