Essays Books
Bauhan (William L.),U.S. Whiskey Boys
Book SynopsisA lively collection of literary essays about bars, booze, and traveling the American West.
£19.18
Pathfinder Books Ltd WEBDuBois Speaks 192063 Speeches and Addresses
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£17.10
Pathfinder Books Ltd Maurice Bishop Speaks The Grenada Revolution and
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£999.99
Hebrew Union College Press,U.S. Storm in the Community
Book SynopsisThe first in a series of Yiddish polemical pamphlets appeared one week before the elections to the second National Assembly in the Republic of the Netherlands on August 1, 1797. This is the first bilingual edition of a major portion of this collection of documents and the first time any of them have been published in English translation.
£41.80
Mercer University Press Whaddaya Got Loran
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£22.46
£19.80
Museum of New Mexico Press If Theres Squash Bugs in Heaven I Aint Staying
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£27.89
Museum of New Mexico Press Laughing in the Light
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£999.99
UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center Press Oral History and Communities of Color
Book SynopsisExplores how oral history, using video recordings and storytelling as well as interviews, can be used for a number of purposes in communities of colour
£19.56
Griffith Institute Coptic and Greek Texts Relating to the
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£999.99
Thomas Press Inc Cinema Calendrier Du Coeur Abstrait Maisons Bois
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£38.00
Northwestern University Press Hatful of Tigers Reflections on Art Culture and
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£999.99
Society for the Promotion of Science & Scholarship Inc.,U.S. Knowledge and Power
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£27.85
Michigan State University Press Suche Werkis to Werche Essays on Piers Plowman in
Book SynopsisThe ten essays on this important literary text include works by John A. Alford, Linda J. Clifton, Eric C. Dahl, T. P. Dolan, Richard K. Emmerson, Elton D. Higgs, David Lawton, Priscilla Martin, Derek Pearsall, and Míceál F. Vaughn.
£999.99
Michigan State University Press Mental Improvement v 4 Early Women Writers
Book SynopsisA family narrative dealing with issues such as domestic ideology, female agency and science. Strongly influenced by the values of the Enlightenment, its message is that knowledge is the path to liberation which can be found in many places including maternal teaching and family patterns.
£999.99
The New York Review of Books, Inc Seven Men
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£15.26
The Library of America Stephen Crane Prose Poetry LOA 18 Maggie A Girl
Book SynopsisHere in one volume are all of Stephen Crane's best-known works, including the novels The Red Badge of Courage, about a young and confused Union soldier under fire for the first time; Maggie: A Girl of the Streets, a vivid portrait of slum life and a young girl's fall; George's Mother, about New York's Bowery and its effect on a young workingman; The Third Violet, about a bohemian artist's country romance; and The Monster, a novella about sacrifice and rescue. The stories collected here include masterpieces like The Open Boat, The Blue Hotel, and The Bride Comes to the Yellow Sky, as well as tales of childhood in small-town America. In his journalism, the best of which is presented here, Crane covered the Spanish-American and Grego-Turkish wars, traveled through Mexico and the West, and reported on the seamier sides of New York City life. The volume concludes with The Black Riders and War Is Kind, collections of epigrammatic fre
£49.92
The Library of America Lincoln Speeches and Writings 18321858
Book SynopsisAbraham Lincoln measured the promise—and cost—of American freedom in lucid and extraordinarily moving prose, famous for its native wit, simple dignity of expressions, and peculiarly American flavor. This volume, with its companion, Abraham Lincoln: Speeches and Writing 1859–1865, comprises the most comprehensive selection ever published. over 240 speeches, letters, and drafts take Lincoln from rural law practice to national prominence, and chart his emergence as an eloquent antislavery advocate and defender of the constitution. included are the complete Lincoln-Douglas debates, perhaps the most famous confrontation in American political history.LIBRARY OF AMERICA is an independent nonprofit cultural organization founded in 1979 to preserve our nation’s literary heritage by publishing, and keeping permanently in print, America’s best and most significant writing. The Library of Ame
£28.00
The Library of America Abraham Lincoln Speeches and Writings Vol. 2
Book SynopsisAbraham Lincoln was the greatest writer of the Civil War as well as its greatest political leader. His clear, beautiful, and at times uncompromisingly severe language forever shaped the nation’s understanding of its most terrible conflict. This volume, along with its companion, Abraham Lincoln: Speeches and Writings 1832–1858, comprises the most comprehensive selection ever published. Over 550 speeches, messages, proclamations, letters, and other writings—including the Inaugural and Gettysburg addresses and the moving condolence letter to Mrs. Bixby—record the words and deeds with which Lincoln defended, preserved, and redefined the Union.LIBRARY OF AMERICA is an independent nonprofit cultural organization founded in 1979 to preserve our nation’s literary heritage by publishing, and keeping permanently in print, America’s best and most significant writing. The Library of America series includes more than 300 volumes to date, authoritative editions that average 1,000 pages in length, feature cloth covers, sewn bindings, and ribbon markers, and are printed on premium acid-free paper that will last for centuries.
