This eBook features the unabridged text of ‘Eugenie Grandet by Honoré de Balzac - Delphi Classics (Illustrated)’ from the bestselling edition of ‘The Collected Works of Honoré de Balzac’. Having established their name as the leading publisher of classic literature and art, Delphi Classics produce publications that are individually crafted with superior formatting, while introducing many rare texts for the first time in digital print. The Delphi Classics edition of Balzac includes original annotations and illustrations relating to the life and works of the author, as well as individual tables of contents, allowing you to navigate eBooks quickly and easily. eBook features: * The complete unabridged text of ‘Eugenie Grandet by Honoré de Balzac - Delphi Classics (Illustrated)’ * Beautifully illustrated with images related to Balzac’s works * Individual contents table, allowing easy navigation around the eBook * Excellent formatting of the text Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to learn more about our wide range of titles

This Classic Edition commemorates the 100-year anniversary of William Strunk's grammar primer, The Elements of Style.?Generations of writers have learned the basics of grammar from Strunk’s little book. It was rated “one of the 100 most influential books written in English” by Time in 2011, and iconic author Stephen King recommended it as a grammar primer that all aspiring writers should read.Elements of Style: Classic Edition 2018?includes the full text of Strunk's original work. It adds two new chapters requested by college professors and students to help clarify points of confusion in modern writing: Basic Rules of Capitalization?and Style Rules for Better Writing.?It also features a variety of enhancements that make this grammar handbook even more useful: 1. Editor’s notes have been inserted throughout the book to flag grammar rules that are now obsolete and to provide up-to-date advice for students and writers. 2. Emojis have been added to help readers identify correct examples from errors at a glance. 3. A Study Guide is included in the last chapter. 4. The paperback version includes blank, lined pages in the back of the book for convenient notetaking. 5. The e-book versions have been restyled for improved display on the latest generations of digital book-reading devices.Elements of Style: Classic Edition?is now being used as a textbook in courses at University of Minnesota, University of Texas, UC Berkeley and elsewhere, giving students and writers a blueprint that they can follow to write clearly and effectively while adhering to the fundamental rules of English Grammar.

Irene Watson's pretentious life could go no further until she faced her past. Her moving and inspiring memoir begins at the end, in a recovery center, where she has gone to understand a childhood fraught with abuse, guilt, and uncertainty.Two distinct parts of the book look at abusive child rearing and the process of recovery years later. This story shows change, growth, and forgiveness are possible. It gives hope and freedom to those accepting the past and re-writing life scripts that have been passed down for generations. It's never too late to change your life, never too late to heal.Praise for The Sitting Swing"Watson's memoir recounts her fearful, highly sheltered years as she uncovers the childhood wounds leading to her personality crisis. This is an earnest memoir, well structured." --PUBLISHERS WEEKLY"The Sitting Swing is the poignant story of the author's successful journey to transcend the patterns sculpted by her parents and childhood experiences. I loved it!" --NANCY OELKLAUS, PHD, LIFE COACH AND AUTHOR OF JOURNEY FROM HEAD TO HEART: LIVING AND WORKING AUTHENTICALLY"As a teacher of transformational principles for self-discovery and the treatment of addictions, reading The Sitting Swing inspired me to a richer new voice, infusing my lectures with a deeper level of meaning. Irene's personal story of transformation will add to the experience, strength, and hope we share with our clients and to anyone who is on a path of personal transformation. " --MARY LYNN SZYMANDERA, LCAS, CEFIP, OUTPATIENT MANAGER, PAVILLON INTERNATIONAL, AND EQUINE PROGRAM DIRECTOR, SAWHORSE HILLAuthor info at www.irenewatson.comBook #6 in the Spiritual Dimensions Series from Loving Healing Press www.LovingHealing.com

An exciting collection of stories from W.W. Jacobs, a London based novelist famous for his humour, horror and travel stories. This volume includes some of his iconic work: The Money-box, The Castaway, Blundell's Improvement, Bill's Lapse, Lawyer Quince, Breaking A Spell, Establishing Relations, The Changing Numbers, The Persecution of Bob Pretty, Dixon's Return, A Spirit of Avarice, The Third String, Odd Charges, Admiral Peters.

