Essays Books
New Directions Publishing Corporation The CrackUp
Book SynopsisA self-portrait of a great writer 's rise and fall, intensely personal and etched with Fitzgerald's signature blend of romance and realism.
£13.99
New Directions Publishing Corporation In the American Grain
Book SynopsisA new edition of William Carlos Williams’ loving and groundbreaking book about American history, with a new introduction by Rick Moody.Trade Review"His treatment is free and episodic, beginning with the Vikings and ending with Abraham Lincoln. (Daniel J. Boorstin, author of The Discoverers)""It is ever more apparent that Williams is this century’s major American poet. (The Chicago Tribune)"
£12.34
New Directions Publishing Corporation Too Much of Life The Complete Crônicas
Book SynopsisIn the magnificent feast of Clarice Lispector’s books, her crônicas—short, intensely vivid newspaper pieces—are the delicious canapésTrade Review"In 1967, Brazil's leading newspaper asked the avant-garde writer Lispector to write a weekly column on any topic she wished. For almost seven years, Lispector showed Brazilian readers just how vast and passionate her interests were… Indeed, these columns should establish her as being among the era's most brilliant essayists. She is masterful, even reminiscent of Montaigne, in her ability to spin the mundane events of life into moments of clarity that reveal greater truths. Superb, wonderfully obsessed with exuberance and what it unlocks and reveals." -- Publishers Weekly"One might have thought that so stern a ‘new novelist’ would scorn the chatty style required. Far from it: she discovered her own extraordinary idiom–intimate, revelatory, mystifactory. This long flirtation with her readers was a triumphant metamorphosis for the avant garde author." -- Lorna Sage - Times Literary Supplement"If she played with the superficial truth, it was in service, she believed, of exposing one deeper, of passing readers a brief-lit lantern for the moonless dark of ourselves, even if that light revealed, sometimes, more contradiction, more chaos, more fluttering soul-storm. Her crônicas muddied demarcations between nonfiction and fiction, resurrecting the oldest question of form: Where does nonfiction truly end and fiction begin, and what do we do with texts where we do not know the answer?" -- The Paris Review"Clarice Lispector had a diamond-hard intelligence, a visionary instinct, and a sense of humor that veered from naïf wonder to wicked comedy….She attempts to capture what it is to think our existence as we are in it—in the ‘marvelous scandal,’ as Lispector puts it, of life. An astounding body of work that has no real corollary inside literature or outside it." -- Rachel Kushner - Bookforum"For those unfamiliar with her, this book opens a door into her uniquely challenging and rewarding body of work. Stretching over a decade – and across nearly 800 pages – the pieces, some amounting to a few sentences, some many pages long, make up a self-portrait in bits and pieces. The result is, like Lispector herself, witty, mystical, surreal and profound: a treasure to return to again and again." -- Madoc Cairns - The Guardian"No two columns are alike: strands of dialogue, observed scenes, diaristic entries, life advice, even the author admiring herself in the mirror…Too Much of Life is a huge addition to an already impressive collection of evidence that Lispector could transcribe a guestbook and make it interesting." -- J. Howard Rosier - Vulture"[T]his is Clarice Lispector as one-woman chorus and psychic weather forecaster, and the charm, wit and engagement that she brings to her columns transcends barriers. " -- John Biscello - Riot Material"Funny, dark, whimsical, intimate, and always self-questioning, the crônicas seemed to touch everything: reflections on writing, motherhood, the seasons, depression, love, suffering, death.”" -- Jared Marcel Pollen - The Yale Review"An excellent collection for readers who enjoy commentaries and observations from a wise, entertaining, realistic writer." -- Joyce Sparrow - Library Journal
£22.79
Random House USA Inc Loud and Clear
Book SynopsisNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Pulitzer Prize–winner Anna Quindlen offers wisdom, opinions, insights, and reflections about current events and modern life in this provocative and inspiring book. “A tour de force for our time, [Loud and Clear] is equally as compelling as a look at public events as it is a reflection on being a woman and on motherhood.”—The Sunday OklahomanWith her trademark insight and her special ability to convey the impact public events have on ordinary lives, Anna Quindlen here combines commentary on American society and the world at large with reflections on being a woman, a writer, and a mother. In these pieces, first written for Newsweek and The New York Times, Loud and Clear takes on topics ranging from social change to raising children, from the political and emotional aftermath of September 11 to personal values, from the impact on individuals of global events to the growth that can be gained by spending summer days staring into the middle distance. Grounding the public in the private, connecting people to each other and to the greater world, Quindlen encourages us to develop authentic lives, even as she serves as a catalyst for political and social change.
