Essays

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781617206979Author Helen KellerFormat PaperbackPage Count 30Imprint Wilder PublicationsPublisher Wilder PublicationsWeight(grams) 59gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781952386701Author Merrill Joan GerberFormat PaperbackPage Count 206Imprint Sagging Meniscus PressPublisher Sagging Meniscus PressWeight(grams) 277g

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This collection of articles by Joseph Leech, first published in the Bristol Times in the mid-19 century, took a swipe at contemporary society, particularly the Church and fellow churchgoers. Leech on occasion attacks his contemporaries and invited libel...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374526696Author Edmund WilsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 219Imprint 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 9780316156110Author David Foster WallaceFormat HardbackPage Count 343Imprint Little Brown and CompanyPublisher Little Brown and CompanyWeight(grams) 572g

Coleridge and Contemplation is a multi-disciplinary volume on Samuel Taylor Coleridge, founding poet of British Romanticism, critic, and author of philosophical, political, and theological works. In his philosophical writings, Coleridge developed his...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060504083Author Barbara KingsolverFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint HarperCollins PublishersPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 331g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789354893742Author Amitava KumarFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint HarperCollins IndiaPublisher HarperCollins IndiaDimensions(mm) 200mm * 160mm * 20mm

Astra Magazine is the new literary magazine of the moment, a must-read for anyone interested in the most vital contemporary literature from around the world. Astra Magazine connects readers and writers from New York to Mexico City, Lagos to Berlin,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375756498Author Lillian RossFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Modern Library IncPublisher Random House USA Inc

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780156920254Author E M ForsterFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Mariner BooksPublisher Mariner BooksWeight(grams) 476g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374527228Author Anne FadimanFormat PaperbackPage Count 162Imprint Farrar Straus GirouxPublisher Farrar Straus GirouxWeight(grams) 159g

A collection of thought-provoking essays spanning thirty-five years of Alison Light's work Provides a historicising collection of essays, by a major critic, exemplifying and opening up feminist cultural politics to new readers Offers a way into a...

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America's most important living playwright, Edward Albee, has been rocking our country's moral, political and artistic complacency for more than 50 years. Beginning with his debut play, The Zoo Story (1958), and on to his barrier breaking works of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910898246Author Gail PirkisFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Slightly Foxed: The Real Reader's QuarterlyPublisher Slightly Foxed: The Real Reader's...

The backdam people of Lusignan Estate have left the sugar company's cramped barrack housing and moved to their own individual houses in Annandale Village. They enjoy better conditions, freedom from interference by the estate authorities and more...

These surprisingly un-academic essays are all truely distinctive and full of entertainment. From the living Monopoly game (in an essay by John McPhee) to a set of unattended ghostly footnotes, from the Joan Didion elegy to the Anne Carson fantasia, this...

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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...

"A marvel of brash opinion, contemporary society, politics, and memoir." -Bookforum Honore de Balzac's Treatise on Modern Stimulants is a meditation on five stimulants-tea, sugar, coffee, alcohol and tobacco-by an author very conscious of the fact...

Ralph Waldo Emerson: The Major Poetry, like its companion prose volume, presents a selection of definitively edited texts drawn chiefly from the multivolume Collected Works. Accompanying each poem is a headnote prepared by Albert von Frank for the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812977363Author Kurt VonnegutFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 142gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781859841631Author John SturrockFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Verso BooksPublisher Verso BooksWeight(grams) 244g

The author of the phenomenal #1 national bestsellers The Bridges of Madison County and Slow Waltz in Cedar Bend now presents a collection of his reflections on life, love, loss, and longing--a timely treatise on the emotions of the heart, the powers of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781400031245Author Colson WhiteheadFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 170gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679749073Author Philip RothFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 256gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781627876988Author Kenneth RingFormat PaperbackPage Count 150Imprint WheatmarkPublisher WheatmarkWeight(grams) 227gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 9mm

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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...

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...

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...

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)...