Selected Essays

This is the only one-volume edition of Virginia Woolf's essays to bring together the best of her essays across the span of her career. Woolf's essa...

From `Of Essay Writing' to `Of the Rise and Progress of the Arts and Sciences' Hume embraces a staggering range of social, cultural, political, dem...

Orwell was one of the most celebrated essayists in the English language, and there are quite a few of his essays which are probably better known th...

Reducere. Who would have ever thought there was a direct way to connect mathematical concepts to poetry?Creative juices were certainly at work when this book...

DescriptionH.D's writing continues to inspire generations of readers. Bringing together a number of never-before-published essays, this new collect...

'A good essay must draw its curtain round us, but it must be a curtain that shuts us in, not out.'According to Virginia Woolf, the goal of the essa...

In his writings, David Hume set out to bridge the gap between the learned world of the academy and the marketplace of polite society. This collecti...

Facets of Wuthering Heights is a collection of essays by one author concerned to throw critical light on several different facets of Emily Bronte's...

Reducere. Named for Herman Daly, the champion of steady-state economics, The Daly News was published online by the Center for the Advancement of the Steady S...

Publisher: John Wiley and Sons LtdAuthor(s): M MontaigneNumber of pages: 656Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 136 x 204 x 57Cover type: HardbackRed...

The selected essays of James Wood - our greatest living literary critic and author of How Fiction Works'James Wood is a close reader of genius...

DescriptionThe Criminal Child offers the first English translation of a key early work by Jean Genet. In 1949, in the midst of a national debate ab...

Reducere. DescriptionOne of O, The Oprah Magazine's Ten Best Books of the Year The New York Times bestselling collection of essays from beloved poet, Mary Ol...

Reducere. One of the most provocative and original voices in contemporary literature, Chinua Achebe here considers the place of literature and art in our soc...

Reducere. First produced in 1713, Cato: A Tragedy inspired generations toward a pursuit of liberty. Liberty Fund's new edition of Cato: A Tragedy, and Select...

Essayist and poet Joseph Brodsky was one of the penetrating voices of the twentieth century. This collection of his diverse essays includes appreci...

Reducere. A career-spanning collection of Bruce Berger's beautiful, subtle, and spiky essays on the American desertOccupying a space between traditional natu...

A selection of essays by the acclaimed and beloved writer Cynthia Ozick, collected by David Miller.

Reducere. Deeply learned, and with a style all his own, Marco Grassi is as at home with Duccio as he is with Norton Simon; Bronzino as with Bernard Berenson;...

Publisher: EverymanAuthor(s): Albert CamusNumber of pages: 704Publication date: 2004Dimensions: 213 x 138 x 36Cover type: HardbackRedescopera farme...

Reducere. DescriptionA collection of writings from the champion of Anarchism, Mikhail Bakunin. Includes "God and the State, " "Marxism, Freedom and the State...

Reducere. Rick Bass's Fortunate Son is a literary tour of the Lone Star State by a native Texan of exceptional talent. The essays encompass a Texas that is b...

Reducere. DescriptionIn this important new volume we see the great Hungarian writer Antal Szerb at the height of his powers. Widely recognised in his native ...

Focuses on Marilyn Monroe, culture, ideology, boxing, Hemingway, politics, sex, celebrity.

A collection of provocative and searchingly analytical essays by the author of Bad Behavior, This is Pleasure, and Lost Cat.Publisher: Profile Book...

Reducere. Denise Levertov's New & Selected Essays gathers three decades' worth of the poet's most important critical statements. Her subjects are various poe...

Reducere. Throughout his life, Dr. Williams tirelessly defended and promoted the best in modern literature and art. He contributed widely to leading literary...

Reducere. The psychologist Leslie Farber, who died in 1981, has been revered as one of the most astute observers of the human condition and a writer of penet...

Reducere. Whether criticizing the American government, protesting the war in Vietnam, or denouncing capitalism, Ginsberg gave voice to the moral conscience o...

The creation of the Frankfurt School of critical theory in the 1920s saw the birth of some of the most exciting and challenging writings of the twe...

In one sense, of course, all of Stuart Hall's writing was political, but this collection focuses on the essays he wrote throughout his life that di...

The first essay collection from one of the most acclaimed writers of our time. 'Testament to the fierce intelligence of a writer who wants us to th...

