Amazon Review
Composition teachers throughout the English-speaking world have been pushing this book on their students since it was first published in 1957. Co-author White later revised it, and it remains the most compact and lucid handbook we have for matters of basic principles of composition, grammar, word usage and misusage, and writing style. –This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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Buy it, study it, enjoy it. It’s as timeless as a book can be in our age of volubility. –This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

A biography of William Shakespeare by the eminent English critic Sidney Lee, this book was one of the first major biographies of the Bard of Avon and is now reissued by Coyote Canyon Press.

A Life of William Shakespeare for many years was considered the standard book on Shakespeare. Samuel Schoenbaum writes in Shakespeare’s Lives: “In this biography Lee avoids the pseudo-fictional excesses of popular reconstructions.…He comes to grips with the œvre as well as with the often trivial outward records. Within the confines of a single volume Lee furnishes the essentials of a library. Small wonder that this Life should receive an enthusiastic welcome, and indeed excite awe.”

According to the London Times: “A marvel of research, and, on the while, remarkably temperate, judicious, and convincing.…Never before has learning been brought to bear on Shakespeare’s biography with anything like the same force.”

In “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” by F. Scott Fitzgerald, the protagonist is born an old man and ages in reverse until he becomes a baby and then finally vanishes from the earth. In a short introduction to the story, Fitzgerald wrote: “This story was inspired by a remark of Mark Twain’s to the effect that it was a pity that the best part of life came at the beginning and the worst part at the end. By trying the experiment upon only one man in a perfectly normal world I have scarcely given his idea a fair trial.” Fitzgerald’s story was the inspiration for the upcoming movie starring Brad Pitt and directed by David Fincher.

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First published in 1897 (revised and enlarged in 1907) this book by Charlotte Carmichael Stopes remains one of the finest written about Warwickshire during the age of Shakespeare. In the words of Shakespearean scholar Samuel Schoenbaum: “This work places Shakespeare in his Warwickshire context, then often misunderstood, by presenting brief sketches of neighbors and relations whose lives touched his own. Stopes’ dramatis personae include Richard Field, who printed Shakespeare’s first book; Sir Thomas Lucy, master of Charlecote; Dr. John Hall, the dramatist’s son-in-law; the poet Drayton, who took physic from Hall; the great Clopton family, owners of Clopton Hall from the time of Henry III; the Combes, from whom Shakespeare bought 107 acres of land near Stratford; and William Underhill, the late owner of New Place poisoned by his young son Fulke. Less familiar figures also receive chapters: John Somerville of Edreston, for example, who with a fever in his brain set out for London to shoot the Queen and put her head upon a pole; although clearly mad, he was executed. There are sections too on the clergy of Stratford, and on the local schoolmasters. It is a novel collection which sheds indirect light on Shakespeare himself. The effect is to counter [a previous biographer's] unwittingly mischievous description of Stratford as ‘a bookless neighbourhood,’ so greedily seized upon by the heretics-Stopes points out that one man alone, the Rev. John Marshall of Bishopton, left 187 books in 1607..In these pages of Shakespeare’s Warwickshire Contemporaries a new note, tough-minded and critical, makes itself felt. That note would distinguish much of twentieth-century biography.”

This present volume from Coyote Canyon Press republishes all three of Robert Frost’s first collections originally published in the United States by Henry Holt and Company, New York. In 1913, Robert Frost published A BOY’S WILL, his first collection of poems, a series of sharply rendered scenes of New England rural life. A second volume, NORTH OF BOSTON, followed in 1914 and contained some of Frost’s most brilliant and best-loved works: “Mending Wall,” “After Apple-Picking,” “The Death of the Hired Man,” “Home Burial,” and “Birches.” In 1916 Frost followed up these two volumes with MOUNTAIN INTERVAL, which included many of his most moving poems: “An Old Man’s Winter Night,” “The Hill Wife,” and “The Road Not Taken.”

The explanatory notes reveal Frost’s complex relation to modern and classical poetic traditions, his knowledge of science and philosophy, and his tremendous ear for the rhythms of English, which enabled him to write the finest blank verse since Milton.

Coyote Canyon Press is pleased to announce the publication of our reissue of Ayn Rand’s Anthem. Written with all the power and conviction that made The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged classics of American letters, Ayn Rand’s Anthem is a hymn to man’s independent spirit and to the highest word in the human language — the word “Ego.”

Anthem tells the story of a man who rediscovers individualism and his own “I” It is a world of absolute collectivization, a world where sightless, joyless, selfless men exist for the sake of serving the State; where their work, their food, and their mating are prescribed to them by order of the Collective’s rulers in the name of society’s welfare. It is a world which lost all the achievements of science and civilization when it lost its root, the independent mind, and reverted to primitive savagery a world where language contains no singular pronouns, where the “We” has replaced the “I,” and where men are put to death for the crime of discovering and speaking the “unspeakable word.”

Anthem presents not merely a frightening projection of existing trends, but, more importantly, a positive answer to those trends and a weapon against them, a key to the world’s moral crisis and to a new morality of individualism — a morality that, if accepted today, will save us from a future such as the one presented in this story.

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