An iconic collection of fairy tales from the master of storytelling Charles Perrault including some of his best work: Little Red Riding-Hood, The Sleeping Beauty, Puss in Boots, Little Thumb, Cinderella, Blue Beard.

Macho men or metrosexual guys? Mummy’s boys or blokes under their missus’ thumbs? Self-made entrepreneurs, pukka professionals and successful executives with their Mercedes Benz lives and designer-clad wives; husbands, sons, uncles, brothers and fathers – these successful, soulful and spirited Asian men have come a long way from their origins but they’ve all got roots! The Trouble with Asian Men is a vital, tender and hilarious insight into lives that surround us every day. From the award-winning theatre company that brought us East is East, a revealing verbatim comedy that has played to sell-out houses internationally.

Essays: Religious Meditations. Places of Perswasion and Disswasion. Seene and Allowed (1597) was the first published book by the philosopher, statesman and jurist Francis Bacon. The Essays are written in a wide range of styles, from the plain and unadorned to the epigrammatic. They cover topics drawn from both public and private life, and in each case the essays cover their topics systematically from a number of different angles, weighing one argument against another. A much-enlarged second edition appeared in 1612 with 38 essays. Another, under the title Essayes or Counsels, Civill and Morall, was published in 1625 with 58 essays. Translations into French and Italian appeared during Bacon's lifetime. ? Bacon's genius as a phrase-maker appears to great advantage in the later essays. In "Of Boldness" he wrote, "If the Hill will not come to Mahomet, Mahomet will go to the hill", which is the earliest known appearance of that proverb in print. The phrase "hostages to fortune" appears in the essay "Of Marriage and Single Life" – again the earliest known usage. Aldous Huxley's book Jesting Pilate took its epigraph, "What is Truth? said jesting Pilate; and would not stay for an answer", from Bacon's essay "Of Truth". The 1999 edition of The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations includes no fewer than 91 quotations from the Essays.

In Men of Achievement Phillip Hubert writes about inventors Benjamin Franklin, Robert Fulton, Eli Whitney, Elias Howe, Samuel Morse, Charles Goodyear, Thomas Edison and Alexander Graham Bell, as well as many others. He reviews their inventions and also examines the inventor: their origins, hopes, aims, principles, disappointments, trials and triumphs ,and their daily life and personal character. With over forty-five illustrations, Men of Achievement discusses the value of their work – the invention of steam power, electricity, the telegraph, the telephone, phonograph, the camera, and Goodyear’s vulcanized rubber. With the patent laws of the time it also highlights how these men contributed thousands of millions of dollars to the nation’s wealth and, in some cases, received comparatively little in return.

Does Your City or Region Have a Fascinating Story that needs to be told before it's forgotten? Yes, it does, and you can be the person to write it! In this short text, Tyler Tichelaar, author of My Marquette and The Marquette Trilogy, talks in a conversational format about how he became interested in writing both local history and regional and historical fiction and his research and writing process to bring his books to fruition. Readers of "Creating a Local Historical Book" will learn: ·What kind of research is required ·What counts as research ·Where to do research ·How to organize that research into a book ·How not to go overboard with details ·Finding images and gaining usage permission ·How to make your book stand out from others ·Tips on marketing your history book Tyler R. Tichelaar, Ph.D. and seventh generation Marquette resident, was raised on tales of his hometown's past. His other interests include literary studies ranging from King Arthur to Gothic texts. He is also a professional editor and writing coach who has guided dozens of authors through the treacherous seas of composition. "Our committee would like to honor Tyler with this award in honor of his meticulous research, his enlightened and personal testimony about Marquette and his educational contributions to the preservation of Marquette's history." --The Marquette Beautification & Restoration Committee, presenting Tyler with the Barbara H. Kelly Historic Preservation Award "Tyler Tichelaar speaks from the heart about his love affair with the town of his birth. Join him on a nostalgic tour of one of the great small cities of America." --Karl Bohnak, author of So Cold a Sky: Upper Michigan Weather Stories Learn more at www.MarquetteFiction.com From Modern History Press www.ModernHistoryPress.com

