Essays

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781936365876Author Andrew LelandFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint McSweeney's PublishingPublisher McSweeney's PublishingWeight(grams) 199g

Award-winning author Katherine Ayres charts a lyrical, thoughtful path through the lives of bears she encounters in the forests of Western Massachusetts. Using her natural curiosity and wit, Ayres explores how people and bears coexist, and what happens...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Man Booker International Prize 2007.Book InformationISBN 9780385721332Author Chinua AchebeFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Bantam Doubleday DellPublisher...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143113782Author J. M. CoetzeeFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 235gDimensions(mm) 197mm * 129mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781843510314Author Richard KearneyFormat HardbackPage Count 480Imprint The Lilliput Press LtdPublisher The Lilliput Press Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781781721780Author Jim SaundersFormat HardbackPage Count 140Imprint SerenPublisher Poetry Wales Press

Lyric essays by Fran Lock on subject of the Feral in context of queer, Irish, Gypsy Romani Traveler, working class people and women.Book InformationISBN 9781739265281Author Fran LockFormat PaperbackImprint Out-Spoken PressPublisher Out-Spoken Press

Acclaimed playwright Terrence McNally's works are characterized by such diversity that critics have sometimes had difficulty identifying the pattern in his carpet. To redress this problem, In Muse of Fire, Raymond-Jean Frontain has collected McNally's...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781635579611Author Jenny DiskiFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint Bloomsbury PublishingPublisher Bloomsbury PublishingWeight(grams) 485g

Studies in Ephemera: Text and Image in Eighteenth-Century Print brings together established and emerging scholars of early modern print culture to explore the dynamic relationships between words and illustrations in a wide variety of popular cheap print...

A Handful of Mischief: New Essays on Evelyn Waugh is a collection of essays based on presentations at the Evelyn Waugh Centenary Conference at Hertford College, Oxford, in 2003. There are twelve different essays by authors from various countries,...

In book 9 of ""Paradise Lost"" near the end of what is generally referred to as the separation scene, Eve speaks of Adam's 'reasoning words' (379) as she prepares to leave her husband's side to garden alone. For a writer who focused...

In eighteen enlightening essays, the critic Brooke Allen explores the lives and work of some of the last century's most brilliant and eccentric literary talents. It was a century that apotheosized ideology and frequently demanded evidence of political...

Photographer Rick Vanderpool traveled over 20,500 miles and spent 54 days on the road shooting the word "Texas" in an infinite variety of sizes, shapes, angles, colors, and materials. He found the word on belt buckles and theater signs, sewer lids and...

A searing and fearless anthology of essays exploring the profound impact of money on women’s lives, edited by prominent feminist and writer Rebecca Walker.Women Talk Money is a groundbreaking collection that lifts the veil on what women talk about when...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781493066056Author Anne AverytFormat PaperbackPage Count 174Imprint Globe Pequot PressPublisher Rowman & LittlefieldWeight(grams) 268gDimensions(mm) 230mm *...

Inside Old English: Essays in Honour of Bruce Mitchell offers readers a comprehensive insight into the world of Old English. * Brings together original essays written by prominent specialists in the field in honour of Bruce Mitchell, the eminent Oxford...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780999323120Author Believer MagazineFormat PaperbackPage Count 109Imprint The BelieverPublisher The BelieverWeight(grams) 290gDimensions(mm) 254mm * 216mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780998260426Author Jim KrosschellFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint Green Writers PressPublisher Green Writers PressWeight(grams) 290g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780995571907Author David FlintFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint HarderFaster / David FlintPublisher HarderFaster / David Flint

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780955245053Format PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Iron PressPublisher Iron PressWeight(grams) 265g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780954845629Author Tom HodgkinsonFormat HardbackPage Count 312Imprint Idle LtdPublisher Idle LtdWeight(grams) 500g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780946640263Author John MontagueFormat HardbackPage Count 234Imprint The Lilliput Press LtdPublisher The Lilliput Press Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780914630074Author Rodney G. DennisFormat PaperbackPage Count 212Imprint Houghton Library,U.S.Publisher Houghton Library,U.S.Weight(grams) 776g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780904872347Author Dinah LivingstoneFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint KatabasisPublisher Katabasis

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780904872316Author Dinah LivingstoneFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint KatabasisPublisher Katabasis

This volume, a celebration of the tercentenary of Dryden's death, examines the impact of his work through a range of essays by leading Dryden scholars. These essays pay special attention to two aspects of his work that have received less attention than...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780874133745Author Douglas J. CanfieldFormat HardbackPage Count 200Imprint University of Delaware PressPublisher Rowman & Littlefield

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780872332645Author Kirsti A. SandyFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Bauhan (William L.),U.S.Publisher Bauhan (William L.),U.S.

This provocative collection contains pieces both older and previously unpublished from the author's 20 year career. Readers will especially value the new material, pulled from his journalistic pieces written during his five-year employment at the Jewish...

Although he died at the age of thirty-two, Randolph Bourne (1886-1918) left a body of writing on politics, culture, and literature that made him one of the most influential public intellectuals of the twentieth century, and a hero of the American left...

A Pagan Polemic curates the evolving perspective of Jack Loeffler--itinerant wanderer, environmental warrior, storyteller, and story collector--whose true education began when he was marched into the Nevada desert one day at dawn to play "The Stars and...

The enduring power of Rainer Maria Rilke's poetry rests with his claim that all we need for a better life on earth is already given to us, in the here and now. In twenty-six engaging and accessible essays, Ulrich Baer's The Rilke Alphabet examines this...

"A good place to be from." That's how some people might characterize the Buckeye State. The writings in Good Roots: Writers Reflect on Growing Up in Ohio, are testimony to the truth of that statement. By prominent writers such as P. J...

This collection of Taft's speeches, newspaper articles and complementary documents, originally published in 1920, reflects his consistent support for a league of nations and, eventually, for the Covenant of the League of Nations emanating from the Paris...

Ralph Waldo Emerson is one of the most important figures in American nature writing, yet until now readers have had no book devoted to this central theme in his work. The Best Read Naturalist fills this lacuna, placing several of Emerson's lesser-known...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814258637Author Christine ImperialFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Mad Creek BooksPublisher Mad Creek Books

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814255315Author Joe BlundoFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Ohio State University PressPublisher Ohio State University PressWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812978759Author William StyronFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 142gDimensions(mm)...

The eighteen essays in this collection show Henry James (1843-1916) in a new and unexpected light-as a political commentator and social reformer. His acute powers of observation, his unerring feel for social nuance, and his abiding interest in the news,...