Essays

The Estrangement Principle argues for a wider range of possible associations with art made by queer people by unraveling the difficulties of the "queer art" label. Goldberg invokes the lives and works of artists Renee Gladman, Jocelyn Saidenberg, Jack...

The articles which Stendhal contributed as French correspondent for the 'London Magazine', 'New Monthly Magazine' and other English Marketing Reviews of the 1820s are here brought together in a single volume, the only edition available in English. In...

"At the Edge of Night", a selection from four recent collections by Anise Koltz, brings the work of Luxembourg's best-known poet to the attention of the English-speaking literary world for the first time. Written in Koltz's prolific seventh decade, these...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780670091157Author Anand TeltumbdeFormat HardbackPage Count 520Imprint Penguin Allen LanePublisher Penguin Random House India

A harrowing and heartfelt essay collection weaving narratives about family, gun violence, art, and the American Dream. Two weeks before her grandfather purchased a gun, Ashley Marie Farmer's grandmother tripped as she walked across their living...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780140256987Author Bruce ChatwinFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Penguin Putnam IncPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 176gDimensions(mm) 194mm *...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374614973Author Deborah LevyFormat HardbackPage Count 176Imprint Farrar, Straus and GirouxPublisher Farrar, Straus and GirouxWeight(grams) 454g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789353333898Author Shreerupa MitraFormat HardbackPage Count 296Imprint Rupa & CoPublisher Rupa & Co

A collection of essays on America by the author of London Fields, Money and Yellow Dog. At the age of ten, when Martin Amis spent a year in Princeton, New Jersey, he was excited and frightened by America. As an adult he has approached that confusing...

A knock-out debut sports epic taking a unique journey into the world of Mixed Martial Arts fightingStep into the octagon . . .Welcome to the heart of the fight. Three years and two fighters - one ageing, tired, struggling from one backstreet dive to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780991998128Author Hylke SpeerstraFormat PaperbackPage Count 242Imprint Mokeham Publishing Inc.Publisher Mokeham Publishing Inc.Weight(grams) 358g

A modern prose version of the classical epic relating the wanderings and homecoming of a Greek warrior and hero.Book InformationISBN 9780671015480Author HomerFormat PaperbackPage Count 278Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams)...

Unapologetically intimate essays on sex, death, mental illness, and other taboos by poet and writer Melissa Broder, the creator of @sosadtoday. In the past, my husband has said that he would prefer not to be a subject of my writing. But he has also said...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781843916093Author StendhalFormat PaperbackPage Count 136Imprint Hesperus Press LtdPublisher Hesperus Press LtdWeight(grams) 163g

A collection of James's travel essays on English towns and villages, first published in American periodicals in the late nineteenth centuryBook InformationISBN 9780192813213Author Henry JamesFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Oxford...

Laurie Graham's "Generation Games" column has appeared weekly in the "Daily Telegraph" since 1987. It has charted the true life and changing times of this struggling parent, whitener of cricket pads, provider of boil-in-the-bag...

Describing the surreal hallucinations, insomnia and nightmarish visions he experienced while consuming daily large amounts of laudanum, Thomas De Quincey's legendary account of the pleasures and pains of opium forged a link between artistic...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780854811380Author Christopher LigotaFormat PaperbackPage Count 228Imprint Warburg InstitutePublisher Warburg Institute

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780998079387Author Mike SagerFormat PaperbackPage Count 350Imprint Sager Group LLCPublisher Sager Group LLCWeight(grams) 513g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780259186281Author Walter Hilliard BidwellFormat PaperbackPage Count 580Imprint Forgotten BooksPublisher Forgotten Books

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780996439756Author Jessie Van EerdenFormat PaperbackPage Count 196Imprint Orison BooksPublisher Orison BooksWeight(grams) 259g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780991062607Author Kerrie L FlanaganFormat PaperbackImprint Hot Chocolate PressPublisher Hot Chocolate PressWeight(grams) 109g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814201572Author Nathaniel HawthorneFormat HardbackPage Count 370Imprint Ohio State University PressPublisher Ohio State University PressWeight(grams) 771g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578543963Author Angela AbreuFormat PaperbackPage Count 180Imprint Dwa PressPublisher Dwa PressWeight(grams) 249g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780195411355Author Brian KellowFormat PaperbackImprint Oxford University Press CanadaPublisher Oxford University Press CanadaWeight(grams) 363g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780967416212Author David HealeyFormat PaperbackPage Count 214Imprint IntracoastalPublisher IntracoastalWeight(grams) 277g

Tom Bodett, humorist, radio star, and pitchman for Motel 6, lives and writes in Homer, Alaska, the little town in the blue Northwest where America stops, carwise. "If you got into your car in New York, " he said, "and wanted to take a nice...

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Most modern critics (even those who have emphasized the `evolution' of Montaigne's ideas) have sought to explain away the contradictions and incoherences of Montaigne's Essais. Distinguo: Reading Montaigne Differently investigates the role of these...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780955062834Author Vivek IyerFormat PaperbackPage Count 292Imprint Polyglot PublicationsPublisher Polyglot Publications

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780259836322Author Unknown AuthorFormat PaperbackPage Count 102Imprint Forgotten BooksPublisher Forgotten Books

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This volume brings together for the first time eight masterful essays on William Faulkner by one of his most eloquent and influential critics. Michael Millgate established himself as a leading authority on Faulkner with the publication of The Achievement...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780988616196Author Zoltan IstvanFormat PaperbackPage Count 180Imprint Futurity Imagine Media LLCPublisher Futurity Imagine Media LLCWeight(grams) 272g

Fire has always gripped our imaginations. To quote Mary Clearman Blew, "It warms us, frightens us, and entertains us." In Forged in Fire, Blew and coeditor Phil Druker have assembled twenty gifted writers who explore the element from various...

Of Women and the Essay brings together forty-six American and British women essayists whose work spans nearly four centuries. The contributions of these essayists prove that women have been significant participants in the essay tradition since the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780995456457Author Howard JonesFormat PaperbackImprint Taylor Institution LibraryPublisher Taylor Institution Library