Hardcover: Literary Criticism & Essays
by Staff -- Publishers Weekly, 8/8/2005
AMERICAN UNIVERSITY IN CAIRO PRESS (dist. by IPM)
Memories in Translations: A Life Between the Lines of Arabic Literature (Nov., $19.95) by Denys Johnson-Davies offers a personal account from a translator of modern Arabic fiction.
ARCADE
Wise Thoughts for Every Day (Nov., $14.99) by Leo Tolstoy collects the wisdom of the author of War and Peace.
CARROLL GRAF
Stretching My Mind: The Collected Essays of Edward Albee (Sept., $25) by Edward Albee gathers the playwright's writings on various subjects.
CHAUCER PRESS
Literature and the Crime Against Nature: From Homer to Hughes (Jan., $35.95) by Keith Sagar reasserts the relationship between imagination, nature and human survival through close readings of works by 17 writers.
FARRAR, STRAUS GIROUX
Legends of Modernity: Essays and Letters from Occupied Poland, 1942– 43 (Sept., $24) by Czeslaw Milosz, trans. by Madeline G. Levine, brings together early essays by the Nobel Laureate.
GINGKO PRESS
The Classical Trivium (Oct., $37.50) by Marshall McLuhan collects 20 offprints of original essays, some never before published in book form.
JOHNS HOPKINS UNIV. PRESS
The Mind Has Mountains: Reflections on Society and Psychiatry (Jan., $25) by Paul R. McHugh, M.D. A controversial psychiatrist presents essays to inspire or outrage the audience.
KNOPF
Thirteen Ways of Looking at the Novel (Sept., $26.95) by Jane Smiley. The Pulitzer Prize–winning author celebrates the novel in a guide for both readers and writers. 50,000 first printing. 6-city author tour.
OTHER PRESS
Beatrice's Spell: The Enduring Legend of Beatrice Cenci (Oct., $24.95) by Belinda Jack studies a Renaissance tragedy.
OVERLOOK PRESS
The Shakespeare Miscellany (Sept., $14.95) by David Crystal and Ben Crystal gathers facts and insights about William Shakespeare. 100,000 first printing. $100,000 ad/promo.
PELICAN PUBLISHING
Celtic Southern Literature (Sept., $29.95) by James P. Cantrell discusses the Scots-Irish influence on Faulkner, Margaret Mitchell, Pat Conroy and others.
PRINCETON UNIV. PRESS
Camus at Combat: Writing 1944– 1947 (Feb., $29.95) by Albert Camus is the first English translation of all 165 essays that Camus wrote for Combat, the French Resistance newspaper.
STATE UNIV. OF NEW YORK PRESS
Kurt Vonnegut's Crusade; or, How a Postmodern Harlequin Preached a New Kind of Humanism (Feb., $35) by Todd F. Davis explores the moral and philosophical underpinnings of Vonnegut's work.
STEERFORTH PRESS
Tales of Adam (Nov., $12.95) by Daniel Quinn examines the worldview and contents of the Tales of Adam that the author produced while working on Ishmael. 30,000 first printing.
UNIV. PRESS OF MISSISSIPPI
Early Escapades (Nov., $30) by Eudora Welty, compiled and edited by Patti Carr Black, gathers poems, sketches, profiles and satires from Welty's juvenalia.
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