Essays

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)...

In his latest book of essays Karl Miller turns his attention to appreciate certain writers of the English-speaking modern world. A new ruralism has come to notice in this country, and the book is drawn to country lives as they have figured in the...

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)...

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...

Thomas Mitchell's essays on how to live well were completed in 1913, and reflect a clear mind and a good education, but also confidence about the world and society that were about to be shattered. No doubt some thoughts he expressed would have been...

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 9780544311916Author Loren EiseleyFormat HardbackPage Count 324Imprint Mariner BooksPublisher Mariner BooksWeight(grams) 558gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm *...

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)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143131038Author John FreemanFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm) 208mm * 139mm *...

'There is a Turkish saying that one's home is not where one is born, but where one grows full - dogdugun yer degil, doydugun yer.'Mixing the personal and political, Eda Gunaydin's bold and innovative writing explores race, class, gender and violence, and...

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'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 9781582434858Author Wendell BerryFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint CounterpointPublisher CounterpointWeight(grams) 235g

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 *...

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...

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...

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...

Within the recent explosion of creative nonfiction, a new type of form is quietly emerging, what Brenda Miller calls "hermit crab essays." The Shell Game is an anthology of these intriguing essays that borrow their structures from ordinary,...

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 9780679748106Author Janet MalcolmFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 335gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

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...

Willa Cather was twenty-eight years old in the summer of 1902 when she saw England and France for the first time. Behind her stretched the Nebraska fields of her childhood and still ahead of her the world as it belongs only to great writers. The 1902...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679761617Author Julian BarnesFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 282gDimensions(mm) 201mm *...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780063230132Author Jen SorianoFormat HardbackPage Count 336Imprint 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...

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In Queers Dig Time Lords, editors Sigrid Ellis (Chicks Dig Comics) and Michael Damian Thomas (Apex Magazine) bring together essays by award-winning writers to celebrate the phenomenon that is Doctor Who, in the tradition of the Hugo Award-winning Chicks...

This study argues that ignorance is a part of the narrative and poetic force of literature and is an important aspect of its thematic focus: ignorance is what literary texts are about. It sees that the dominant conception of literature since the Romantic...

This is a book about ownership. It begins with an essay about being given a man's furniture while he's on trial for murder and follows with essays that question corporeal, familial, and intellectual forms of ownership. What does it mean to believe that a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593319079Author Charles FinchFormat HardbackPage Count 336Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA Inc

"T Fleischmann's Syzygy, Beauty shimmers with confidence as it tours the surreal chaos of gender, art, and desire. Its declarative sentences seductive, abject, caustic, moving, informative, and utterly inventive herald a new world, one in which we are...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783951981727Author Herbert SchmidtFormat PaperbackPage Count 270Imprint Sofa-BooksPublisher Sofa-BooksWeight(grams) 295gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm * 15mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781632063526Author Andrea ChapelaFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Restless BooksPublisher Restless Books