Essays category: 9344 books

This file includes: Books for Children (Tales from Shakespear, The Adventures of Ulysses, Mrs. Leicester's School, The Kind and Queen of Hearts, Poetry for Children, and Prince Dorus), Elia and Last Essays of Elia, Letters 1796-1820, Letters 1821-1842, Poems and Plays, Rosamund Gray and Selected Essays...

This collection, spanning four centuries of English wit, wisdom, and common sense, contains the thoughts of a number of renowned masters of the essay. From Francis Bacon--the English author who reputedly imported the genre from France, to literary critic, mystery writer, and social commentator G....

Volume 2 of a new selection of the best works of William Hazlitt (1778-1830), an energetic and unique essayist with much to offer the modern reader. He writes compellingly on many topics. Edited by Abeecy Deffh.

Volume 1 of a new selection of the best works of William Hazlitt (1778-1830), an energetic and unique essayist with much to offer the modern reader. He writes compellingly on many topics. Edited by Abeecy Deffh.

Volume 5 of a new selection of the best works of William Hazlitt (1778-1830), an energetic and unique essayist with much to offer the modern reader. He writes compellingly on many topics. Edited by Abeecy Deffh.

This is the seminannual Able Muse Review (Print Edition) - Summer, 2013 issue. This issue continues the tradition of masterfully crafted poetry, fiction, essays, art & photography, and book reviews that have become synonymous with the Able Muse—online and in print. After more than a decade...

"In America, everything was possible," recalls Louis Adamic of Slovenia. "There even the common people were 'citizens,' not 'subjects' . . . a citizen, or even a non-citizen foreigner, could walk up to the President of the United States and pump his hand. Indeed, that seemed to be a...

In these ten intertwined essays, one of our most provocative young novelists proves that she is just as stylish and outrageous an art critic. For when Jeanette Winterson looks at works as diverse as the Mona Lisa and Virginia Woolf's The Waves, she frees them from layers of preconception and restores...

Richard Howard has been writing stylish, deeply informed commentary on modern culture and literature for more than four decades. Here is a selection of his finest essays, including some never before published in book form, on a splendid range of subjects--from American poets like Emily Dickinson and...

From the author of the international bestseller What I Loved, a provocative collection of autobiographical and critical essays about writing and writers. Whether her subject is growing up in Minnesota, cross-dressing, or the novel, Hustvedt's nonfiction, like her fiction, defies easy categorization,...

Marilynne Robinson has built a sterling reputation as a writer of sharp, subtly moving prose, not only as a major American novelist, but also as a rigorous thinker and incisive essayist. In When I Was a Child I Read Books she returns to and expands upon the themes which have preoccupied her work with...

From one of the greatest writers of the modern era, an intimate and essential collection of personal essays on home, identity, and colonialism Chinua Achebe’s characteristically eloquent and nuanced voice is everywhere present in these seventeen beautifully written pieces. From a vivid portrait...

One of the most provocative and original voices in contemporary literature, Chinua Achebe here considers the place of literature and art in our society in a collection of essays spanning his best writing and lectures from the last twenty-three years. For Achebe, overcoming goes hand in hand with eradicating...

One of Henry Miller's most luminous statements of his personal philosophy of life, Stand Still Like the Hummingbird, provides a symbolic title for this collection of stories and essays. Many of them have appeared only in foreign magazines while others were printed in small limited editions which...