On the Pig's Back: An Autobiographical Excursion (Oxford paperbacks - Oxford letters & memoirs)

Naughton, Bill

Biographies & Memoirs

Oxford Univ Pr (Sd)

'A critic must be able to feel the impact of a work of art in all its complexity and force. To do so, he must be a man of force and complexity himself...' 'A critic must be emotionally alive in every fibre, intellectually capable and skilful in essential logic, and then morally very honest.' These comments by D. H. Lawrence are as close a description as any of himself as a critic. They come from his essay on fellow novelist John Galsworthy, and there are many other pieces on novels and novelists in this selection. But Lawrence's range of genres extends to poetry and plays and paintings, and his critical writing encompasses an enormous variety of subjects, from Aeschylus and the Apocalypse to symbolism and syphilis, for his nterests are philosophical , psychological, religious, moral, sociological, historical and cultural as well as literary and artistic. This selection is a treasure-trove of `thought adventures' by one of literature's liveliest critical spirits.

Selected Critical Writings (Oxford World's Classics)

Literature & Fiction

Herbert, Michael

LAWRENCE, D.H.

History & Criticism

From the 1920s when he watched his father, a general practitioner who made housecalls and wrote his prescriptions in Latin, to his days in medical school and beyond, Lewis Thomas saw medicine evolve from an art into a sophisticated science. "The Youngest Science" is Dr. Thomas's account of his life in the medical profession and an inquiry into what medicine is all about--the youngest science, but one rich in possibility and promise.

The Youngest Science: Notes of a Medicine Watcher

Thomas. Lewis

Drawing on several hundred printed and recorded autobiographical recollections and life story interviews with three generations of families, this book by Britain's preeminent oral historian provides a unique view of later life. Little has ever been written by historians about growing older in earlier generations, and because sociologists and gerontologists, policy experts, and health researchers have concentrated on problems--reinforcing common images of old age as a time of dependence, incapability, and withdrawal--the typical experience of aging today has never been revealed. The men and women in this study--ranging in age from their sixties to their eighties--reject these derogatory images. They have met later life as a an active challenge, and tell of meaningful, fulfilling lives.

I Don't Feel Old: The Experience of Later Life

Thompson, Paul

American Streamline: Departures : An Intensive American English Course for Beginners/Teachers Edition

Hartley, Bernard

Reference

American Streamline Connections: An Intensive American English Course for Intermediate Students

Words, Language & Grammar

The Basic Oxford Picture Dictionary forms the core of The Basic Oxford Picture Dictionary Program. The program consists of a number of flexible, student-centred components which develop all four skills. As a whole the program provides a comprehensive, communicative approach to language development.

Basic Oxford Picture Dictionary (Spanish/English Edition)

Margot F. Gramer

Teaches reading skills through high-interest texts from the content areas, and a strong vocabulary strand.

PANORAMA 3: Answer Key

Flynn, Kathleen

English as a Second Language

Inter/Media: Interpersonal Communication in a Media World

Gumpert, Gary

Governments of the World: A Student Companion

Pious, Richard M.

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