How Dare We! Write: a multicultural creative writing discourse offers a much needed corrective to the usual dry and uninspired creative writing pedagogy. The collection asks us to consider questions, such as "What does it mean to work through resistance from supposed mentors, to face rejection from publishers and classmates, and to stand against traditions that silence you?" and "How can writers and teachers even begin to make diversity matter in meaningful ways on the page, in the classroom, and on our bookshelves?" How Dare We! Write is an inspiring collection of intellectually rigorous lyric essays and innovative writing exercises; it opens up a path for inquiry, reflection, understanding, and creativity that is ultimately healing. The testimonies provide a hard won context for their innovative paired writing experiments that are, by their very nature, generative. --Cherise A. Pollard, PhD, Professor of English, West Chester University of Pennsylvania So-called "creative writing" classes are highly politicized spaces, but no one says so; to acknowledge this obvious fact would be to up-end the aesthetics, cultural politics (ideology) and economics on which most educational institutions are founded How Dare We! Write, a brilliant interventive anthology of essays, breaks this silence. --Maria Damon, Pratt Institute of Art; co-editor of Poetry and Cultural Studies: A Reader How Dare We! Write a collection of brave voices calling out to writers of color everywhere: no matter how lonely, you are not alone; you are one in a sea of change, swimming against the currents. --Kao Kalia Yang, author of The Latehomecomer: A Hmong Family Memoir, and The Song Poet, a 2017 Minnesota Book Award winner How Dare We! Write is a much needed collection of essays from writers of color that reminds us that our stories need to be told, from addressing academic gatekeepers, embracing our identities, the effects of the oppressor's tongue on our psyche and to the personal narratives that help us understand who we are. --Rodrigo Sanchez-Chavarria, writer, spoken word poet/performer and contributing author to A Good Time for the Truth: Race in Minnesota Learn more at http://blog.SherryQuanLee.com From Modern History Press www.ModernHistoryPress.com

The Late Republic poet Gaius Valerius Catullus had a lasting influence on the Augustan poets Ovid, Horace and Virgil. Today, Catullus’ love poetry retains its raw power in vividly expressing the frenzy of love. Delphi’s Ancient Classics series provides eReaders with the wisdom of the Classical world, with both English translations and the original Latin texts. This comprehensive eBook presents Catullus’ complete extant works, with beautiful illustrations, informative introductions, Dual Latin and English text and the usual Delphi bonus material. (Version 1) * Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Catullus’ life and works * Features the complete extant works of Catullus, in both English translation and the original Latin * Concise introductions to the poetry and other works * Provides both verse and prose translations of the poems * Includes Francis Warre Cornish’s celebrated translation, previously appearing in the Loeb Classical Library edition – available in no other collection * Images of famous paintings that have been inspired by Catullus’ works * Excellent formatting of the texts * Easily locate the poems or sections you want to read with individual contents tables * Includes Catullus’ rare fragments, first time in digital print * Provides a special dual English and Latin text, allowing readers to compare the sections paragraph by paragraph – ideal for students * Features two bonus biographies – discover Catullus’ ancient world * Scholarly ordering of texts into chronological order and literary genres Please note: this eBook is not an update of our previous Catullus eBook, but instead an entirely new eBook, redesigned and remade with images, an introduction and different translations. We regret we are unable to offer updates for the previous Catullus eBook published in 2010. Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to browse through our range of exciting titles CONTENTS: The Translations INTRODUCTION TO THE POETRY OF CATULLUS PROSE TRANSLATION VERSE TRANSLATION The Latin Text CONTENTS OF THE LATIN TEXT The Dual Text DUAL LATIN AND ENGLISH TEXT The Biographies INTRODUCTION TO CATULLUS by Francis Warre Cornish CATULLUS by J. W. Mackail Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to browse through our range of exciting titles