£28.00
Pushcart Press The Pushcart Prize XLVI Best of the Small
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£15.19
Pushcart Press The Pushcart Prize XLVII
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£25.64
Tin House Books Food Booze
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£13.19
Tin House Books The World within Writers Talk Ambition Aesthetics
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£11.99
Tin House Books The Story About the Story Great Writers Explore
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£12.99
Quality of Life Publishing Co Tea with Elisabeth Tributes to Hospice Pioneer Dr
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£14.20
Sequence Press The Number and the Siren a Decipherment of
Book SynopsisA philosophical interrogation of the concepts of chance, contingency, and eternity through a concentrated study of Mallarmé's poem “Un Coup de Dés.”A meticulous literary study, a detective story à la Edgar Allan Poe, a treasure-hunt worthy of an adventure novel—such is the register in which can be deciphered the hidden secrets of a poem like no other. Quentin Meillassoux, author of After Finitude, continues his philosophical interrogation of the concepts of chance, contingency, infinity, and eternity through a concentrated study of Mallarmé's poem “Un Coup de Dés,” patiently deciphering its enigmatic meaning on the basis of a dazzlingly simple and lucid insight with regard to Mallarmé's “unique Number.”The decisive point of the investigation proposed by Meillassoux comes with a discovery, unsettling and yet as simple as a child's game. The Number that “can be no other” can o
£20.40
Ohio State University Press I Liked You Better Before I Knew You So Well
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£16.00
Benton Buckley Books Equal Empowered
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£13.25
Green Writers Press Growing Old in Poetry
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£16.16
Random House USA Inc Think Write Speak Uncollected Essays Reviews
Book SynopsisA rich compilation of the previously uncollected Russian and English prose and interviews of one of the twentieth century's greatest writers, edited by Nabokov experts Brian Boyd and Anastasia Tolstoy.“I think like a genius, I write like a distinguished author, and I speak like a child: so Vladimir Nabokov famously wrote in the introduction to his volume of selected prose, Strong Opinions. Think, Write, Speak follows up where that volume left off, with a rich compilation of his uncollected prose and interviews, from a 1921 essay about Cambridge to two final interviews in 1977. The chronological order allows us to watch the Cambridge student and the fledgling Berlin reviewer and poet turn into the acclaimed Paris émigré novelist whose stature brought him to teach in America, where his international success exploded with Lolita and propelled him back to Europe. Whether his subject is Proust or Pushkin, the sport of boxing or the pri
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Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group A Room of Ones Own
Book SynopsisA Contemporary Classics hardcover edition of Virginia Woolf’s classic plea for a world in which women are free to use their gifts.In this influential extended essay, Woolf outlines what women need in order to fully make use of their innate abilities. Using provocative images and memorable thought experiments—including the fictional Judith Shakespeare, who is as talented as her brother William but limited in ways he was not—Woolf decries the means by which women have been held back throughout history and in her own time.Woolf urges both men and women to break free of the limitations of their roles and develop new traditions in which they can explore the depths and peaks of human experience through writing about ordinary things and ordinary people—a process in which she herself was a pioneer. A Room of One's Own, first published in 1929, has been a rallying cry for generations of women and continues to be an inspiration in our own century.Everyman's Library pursues the highest production standards, printing on acid-free cream-colored paper, with full-cloth cases with two-color foil stamping, decorative endpapers, silk ribbon markers, European-style half-round spines, and a full-color illustrated jacket. Contemporary Classics include an introduction, a select bibliography, and a chronology of the author's life and times.
