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Genesis by Michel Serres 9780472084357
$42.40This English translation of Michel Serres' 1982 book Genese captures in lucid prose the startling breadth and depth of his thinking, as he probes the relations between order, disorder, knowledge, anxiety, and violence. Written in a unique blend of... -
Homer in the Twentieth Century: Between World Literature and the Western Canon by Barbara Graziosi
RRP: $109.20$108.00This collection of essays explores the crucial place of Homer in the shifting cultural landscape of the twentieth century. It argues that Homer was viewed both as the founding father of the Western literary canon and as sharing important features with... -
Selected Prose, 1934-96 by David Gascoyne 9781900564014
RRP: $63.00$44.84This is a major collection of more than seventy essays, critical pieces, biographical sketches, and memoirs by the renowned poet, translator, and essayist. It includes long-inaccessible contributions to journals and magazines together with previously... -
Rockpools and daffodils by George Mackay Brown 9781904246435
RRP: $29.30$20.43Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781904246435Author George Mackay BrownFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Steve Savage Publishers LimitedPublisher Steve Savage Publishers Limited -
The Literature Machine: Essays by Italo Calvino
RRP: $27.28$19.09'This brilliant collection of essays should be a feast for his admirers, as well as for those who approach his dazzling oeuvre for the first time-Calvino is not only constantly and supremely intelligent; he is constantly and supremely faithful to his... -
Anarchism and Other Essays by Emma Goldman 9781420964271
$16.91Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781420964271Author Emma GoldmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 146Imprint Digireads.comPublisher Digireads.comWeight(grams) 195gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 9mm -
Complete Essays: Aldous Huxley, 1930-1935 by Aldous Huxley
$77.20This third volume of a projected six reinforces Huxley's stature as one of the most acute and informed observers of the social and ideological trends of the years between the world wars. It contains the important collection of essays "Music at Night" as... -
The White Rose: Reading, Writing, Resistance by Alexandra Lloyd 9780995456440
$18.90Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780995456440Author Alexandra LloydFormat PaperbackPage Count 214Imprint Taylor Institution LibraryPublisher Taylor Institution Library -
In Mid-Air: Points of View from over a Decade by Adam Gopnik
RRP: $27.28$19.09'Engaging, witty, thoughtful, clever, casual, ebullient, erudite and thoroughly modern' Spectator'A dazzling talent - hilarious, winning and deft' Malcolm Gladwell In Mid-Air is a collection of short essays by the acclaimed writer and speaker, Adam... -
The Real Work: On the Mystery of Mastery by Adam Gopnik 9781529414639
RRP: $31.48$23.88Bestselling author and New Yorker writer Adam Gopnik embarks on a wildly creative inquiry into perhaps the oldest question: how do we learn a new skill? For decades, Adam Gopnik has been one of our most beloved writers, a brilliantly perceptive critic... -
Shakespeare on Page and Stage: Selected Essays by Stanley Wells 9780198786542
RRP: $48.28$35.89This 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... -
Nilling: Prose by Lisa Robertson 9781897388891
RRP: $39.88$21.50"I have tried to make a sketch or a model in several dimensions of the potency of Arendt's idea of invisibility, the necessary inconspicuousness of thinking and reading, and the ambivalently joyous and knotted agency to be found there. Just beneath the... -
Tacky: Love Letters to the Worst Culture We Have to Offer by Rax King
RRP: $29.38$23.58Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593312728Author Rax KingFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 210gDimensions(mm) 202mm * 132mm *... -
John Boorman's Nature Diary: One Eye, One Finger by John Boorman
RRP: $21.00$17.18As I step out of the conservatory facing North, supported by my pusher, the first that catches my eye is the dying Sycamore which escapes death every year by producing a healthy crop of leaves, but it looks so decrepit that surely it can't pull that... -
O's Little Book of Calm and Comfort by The Editors of O the Oprah Magazine
RRP: $20.98$15.86A thoughtful collection of soul-soothing writing, O's Little Book of Calm & Comfort is the antidote to life's trying times.Featuring essays and interviews from some of the most celebrated contributors to O, The Oprah Magazine, this heartening collection... -
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave & Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Frederick Douglass
RRP: $12.58$10.92Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780345478238Author Frederick DouglassFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams)... -
Writings on Art and Literature by Sigmund Freud 9780804729734
RRP: $58.78$53.42Despite Freud's enormous influence on twentieth-century interpretations of the humanities, there has never before been in English a complete collection of his writings on art and literature. These fourteen essays cover the entire range of his work on... -
Windows by Anne Quinney
RRP: $33.58$29.90At once a memoir and a personal version of the author's highly influential Language of Psychoanalysis, this work by one of the world's leading proponents of psychoanalytic theory and practice offers an autobiographical perspective on the private... -
Lost in the Cosmos by Walker
RRP: $42.00$26.12Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312253998Author WalkerFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 245gDimensions(mm) 207mm * 143mm *... -
The Reckonings: Essays by Lacy M Johnson
RRP: $41.98$25.68Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781501159015Author Lacy M JohnsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Scribner Book CompanyPublisher Scribner Book CompanyWeight(grams) 272gDimensions(mm)... -
Fuse by Hollay Ghadery
