Essays

Fiction and film interrelate closely to each other, and the specially commissioned essays in this volume all consider different aspects of this relationship. Beginning with discussions of Dickens and Victorian literature, the contributors, all leading...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781683961840Author Paul KrassnerFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint FantagraphicsPublisher Fantagraphics

What is it that distinguishes Texas women-the famous Yellow Rose and her descendants? Is it that combination of graciousness and grit that we revere in First Ladies Laura Bush and Lady Bird Johnson? The rapier-sharp wit that Ann Richards and Molly Ivins...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789389967852Author Atul SehgalFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Rupa & CoPublisher Rupa & Co

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915553027Author Rod MadocksFormat PaperbackPage Count 68Imprint Shoestring PressPublisher Shoestring PressWeight(grams) 96gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780914232940Author Clayton EshlemanFormat HardbackPage Count 263Imprint McPherson & Co Publishers,U.S.Publisher McPherson & Co Publishers,U.S...

This book argues that the Seven Years' War (1756--63) produced an intense historical consciousness within British cultural life regarding the boundaries of belonging to community, family and nation. Global warfare prompts a radical re-imagining of the...

In 2003, Lebanese writer Rashid al-Daif spent several weeks in Germany as part of the "West-East Divan" program, a cultural exchange effort meant to improve mutual awareness of German and Middle Eastern cultures. He was paired with German author Joachim...

The University of Iowa is a leading light in the writing world. In addition to the Iowa Writers' Workshop for poets and fiction writers, it houses the prestigious Nonfiction Writing Program (NWP), which was the first full-time masters-granting program in...

First published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.Book InformationISBN 9780415606714Author Wilson KnightFormat PaperbackPage Count 324Imprint RoutledgePublisher Taylor & Francis LtdWeight(grams) 454g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789353338411Author Nandita PuriFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Rupa Publications India Pvt Ltd.Publisher Rupa Publications India Pvt Ltd.

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788129134622Author Raghvendra SinghFormat HardbackPage Count 536Imprint Rupa & CoPublisher Rupa & Co

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781949646047Author Beverly RogersFormat PaperbackPage Count 88Imprint The BelieverPublisher The Believer

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781949646030Author Carol C. Harter Black Mountain Institute The Beverly RogersFormat PaperbackPage Count 88Imprint Believer MagazinePublisher Believer...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781940450117Author Heidi JulavitsFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint McSweeney's PublishingPublisher McSweeney's PublishingWeight(grams) 199g

An author, foreign correspondent, academic, and television personality, Roger Willemsen is a familiar figure in Germany, and The Ends of the Earth offers English-language readers a chance to engage with his uniquely astute take on the world. Consisting...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781620404942Author Bill HayesFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Bloomsbury Publishing PlcPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing Plc

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781558617704Author Faye MoskowitzFormat PaperbackPage Count 150Imprint Feminist Press at The City University of New YorkPublisher Feminist Press at The City...

The Texanist, Texas Monthly's perennially popular back-page column, has become the magazine's most-read feature. With an inimitable style and an unassailable wholesomeness, columnist David Courtney has counseled many a well-intentioned Texan, native or...

Collects Stan Gontarski's finest essays on the work of Samuel Beckett over a forty-year periodRepresenting a profound engagement with the work of Samuel Beckett, this volume gathers the very best of Stan Gontarski's Beckett criticism on practical,...

Selections from the "Pandemic Files" published by The Yale Review, the preeminent journal of literature and ideas"If only our response to the pandemic on other fronts could have been as speedy and potent as this literary one."-Kirkus Reviews, starred...

"I believe every sunrise and I remember the smell of wet grass, the color of robins, and rustle of leaves on the big oaks that outlive nations, all this comes with each sunrise."Sonata marks the sixth and final installment of Charles Bowden's towering...

Selected by editor Mireille Silcoff, the 2023 edition of Best Canadian Essays showcases the best Canadian nonfiction writing published in 2021. Book InformationISBN 9781771965033Author Mireille SilcoffFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781398439757Author Asif AliFormat PaperbackPage Count 178Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers

Based on Ghazaleh Golbakhsh's experience as an Iranian immigrant growing up in New Zealand, these essays range from a childhood in war-torn Iran, including the trauma of a night spent in prison as a six-year-old, to learning English so she could make...

These essays analyze the ideological and historical sources of the apparent reversal of the pattern of welfare state expansion in the United States, Great Britain, and Western and Eastern Europe.Book InformationISBN 9780873323901Author Gosta...

Julia Kavanagh was a popular and internationally published writer of the mid-nineteenth century whose collective body of work included fiction, biography, critical studies of French and English women writers, and travel writing. In this critically...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788129151759Author Devendra PrabhudesaiFormat PaperbackPage Count 114Imprint Rupa & CoPublisher Rupa & Co

On autopsy, the brain of an Alzheimer's patient can weigh as little as 30 percent of a healthy brain. The tissue grows porous. It is a sieve through which the past slips.As her mother loses her grasp on their shared history, Elizabeth Kadetsky sifts...

Including pieces on Gregory Bateson, William Faulkner, Philip Pullman, Sir Oswald Mosley's politics, religion and stammering, this diverse collection gathers essays written by Nicholas Mosley over the past forty years. Resembling the behaviour of slime...

This volume brings together a range of essays by eminent and emergent scholars working at the intersection of modern literary, cinema and sound studies.Book InformationISBN 9781474437721Author Julian MurphetFormat PaperbackPage Count 360Imprint Edinburgh...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814255926Author Jill Sisson QuinnFormat PaperbackPage Count 184Imprint Ohio State University PressPublisher Ohio State University PressWeight(grams) 227g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781949646160Author Carol C. Harter Black Mountain Institute The Beverly RogersFormat PaperbackImprint Believer MagazinePublisher Believer Magazine

For more than 30 years, Mike Royko was a part of the daily fabric of Chicagoans' lives, penning often humorous and always honest columns first for the Chicago Daily News, then the Sun-Times, and finally the Tribune. Culled from thousands of his Tribune...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789390260379Author Karnal SinghFormat PaperbackPage Count 220Imprint Rupa Publications India Pvt Ltd.Publisher Rupa Publications India Pvt Ltd.

A presentation of eight contemporary Chinese women writers, representing two generations of women with different backgrounds and experiences. The selections explore esthetic, cultural and ideological problems that continue to challenge Chinese women.Book...

For Willa Cather, "the world broke in two in 1922 or thereabouts." The whole legacy of Western civilization stood on the far side of World War I, and in the spiritually impoverished present she looked back to that. To that she directed readers of these...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780733644993Author Annika SmethurstFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint Hachette AustraliaPublisher Hachette AustraliaWeight(grams) 111g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781643753041Author Ross GayFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Algonquin BooksPublisher Algonquin Books

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781949646108Author Carol C. Harter Black Mountain Institute The Beverly RogersFormat PaperbackImprint Believer MagazinePublisher Believer Magazine