Essays

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781936787791Author Natalie Eve GarrettFormat HardbackPage Count 208Imprint CatapultPublisher Catapult

From the bestselling author of The Tall Man and The Arsonist, a personal tale about death, life and the enchantment of stories. With illustrations by Anna Walker.'A striking voyage of discovery.' Observer Let me tell you a story... When Chloe Hooper's...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910213803Author Phil BakerFormat PaperbackPage Count 296Imprint Dedalus LtdPublisher Dedalus Ltd

A master of the jeweled style.Ausonius (Decimus Magnus), ca. AD 310-ca. 395, a doctor's son, was born at Burdigala (Bordeaux). After a good education in grammar and rhetoric and a short period during which he was an advocate, he took to teaching rhetoric...

A fascinating collection of essays on literary subjects ranging from Daniel Defoe to Samuel Beckett by a Nobel and Booker Prize-winning writerLate Essays gathers together J.M. Coetzee's literary essays from 2006 to 2017. The subjects covered in this...

The "Father of History."Herodotus the great Greek historian was born about 484 BC, at Halicarnassus in Caria, Asia Minor, when it was subject to the Persians. He traveled widely in most of Asia Minor, Egypt (as far as Aswan), North Africa, Syria, the...

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,...

Even on holiday, sex and death are Jean-Philippe Toussaint s constant companions...About the AuthorJean-Philippe Toussaint is the author of nine novels, and the winner of numerous literary prizes, including the Prix Decembre for "The Truth about Marie"...

Syncretistic exegesis.The philosopher Philo was born about 20 BC to a prominent Jewish family in Alexandria, the chief home of the Jewish Diaspora as well as the chief center of Hellenistic culture; he was trained in Greek as well as Jewish learning. In...

A brilliant personal history from the award-winning author of 'The Corrections'. Jonathan Franzen, bestselling author of 'Freedom' and the highly acclaimed 'The Corrections', arrived late, and last, in a family of boys in Webster Groves,...

Arrivals, inspections, victories.In this volume are three works concerning the campaigns engaged in by the great Roman statesman Julius Caesar (100-44 BC), but not written by him. The Alexandrian War, which deals with troubles elsewhere also, may have...

FROM THE INTERNATIONALLY BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF WHAT I LOVED AND A WOMAN LOOKING AT MEN LOOKING AT WOMEN'Richly intelligent insights on every page' Financial Times'A rare kind of quiet intellectual confidence' Sunday TelegraphIn these fascinating, lively...

Part political inquiry, part travel journal, part-self exploration, "Seek" is a collection of essays by an award-winning novelist out to explore himself and his life in the company of those who live on the edges of society. Denis Johnson travels between...

A seasonal anthology of Christmas-themed writings to savour during the highs and lows of Christmas Day. This delightful book offers a diverse array of classic and contemporary writers who have expressed their thoughts about Christmas over the centuries -...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590176719Author Josep PlaFormat PaperbackPage Count 656Imprint NYRB ClassicsPublisher The New York Review of Books, IncWeight(grams) 665gDimensions(mm)...

These first two volumes of a projected five, in preparation for several years, begin a major publishing venture, collecting the complete essays of one of the giants of modern English prose and of social commentary in our time. The first two volumes span...

It's time to diversify your reading list. This richly illustrated and vastly inclusive collection uplifts the works of authors who are often underrepresented in the literary world. Using their keen knowledge and deep love for all things literary,...

Uncovering the pernicious narratives white people create to justify white supremacy and sustain racist oppression The police murders of two Black men, Philando Castile and George Floyd, frame this searing exploration of the historical and fictional...

Antiquity's imperial biographer par excellence.Suetonius (C. Suetonius Tranquillus, born ca. AD 70), son of a military tribune, was at first an advocate and a teacher of rhetoric, but later became the emperor Hadrian's private secretary, 119-121. He...

