John McPhee

William L. Howarth

"The John McPhee Reader," first published in 1976, is comprised of selections from the author's first twelve books. In 1965, John McPhee published his first book, "A Sense of Where You Are"; a decade later, he had published eleven others. His fertility, his precision and grace as a stylist, his wit and uncanny brilliance in choosing subject matter, his crack storytelling skills have made him into one of our best writers: a journalist whom L.E. Sissman ranked with Liebling and Mencken, who Geoffrey Wolff said " is bringing his work to levels that have no measurable limit, " who has been called " a master craftsman" so many times that it is pointless to number them.

The John McPhee Reader

Henry David Thoreau

Joseph Moser

Elizabeth Hall Witherell

Elizabeth Thoreau

This collection of fifty-three early pieces by Thoreau represents the full range of his youthful imagination. Collected, arranged, and carefully edited for the first time here, the writings date from 1828 to 1852 and cover a broad range of subjects: learning, morals, literature, history, politics, and love. Included is a major essay on Sir Walter Raleigh that was not published during the author's lifetime and a fragmentary college piece here published for the first time. Titles of essays published in the volume are given below. Early Essays The Seasons Anxieties and Delights of a Discoverer Men Whose Pursuit Is Money Of Keeping a Private Journal "We Are Apt to Become What Others . . . Think Us to Be" Forms, Ceremonies, and Restraints of Polite Society A Man of Business, a Man of Pleasure, a Man of the World Musings Kinds of Energetic Character Privileges and Pleasures of a Literary Man Severe and Mild Punishments Popular Feeling Style May . . . Offend against Simplicity The Book of the Seasons Sir Henry Vane Literary Digressions Foreign Influence on American Literature Life and Works of Sir W. Scott The Love of Stories Cultivation of the Imagination The Greek Classic Poets The Meaning of "Fate" Whether the Government Ought to Educate Travellers & Inhabitants History . . . of the Roman Republic A Writer's Nationality and Individual Genius L'Allegro & Il Penseroso All Men Are Mad The Speeches of Moloch & the Rest People of Different Sections Gaining or Exercising Public Influence Titles of Books Sublimity The General Obligation to Tell the Truth "Being Content with Common Reasons" The Duty, Inconvenience and Dangers of Conformity Moral Excellence Barbarities of Civilized States T. Pomponius Atticus Class Book Autobiography "The Commercial Spirit of Modern Times" Miscellanies DIED . . . Miss Anna Jones Aulus Persius Flaccus The Laws of Menu Sayings of Confucius Dark Ages Chinese Four Books Homer. Ossian. Chaucer. Hermes Trismegistus . . . From the Gulistan of Saadi Sir Walter Raleigh Thomas Carlyle and His Works Love Chastity & Sensuality

Early Essays and Miscellanies

The author's writings on climbing the mountains of his native New England capture the beauty and stunning natural allure of the region's most breathtaking locales. Reprint.

William L. Howarth

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