Taken captive at the early age of thirteen by Seneca Indians, Mary Jemison was trained in the wilderness to the ordinary duties of the Indian female. Embedded with the sentiments and lifestyle of the Seneca's she essentially transformed into a member of the tribe. Mary Jemison's story is a remarkable one not because of her extraordinary lifestyle, but because this was the lifestyle that, in the end, she chose for herself. When prisoners were being set free from the bondage of the Indians after the French and Indian War, Mrs. Jemison chose to remain with her Indian friends and accept her Seneca upbringing. Known for her uncommon generosity, as Westward Expansion began to flourish, those who settled near the Genesee River soon became acquainted with The White Woman.

The German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche became one of the most influential thinkers of the nineteenth century, whose attempts to unmask the motives that underlie traditional Western religion, morality and philosophy would deeply affect generations of philosophers, psychologists and authors. This comprehensive eBook presents Nietzsche’s complete works, with numerous illustrations, rare texts appearing in digital print for the first time, informative introductions and the usual Delphi bonus material. (Version 1) * Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Nietzsche’s life and works * Concise introductions to the novels and other texts * ALL the published books, with individual contents tables * Images of how the books were first published, giving your eReader a taste of the original German texts * Excellent formatting of the texts * Includes rare translations of Nietzsche’s poetry * Easily locate the poems you want to read * Includes Nietzsche’s rare autobiography ‘Ecce Homo’ * Special criticism section, with essays evaluating Nietzsche’s contribution to modern thought * Scholarly ordering of texts into chronological order and literary genres Please note: there are no known translations in the public domain of a few early essays. When more translations become available, they will be added to the collection as a free update. Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to browse through our range of exciting titles CONTENTS: The Philosophical Writings HOMER AND THE CLASSICAL PHILOLOGY ON THE FUTURE OF OUR EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS THE GREEK STATE AND OTHER FRAGMENTS THE RELATION BETWEEN A SCHOPENHAUERIAN PHILOSOPHY AND A GERMAN CULTURE HOMER’S CONTEST THE BIRTH OF TRAGEDY ON TRUTH AND LIES IN A NONMORAL SENSE PHILOSOPHY IN THE TRAGIC AGE OF THE GREEKS THOUGHTS OUT OF SEASON HUMAN, ALL TOO HUMAN THE DAWN OF DAY THE JOYFUL WISDOM THUS SPOKE ZARATHUSTRA BEYOND GOOD AND EVIL THE GENEALOGY OF MORALS THE CASE OF WAGNER THE TWILIGHT OF THE IDOLS THE ANTICHRIST NIETZSCHE CONTRA WAGNER THE WILL TO POWER WE PHILOLOGISTS The Poetry LIST OF POEMS LIST OF POEMS IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER The Autobiography ECCE HOMO The Criticism FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE by George Brandes NIETZSCHE by John Cowper Powys NIETZSCHE AND WAGNER by Arthur Johnstone THE GERMAN WAR-TRIUMVIRATE by CHARLES SAROLEA PROPHETS OF DISSENT: NIETZSCHE by Otto Heller NIETZSCHE AND OTHER EXPONENTS OF INDIVIDUALISM by Paul Carus Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to browse through our range of exciting titles

Set in a future England where the Temperance movement has allowed a bizarre form of Progressive Islam to dominate the political and social life of the country. Because of this, alcohol sales to the poor are effectively prohibited, while the rich can get alcoholic drinks under a medical certificate.

