Essays Letters category: 7676 books
The Destiny Thief
Essays on Writing, Writers and Life
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2018
"It turns out that Russo the nonfiction writer is a lot like Russo the Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist. He is affably disagreeable, wry, idiosyncratic, vulnerably bighearted, a craftsman of lubricated sentences."—Jay Fielden, New York Times Book Review
A master of the novel, short...
Sunshine State
Essays
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2017
Longlisted for the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay
A *New York Times*Critics’ Best Books of the Year ***• *An NPR Best Book of the Year *• *A NYLON Best Nonfiction Book of the Year *• *A Buzzfeed Best Nonfiction Book of the Year *• *An Entrophy Magazine...
Counting One's Blessings
The Selected Letters of Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2012
William Shawcross's official biography of Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother, published in September 2009, was a huge critical and commercial success.One of the great revelations of the book was Queen Elizabeth's insightful, witty private correspondence. Indeed, The Sunday Times described her letters...
by Margaret Sanders
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2009
‘… because I cannot in person be in your presence, I send you the thing which comes nearest that is possible; that is to say, my picture, and the whole device, which you already know of, set in bracelets, wishing myself in their place when it pleaseth you.’ Henry VIII in a letter to Anne Boleyn,...
In Haste with Aloha
Letters and Diaries of Queen Emma, 1881–1885
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2017
This ambitious volume assembled by scholar David W. Forbes features a collection of ninety previously unpublished letters, as well as excerpts from two diaries, written between 1881 and 1885 by Hawaiian royal consort Queen Emma Kaleleonālani. In Haste with Aloha illuminates the last five years of...
by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2012
He was an ordained minister, renowned orator, and beloved author and poet whose ideas on nature, philosophy, and religion influenced authors such as Henry David Thoreau and Walt Whitman. Through his writings, Emerson ardently professed the importance of being an individual, resisting the comfort of...
Collected Essays, Prose, and Stories
Living by the Word, You Can't Keep a Good Woman Down, In Love & Trouble, and In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2018
Compelling collections of short fiction and essays by the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Color Purple and “marvelous writer” (San Francisco Chronicle).
Whether she is writing fiction or nonfiction, sharing personal reflections or expressing political views, Alice Walker is without question...
by Albert Camus
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2012
One of the most influential works of this century, The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays is a crucial exposition of existentialist thought. Influenced by works such as Don Juan and the novels of Kafka, these essays begin with a meditation on suicide; the question of living or not living in a universe...
by Kameron Hurley
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2016
The Geek Feminist Revolution is a collection of essays by double Hugo Award-winning essayist and fantasy novelist Kameron Hurley.
The book collects dozens of Hurley's essays on feminism, geek culture, and her experiences and insights as a genre writer, including "We Have Always Fought,"...
Letters to Penthouse XV
Outrages Erotic Oragasmic
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2008
From the bestselling Letters to Penthouse series comes another spicy collection of letters written to one of the most popular men's magazines.
by Michel Montaigne
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2004
Michel de Montaigne was one of the most influential figures of the Renaissance, singlehandedly responsible for popularising the essay as a literary form.
In 1572, Montaigne retired to his estates in order to devote himself to leisure, reading and reflection. There he wrote his constantly expanding...
by Robert Browning, Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2009
When Robert Browning first met the ailing Elizabeth Barrett in 1845 it must have seemed to him like something from a gothic novel. All but a prisoner to her strict, disciplinarian father, (who had forbidden all twelve of his children from marrying and disinherited any who disobeyed him), Elizabeth had...
100 Essays I Don't Have Time to Write
On Umbrellas and Sword Fights, Parades and Dogs, Fire Alarms, Children, and Theater
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2014
Sarah Ruhl is a mother of three and one of America's best-known playwrights. She has written a stunningly original book of essays whose concerns range from the most minimal and personal subjects to the most encompassing matters of art and culture. The titles themselves speak to the volume's uniqueness:...
by E. B White
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2014
The classic collection by one of the greatest essayists of our time.
Selected by E.B. White himself, the essays in this volume span a lifetime of writing and a body of work without peer. "I have chosen the ones that have amused me in the rereading," he writes in the Foreword, "alone...