Essays

Essayist, 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...

Apologies 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 *...

"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,...

An 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,...

An 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 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...

Apologies 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.

Apologies 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)...

Relationships with our siblings stretch, as an old saying has it, all the way from the cradle to the grave. Few bonds in life are as significant, as formative, as lasting, and as frequently overlooked as those we share with our brothers and sisters. In...

Roland 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...

In 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...

Apologies 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 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 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", 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...

Last 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,...

From 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...

Apologies 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)...

Apologies 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...

Apologies 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 *...

A 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...

A 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 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...

This 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...

Apologies 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

Apologies 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

One 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...

Apologies 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

Apologies 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)...

As 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...

Dramatist, 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...

This 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

From 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...

This 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...

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"The thike, Claire Crowther's imaginary creation, 'broods, plays, and is "othered" by an uncaring society'. The poetry that appeals to Crowther, and for which she acts as such an eloquent advocate, often does the same. The essays of Sense and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781496240507Author Michael DowdyFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint University of Nebraska PressPublisher University of Nebraska Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915553447Author Rory WatermanFormat PaperbackPage Count 314Imprint Shoestring PressPublisher Shoestring PressWeight(grams) 364g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781035036103Author Jamaica KincaidFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint PicadorPublisher Pan Macmillan

From walks in the Luxembourg Garden to letters describing tea with an irascible Tolstoy - Maurice Betz, Rainer Maria Rilke's French translator, enjoyed a rare intimacy with the great poet. This book, inspired by their time working together on the first...