Alice in Bed by Susan SontagRequirements: .ePUB reader, 82 KBOverview: Alice in Bed is a free dramatic fantasy which merges the life of Alice James, the brilliant sister of William and Henry James, with the heroine of Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland. It is a play about the anguish and grief and rage of women; […]
On Photography by Susan SontagRequirements: .ePUB, .MOBI/.AZW reader, 487 KBOverview: Winner of the National Book Critics’ Circle Award for Criticism. One of the most highly regarded books of its kind, Susan Sontag’s On Photography first appeared in 1977 and is described by its author as “a progress of essays about the meaning and career of […]
Reborn: Journals and Notebooks, 1947-1963 by Susan SontagRequirements: .M4A/.M4B reader, 116.2 MBOverview: "I intend to do everything…I shall anticipate pleasure everywhere and find it too, for it is everywhere! I shall involve myself wholly…everything matters!" This first selection from Susan Sontag’s diaries (from 1947-1963) takes us from early adolescence through to when Sontag was in […]
Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors by Susan SontagRequirements: .MP3 reader, 127.3 MBOverview: In 1978 Susan Sontag wrote Illness as Metaphor, a classic work described by Newsweek as “one of the most liberating books of its time”. A cancer patient herself when she was writing the book, Sontag shows how the metaphors and […]
On Photography by Susan SontagRequirements: .M4A/.M4B reader, 169.3 MBOverview: First published in 1973, this is a study of the force of photographic images which are continually inserted between experience and reality. Sontag develops further the concept of ‘transparency’. When anything can be photographed and photography has destroyed the boundaries and definitions of art, a viewer […]