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Wilderness Essays by John Muir 9781423607120
RRP: $24.00$15.78Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781423607120Author John MuirFormat HardbackPage Count 263Imprint Gibbs M. Smith IncPublisher Gibbs M. Smith IncWeight(grams) 522gDimensions(mm) 222mm *... -
Birdsplaining: A Natural History: 2023 by Jasmine Donahaye
$23.40Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913830168Author Jasmine DonahayeFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint New Welsh RarebytePublisher New Welsh Review LtdDimensions(mm) 200mm * 135mm * 7mm -
The Portable Machiavelli by Niccolo Machiavelli
RRP: $22.28$15.59Edited and translated by Peter Bondanella and Mark Musa, "The Portable Machiavelli" not only gives the casual reader a chance to read different personal and professional works of Machiavelli, but also strives to do away with many of the myths that have... -
London Peculiar and Other Nonfiction by Michael Moorcock 9781854251060
RRP: $17.15$14.15Drawn from over 50 years of writing, this anthology includes Michael Moorcock's most recent work and writings from sources now unobtainable, including: 'London Peculiar', an impassioned statement of Moorcock's memories of wartime London and the... -
Not to Read by Alejandro Zambra
RRP: $22.28$14.68In Not to Read, Alejandro Zambra outlines his own particular theory of reading that also offers a kind of blurry self-portrait, or literary autobiography. Whether writing about Natalia Ginzburg, typewriters and computers, Paul Leautaud, or how to be... -
Victorian Women Poets by Alison Chapman
RRP: $111.49$105.41Specially commissioned essays offer revisionary readings of canonical poets and bring into focus rediscovered writers. The specially commissioned essays in Victorian Women Poets, written by scholars from Britain and North America, offer revisionary... -
Things that Talk: Object Lessons from Art and Science by Lorraine J. Daston
RRP: $37.74$30.46Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781890951443Author Lorraine J. DastonFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint Zone BooksPublisher Zone BooksWeight(grams) 726gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *... -
Return of the Primitive: the Anti-Industrial Revolution: The Anti-Industrial Revolution by Peter Schwartz 9780452011847
$24.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780452011847Author Ayn RandFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Penguin Putnam IncPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 255gDimensions(mm) 202mm *... -
Geography: v. 5 by Strabo
RRP: $42.80$40.12The ecumene in prose.Strabo (ca. 64 BC to ca. AD 25), an Asiatic Greek of Amasia in Pontus, studied at Nysa and after 44 BC at Rome. He became a keen traveler who saw a large part of Italy, various near eastern regions including the Black Sea, ... -
The Tribe: Portraits of Cuba by Carlos Manuel Alvarez
RRP: $22.28$14.68Teeming with life and compulsively readable, the pieces gathered together in The Tribe aggregate into an extraordinary mosaic of Cuba today. Carlos Manuel Alvarez, one of the most exciting young writers in Latin America, employs the cronica form - a... -
The Pulling by Adele Dumont 9781914484834
RRP: $18.85$12.56When I've been overtaken, I have stood and watched the water in my porridge simmer away into the air, and then the oats turn black and crackle with dryness, and my ears fill with the smoke alarm's shriek. When Adele Dumont is diagnosed with... -
Chronicles of a Liquid Society by Umberto Eco
RRP: $22.28$15.59Discover the final book from one of Europe's cultural giants.In this entertaining collection of essays about the modern world the celebrated author of The Name of the Rose explores everything from unbridled individualism to mobile phones.'He brilliantly... -
We Have Only This Life To Live by Jean-Paul Sartre
RRP: $39.45$26.71Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590174937Author Jean-Paul SartreFormat PaperbackPage Count 592Imprint NYRB ClassicsPublisher The New York Review of Books, IncWeight(grams)... -
Frantumaglia by Elena Ferrante
RRP: $20.57$13.60Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781609454326Author Elena FerranteFormat PaperbackPage Count 386Imprint Europa EditionsPublisher Europa Editions -
