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  • On Not Knowing

    by Emily Ogden ...
    Moments of clarity are rare and fleeting; how can we become comfortable outside of them, in the more general condition of uncertainty within which we make our lives? On Not Knowing forays into this rich, ambivalent space andcelebrates the defencelessness of not knowing yet - possibly of not knowing ever. Ultimately, this book shows how resisting the temptation of knowingness and embracing the ... Read more

    $11.39 USD

  • Darkness Becomes Bright

    On the Brief Life and Immortal Art of Edgar Allan Poe

    by Emily Ogden ...
    **“Engaging . . . Ogden is both incisive and eloquent.” —The New York Times Book ReviewA fascinating and intimate inquiry into Edgar Allan Poe’s shadowy life and horrifyingly compelling work—and why we are drawn to darkness in art**Since Edgar Allan Poe’s mysterious death in 1849, his stories and poems have captivated millions of readers around the world. Nearly two centuries later, why do we ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • On Not Knowing

    How to Love and Other Essays

    by Emily Ogden ...
    A beautifully written suite of personal essays on the value of not knowing."In On Not Knowing , a book of seventeen brief and edifying essays, [Ogden] uses her knowledge to illuminate the 'dimness' in which she spends most of her time: the messy uncertainty of daily life, which she has recently begun to spend with her young twin boys. Her illumination does not dispel this dimness, but instead ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Decoration of Houses

    by Edith Wharton, Ogden Codman Jr. ...
    Series series New York State Series
    Edith Wharton’s The Decoration of Houses (1897), co-written with the architect Ogden Codman Jr., brought transatlantic fame to a writer best known as a chronicler of Gilded Age New York. In their decorating guidebook, Wharton and Codman, who collaborated on the design of the author’s Massachusetts home, The Mount, advocated for simple but classically informed choices that resonate profoundly today ... Read more

    $28.79 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Credulity

    A Cultural History of US Mesmerism

    by Professor Emily Ogden ...
    Series series Class 200: New Studies in Religion
    From the 1830s to the Civil War, Americans could be found putting each other into trances for fun and profit in parlors, on stage, and in medical consulting rooms. They were performing mesmerism. Surprisingly central to literature and culture of the period, mesmerism embraced a variety of phenomena, including mind control, spirit travel, and clairvoyance. Although it had been debunked by Benjamin ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

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    Darkness Becomes Bright

    On the Brief Life and Immortal Art of Edgar Allan Poe

    by Emily Ogden ...
    Narrated by Gabrielle De Cuir ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 13 min

    **“Engaging . . . Ogden is both incisive and eloquent.” —The New York Times Book ReviewA fascinating and intimate inquiry into Edgar Allan Poe’s shadowy life and horrifyingly compelling work—and why we are drawn to darkness in art**Since Edgar Allan Poe’s mysterious death in 1849, his stories and poems have captivated millions of readers around the world. Nearly two centuries later, why do we ... Read more

    $20.00 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Many by Poe, Dickinson, Nash, Key, and Other Baltimore Poets

    Selected poems from a collection of Baltimore poets

    by Edgar Allan Poe, Emily Dickinson, Ogden Nash ...
    Series series Baltimore Authors
    This volume contains selected works from several poets that are available in the public domain. All the poets have some connection to the city of Baltimore, Maryland, which was the primary reason for thieeir inclusion. The most famous of these poets are, of course, Edgar Allan Poe, who is, perhaps most famous for his macabre wrtings, but whose poetry is still valued today, Emily Dickinson, who is ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

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    A distinguished novelist and critic inspires readers and writers with this inside look at how the professionals read—and writeLong before there were creative writing workshops and degrees, how did aspiring writers learn to write? By reading the work of their predecessors and contemporaries, says Francine Prose.As she takes us on a guided tour of the tools and the tricks of the masters—Dostoyevsky, ... Read more

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  • Collected Works of Claude Monet (Delphi Classics)

    by Claude Monet, Delphi Classics ...
    Series Book 5 - Delphi Masters of Art
    A founder of French Impressionist painting and the most prolific practitioner of the movement's philosophy of expressing one's perceptions before nature, Claude Monet created a large body of works, developing his own method of producing repeated studies of the same motif in a series, whilst changing canvases with the shift in light. Delphi’s Masters of Art Series presents the world’s first digital ... Read more

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  • The Haunting of America

    From the Salem Witch Trials to Harry Houdini

    by William J. Birnes, Joel Martin ...
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  • Ernest Hemingway on Writing

    Edited by Larry W. Phillips ...
    A collection of reflections on writing and the nature of the writer from one the greatest American writers of the 20th century.Throughout Hemingway’s career as a writer, he maintained that it was bad luck to talk about writing—that it takes off “whatever butterflies have on their wings and the arrangement of hawk’s feathers if you show it or talk about it.”Despite this belief, by the end of his ... Read more

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  • Complete Works of Edgar Degas (Delphi Classics)

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    Series Book 25 - Delphi Masters of Art
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