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Adultery and Other Diversions by Tim Parks 9781611458213
RRP: $15.47$11.69Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781611458213Author Tim ParksFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Skyhorse PublishingPublisher Skyhorse PublishingWeight(grams) 249gDimensions(mm) 208mm *... -
The Hunger Book: A Memoir from Communist Poland by Agata Izabela Brewer 9780814258781
RRP: $30.90$21.76Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814258781Author Agata Izabela BrewerFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Ohio State University PressPublisher Ohio State University PressWeight(grams)... -
Sigmund Freud's the Interpretation of Dreams by Laura Marcus
RRP: $25.79$20.54Freud's The Interpretation of Dreams, published in 1900, has been one of the most influential texts of the modern era, fundamentally changing the ways in which people have thought about their waking lives as well as their dreams. This book, more than any... -
Spirit Things by Lara Lara Messersmith-Glavin
RRP: $20.58$16.99Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781602234550Author Lara Messersmith-GlavinFormat PaperbackPage Count 202Imprint University of Alaska PressPublisher University of Alaska PressWeight(grams)... -
Hazlitt: The Mind of a Critic by David Bromwich 9780300079890
$41.03Essayist, lecturer, and radical pamphleteer, William Hazlitt (1778-1830) was the greatest of English critics and a master of the art of prose. This book is a superb appreciation of the man and his works, at once a revaluation of the aesthetics of... -
Blue Nights by Joan Didion
RRP: $21.93$9.71Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307387387Author Joan DidionFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 210gDimensions(mm) 203mm *... -
Sallies, Romps, Portraits, and Send-Offs: Selected Prose, 2000-2016 by August Kleinzahler 9780374537678
RRP: $25.80$17.17"Witty, gritty poet and memoirist Kleinzahler" (Publishers Weekly) has gathered the best of sixteen years' worth of essays, remembrances, and reviews in this scabrous and essential collection, setting down his thoughts about great poets and bad poets,... -
The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran 9780140194470 [USED COPY]
RRP: $14.18$2.68An inspirational, allegorical guide to living. 'The Prophet' is the most famous work of religious fiction in the twentieth century and had sold millions of copies in more than twenty languages. Gibran has his protagonist, called Simply the prophet,... -
The Prophet Kahlil Gibran 9780140194470
RRP: $14.18$10.02An inspirational, allegorical guide to living. 'The Prophet' is the most famous work of religious fiction in the twentieth century and had sold millions of copies in more than twenty languages. Gibran has his protagonist, called Simply the prophet,... -
Essays on Politics and Society by Thomas Carlyle
RRP: $161.25$126.50Essays on Politics and Society brings together the most significant writings on the topic by the acclaimed Victorian historian, social critic, and essayist Thomas Carlyle. This volume includes some of his most well-known and influential pieces, such as... -
IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE: ROADS TO HAPPINESS by Ruskin Bond
RRP: $11.61$7.06Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789390652402Author Ruskin BondFormat HardbackPage Count 149Imprint Rupa Publications India Pvt Ltd.Publisher Rupa Publications India Pvt Ltd. -
Small Wonder: Essays by Barbara Kingsolver 9780060504083
RRP: $24.50$19.01Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060504083Author Barbara KingsolverFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint HarperCollins PublishersPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 331g -
The Captain's Death Bed and Other Essays by Virginia Woolf 9780156153959
RRP: $27.03$19.21Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780156153959Author Virginia WoolfFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint Mariner Books ClassicsPublisher Mariner Books ClassicsWeight(grams)... -
A Very Fine Gift and Other Writings on Theory: Essays and Interviews: Volume 1 by Roland Barthes
RRP: $20.64$18.37Roland Barthes, whose centenary falls in 2015, was a restless, protean thinker. A constant innovator, often as a daring smuggler of ideas from one discipline to another, he first gained an audience with his pithy essays on mass culture and then went on... -
A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf 9781913724009
RRP: $10.31$8.63In October 1928 Virginia Woolf was asked to deliver speeches at Newnham and Girton Colleges on the subject of 'Women and Fiction'; she spoke about her conviction that 'a woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction'. The... -
Essays, Speeches & Public Letters by William Faulkner 9780812971378
RRP: $24.50$20.30Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812971378Author William FaulknerFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Modern Library IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 277gDimensions(mm)... -
The Estrangement Principle by Ariel Goldberg
RRP: $16.76$11.13The Estrangement Principle argues for a wider range of possible associations with art made by queer people by unraveling the difficulties of the "queer art" label. Goldberg invokes the lives and works of artists Renee Gladman, Jocelyn Saidenberg, Jack... -
Twenty Poems That Could Save America And Other Essays by Tony Hoagland 9781555976941
RRP: $19.34$12.96Twenty Poems That Could Save America presents insightful essays on the craft of poetry and a bold conversation about the role of poetry in contemporary culture. Essays on the vertigo' effects of new poetry give way to appraisals of Robert Bly, Sharon... -
At the Edge of Night by Anise Koltz 9781904614562
RRP: $14.18$9.86"At the Edge of Night", a selection from four recent collections by Anise Koltz, brings the work of Luxembourg's best-known poet to the attention of the English-speaking literary world for the first time. Written in Koltz's prolific seventh decade, these... -
"Masculine, Feminine, Neuter"and Other Writings on Literature: Essays and Interviews, Volume 3 by Roland Barthes
