Essays

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681375243Author Brian DillonFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint The New York Review of Books, IncPublisher The New York Review of Books,...

Berger describes himself as "a reconstructed old New Critic," and his publications over the past fifty years have centered on investigations of the ways in which texts represent both themselves and their situations of utterance. The thirteen chapters...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781400097012Author Margaret AtwoodFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Anchor BooksPublisher Anchor BooksWeight(grams) 181g

This is the first collection of essays to be published since the poet's death. Continuing a tradition of more than thirty years of Ted Hughes studies, it gathers contributions by most of the major international Hughes scholars, voicing their critical...

This classic text, which contains the complete Greek text of the Apology and of Crito with other selections, offers an introduction to Plato's language as well as an introduction to Socrates as presented by Plato. These two goals determined Lewis Leaming...

This book brings together a number of John Schad's very best uncollected essays, interleaved with a selection of autobiographical poems and a striking new work that brings together both critical and creative modes of writing. Turns thus plots the...

A story of a cross-country road trip taken during the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic, The Road Ahead and Miles Behind, shares the intricate yet beautiful nature between a father and son looking to reconcile their differences and amend a challenging past...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780972869256Author Rainer Maria RilkeFormat HardbackPage Count 88Imprint Archipelago BooksPublisher Archipelago BooksWeight(grams) 615g

Though he'd lived in Iowa all his life, the allure of the prairie had somehow eluded John Price-until, after a catastrophic flood, a brief glimpse of native wildlife suddenly brought his surroundings home to him. Not Just Any Land is a memoir of Price's...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789353339975Author Pradeep BhandariFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint Rupa & CoPublisher Rupa & Co

Pride and Prejudice is the first in the Gerald Kraak Anthology series. The kaleidoscopic collection comprises the most exceptional written and photographic entries for the annual Gerald Kraak Award, which was established in 2016 by The Other Foundation...

The word "terroir" refers to the climate and soil in which something is grown. Natasha Saje applies this idea to the environments that nurture and challenge us, exploring in particular how the immigrant experience has shaped her identity. She revisits...

Cabin Stories: The Best of Dark Winter Nights: True Stories from Alaska is a collection of favorite stories selected by the executive producers of the hit live event, radio show, and podcast Dark Winter Nights. These hilarious, heartwarming, and riveting...

What does it mean to be a westerner? With all the mythology that has grown up about the American West, is it even possible to describe "how it was, how it is, here, in the West-just that," in the words of Lynn Stegner? Starting with that...

One of The Smithsonian Magazine's Best Science Books of the YearThe future is here and, frankly, it sucks. Without doubt, our culture is at a crossroads. Political strife and economic crises are byproducts of a larger looming challenge, one in which we...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789389967180Author Syamal GuptaFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Rupa & CoPublisher Rupa & Co

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781946511553Author Alexis Pauline GumbsFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Boston Review/Boston Critic Inc.Publisher Boston Review/Boston Critic Inc.

The autobiographical essays in The Girls in My Town create an unforgettable portrait of a family in Los Angeles. Reaching back to her grandmother's childhood and navigating through her own girlhood and on to the present, Angela Morales contemplates...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780156035224Author Virginia WoolfFormat PaperbackPage Count 688Imprint Mariner BooksPublisher Mariner BooksWeight(grams) 4527g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780976159230Author H. P. LovecraftFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Hippocampus PressPublisher Hippocampus PressWeight(grams) 563g

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...

A sweeping chronicle from Aeneas to Alexander Severus.Dio Cassius (Cassius Dio), circa AD 150-235, was born at Nicaea in Bithynia in Asia Minor. On the death of his father (Roman governor of Cilicia) he went in 180 to Rome, entered the Senate, and...

Ranging from Ta-Nehisi Coates's case for reparations to D'Angelo's simmering blend of R&B and racial justice, Jesse McCarthy's dazzling essays capture debates at the intersection of art, literature and politics in the twenty-first century with virtuosic...

J.G.Ballard is the author of the novels "Crash", "Empire of the Sun" and "Rushing to Paradise". Throughout his career he has also been a regular contributor to magazines and newspapers. This book collects together pieces of his journalism, grouped under...

This reissue of Menand's classic intellectual history of T.S. Eliot and the singular role he played in the rise of literary modernism features an updated Afterword by the author, as well as a detailed critical appraisal of the progression of Eliot's...

First published in 1919 by Ezra Pound, Ernest Fenollosa's essay on the Chinese written language has become one of the most often quoted statements in the history of American poetics. As edited by Pound, it presents a powerful conception of language that...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911231141Author Sarah SentillesFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Text PublishingPublisher Text Publishing

The statesman on the history and practice of Roman oratory.Cicero (Marcus Tullius, 106-43 BC), Roman lawyer, orator, politician and philosopher, of whom we know more than of any other Roman, lived through the stirring era that saw ...

This new selection of essays by Oscar Wilde show-cases the varied aspects of his genius. For Pearson, the biographer, the essays and dialogues illustrate the many faces of Wilde's extraordinary character: wit, romancer, talker, lecturer, humanist and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789353336257Author Abhirup BhattacharyaFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Rupa Publications India Pvt Ltd.Publisher Rupa Publications India Pvt Ltd.

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Queer Eye star Jonathan Van Ness dives into his favourite subjects in Love That Story, a new collection of heartfelt and entertaining essays. From experiencing heartbreaking grief to uncovering the hidden LGBTQ history of his hometown, Quincy, from...

In 1822 William Hazlitt, forty-four years old and married, was both tormented and enchanted by Sarah Walker, his landlady's nineteen-year-old daughter. "Liber Amoris" is the chronicle of that obsession, an extraordinary fragment of Romantic...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385095402Author Rene DescartesFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint Anchor BooksPublisher Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group IncWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781732294110Author A. S. HamrahFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint n+1 ResearchPublisher n+1 Research

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780865973220Author Charles PeguyFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Liberty Fund IncPublisher Liberty Fund IncWeight(grams) 218g

First Published in 2002. This is a collection of essays and commentary on the later Shakespearian tragedies of Julius Caesar, Hamlet, Macbeth, Coriolanus, Anthony and Cleopatra and Richard II.Book InformationISBN 9780415606615Author G. Wilson...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781638930662Author Sophie GilbertFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Atlantic EditionsPublisher Atlantic EditionsWeight(grams) 91g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.About the AuthorJoseph Epstein is a long time resident of Chicago. Joseph Epstein has taught English and writing at Northwestern for many years. He is the author of 22 books,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781328764522Author Alexander CheeFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Mariner BooksPublisher Houghton MifflinWeight(grams) 249gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 132mm...