Best of
Non-Fiction

1928

A Room of One’s Own


Virginia Woolf - 1928
    Based on a lecture given at Girton College, Cambridge, the essay is one of the great feminist polemics, ranging in its themes from Jane Austen and Charlotte Bronte to the silent fate of Shakespeare's gifted (imaginary) sister and the effects of poverty and sexual constraint on female creativity.Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) is regarded as a major twentieth-century author and essayist, a key figure in literary history as a feminist and a modernist, and the centre of 'The Bloomsbury Group'.

A Room of One's Own


Virginia Woolf - 1928
    First published on the 24th of October, 1929, the essay was based on a series of lectures she delivered at Newnham College and Girton College, two women's colleges at Cambridge University in October 1928. While this extended essay in fact employs a fictional narrator and narrative to explore women both as writers and characters in fiction, the manuscript for the delivery of the series of lectures, titled Women and Fiction, and hence the essay, are considered nonfiction. The essay is seen as a feminist text, and is noted in its argument for both a literal and figural space for women writers within a literary tradition dominated by patriarchy.

From Two to Five


Korney Chukovsky - 1928
    Discusses the language of preschool children, and how it is enriched by poetry and fantasy

The Outermost House: A Year of Life On The Great Beach of Cape Cod


Henry Beston - 1928
    Henry Beston had originally planned to spend just two weeks in a seaside cottage, but was so possessed by the mysterious beauty of his surroundings that he found he "could not go."Instead, he sat down to try and capture in words the wonders of the magical landscape he found himself in thrall to: the migrations of seabirds, the rhythms of the tide, the windblown dunes, and the scatter of stars in the changing sky. Beston argued that, "The world today is sick to its thin blood for the lack of elemental things, for fire before the hands, for water, for air, for the dear earth itself underfoot." Seventy-five years after they were first published, Beston's words are more true than ever.

Personality Plus for Couples: Understanding Yourself and the One You Love


Florence Littauer - 1928
    Husbands and wives will understand why they act the way they do and how they can best respond to each other.Personality Plus for Couples gives husbands and wives: * a personality profile test to identify their personality types* the trademark characteristics of each personality type* ways to resolve hot conflicts that arise between spouses* what to expect if you marry someone of the same type, someone of the opposite type, or someone with a compatible personality typeLittauer offers pages of stories and practical insight about how to approach each personality differently. When husbands and wives care enough to understand what makes the other tick, they can celebrate each other's individuality and build a marriage that lasts.

Latin for Today


Mason D. Gray - 1928
    7, 1934BentleyLatin for TodaySecond-Year Courseby Mason D. GrayLate Director of Ancient Languages inEast High School and in junior highschools, Rochester, New Yorkand Thorton JenkinsHead Master, High School, Malden, MassachusettsRevised EditionGinn and CompanyBoston New York Chicago LondonAtlanta Dallas Columbus San Francisco

English Constitutional Conflicts of the Seventeenth Century, 1603-1689


Joseph Robson Tanner - 1928
    

The Philosophy of Schopenhauer


Arthur Schopenhauer - 1928
    Translated by Belfort Bax and Bailey Saunders. One of the greatest philosophers of the 19th century, Schopenhauer seems to have had more impact on literature and on people in general than on academic philosophy. His system of philosophy was based on that of Kant's. Schopenhauer did not believe that people had individual wills but were rather simply part of a vast and single will that pervades the universe and that the feeling of separateness that each of has is but an illusion. This sounds much like the Spinozistic view or the Naturalistic School of philosophy. The difference with Schopenhauer is that, in his view, the cosmic will is wicked...and the source of all endless suffering. His masterpiece of philosophical writing is The World as Will and Idea. The essays contained in this volume give Schopenhauer's views upon a number of important problems in Metaphysics and Ethics, valuable, as an introduction to his more abstract expositions, to the specialist in philosophy, and yet presented in such a manner as to appeal to the general reader and student of literature. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing.

A History of Ethiopia, Nubia & Abyssinia: According to the Hieroglyphic Inscriptions of Egypt and Nubia, and the Ethiopian Chronicles


E.A. Wallis Budge - 1928
    

Making The Fascist State


Herbert Schneider - 1928
    

Imperialism and Civilization


Leonard Woolf - 1928
    Reprint of the 1928 edition, with an introduction by Sylvia Strauss.

The Only Two Ways To Write a Story


John Gallishaw - 1928