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The Found Voice: Writers' Beginnings by Denis Sampson 9780198752998
RRP: €45.21€45.08The 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... -
On Mysticism by Jorge Luis Borges
RRP: €15.16€11.34Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143105695Author Jorge Luis BorgesFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Penguin ClassicsPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 113gDimensions(mm) 196mm... -
The Faith of a Felon and Other Writings by James Fintan Lalor 9781906359263
RRP: €20.23€19.65James Fintan Lalor (1807-1849) was one of the most original thinkers of the Young Ireland movement, and one of the most frequently appropriated by later Irish activists. From Michael Davitt to James Connolly, a host of self-proclaimed disciples... -
Travels in Hyper Reality by Umberto Eco 9780156913218
RRP: €22.55€16.02Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780156913218Author Umberto EcoFormat PaperbackPage Count 324Imprint HarperviaPublisher Harpervia -
Star Thrower by Loren Eiseley 9780156849098
RRP: €21.41€15.46Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780156849098Author Loren EiseleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 324Imprint Harper PerennialPublisher Harper Perennial -
The Art of Poetry: AQA Love & Relationships by Kathrine Mortimore 9780995467132
RRP: €21.41€17.64Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780995467132Author Kathrine MortimoreFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Art of PoetryPublisher Art of PoetryWeight(grams) 231g -
Charmides by Plato
RRP: €29.69€27.83Mostly doubtful dialogues.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 uncertain; ... -
The P.G. Wodehouse Miscellany by N.T.P Murphy
€14.70P.G. Wodehouse saw his first article published when still at school, and went on to become the leading humour writer of the twentieth century. He created characters famous across the English-speaking world, such as Rupert Psmith, Stanley Ukridge, Uncle... -
The Challenge of Things: Thinking Through Troubled Times by A. C. Grayling
RRP: €20.22€14.61A. C. Grayling's lucid and stimulating books, based on the idea that philosophy should engage with the world and make itself useful, are immensely popular. The Challenge of Things joins earlier collections like The Reason of Things and Thinking of... -
Moralia: v. 2 by Plutarch
RRP: €29.69€27.83Eclectic essays on ethics, education, and much else besides.Plutarch (Plutarchus), ca. AD 45-120, was born at Chaeronea in Boeotia in central Greece, studied philosophy at Athens, and, after coming to Rome as a teacher in philosophy, was given... -
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard
RRP: €19.03€13.16Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780061233326Author Annie DillardFormat PaperbackPage Count 290Imprint HarperCollins PublishersPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 227g -
Occasional Views, Volume 2: "The Gamble" and Other Essays by Samuel R. Delany
RRP: €22.02€20.28Occasional Views brings together a diverse collection of essays by, and interviews with, one of literature's most iconic voices. Samuel R. Delany is an acclaimed writer of literary theory, queer literature, and fiction. His works have fundamentally... -
The Annals: Bk. 13-16, v. 5 by Cornelius Tacitus
RRP: €29.69€27.83The 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... -
We'll Never Have Paris by Andrew Gallix
RRP: €20.22€13.73In 1948 Robert Doisneau took a picture of a young woman working at her typewriter on the banks of the Seine. With her stylish sunglasses and short skirt, she seems to epitomise Left Bank bohemian chic. In fact she turns out to be the English author Emma... -
Occasional Work and Seven Walks from the Office for Soft Architecture: Third Edition by Lisa Robertson 9781552452325
RRP: €17.84€11.76This 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,... -
Intelligence for Dummies: Essays and Other Collected Writings by Glenn O'Brien 9781733540100
RRP: €29.75€20.61"Enclosed in this beautiful package, please find: an agile mind, a perfect style, a canny and undeceivable heart, and a welcome, enduring presence in the reader's life." --Michael Chabon A portrait of a keen social observer at the center of the last... -
Ten Windows by Jane Hirshfield
RRP: €20.22€14.61Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780345806840Author Jane HirshfieldFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 244gDimensions(mm) 189mm... -
Interior States: Essays by Meghan O'Gieblyn
RRP: €16.65€11.60Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780525562702Author Meghan O'GieblynFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Alfred A. KnopfPublisher Alfred A. Knopf -
Essays of E. B. White by E B White 9780062149893
RRP: €13.08€11.41Apologies 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) 358g -
Critic at Large: Essays and Rreviews 2010-2022 by DJ Taylor 9781915553195
RRP: €11.90€9.73Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915553195Author DJ TaylorFormat PaperbackImprint Shoestring PressPublisher Shoestring Press -
Memphis Rent Party: The Blues, Rock & Soul in Music's Hometown by Robert Gordon
RRP: €22.60€17.36Apologies 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 Land of Ulro by Czeslaw Milosz 9780374519377