£17.68
Random House USA Inc Im Not Here to Give a Speech
Book SynopsisAvailable in English for the first time in the U.S., a collection of the speeches of Nobel Prize-winning author Gabriel García Márquez.Throughout his life, Gabriel García Márquez spoke publicly with the same passion and energy that marked his writing. Now the wisdom and compassion of these performances are available in English for the first time. I''m Not Here to Give a Speech records key events throughout the author''s life, from a farewell to his classmates delivered when he was only seventeen to his Nobel Prize acceptance speech. Written across a lifetime, these speeches chart the growth of a genius: each is a snapshot offering insights into the beliefs and ideas of a world- renowned storyteller. Preserving García Márquez''s unmistakeable voice for future generations, I''m Not Here to Give a Speech is a must-have for anyone who ever fell in love with Macondo or cherished a battered copy of Love in the Time of
£13.46
Random House USA Inc Dog Gone A Lost Pets Extraordinary Journey and
Book SynopsisThe true story of a lost dog’s journey and a family’s furious search to find him before it is too late. Along the way, a father and son discover their own lost bond. Suspenseful, heartbreaking, and ultimately life-affirming, Dog Gone shows us the way heroism can assert itself in the little things we do each day. • Now a Netflix Film Starring Rob Lowe. October 10, 1998. Fielding Marshall is hiking on the Appalachian Trail. His beloved dog—a six-year-old golden retriever mix named Gonker—bolts into the woods. Just like that, he’s vanished. And Gonker has Addison’s disease. If he’s not found in twenty-three days, he will die. Dog Gone is the story of the Marshall family—Fielding and his parents, John and Virginia—and their epic hunt to track down Gonker. As their search continues, covered by news outlets and drawing in the community at large, old wounds reemerge,
£14.45
Random House USA Inc This Old Man All in Pieces
Book SynopsisRoger Angell, the acclaimed New Yorker writer and editor, steps up with a selection of writings that celebrate a view from the tenth decade of an engaged, vibrant life. Whether it’s a Fourth of July in rural Maine, the opening game of the 2015 World Series, editorial exchanges with John Updike, a letter to a son, or his award-winning essay on aging, “This Old Man,” what links the pieces is Angell’s unique perceptions and humor, his utter absence of self-pity, and his appreciation of friends and colleagues encountered over a fruitful career unlike any other.
£14.41
St Martin's Press When I Was a Child I Read Books
Book SynopsisA New York Times Book Review Editors' ChoiceA New York Times BestsellerA New York Magazine Best Book of the YearAn Economist Best Book of the Year Pulitzer Prize-Winning Author of Gilead Marilynne Robinson has built a sterling reputation as a writer of sharp, subtly moving prose, not only as a major American novelist, but also as a rigorous thinker and incisive essayist. In When I Was a Child I Read Books she returns to and expands upon the themes which have preoccupied her work with renewed vigor.In Austerity as Ideology, she tackles the global debt crisis, and the charged political and social political climate in this country that makes finding a solution to our financial troubles so challenging. In Open Thy Hand Wide she searches out the deeply embedded role of generosity in Christian faith. And in When I Was a Child, one of her most personal essays to date, an account of her ch
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St Martin's Press Voices from the Rust Belt
Book SynopsisTimely . . . [the collection] paints intimate portraits of neglected places that are often used as political talking points. A good companion piece to J. D. Vance's Hillbilly Elegy.BooklistThe essays in Voices from the Rust Belt address segregated schools, rural childhoods, suburban ennui, lead poisoning, opiate addiction, and job loss. They reflect upon happy childhoods, successful community ventures, warm refuges for outsiders, and hidden oases of natural beauty. But mainly they are stories drawn from uniquely personal experiences: A girl has her bike stolen. A social worker in Pittsburgh makes calls on clients. A journalist from Buffalo moves away, and misses home.... A father gives his daughter a bath in the lead-contaminated water of Flint, Michigan (from the introduction). Where is America''s Rust Belt? It''s not quite a geographic region but a linguistic one, first introduced as a concept in 1984 by Walter Mondale. In the modern ver
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Picador USA The End of the End of the Earth
Book SynopsisA sharp and provocative new essay collection from the award-winning author of Freedom and The Corrections-now with a new epilogueThe essayist, Jonathan Franzen writes, is like a fire-fighter, whose job, while everyone else is fleeing the flames of shame, is to run straight into them. For the past twenty-five years, even as his novels have earned him worldwide acclaim, Franzen has led a second life as a risk-taking essayist. Now, at a moment when technology has inflamed tribal hatreds and the planet is beset by unnatural calamities, he is back with a new collection of essays that recall us to more humane ways of being in the world. Franzen's great loves are literature and birds, and The End of the End of the Earth is a passionate argument for both. Where the new media tend to confirm one's prejudices, he writes, literature invites you to ask whether you might be somewhat wrong, maybe even entirely wrong, and to imagine why someone else migh
£15.52
Picador USA What Are We Doing Here Essays
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£17.10
Picador USA Look Alive Out There
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£15.30
Picador USA The Pump House Gang
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£13.09
Picador Talk Stories
Book SynopsisJamaica Kincaid's collected writings for The New Yorker's Talk of the Town record her first impressions of snobbish, mobbish New York.Talk Stories is a collection of Jamaica Kincaid's original writing for The New Yorker's Talk of the Town, composed during the time when she first arrived in the United States from Antigua, from 1978 to 1983. Kincaid developed a unique voice, both in sync with William Shawn's tone for the quintessential elite magazine and (though unsigned) all her ownwonderingly alive to the ironies and screwball details that characterized her adopted city. The book also reflects Kincaid's development as a young writerthe newcomer who sensitively records her impressions here takes root to become one of our most respected authors.
