They show a Marilyn Monroe unsparing in her analysis of her own life, but also playful, funny and impossibly charming. These bits of text - jotted in notebooks, typed on paper or written on hotel letterhead - reveal a woman who loved deeply and strove to perfect her craft. Fragments is an unprecedented collection of written artifacts - notes to herself, letters, even poems - in Marilyn’s own handwriting, never before published, along with rarely seen intimate photos. Now, for the first time, we can meet this private Marilyn and get to know her in a way we never have before. To confront the mounting difficulties of her life, she wrote. Even as Hollywood studios tried to mold and suppress her, Marilyn never lost her insight, her passion, and her humour.
But what of the other Marilyn? Beyond the headlines - and the too-familiar stories of heartbreak and desolation - was a woman far more curious, searching and hopeful than the one the world got to know. Her serious gifts as an actor were sometimes eclipsed by her notoriety - and the way the camera fell helplessly in love with her. Every word and gesture made headlines and garnered controversy. Marilyn Monroe’s image is so universal that we can’t help but believe that we know all there is to know of her. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines.
For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. Now, acclaimed poet Brooks Haxton presents a powerful free-verse translation of all 130 surviving fragments of the teachings of Heraclitus, with the ancient Greek originals beautifully reproduced en face. His great book, On Nature, the world's first coherent philosophical treatise and touchstone for Plato, Aristotle, and Marcus Aurelius, has long been lost to history-but its surviving fragments have for thousands of years tantalized our greatest thinkers, from Montaigne to Nietzsche, Heidegger to Jung. Download Fragments Book in PDF, Epub and Kindleįragments of wisdom from the ancient world In the sixth century b.c.-twenty-five hundred years before Einstein-Heraclitus of Ephesus declared that energy is the essence of matter, that everything becomes energy in flux, in relativity.
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