Essays Books
University of Pennsylvania Press A History of Old English Meter
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Quercus Publishing Tretower to Clyro Essays
Book SynopsisA book on writers and their relationship to the countryside by one of our greatest living critics.Trade Review'Imbued with his usual eloquence and foresight ... his criticism attains an artistic quality of its own' Financial Times. * Financial Times *'A new collection of essays by Karl Miller is a cause for jubilation' Independent. * Independent *'Wide-ranging, brilliantly erudite and eccentric' Margaret Drabble, Observer. * Observer *Table of ContentsAcknowledgements. Foreword: Andrew O'Hagan. 'Didn't they ramble', a poem by Seamus Heaney. Country Writers. From the Lone Shieling. McGahern's Hard Sayings. The Passion of Alice Laidlaw. Edward and Florence. What Happened to Seamus Heaney. Yorkshire Lad. Hot for Boswell. Cockburn's Letters. McNeillie's Dream. Glass's Life of Gray. Carnival Scotland. Lord Dacre Hammers the Scots. Epilimnion Re-Used. Gulleying About. Baltimore's Honeys. Afterword. Notes. Index.
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Thrasymachus Greek Through Reading Greek Language
Book SynopsisC. W. E. Peckett and A. R. MundayTable of ContentsPreface Introduction The Alphabet Notes Text delineated by indivual elements of grammar Greek-English Vocabulary English-Greek Vocabulary
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City Lights Books Another City
Book SynopsisThirty-seven LA writers map the scattered, diverse, and extremely fertile literary landscape of contemporary Los Angeles.
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C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd Sahara and Sudan
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) The Civil War Bk7 de Bello Civili VII
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Five Leaves Publications Starkness at Noon
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McPherson Sheer Fiction Volume Four
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£19.00
Dedalus Ltd Ideal Commonwealths European classics
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Salmon Poetry On the Counterscarp Limerick Writing 196191
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Peepal Tree Press Ltd High House and Radio
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Peepal Tree Press Ltd Janjhat
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UEA Publishing Project AUDIO OBSCURA
Book Synopsis''Audio Obscura is more hypnotic than it first sounds - these muttered confessions might even make you miss your train...'' - Clara Tait, Time OutAt a railway station, everyday dramas are constantly being played out: meeting, parting, anticipating, escaping. The atmosphere is an odd mix of tension and contemplation. Everyone is waiting for something to happen or moving between events. In a station we are forced into proximity. We observe one another yet behave as if being in a crowd confers invisibility. We tend to assume that we are neither overheard nor overlooked. This book derives from a sound work, also called Audio Obscura. Commissioned by Artangel and Manchester International Festival, it was created for Manchester, Piccadilly and St Pancras International stations, where these photographs were taken.The idea comes from the camera obscura, or dark room, a once popular form of entertainment and artist''s tool which uses a small aperture and mirrors to project a reflection of the passing world. A form of proto-cinema, the camera obscura was in part what led to early photography, as people strove to fix the images it produced.As Lavinia Greenlaw writes in her introduction, All of my work has, in one form or another, been an exploration of the point at which we start to make sense of things; an attempt to arrest and investigate that moment, to separate its components and test their effects. Audio Obscura extends this to the act of listening, or dark listening, in which unconscious aspects of perception are brought to light in ourselves.
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Maclean Dubois Between Two Enlightenments
Book SynopsisLance St John Butler is a literary academic who has worked at the University of Stirling in Scotland and at the University of Pau in France. He is the author of books on Thomas Hardy, Samuel Beckett, Literary Stylistics and Victorian Doubt. Since retirement he has lived in Edinburgh where he is Chairman of Trustees of the Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Centre.
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Uniformbooks Wordage
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Publishing Print Matters No Other World Essays on the LifeWork of Don
Book SynopsisThe the indispensable guide to the life and work of Don Maclennan - one of South Africa’s most incisive and important poets of the last few decades.