DescriptionYou could describe D.H. Lawrence as the great multi-instrumentalist among the great writers of the twentieth century. He was a brilliant...

Booker wining novelist, playwright, essayist, poet and critic - even admirers rarely know John Berger in all his literary incarnations. This collec...

In this magisterial volume, first published in 1932, Eliot gathered his choice of the miscellaneous reviews and literary essays he had written sinc...

Reducere. A comprehensive selection of essays--some never before translated into English--by the Nobel Laureate.To Begin Where I Am brings together a rich sa...

Selected Literary Essays - C. S. Lewis

Reducere. NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE GLOBE AND MAIL Norman Mailer was one of the towering figures of twentieth-century American letters a...

Reducere. Randall Jarrell was only fifty-one at the time of his death, in 1965, yet he created a body of work that secured his position as one of the century...

Reducere. Thoreau's major essays annotated and introduced by one of our most vital intellectuals.With The Essays of Henry D. Thoreau, Lewis Hyde gathers thir...

Important essays from one of the giants of literary criticism, including a dozen published here in English for the first timeErich Auerbach (1892-1...

Elegant and learned, personal and universal, literary, philosophical, and historical--Hillel Halkin's finely wrought essays on themes of Jewish cul...

Reducere. For nearly four decades, poet, essayist, and small-town funeral director Thomas Lynch has probed relations between the literary and mortuary arts. ...

Publisher: Ariadne PressAuthor(s): Adolf LoosTranslator: Michael MitchellNumber of pages: 204Publication date: 1998Dimensions: 217 x 140 x 13Cover ...

Reducere. In this collection of newly translated essays, philosopher and sociologist Raymond Aron chronicles the twentieth century with the authority of an a...

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Reducere. In this lavishly illustrated biography of silversmith and graphic artist William Spratling (1900--1967), Taylor D. Littleton reintroduces one of th...

Publisher: ApertureAuthor(s): Sunil GuptaIllustration(s): 20 halftone imagesNumber of pages: 224Collection: Aperture IdeasPublication date: 2022Dim...

'I suppose that, if this collection has a point, it is the desire of one individual to see the idea of confrontation kept alive' -- Christopher Hit...

Reducere. How should we respond when some of our basic beliefs are put into question? What makes a human body distinctively human? Why is truth an important ...

Reducere. Alasdair MacIntyre is one of the most creative and important philosophers working today. This volume presents a selection of his classic essays on ...

Arguably the most celebrated and revered writer of our time now gives us a new nonfiction collection--a rich gathering of her essays, speeches, and...

Reducere. In this selection of seminal essays, drawn together into a single volume, Keiron Le Grice introduces archetypal cosmology, the academic field cente...

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Reducere. Self to Self brings together essays on personal identity, autonomy, and moral emotions by the philosopher J. David Velleman. Although the essays we...

Reducere. "Gehring remains supreme in film comedy scholarship." - ChoiceIn a 1979 Frank Capra letter to the author, the director wrote, in part, " I thorough...

Publisher: The University of Michigan PressAuthor(s): Donald HallNumber of pages: 232Publication date: 2004Dimensions: 141 x 218 x 19Cover type: Pa...

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A selection of essays by the acclaimed and beloved writer Cynthia Ozick, collected by David Miller.

Isabel Menzies Lyth has formulated a way of thinking about social structures as forms of defence. The author extends her analytic range to cover th...

The Atom To Be Split collects new and selected essays by Robert Zaller on the work and career of Robinson Jeffers, whose prophetic verse, more than...

Brian O'Leary, an Irish Jesuit, has been researching and writing on Ignatian spirituality since the 1970s. This is a collection of his essays that ...

Reducere. From this documentary portrait, a talented and multifaceted contributor to the black experience in the 20th century United States emerges. Much is ...

Because of their range, brilliance, and singularity, the ideas of the philosopher-critic-historian Michel Foucault have gained extraordinary curren...

A new edition of Charmian Clift's essays, selected and introduced by her biographer Nadia Wheatley, drawn from the weekly newspaper column Clift wr...

Reducere. These classic translations of Montaigne are presented with the authoritative French text on facing pages and provide an introduction and extensive ...

How does sound ecology--an acoustic connective tissue among communities--also become a basis for a healthy economy and a just community? Jeff Todd ...

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This highly readable new collection of thirty pieces by Michael Oakeshott, almost all of which are previously unpublished, covers every decade of h...