![]() ![]() ![]() NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER | WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FOR NONFICTION | WINNER OF THE PEN/JOHN KENNETH GALBRAITH AWARD FOR NONFICTION | WINNER OF THE ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR EXCELLENCE IN NONFICTION | FINALIST FOR THE LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE | WINNER OF THE 2017 HILLMAN PRIZE FOR BOOK JOURNALISM | WINNER OF THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE HEARTLAND PRIZE Its unforgettable scenes of hope and loss remind us of the centrality of home, without which nothing else is possible. Hailed as “wrenching and revelatory” ( The Nation), “vivid and unsettling” ( New York Review of Books), Evicted transforms our understanding of poverty and economic exploitation while providing fresh ideas for solving one of 21st-century America’s most devastating problems. In Evicted, Princeton sociologist and MacArthur “Genius” Matthew Desmond follows eight families in Milwaukee as they struggle to keep a roof over their heads. WINNER OF THE 2017 PULITZER PRIZE FOR GENERAL NONFICTION ![]()
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![]() ![]() She remained in Amherst for the rest of her life, and traveled only briefly to Boston, Philadelphia and Washington, D.C. She attended Amherst Academy from 1840 to 1847, then enrolled at Mount Holyoke Female Seminary from 1847 to 1848. Ford, Emily Ellsworth Fowler, 1826-1893Įmily Elizabeth Dickinson was born in Amherst, Massachusetts, on Decemto Edward Dickinson (AC 1823) and Emily Norcross Dickinson.Majority of material found within 1850-1955 This collection includes original poems, manuscripts, and letters from Emily Dickinson to family and friends images of the poet including the daguerreotype and silhouette physical artifacts related to Emily Dickinson manuscript transcriptions printers' copies and proofs Mabel Loomis Todd's correspondence, research indices, and writings and material from or about Dickinson's friends and family, including correspondence, photographs, objects, and scrapbooks. The Collection occupies approximately 21 linear feet of shelf space. The bulk of the material falls into the period 1850-1955. The Collection also includes material from Dickinson scholars Mabel Loomis Todd, Millicent Todd Bingham, Jay Leyda, and others. ![]() ![]() The Emily Dickinson Collection documents the creative work and personal life of Emily Dickinson, spanning her lifetime, from 1830 to 1886 her family and friends and the early publication history of her work. ![]() ![]() ![]() It's a pleasure to be reminded that Borges's style-poetic, dreamlike, and compounded of innumerable small surprises-was already in place by 1935, when he published A Universal History of Iniquity: "The earth we inhabit is an error, an incompetent parody. Andrew Hurley has done readers a great service, then, by collecting all the stories in a single, meticulously translated volume. ![]() Yet his work remained dispersed among a half-dozen different collections, some of them increasingly hard to find. And by 1961, when he shared the French Prix Formentor with Samuel Beckett, he seemed suddenly to tower over a half-dozen literary cultures, the very exemplar of modernism with a human face.īy the time of his death in 1986, Borges had been granted old master status by almost everybody (except, alas, the gentlemen of the Swedish Academy). ![]() This collection, which included the cream of the author's short fictions, made it clear that Borges was a world-class (if highly unclassifiable) artist-a brilliant, lyrical miniaturist, who could pose the great questions of existence on the head of pin. In 1951, however, Ficciones appeared in French, followed soon after by an English translation. Although Jorge Luis Borges published his first book in 1923-doling out his own money for a limited edition of Fervor de Buenos Aires-he remained in Argentinian obscurity for almost three decades. ![]() |