Essays

A tender novel describing eager and inept young love, Daphnis and Chloe tells the story of a baby boy and girl who are discovered separately, two years apart, alone and exposed on a Greek mountainside. Taken in by a goatherd and a shepherd respectively,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781596500310Author James G CowanFormat HardbackPage Count 174Imprint New Cultures PressPublisher New Cultures PressWeight(grams) 349gDimensions(mm) 216mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781583225707Author Natalia GinzburgFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Seven Stories Press,U.S.Publisher Seven Stories Press,U.S.Weight(grams) 275g

Kundera's essay has been written like a novel. In the course of nine separate sections, the same characters meet and cross paths with each other. Stravinsky and Kafka with their odd friends Ansermet and Brod; Hemingway with his biographer; Janacek with...

Embracing the web of multi-culturalism that has become a fact of contemporary life from New York to New Delhi, Eco argues that we are more connected to people of other traditions and customs than ever before, making tolerance the ultimate value in...

Philip Larkin's Required Writing, a selection from his miscellaneous prose from 1953-82, was highly praised and enjoyed when it appeared in 1983. Further Requirements gathers together many other interviews, broadcasts, statements and reviews. Some of...

What are the right questions to ask when seeking out the true spirit of a nation? In November 2017 the people of Zimbabwe took to the streets in an unprecedented alliance with the military. Their goal, to restore the legacy of Chimurenga, the...

The New Frontier is a landmark publication of writing from the Irish Border, composed of non-fiction, fiction and poetry - it is a chorus of voices from some of the island's greatest writers, that conveys in its multiplicity the true meaning of our...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Lambda Literary Award 2005.Book InformationISBN 9780767916035Author David RakoffFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA...

Physical graffiti.This edition of early Latin writings is in four volumes. The first three contain the extant work of seven poets and surviving portions of the Twelve Tables of Roman law. The fourth volume contains inscriptions on various materials...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780544812093Author Bill BrysonFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Mariner BooksPublisher Mariner BooksWeight(grams) 272gDimensions(mm) 208mm * 137mm * 23mm

'A wise, mild and enviably lucid book about a chaotic scene' - Dwight Garner, New York Times 'Memoirs of fatherhood are rarely so honest or so blunt' - Daniel Engber, Atlantic'Tender and generous' - New York magazineKeith Gessen had always assumed that...

The color green is at the center of the spectrum. For earlier writers like Emily Dickinson or William Blake, the green world was a space of haunting, irreconcilable, opposites: life and death, human and vegetal, innocence and experience. In these essays,...

In The Guermantes Way Proust's narrator recalls his initiation into the dazzling world of Parisian high society. Looking back over his time in the glamorous salons of the aristocracy, he satirises this shallow world and his own youthful infatuation with...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781438490366Author Bruce JacksonFormat PaperbackPage Count 318Imprint State University of New York PressPublisher State University of New York...

I was thinking; my mind was running at top speed, scanning and sorting my options. They ranged all the way from Dumb and Dangerous to Crazy, Evil, and utterly wrong from the start . . . stand back. We are on the brink. Yes. I have an idea.' When Hunter S...

Thirty-four essays and interviews with some of the greatest individuals, malcontents and free thinkers of the last 150 years - including Louise Brooks, Richard Pryor, David Bowie, Liam Gallagher and Daniel Day-Lewis - this is a collection that exonerates...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781594206702Author Mary OliverFormat HardbackPage Count 192Imprint Penguin Putnam IncPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 340gDimensions(mm) 216mm *...

The philosopher-statesman on Epicureanism, Stoicism, and the Old Academy.Cicero (Marcus Tullius, 106-43 BC), Roman lawyer, orator, politician, and philosopher, of whom we know more than of any other Roman, lived through the stirring era that saw the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915606099Author Charley BarnesFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Valley PressPublisher Valley Press

A sharp and provocative new essay collection from the award-winning author of Purity, Freedom and The Corrections In The End of the End of the Earth, which gathers essays and speeches written mostly in the past five...

A sharp and provocative new essay collection from the award-winning author of Purity, Freedom and The Corrections In The End of the End of the Earth, which gathers essays and speeches written mostly in the past five...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910010273Author Orlando GoughFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint UniformbooksPublisher Uniformbooks

The 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 motivations...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780452283954Author Dennis SmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint PlumePublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 420gDimensions(mm) 228mm * 150mm * 23mm

Collection of essays by Hubert Butler, edited by Chris Agee and Jacob Agee, published by The Irish Pages PressBook InformationISBN 9780993553202Author Chris AgeeFormat HardbackImprint IRISH PAGESPublisher IRISH PAGES

Wendy Cope has long been one of the nation's best-loved poets, with her sharp eye for human foibles and wry sense of humour. For the first time, Life, Love and the Archers brings together the best of her prose - recollections, reviews and essays from the...

Wendy Cope has long been one of the nation's best-loved poets, with her sharp eye for human foibles and wry sense of humour. For the first time, Life, Love and the Archers brings together the best of her prose - recollections, reviews and essays from the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781328470232Author Consultant Statistician Walter BenjaminFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Mariner Books ClassicsPublisher Mariner Books...

The pieces here span reflections on personal and collective identity, on home and family, on literature, language and politics, and on Achebe's lifelong attempt to reclaim the definition of 'Africa' for its own authorship. For the first thirty years of...

A collection of the New Yorker's groundbreaking writing on race in America, including work by James Baldwin, Toni Morrison, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Hilton Als, Zadie Smith, and more From the pages of the New Yorker comes a...

What makes a home, and when do we really feel at home? Is it a physical place, or something we all carry inside us wherever we go?Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library; a series of stunning, pocket-sized classics with ribbon markers. These beautiful...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780993077852Author Michael MeallyFormat PaperbackPage Count 172Imprint Peripeteia PressPublisher Peripeteia PressWeight(grams) 249gDimensions(mm) 234mm *...

Meditative missives.Seneca, Lucius Annaeus, born at Corduba (Cordova) ca. 4 BC, of a prominent and wealthy family, spent an ailing childhood and youth at Rome in an aunt's care. He became famous in rhetoric, philosophy, money-making, and imperial ...

One of the greatest essayists of the Graeco-Roman world, Plutarch (c. AD 46 -120) used an encyclopedic knowledge of the Roman Empire to produce a compelling and individual voice. In this superb selection from his writings, he offers personal insights...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781455562725Author Melissa BroderFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint FaithWordsPublisher Time Warner Trade PublishingWeight(grams) 181gDimensions(mm)...

Susan Sontag's third essay collection brings together her most important critical writing from 1972 to 1980. In these provocative and hugely influential works she explores some of the most controversial artists and thinkers of our time, including her...

"I wrote five days a week for a year, no more than a page, writing only for the length of the analytic hour, fifty minutes, following Freud's model of train travel for his theory of free association, acting 'as though, for instance, [you were] a...

'A loot drop of brilliance' Naomi Alderman, author of The Power Whether you're an avid gamer, a Twitch subscriber, or just an incidental Subway Surfer, video games have changed the way you interact with the world, and have been part of our lives for...

A chronicle of Rome in crisis.The History of Herodian (born ca. AD 178-179) covers a period of the Roman empire from the death of the emperor Marcus Aurelius (AD 180) to the accession of Gordian III (238), half a century of turbulence, in which we can...