Author: Anzia Yezierska
Publisher: Persea Books
Keywords: novel, givers, bread
Number of Pages: 336
Published: 2003-08-01
List price: $10.00
ISBN-10: 0892552905
ISBN-13: 9780892552900

The classic novel of Jewish immigrants in new trade paperback format and design, with sixteen period photographs. This masterwork of American immigrant literature is set in the 1920s on the Lower East Side of Manhattan and tells the story of Sara Smolinsky, the youngest daughter of an Orthodox rabbi, who rebels against her father’s rigid conception of Jewish womanhood. Sarah’s struggle towards independence and self-fulfillment resonates with a passion all can share. Beautifully redesigned page for page with the previous editions, Bread Givers is an essential historical work with

Author: Christine De Pizan
Publisher: Persea Books
Keywords: ladies, city, book
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 1998-09
List price: $11.95
ISBN-10: 0892552301
ISBN-13: 9780892552306

Author: Cyril Connolly
Publisher: Persea Books
Keywords: palinurus, cycle, word, grave, unquiet
Number of Pages: 160
Published: 2005-07-27
List price: $13.95
ISBN-10: 0892550589
ISBN-13: 9780892550586

This enduring classic is "a book which, no matter how many readers it will ever have, will never have enough" (Ernest Hemingway). Cyril Connolly (1903-1974) was one of the most influential book reviewers and critics in England, contributing regularly to The New Statesmen, The Observer, and The Sunday Times. His essays have been collected in book form and published to wide acclaim on both sides of the Atlantic. The Unquiet Grave is considered by many to be his most enduring work. It is a highly personal journal written during the devastation of World War II, filled with reflective passage

Authors:Laura (Riding) Jackson, Laura Riding Jackson, Mark J
Publisher: Persea Books
Keywords: revised, collection, newly, riding, laura, poems
Number of Pages: 528
Published: 2001-07
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 0892552581
ISBN-13: 9780892552580

On the occasion of her one hundredth birthday in 2001, a new edition of Laura Riding’s collected poems. Always ahead of her time, no other major poet of the last century enters the twenty-first so fresh, so essentially unexplored as does Laura Riding. Her formidable credentials as a modernist need no longer distract attention from the class-of-her-own this writer occupies. Beginning in spiritual respect for Shelley, Whitman, and Francis Thompson, Riding’s resolve to work toward nothing less than "the essence of the good in language" carries her across an entire poetic world within

Author: Elizabeth Bradfield
Publisher: Persea
Keywords: poems, ice, approaching
Number of Pages: 112
Published: 2010-02-02
List price: $15.00
ISBN-10: 0892553553
ISBN-13: 9780892553556

“A deft naturalist with a keen eye for details of nature, human and nonhuman. . . . Bradfield’s poems delight.”—San Francisco Chronicle This collection portrays the gripping history of polar exploration by channeling its most notable figures—Symmes, Mawson, Scott, Cherry-Garrard, Byrd, and Shackleton among them. From their perspectives and her own, Elizabeth Bradfield relays the wonders and dangers, physical and mental, encountered while endeavoring to reach the earth’s least-hospitable regions. .

Author: Patrick Rosal
Publisher: Persea
Keywords: kundiman, american
Number of Pages: 64
Published: 2006-11-30
List price: $13.95
ISBN-10: 0892553308
ISBN-13: 9780892553303

From one of our most charismatic poets, a personal song to America.This pulsating collection picks up the beat and imagery of Patrick Rosal’s thrilling debut, Uprock Headspin Scramble and Dive. Here, though, the poet’s electric narratives and portraits extend beyond the working class streets of urban New Jersey. Modeling poems on the kundiman, a song of unrequited love sung by Filipinos for their country in times of oppression, he professes his conflicted feelings for America, while celebrating and lamenting his various heritages—whether by chatting up St. Patrick, riffing on rac

Author: Youth Communication Youth Communication (Organiza
Publisher: Persea Book
Keywords: teenagers, essays, personal, starting
Number of Pages: 199
Published: 1997-06-01
List price: $13.95
ISBN-10: 089255228X
ISBN-13: 9780892552283

35 essays written by teenagers, plus writing and revision techniques.