Essays

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781416572480Author BakerFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 286gDimensions(mm) 223mm * 129mm * 21mm

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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,...

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 collection charts three projects by performance-makers who generate autobiographical writing by taking walks. It includes performance texts and photographs, as well as essays by the artists that discuss processes of development, writing and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781566896672Author Laird HuntFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Coffee House PressPublisher Coffee House Press

Vade Mecum brings together Richard Skinner's best essays, reviews and interviews from 1992-2014. There are close critical engagements with writers (Kazuo Ishiguro, Italo Calvino, Shakespeare's The Tempest) and composers (Erik Satie, Iannis Xenakis, Luc...

Confessions, Adventures, Essays, And (other) Outrages of P. J. O'rourke, this is the first collection of wildly humorous essays from the former editor-in-chief of National Lampoon.Book InformationISBN 9780871136220Author P. J. O'RourkeFormat...

A collected series of intertwined poetic essays written by acclaimed Japanese poet Hiromi Ito-part nature writing, part travelogue, part existential philosophy. Written between April 2012 and November 2013, Tree Spirits Grass Spirits adopts a non-linear...

Janet Malcolm's In the Freud Archives and The Journalist and the Murderer, as well as her biographies of Sylvia Plath and Gertrude Stein, are canonical in the realm of nonfiction - as is the title essay of this collection, with its forty-one "false...

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A conversational collection of essays on poetry, offering a highly entertaining analysis of poetic craft with insightful writings on poets like Robert Pinsky, Robert Hass and Louise Gluck. Hoagland has what could be called rock star status' in the poetry...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781891241574Author Lucy SanteFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Verse Chorus Press,U.S.Publisher Puncture Publications

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780854482191Author A S ByattFormat HardbackPage Count 80Imprint The Swedenborg SocietyPublisher The Swedenborg SocietyDimensions(mm) 205mm * 135mm * 11mm

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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)...

Physical graffiti.This edition of early Latin writings is in four volumes. The first three contain the extant work of seven poets and surviving portions of the Twelve Tables of Roman law. The fourth volume contains inscriptions on various materials...

This collection begins in the early 1980s with The Rainbow Sign, which was written as the Introduction to the screenplay of My Beautiful Laundrette. It allowed Kureishi to expand upon the issues raised by the film: race, class, sexuality - issues that...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062661074Author Leila GuerrieroFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 227gDimensions(mm) 203mm...

From Farinelli, the eighteenth century castrato who brought down opera houses with his high C, to the recording of "Johnny B. Goode" affixed to the Voyager spacecraft, Let Me Clear My Throat dissects the whys and hows of popular voices, making them hum...

This collection contains some of Bly's seminal essays on poets and poetry including: Looking for Dragon Smoke, The Eight Stages of Translation, Six Disciplines that Intensify Poetry, and essays on Hirshfield, Stevens, Whitman, Wright, Rilke, Machado,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780988482746Author Kwame DawesFormat PaperbackPage Count 338Imprint 1849 EditionsPublisher 1849 EditionsWeight(grams) 494g

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)...

Alexander Pushkin (1799-1837) is best known for his great achievments in poetry, but the fixtion he wrote in the last decade of his life was to have a tremendous impact on the subsequent development of Russian prose, influencing such later writers as...

What happens when cataracts rob an art critic of his sight? John Berger, whose classic book Ways of Seeing has been in print for fifty years, joins forces with Turkish illustrator Selcuk Demirel to reflect on his own experience of loss of vision. 'John...

An ample and varied section of accessible essays by Samuel Johnson This selection of the cream of the writing from volumes II to V of the Yale Edition of the Works of Samuel Johnson fills the largest remaining gap in easily available eighteenth-century...

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...

'Growing up in Queens, I didn't know being named Shenequa was considered "ghetto" or uncouth. It was only later in life that I realized I was being judged by a decision I had no control over... I will examine the double-standard Black girls with big...

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 9780805076271Author Bill McKibbenFormat PaperbackPage Count 453Imprint Henry Holt & Company IncPublisher Henry Holt & Company IncWeight(grams)...

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Donald Hall's celebrated book of poems Without was written for his wife, Jane Kenyon, who died in 1995.Hall returns to this powerful territory in The Best Day the Worst Day, a work of prose that is equally "a work of art, love, and generous genius" (Liz...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789353336233Author Abhirup BhattacharyaFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Rupa Publications India Pvt. LtdPublisher Rupa Publications India Pvt. Ltd

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...

Espionage fact and fiction collide in this thrilling compendium of spy writing, where some of the greatest spy stories ever told meet the genuine agent records and instructions that altered history. Ian Fleming's genre-defining genius and John le...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781632868800Author Briallen HopperFormat HardbackPage Count 336Imprint Bloomsbury Publishing USAPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing USAWeight(grams) 498g

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

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...

Ranging from Ta-Nehisi Coates's case for reparations to D'Angelo's simmering blend of R&B and racial justice, Jesse McCarthy's dazzling essays capture debates at the intersection of art, literature and politics in the twenty-first century with virtuosic...