Essays

"The hunger for a feeling of connection that informs most everything I've written flows from a common break in a common heart, one I share with everyone I've ever really known."--Note Book Every single morning since early 2007, Princeton English...

Fifty years after the Vietnam War, this anthology by descendants of Vietnam veterans and refugees-American, Vietnamese, Vietnamese Diaspora, Hmong, Australian, and others-confronts war and its aftermath. What emerges is an affecting portrait of the...

Acclaimed fiction writer Thomas Beller culls a new volume of essays, vignettes, and tales of the city from the literary Web site Mr. Beller’s Neighborhood, one of the premier venues for the urban sketch on the Internet. Lost and Found, Volume II of the...

In her admired works of fiction, Ann Hood explores the transformative power of literature. Now, with warmth and honesty, Hood reveals the personal story behind these works of fiction. Growing up in a household that didn't foster the love of literature,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374906757Author Jonathan FranzenFormat PaperbackImprint Farrar, Straus and GirouxPublisher Farrar, Straus and GirouxWeight(grams) 227g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780364462850Author Egerton BrydgesFormat HardbackPage Count 461Imprint Forgotten BooksPublisher Forgotten Books

The Columbia Journalism Review's Second Read series features distinguished journalists revisiting key works of reportage. Launched in 2004 by John Palattella, who was then editor of the magazine's book section, the series also allows authors address such...

The Columbia Journalism Review's Second Read series features distinguished journalists revisiting key works of reportage. Launched in 2004 by John Palattella, who was then editor of the magazine's book section, the series also allows authors address such...

A brilliant, idiosyncratic collection of introductions and afterwords (plus some liner notes) by New York Times bestselling and Pulitzer Prize winning author Michael Chabon-"one of contemporary literature's most gifted prose stylists" (Michiko Kakutani,...

To appreciate the life of the Italian immigrant enclave from the great heart of the Italian migration to its settlement in America requires that one come to know how these immigrants saw their communities as colonies of the mother country. Edited with...

La Soeur (1645) is one of the liveliest and most successful comedies by Jean Rotrou. It is an ingenious adaptation, long unidentified, of an Italian comedy, La Sorella (c.1584), by the polygraph Giambattista Della Porta; sometimes it remains close to the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789356994638Author Srinath K. ReddyFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint HarperCollins IndiaPublisher HarperCollins IndiaDimensions(mm) 220mm * 140mm * 20mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780892552412Author John LougheryFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Persea Books IncPublisher Persea Books Inc

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781936365937Author Heidi JulavitsFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint McSweeney's PublishingPublisher McSweeney's PublishingWeight(grams) 213g

This collection of essays, including contributions by Paula Backscheider, Martin C. Battestin, and Patricia Meyer Spacks- examines the relationship between history, literary forms, and the cultural contexts of British literature from the late seventeenth...

Who is the greatest living essayist writing in English? Joseph Epstein would surely be at the top of anybody's list. Epstein is penetrating. He is witty. He has a magic touch with words, that hard to define but immediately recognizable quality called...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780892724932Author Tom HennesseyFormat HardbackPage Count 1Imprint Down East Books,U.S.Publisher Rowman & LittlefieldWeight(grams) 753g

Structures and Subjectivities refers to what we can and probably cannot know about women in the early modern period. Scholars study the societal structures their disciplines call attention to; they are left to infer the subjectivities, the lived...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780874136166Author Albert J. RiveroFormat HardbackPage Count 311Imprint University of Delaware PressPublisher Rowman & Littlefield

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsCommended for National Book Critics Circle Award (Criticism) 2010.Book InformationISBN 9781555975548Author Ander MonsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Graywolf...

'Graham Seal has the knack of the storyteller' - Warren Fahey AMThe tradition of yarns from the bush goes back to the earliest days in Australia. Colourful rural characters and dramatic incidents parade through our history and folklore, entertaining and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781644452714Author Aisha Sabatini SloanFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Graywolf PressPublisher Graywolf PressWeight(grams) 454g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780316485364Author Jenny SlateFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Back Bay BooksPublisher Back Bay BooksWeight(grams) 218gDimensions(mm) 208mm * 137mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802160508Author Viet Thanh NguyenFormat HardbackPage Count 400Imprint Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly PressPublisher Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781640096301Author Rick BassFormat HardbackPage Count 336Imprint CounterpointPublisher Counterpoint

Forty essays on history, art, and literature from one of the most incisive, and most exhilarating, critical minds of the twentieth century. Guy Davenport was perhaps the last great American polymath. He provided links between art and literature, music...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250863089Author Samantha HuntFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Picador USAPublisher Picador USAWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm) 208mm * 137mm * 30mm

Who invented the personal essay? That is hard to say. The ancient Roman philosopher and cynical power broker, Seneca? The 16th century French philosopher Montaigne certainly brought it to a peak of perfection. There were many 19th century masters, not so...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250024053Author Marilynne RobinsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 191gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780993010644Author Laura TosiFormat PaperbackPage Count 142Imprint Patrician PressPublisher Patrician PressDimensions(mm) 216mm * 138mm * 11mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780956104670Author Chris AgeeFormat PaperbackImprint IRISH PAGESPublisher IRISH PAGES

The backdam people of Lusignan Estate have left the sugar company's cramped barrack housing and moved to their own individual houses in Annandale Village. They enjoy better conditions, freedom from interference by the estate authorities and more...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780907123323Author Richard BostonFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Five Leaves PublicationsPublisher Five Leaves Publications

In Voice , Adam Pottle explores the crucial role deafness has played in the growth of his imagination, and in doing so presents a unique perspective on a writer's development. Born deaf in both ears, Pottle recounts what it was like growing up in a world...

Annabel Lyon's passion for historical novels and her love of ancient Greece make her lecture on the process of creating characters of historical fiction captivating. She discusses the process of wading through historical sources-and avoiding myriad...

This interdisciplinary anthology explores the representation of everyday life across several disciplines in a century known for its interest in individual experience of the mundane as well as the heroic. Comprised of essays by established and emerging...

These thirteen essays offer not only the "representations of Swift" to which its title refers but also a representation of Swift scholarship at the close of the twentieth century and a return to fundamental questions about the life, writing,...

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...

For Peter Smith, the assignment from Minnesota Public Radio was simple: try to do something about Minnesota. So he began exploring the simple, everyday Minnesota things he came across and sharing them with listeners each Tuesday morning. The result is a...

This unorthodox but delightful anthology of 42 essays focuses on the masters of world literature-writers best known for novels, plays, and poems-and how they put the essay to their personal use. Contributors include Auden, Balzac, Conrad, Dickens,...