The poetry of Walter Savage Landor spans the final years of the Enlightenment to the greatest achievements of the Victorian Empire. Landor is now regarded as a ‘poet’s poet’, whose sensitive and beautiful poetry won the admiration of Browning, Yeats, Ezra Pound and Robert Frost. His celebrated love poems were inspired by a succession of female romantic ideals – Ione, Ianthe, Rose Aylmer and Rose Paynter — while his "domestic" poems concerning his sister and children reveal equal finesse. The Delphi Poets Series offers readers the works of literature's finest poets, with superior formatting. This volume presents Landor’s collected poetical works, with beautiful illustrations and the usual Delphi bonus material. (Version 1) * Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Landor's life and works* Concise introduction to the life and poetry of Walter Savage Landor* Images of how the poetry books were first printed, giving your eReader a taste of the original texts* Rare collections available in no other digital publication* Excellent formatting of the poems* Includes a selection of Landor's prose * Features a bonus biography - discover Landor's literary life* Scholarly ordering of texts into chronological order and literary genres Please note: due to Landor’s method of titling the majority of his poems with Roman numerals, this Delphi edition does not feature our usual chronological and alphabetical contents tables. Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to see our wide range of poet titles CONTENTS: The Life and Poetry of Walter Savage LandorBRIEF INTRODUCTION: WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR The Poetry CollectionsGEBIRCOLLECTION OF 1846THE HELLENICSTHE LAST FRUIT OF AN OLD TREEDRY STICKSMISCELLANEOUS POEMS FROM “HEROIC IDYLS” WITH ADDITIONAL POEMS, 1863 The PlayCOUNT JULIAN Selected ProseIMAGINARY CONVERSATIONS: A SELECTIONTHE PENTAMERONCITATION AND EXAMINATION OF WILLIAM SHAKSPEARE The BiographyWALTER SAVAGE LANDOR by Leslie Stephen Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to browse through our range of poetry titles or buy the entire Delphi Poets Series as a Super Set

Explore Adam Mickiewicz, Poland’s National Poet, who was a leading figure of Romanticism, often likened to Byron and Goethe. Born in the Russian-partitioned territories of the former Grand Duchy of Lithuania, Mickiewicz was active in the struggle to win independence for his homeland. His epic poem ‘Pan Tadeusz’ is celebrated as a masterpiece of European literature. The Delphi Poets Series offers readers the works of literature's finest poets, with superior formatting. This volume presents Mickiewicz’ collected poetical works, with related illustrations and the usual Delphi bonus material. (Version 1) * Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Mickiewicz’ life and works* Concise introduction to Mickiewicz’ life and poetry* Images of how the poetry books were first printed, giving your eReader a taste of the original texts* Excellent formatting of the poems* Special chronological and alphabetical contents tables for the poetry* Easily locate the poems you want to read* Includes a modern-day verse translation of Mickiewicz’ great epic ‘Pan Tadeusz’ by Leonard Kress – available in no other collection* Features a bonus biography - discover Mickiewicz’ intriguing life* Scholarly ordering of texts into chronological order and literary genres Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to see our wide range of poet titles CONTENTS: The Life and Poetry of Adam MickiewiczBRIEF INTRODUCTION: ADAM MICKIEWICZODE TO YOUTHTHE CRIMEAN SONNETS (Translated by Edna Worthley Underwood)KONRAD WALLENROD (Translated by M. A. Biggs)PAN TADEUSZ The PoemsLIST OF POEMS IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDERLIST OF POEMS IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER The ProseMY FIRST BATTLE The BiographyADAM MICKIEWICZ: A BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH by Edna Worthley Underwood Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to browse through our range of poetry titles or buy the entire Delphi Poets Series as a Super Set

Troilus and Cressida is set during the later years of the Trojan War, faithfully following the plotline of the Iliad from Achilles' refusal to participate in battle to Hector's death. Troilus, a Trojan prince (son of Priam), woos Cressida, another Trojan. They have sex, professing their undying love, before Cressida is exchanged for a Trojan prisoner of war. As he attempts to visit her in the Greek camp, Troilus glimpses Diomedes flirting with his beloved Cressida, and decides to avenge her perfidy.

