Essays category: 9344 books
This I Believe
The Personal Philosophies of Remarkable Men and Women
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2006
An inspiring collection of the personal philosophies of a group of remarkable men and women
Based on the National Public Radio series of the same name, This I Believe features eighty essayists—from the famous to the unknown—completing the thought that begins the book's title. Each piece...
City Lights
Stories About New York
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2009
With a poet's clear eye and a journalist's curiosity about how a city works, Dan Barry shows us New York as no other writer has seen it.
Evocative, intimate, piercing, and often funny, the essays in City Lights capture everyday life in the city at its most ordinary and extraordinary. Wandering...
by Herman Melville
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2018
This ebook comprises the complete writings of Herman Melville. The collection is sorted chronologically by book publication. There are the usual inline tables of contents and links after each text/chapter to get back to the respective tables. The dates of first publication are noted. Typee: A Romance...
The Best Film I Never Made
And Other Stories about a Life in the Arts
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2017
This entertaining collection of pieces from the acclaimed director of Breaker Morant, Driving Miss Daisy and Mao’s Last Dancer features memoirs, brief lives and revealing accounts of the film world.
Alongside unsung heroes from behind the camera and producers of dubious repute are Madeleine...
by Robert Louis Stevenson
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2014
Selection of essays on subjects as varied as marriage, illness, age and youth, idlers, English Admirals and the romance of old gas lamps in newly electrified Edinburgh (1878).
Contents
"Virginibus puerisque" -- Crabbed age and youth -- An apology for idlers -- Ordered South...
The Joys of Walking
Essays by Hilaire Belloc, Charles Dickens, Henry David Thoreau, and Others
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2013
"In wildness is the preservation of the world," noted Henry David Thoreau, whose famous epigram arose in "Walking," his meditation on the relationship between civilization and nature. The great American poet and philosopher's essay appears in this footloose compilation, a celebration...
At Home and Away
Safe House Short Story Singles Bundle
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2016
Illuminating African narratives for readers both inside and outside the continent.
Representing the very best of African creative nonfiction, Safe House brings together works from Africa's contemporary literary greats. In a collection that ranges from travel writing and memoir to reportage...
by Evans, H
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2009
There is no "The Future". "The Future" does not exist independently of the choices wemake today, individually and as a society. What the future holds depends entirely on us,on those alive today. It's an enormous responsibility, being alive in these times.'We can change the world - and the need for change...
Jewish Jocks
An Unorthodox Hall of Fame
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2012
2012 National Jewish Book Award Winner
JEWISH JOCKS: AN UNORTHODOX HALL OF FAME is a timeless collection of biographical musings, sociological riffs about assimilation, first-person reflections, and, above all, great writing on some of the most influential and unexpected pioneers in the world...
Hogs Wild
Selected Reporting Pieces
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2016
"A master of both distilled insight and utter nonsense" (The Believer), Ian Frazier is one of the most gifted chroniclers of contemporary America. Hogs Wild assembles a decade's worth of his finest essays and reportage, and demonstrates the irrepressible passions and artful digressions that...
Careless at Work
Selected Canadian historical studies
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 1996
This sampling of the work of J.M.S. Careless in the area of Canadian historical studies was selected by the eminent scholar himself, and represents much of his finest work. The collection spans the years from 1940 to 1990 in the long and distinguished career of one of Canada’s best-known historians....
Voices
How a Great Singer Can Change Your Life
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2018
"Voices isn't just illuminating and thought-provoking and clever; it is exciting." —Roddy Doyle, author of The Commitments
A personal exploration of what singing means and how it works, Voices is a book about our deepest, most telling relationships with music. Nick Coleman examines...
The Grey Album
On the Blackness of Blackness
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2012
*Finalist for the 2012 National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism*
*A Publishers Weekly Top 10 Literary Criticism and Essays Pick for Spring 2012*
The Grey Album, the first work of prose by the brilliant poet Kevin Young, winner of the Graywolf Press Nonfiction Prize
Taking...
Burn This Book
Notes on Literature and Engagement
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2009
Published in conjunction with the PEN American Center, Burn This Book is a powerful collection of essays that explore the meaning of censorship and the power of literature to inform the way we see the world, and ourselves.