£14.25
The Believer The Believer Issue 116 DecemberJanuary
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Hassell Street Press A Change of Pace
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Creative Media Partners, LLC The Novels Of Jane Austen
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LEGARE STREET PR The Posthumous Works of Thomas De Quincey
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LEGARE STREET PR Paris et les Allemands
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Headline Publishing Group Crushmore
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Alfred A. Knopf Brave Enough
Book SynopsisNATIONAL BEST SELLER • A collection of quotes from the internationally acclaimed author of Wild—drawn from the wide range of her writings—that capture her wisdom, courage, and outspoken humor, presented in a gift-sized package that's as irresistible to give as it is to receive.Cheryl Strayed is a tough-love truth-teller.... Brave Enough amount[s] to a galvanizing call to be bigger, bolder, more generous.” —The Washington Post Around the world, thousands of people have found inspiration in the words of Cheryl Strayed, who in her three prior books and in her Dear Sugar columns has shared the twists and trials of her remarkable life. Her honesty, spirit, and ample supply of tough love have enabled many of us, even in the darkest hours, to somehow put one foot in front of the other—and be brave enough. This book gathers, each on a single page, more than 100
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St Martin's Press A LeftHanded Woman
Book SynopsisWINNER OF THE 2023 PEN/DIAMONSTEIN-SPIELVOGEL AWARD FOR THE ART OF THE ESSAYA collection of essays from Judith Thurman, the National Book Awardwinning biographer and New Yorker staff writer.Judith Thurman, a prolific staff writer at The New Yorker for more than two decades, has gathered a selection of her essays and profiles in A Left-Handed Woman. They consider our culture in all its guises: literature, history, politics, gender, fashion, and art, though their paramount subject is the human condition. Thurman is one of the preeminent essayists of our timea master of vivisection, as Kathryn Harrison wrote in The New York Times. When she's done with a subject, it's still living, mystery intact.
£17.00
Forgotten Books The Schoolmaster Classic Reprint
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Forgotten Books The Friendship of Books And Other Lectures Classic Reprint
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Forgotten Books Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Lindley Murray In a Series of Letters Classic Reprint
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Forgotten Books Fly and the FlyBottle
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Forgotten Books English Literature Classic Reprint
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Forgotten Books Shakespeare Identified in Edward de Vere the Seventeenth Earl of Oxford Classic Reprint
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Forgotten Books Hieroglyphics A Note Upon Ecstasy in Literature Classic Reprint
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Forgotten Books Memoirs Illustrating the History of Jacobinism Vol. 4
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Forgotten Books The Study of Shakespeares King John
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Forgotten Books Memoirs Illustrating the History of Jacobinism Vol. 3 A Translation From the French Part III. The Antisocial Conspiracy Classic Reprint
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Forgotten Books Essays on Some of Shakespeares Dramatic Characters To Which Is Added an Essay on the Faults of Shakespeare Classic Reprint
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Forgotten Books The Two Bookes of Sr. Francis Bacon
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Forgotten Books The Englishman Being the Sequel of the Guardian Classic Reprint
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Simon & Schuster Ltd Love That Story
Book SynopsisQueer Eye star Jonathan Van Ness dives into his favourite subjects in Love That Story, a new collection of heartfelt and entertaining essays. From experiencing heartbreaking grief to uncovering the hidden LGBTQ history of his hometown, Quincy, from overcoming body image issues and living with HIV to cultivating his personal style, JVN speaks out a wide range of topics with heart, honesty and flair. He not only shares his personal experiences, but with the help of conversations with experts, he also offers captivating perspectives on the wide number of issues we are dealing with today: the current nature of race issues in the US, the rise of white supremacy, transphobia and imposter syndrome.Love That Story is not just the story of JVN, but the story we are writing together.
£12.34
Simon & Schuster The Philosophy of Modern Song
Book SynopsisThe Philosophy of Modern Song is Bob Dylan’s first book of new writing since 2004’s Chronicles: Volume One—and since winning the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2016. Dylan, who began working on the book in 2010, offers his extraordinary insight into the nature of popular music. He writes over sixty essays focusing on songs by other artists, spanning from Stephen Foster to Elvis Costello, and in between ranging from Hank Williams to Nina Simone. He analyzes what he calls the trap of easy rhymes, breaks down how the addition of a single syllable can diminish a song, and even explains how bluegrass relates to heavy metal. These essays are written in Dylan’s unique prose. They are mysterious and mercurial, poignant and profound, and often laugh-out-loud funny. And while they are ostensibly about music, they are really meditations and reflections on the human condition. Running throughout the book are nearly 150 carefully cur
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Union Square & Co. If You Live to 100 You Might as Well Be Happy
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Edinburgh University Press Seeing with the Hands
Book SynopsisThis book seeks to answer why therehas there been a persistent fascination by the sighted, including philosophers, poets and the public, in what the blind 'see'.
£22.79
Edinburgh University Press Writing the Field Recording
Book SynopsisThe 11 essays collected here take the recent explosion of interest in field recording as the point of departure for an investigation of the sounded field in music and its relationship to literature and writing.
£85.50
Edinburgh University Press The Revolutionary and AntiImperialist Writings of
Book SynopsisThis anthology will bring James Connolly's writings as pertinent in Ireland and the postcolonial world a century after his execution for leadership of the 1916 Easter Rising against British rule in Ireland as in his own lifetime to a new global and Irish readership.
£29.45
Edinburgh University Press The Edinburgh Companion to Nonsense
Book SynopsisProvides a wide-ranging account of the different disciplinary, critical and theoretical contexts relevant to the study of nonsense.
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