Reflections in the Library: Selected Literary Essays 1926-1944 (Szerb Antal)(Paperback)

Reflections in the Library: Selected Literary Essays 1926-1944 (Szerb Antal)(Paperback)

Serious Noticing - Selected Essays (Wood James)(Paperback / softback)

The selected essays of James Wood - our greatest living literary critic and author of How Fiction Works'James Wood is a close reader of

Journey by Moonlight (Szerb Antal)(Paperback / softback)

Part of Alma Classics Evergreens series, Journey by Moonlight is here presented in a brilliant new translation by Peter V

Time, History, and Literature: Selected Essays of Erich Auerbach (Auerbach Erich)(Paperback)

Important essays from one of the giants of literary criticism, including a dozen published here in English for the first timeErich Auerbach (1892-1957), best known for his classic literary study Mimesis, is celebrated today as a founder of comparative literature, a forerunner of secular criticism,

Pendragon Legend (Szerb Antal (Author))(Paperback / softback)

At an end-of-the London season soiree, the young Hungarian scholar-dilettante Janos Batky is introduced to the Earl of Gwynedd, a reclusive eccentric who is the subject of strange rumours. Invited to the family seat, Pendragon Castle in North Wales, Batky receives a mysterious phone-call warning

Selected Literary Essays (Lewis C. S.)(Paperback)

This volume includes over twenty of C. S. Lewis's most important literary essays, written between 1932 and 1962. The topics discussed range from Chaucer to Kipling, from 'The Literary Impact of the Authorized Version' to 'Psycho-Analysis and Literary Criticism, ' from Shakespeare and Bunyan to Sir

Black Lotus (K'Wan)(Paperback)

Selected for the Library Services for Youth in Custody 2015 In The Margins List One of Library Journal's Best African American Fiction Books of 2014 A] heart-thumping thriller...K'wan does a masterful job of keeping readers on their toes right up to the very last page.--Publishers Weekly Fans

Instructions for British Servicemen in France, 1944 (Bodleian Library)(Pevná vazba)

In 1944 the British War Office distributed a handbook to British soldiers informing them what to expect and how to behave in a newly-liberated France. This book is an irresistible insight into British attitudes towards the French and an interesting, timeless commentary on Anglo-French

Selected Essays (Eliot T. S.)(Paperback / softback)

In this magisterial volume, first published in 1932, Eliot gathered his choice of the miscellaneous reviews and literary essays he had written since 1917 when he became assistant editor of The

Selected Essays, 1934-1943 (Weil Simone)(Paperback)

Introducing the Selected Works of Simone Weil Weil's many essays written over her short life cover a very wide range of topics. This important collection contains several that have been long unavailable. There is deep integrity in this diverse collection. Many are directed to social and political

The Cambridge Companion to Queer Studies (Somerville Siobhan B.)(Paperback)

This Companion provides a guide to queer inquiry in literary and cultural studies. The essays represent new and emerging areas, including transgender studies, indigenous studies, disability studies, queer of color critique, performance studies, and studies of digital culture. Rather than being

Selected Essays (Hume David)(Paperback)

In his writings, David Hume set out to bridge the gap between the learned world of the academy and the marketplace of polite society. This collection, drawing largely on his Essays Mortal, Political, and Literary (1776 edition), comprehensively shows how far he succeeded. As seen in these

Remake the World: Essays, Reflections, Rebellions (Taylor Astra)(Paperback)

An incisive collection of essays from an author who is consistently ahead of the

Inner Workings - Literary Essays 2000-2005 (Coetzee J.M.)(Paperback / softback)

A collection of the author's literary essays from 2000 to 2005. It discusses writers such as Italo Svevo, Joseph Roth, Bruno Schulz, Sandor Marai who lived through the Austro-Hungarian fin de siecle and felt the influence of Schopenhauer, Nietzsche and

Deliberate Prose: Selected Essays 1952-1995 (Ginsberg Allen)(Paperback)

Whether criticizing the American government, protesting the war in Vietnam, or denouncing capitalism, Ginsberg gave voice to the moral conscience of the nation. His personal essays on Jean Genet, Andy Warhol, Philip Glass, and others, give us compelling portraits of his fellow artists. And his

Selected Essays (Johnson Samuel)(Paperback / softback)

This volume contains a generous selection from the essays Johnson published twice weekly as 'The Rambler' in the early 1750s. It was here that he first created the literary character and forged the distinctive prose style that established him as a public figure. Also included here is the best of

The Best American Essays 2020 (Aciman Andr)(Paperback)

A collection of the year's best essays selected by Andr Aciman, author of the worldwide bestseller Call Me by Your

The Criminal Child: Selected Essays (Genet Jean)(Paperback)

The Criminal Child offers the first English translation of a key early work by Jean Genet. In 1949, in the midst of a national debate about improving the French reform-school system, a French radio station commissioned Genet to write about his experience as a juvenile delinquent. He sent back a

Reflections on Liszt (Walker Alan)(Paperback)

In a series of lively essays that tell us much not only about the phenomenon that was Franz Liszt but also about the musical and cultural life of nineteenth-century Europe, Alan Walker muses on aspects of Liszt's life and work that he was unable to explore in his acclaimed three-volume biography of

Ragtime (Doctorow E. L.)(Paperback)

Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all time Published in 1975, Ragtime changed our very concept of what a novel could be. An extraordinary tapestry, Ragtime captures the spirit of America in the era between the turn of the century and the First World War. The story

Maximus the Confessor: Selected Writings (Berthold George C.)(Paperback)

'indispensable for most libraries.' Library Journal Maximus the Confessor: Selected Writings translation and notes by George C. Berthold introduction by Jaroslav Pelikan preface by Ir n e-Henri Dalmais, O.P. 'The perfect mind is the one that through genuine faith knows in supreme ignorance the

Essays (Montaigne Michel)(Paperback)

Reflections by the creator of the essay form display the humane, skeptical, humorous, and honest views of Montaigne, revealing his thoughts on sexuality, religion, cannibals, intellectuals, and other unexpected themes. Included are such celebrated works as 'On Solitude,' 'To Philosophize Is to

The Best American Essays 2021 (Atwan Robert)(Paperback)

A collection of the year's best essays, selected by award-winning journalist and New Yorker staff writer Kathryn Schulz 'A warm, witty, and welcome presence who confides in her readers' (Daniel Gilbert), TheNew Yorker's Kathryn Schulz selects twenty essays out of thousands that represent the best

Selected Political Writings - The Great Moving Right Show and Other Essays(Paperback / softback)