How Should One Read a Book? by Virginia Woolf
RRP: $13.71$9.61'Where are we to begin? How are we to bring order into this multitudinous chaos and so get the deepest and widest pleasure from what we read?'Published for the first time as a standalone volume, Virginia Woolf's short, impassioned essay, How Should One... -
Orwell and England: Selected Essays by George Orwell
RRP: $18.85$12.88George Orwell, perhaps one of the most perceptive writers of the twentieth century, wrote extensively about English life and politics. This selection of his essays and journalism brings together his most provocative and insightful writing on England and... -
The Country Formerly Known as Great Britain by Ian Jack
RRP: $27.43$19.91In this selection from over twenty years of reporting and writing, Ian Jack sets out to deal with contemporary Britain - from national disasters to football matches to obesity - but is always drawn back in time, vexed by the question of what came first... -
Both Flesh And Not by David Foster Wallace
RRP: $18.85$13.33Both Flesh and Not combines David Foster Wallace's best-loved essays with work never before published in the UK.Beloved for his brilliantly discerning eye, his verbal elasticity and his uniquely generous imagination, David Foster Wallace was heralded by... -
On Animals by Susan Orlean 9781838955489
RRP: $17.14$11.18'Every essay in this book is magnificent... Mesmerizing.' New York Times'How we interact with animals has preoccupied philosophers, poets, and naturalists for ages,' writes Susan Orlean. Since the age of six, when Orlean wrote and illustrated a book... -
The Last Days of Socrates by Plato 9780140455496
RRP: $17.14$12.20'Consider just this, and give your minds to this alone: whether or not what I say is just' Plato's account of Socrates' trial and death (399 BC) is a significant moment in Classical literature and the life of Classical Athens. In these four dialogues,... -
It Came from the Closet: Queer Reflections on Horror by Joe Vallese
RRP: $32.57$28.30Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781952177798Author Joe ValleseFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Feminist Press at The City University of New YorkPublisher Feminist Press at The City... -
Alchemy: Writers on Truth, Lies and Fiction by Joanna Kavenna 9781910749166
RRP: $25.71$23.40Reality versus fiction is at the heart of the current literary debate. We live in a world of docu-drama, the 'real life' story. Works of art, novels, films, are frequently bolstered by reference to the autobiography of the creator, or to underlying 'fact... -
Why I Write by George Orwell 9781913724290
RRP: $8.58$7.58George Orwell set out 'to make political writing into an art', and to a wide extent this aim shaped the future of English literature - his descriptions of authoritarian regimes helped to form a new vocabulary that is fundamental to understanding... -
The Art of Libromancy: On Selling Books and Reading Books in the Twenty-first Century by Josh Cook 9781771965415
RRP: $24.00$15.88ONE OF LIT HUB'S MOST ANTICIPATED BOOKS OF 2023 * ESQUIRE's August 2023 Book Club Pick"If books are important to you because you're a reader or a writer, then how books are sold should be important to you as well. If it matters to you that your... -
Art of Just Sitting: Essential Writings on the Zen Practice of Shikantaza by John Daido Loori 9780861713943
RRP: $22.28$14.75Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780861713943Author John Daido LooriFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Wisdom Publications,U.S.Publisher Wisdom Publications,U.S. -
Known and Strange Things by Teju Cole
RRP: $25.71$16.81Shortlisted for the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award and the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the EssayA blazingly intelligent first collection of essays from the award-winning author of Open City and Every Day Is for the Thief.With these pieces... -
Selected Essays by Samuel Johnson
RRP: $25.71$18.78This volume contains a generous selection from the essays Johnson published twice weekly as 'The Rambler' in the early 1750s. It was here that he first created the literary character and forged the distinctive prose style that established him as a public... -