RRP: $33.50$26.92Drawing on her own experiences as a woman of Iranian and British Isle descent, writer Hollay Ghadery dives into conflicts and uncertainty surrounding the bi-racial female body and identity, especially as it butts up against the disparate expectations of... -
Portraits And Observations: The Essays Of Truman Capote by Truman Capote 9780812994391
RRP: $46.20$37.49Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812994391Author Truman CapoteFormat HardbackPage Count 672Imprint Modern Library IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 646gDimensions(mm) 210mm... -
Storytelling: Narratology for Critics and Creative Writers by Paul McDonald 9781906075903
RRP: $23.08$20.14Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906075903Author Paul McDonaldFormat PaperbackPage Count 105Imprint Greenwich Exchange LtdPublisher Greenwich Exchange Ltd -
African Myths of Origin by Stephen Belcher
RRP: $27.28$20.58Gathering a wide range of traditional African myths, this compelling new collection offers tales of heroes battling mighty serpents and monstrous birds, brutal family conflict and vengeance, and desperate migrations across vast and alien lands. From... -
The Great Exhibition of 1851 by Louise Purbrick
RRP: $41.98$37.42The Great Exhibition of 1851 has become a touchstone for the nineteenth century. The Crystal Palace produced a commodity world, an imperial spectacle, a picture of capitalism, a liberal dream, a vision of modern life. Historians have saturated the Great... -
Elementum Journal: Shape: 2018: 4: Edition Four by Jay Armstrong 9780995674028
RRP: $37.80$28.06Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780995674028Author Jay ArmstrongFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint ElementumPublisher ElementumWeight(grams) 608gDimensions(mm) 274mm * 210mm * 12mm -
Wildeana (riverrun editions) by Matthew Sturgis
RRP: $23.08$15.54Oscar Wilde's early fame ensured that throughout his short life he was written about by many of those he met. He was celebrated - or mocked - as the master of the ingenious epigram, the provocative paradox, the witty aside or the extravagant conceit. In... -
Paris Spleen by Charles Baudelaire 9780811200073
RRP: $25.18$18.65Set in a modern, urban Paris, the prose pieces in this volume constitute a further exploration of the terrain Baudelaire had covered in his verse masterpiece, The Flowers of Evil: the city and its squalor and inequalities, the pressures of time and... -
Smothered in Hugs: Essays, Interviews, Feedback, and Obituaries by Dennis Cooper 9780061715617
RRP: $39.88$29.00Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780061715617Author Dennis CooperFormat PaperbackPage Count 377Imprint Harper PerennialPublisher Harper PerennialWeight(grams) 304g -
Lives of Houses by Kate Kennedy
RRP: $31.48$23.48Notable writers-including UK poet laureate Simon Armitage, Julian Barnes, Margaret MacMillan, and Jenny Uglow-celebrate our fascination with the houses of famous literary figures, artists, composers, and politicians of the pastWhat can a house tell us... -
Revisions and Dissents: Essays by Paul Gottfried
RRP: $58.78$50.69Paul Gottfried's critical engagement with political correctness is well known. The essays in Revisions and Dissents focus on a range of topics in European intellectual and political history, social theory, and the history of modern political movements... -
Selected Short Stories of Weldon Kees by Weldon Kees 9780803278066
RRP: $27.28$21.06By the age of thirty, Weldon Kees (1914-55) was a poet, journalist, musician, painter, photographer, and short story writer living in New York City. Despite a contract for a forthcoming novel, however, he stopped writing fiction, moved to San Francisco,... -
Paper Trails: True Stories of Confusion, Mindless Violence, and Forbidden Desires, a Surprising Number of Which Are Not about Marriage by Pete Dexter 9780061189364
RRP: $31.48$19.38Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780061189364Author Pete DexterFormat PaperbackPage Count 289Imprint Ecco PressPublisher Ecco PressWeight(grams) 249g -
Cristina and Her Double: Selected Essays by Herta Muller 9781846274756
RRP: $39.88$26.94Simon Schama, in defence of the essay in the age of Twitter, writes: 'The self-propulsion of a ranging intelligence is the dynamo that drives a powerful essay; the headlong gallop of thought to a destination the reader can't predict and which may not... -
Bound to Please: An Extraordinary One-Volume Literary Education by Michael Dirda 9780393329636
RRP: $56.70$50.86Surveying the dizzying universe of classic books, Michael Dirda, the Pulitzer Prize-winning literary essayist, proves himself to be one of the most engaging critics of our time-and great fun to read. Opening with an impassioned critique of modern reading... -
Collected Essays: Volume 4: Travel by H. P. Lovecraft 9780976159216
RRP: $42.00$38.07Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780976159216Author H. P. LovecraftFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Hippocampus PressPublisher Hippocampus PressWeight(grams) 449gDimensions(mm) 229mm *... -
Metropolitan Writings by William Hazlitt 9781857547580
RRP: $27.20$18.71William Hazlitt (1778-1830), that most engaging of English essayists, is provocatively and congenially at home in this new collection of his city essays that spark with urbane wit and gossip. Characters from his world come alive: Wordsworth and Beau... -
Frankenstein: The First Two Hundred Years by Christopher Frayling 9781909526464
RRP: $62.90$44.06Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909526464Author Christopher FraylingFormat HardbackPage Count 230Imprint Reel Art PressPublisher Reel Art Press -
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches by Audre Lorde
RRP: $58.80$35.13Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143134442Author Audre LordeFormat HardbackPage Count 208Imprint Penguin ClassicsPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 283gDimensions(mm) 203mm *... -
Other Colours by Orhan Pamuk
RRP: $31.48$20.58Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature'Pamuk is taking the world we thought we knew and making it fresh and alive' New York Times'Wonderfully readable, a joy to dip into.' Joseph O'Connor, Irish Sunday IndependentFrom the internationally bestselling...