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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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789353334079Author Gowhar GeelaniFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Rupa Publications India Pvt Ltd.Publisher Rupa Publications India Pvt Ltd.

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802157218Author Jim HarrisonFormat HardbackPage Count 336Imprint Black CatPublisher Black Cat

Languages of Truth offers Salman Rushdie's most piercingly analytical views yet on the evolution of literature and culture even as he takes us deep into his own exuberant and fearless imaginationSalman Rushdie is celebrated as a storyteller of the...

The most original book of Julien Gracq's later output is about Nantes. It begins with a quotation from Beaudelaire that is repeated and distorted. Nantes, still haunted by Andr (c) Breton, Jacques Vache and Rimbaud behind them is reconstructed from a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060585693Author Ray D BradburyFormat PaperbackImprint HarperCollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 200g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307275226Author Edward MendelsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 228gDimensions(mm)...

A collection of Lewis's essays against 'the new morality' - a fine collection representing Lewis at his most brilliant. Published shortly after his death, aiming to make available some of his writings which were not at that time publicly...

The Pixels of Paul Cezanne is a collection of essays by Wim Wenders in which he presents his observations and reflections on the fellow artists who have influenced, shaped, and inspired him."How are they doing it?" is the key question that Wenders asks...

Winner of the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the EssayWinner of the 2022 Southern Book PrizeAn Indie Next Selection for September 2021A Book Marks Best Reviewed Essay Collection of 2021A Literary Hub Most Anticipated Book of 2021A...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780553212464Author Henry David ThoreauFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint Bantam Books IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 198gDimensions(mm)...

This is a book about identity, self-determination and self-making; about energy; about that vibrant surge that forces us forward in life, to seek the new and the possible, come whatever. In a series of honest, often humorous and brutally frank essays,...

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:...

A must-read collection featuring the best in sports journalism Glenn Stout, founding editor of the Best American Sports Writing, has curated an essential anthology showcasing incredible feats and diverse perspectives across the world of sports. Selected...

'An uplifting work: complex, precise and bracing' Susie Boyt, Financial Times'A profound book about the intrication of literature and life, about the modest, miraculous ways art helps us to live' Garth GreenwellIn twenty-nine intimate, brilliant and...

Acclaimed poet and critic Maureen N. McLane offers an experimental work of criticism ranging across Romantic and contemporary poetry. In My Poetics, Maureen N. McLane writes as a poet, critic, theorist, and scholar—but above all as an impassioned reader...

For John Freeman - literary critic, essayist, editor, poet and 'one of the preeminent book people of our time' (Dave Eggers) - it is a rare moment when words are not enough. But in the wake of the election of 2016, words felt useless, even indulgent...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912710461Author Gemma June HowellFormat PaperbackImprint Culture Matters Co-operative LtdPublisher Culture Matters Co-operative Ltd

A landmark reissue of a great teacher's finest work.Lionel Trilling was, during his lifetime, generally acknowledged to be one of the finest essayists in the English language, the heir of Hazlitt and the peer of Orwell. Since his death in 1974, his work...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsShort-listed for National Book Critics Circle Awards 2007.Book InformationISBN 9780307275769Author Joan AcocellaFormat PaperbackPage Count 560Imprint Random House...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781501155925Author Andrew SullivanFormat PaperbackPage Count 576Imprint Avid Reader Press / Simon & SchusterPublisher Avid Reader Press / Simon &...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802170170Author Jonathan AmesFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly PressPublisher Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press

What motivated the 16th century explorers? The question is a vexed one the world over. To this day, a troubled folkloric status hangs about the better-known names. Many of the Tudor explorers set sail from the South West peninsula. Morpurgo, with his own...

A Finalist for the NAACP Image AwardA Finalist for the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award for NonfictionA Finalist for the Thurber Prize for American HumorLonglisted for the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the EssayAn NPR Best Book of the YearA...

A searing and fearless anthology of essays exploring the profound impact of money on women's lives, edited by prominent feminist and writer Rebecca Walker.Women Talk Money is a groundbreaking collection that lifts the veil on what women talk about when...

A searing and fearless anthology of essays exploring the profound impact of money on women's lives, edited by prominent feminist and writer Rebecca Walker.Women Talk Money is a groundbreaking collection that lifts the veil on what women talk about when...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374531317Author Anne FadimanFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3plPublisher Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3plWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679761617Author Julian BarnesFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 282gDimensions(mm) 201mm *...

A love letter to Korean pop sensation BTS and an ode to fandom. An Atlantic Edition, featuring long-form journalism by Atlantic writers, drawn from contemporary articles or classic storytelling from the magazine's 165-year archive.The supersonic rise of...

"It is impossible for me to write about the imagination; it is like asking a fish to describe the sea," Mary Ruefle announces at the start of her essay. With wit and intellectual abandon, Ruefle draws inspiration from Wittgenstein, Shakespeare, Jesus,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780618125005Author Tatyana TolstayaFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Houghton Mifflin (Trade)Publisher Houghton MifflinWeight(grams) 262g

For decades the suburbs have been where art happens despite: despite the conformity, the emptiness, the sameness. Time and again, the story is one of gems formed under pressure and that resentment of the suburbs is the key ingredient for creative...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679730040Author Eudora WeltyFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 309gDimensions(mm)...

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY SIR RANULPH FIENNESThe Last Expedition is Captain Scott's gripping account of his expedition to the South Pole in 1910-12. It was meant to be a voyage of scientific discovery and a heroic exploration of the last unconquered...

A private printed, limited edition facsimile of Aldous Huxley's 1940 essay on the significance and power of words. An argument as timely as it is timeless, Aldous Huxley's Words and Their Meanings argues the significance and power of words. A less...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780399574474Author Eleanor BrownFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Putnam Publishing Group,U.S.Publisher Putnam Publishing Group,U.S.

Winner of the 2022 Southern Book PrizeWinner of the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the EssayAn Indie Next Selection for September 2021A Book Marks Best Reviewed Essay Collection of 2021A Literary Hub Most Anticipated Book of 2021A...

This remarkable book by one of the great writers of the twentieth century includes essays on a proposed universal language, a justification of suicide, a refutation of time, the nature of dreams, and the intricacies of linguistic forms. Borges comments...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780805075885Author Jane SmileyFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Henry Holt & Company IncPublisher Henry Holt & Company IncWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781952119774Author Daniel GumbinerFormat PaperbackImprint McSweeney's PublishingPublisher McSweeney's Publishing