£13.50
Random House Publishing Group PickedUp Pieces
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£18.00
Random House USA Inc Shame and Wonder Essays
Book SynopsisFor fans of John Jeremiah Sullivan, Leslie Jamison, Geoff Dyer, and W. G. Sebald, the twenty-one essays in David Searcy’s debut collection are captivating, daring—and completely unlike anything else you’ve read before. Forging connections between the sublime and the mundane, this is a work of true grace, wisdom, and joy.Expansive in scope but deeply personal in perspective, the pieces in Shame and Wonder are born of a vast, abiding curiosity, one that has led David Searcy into some strange and beautiful territory, where old Uncle Scrooge comic books reveal profound truths, and the vastness of space becomes an expression of pure love. Whether ruminating on an old El Camino pickup truck, those magical prizes lurking in the cereal boxes of our youth, or a lurid online ad for “Sexy Girls Near Dallas,” Searcy brings his unique blend of affection and suspicion to the everyday wonders that surround and seduce us. In “Nameless,” h
£20.80
Random House USA Inc Portraits and Observations The Essays of Truman
Book SynopsisFrom the Modern Library’s new set of beautifully repackaged hardcover classics by Truman Capote—also available are Breakfast at Tiffany’s and Other Voices, Other Rooms (in one volume), In Cold Blood, and The Complete StoriesPerhaps no twentieth-century writer was so observant and graceful a chronicler of his times as Truman Capote. Portraits and Observations is the first volume devoted solely to all the essays ever published by this most beloved of writers. Included are such masterpieces of narrative nonfiction as “The Muses Are Heard” and the short nonfiction novel “Handcarved Coffins,” as well as many long-out-of-print essays, including portraits of Mae West, Humphrey Bogart, and Marilyn Monroe. From his travel sketches of Brooklyn, New Orleans, and Hollywood, written when he was twenty-two, to the author’s last written words, “Remembering Willa Cather,” composed the day befo
£19.80
The University Press of Kentucky What Things Cost
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£25.16
Wayne State University Press Hadha Baladuna
Book SynopsisThe first work of creative nonfiction in the field of Arab American literature that focuses entirely on the Arab diaspora in Metro Detroit, an area with the highest concentration of Arab Americans in the US. The book sheds light on the shifting position of Arab Americans in an era of escalating tension between the US and the Arab region.
£23.36
University of Arizona Press Inbetween Places
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£999.99
University of Arizona Press Responding to Crisis in Contemporary Mexico
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£999.99
University of Arizona Press The Desert Remembers My Name
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£999.99
University of Arizona Press Undocuments
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£999.99
The University of Alabama Press Southern Souvenirs Selected Stories and Essays of
Book SynopsisSara Haardt's character sketches, short stories and essays were published regularly in the leading literary and popular magazines of the 1920s and 1930s. This volume collects a selection of her fiction and non-fiction, seeking to demonstrate her place in the pantheon of southern letters.
£999.99
The University of Alabama Press Lives and Embers Alabama Fire Ant
Book SynopsisContains stories that explore dimensions of the human landscape, including tales inspired by the midrashic tradition of biblical interpretation, which investigate the eternal human drama through the prisms of scripture, history, and folklore.Trade ReviewThese lucid stories and midrashim, springing from deep middle European roots, flower into the bracing air of wisdom. Taking the traditional themes of exile, quest, sexuality, and time's metamorphoses, they ask us again and again to consider who it is we are. This is a remarkable book. - Chris Wallace-Crabbe ""Jacob G. Rosenberg is a great writer. It's as simple as that."" - Phillip Adam
£999.99
Hoover Institution Press,U.S. Boris Pasternak Family Correspondence 19211960
Book SynopsisThis selection of Boris Pasternak's correspondence with his parents and sisters from 1921 to 1960including more than illustrations and photosis an authoritative, indispensable introduction and guide to the great writer's life and work. His letters are accomplished literary works in their own right, on a par with his poetry in their intensity, frankness, and dazzling stylistic play. In addition, they offer a rare glimpse into his innermost self, significantly complementing the insights gained from his work. They are especially poignant in that after 1923 Pasternak was never to see his parents again.
