Essays category: 9344 books

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Brooding

Arias, Choruses, Lullabies, Follies, Dirges, and a Duet

by Michael Martone, John Griswold
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018

This collection of more than twenty-five essays, both meditative and formally inventive, considers all kinds of subjects: everyday objects such as keys and hats, plus concepts of time and place; the memoir; writing; the essay itself; and Michael Martone’s friendship with the writers David Foster...
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by T. S. Eliot
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2014

A collection of essays grappling with some of the most significant topics of our time, Essays Ancient and Modern reveals Eliot’s thoughts on his literary contemporaries and predecessors, the role of religion in a secular society, and the continuing tradition of the classics in modern education....
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The Collected Essays Volume Two

Mary McCarthy's Theatre Chronicles, 1937–1962 and On the Contrary

by Mary McCarthy
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2018

Candid, sharp, and entertaining essays from the #1 New York Times–bestselling author of Memories of a Catholic Girlhood and a “delightfully polished writer” (The Atlantic Monthly).   Whether penning criticism, memoir, or fiction, the New York Times–bestselling author of The Group invariably...
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That Wondrous Pattern

Essays on Poetry and Poets

by Kathleen Raine, Wendell Berry
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2017

“There is no exaggeration in pointing out that these essays are addressed to the soul of the reader. They are not academic exercises in erudition as a contribution to ‘Eng. Lit.’” —from the introduction by Brian Keeble Kathleen Raine was one of the greatest British poets of the last...
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by Mary Gaitskill, Johanna Fateman
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2014

“In this collection commissioned by Amy Scholder, nine original essays explore the specific and personal impact of cultural icons.” —Publishers Weekly   Whose poster hung on your wall as a teenager? Whose record did you wear out? Whose life story could you not resist? Fascination works in mysterious...
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by Paul Rhetts, Barbe Awalt
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013

New Mexico Voices, Too is the second book in the series to honor New Mexico and to give writers the chance to express themselves. This book is mostly about New Mexicans but things can also be human in nature like the Sandia mountains. Poetry, historical essays, and essays about mentors, family and friends...
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by Stanley Elkin
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2016

With a wickedly witty touch, Elkin’s essays takes readers on a tour of American life in the 20th century. Stanley Elkin was one of our great American writers. “A divine exploiter of the idiocies and intricacies of our language,” as John Irving put it, and nowhere is that more clear than...
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The Columbia Anthology of Japanese Essays

Zuihitsu from the Tenth to the Twenty-First Century

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Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2014

A court lady of the Heian era, an early modern philologist, a novelist of the Meiji period, and a physicist at Tokyo University. What do they have in common, besides being Japanese? They all wrote zuihitsu—a uniquely Japanese literary genre encompassing features of the nonfiction or personal essay...
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by D H Lawrence
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2013

David Herbert Lawrence, 1885- 1930, was the son of a coal-miner and a mother from a family with middle-class aspirations. He was a poet, novelist, travel writer, artist, short story writer, playwright and one of the twentieth century's most prolific essayists. This ebook contains all of Lawrence's...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2019

A collection of the year’s best essays selected by Robert Atwan and guest editor Rebecca Solnit. Award-winning writer, cultural critic, and activist, Rebecca Solnit, an “unparalleled high priestess of nuance and intelligent contemplation” (Maria Popova), selects the best essays of the year from hundreds of magazines, journals, and websites.
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by Various Authors, Benjamin Franklin
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2016

“The Oxford Book of American Essays” is a diverse collection of carefully-selected essays by notable and influential American writers and essayists. With contributions from such seminal figures as Washington Irvine, Francis Hopkinson, and Benjamin Franklin, this is a book that will appeal to all...
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by Michel Montaigne
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2019

To overcome a crisis of melancholy after the death of his father, Montaigne withdrew to his country estates and began to write, and in the highly original essays that resulted he discussed themes such as fathers and children, conscience and cowardice, coaches and cannibals, and, above all, himself....
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by Gore Vidal
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2018

These nineteen essays richly confirm Gore Vidal's reputation as "America's finest essayist" (The New Statesman), and are further evidence of the breadth and depth of his intelligence and wit. Included here are his highly praised essays on Theodore Roosevelt ("An American Sissy"), F. Scott Fitzgerald,...
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The Deep Zoo

Essays

by Rikki Ducornet
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2014

“The veteran Port Townsend author explores love, violence, dreams, fairy tales and other things in her collection of essays.” ―The Seattle Times Within the writer’s life, words and things acquire power. For Borges it is the tiger and the color red, for Cortázar a pair of amorous lions,...
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