Essays

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781640093652Author Scott Russell SandersFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint CounterpointPublisher Counterpoint

Notes on Sontag is a frank, witty, and entertaining reflection on the work, influence, and personality of one of the "foremost interpreters of ...our recent contemporary moment." Adopting Sontag's favorite form, a set of brief essays or notes that circle...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780805076271Author Bill McKibbenFormat PaperbackPage Count 453Imprint Henry Holt & Company IncPublisher Henry Holt & Company IncWeight(grams) 378g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374523756Author Marguerite YourcenarFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Farrar, Straus & Giroux IncPublisher Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc

Something of a historical event, this book combines loosely "autobiographical" texts by two of the most influential French intellectuals of our time. "Savoir," by Helene Cixous, is a brief but densely layered account of her experience of recovered sight...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814258767Author Marlena WilliamsFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Ohio State University PressPublisher Ohio State University PressWeight(grams)...

Since the dawn of the Space Age, when the Soviet Union launched the first artificial satellite and sent the first human into the cosmos, science fiction literature and cinema from Russia has fascinated fans, critics, and scholars from around the world...

"Decades after immigrating to the States in 1954, [Simic] retains an outsider's perspective: inquisitive, incredulous, amazed by the apparently ordinary-all excellent qualities for an essayist. There's ample warmth and charm here." -New York Times Book...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780547385341Author Virginia WoolfFormat PaperbackPage Count 742Imprint Mariner Books ClassicsPublisher Mariner Books ClassicsWeight(grams)...

Before embarking on what would become one of the most prominent writing careers in American literature, spanning decades and indelibly shaping the nation's perception of the West, Larry McMurtry knew what it meant to come from Texas. Originally published...

The New York Times bestseller from the author of Slaughterhouse-Five-a "gripping" posthumous collection of Kurt Vonnegut's previously unpublished work on the subject of war and peace. A fitting tribute to a literary legend and a profoundly humane...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781905005048Author Jerome K JeromeFormat HardbackPage Count 160Imprint Snowbooks LtdPublisher Snowbooks LtdDimensions(mm) 150mm * 150mm * 22mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307472335Author Mary GaitskillFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 265gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789353041427Author Mallika AhluwaliaFormat PaperbackPage Count 210Imprint Rupa Publications India Pvt Ltd.Publisher Rupa Publications India Pvt Ltd.

In The White Album, Joan Didion famously wrote that "a place belongs forever to whoever claims it hardest, remembers it most obsessively...loves it so radically that he remakes it in his image." Cruising in her Daytona yellow Corvette Stingray, taking it...

Postcolonial Borges is the first systematic account of geo-political and postcolonial themes in a range of writings by Borges, from the poetry and essays of the 1920s, through the prose and poetry of the middle years (the 40s, 50s, and 60s), to the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143122906Author John LeonardFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint The Penguin PressPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 346gDimensions(mm) 212mm *...

Jack London, one of the most read and recognized figures in American literature, produced an immense body of work, including 22 novels, 200 short stories, memoirs, newspaper articles, book reviews, essays, and poems. A significant and revealing feature...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590173343Author Robert B SilversFormat PaperbackPage Count 316Imprint NYRB ClassicsPublisher The New York Review of Books, IncWeight(grams)...

After its heyday in the 1970s and 1980s, many wondered whether the law and literature movement would retain vitality. This collection of essays, featuring twenty-two prominent scholars from literature departments as well as law schools, showcases the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385547482Author Margaret AtwoodFormat HardbackPage Count 496Imprint Doubleday & Co Inc.Publisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 828gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788763546881Author Matthew James DriscollFormat HardbackPage Count 550Imprint Museum Tusculanum PressPublisher Museum Tusculanum PressDimensions(mm) 25mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593310809Author Rick BraggFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 255gDimensions(mm) 202mm * 132mm...

The ultimate gift edition of Walden for bibliophiles, aficionados, and scholars "Replaces all other available editions of Walden as the most attractive and reliable way to approach this great American book."-Joel Porte, author of Consciousness and...

These creative nonfiction essays consider girlhood, motherhood, violence at home and abroad, violence against women, the consolation in writing, trauma, and redemption. The essays celebrate and interrogate popular and literary culture: for example the...

'No one else casts such a shrewd and gimlet eye on contemporary life.' - William BoydComic, dark and insightful, What Happened? is Hanif Kureishi's new collection of essays and fiction. No topic is too fringe or too mainstream for this insatiable-and...

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Over more than a decade, Dylan Moore has written with verve, insight and warm humour about places. Life's journey takes the author from winding roads in rural Wales via bull runs in the Basque Country to the mangrove swamps of the Gulf of Guinea; from...

This summation of his life's work, published posthumously in 1862, became a seminal influence in the modern environmental movement and is no less relevant today than 150 years ago. "Above all, we cannot afford not to live in the present," he wrote. He...

Educated in the humanities and trained in psychiatry, Jean Starobinski is a central figure in the Geneva School of criticism. His classic work, "Montaigne in Motion", is a subtly conceived and elegantly written study of the "Essais of Montaigne", whose...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780954536503Author P J CurtisFormat PaperbackPage Count 125Imprint Old Forge BooksPublisher Old Forge Books

Provides a wide-ranging account of the different disciplinary, critical and theoretical contexts relevant to the study of nonsense.About the AuthorAnna Barton, Lecturer in English, The University of Sheffield. James Williams, Lecturer in English,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781773860213Author Christina MyersFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Caitlin PressPublisher Caitlin PressWeight(grams) 342g

Incisive, compassionate, and revelatory reporting from America's death row, named a 2023 Pulitzer Prize finalist for feature writing. An Atlantic Edition, featuring long-form journalism by Atlantic writers, drawn from contemporary articles or classic...

A major collection of essays and interviews from an iconic 20th-century philosopher in five volumes, now all available together in paperback. Roland Barthes was a restless, protean thinker. A constant innovator-often as a daring smuggler of ideas from...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781571313652Author Aimee NezhukumatathilFormat HardbackPage Count 184Imprint Milkweed EditionsPublisher Milkweed Editions

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781505114379Author Dana GioiaFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint Saint Benedict PressPublisher Saint Benedict PressWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm) 229mm...

From the man whose name is synonymous with the contemporary personal essay, Getting Personal is a rich and ambitious collection that spans Phillip Lopate's career as an essayist, teacher, film critic, father, son, and husband. Witty, insightful, deeply...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814255667Author Sibbie O'SullivanFormat PaperbackPage Count 184Imprint Ohio State University PressPublisher Ohio State University PressWeight(grams)...