A Draft of XXX Cantos
A Draft of XXX Cantos

Author: Ezra Pound

Publisher: New Directions Publishing

Published: 1990

Total Pages: 164

ISBN-13: 9780811211284

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The Cantos have been called Ezra Pound's intellectual diary, composed over the course of sixty years. Long out of print as a separate volume--it was originally published in 1933--this epic of nine groupings of poems is now being issued as a New Directions Paperbook.

Florence Nightingale
Florence Nightingale

Author: Florence Nightingale

Publisher: Manchester University Press

Published: 1997-08-15

Total Pages: 356

ISBN-13: 9781901341027

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Writing from the Crimea where she nursed wounded soldiers, Florence Nightingale through her letters tirelessly pushed for reforms that would improve the welfare of the troops and recruited volunteer nurses. From her correspondence emerges an extraordinary self-portrait of a complex and contradictory personality, very different from the heroine of popular myth. Illustrations.