Essays

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780156186230Author George OrwellFormat PaperbackPage Count 576Imprint Mariner Books ClassicsPublisher Mariner Books ClassicsWeight(grams) 703gDimensions(mm)...

McPhee, in prose distinguished by its warm humor, keen insight, and rich sense of human character, looks at the people who drive trucks, captain ships, pilot towboats, drive coal trains, and carry lobsters through the air: people who work in freight...

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...

First Place Winner in Non-Fiction from the 2023 Next Generation Indie Book Awards Part literary history, part personal memoir, Alice Brittan's beautifully written The Art of Astonishment explores the rich intellectual, religious, and philosophical...

Early on July 16, 1945, Joshua Wheeler's great grandfather awoke to a flash, and then a long rumble: the world's first atomic blast filled the horizon north of his ranch in Alamogordo, New Mexico. Out on the range, the cattle had been bleached white by...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374529444Author Danilo KisFormat PaperbackPage Count 300Imprint Farrar, Straus and GirouxPublisher Farrar, Straus and GirouxWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780525556534Author John GreenFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint DuttonPublisher Penguin Books LtdWeight(grams) 448gDimensions(mm) 217mm * 146mm * 28mm

As Americans we often take our freedom of speech for granted. When we talk about censorship we talk about China, the former Soviet Union. But the recent presidential election has shined a spotlight on profound acts of censorship in our own backyard. Both...

From the cultural critic Wired called "provocative and cuttingly humorous" comes a viciously funny, joltingly insightful collection of drive-by critiques of contemporary America where chaos is the new normal. Exploring the darkest corners of the national...

With the great Renaissance voyages to the New World came the popularity of Wunderkammern, or cabinets of wonders, in which newly discovered monsters and marvels could be displayed. Like such a cabinet, this collection of essays surveys the monstrous and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781951142391Author Elissa WashutaFormat HardbackPage Count 432Imprint Tin House BooksPublisher Tin House BooksWeight(grams) 590gDimensions(mm) 208mm * 145mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780156901772Author Virginia WoolfFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Mariner Books ClassicsPublisher Mariner Books ClassicsWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780156901772Author Virginia WoolfFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Mariner Books ClassicsPublisher Mariner Books ClassicsWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781476795058Author Andrew SolomonFormat PaperbackPage Count 640Imprint Scribner Book CompanyPublisher Scribner Book CompanyWeight(grams) 658gDimensions(mm)...

This text presents an analysis of censorship from the perspective of a writer who has lived and worked under its shadow. The essays collected here attempt to understand the passion that plays itself out in acts of silencing and censoring. Subscribing...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780156001250Author Professor of Semiotics Umberto EcoFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint HarperviaPublisher HarperviaWeight(grams) 249gDimensions(mm)...

The definitive English edition of the "Father of Medicine."Hippocrates, said to have been born in Cos in or before 460 BC, learned medicine and philosophy; traveled widely as a medical doctor and teacher; was consulted by King Perdiccas of Macedon and...

To mark its 100-year anniversary, the American Civil Liberties Union partners with award-winning authors Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman to bring together many of our greatest living writers, each contributing an original piece inspired by a historic...

Marcel Benabou is quick to acknowledge that his own difficulty in writing has plenty of company. Words stick and syntax is stubborn, meaning slips and synonyms cluster. A blank page taunts and a full one accuses. Benabou knows the heroic joy of depriving...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781934832417Author Stephanie DickinsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint New Michigan PressPublisher New Michigan PressWeight(grams) 95gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780156290562Author Virginia WoolfFormat PaperbackPage Count 584Imprint Mariner Books ClassicsPublisher Mariner Books ClassicsWeight(grams)...

JOIN AWARD-WINNING PODCASTER ZIBBY OWENS OF MOMS DON'T HAVE TIME TO READ BOOKS ON A JOURNEY FILLED WITH FOOD, EXERCISE, SEX, BOOKS, AND MORE. It's impossible to ignore how life has changed since COVID-19 spread across the world. People from all over...

A Ghanaian explores the increasing influence of China across the region, a Kenyan student activist writes of exile in Kampala, a Liberian scientist shares her diary of the Ebola crisis; a Nigerian journalist travels to the north to meet a community at...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780544569621Author Robert AtwanFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Mariner BooksPublisher Mariner BooksWeight(grams) 227g

'Novels, one would have thought, would have been devoted to influenza, epic poems to typhoid, odes to pneumonia, lyrics to toothache. But no - with a few exceptions - literature does its best to maintain that its concern is with the mind; that the body...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374528782Author Seamus HeaneyFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3plPublisher Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3plWeight(grams)...

A moving and inspiring anthology of masterful essays on stories that touch the hearts and minds of readers. “A writer,” Nobel Prize winner Saul Bellow once said, “is a reader who is moved to emulation.” New York Times bestselling novelist and memoirist...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780156528658Author Alice WalkerFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Amistad PressPublisher Amistad PressWeight(grams) 259gDimensions(mm) 204mm * 135mm *...

A soulful, generation-defining collection of thought-provoking, agitating, and liberating works from Dick Gregory, the activist and author of sixteen books, including the classic bestseller Nigger: An Autobiography and the 2017 NAACP Image Award Winner,...

The first book-length study of Hoelderlin's postwar reception and a case study of Germanistik. Toward the end of the Second World War, the works of the great German poet Friedrich Hoelderlin were heavily exploited by Nazi propaganda as a source of...

In all the complex cultural history of the islands of Britain and Ireland the idea of the coast as a significant representative space is critical. For many important artists coastal space has figured as a site from which to braid ideas of empire, nation,...

From the acclaimed creator of Subway Book Review, Between the Lines gloriously takes to the underground and showcases in over 170 interviews what moves us forward-a thrilling ride as unexpected as New York City itself. "Subway Book Review has changed...

Based on lectures given at Cambridge colleges and first published by the Hogarth Press in 1929, A Room of One's Own is an extended essay about the predicament of female writers and a stirring call for autonomy and recognition. As well as settling scores...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780156028165Author Virginia WoolfFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Mariner Books ClassicsPublisher Mariner Books ClassicsWeight(grams)...

Charles Baxter's new collection of essays, Wonderlands, joins his other works of nonfiction, Burning Down the House and The Art of Subtext. In the mold of those books, Baxter shares years of wisdom and reflection on what makes fiction work, including...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789353337698Author Sanjukta NandyFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint 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 9781570272394Author Silvia FedericiFormat PaperbackPage Count 72Imprint AutonomediaPublisher AutonomediaWeight(grams) 75g

How can Latin Americans understand their past? Do ideologies which have been imported from Europe necessarily distort their view, or is that to underrate the power and objectivity of the ideas themselves? These questions are at the heart of this...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780063341463Author Roxane GayFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 431gDimensions(mm) 231mm *...

Gutenberg's invention of movable type in the fifteenth century introduced an era of mass communication that permanently altered the structure of society. While publishing has been buffeted by persistent upheaval and transformation ever since, the current...