Essays

By the New York Times bestselling author of the award-winning AFTERPARTIES comes a collection like none other: sharply funny, emotionally expansive essays and linked short fiction exploring family, queer desire, pop culture, and race The late Anthony...

Proud to be a Mammal (1942-97) is Czeslaw Milosz's moving and diverse collection of essays. Among them, he covers his passion for poetry, his love of the Polish language that was so nearly wiped out by the violence of the twentieth century, and his happy...

As relevant and influential now as it was when first published in 1963, Tomorrow Is Now is Eleanor Roosevelt's manifesto and her final effort to move America toward the community she hoped it would become. In bold, blunt prose, one of the greatest First...

Clement Greenberg is widely recognized as the most influential and articulate champion of modernism during its American ascendency after World War II, the period largely covered by these highly acclaimed volumes of "The Collected Essays and Criticism"...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812971286Author Norman MailerFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 301gDimensions(mm) 202mm *...

Some friendships need celebrating, some are hard to navigate, and some need a bit of tender love and care. Delve into this anthology for a tour of all aspects of friendship by your favourite classic authors.Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library; a...

Some friendships need celebrating, some are hard to navigate, and some need a bit of tender love and care. Delve into this anthology for a tour of all aspects of friendship by your favourite classic authors.Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library; a...

The real history of the mines ought to be written by a man still at work underground. The dust should still be in his throat as he was writing-it seemed to me-then it would be authentic. Despite my searching, I knew of no man who answered this...

The Secret Life of Poems is a primer which offers a poem - or on occasion an excerpt - succeeding with commentary in which rhythm, form, metre and sources are the order of the day, not ethical commentary or descriptive paraphrase. This brief engagement...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781632867735Author Robert GordonFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint Bloomsbury USAPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing PlcWeight(grams) 538g

The Found Voice: Writers' Beginnings uses the means of literary biography and criticism to do something rarely attempted--to understand how a key creative period establishes the authoritative voice of a unique artist. The essays which explore this hidden...

"Sergio Chejfec is an admirable writer." -Patti Smith"Could anyone possibly believe that writing doesn't exist? It would be like denying the existence of rain."The perfect green notebook forms the basis for Sergio Chejfec's work, collecting writing, and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780156913218Author Umberto EcoFormat PaperbackPage Count 324Imprint HarperviaPublisher Harpervia

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912565146Author Odelia YoungeFormat PaperbackPage Count 252Imprint Verve Poetry PressPublisher Verve Poetry PressDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 18mm

The master of New Comedy.Menander (?344/3-292/1 BC) of Athens, the leading playwright of the New Comedy, wrote more than 100 plays. Many of his comedies were adapted by Roman dramatists. By the middle ages, however, his works were lost. Then, at the end...

An important, urgent book of essays from Britain's most challenging dramatist: "...a great playwright - many, particularly in continental Europe, would say the greatest living English playwright." (The Independent) This collection of passionate and...

The celebrated author offers her thoughts on a broad range of subjects, including literary criticism, the state of science fiction writing today, and government and governmental policies.Book InformationISBN 9780802135292Author Ursula K. Le GuinFormat...

'I was fascinated, moved and entertained by every page. This is the kind of book the world needs right now' DONAL RYAN_______________'My dictionary's first two definitions of 'comrade' are:A close companion.An intimate associate or friend.The third one...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780156027786Author Virginia WoolfFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Mariner Books ClassicsPublisher Mariner Books ClassicsWeight(grams)...

This delectable book collects the rococo prose of Lisa Robertson. There are essays -- many originally published as catalogue texts by art galleries -- on the syntax of the suburban home, Vancouver fountains, Value Village, the joy of synthetics,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781555977214Author Sven BirkertsFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Graywolf PressPublisher Graywolf PressWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm) 208mm * 140mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681373799Author Eve BabitzFormat PaperbackPage Count 360Imprint The New York Review of Books, IncPublisher The New York Review of Books, Inc

A landmark reissue of a great teacher's finest work.Lionel Trilling was, during his lifetime, generally acknowledged to be one of the finest essayists in the English language, the heir of Hazlitt and the peer of Orwell. Since his death in 1974, his work...

The emperor who renounced Christianity.Julian (Flavius Claudius Iulianus) "the Apostate," Roman Emperor, lived AD 331 or 332 to 363. Born and educated in Constantinople as a Christian, after a precarious childhood he devoted himself to literature and ...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062149893Author E B WhiteFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Harper PerennialPublisher Harper PerennialWeight(grams) 358gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 133mm *...

"what should i tell you? that feral will not enrich you. that feral will not be mastered. feral is 'wild' without utility. it offers nothing, and it asks for nothing in return."In this uncompromising collection of lyric essays, T.S. Eliot...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812982961Author John UpdikeFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Random House Trade PaperbacksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams)...

Engrossing essays that reflect the author's vast and subtle knowledge of the world. Topics range from the religious rites of the Aztecs to modern american painting, from Eastern art and religion to love and eroticism. Translated by Helen Lane.Book...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781558614444Author Mireille GanselFormat PaperbackPage Count 150Imprint Feminist Press at The City University of New YorkPublisher Feminist Press at The...

Following on from Stranger Shores, which contained J.M. Coetzee's essays from 1986 to 1999, Inner Workings gathers together his literary essays from 2000 to 2005.Of the writers discussed in the first half of the book, several - Italo Svevo, Joseph Roth,...

'No one else casts such a shrewd and gimlet eye on contemporary life.' - William BoydComic, dark and insightful, What Happened? is Hanif Kureishi's new collection of essays and fiction. No topic is too fringe or too mainstream for this insatiable-and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Washington State Book Award (Biography/Memoir) 2015.Book InformationISBN 9781935639879Author Charles D'AmbrosioFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Tin House...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781558612853Author Natalie WestFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Feminist Press at The City University of New YorkPublisher Feminist Press at The City...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780999153581Author Eugen BaconFormat HardbackPage Count 124Imprint Anti-Oedipus PressPublisher Anti-Oedipus PressWeight(grams) 127g

A superb achievement, one that successfully brings together in accessible form the work of two major writers of Renaissance France. This is now the default version of Montaigne in English. --Timothy Hampton, Professor of French and Comparative...

The Condition of Secrecy is a poignant collection of essays by Inger Christensen, widely regarded as one of the most influential Scandinavian writers of the twentieth century. As The New York Times proclaimed, "Despite the rigorous structure that...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780525562955Author Philip PullmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 465gDimensions(mm) 202mm *...

Herman Hesse remained clear-sighted and consistent in his political views and his passionate espousal of pacifism and the bloody absurdity of war from the start of the First World War to the end of his life. He wrote the earliest essay in this book in...

Correspondence from a distinguished and eventful life.The Younger Pliny was born in AD 61 or 62, the son of Lucius Caecilius of Comum (Como) and the Elder Pliny's sister. He was educated at home and then in Rome under Quintilian. He was at Misenum at...

The philosopher's toolkit.Aristotle, great Greek philosopher, researcher, reasoner, and writer, born at Stagirus in 384 BC, was the son of a physician. He studied under Plato at Athens and taught there (367-347); subsequently he spent three years ...