YAKINDA SIRA G?KY?Z?NE DE GELECEK! ? ?ilahi nizama(Yarat?l?? Yasalar?na) g?re, yeryüzünün hi? bir yeri; hi? bir insana ve zümreye ait de?ildir. ?nsani düzene g?re ise ger?ek tamamen farkl? olup yeryüzü parsel, parsel ya?malanm?? olup nehirler, g?ller, denizler ve hatta k?talar bir avu? az?nl??a ya da zümreye hizmet etmektedir. S?z konusu bu az?nl?klar dünyan?n kaynaklar?n? ?e?itli y?ntemlerle dev?irip s?mürmektedirler. ??S?mürü sadece do?al kaynaklarla s?n?rl? olmay?p dünya üzerinde ya?ayan tüm canl?lar? da kapsamaktad?r. Bundan, tek hücreli organizmalar da nasibini almakta ve efendilerinin ahlaks?z ama?lar?na hizmet etmeye mecbur kalmaktad?r. Bu azg?n küresel s?mürgeciler, insanlar?n beden ve beyin gü?lerini s?mürdükleri yetmezmi? gibi ?imdilerde zihinlerini de ele ge?irmeye y?nelik yo?un bir gayret i?indedirler. ??S?mürgeciler, kaynaklardan dev?irdikleri de?erleri ?nce paraya daha sonra ise parayla birlikte bu kaynaklar? da kullanarak gü? dev?irmekte olup ?bu b?yle katlanarak devam etmektedir. Küresel emperyalistler, s?mürü düzenini hepimizin iyi bildi?i yedi(S) arac?l???yla, yani onlar? de?er dev?irmekte kullanarak ger?ekle?tirir. ? Bunlar s?ras?yla: Su (G?da),Sa?l?k, Seks, Silah, Sanat, Spor ve Siyaset olarak s?ralanabilmektedir. S?ra gü? dev?irmeye gelince bu s?ralamada siyaset birinci s?raya ge?mektedir. Sebebine gelince s?mürgeci en ?ok siyaseti ?veya baz? siyaset?iyi, ?baz? siyaset?iler ise bu sayd?klar?m?z?n tümünü birden kullanmaktad?rlar. ??Birde s?mürgecilerin elinde, onlar?n ?ok sevdikleri bir ba?ka (S) olan ad?na Sava? denilen alt?n (S) vard?r. Sava?lar?n ara?lar? ise sizlerin de ?ok iyi bildi?i gibi temel iki unsura dayanmaktad?r. Bunlar, dindarl?k ve kindarl?k olup toplumlar ayr??t?r?l?p dü?man kamplara b?lüne bilmeleri i?in; ya inan? farkl?l?klar?, ya da tarihin bir d?neminde atalar?n?n birbirlerine yapt?klar? yanl?? davran??lar? k?rükleyerek dü?manl?klar? yaratmaktalar. Sonras?nda da dü?manla?t?r?lan toplumlara gaz verirler, onlar sava??rken bunlar bir yandan silah satarken bir yandan da ya?malar?n?(has?latlar?n?) hazinelerine katarlar? ???nsanlar?, insanl???ndan ??karan, herkesi paran?n pe?inden ko?turan; en ac?s? da para i?in her türlü de?erlerinden vazge?ebilmeyi ba?ar? gibi sunan bu ?arp?k sisteme kar??: Bizler akl?m?z? ba??m?za toplamaz ve s?mürgecilerin de?irmenine su ta??maya devam etmeyi sürdürürsek; ?o zaman g?kyüzüne iyi bakal?m! ?ünkü; korkar?m :Torunlar?m?z g?kyüzünü b?yle mavi olarak bir daha zor g?rebilecekler !!! ?SADEKUL ? Y ? Z L E ? M E ( MAN?FESTO ) ?- G ? R ? ? ?TOPLUMSAL PAST?R?ZASYONLAR VE SAKINCALARI "Sosyolojik Past?rizasyon ve Yeni Bir Düzen ?zerine ?zgün Yakla??m" Hepimizin ?ok iyi?bildi?i gibi; kurals?z ya?ayan insan topluluklar? tarih i?erisinde kurall? ya?ama ge?erek; birer düzen toplumlar? haline gelmi?lerdir ??te: Toplumlar?n egemen oldu?u bu topraklar üzerinde ya?ayan bireylerinin hak ve ?zgürlüklerinin s?n?rlar?n? belirleyen bu tek siyasi erkin ad?na devlet denilmektedir. Bu ?rgütün, en temel g?revi yurtta?lar?n?n i? ve d?? güvenli?ini sa?lamak olmakla birlikte; devlet bu sorumlu?unu yerine getirirken ise her zaman herkese kar?? tarafs?z ve e?itlik?i olmak mecburiyetindedir. ?zellikle de i? güvenli?i sa?larken; hem kendisinden yurtta?lar?n?, hem de yurtta?lar?n? yurtta?lar?ndan korumakla yükümlüdür. Ayr?ca bireylerin beden ve ruh sa?l??? da tamamen bu ?rgütün güvencesinde olup devletler her ko?ulda ki?ilerin beden bütünlü?ü ile zihin sa?l???n? da korumaktan da soruludurlar.