£31.16
Hoover Institution Press,U.S. Boris Pasternak Family Correspondence 19211960
Book SynopsisThis selection of Boris Pasternak's correspondence with his parents and sisters from 1921 to 1960including more than illustrations and photosis an authoritative, indispensable introduction and guide to the great writer's life and work. His letters are accomplished literary works in their own right, on a par with his poetry in their intensity, frankness, and dazzling stylistic play. In addition, they offer a rare glimpse into his innermost self, significantly complementing the insights gained from his work. They are especially poignant in that after 1923 Pasternak was never to see his parents again.
£22.46
Wesleyan University Press The Great Camouflage Writings of Dissent 19411945
Book SynopsisA new and complete English translation
£16.48
Ohio University Press Learning from Robben Island Govan Mbekis Prison
Book SynopsisIn the late fifties and early sixties, Govan Mbeki was a central figure in the African National Congress and director of the ANC campaigns from underground.Trade Review“Learning From Robben Island is an extraordinary selection of Mbeki’s essays written, for the most part, between the late 1970s and mid 1980s…. [It] bears testimony to the endurance of the human spirit, and, in Colin Bundy’s words, ‘marks a victory in the continuing contest between the pen and the sword.’” * The International Journal of African Historical Studies *“Students of history and politics will find this book a valuable reference…. On top of that, it gives better insight into life on Robben Island, showing that the struggle continued even within prison boundaries.”
£17.99
University of Missouri Press Published Essays 19531965 CW11
Book SynopsisThe period covered by the essays published in this volume marks the transition in Eric Voegelin's career from Louisiana to Munich. The themes most prominent here reflect the concerns of this transition and the development of Voegelin's understanding of the stratification of reality.
£999.99
University of Missouri Press The Collected Works of Langston Hughes v. 4
Book SynopsisAlthough best known as a poet, Langston Hughes was also the author of two novels that richly evoke the black experience in America. In his introduction to this combined edition of both novels, Hubbard addresses how a black aesthetic tradition shaped Hughes' art and his imagination.
£999.99
University of Missouri Press The Collected Works of Langston Hughes v. 10
Book SynopsisThis volume contains Langston Hughes's history of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). It also features a selection of Hughes's popular columns and other essays for influential African American publications such as the ""Chicago Defender"" and ""Crisis"".
£999.99
University of Missouri Press Collected Works of Langston Hughes v. 9 Essays on
Book SynopsisPart of ""The Collected Works of Langston Hughes"" series, this volume features his essays, from his radical pieces praising revolutionary socialist ideology in the 1930s to the more conservative, previously unpublished ""Black Writers in a Troubled World"".
£999.99
University of Missouri Press The Collected Works of Langston Hughes Frederico
Book SynopsisThis volume brings together a collection of texts translated by Longston Hughes. It contains his translations of work by the Spanish poet/playwright Federico Garcia Lorca, Afro-Cuban poet Nicolas Guillen and Haitian writer Jacques Roumain.
£999.99
University of Missouri Press The Collected Works of Langston Hughes v. 6
Book SynopsisAlthough Langston Hughes had a lifelong engagement in theatre and other performance arts, his work in this area is the least known of his contributions to African American expressive culture. This volume focuses on Hughes's plays after 1942, along with all of his other work written for performance.