RRP: €24.99€16.78Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374519377Author Czeslaw MiloszFormat PaperbackPage Count 300Imprint Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3plPublisher Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3plWeight(grams)... -
Pleasure and Efficacy: Of Pen Names, Cover Versions, and Other Trans Techniques by Grace Elisabeth Lavery
RRP: €29.75€23.31Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in CriticismA leading trans scholar and activist explores cultural representations of gender transition in the modern periodIn Pleasure and Efficacy, Grace Lavery investigates gender transition as it... -
The Contemporary American Essay by Phillip Lopate
RRP: €17.84€13.41Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780525567325Author Phillip LopateFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Anchor BooksPublisher Random House USA Inc -
Cato: A Tragedy, & Selected Essays by Joseph Addison 9780865974432
RRP: €13.03€10.69Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780865974432Author Joseph AddisonFormat PaperbackPage Count 282Imprint Liberty Fund IncPublisher Liberty Fund IncWeight(grams) 508g -
The Face of the Buddha by William Empson 9780199659678
RRP: €58.89€50.60Taking up a teaching appointment in Tokyo in 1931, the English poet and literary critic William Empson found himself captivated by the Buddhist sculptures of ancient Japan, and spent the years that followed in search of similar examples all over Korea,... -
Nature and Other Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson
RRP: €7.72€6.91Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486469478Author Ralph Waldo EmersonFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)... -
A Balthus Notebook by Guy Davenport
RRP: €10.65€7.35In his 1989 book on Balthus-the storied and controversial artist who worked in Paris throughout the twentieth century-Guy Davenport gives one of the most nuanced, literary, and compelling readings of the work of this master. Reading it today highlights... -
Home/Land: A Memoir of Departure and Return by Rebecca Mead 9781611856606
RRP: €17.84€11.34When the New Yorker writer Rebecca Mead relocated to her birth city, London, with her family in the summer of 2018, she was both fleeing the political situation in America and seeking to expose her son to a wider world. With a keen sense of what she'd... -
Tree Spirits Grass Spirits by Hiromi Ito 9781643621920
RRP: €17.84€11.76A collected series of intertwined poetic essays written by acclaimed Japanese poet Hiromi Ito-part nature writing, part travelogue, part existential philosophy. Written between April 2012 and November 2013, Tree Spirits Grass Spirits adopts a non-linear... -
Translation as Transhumance by Mireille Gansel 9781558614444
RRP: €13.08€11.01Apologies 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... -
What Happened? by Hanif Kureishi
RRP: €13.08€8.71'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... -
On the Sofa with Jane Austen by Maggie Lane
RRP: €17.84€14.93On the Sofa with Jane Austen is a collection of essays that first appeared in the Regency World magazine. They celebrate the quirkiest corners and cleverest contrivances of Jane Austen's art. The twenty-one topics range from coiffure to crime, from... -
A Plea For Eros by Siri Hustvedt
RRP: €11.89€8.09FROM THE INTERNATIONALLY BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF WHAT I LOVED AND A WOMAN LOOKING AT MEN LOOKING AT WOMEN'A luminous collection of mind-expanding pieces on literary and philosophical themes . . . A book to renew one's faith in the literary essay' Robert... -
An Earnest Blackness by Eugen Bacon 9780999153581
RRP: €24.98€21.94Apologies 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 -
The Rilke Alphabet by Ulrich Baer 9780823256297
RRP: €27.36€23.81The enduring power of Rainer Maria Rilke's poetry rests with his claim that all we need for a better life on earth is already given to us, in the here and now. In twenty-six engaging and accessible essays, Ulrich Baer's The Rilke Alphabet examines this... -
Style: The art of writing well (Harriman Classics) by F.L. Lucas
RRP: €17.84€11.88*4th edition with a new foreword by Joseph Epstein (Harriman Classics)* Lost for almost forty years, Style has acquired the status of a legend. Loved by some of the greatest modern authors and acclaimed by critics, this guide to recognising and writing... -
American Originality: Essays on Poetry by Louise Gluck
RRP: €19.04€11.75Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374537463Author Louise GluckFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Farrar, Straus and GirouxPublisher Farrar, Straus and GirouxWeight(grams)... -
Henry Thoreau: A Life of the Mind by Robert D. Richardson
RRP: €32.13€25.54The two years Thoreau spent at Walden Pond and the night he spent in the Concord jail are among the most familiar features of the American intellectual landscape. In this new biography, based on a reexamination of Thoreau's manuscripts and on a retracing... -
The Mathematics of the Breath and the Way: The Writing Life by Charles Bukowski
RRP: €11.89€7.97In The Mathematics of the Breath and the Way, Charles Bukowski considers the art of writing, and the art of living as writer. Bringing together a variety of previously uncollected stories, columns, reviews, introductions, and interviews, this book finds...