Inspiriert von Henry David Thoreaus Walden zieht sich die 27-jährige Annie Dillard Anfang der 70 ...

In diesem Band von Essays, die zugleich Erzählungen sind, gilt Annie Dillards unvergleichlicher B...

Mit ebenso scharfem Blick wie Verstand, einer Vorliebe für das Wider- und Hintersinnige und einer...

How do you prepare yourself, all alone, to enter an extraordinary state on an ordinary morning?In...

'Brilliant. . . . A shimmering meditation on the ebb and flow of love.' -- New York Times'In her ...

Annie Dillard -- 'one of the most distinctive voices in American letters today' (Boston Globe) --...

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize'The book is a form of meditation, written with headlong urgency, abo...

National Bestseller'Beautifully written and delightfully strange...as earthy as it is sublime...i...

In 'Modern American Memoirs', two very discerning writers and readers have selected samples from ...

Selections from the world's greatest spiritual writers provide inspiration for the most widely ce...

Annie Dillard was born in 1945 in Pennsylvania. She is a much-celebrated poet, novelist and essay...

'Everyone who timidly, bombastically, reverently, scholastically—even fraudulently—essays to 'liv...