Essays

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...

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 *...

A fascinating history of Irishmen, woven through the clothes they wear. Taking the clothes they wore as a starting point, Paul Galvin skilfully weaves together a collection of stories of Irish men who defined the culture and mood of their time. In...

"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...

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...

Aldous Huxley was one of the most prophetic intellectuals of the twentieth century, and his best-known work was a novel of ideas that warned of a terrible future then 600 years away. Though ""Brave New World"", was published less than a century ago in...

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...

Tolkien and Shakespeare: one a prolific popular dramatist and poet of the Elizabethan era, the other a twentieth-century scholar of Old English and author of a considerably smaller body of work. Though unquestionably very different writers, the two have...

'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...

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

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250310385Author Marilynne RobinsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Picador USAPublisher Picador USAWeight(grams) 272gDimensions(mm) 206mm * 135mm *...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814257807Author Susanne Paola AntonettaFormat PaperbackPage Count 248Imprint Ohio State University PressPublisher Ohio State University...

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

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780765327116Author John ScalziFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Tor BooksPublisher Tor BooksWeight(grams) 431gDimensions(mm) 213mm * 140mm * 28mm

Streaming Now: Postcards from the Thing That Is Happening is a collection of hybrid feminist narratives that perfectly captures the many paradoxes of the COVID-19 pandemic, contrasting the seemingly never-ended public catastrophes we experienced as a...

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 9780553212464Author Henry David ThoreauFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint Bantam Books IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 198gDimensions(mm)...

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 9780374527952Author Czeslawmilos MiloszFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Farrar, Straus & Giroux IncPublisher Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc

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 9780618340736Author MR Joseph EpsteinFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Mariner BooksPublisher Mariner BooksWeight(grams) 336g

Before his death from leukemia at the age of 36, Allon White had become known as one of the most important literary and cultural critics of his generation. Carnival, Hysteria, and Writing represents a summation of the work which, as Stuart Hall explains...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814258125Author Hasanthika SirisenaFormat PaperbackPage Count 184Imprint Ohio State University PressPublisher Ohio State University PressWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781735558523Author Ann de ForestFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint New Door BooksPublisher New Door BooksWeight(grams) 430gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *...

53 SHORT ESSAYS FOR BUSY PEOPLE . . . BY 49 AMAZING AUTHORS. Too tired to think? No time to read books? Zibby Owens gets it. Award-winning podcaster ofMoms Don't Have Time to Read Booksand mother of four (ages six to fourteen) compiled fifty-three essays...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374526832Author Derek WalcottFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3plPublisher Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3plWeight(grams)...

Ford's novel, "Parade's End", has been acknowledged as one of the great British novels about World War I. This book features a selection of Ford's other writings about the war, and should shed light on the tetralogy. It includes reminiscences,...

Roland Barthes, whose centenary falls in 2015, was a restless, protean thinker. A constant innovator, often as a daring smuggler of ideas from one discipline to another, he first gained an audience with his pithy essays on mass culture and then went on...

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 *...

These United States is a landmark original anthology that includes essays by Sherman Alexie on Washington, Annie Proulx on Wyoming, James Lee Burke on Louisiana, Tony Hillerman on New Mexico, Molly Ivins on Texas, Diane McWhorter on Alabama, Frank Conroy...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781582437453Author Wendell BerryFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint CounterpointPublisher Counterpoint