Marieta Rdoi Mihi face parte din acea restrns categorie de poei a cror creaie este lipsit de metafora spectaculoas (glgioas!), beneficiind ns de taina cuvintelor, dnd alturrii acestora acea imprevizibilitate, venind parc dinspre Mallarmé sau, i mai aproape de noi, de la Ion Barbu, acest farmec al imprecisului care asigur autoarei o indiscutabil originalitate i esenializare a acestei poetici.“ – Radu Crneci

Cartea v? propune spre lectur? o sum? de eseuri inedite, inspirate de la chestiuni cvasi-cotidiene sau rezultate din c?ut?ri la care ne ducem mai rar cu gândul. În plus, atât pentru condimentarea experien?ei de lectur?, cât mai ales pentru democratizarea conceptului de antropologie (în jurul c?ruia graviteaz? prozele din cuprins), seria de eseuri – fuzionând idei de psihologie, sociologie ori de filosofie – este punctat? (ini?ial, median ?i final) cu câte o proz? fic?ional? din seria interpret?rilor speculativ-antropologice de mituri ?i legende populare (aici fiind vizate baladele "Monastirea Arge?ului" ?i "Miori?a"), serie de autor început? odat? cu cartea "Întoarcerea fratelui risipitor" (Editura Europress, Bucure?ti, 2014). Volumul de fa?? aduce cititorului un amalgam de provoc?ri pentru minte ?i pentru inim?, într-un melanj pastelat, sus?inut pe tot parcursul de împletitura a trei filoane esen?iale: auto-ironie, umilin?? ?i duio?ie. De altfel, ideea de smerenie – atât cea subiectiv? cât ?i cea extins? la întreaga specie – constituie aici o reiterare definitorie. Parcurgerea c?r?ii se poate dovedi o experien?? deosebit? atât pentru cititorul pasionat de beletristic? cât ?i pentru cel atras de eseistica de idei. Profunzimile ?i perspectivele vor surprinde adesea.

n condiiile unei crize a lucrrilor de sintez, monografia marelui crturar Nicolae Balota despre literatura german, constituie un model de analiz a uneia dintre cele mai majore culturi ale lumii. Cartea apare pentru prima dat n colecia Ediii definitive.