Essays 93

This early work by Alexander Pope was originally published in 1711 and we are now republishing it with a brand new biography. An Essay in Criticism was written in heroic couplet style, a moderately ……続きを見る

L'homme est -il un futur ange ou démon ? Il l'est déjà selon Bengano qui raconte la vraie histoire de l'homme. Ce livre est le premier chapitre d'une oeuvre en train de se faire et qui ne continuera……続きを見る

A bundle of the first four BWB Texts by Paul Callaghan, Maurice Gee, Kathleen Jones and Rebecca Macfie.A moving selection of Sir Paul Callaghan’s writing, offering eloquent narratives that will endu……続きを見る

Двадцать одна драматическая история о том, как... Человек может отобразить на лице лишь одну эмоцию - страх, радость, скорбь, симпатию. Но в душе человек многолик. Все переплетённые переживания, от ……続きを見る

Collected here are nineteen essays by Henry David Thoreau. Thoreau was one of America's best known and most influential writers. His work has helped shape the American Discourse and had a lasting ef……続きを見る

A new edition of William Carlos Williams’ loving and groundbreaking book about American history, with a new introduction by Rick Moody. Although admired by D. H. Lawrence, this modern classic went g……続きを見る

A collection of poignant essays about the transformative power of knitting by twenty-seven extraordinary writers. “The impressive collection of writers here have contributed essays that celebrate kn……続きを見る

Both Pound and Williams have shown a good poet can revitalize prose style. Earth House Hold (a play on the root meaning of "ecology"), drawn from Gary Snyder's essays and journals, may prove a landm……続きを見る

An education in a portmanteau: George Steiner at The New Yorker collects his best work from his more than 150 pieces for the magazine. Between 1967 and 1997, George Steiner wrote more than 130 piece……続きを見る

The essays of Roberto Bolano in English at last. Between Parentheses collects most of the newspaper columns and articles Bolano wrote during the last five years of his life, as well as the texts of ……続きを見る

**A Los Angeles Times Best Book of the Year Masterful essays that illuminate not only how we die but also how we live.** Thomas Lynch, poet, funeral director, and author of the highly praised The Un……続きを見る

Internationally acclaimed as one of the most innovative writers today, Eliot Weinberger has taken the essay into unexplored territories on the borders of poetry and narrative where the only rule, ac……続きを見る

Rilke's timeless letters about poetry, sensitive observation, and the complicated workings of the human heart. Born in 1875, the great German lyric poet Rainer Maria Rilke published his first collec……続きを見る

Now in paperback, here are the sparkling essays of Muriel Spark, the writer of “the best sentences in English” (The New Yorker) A fantastic essayist, the inimitable Muriel Spark addresses here the w……続きを見る

The main characters in James Joyce’s “The Dead,” Gabriel Conroy and his wife Gretta, react to death in very different ways. Gabriel Conroy’s death drive results from anxiety due to his low self-este……続きを見る

Faiz Ahmed Faiz’s love of nature and incorporation of related themes in his poems could stem from his years of imprisonment and being cut off from the outside, natural world and the freedom and conn……続きを見る

While many critics and scholars consider the mistaken identity in gothic literature to be clichéd and, therefore, silly or ineffectual, I would like to argue that Horace Walpole’s use of false ident……続きを見る

In Things Fall Apart, Chinua Achebe shows how the Igbo people react to the transition from a culture rich with storytelling, folklore, and oral traditions to a culture heavily influenced by Western ……続きを見る

Los Ramones. Spiderman. Umbral. Los SMS. La Coca-Cola. Chiquilicuatre. Murakami. José Tomás. Amy Winehouse. Benicio del Toro. Céline. Salinger. Son algunos de los temas tocados en esta singular reco……続きを見る

Leaves Of Grass is Walt Whitman’s rare and genuine masterpiece; an exhilarating work of artistry deserving of the label in a thousand different ways. It is a landmark of American literature. WALT WH……続きを見る

W. Gunther Plaut is one of Reform Judaism’s most acclaimed twentieth century rabbis and scholars. He is a gifted writer and intellectual whose ideas garner devotees throughout the world. Eight Decad……続きを見る

The quirky, strange and utterly sagacious meditations of David Caradine written during the making of Quentin Tarantino's contemporary classic in which Carradine played the lead role. When Carradine ……続きを見る

'A uniquely charming and enticing journey through a remarkable life. Coward's own record is made all the more delightful by the wise and helpful interpolations of Barry Day, the soundest authority o……続きを見る

An important, urgent book of essays from Britain's most challenging dramatist: "...a great playwright - many, particularly in continental Europe, would say the greatest living English playwright." (……続きを見る

Writers-Files is an important series documenting the work of major dramatists of the last hundred years. Each volume contains a comprehensive checklist of all the writer's plays, with a detailed per……続きを見る

The most accessible Kierkegaard reader ever “In a culture awash in religious silliness, Kierkegaard’s bracing metaphors expose our mediocrities and energize us with a clarified sense of what it mean……続きを見る

In seinen im November 2014 gehaltenen Poetikvorlesungen spricht Marcel Beyer über »die Löcher im Stoff der Wirklichkeit", über Wirklichkeit also, die kein kontinuierliches Ganzes bildet, sondern aus……続きを見る

Eloquently written essays about aspects of Asian American life comprise this collection that looks at how Asian-Americans view themselves in light of America's insensitivities, stereotypes, and expe……続きを見る

Having launched my debut novel Bad Day in Byzantium upon an unsuspecting world, I took a break from congratulatory champagne sipping to contemplate the path I’d blazed to inevitable success. Did I a……続きを見る

This is the seminannual Able Muse Review (Print Edition) - Winter 2014 issue, Number 18. This issue continues the tradition of masterfully crafted poetry, fiction, essays, art & photog……続きを見る