Essays, Anthologies, Letters & Prose

This collection brings together a group of Wallace Robson's most important essays, both published and unpublished, and carries an introduction reviewing the practice of criticism and critical theory today. The...

With wide format pages to give generous margins for notes, the editor presents the latest George Eliot scholarship in an introduction, and also includes notes, text summary, selected criticism and...

The Oregon Trail is the gripping account of Francis Parkman's journey west across North America in 1846. After crossing the Allegheny Mountains by coach and continuing by boat and wagon...

Here is the world's most famous master plan for seizing and holding power. Astonishing in its candor "The Prince" even today remains a disturbingly realistic and prophetic work on what...

Set in the immense landscape of the Great Plains, The Prairie (1827) addresses many questions raised by the penetration of the American west: the displacement of the Indians, the destruction...

The book titled On the Nature of the Universe by the author Titus Lucretius Carus. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "Great playwright and filmmaker, DAVID MAMET, just wrote an incredible new book, The Disenlightenment, Politics, Horror, and Entertainment . David is a special man...

By turns witty, insightful, self-deprecating and philosophical, in these essays Lamb offers an unusually warm, human glimpse of life in a circle that included such luminaries as Coleridge, Wordsworth and...

Throughout 2024, Samar Yazbek met with hundreds of survivors from Gaza asking each one of them about their experience of October 7, 2023, and what their life has been like...

The book titled A Year Amongst the Persians: Impressions as to the Life, Character and by the author Edward Granville Browne. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for...

This book is part of the "Everyman" series, which has been totally re-set with wide margins and easy-to-read type. It includes an introduction, a chronology of the life and times...

By the journalist who won the International Reporter of the Year award and the United Nations Association Media Peace Prize, this book brings together the episodes for which his journalism...

The bestselling book from one of the finest investigative journalists of our time. The heroes of John Pilger's narrative are the many ordinary people he has witnessed coping with their...

'I have nothing to declare,' Wilde once told an American customs official, 'except my genius.' A good part of that genius is evident in the essays and poems included in...

Ovid's moving poems on the torments of love In the twenty-one poems of the Heroides, Ovid gave voice to the heroines and heroes of epic and myth. These deeply moving...

In the four and a half centuries since Machiavelli's death, no single and unanimously accepted interpretation of his ideas has succeeded in imposing itself upon the lively debate over the...

The book titled In Full View by the author Lily Brett. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

"The best science and nature writing-which these stories represent-reminds us of the wide world and our connection to it, and the multitude of ways we make our place in it,"...

Simon Leys' cultural and political commentary has long been legendary for its profundity and acerbic wit. In The Hall of Uselessness his most significant essays are finally gathered together, on...

A hip and entertaining book on famous and forgotten celluloid heroes: Patti Smith on Jeanne Moreau Malu Halasa on Robert Carlyle Ginny Dougary on Liz Taylor Greil Marcus on J.T....

In this collection of interviews, Chomsky addresses a variety of topical issues such as: the effect of "family values" crusades on family life; the relationship between free markets and competition;...

The previously uncollected occasional prose of a great English writer -- full of wit, feeling and illumination WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY HERMIONE LEE 'Twice in your life you know that...

'The literature of the time after begins here' EVENING STANDARD 'A jolt of brevity and simplicity' THE TIMES 'In one short hour, in the midst of this difficult moment, Giordano...

The book titled The Arabian Nights II: Sinbad and Other Popular Stories by the author Husain Haddawy. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this...

Tolstoy s last major work was A Calendar of Wisdom, a collection of his favourite spiritual and philosophical quotations in the form of daily readings. Each week he included a...

An astonishingly candid book from the Nobel Laureate about what has shaped his interpretation of literature and the world. For the "serious traveller", one who is fully engaged with the...

"The charm of certain vacant grassy spaces, in Italy, overfrowned by masses of brickwork that are honeycombed by the suns of centuries, is something that I hereby renounce once for...

The book titled War Report: The War Correspondent's View of Battle from Crimea to the by the author Trevor Royle. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more...

The essays in this book include some of the subjects that fascinated Primo Levi - the house he lived in all his life, butterflies and spiders, imaginary creatures dreamed up...

From the critically acclaimed author of Dead Girls ("stylish and inspired"- New York Times Book Review ), a sharp, engrossing collection of essays that explore the strange career of popular...

*** Finalist for the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay**** ****Semi-Finalist for the Thurber Prize for American Humor**** ****Finalist for the New England Book Award**** ****Longlisted for the...

Witty, tender and daring essays from the British David Sedaris 'A lovely writer: supple, stylish and almost effortlessly witty.' Daily Mail 'Made me laugh out loud and then properly cry.'...

'I laughed, I cried and then I laughed again' LENA DUNHAM 'Smart and funny ... reminds me of the best of Nora Ephron' GUARDIAN Writer, actor, and director Desiree Akhavan...

A travel book by Mark Twain, published in 1869. A must read.

New York Times bestselling author Laura Lippman, a journalist for many years, collects here her recent essays exploring motherhood as an older mom, her life as a reader, her relationships...

A selection of Michel de Montaigne's most profound, searching essays, in a new translation and stunning hardback edition featuring an introduction by Yiyun Li 'I myself am the subject of...

Zombies want brains. Vampires want blood. Cannibals want human flesh. All monsters need feeding. Horror has been embraced by mainstream pop culture more than ever before, with horror characters and...

When Brian Dillon was sixteen his mother died and he simply gave up all schoolwork. While he courted exam failure, his real education was going on elsewhere: with books, music,...

In 1920, Virginia and Leonard Woolf's Hogarth Press published Maxim Gorky's Reminiscences of Tolstoy and it was recognized almost immediately as one of the few masterpieces of modern biography. 'It...

Known for spotlighting your favorite artists' tween stories of self-discovery on their podcast, Penn, Sophie, and Nava turn inward to share their own experiences for the first time. Penn, a...

The million-copy international bestseller from Korean sensation Taewoan Ha 'Never give up Your every moment is meaningful' In Every Moment Was You , Taewoan Ha reflects on the little things...

The book titled Burchett: Reporting the Other Side of the World by the author Ben Kiernan. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The book titled Making the Legend: The War Writings of C.E.W. Bean by the author C.E.W. Bean. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this...

The million-copy international bestseller from Korean sensation Taewoan Ha 'Never give up Your every moment is meaningful' In Every Moment Was You , Taewoan Ha reflects on the little things...

The book titled We the People: Revolution of '89 Witnessed in Warsaw, Budapest, Berlin by the author Timothy Garton Ash. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more...

The 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. The audio...