£999.99
University of Missouri Press Small Worlds
Book SynopsisFor twenty years, readers of the ""Christian Science Monitor"" have enjoyed the musings of Robert Klose who has brought his talent to bear on a wide range of human-interest subjects. This work captures his prose and voice in essays whose subjects range from the joys of small-town hardware stores to the challenges of learning a foreign language.Trade ReviewRobert Klose can certainly write - but more than that, he can see the world as a place where we get second chances, where we savor small things, where we reach out to each other with warmth, wit, and grace. These essays will touch and nourish any reader. - Mary Gardner, author of Salvation Run and Boat People
£999.99
University of Missouri Press All My Days Are Saturdays
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£999.99
University of Missouri Press My Victorian Novel
Book SynopsisThe previously unpublished essays collected here are by literary scholars who have dedicated their lives to reading and studying nineteenth-century British fiction and the Victorian world. Each writes about a novel that has acquired personal relevance to them.Trade Review“The subjective, autobiographical approach to scholarly writing has no better advocate than Annette Federico. Her wise and wide-ranging introduction identifies it, surely correctly, not so much as a recent trend as an entirely natural way of relating to literature. . . . These personal journeys are often passionate and always highly readable. Recounted by critics who know the novels inside out, they encourage others to honour the exhilaration of their earliest reading experiences, while remaining open to new questions and reassessments... The results are inspiring.” — The Times Literary Supplement“Annette Federico's My Victorian Novel is an exhilarating anthology. The essays she assembles here—and they are personal essays, not professional ‘articles’—are riveting narratives even while they are also astute literary analyses. At a moment when the humanities are in the doldrums and theory seems to have withered on the vine, these lively memoirs of richly receptive readings point to a new way forward, an almost Arnoldian compromise between sophisticated thinking and self-aware feeling.”—Sandra M. Gilbert, University of California, Davis, author of Rereading Women: Thirty Years of Exploring Our Literary Traditions“'Professionalism is a means not an end. Less is more. Professors are better off when they professionalize less and risk extinction when professionalization is primary.’ This is the first of the ‘95 Theses’ the poet-academic Charles Bernstein published in the MLA’s journal Profession in 2016. My Victorian Novel rises engagingly and entertainingly to Bernstein’s challenge. Threading together 15 mainly North American lives from our contemporary moment and 15 mainly English novels of the nineteenth century, it does more for literature by doing less for its professors. Mixing up the sexual and the scholarly, the affective and the intellectual, the personal and the political, it celebrates novel reading in fifteen ways, showing how it mattered in the past and why it matters differently now. An essential book for the amateur who lives on in every professional and for so-called ‘ordinary’ readers too.” — Peter D. McDonald, University of Oxford, author of Artefacts of Writing: Ideas of the State and Communities of Letters from Matthew Arnold to Xu Bing“Personal, erudite, and provocative, My Victorian Novel is an engaging collection of essays, which speaks to the intimate nature of our relationship with books. Each essay functions as a miniature memoir and paean to the enduring power and pleasures of the Victorian novel. As contributors reflect on their evolving emotional attachments and critical experiences with novels ranging from The Pickwick Papers to Dracula, what emerges throughout the collection is each work’s enduring and unique capacity to instruct, delight, and surprise. It is impossible to read any of the essays by this distinguished group of scholars without similarly reflecting on that one remarkable book — the steadfast literary companion of our own lives—that has indelibly shaped our personal and professional histories. My Victorian Novel is not just the book that Victorianists have secretly been longing for, it is the book that literary studies has been waiting for.” — Maria K. Bachman, Middle Tennessee State University, coeditor of The Socio-Literary Imaginary in 19th and 20th Century Britain: Victorian and Edwardian Inflections“Call it postcritique, autocriticism, or personal criticism—the contributors to this smart, readable volume tell us how and why a particular Victorian novel got hold of their imaginations and never let go. In these deft, candid accounts, My Victorian Novel shows that literature professors read like everyone else—with their hearts as well as minds.” — Susan Fraiman, University of Virginia, author of Extreme Domesticity: A View from the Margins“Fresh new approaches to novels fondly remembered and much-loved come splendidly framed by a mature and sophisticated return to the effort in the last quarter of the 20th century to revitalize writing about literature via restoration of the essay and personal voice . That effort fizzled; my hope is that this 'project' will succeed. If it does, it will owe a good deal to this informed, passionate, informing, and enjoyable book, skillfully edited, with an excellent introduction (and a gem of a foreword by Jane Tompkins).” — G. Douglas Atkins, professor emeritus, University of Kansas, author of such books as Estranging the Familiar: Toward a Revitalized Critical Writing, Tracing the Essay, and T.S. Eliot and the Essay
£999.99
Quest Books,U.S. The Natural Man Anthology Quest Books
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£9.31
Time Inc My Southern Journey
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£15.19
University of Exeter Press The Treaty of Bayonne 1388 Exeter Hispanic Texts
Book SynopsisThe Treaty of Bayonne of 1388 between Juan I, King of Castile, and John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster and Pretender to the Castilian throne, was one of the most important treaties of the Hundred Years War. In the transcription of the documents, the original spellings of words, however inconsistent, have been respected.Trade Review Table of Contents
£29.95
University of Exeter Press Histoire de Calejava Exeter French Texts
Book SynopsisAn eighteenth-century work considered historically significant as it depicts 'for the first time, a religious system which is unequivocally deistic.'This is a volume in the Exeter French Texts series. The text, introduction and essential notes are all in French.Trade Review Table of Contents
£30.25
University of Exeter Press Mustapha Et Zeangir Exeter French Texts
Book SynopsisAn historical tragedy by an eighteenth century playwright.Trade Review Table of ContentsFrontispice, II; Introduction, VII; Bibliographie sommaire, XXIII; Mustapha et Zeangir; Notes, 71.
