Cultural Amnesia: Notes in the Margin of My Time

By Clive James(Paperback)

Clive James's take on the twentieth century - in paperback for the first time.

Heart of the City: Nine Stories of Love and Serendipity on the Streets of New York

By Ariel Sabar(Paperback / softback)

From the NBCC Award-winning author of "My Father's Paradise" a book of true stories about ordinary people brought together by the strange romantic workings of New York's landscape

Besieged: Life Under Fire on a Sarajevo Street

By Barbara Demick(Paperback)

Twenty years after the siege of Sarajevo, BBC Samuel Johnson Prize winner Barbara Demick. revisits her compelling account of living in a city under fire.

When I Am Playing with My Cat, How Do I Know That She Is Not Playing with Me?: Montaigne and Being in Touch with Life

By Saul Frampton(Paperback / softback)

"When I dance, I dance; when I sleep, I sleep. And when Iam walking alone in a beautiful orchard, if my thoughtsare sometimes preoccupied elsewhere, the rest of the time Ibring them back to the walk, to the orchard, to the sweetnessof this solitude, and to me."--"Montaigne" In the year 1570, ""at the age of thirty-seven, Michel de Montaigne gave....

The Expo Files

By Stieg Larsson(Paperback)

Another side of Stieg Larsson - incisive articles and texts by the author of the Millennium Trilogy.

The Grand Array

By Pattiann Rogers(Paperback / softback)

"The Grand Array"is a stunning collection of 18 essays by widely published and highly acclaimed poet Pattiann Rogers. Written over a span of 25 years, these essays show Rogers daringly yet delicately laying out her vision of the essential unity and interdependence of science, spirituality, the arts, and the sensual experience of the physical world. Composed in an anecdotal and....

When I Was a Child I Read Books

By Marilynne Robinson(Hardback)

* From the author of the magnificent, award-winning novels GILEAD and HOME comes this, a collection of wonderful, heart-warming essays about reading

I Am a Beautiful Monster: Poetry, Prose, and Provocation

(Paperback)

Poet, painter, self-described funny guy, idiot, failure, pickpocket, and anti-artist par excellence, Francis Picabia was a defining figure in the Dada movement; indeed, Andre Breton called Picabia one of the only "true" Dadas. Yet very little of Picabia's poetry and prose has been translated into English, and his literary experiments have never been the subject of close critical study. ....

Essayists on the Essay: Montaigne to Our Time

(Paperback / softback)

The first historically and internationally comprehensive collection of its kind, "Essayists on the Essay" is a path-breaking work that is nothing less than a richly varied sourcebook for anyone interested in the theory, practice, and art of the essay. This unique work includes a selection of fifty distinctive pieces by American, Canadian, English, European, and South American essayists from Montaigne....

Out of Sheer Rage

By Geoff Dyer & Dyer, Geoff(Paperback)

Zona: A Book About a Film About a Journey to a Room

By Dyer, Geoff & Geoff Dyer(Hardback)

The Norton Reader: An Anthology of Nonfiction

By Linda H. Peterson & Melissa A Goldthwaite(Paperback / softback)

The Norton Reader has introduced millions of writing students to the essay as a genre. First published in 1965, it is still the best-selling thematic reader and the only thematic reader that also supports a genre-based approach. The Thirteenth Edition introduces a new generation of editors, almost 50 new essays, and a unique new website that allows readers to sort....

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International Faust Studies: Adaptation, Reception, Translation

(Paperback / softback)

A collection of essays by leading scholars presenting international perspectives on adaptation, reception and translation of the Faust theme in literature, theatre and music.

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In An Antique Land

By Amitav Ghosh(Paperback)

From the best-selling author of The Glass Palace and Sea of Poppies, an extraordinary work of non-fiction that combines ancient history with a modern-day travelogue.

Conjunctions: 57, Kin

(Paperback / softback)

Nothing is more familiar, nothing more ineffable than the emotional prism, the blood knot that constitutes family. We can try to leave them, they can disinherit us, but there is no dispelling DNA, no true exile from that which binds us with our kin. In "Conjunctions: 57, Kin," more than two dozen contributors, including Rick Moody, Karen Russell and Jonathan....

F.Scott Fitzgerald

By Michael K. Glenday(Hardback)

This study of F. Scott Fitzgerald offers new readings of novels such as The Great Gatsby, Tender is the Night and The Last Tycoon. It is an essential introduction to Fitzgerald's fiction, both for first-time readers and for those aware of his reputation as one of twentieth-century America's most representative writers.

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F.Scott Fitzgerald

By Michael K. Glenday(Paperback)

This study of F. Scott Fitzgerald offers new readings of novels such as The Great Gatsby, Tender is the Night and The Last Tycoon. It is an essential introduction to Fitzgerald's fiction, both for first-time readers and for those aware of his reputation as one of twentieth-century America's most representative writers.

Orwell Periodista: Articulos y Resenas En El Observer 1942-1949

By George Orwell(Paperback / softback)

George Orwell began writing regularly for the "Observer" in 1942, and this compilation collects his writings from the ensuing eight years. Whether reporting on the home front and sending in dispatches from North Africa or chronicling the Allied victory in 1945 and keenly examining the future of a defeated Germany, Orwell's sharp insight and ability to analyze events both on....

Introduction and Notes from the "Magnum Opus" Edition of 1829-33

By Sir Walter Scott(Hardback)

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For Love Alone

By Christina Stead(Paperback)

Set in Sydney and London in the 1930s, 'For Love Alone' is the story of Teresa Hawkins, an intelligent, ardent young woman, and her search for the ideal passion of love. She attempts to engage the feelings of the unworthy Jonathan Crow, an intellectual young man and advocate of free love, and follows him to London after four years of....