Essays 34

Nonfiction is the new black comedy in this hilarious collection of award-winning literary essays written by the infamous Pagan Kennedy. In the title piece, Alex Comfort, author of The Joy of Sex, re……続きを見る

Writing inspired by four visits to Zimbabwe, her childhood home, from the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature 2007, Doris Lessing. In the 1980s and early 1990s, Doris Lessing made several visit……続きを見る

Le scritture della crisi nascono nei momenti di crisi. Non è un caso quindi che un intellettuale urticante e attento come Ottavio Cappellani, dopo L’isola prigione (Mondadori, 2011), assuma c……続きを見る

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This book talks about different religions. The ability to live with others and believe in God My religion unlike most other religious groups in the world would be universal, made up of mostly of peo……続きを見る

Intellectual and essayist Alice Chenoweth, who wrote under the pen name Helen H. Gardener, was one of the foremost thinkers of the late nineteenth century. She contributed groundbreaking ideas to th……続きを見る

Thomas Paine was the first international revolutionary. His Common Sense was the most widely read pamphlet of the American Revolution, while his Rights of Man sent out a clarion call for revolution ……続きを見る

De la A a la Z Guadalupe Loaeza explica, en este breve diccionario, algunas de las palabras que nos identifican a los mexicanos. Aquí comprenderemos el sentido y origen de los tradicionales “baches”……続きを見る

Ausgezeichnet mit dem Independent Publisher Book Award 2008. Diese Rede über den Tod ist in ihrer Einfachheit ein philosophisches Schwergewicht. Diskret und bestimmt durchdringt die Autorin persönli……続きを見る

Now in paperback, a delightful collection of essays on the transformative power of reading In The Book That Changed My Life, our most admired writers, doctors, professors, religious leaders, politic……続きを見る

From the author of the sensational bestseller I Was Told There'd Be Cake comes a new book of personal essays brimming with all the charm and wit that have earned Sloane Crosley widespread acclaim, a……続きを見る

A short story about the most frightening night of my life. It takes place within a gated community where I had worked as a night shift security guard. While this is a work of fiction, it is based on……続きを見る

Erica Jong's two rules of writing are "never cut funny" and "keep the pages turning." And Jong delivers in these twenty-six essays, coupling frank and risque stories about her own life with provocat……続きを見る

“Writing is spooky,” according to Norman Mailer. “There is no routine of an office to keep you going, only the blank page each morning, and you never know where your words are coming from, those div……続きを見る

Introduction by Kwame Anthony Appiah Commentary by Jean Fagan Yellin and Margaret Fuller This Modern Library edition combines two of the most important African American slave narrativesーcrucial wor……続きを見る

"Henry Miller is the nearest thing to Céline America has produced.... He aims not at the ears, brains, or consciences, but at the viscera and solar plexus."ーThe New Leader. In 1939, after ten years……続きを見る

From award-winning author Michael Scammell comes a monumental achievement: the first authorized biography of Arthur Koestler, one of the most influential and controversial intellectuals of the twent……続きを見る

Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) was one of the most well known writers of the 20th century, chiefly remembered for his celebration of British imperialism, tales and poems of British soldiers in India, a……続きを見る

Natif de Brignoles, en Provence et parlant parfaitement la langue provencale, Antoine Albalat , un érudit de la chose littéraire, est en superbe position pour nous offrir ce magnifiqu……続きを見る

From Bollywood stars in Bombay worrying whether they are sexy enough to a heroin addict in Pakistan mocking jihad; from Indian mafia dons with political ambitions to Afghans waiting for American ben……続きを見る

_______________ 'Part memoir, part rant and part joke ... as elusive as it is beguiling' - Sunday Times 'If Vonnegut isn't the enduring Good Humor man, who is?' - John Irving, The Times 'One of the ……続きを見る

A rodent is beautified in crucifixion, a wayward rocket skews to destruction, and an ancient predator lurks in our archetypal memories -- all at a summer night's baseball game. 続きを見る

Renowned Baptist preacher Frank W. Boreham was known for his unusual ability to spin moving religious lessons from the stuff of everyday life. In the unique collection A Handful of Stars, Boreham ta……続きを見る

The true story of a brilliantly forged Emily Dickinson poem sold at Sotheby’s in 1997. The author’s detective work led him across America to a prison cell in Salt Lake City, where the world’s greate……続きを見る

More than any other early modern text, Montaigne's Essais have come to be associated with the emergence of a distinctively modern subjectivity, defined in opposition to the artifices of language and……続きを見る

‘Oliver Sacks is a perfect antidote to the anaesthetic of familiarity. His writing turns brains and minds transparent’ - Observer When Oliver Sacks, a physician by profession, injured his leg while ……続きを見る

A collection of sixty-five of the most memorable essays to appear in the “Hers” column in The New York Times Among the talented writers who examined the private and public issues facing women are Lo……続きを見る

Letters on England gathers together Voltaire's essays about his time in England between 1726 and 1728. Comparable to Alexis De Tocqueville's Democracy in America, Voltaire looks at English culture a……続きを見る

Herbert George "H. G." Wells (21 September 1866 – 13 August 1946) was an English author, now best known for his work in the science fiction genre. He was also a prolific writer in many other genres,……続きを見る

Before his untimely death in 1982, Lester Bangs was inarguably the most influential critic of rock and roll. Writing in hyper-intelligent Benzedrine prose that calls to mind Jack Kerouac and Hunter ……続きを見る