£16.15
Picador USA Mauve Gloves Madmen Clutter Vine
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Picador USA Visiting Mrs. Nabokov
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Picador USA The Rub of Time
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Picador USA 97196 Words
Book SynopsisA selection of the best short work by France''s greatest living nonfiction writer A New York Times Notable Books of 2020 No one writes nonfiction like Emmanuel Carrère. Although he takes cues from such literary heroes as Truman Capote and Janet Malcolm, Carrère has, over the course of his career, reinvented the form in a search for truth in all its guises. Dispensing with the rules of genre, he takes what he needs from every available form or disciplinebe it theology, historiography, fiction, reportage, or memoirand fuses it under the pressure of an inimitable combination of passion, curiosity, intellect, and wit. With an oeuvre unique in world literature for its blend of empathy and playfulness, Carrère stands as one of our most distinctive and important literary voices.97,196 Words introduces Carrère's shorter works to an English-language audience. Featuring more than thirty extraordinary essays written over an illustrious twent
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St Martin's Press Busted in New York and Other Essays
Book SynopsisA collection of essays that blend the personal and the social, from the celebrated literary critic and novelist In these twenty-five essays, Darryl Pinckney has given us a view of our recent racial history that blends the social and the personal and wonders how we arrived at our current moment. Pinckney reminds us that white supremacy isn't back; it never went away. It is this impulse to see historically that is at the core of Busted in New York and Other Essays, which traces the lineage of black intellectual history from Booker T. Washington through the Harlem Renaissance, to the Black Panther Party and the turbulent sixties, to today's Afro-pessimists, and celebrated and neglected thinkers in between. These are capacious essays whose topics range from the grassroots of protest in Ferguson, Missouri, to the eighteenth-century Guadeloupian composer Joseph Bologne, from an unsparing portrait of Louis Farrakhan to the enduring legacy of James Baldwin, th
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Picador USA Thin Places
Book SynopsisA Los Angeles Times BestsellerA Lit Hub Chicago Review Ms. Magazine March pick A Lambda Literary Most Anticipated BookIn this perceptive and provocative essay collection, an award-winning writer shares her personal and reportorial investigation into America's search for meaningWhen Jordan Kisner was a child, she was saved by Jesus Christ at summer camp, much to the confusion of her nonreligious family. She was, she writes, just naturally reverent, a fact that didn't change when shemuch to her own confusionlost her faith as a teenager. Not sure why her religious conviction had come or where it had gone, she did what anyone would do: You go about the great American work of assigning yourself to other gods: yoga, talk radio, neoatheism, CrossFit, cleanses, football, the academy, the American Dream, Beyoncé. A curiosity about the subtle systems guiding contemporary life pervades Kisner's work. Her cel
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Picador USA The Book of Difficult Fruit
Book Synopsis[A] glorious mash-up of memoir, love note, and cookbook . . . Every sentence is as sensuous as the first bite into a cold, juicy plum. Hillary Kelly, Vulture[A] dazzling, thorny new essay collection. Samin Nosrat, The New York TimesInspired by twenty-six fruits, the essayist, poet, and pie lady Kate Lebo expertly blends natural, culinary, medical, and personal history. A is for aronia, berry member of the apple family, clothes-stainer, superfruit with reputed healing power. D is for durian, endowed with a dramatic rind and a shifting odorpeaches, old garlic. M is for medlar, name-checked by Shakespeare for its crude shape, beloved by gardeners for its flowers. Q is for quince, which, when fresh, gives off the scent of roses and citrus and rich women's perfume, but if eaten raw is so astringent it wicks the juice from one's mouth. In a work of unique invention, these and other
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