Essays & Correspondence

Product Description Zhuang Zi et le logicien Hui Zi se promenaient sur le pont de la rivière Hao. Zhuang Zi observa : «Voyez les petits poissons qui ...

One Of The First Russian Writers To Make A Name For Herself On The Internet, Linor Goralik Writes Conversational Short Works That Conjure The Absurd In All ...

« Limonov n'est pas un personnage de fiction. Il existe. Je le connais. Il a été voyou en Ukraine ; idole de l'underground soviétique sous Brejnev ; clo...

The American novelist and playwright presents sketches of such figures as Brando, Monroe, and Bogart, as well as vignettes from his personal lifeCategories:...

Robert Fulghum.Categories: Religion & Spirituality New Age & SpiritualityInspirational

With an Introduction and Notes by Adam Roberts Royal Holloway, University of London Homer's great epic describes the many adventures of Odysseus, Greek warr...

A New York Times Notable Book Winner Of The 2019 National Book Critics Circle Awards, Criticism Category Finalist For The 2019 Pen / Diamonstein-spielvogel ...

It all began with a letter inquiring about secondhand books, written by Helene Hanff in New York, and posted to a bookshop at 84, Charing Cross Road in Lond...

Since Its Publication In 1974, Scholars Throughout The Humanities Have Adopted G M A Grube's Masterful Translation Of The Republic As The Edition Of Choice ...

'An inexhaustible tourist at the farther reaches of the mind, Sacks presents, in sparse, unsentimental prose, the stories of seven of his patients. The resu...

Twas The Nightshift Before Christmas is the hilarious, poignant and entertaining story of the life of a junior doctor at the most challenging time of the ye...

Published in 1790, two years before the start of the Terror, this work offered a remarkably prescient view of the chaos that lay ahead. It articulates a d...

The Rights And Involved Duties Of Mankind Considered -- The Prevailing Opinion Of A Sexual Character Discussed -- The Same Subject Continued -- Observations...

Virginia Woolf introduced us to the “Angel in the House”, now prepare to meet... The Bitch In the House. Women today have more choices than at any tim...

a Classic Work That Has Charmed Generations Of Readers, This Collection Assembles Carson Mccullers’s Best Stories, Including Her Beloved Novella “the Ball...

From our former Governor General, The Idea of a Nation is a series of fifty—of several thousand—carefully chosen letters he has written to people he has...

how Do Imperceptibly Small Differences In The Environment Change One's Behavior? What Is The Anatomy Of A Bad Mood? Does Stress Shrink Our Brains? What Do...

George Steiner, Himself No Slouch When It Came To Getting Things Done, Once Asked A Soviet Dissident How He Got Through So Much Work. The Answer: 'house Arr...

Isaiah Berlin Was One Of The Leading Thinkers Of Our Time And One Of Its Finest Writers. The Proper Study Of Mankind Brings Together His Most Celebrated Wri...

MINECRAFT : REDSTONE, LE GUIDE OFFICIELCategories: Literature & Fiction Essays & CorrespondenceEssays

ME TALK PRETTY ONE DAY contains far more than just the funniest collection of autobiographical essays - it quite well registers as a manifesto about langua...

The 2017 Pulitzer Prize Winner for Commentary and conservative icon Peggy Noonan offers her most insightful work, including her Wall Street Journal columns...

A Long-awaited New Book On Personal Writing From Lopate--the Celebrated Essayist And The Director Of Columbia University's Nonfiction Program. He Provides T...

A New York Times Notable Book for 2011 One of Entertainment Weekly's Top 10 Nonfiction Books of the Year 2011A Time Magazine Top 10 Nonfiction book of 2011...

Widely regarded as the finest poet of his generation, Seamus Heaney is the subject of numerous critical studies, but no book-length portrait has appeared be...

From the Back Cover\Pour beaucoup de lecteurs à travers le monde, le poète Sylvia Plath est devenu une figure de culte. Sa destinée exemplaire, son maria...

For ten years, Morbid Curiosity was a one-of-a-kind underground magazine that gained a devoted following for its celebration of absurd, grotesque, and unu...

With a new Introduction Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for fiction, this stunning debut collection unerring charts the emotional journeys of characters seek...

A Collection Of Letters Between Martha Gellhorn And Her Family, Friends, Lovers, Politicians And Cultural Figures During The 1930's Usa, Spanish Civil War, ...

“Brilliant, hysterical, truthful, and real, these essays illuminate the path for our future female leaders.”—Reese WitherspoonA diverse group of cele...

A Collection Of Fifty-five Important Pieces Of Short Fiction Of The Twentieth Century Features Masterworks By Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner, Willa Cath...

Ten years after the tragic events of September 11, 2001, the family members of one hundred of the individuals lost on that terrible day look back-and forwa...

Culled From 7500 Columns And Spanning Four Decades, From His Early Days To His Last Dispatch, The Writings In This Collection Reflect A Radically Changing A...

V. 1.the Letters Of Samuel Beckett Offers For The First Time A Comprehensive Range Of Letters Of One Of The Greatest Literary Figures Of The Twentieth Centu...

Start embracing the wonder of life after 40 We're all getting older. How do we make the second half of our lives the best half? Forty incredible women of f...

By turns heartbreaking and hilarious, troubling and uplifting, these "electric" essays come together to create a provocative, conversation-sparking, multiv...

Here are all of Grace Paley's classic stories collected in one volume. Her quirky, boisterous characters and rich use of language have won her readers' he...

A Book Of Inspirational Quotes Culled From The Author's Writings--Categories: Biographies & MemoirsMemoirs

Relegated to the genre of mystery during her lifetime, Patricia Highsmith is now recognized as one of "our greatest modernist writers" (Gore Vidal). Belove...

The literary adventure of D.A.F. (1740-1814) is unique and paradoxical. He was widely read in the nineteenth century, but his books disappeared almost com...

Nature Writing: The Tradition In English Includes 157 Selections By 131 Authors. This Is The Definitive Collection Of A Many-voiced Genre That Has Flourishe...

Defining that precise moment when a trend becomes a trend, Malcolm Gladwell probes the surface of everyday occurrences to reveal some surprising dynamics b...

This text offers clear, concise, step-by-step guidance on the expanded roles and responsibilities of the RN serving as first assistant in the operating roo...

Here, Novelist And Critic Francine Prose Serves Up A Marvelous Banquet Of Witty And Engaging Observations On The Most Delicious Of Deadly Sins. Prose Traces...

Pt. I Influences On Malthus -- [divine Mandates For Humanity] / King James Bible -- From Concerning The Causes Of The Greatness And Magnificence Of Cities (...

Paperback. Pub Date :2014-01-02 Pages: 240 Language: English A Sunday Times bestsellerLonglisted for the Guardian first book awardA Radio 4 Book of the Week...

Veteran journalist Pete Hamill has never covered just politics. Or just sports. Or just the entertainment business, the mob, foreign affairs, social issues,...

A collection of stories from David Foster Wallace is occasion to celebrate. These stories — which have been prominently serialized in Harper's, Esquire, t...