Essays 30

Essay about being middle aged and unemployed during The Recession. 続きを見る

Deported to a concentration camp from 1941 until the end of the war, Norman Manea again left his native Romania in 1986 to escape the Ceausescu regime. He now lives in New York. In this selection of……続きを見る

A Top Ten Nonfiction Book of 2005 (Entertainment Weekly) For any woman who has ever had a love/hate relationship with food and with how she looks; for anyone who has knowingly or unconsciously used ……続きを見る

From the bestselling author of the acclaimed novel AMERICAN GODS and the prize-winning THE OCEAN AT THE END OF THE LANE. In May 2012, Neil Gaiman delivered the commencement address at Philadelphia's……続きを見る

Parliamentary historian, chronicler of Titanic's sinking and Churchill's ascent, annotator of Kipling and of Kenneth Grahame: GMW Wemyss is, admittedly, these, but much more is he the West Country's……続きを見る

So, was the tree of knowledge a fig tree or was it marijuana. Marijuana is never mentioned but we get a repeat on the fig tree and Jesus getting mad at it. It makes Jesus look a little silly really.……続きを見る

First published in 1887, this collection of ghost stories includes The Soul of the Great Bell, The Story of Ming-Y, The Legend of Tchi-Niu, and more. According to Wikipedia: "Patrick Lafcadio Hearn ……続きを見る

Liam Farrell, the British Medical Journal's infamous columnist, presents a selection of his favourite columns. 続きを見る

Умная, интересная книга человека, который рассказывает о своем духовном поиске и открытиях, которые он сделал на этом пути. Это именно та книга, которую стоит прочитать каждому. 続きを見る

Gary Giddins's Weather Bird is a brilliant companion volume to his landmark in music criticism, Visions of Jazz, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism. More then 140 pieces, ……続きを見る

A terrifically engaging and original biography about one of England’s greatest novelists, and the glamorous, eccentric, debauched and ultimately tragic family that provided him with the most signifi……続きを見る

Yes, They're Real is a uniquely provocative collection of short stories from up-and-coming authors in Northeast Florida. The twelve original works by Sam Bilheimer, Sarah Block, Summer Brooks, Thoma……続きを見る

HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. Set in the fictional country of Ruritania, The Prisoner of Zenda tells the story of Rudolf Rassendyll, ident……続きを見る

De Profundis and Other Prison Writings is a new selection of Oscar Wilde's prison letters and poetry in Penguin Classics, edited and introduced by Colm Tóibín. At the start of 1895, Oscar Wilde was ……続きを見る

Ralph Waldo Emerson believed that an appreciation of its vast natural resources would become the foundation of American culture. His assertion that human thought and actions proceed from nature, was……続きを見る

This collection of essays historicizes and theorizes forgetting in English Renaissance literary texts and their cultural contexts. Its essays open up an area of study overlooked by contemporary Rena……続きを見る

L’origine de cet ouvrage est une conférence prononcée en anglais par l’auteur dans le Playfair Library Hall de l’université d’Édimbourg, le 13 avril 2012, au cours d’une soirée d’échanges avec l’ess……続きを見る

WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD “Writing criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging the shore is to sailing in the open sea,” writes John Updike in his Foreword to this c……続きを見る

Selected from sermons delivered by C. S. Lewis during World War II, these nine addresses show the beloved author and theologian bringing hope and courage in a time of great doubt. Addressing some of……続きを見る

Composed between 800 and 950 AD, Narayana's Hitopadesa is one of the best-known of all works in Sanskrit literature. A fascinating collection of fables, maxims and sayings in verse, it combines a wi……続きを見る

From the world-famous author of THE NAME OF THE ROSE, an illuminating and humorous study on the pleasures and pitfalls of translation. 'Translation is always a shift, not between two languages but b……続きを見る

Before Laura Ingalls Wilder found fame with her Little House books, she made a name for herself with short nonfiction pieces in magazines and newspapers. Read today, these pieces offer insight into ……続きを見る

Robert Herrick was born in London in 1591 and died in 1674 at the age of 83, which is quite remarkable considering that he lived through a war with the French, the English Civil War and outbreaks of……続きを見る

There seems no end to our hunger for the stories of real people facing impossible odds or dealing with the mundanity of life. Yet not every life story finds or deserves an audience in addition to ……続きを見る

Irving began writing the tales that would appear in The Sketch Book shortly after moving to England for the family business in 1815. When the family business spiraled into bankruptcy throughout 1816……続きを見る

In February 1822 the writer and adventurer Edward John Trelawny arrived in Pisa to make the acquaintance of his heroes Shelley and Byron, leaving a broken marriage and an exotic seafaring career beh……続きを見る

'In a very real sense, Whatever is my life's work; it's fifteen years (so far) of me thinking about what's going on in my life and in my world.' --John Scalzi What sort of idiot spends fifteen years……続きを見る

Edited by William Kerrigan, John Rumrich, and Stephen M. Fallon The legendary author of Paradise Lost and other poems was also a superb and provocative prose writer. Culled from Modern Library’s def……続きを見る

_______________ '[An] acutely observed collection of occasional pieces that pick at absurdist life and reveal him to be a quiz, a cultural critic gifted with precise comic timing' - The Times 'Yes, ……続きを見る

Become A Fast And Powerful Writer! Do you wish to become a fast and powerful writer? YOU Can Become a Writer. In the era of eBooks/digital publishing, the need to be a writer could not be more. Ever……続きを見る