Essays

Surveying 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...

Apologies 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 *...

William 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...

Apologies 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

Winner 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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789354894268Author Anirudh SuriFormat HardbackPage Count 556Imprint HarperCollins IndiaPublisher HarperCollins IndiaDimensions(mm) 360mm * 160mm * 40mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909631434Author Marina WarnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 44Imprint Sylph EditionsPublisher Sylph Editions

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsCommended for National Book Critics Circle Award (Criticism) 2008.Book InformationISBN 9780262073035Author Vivian GornickFormat HardbackPage Count 216Imprint MIT...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781629631059Author Marge PiercyFormat PaperbackPage Count 118Imprint PM PressPublisher PM PressWeight(grams) 108g

'I suppose that, if this collection has a point, it is the desire of one individual to see the idea of confrontation kept alive' -- Christopher Hitchens, IntroductionChristopher Hitchens is widely recognized as having been one of the liveliest and most...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374251468Author Roland BarthesFormat PaperbackPage Count 186Imprint Farrar, Straus & Giroux IncPublisher Farrar, Straus & Giroux IncWeight(grams)...

Essays on various aspects of the work of the French poet Stephane Mallarme on the centenary of his death (1998).Book InformationISBN 9780838637951Author Robert CohnFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint Fairleigh Dickinson University Press,U.S.Publisher...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781513220031Author Francis BaconFormat HardbackPage Count 158Imprint Mint EdPublisher Mint EdWeight(grams) 127g

A new collection of essays reflecting on the centrality of writing anthropological practice from one of the discipline’s most influential thinkers. Michael Taussig’s work is known for its critical insights and bold, experimental style. In the eleven...

From the editor in chief of The Atlantic comes a collection of essays examining Donald Trump's corrupted notions of American "heroism" and "cowardice." An Atlantic Edition, featuring long-form journalism by Atlantic writers, drawn from contemporary...

An edited collection of essays, interviews, and book reviews by M. Wynn Thomas. For more than half a century, M. Wynn Thomas has been Wales’s foremost literary critic. His ground-breaking work – on subjects ranging from Welsh Puritanism to Walt Whitman,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781916809819Author Agnes CallardFormat PaperbackPage Count 20Imprint ERISPublisher ERIS

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781644452929Author Stacey D'ErasmoFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Graywolf PressPublisher Graywolf PressWeight(grams) 454g

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781644452028Author Maggie NelsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 312Imprint Graywolf PressPublisher Graywolf PressWeight(grams) 140g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798888300657Author Emma GoldmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 162Imprint Bibliotech PressPublisher Bibliotech PressWeight(grams) 204g

"L'interrogation n'a pas change a 56 ans: pourquoi ne profite-t-on pas de tout ce qui nous arrive pour changer notre vie?" -Dany Laferriere Le 5 mars 2009, le Centre de litterature canadienne de l'Universite de l'Alberta recevait l'auteur...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798888306246Author Henry David ThoreauFormat PaperbackPage Count 164Imprint Bibliotech PressPublisher Bibliotech PressWeight(grams) 204g

In much of the critical discourse of the seventies, eighties, and nineties, scholars employed suspicion in order to reveal a given text's complicity with various undesirable ideologies and/or psychopathologies. Construed as such, interpretive practice...

Will the library of the future be "bookless"? Will reference librarians disappear? Will information continue to double every few years? These are but some of the issues tackled by a group of curious librarians. Perhaps, like them, you too are...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781594482823Author Valerie SteikerFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Riverhead Books,U.S.Publisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 210gDimensions(mm)...

ONE OF CBC BOOKS CANADIAN NONFICTION TO READ IN THE FALLWe need community to live. But what does it look like? Why does it often feel like it's slipping away?We are all hinged to some definition of a community, be it as simple as where we live, complex...

Stimulating. Entertaining. Fresh. A treasure trove. These are just some of the words reviewers use to describe the Sixteenth Edition of The Norton Reader. Essays on timely issues and enduring ideas will welcome and engage students, and trusted...

The long-awaited essay collection from one of the most influential voices in disability activism that detonates a bomb in our collective understanding of care and illness, showing us that sickness is a fact of life.In the wake of the 2014 Ferguson riots,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781626401211Author Carribean FragozaFormat HardbackPage Count 192Imprint Angel City Press,U.S.Publisher Angel City Press,U.S.

As a child growing up in New Delhi, Sayantani Dasgupta wanted to go on adventures involving shipwrecks and treasure chests. Her parents wanted her to stay in school instead. She satisfied her curiosity by drawing maps, inventing languages with friends,...

This pioneering set of essays explores the key motifs and themes in the works of the Irish novelist, Deirdre Madden, about the Northern Irish Troubles and their aftermath and changing social values in contemporary Ireland.

In a new home, relationships shift, and ties fray. Bound: A Memoir of Making and Remaking is a collection of essays about sewing and knowing who you are.Each chapter in this sewist's diary charts the crafting of a different garment. From a lining...

Four Lectures by Lisa Jarnot is the seventh book in the Bagley Wright Lecture Series, comprising autobiographical essays that form an intimate, uncompromising, and generous glimpse into a remarkable life in poetry.Across the lectures, or talks, given...

Harvey Dorfman was an educator for twenty-seven years before entering the field of sport psychology. His stature in the field grew significantly during the twenty-six years of his second career. But through most of both professional pursuits, he was also...

Author Marie Corelli’s brilliant commentary on the personal and professional politics of the literary community full of colorful characters fueled by fame, criticism and competition. It’s a bold and insightful depiction of nineteenth century publishing...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781958094518Author Chris ArthurFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Eastover Press LLCPublisher Eastover Press LLCWeight(grams) 354g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781513206929Author Oscar WildeFormat HardbackPage Count 144Imprint Mint EditionsPublisher Mint EditionsWeight(grams) 127g

'We're mysterious aliens in the crowd. We jump like fleas from future to past and back again, and float like clouds of gas between nebulae; in a flash, we can reach the edge of the universe, or tunnel into a quark, or swim within a star-core... We're as...