George Orwell’s collected nonfiction, written in the clear-eyed and uncompromising style that earned him a critical following, in 4 volumes: An Age Like This, 1920-1940 My Country Right or Left, 1940-1943 As I Please, 1943-1946 In Front of Your Nose, 1946-1950 One of the most thought-provoking and vivid essayists of the twentieth century, George Orwell …
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8 AD Latin narrative poem by the Roman poet Ovid, considered his magnum opus
Collection of linked short stories by American novelist Tim O’Brien, about a platoon of American soldiers fighting on the ground in the Vietnam War
Collection of short stories by Flannery O’Connor comprising all the stories in A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Everything That Rises Must Converge plus several previously unavailable stories
Collection of early Christian and Gnostic texts discovered near the Upper Egyptian town of Nag Hammadi in 1945.Thirteen leather-bound papyrus codices buried in a sealed jar were found by a local farmer named Muhammed al-Samman
American physicist, an associate professor of physics at Rockefeller University, the executive director and chief executive officer of the New York Academy of Sciences, and president of the International League for Human Rights
Collected Stories is a collection of 67 of Frank O’Connor’s best-known short stories, first published in 1981. The introduction to the collection was written by celebrated literary critic Richard Ellmann. O’Connor expert Michael A. Steinman has pointed out that this collection is really “more ‘selected’ than ‘collected’” since “it [only] contains one-third of O’Connor’s stories”.
