"Modeled after traditional primers, this book includes individual stories, riddles, and poems about Ohio's history, famous people, and state symbols"--Provided by publisher.

The library of America is dedicated to publishing America's best and most significant writing in handsome, enduring volumes, featuring authoritative texts. Hailed as the "finest-looking, longest-lasting editions ever made" (The New Republic), Library of America volumes make a fine gift for any occasion. Now, with exactly one hundred volumes to choose from, there is a perfect gift for everyone.

Sunshine State offers a unique look at Florida, a state whose economically and environmentally imperiled culture serves as a lens through which we can examine some of the most pressing issues haunting our nation.

From boyhood in Home, Pennsylvania, to his death in Tucson, Arizona, in 1989, this book offers - in Abbey's own words - the world of an American original. Whether writing fact or fiction, Abbey was always an autobiographer. Each of the thirty-five selections presented here, arranged chronologically by date of incident (not of publication), demonstrates that Abbey was passionately, insistently his own man. As poet-farmer Wendell Berry puts it: "He...

Prose and poetry of a particular immigrant experience and also of such universal themes as the pains, confusions, and wonders of growing up.

N. Scott Momaday's unique connection to the beauty and spirituality of the natural world surfaces in all of his works, from his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel House Made of Dawn to his more recent collection In the Presence of the Sun. Yet In the Bear's House is Momaday's intensely personal quest to understand the spirit of the wilderness embodied in the animal image of Bear. Intimately linked to Bear since his childhood, Momaday searches for this elusive...

Prose and poems on the homosexual experience. In Unprotected, in the course of an unprotected sexual act, a man tries to convince himself it doesn't really matter, one dies anyway. The story, To the First Time, is on a man's first gay experience, and At Risk is on watching a friend die.

What do the most celebrated writers say about writing? Among those sharing their wisdom and experience on fiction, nonfiction, narrative, and style are Robert Louis Stevenson, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Edgar Allan Poe, George Eliot, Joseph Conrad, and Henry James. Intended for students, this collection is also accessible to the general reader.

A compilation of Ohio ABLE students' perspective of community and personal history.

Author of three memoirs of her own, Mary Karr synthesizes her expertise as graduate writing professor and therapy patient, writer and spiritual seeker, recovered alcoholic and "black belt sinner," providing an irreverent window into the mechanics and art of the form. Anchored by excerpts from her favorite memoirs and anecdotes from fellow writers' experience, The Art of Memoir lays bare Karr's own process. In addition, all those inside stories about...