Essays

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781949646023Author Black Mountain InstituteFormat PaperbackPage Count 111Imprint Believer MagazinePublisher Believer MagazineWeight(grams)...

This volume in the 21st Century Oxford Authors series offers students an authoritative, comprehensive selection of the work of Thomas De Quincey (1785-1859). The edition presents De Quincey's work in all of its rich variety, and offers the most thorough...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781949641349Author Jazmina BarreraFormat PaperbackPage Count 174Imprint Two Lines PressPublisher Two Lines PressWeight(grams) 181gDimensions(mm) 178mm *...

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,...

Essays considering what it means to love art, culture, and people in an age of accelerating disaster. This is a book about loving things-books, songs, people-in the shadow of a felt, looming disaster. Through lyrical, funny, heart-wrenching essays,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781619021143Author Wendell BerryFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint CounterpointPublisher Counterpoint

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781582437460Author Wendell BerryFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint CounterpointPublisher Counterpoint

When Celeste Mogador's memoirs were first published in 1854 and again in 1858, they were immediately seized and condemned as immoral and unsuitable for public consumption. For a reader in our more forgiving times, this extraordinary document offers not...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781761040405Author Sophie CunninghamFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Random House AustraliaPublisher Random House Australia

The Cushion in the Road is a collection of wide-ranging meditations on the human race's intertwined personal, spiritual and political destinies. It revisits the many themes that the Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist, poet, essayist and activist has...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789887792765Author PEN Hong KongFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Blacksmith BooksPublisher Blacksmith BooksWeight(grams) 498g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781948830454Author Dubravka UgresicFormat PaperbackPage Count 220Imprint Open LetterPublisher Open LetterWeight(grams) 139g

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 9781914198427Author V.S. PritchettFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Daunt BooksPublisher Daunt BooksDimensions(mm) 198mm * 129mm * 15mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679600046Author Henry David ThoreauFormat HardbackPage Count 158Imprint Modern Library IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 740g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307386236Author Orhan PamukFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 405gDimensions(mm) 201mm *...

This is one of the first complete collections of medieval Latin fables to appear in modern English. Odo of Cheriton (c. 1185- c. 1247) wrote sophisticated fables, filled with great wit and humor, yet highly moral, even didactic, in keeping with the age...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781593767013Author James HannahamFormat HardbackPage Count 208Imprint Soft Skull PressPublisher Soft Skull Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780999323151Author Carol C. Harter Black Mountain Institute The Beverly RogersFormat PaperbackPage Count 88Imprint The BelieverPublisher The Believer

Description currently unavailableBook InformationISBN 9780850362374Author Georg LukacsFormat PaperbackPage Count 260Imprint The Merlin Press LtdPublisher The Merlin Press Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814253113Author Christine Brooke-RoseFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint Ohio State University PressPublisher Ohio State University PressWeight(grams)...

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 9781250785909Author Jordan KisnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Picador USAPublisher Picador USAWeight(grams) 227gDimensions(mm) 208mm * 135mm * 23mm

The twenty-eight essays in this handbook represent the best current thinking in the study of Latin language and literature in the Middle Ages. Contributing authors-both senior scholars and gifted younger thinkers among them-not only illuminate the field...

Between the Boundaries follows the course of a single year and covers topics that range from the habits of beavers to the progression of Artificial Intelligence, journeying from Wales to Australia with many stops in between. Humorous, thought- ...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374538347Author Elisa GabbertFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Fsg OriginalsPublisher Fsg OriginalsWeight(grams) 204gDimensions(mm) 188mm * 124mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781527280410Author Sophia HembeckFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Muse Letter PublishingPublisher Muse Letter Publishing

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780999323144Author Anne CarsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 102Imprint The BelieverPublisher The BelieverWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm) 254mm * 216mm * 6mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781946448132Author Rachel Z ArndtFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Sarabande Books, IncorporatedPublisher Sarabande Books, Incorporated

Essays on Ricardian Literature develops issues and themes first broached in John Burrow's ground-breaking book Ricardian Poetry and incorporates a bibliography of his published writings, which have revolutionized critical appreciation of medieval...

Dinesh D'Souza rose to national prominence as one of the founders of the Dartmouth Review, a leading voice in the rebirth of conservative politics on college campuses in the 1980s.He fired the first popular shot against political correctness with his...

A landmark volume that revolutionized our understanding of the power and significance of Native stories and storytellers in North America, "In vain I tried to tell you" showcases the methodology and theory of ethnopoetics. Focusing on the rich Native...

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 9780060932237Author E. B. WhiteFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint HarperPerennialPublisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc

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,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781781723470Author Nicholas MurrayFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint SerenPublisher Poetry Wales PressWeight(grams) 254g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781781723470Author Nicholas MurrayFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint SerenPublisher Poetry Wales PressWeight(grams) 254g

The Experimental Novel (1880) is an essay by French author Emile Zola. Written at the height of his career as a leading proponent of Naturalism, The Experimental Novel serves to illuminate the author's approach to the practice and purpose of writing...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788797426227Author Marion WallerFormat PaperbackPage Count 135Imprint Nybrogade PressPublisher Nybrogade Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781949646146Author Carol C. Harter Black Mountain Institute The Beverly RogersFormat PaperbackImprint Believer MagazinePublisher Believer Magazine