In a world where we're more connected than ever, why is it that we're also more lonely? Dip into this anthology of classic writing to reclaim the pleasure of your own company.Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library; a series of stunning pocket size...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780767906319Author David RakoffFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Broadway Books (A Division of Bantam Doubleday DelPublisher Broadway Books (A Division...

Quintilian Institutionis Oratoriae Vol. IBook InformationISBN 9780198146544Author Michael WinterbottomPage Count 392Imprint Oxford University PressPublisher Oxford University PressDimensions(mm) 193mm * 127mm * 26mm

These reflective essays about Deon's life and experiences in the west of Ireland describe the colourful and varied personalities that the French novelist has come across since he and his family moved there in the mid 1970s. From his friendship with John...

"Lovely, hilarious, and seriously thought-provoking." TONI MORRISON "Endlessly curious, playful, and subtle." PANKAJ MISHRA SLEEPING AMONG SHEEP UNDER A STARRY SKY is a collection of essays written over the course of the last thirty-five years. Shawn...

Beginning with the election of Donald Trump ("The Loneliest Man in the World") and expanding back and forth into American history, surveillance, violence against the individual, the denormalizing of misogyny and the rehumanizing of public space. The...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911547761Author Michael RipsFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Daunt BooksPublisher Daunt Books

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911547761Author Michael RipsFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Daunt BooksPublisher Daunt Books

* THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * * WINNER OF THE 2022 NEW ENGLAND BOOK AWARD FOR NON-FICTION * 'A heart on the sleeve, demons in check, eyes unblinking, unbearably sad, laugh-out-loud funny revelation' MARLON JAMES Isaac Fitzgerald has...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783943365863Author Douglas CouplandFormat PaperbackPage Count 92Imprint Sternberg PressPublisher Sternberg PressWeight(grams) 111gDimensions(mm) 195mm *...

The Tale of the Heike is one of the masterworks of Japanese literature, ranking with The Tal of Genji in quality and prestige. This new translation is not only far more readable than earlier ones, it is also much more faithful to the content and style of...

On names, forms, beauty, and lies.Plato, the great philosopher of Athens, was born in 427 BC. In early manhood an admirer of Socrates, he later founded the famous school of philosophy in the grove Academus. Much else recorded of his life is...

During forty years of travel, V. S. Naipaul has created a wide-ranging body of work, an exceptional and sustained meditation on our world. Now his finest pieces of reflection and reportage - many of which have been unavailable for some time - are...

Praised as a "revelatory" book by The Wall Street Journal, this is the last and most personal work of Pulitzer Prize-winning author and historian Will Durant, discovered thirty-two years after his death.The culmination of Will Durant's sixty-plus years...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911710042Author Ivan De La NuezFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Seven Stories Press UKPublisher Seven Stories Press UK

During the 1970s and 1980s, Peter Matthiessen took part in a number of expeditions to Africa, witnessing first-hand the continent's many and diverse peoples and wildlife. The fruits of these journeys are three of the most impressive essays on the natural...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814254844Author Chris ArthurFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint Ohio State University PressPublisher Ohio State University PressWeight(grams)...

The paramount historian of the early Roman empire. Tacitus (Cornelius), famous Roman historian, was born in AD 55, 56 or 57 and lived to about 120. He became an orator, married in 77 a daughter of Julius Agricola before Agricola went to Britain, was...

(Bellum Gallicum, cum A. Hirti supplemento.) Edited by R. L. A. Du Pontet.Book InformationISBN 9780198146025Author R. L. A. Du PontetFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint Oxford University PressPublisher Oxford University PressWeight(grams)...

Lawrence asserted that 'the proper function of a critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it'. In these highly individual, penetrating essays he has exposed 'the American whole soul' within some of that continent's major works of literature...

This Young Monster is a hallucinatory celebration of artists who raise hell, transform their bodies, anger their elders and show their audience dark, disturbing things. What does it mean to be a freak? Why might we be wise to think of the present as a...