Essays category: 9344 books
by Jerome K. Jerome
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2011
Undertaken at the suggestion of a friend, here is Jerome’s attempt to write a sensible book. The pilgrimage of the title is Jerome’s journey to Germany to see the famous Passion Play at Oberammergau. Part diary, part travelogue, and part social commentary, it is entirely entertaining, as are the six comic essays.
by John Ruskin
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
According to Wikipedia: "John Ruskin (8 February 1819 20 January 1900) was a British art critic and social thinker, also remembered as an author, poet and artist. His essays on art and architecture were extremely influential in the Victorian and Edwardian eras... Ruskin's influence extends far beyond...
Writing with Intent
Essays, Reviews, Personal Prose: 1983-2005
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2009
From one of the world's most passionately engaged and acclaimed literary citizens comes Writing with Intent, the largest collection to date of Margaret Atwood's nonfiction, ranging from 1983 to 2005. Composed of autobiographical essays, cultural commentary, book reviews, and introductory pieces to...
The Opposite of Loneliness
Essays and Stories
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
The instant New York Times bestseller and publishing phenomenon: Marina Keegan’s posthumous collection of award-winning essays and stories “sparkles with talent, humanity, and youth” (O, The Oprah Magazine).
Marina Keegan’s star was on the rise when she graduated magna cum laude from...
Making Trouble
Essays Against the New Australian Complacency
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2011
Robert Manne has twice been voted Australia’s leading public intellectual. This book will show you why. Making Trouble takes aim at the new Australian complacency. This is a book that will enlighten and challenge, as it traces the ideas and events that have recently changed the nation. It covers much...
Quarrel & Quandary
Essays
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2011
In her new collection of essays, Cynthia Ozick, everywhere acclaimed as a critic, novelist, and storyteller, examines some of the world's most illustrious writers and their work, tackles compelling contemporary literary and moral issues, and looks into the wellsprings of her own lifelong engagement...
Odd Jobs
Essays and Criticism
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2012
To complement his work as a fiction writer, John Updike accepted any number of odd jobs—book reviews and introductions, speeches and tributes, a “few paragraphs” on baseball or beauty or Borges—and saw each as “an opportunity to learn something, or to extract from within some unsuspected...
How Dare We! Write
A Multicultural Creative Writing Discourse
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
How Dare We! Write: a multicultural creative writing discourse offers a much needed corrective to the usual dry and uninspired creative writing pedagogy. The collection asks us to consider questions, such as "What does it mean to work through resistance from supposed mentors, to face rejection...
Chicago Flashbulbs
A Quarter Century of News, Politics, Sports, and Show Business (1987-2012)
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2013
"There is always a place for well-crafted, entertaining and informative essays and Chicago Flashbulbs fills that niche. Dr. Franklin's great enthusiasm and insights make these varied pieces both entertaining and memorable. His attention to detail in observing the human condition and his wry sense...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2015
An America in which the color of one's skin no longer matters would be unprecedented. With the election of President Barack Obama in 2008, that future suddenly seemed possible. Obama's rise reflects a nation of fluid populations and fortunes, a society in which a biracial individual could be embraced...
An Arrangement of Skin
Essays
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
A daring collection on the human body by an award-winning poet turned essayist
Anna Journey’s lyrical and layered arrangement of essays dazzles with her reflections on our shifting selves—the many “skins” we inhabit in a life. An Arrangement of Skin is by turns beguiling, dark, carnal,...
A Time for all Things
Collected Essays and Sketches
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2018
The finest non-fiction by Ruskin Bond, a singular writer who has inspired and comforted three generations of readers, collected in a single volume.
A lifetime of reading and writing, observation and contemplation is distilled in this comprehensive volume of the best essays, profiles and sketches...
How to Be Alone
Essays
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2007
Passionate, strong-minded nonfiction from the National Book Award-winning author of The Corrections
Jonathan Franzen's The Corrections was the best-loved and most-written-about novel of 2001. Nearly every in-depth review of it discussed what became known as "The Harper's Essay," Franzen's...
The Most Important Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Compensation, Self-Reliance, Friendship, Heroism, Manners, Gifts, Nature, Shakespeare; or, the Poet, Prudence, Circles, History, Spiritual Laws, Love, the Over-Soul, Intellect
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2018
Ralph Waldo Emerson was an American essayist, lecturer, and poet. He was seen as a leader of the transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th century and as a champion of individualism and a prescient critic of the countervailing pressures of society. Emerson is famous for his essays, commonly associated...