Essays 35

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

The only work of its kind to survive from classical antiquity, the Library of Apollodorus is a unique guide to Greek mythology, from the origins of the universe to the Trojan War. Apollodorus' Libra……続きを見る

First published in 1905, this collection includes The Story of Ito Norisuke, The Mirro Maiden, Goblin Poetry, Romance of the Milky Way, and more. According to Wikipedia: "Patrick Lafcadio Hearn (27 ……続きを見る

HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. ‘The movements of his mind seemed to tend to the thought that some power was working against him.’ When Henchard, a……続きを見る

Ever feel like God is not a reality in your life,at least not today,this week,this month or this year. Is that a big deal? How will this effect my Faith & my walk with God? How will it effect my lif……続きを見る

In January of 1788 the First Fleet arrived in New South Wales and a thousand British men and women encountered the people who will be their new neighbours; the beach nomads of Australia. "These peop……続きを見る

Alan Zweibel is back with more hilarious stories pulled out of his bottom drawer. An original Saturday Night Live writer, award winning author and playwright, Zweibel offers up three morsels of humo……続きを見る

In autobiographical stories and essays, Eva Kollisch, rescued in childhood from the Nazis by a Kindertransport, deals with the themes of anti-Semitism, uprooting, outsiderdom, and search for communi……続きを見る

Selected as the winners of Random House’s national contest, a stunning collection of essays ranging from comic to poignant, personal to political, by the brightest young writers you haven’t heard of……続きを見る

Comment rester fidèle à ses idéaux de jeunesse, à l’exigence vécue comme ardente obligation au concours de la vérité et du jaillissement de l’interrogation ? Sylvain Grati, jeune journaliste débutan……続きを見る

A story that compares the life of an old woman to that of an ailing bird. 続きを見る

It was a year since their tempestuous affair had ended. So why was he back? Elisa trusted Salvatore di Vitale as far as she could throw him. And, as the wealthy Sicilian was over six feet tall, that……続きを見る

«- Enfin le foot... Ce que tricotent les vingt-deux débiles sur le gazon n'intéresse que peu de monde. Et toujours les mêmes. Ceux qui délèguent, parabolisen……続きを見る

His pieces, on the literary world and some of its most fascinating figures and classics, bear his hallmark of vitality and distinctive approach. Raine’s knowledge of the span of literary theory (and……続きを見る

Isabelle Eberhardt (1877-1904), reporter, voyageuse et aventurière, née à Genève le 17 février 1877 décédée à Aïn-Sefra (Algérie) le 21 octobre 1904. Très impressionnante, l'histoire de sa vie fait ……続きを見る

Names We Call Home is a ground-breaking collection of essays which articulate the dynamics of racial identity in contemporary society. The first volume of its kind, Names We Call Home offers autobio……続きを見る

The second volume in the acclaimed Squire Quartet, available for the first time as an ebook. Spanning fifty years and three continents – from pre-war Suffolk, to the Far East in the 1940s, to Oxford……続きを見る

'For if once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think little of robbing; and from robbing he comes next to drinking and Sabbath-breaking, and from that to incivility and procras……続きを見る

Right up until his death in 2008, John Leonard was a lion in American letters. A passionate, erudite, and wide-ranging critic, he helped shape the landscape of modern literature. He reviewed the mos……続きを見る

Το 1886 ο Γιάννης Ψυχάρης συγκεντρώνει εμπειρίες ταξιδεύοντας στην Ελλάδα (ελεύθερη και σκλαβωμένη) και γράφει το 1888,το πεζογράφημα "Το ταξίδι μου" υπέρ της χρήσης της δημοτικής γλώσσας. 続きを見る

Toni Morrison, winner of the 1993 Nobel Prize in Literature, reads the speech she delivered in Stockholm, Sweden, at the Nobel Prize Award Ceremony. 続きを見る

Selected essays from America's foremost literary journalist and essayist, featuring ruminations on writers and artists as diverse as Edith Wharton, Diane Arbus and the Bloomsbury Group. This charism……続きを見る

A memoir of land, family and perseverance from one of the most influential writers in America. In this moving and surprising book, Joan Didion reassesses parts of her life, her work, her history – a……続きを見る

"You people come into the marketーthe Greenmarket, in the open air under the down pouring sunーand you slit the tomatoes with your fingernails. With your thumbs, you excavate the cheese. You choose ……続きを見る