£30.05
University of Exeter Press Phalante Exeter French Texts
Book SynopsisThis play by a young Toulouse lawyer-poet, was published posthumously in 1611 and has since been largely neglected. It is reprinted here for the first time, accompanied by an introductory study, explanatory notes and a glossary.Trade Review “Alan Howe is to be congratulated for having achieved his stated aim of enabling the reader to form a fuller picture of the diversity of tragedy in the reign of Henri IV.” (Modern Language Review, Volume 94 No. 1, 1999) Table of Contents
£30.13
Arizona Center for Medieval & Renaissance Studies,US New Ways of Looking at Old Texts VI Volume 550
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£999.99
Michigan State University Press A Second Life A Collected Nonfiction
Book SynopsisThis book brings together the best of Dan Gerber's previously published essays and magazine stories, many of which have appeared in magazines such as Outside, Playboy, Sports Afield, and Sports Illustrated, with several new pieces.
£999.99
Wisconsin Historical Society Press The Heart of Things A Midwestern Almanac
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£999.99
Wisconsin Historical Society Press Roughneck Grace Farmer Yoga Creeping Codgerism
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£18.00
Wisconsin Historical Society Press Here on Lake Hallie
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£999.99
MP-OSU Oregon State Universi All the Leavings
Book SynopsisAt times heartbreaking, at times harrowing, All the Leavings navigates the rugged terrain not just of the rural Oregon land where Laurie Easter has forged an off-the-grid life, but of the ragtag terrain of the human heart.
£16.96
John Wiley & Sons Varieties of Hope An Anthology of Oregon Prose
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£999.99
John Wiley & Sons Varieties of Hope
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£999.99
MP-OSU Oregon State Universi Beginners Luck Dispatches from the Klamath
Book SynopsisA clueless big-city guy, dropped out from newspaper work, ends up at a new hippie commune in the mountains in the late 1960s, but his luck holds. As he falls in love with the place, he moves into the local community, where people have a checkered opinion of hippies, but it’s the kind of place where people help each other out, even if they don’t always agree.
£999.99
WW Norton & Co Gertrude Steins America
Book SynopsisGilbert A. Harrison, for many years editor in chief of the New Republic, was one of Stein's publishers. For this volume, he selected excerpts from her essays, novels, plays, poems, lectures, and interviews, to introduce readers to a little-known aspect of her work.
£9.52
WW Norton & Co Allegorizings
Book SynopsisNew York Times Book Review • Editors' Choice Jan Morris delivers her final volume, brimming with reminiscences, meditations on daily life, and mini-essays on everything from maturity to whistling to Princess Diana.Trade Review"Throughout, she demonstrates the stylistic command that has always distinguished her work. While stressing empathy and resisting pomposity, she refuses to suffer fools gladly. Engaging reflections on a life lived fully and well." -- Kirkus Reviews"Perhaps the greatest travel writer of her time." -- Matt Schudel - Washington Post"To open a book by Jan Morris is like popping the cork on a bottle of champagne: pop, fizz, then bubbles of delight." -- Scott Simon - NPR"Distinctive, elegant, formidable. . . . Morris made travel seem like the best way to truly be alive in one’s skin." -- Dwight Garner - New York Times"No matter what topic Morris covered over the course of her nearly eight-decade career—from travel to history to her own transition—she did so with insight, elegance and unflinching honesty." -- Stuart Emmrich - Vogue
£18.99
Bauhan (William L.),U.S. She Lived and the Other Girls Died
Book SynopsisWinner of the 2017 Monadnock Essay Collection Prize
£16.15
Bauhan (William L.),U.S. Baptizing the Dead and Other Jobs Essays
Book SynopsisWinner of the Monadnock Essay Collection Prize Competition judge Anne Barngrover says I was struck from the first sentence by the crystalline narrative voice - sometimes uncanny, sometimes weird, but always precise, unflinching, and painfully self-aware - and the experimentation with form as a way to dig deeper and question ideas of religion, family, place, community, masculinity, death, and the self. These essays, and their narrator, wouldn't shake from me after I read them. I wholeheartedly recommend Baptizing the Dead and Other Jobs.
£12.50
Bauhan (William L.),U.S. Chasing Eden
Book SynopsisA book on the multiplicity and universality of longing, and how this manifests in America.
£15.20