RRP: $20.64$17.85Last season, Seagull Books published the first three volumes in a new series collecting essays and interviews by the late French thinker Roland Barthes. This season they'll bring the five-volume set to completion with the publication of "Masculine,... -
The Kiss: Intimacies from Writers by Brian Turner 9780393635263
$20.51From Sioux Falls to Khartoum, from Kyoto to Darwin; from the panchayat forests to the Giant's Causeway; in taxis and at bus stops, in kitchens and sleigh beds, haystacks and airports-people are kissing one another. The sublime kiss. The ambiguous kiss... -
A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments by David Foster Wallace
RRP: $25.79$16.13Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780316925280Author David Foster WallaceFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Little, Brown & CompanyPublisher Little, Brown & CompanyWeight(grams)... -
HOW TCS BUILT AN INDUSTRY FOR INDIA by R. Gopalakrishnan
RRP: $11.61$8.19Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789353338541Author R. GopalakrishnanFormat HardbackPage Count 160Imprint Rupa Publications India Pvt Ltd.Publisher Rupa Publications India Pvt Ltd... -
The Abundance: Narrative Essays Old and New by Annie Dillard
RRP: $25.79$15.47Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062432964Author Annie DillardFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 259gDimensions(mm) 183mm *... -
Llyfr y Tri Aderyn by Derec Llwyd Morgan 9780708305508 [USED COPY]
$5.39A facsimilie copy of his most influential work by Morgan Llwyd (1619-1659), being a powerful and multi-layered allegory in the form of a conversation between three birds - an eagle, a raven and a dove - which represent the State, the Established Church... -
Llyfr y Tri Aderyn by Derec Llwyd Morgan 9780708305508
RRP: $5.15$4.30A facsimilie copy of his most influential work by Morgan Llwyd (1619-1659), being a powerful and multi-layered allegory in the form of a conversation between three birds - an eagle, a raven and a dove - which represent the State, the Established Church... -
The Green Thread: Dialogues with the Vegetal World by John Ryan 9781498510615
RRP: $54.18$47.64The 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... -
Dear Damage by Ashley Marie Farmer
RRP: $16.76$11.13A harrowing and heartfelt essay collection weaving narratives about family, gun violence, art, and the American Dream. Two weeks before her grandfather purchased a gun, Ashley Marie Farmer's grandmother tripped as she walked across their living... -
Giving Offense: Essays on Censorship by J. M. Coetzee 9780226111742
RRP: $39.99$38.95This text presents an analysis of censorship from the perspective of a writer who has lived and worked under its shadow. The essays collected here attempt to understand the passion that plays itself out in acts of silencing and censoring. Subscribing... -
Selected Prose of Louis MacNeice by Louis MacNeice 9780198185253
$140.22This is the second of two collections of MacNeice's prose writings, prepared by Alan Heuser. The first, concentrating on his literary criticism, came out in 1987 (still available from OUP). The present collection will be of interest to a wider... -
Never Drank the Kool-aid: Essays by Toure 9780312425784
$21.34Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312425784Author Tour Format PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Picador USAPublisher Picador USA -
Our Killer City: isms, chisms, chasms and schisms: essays and poems Rita Ann Higgins 9781912561094
RRP: $12.90$9.03Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912561094Author Rita Ann HigginsFormat PaperbackPage Count 122Imprint Salmon PoetryPublisher Salmon Poetry -
SELECTED WRIT CENDRARS PA by Blaise Cendrars 9780811218887
$16.76One of the great figures of modern French literature. Swiss-born in 1887, but French to the core in spirit, Cendrars roamed the world for many years, a restless seeker who made life an adventure and his novels and poems the record of a never-satisfied... -
The Believer Issue 141: Spring 2023 by Daniel Gumbiner 9781952119712
$20.64Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781952119712Author Daniel GumbinerFormat PaperbackImprint McSweeney's PublishingPublisher McSweeney's Publishing -
Too Cruel, Not Unusual Enough by Kenneth E Hartman 9780615685274
RRP: $19.29$16.94Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780615685274Author Kenneth E HartmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 254Imprint Steering Committee PressPublisher Steering Committee PressWeight(grams)... -
The Atlantic Ocean: Essays on Britain and America by Andrew O'Hagan 9780571238859 [USED COPY]
RRP: $25.80$3.56As he grew up, Andrew O'Hagan witnessed the decline of Britain and the rise of America, the end of British industry and the rise of Blair and the tabloids. This collection of essays tells the story of that period in our cultural and political life... -
Goethe by T. J. Reed 9780192875020 [USED COPY]
RRP: $7.73$2.75Dramatist, novelist, lyric poet, and scientist, Johann Wolfgang Goethe (1749-1832) is unquestionably a major figure of Germany's national literature; his career and works created a culture in themselves. In this book T. J. Reed shows that in every phase... -
Pundits, Poets and Wits by Karl E. Meyer 9780195060638 [USED COPY]
RRP: $25.16$3.90This anthology features the writing of popular newspaper columnists and journalists in the USA.Book InformationISBN 9780195060638Author Karl E. MeyerFormat HardbackPage Count 499Imprint Oxford University Press IncPublisher Oxford University Press Inc -
Normal is Only a Setting on the Dryer: And Other Lessons from the Real World by Adair Lara 9780811838245 [USED COPY]
$5.24From celebrated San Francisco Chronicle columnist and features writer Adair Lara comes this collection of humorous and thoughtful advice from readers. In it she's compiled approximately 225 bits of wisdom not found in your usual self-help or advice books... -
The Burning Library: Writings on Art, Politics and Sexuality, 1969-93 by Edmund White 9780701161682 [USED COPY]
$3.62This book brings together some of Edmund White's essays, articles and reviews from more than 20 years, and presents a portrait of the writer and his time. The book features interviews, profiles and essays which focus on the literary and cultural figures...