Essays

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A brilliant, idiosyncratic collection of introductions and afterwords (plus some liner notes) by New York Times bestselling and Pulitzer Prize winning author Michael Chabon--"one of contemporary literature's most gifted prose stylists" (Michiko...

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Essays on Literature brings together ten of the most important literary reviews and essays written by the acclaimed Victorian philosopher, social critic, and essayist Thomas Carlyle. Spanning his writing career, the essays allow the reader to track...

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Written in the wake of the Black Death, this book tells of how ten young noble men and women, who have escaped the plague in a country villa outside of Florence, decide to tell each other stories. Themes are playfully restated from one story to another,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910463253Author Sharon BlackieFormat PaperbackPage Count 390Imprint September PublishingPublisher September PublishingWeight(grams) 689g

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In this half-century of writings from playing and reporting cricket the world over, Peter Roebuck demonstrates his versatility whether reporting on schools cricket at Millfield, county cricket at Taunton or test cricket in Australia, the West Indies and...

During the 1970s and the early 1980s Peter Ackroyd wrote countless book reviews and articles for the "Spectator", on literature, film and a number of social and cultural issues. "The Collection" offers a selection of these incisive...

'She's a genius, I believe, because she lights up every subject she touches.' Hilary Mantel A Spectator Book of the Year Goethe claimed to know what light was. Galileo and Einstein both confessed they didn't. On the essential nature of light, and how it...

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A selection of wide ranging essays from the passionate and original journalist and writer, Nuala O'Faolain drawn from nonfiction written between 1980 and her untimely death in 2008. A recent UK reviewer wrote of the collected columns: O'Faolain was never...

An irresistible collection of favorite writings from an author celebrated for his bravura style and sheer unpredictability Francis Spufford's welcome first volume of collected essays gathers an array of his compelling writings from the 1990s to the...

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This celebrated translation by Charles Jarvis conveys the flavour of the original Spanish, and the new introduction and notes provide essential background information. This book is intended for students following courses in the novel; Spanish literature;...

Keith Waterhouse has combined his interests in travelling and writing to produce this book which will appeal to both the intrepid explorer and the armchair traveller. It includes witty anecdotes and helpful hints - including a dictionary of...

Francis Wheen has established himself as one of the most brilliant and admired journalists writing in Britain today with his massively acclaimed biography of Karl Marx, his contributions to radio and TV and his outstanding commentary and analysis. This...

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

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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)...

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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

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312420215Author Susan SontagFormat PaperbackPage Count 274Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 340gDimensions(mm) 213mm *...