Essays category: 9344 books
by Aisha Z Raison
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2015
Aisha Raison, Womanist, activist and author of Speaking in Cursive and Other Adventures of Little Girl Blue, introduces essays and poetry on the Independent Black Woman, relationships, love and social issues of the 21st century.
Mind of an Outlaw
Selected Essays
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE GLOBE AND MAIL
Norman Mailer was one of the towering figures of twentieth-century American letters and an acknowledged master of the essay. Mind of an Outlaw, the first posthumous publication from this outsize literary icon, collects Mailer’s...
Final Fridays
Essays, Lectures, Tributes & Other Nonfiction, 1995–
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2012
An exuberant and erudite collection of essays by “one of the most important novelist-teachers of 20th-century letters” (Publishers Weekly).
For decades, acclaimed author John Barth has strayed from his Monday-through-Thursday-morning routine of fiction-writing and dedicated Friday mornings...
Encounters with American Culture
Volume 2, 1973-1985
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
Peter S. Prescott was one of the most informed and incisive American literary critics to write for the general public. Never content merely to summarize or to pronounce quick judgments, Prescott's reviews are witty and delightful essays to be enjoyed for their own sake as examples of civilized discourse....
by Vicki Covington
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2009
This thoughtful, engaging collection showcases the best nonfiction prose produced by one of the nation's most observant and incisive writers.
This collection of warm, heartfelt essays from award-winning novelist Vicki Covington chronicles the multitude of "in between" moments in the...
by Karen Walsh
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2014
Humor is the constant ingredient in Karen Adragna Walsh's life.Through her collection of short personal essays, she tries not to take life too seriously. When the ordinary happenings of daily living erupt, she soon discovers that there is no escaping life's funny side.
Both Flesh and Not
Essays
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2012
Brilliant, dazzling, never-before-collected nonfiction writings by "one of America's most daring and talented writers." (Los Angeles Times Book Review).
Both Flesh and Not gathers fifteen of Wallace's seminal essays, all published in book form for the first time.
Never has...
by Megan Stielstra
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
From an important new American writer comes this powerful collection of personal essays on fear, creativity, art, faith, academia, the Internet, and justice.
In this poignant and inciting collection of literary essays, Megan Stielstra tells stories to ward off fears both personal and universal...
by Dinah Lenney
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2014
“A rich, poignant homage to, quite literally, the stuff of life.” —Meghan Daum
This collection of interconnected essays asks: what if one way to understand your life was to examine the objects within it? Which objects would you choose? What memories do they hold? And lined up in a row, what...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2011
‘Turn the page and hear the voices within …’—Ramona Koval
The Best Australian Essays 2011 offers up bliss and illumination in equal measure – from the pleasures of the flesh to the events that convulsed the world in a year of change. Paul Kelly meditates on Frank Sinatra, and Robert...
Facing Unpleasant Facts
Narrative Essays
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2009
Essays by the author of 1984 on topics from “remembrances of working in a bookshop [to] recollections of fighting in the Spanish Civil War” (Publishers Weekly).
George Orwell was first and foremost an essayist, producing throughout his life an extraordinary array of short nonfiction that...
Understanding History
And Other Essays
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2014
Essays on topics from nuclear physics to the role of faith in society from the Nobel Prize–winning philosopher.
Originally written in 1943 and published in 1957 by Philosophical Library, Inc, these vigorous essays from one of the most distinguished minds of our time reveal several facets...
Du Bois: Essays
The Black North: A Social Study, Of the Training of Black Men, The Talented Tenth, The Conservation of Races, The Economic Revolution in the South, Religion in the South, Strivings of the Negro People
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2018
This eBook edition of "Du Bois: Essays" has been formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. William Edward Burghardt "W. E. B." Du Bois (1868-1963) was an American sociologist, historian, civil rights activist, Pan-Africanist, author,...
by Wilde,Oscar
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2008
Published in 1913, Essays and Lectures by Oscar Wilde presents the array of ideas held by the author. Expressing his views on the development of art and literature in Europe, he also discusses American trends in a detailed manner. The collection touches on the history of art in England under the influence...