Essays

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 9781638930662Author Sophie GilbertFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Atlantic EditionsPublisher Atlantic EditionsWeight(grams) 91g

Biography is well recognised as a peculiarly British vice. Lives for Sale is an anthology of essays by some of the best biographers now writing in Britain. They tell of the ups and downs of life writing: of problems with families and friends of their...

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,...

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In 1949, Jean Cocteau spent twenty days in New York, and began composing on the plane ride home this essay filled with the vivid impressions of his trip. With his unmistakable prose and graceful wit, he compares and contrasts French and American culture:...

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 ...

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...

Thomas Lynch, poet, funeral director, and author of the highly praised The Undertaking, winner of an American Book Award and finalist for the National Book Award, continues to examine the relations between the "literary and mortuary arts."Book...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781905881871Author Sigrid RausingFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Granta MagazinePublisher Granta MagazineWeight(grams) 350gDimensions(mm) 210mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781905881871Author Sigrid RausingFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Granta MagazinePublisher Granta MagazineWeight(grams) 350gDimensions(mm) 210mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781501173196Author Editor and Contributor Jonathan CottFormat HardbackPage Count 544Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams)...

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"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...

Capturing an ever-changing San Francisco, 25 acclaimed writers tell their stories of living in one the most mesmerizing cities in the world. Over the last few decades, San Francisco has experienced radical changes with the influence of Silicon...

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...

Apologies 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 *...

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

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312427757Author Judith ThurmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 427Imprint St. Martins Press-3PLPublisher St. Martins Press-3PLWeight(grams) 544g

Openings & Outings brings together over forty pieces from the long and distinguished career of the writer and commentator David Pryce-Jones. Taking us from a meeting with Rudolf Hess's widow, to the slums of Tangier, to the front lines of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374532727Author Czeslaw MiloszFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Farrar Straus GirouxPublisher Farrar Straus GirouxWeight(grams) 277g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of National Book Critics Circle Awards.Book InformationISBN 9780375724459Author Cynthia OzickFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random...

Early in his career, Marcel Proust, who greatly admired John Ruskin, published translations of two works by the English critic - La Bible d'Amiens (1900) and Sesame et les Lys (1906). He wrote a substantial preface to each book and provided discursive...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780525565314Author Edward W. SaidFormat PaperbackPage Count 656Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 584gDimensions(mm) 202mm *...

The first definitive edition in English of writings by poet, painter, pickpocket-plagiarist, and consummate anti-artist Francis Picabia, one of Dada's leading figures. Poet, painter, self-described funny guy, idiot, failure, pickpocket, and anti-artist...

A memoir of leaving the evangelical church and the search for radical new ways to build community. Jeanna Kadlec knew what it meant to be faithful--in her marriage to a pastor's son, in the comfortable life ahead of her, in her God--but there was no...

Letters of hope, passion and courage, written in the wake of Trump's election, from some of our best-loved writers, including Junot Diaz, Karen Joy Fowler, Mona Eltahawy, Claire Messud, Celeste Ng, Hari Kunzru and Jane Smiley. RADICAL HOPE is a...

Letters of hope, passion and courage, written in the wake of Trump's election, from some of our best-loved writers, including Junot Diaz, Karen Joy Fowler, Mona Eltahawy, Claire Messud, Celeste Ng, Hari Kunzru and Jane Smiley. RADICAL HOPE is a...

TOO FAMOUS collects pieces Michael Wolff has written as a columnist for New York, Vanity Fair, The Guardian, GQ and The Hollywood Reporter, and adds several new ones. Written over a 20-year period, the book spans that moment in popular culture when...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062839886Author Sarah WeinmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Ecco PressPublisher Ecco PressWeight(grams) 454g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781761340154Author Erin RileyFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Viking AustraliaPublisher Penguin Random House Australia

Philosophers have long debated the subjects of person and personhood. Sharon Cameron ushers this debate into the literary realm by considering impersonality in the works of major American writers and figures of international modernism-writers for whom...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781955055703Author Rolf EkeusFormat HardbackPage Count 305Imprint Lynne Rienner PublishersPublisher Lynne Rienner PublishersWeight(grams) 316g

Apologies 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

George Orwell was first and foremost an essayist, producing throughout his life an extraordinary array of short nonfiction that reflected--and illuminated--the fraught times in which he lived. "As soon as he began to write something," comments George...

These essays trace a distinguished writer's engagement with her time, her arguments with herself and others. "I am a poet who knows the social power of poetry, a United States citizen who knows herself irrevocably tangled in her society's hopes,...

Inductive zoology.Aristotle, great Greek philosopher, researcher, reasoner, and writer, born at Stagirus in 384 BC, was the son of a physician. He studied under Plato at Athens and taught there (367-347); subsequently he spent three years at the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780061670923Author Professor of English Terry CastleFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint HarperCollins PublishersPublisher HarperCollins Publishers...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781438490366Author Bruce JacksonFormat PaperbackPage Count 318Imprint State University of New York PressPublisher State University of New York...

First published in 1930, the essays in this manifesto constitute one of the outstanding cultural documents in the history of the South. In it, twelve southerners-Donald Davidson, John Gould Fletcher, Henry Blue Kline, Lyle H. Lanier, Stark Young, Allen...