Still Life with a Bridle by Zbigniew Herbert 9781907903496
RRP: $20.58$16.67A gathering of artful essays by one of Poland's most translated post-war writers is here brought to a new audience. Poet and essayist Zbigniew Herbert takes an intriguing look at the cultural, artistic, and aesthetic legacy of 17th-century Holland. These... -
Letters to Atticus: v. 1 by Marcus Tullius Cicero
RRP: $42.80$40.12The private correspondence of Rome's most prolific public figure. To his dear friend Atticus, Cicero reveals himself as to no other of his correspondents except perhaps his brother. In Cicero's Letters to Atticus we get an intimate look at his... -
Consciousness And The Novel by David Lodge
RRP: $22.28$15.59'The professor, the critic and the novelist work in harmony to provide a valuable tutorial on modern fiction' ObserverHow does the novel represent human consciousness on the page?In eleven sparkling essays on some of the great novelists of the last 200... -
Personal Pleasures: Essays on Enjoying LIfe by Rose Macaulay
RRP: $22.28$14.80In 1935 Rose Macaulay (1881-1958) was a well-established novelist, reviewer, columnist and feminist wit. She was part of the 'intellectual aristocracy' of England, but was also passionately interested in everyday life and its foolishnesses. Personal... -
Steps Towards a Small Theory of the Visible by John Berger
RRP: $13.71$9.93'We live within a spectacle of empty clothes and unworn masks'In this series of remarkable pieces from across his career, John Berger celebrates and dissects the close links between art and society and the individual. Few writers give a more vivid and... -
The Displaced: Refugee Writers on Refugee Lives by Viet Thanh Nguyen
RRP: $18.85$13.09Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Sympathizer Viet Thanh Nguyen called on 17 fellow refugee writers from across the globe to shed light on their experiences, and the result is The Displaced, a powerful dispatch from the individual lives behind current... -
Writers and Missionaries: Essays on the Radical Imagination by Adam Shatz
RRP: $42.88$35.32Through a close reading of the lives and works of some of the greatest intellectuals of recent times, Adam Shatz asks: do writers have an ethical imperative to question injustice? How can one remain a dispassionate thinker when involved in the cut and... -
The Fragile Earth: Writing from the New Yorker on Climate Change by David Remnick
RRP: $22.28$14.55A classic collection of the New Yorker's most urgent and groundbreaking reporting from the front lines of the climate emergency In 1989, just one year after climatologist James Hansen first came before a Senate... -
The Storyteller Essays by Walter Benjamin
RRP: $27.43$18.75Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681370583Author Walter BenjaminFormat PaperbackPage Count 136Imprint NYRB ClassicsPublisher The New York Review of Books, Inc -
Thrill Me: Essays on Fiction by Benjamin Percy 9781555977597
RRP: $25.71$19.42In his first book of nonfiction, Benjamin Percy challenges the notion that literary and genre fiction are mutually exclusive. In fifteen essays on the craft of fiction, Percy looks to disparate sources to discover how contemporary writers engage issues... -
Winter: Five Windows on the Season by Adam Gopnik
RRP: $22.28$12.88Winter takes us on an intimate tour of the artists, poets, composers, writers, explorers, scientists and thinkers who helped shape a new and modern idea of winter. We learn how literature heralds the arrival of the middle class; how snow science leads to... -
Ukraine 22: Ukrainian Writers Respond to War by Mark Andryczyk 9781802062915
RRP: $22.28$15.59'The extraordinary writers in this volume articulate the taste, the terror, and the dialect of war; they command their powers of description to face a shameless empire intent on annihilating them' Ellena SavageA selection of Ukraine's leading writers... -
The Art of Poetry: Forward Poems, revised selection by Michael Meally 9780995467149
RRP: $22.28$20.21Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780995467149Author Michael MeallyFormat PaperbackPage Count 168Imprint Art of PoetryPublisher Art of PoetryWeight(grams) 245gDimensions(mm) 234mm * 156mm *...