Essays

Written over 30 years, these essays range over the field of Anglo-Irish literature from Yeats, Joyce and Synge through Patrick Kavanagh and Mary Lavin to Brendan Kennelly and Eavan Boland.Reviews"Bearing Witness is the first publication from UCD Press...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781897126363Author Barbara GodardFormat PaperbackPage Count 412Imprint NeWest PressPublisher NeWest PressWeight(grams) 678g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781878610621Author David RomtvedtFormat PaperbackPage Count 252Imprint Museum of New Mexico Press (Red Crane Books)Publisher Museum of New Mexico Press (Red...

This is a collection of Robert Graves' essays, written between 1922 and 1972, on areas of culture which engaged him. They are organized around the thematic categories of literature, history and religion. The collection chronicles Graves' intellectual...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781854115126Author Graham MortFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint SerenPublisher Poetry Wales Press

The adventure of discovering, then diving into the world of that esoteric and fascinating French "literary club", the Oulipo -- and the perils of trying to reconfigure the world's most famous monologue while abiding by their fiendishly challenging rules...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781644450116Author Ander MonsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Graywolf PressPublisher Graywolf PressWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm) 208mm * 140mm *...

A collection of essays which reflects the author's skills and her ability to communicate and educate on a variety of levels. Her writing is informative and inspiring, passionate and poignant and ranges from the comic to the tragic, all frequently...

A superb achievement, one that successfully brings together in accessible form the work of two major writers of Renaissance France. This is now the default version of Montaigne in English. --Timothy Hampton, Professor of French and Comparative...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781566494038Author William O'RourkeFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Welcome Rain PublishersPublisher Welcome Rain Publishers

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781550713121Author Thomas DePietroFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Guernica Editions,CanadaPublisher Guernica Editions,CanadaWeight(grams) 150g

The Green Thread: Dialogues with the Vegetal World is an interdisciplinary collection of essays in the emerging field of Plant Studies. The volume is the first of its kind to bring together a dynamic body of scholarship that shares a critique of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781453625392Author Ralph Waldo EmersonFormat PaperbackPage Count 102Imprint CreateSpacePublisher CreateSpaceWeight(grams) 159g

For nearly four decades, poet, essayist, and small-town funeral director Thomas Lynch has probed relations between the literary and mortuary arts. His life's work with the dead and the bereaved has informed four previous collections of nonfiction, each...

Richard Demarco co-founded the Traverse Theatre in Edinburgh in 1963 and ran the vibrant Richard Demarco Gallery in Edinburgh for almost 30 years. He promotes crosscultural dialogues and was the first person to introduce Joseph Beuys in the UK. Joseph...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781938073229Author Heidi JulavitsFormat PaperbackPage Count 88Imprint McSweeney's PublishingPublisher McSweeney's PublishingWeight(grams) 256g

Joseph Epstein takes on that most enchanting (and, alas, increasingly rare) of human gifts, charm. "Almost everyone will recognize when he or she is in the presence of charm," he writes. "Charm is magic of a kind; it casts a spell. In the presence of...

In 'Merchant Prince' Thomas McCarthy presents two groups of poems, set largely in Cork, and a novella set in Italy, in the period from 1769 and 1831. They tell the story of Nathaniel Murphy: his training for the priesthood, the loss of his virginity and...

In these uproarious collections of essays, William Thomas takes you on wacky adventures to Mexico, the Dominican Republic and Japan, and takes an off-center look at public breastfeeding, drinking and driving in Buffalo, NY, visiting the endodontist, and...

This remarkable collection of the great attorney's writings reveals why he was such a force in the court of law and in the court of public opinion. Darrow turned to writing-essays, debates, fiction-to influence a broader audience beyond the field of law...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374298784Author Marilynne RobinsonFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint Farrar, Straus & Giroux IncPublisher Farrar, Straus & Giroux IncWeight(grams)...

A periodic writing about some of the most complex of ideas and people, rendered in prose.Book InformationISBN 9781552785676Author Barry CallaghanFormat PaperbackPage Count 386Imprint McArthur & CompanyPublisher McArthur & CompanyWeight(grams) 426g

Meet the characters of essayist Philip Gerard's world: a misguided sailor and his crew of rowdy teenage boys, an ancient nun, a nurse who believes the government has been secretly spreading the bubonic plague, a park ranger, jaded baseball players, a...

Confronting the dilemmas of modernist and postmodernist thought, Roger Kimball in this new collection of his work explores the literary and philosophical underpinnings of modernity as well as the state of our culture today. Experiments Against Reality...

What is it like to live and write in Maine? Wesley McNair, Maine's premier anthologist, asked authors who are new to Maine as well as natives to answer this question. They wax lyrical on everything from encounters with neighbors and wildlife to embracing...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812997057Author William StyronFormat HardbackPage Count 656Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 975gDimensions(mm) 243mm *...

The Tooth that Nibbles at the Soul brings together Marshall Brown’s new and previously published writings on literature and music. These essays engage questions that are central to the development of literature, music, and the arts in the period from...

James Tuttleton's literary writings in such magazines as the New Criterion, the American Scholar, and the Yale Review have earned him a reputation as one of our most trenchant critics. Here he collects twenty essays derived from his long engagement with...

In eighteen essays, Ms. Allen explores the lives and work of some of the last century's most brilliant and eccentric literary talents. Ms. Allen's appraisals, which combine extensive biographical information with new critical insights, richly illustrate...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374263737Author John McPheeFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint Farrar, Straus & Giroux IncPublisher Farrar, Straus & Giroux IncWeight(grams) 300g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781555663773Author Sureva TowlerFormat PaperbackPage Count 143Imprint Bower HousePublisher Bower HouseWeight(grams) 195g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781555977610Author Albert GoldbarthFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Graywolf PressPublisher Graywolf PressWeight(grams) 295gDimensions(mm) 206mm *...

Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress (the position later to be known as "poet laureate"), editor of Poetry magazine—Karl Shapiro was among the commanding poets of the second half of the twentieth century, yet in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781555972271Author John Meade HainesFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint Graywolf PressPublisher Graywolf PressWeight(grams) 540g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781555973216Author Albert GoldbarthFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Graywolf Press,U.S.Publisher Graywolf Press,U.S.

Trenchant prose writings on poetry, poets, and cultural matters by one of the most important essayists of his generation. Edited with an Introduction by Robert Phillips. A lively and slashing critic...reading him one feels windows opening, clouds...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781938073212Author Heidi JulavitsFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint McSweeney's PublishingPublisher McSweeney's PublishingWeight(grams) 213g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781990048555Author Lynley EdmeadesFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Otago University PressPublisher Otago University Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781593766771Author Chelsea MartinFormat PaperbackPage Count 210Imprint Soft Skull PressPublisher Soft Skull Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814258620Author Christine HumeFormat PaperbackPage Count 184Imprint Mad Creek BooksPublisher Mad Creek Books