The Fun Stuff and Other Essays - James Wood

The Fun Stuff and Other Essays - James Wood

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Following The Broken Estate, The Irresponsible Self, and How Fiction Works - books that established James Wood as the leading critic of his generat...

Author of How Fiction Works James Wood has long established himself as the leading critic of his generation. With The Fun Stuff, he confirms his pr...

In the vein of Mindy Kaling, Ali Wong, and Amy Poehler, a collection of hilarious personal essays, poems and even amusement park maps on the subjec...

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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...

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DescriptionA collection of essays from the father of the American transcendentalism, including "Nature, " "Self-Reliance, " "Love, " and "Art." Ral...

Virginia Woolf began writing reviews for the Guardian 'to make a few pence' from her father's death in 1904, and continued until the last decade of...

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Reducere. Civil Disobedience and Other Essays is a collection of some of Henry David Thoreau's most important essays. Contained in this volume are the follow...

Civil Disobedience and Other Essays is a collection of some of Henry David Thoreau's most important essays. Contained in this volume are the follow...

This collection chronicles the fiction and non fiction classics by the greatest writers the world has ever known. The inclusion of both popular as ...

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Reducere. A repackaged edition of the revered author's anthology of satirical yet serious essays on evil.In these spirited essays, C. S. Lewis--the great Bri...

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Calling on diverse examples from Ancient Greek sculpture to contemporary paintings, this title creates a witty, paradoxical world in which the only...

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DescriptionOne of the most important nineteenth-century schools of thought, Utilitarianism propounds the view that the value or rightness of an act...

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The essays in How Not to Be a Doctor combine erudition with humour, candour, and the human touch. They show how, in medicine, you cannot separate p...

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