Essays

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250876850Author Susan SontagFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Picador USAPublisher Picador USAWeight(grams) 181gDimensions(mm) 201mm * 140mm * 23mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781598536102Author Wendell BerryFormat HardbackPage Count 1702Imprint The Library of AmericaPublisher The Library of America

Woolf's fine character studies of several authors, among them Samuel Taylor Coleridge, who 'seems not a man, but a swarm, a cloud, a buzz of words, darting this way and that, clustering, quivering and hanging suspended'. He is, Woolf adds,so complex, so...

Collection, colonialism, translation, and the ephemera that shapes the stories we tell about ourselves.Featuring new original works by: Yasnaya Elena Aguilar, Cristina Rivera Garza, Joseph Zarate, Juan Cardenas, Velia Vidal, Lina Meruane, Gabriela...

Sleep, Death's Brother is an instruction manual on dreaming for children or incarcerated persons, teaching such individuals to lucid dream and thus use their dreams to somewhat escape their situations. While it is often the case that dream life is...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781604191233Author Joseph EpsteinFormat HardbackPage Count 572Imprint Axios PressPublisher Axios Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsCommended for National Book Critics Circle Award (Nonfiction) 2011 and Saroyan Writing Prize (Nonfiction) 2012.Book InformationISBN 9780374532901Author John Jeremiah...

Williams tackles a host of controversial subjects in this collection of nineteen impassioned essays dealing mostly with humanity's abuses of the natural world.Reviews"Joy Williams is now the most gifted writer of her generation." -- Harold Brodkey ...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593596449Author Calvin TrillinFormat HardbackPage Count 336Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 454gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143135210Author Alain LockeFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint PlumePublisher Penguin Putnam Inc

Volume 18 of The Complete Works of George OrwellJournalism took a heavy toll on Orwell in the first months of 1946. Despite this unremitting pressure, he produced a major sequence of articles on 'The Intellectual Revolt'. He wrote one of his finest short...

Where the Stress Falls is divided into three sections: the first, 'Reading', includes ardent pieces on writers from Sontag's own private canon - Machado de Assis, Barthes, W. G. Sebald, Borges, Tsvetaeva and Elizabeth Hardwick. In the second, 'Seeing',...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781616207922Format HardbackPage Count 288Imprint Algonquin BooksPublisher Algonquin Books

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781616207922Format HardbackPage Count 288Imprint Algonquin BooksPublisher Algonquin Books

Witty, shrewd, and, as always, a joy to read, John Gierach, "America's best fishing writer" (Houston Chronicle) and favorite streamside philosopher, extols the frequent joys and occasional tribulations of the fly-fishing life."After five decades, twenty...

Afterword by Frank O'Hara Morton Feldman (1926-1987) is among the most influential American composers of the 20th Century. While his music is known for its exteme quiet and delicate beauty, Feldman himself was famously large and loud. His writings are...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Hugo Award (Related Book) 2018.Book InformationISBN 9781328661593Author Ursula K. Le GuinFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781510741577Author Graham TarrantFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint Skyhorse PublishingPublisher Skyhorse PublishingWeight(grams) 340gDimensions(mm) 211mm...

A selection of new and revised essays from eminent scholar and critic Professor Christopher Ricks. Christopher Ricks brings together new as well as substantially augmented critical essays across a wide range. Several derive from his term as the...

Reading, like travelling, takes you on a journey of discovery into new places, cultures and ways of living. This book brings those two worlds together. It is a literary exploration of global proportions, a rich survey of the finest novels set or written...

Reading, like travelling, takes you on a journey of discovery into new places, cultures and ways of living. This book brings those two worlds together. It is a literary exploration of global proportions, a rich survey of the finest novels set or written...

Selected writings from a leading critic of modern art, "the best art writer of his generation" (Art Newspaper) Michael Peppiatt, guest curator of the Royal Academy of Arts' 2021 exhibition 'Francis Bacon: Man and Beast', has for more than 50 years...

This volume presents a winning selection of the very best essays from the long and distinguished career of Stanley Wells, one of the most well-known and respected Shakespeare scholars in the world. Wells's accomplishments include editing the entire canon...

In The Small Heart of Things, Julian Hoffman intimately examines the myriad ways in which connections to the natural world can be deepened through an equality of perception, whether it's a caterpillar carrying its house of leaves, transhumant shepherds...

Antiquity's satirist supreme.Lucian (ca. AD 120-190), the satirist from Samosata on the Euphrates, started as an apprentice sculptor, turned to rhetoric and visited Italy and Gaul as a successful traveling lecturer before settling in Athens and ...

"Jenny is the future of nonfiction in America. What an absurdly arrogant statement to make. I make it anyway. Watch." -John D'Agata"Yes, Aristotle, there can be pleasure without 'complete and unified action with a beginning, middle, and end.' Jenny...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of National Book Critics Circle Awards.Book InformationISBN 9780140290110Author Jorge Luis BorgesFormat PaperbackPage Count 576Imprint Penguin Random House...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780156459716Author FlannerFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Harper PerennialPublisher Harper PerennialWeight(grams) 540gDimensions(mm) 215mm * 139mm *...

In the winter of 1811 Lewis Way had an epiphany on the road to Exmouth. From that moment the eccentric millionaire devoted himself and his fortune to only one goal - the return of the Jews to the Holy Land. To achieve this mission he undertook...

From the controversy in 1995 that heralded Blasted, to her death in February 1999, Sarah Kane built a reputation as an established playwright of international stature. This is the first volume of collected essays by some of the leading scholars in their...

Jonathan Keates's passion for collecting historic guidebooks has resulted in a beguiling work of cultural archaeology, which explores the experience of travel for the British before the First World War. Unlike Lucy Honeychurch in E.M.Forster's A Room...

In this selection of stories and essays, Henry Miller elucidates, revels, and soars, showing his command over a wide range of moods, styles, and subject matters. Writing "from the heart," always with a refreshing lack of reticence, Miller involves the...

'Mary Gaitskill is willing to think about the problematic with complexity and humanity, and without taking sides or engaging in all the fashionable moral hectoring that passes for serious thought these days.' Eimear McBride Nuanced, daring and tender,...

When Kei Miller describes these as essays and prophecies, he shares with the reader a sensibility in which the sacred and the secular, belief and scepticism, and vision and analysis engage in profound and lively debate. Two moments shape the space in...

Richard Sennett has spent an intellectual lifetime exploring how humans live in cities. In this pair of essays he visits two of the world's greatest cities at crucial moments in their history to meditate on the condition of exile in both geographical and...

William Gass writes about literary language, about history, about the avant-garde, about minimalism's brief vogue, about the use of the present tense in fiction (Is it due to the lack of both a sense of history and a belief in the future?), about...

This new edition of Sallust, the first critical text for over thirty years, is based on a fresh study and collation of the manuscripts, as well as careful consideration of the indirect tradition. Besides the well-known Catiline and Jugurtha, the volume...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906841409Author Edwin MorganFormat PaperbackPage Count 424Imprint Association for Scottish Literary StudiesPublisher Association for Scottish Literary...

An essay on aesthetics by the Japanese novelist, this book explores architecture, jade, food, and even toilets, combining an acute sense of the use of space in buildings. The book also includes descriptions of laquerware under candlelight and women in...

Like her five literary sisters, Diana Mitford has written widely not only on her own fascinating, controversial life, but has recorded her intimately-placed observations of friends who also happened to have been leading political and social figures of...