Literary essays

'A brave writer whose books open up fundamental questions about life and art' - TelegraphIn this inspiring collection of essays, acclaimed writer and critic Olivia Laing makes a vivid and politically-engaged case for the importance of art - especially in the turbulent weather of the twenty-first century.

Renowned for his Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy and Reflections on History, Jacob Burckhardt (1818-1897) has well been described as "e;the most civilized historian of the nineteenth century.

The early political culture of the American republic was so deeply influenced by the religious consciousness of the New England preachers that it was often through the political sermon that the political rhetoric of the period was formed, refined, and transmitted.

Nobody Better, Better Than Nobody is a collection of five extended essays that appeared in The New Yorker from 1978 to 1986.

'The story of a disease that plunged its victims into a prison of viscous time, and the drug that catapulted them out of it' - Guardian Hailed as a medical classic, and the subject of a major feature film as well as radio and stage plays and various TV documentaries, Awakenings by Oliver Sacks is the extraordinary account of a group of twenty patients.

This famed Payne edition of Select Works of Edmund Burke is universally revered by students of English history and political thought.

Dispatches from the front lines of American culture by the great humoristIan Frazier, "e;America's greatest essayist"e; (Los Angeles Times), has gathered his insights on the most urgent issues of today in Cranial Fracking.

*Shortlisted for the Rathbones Folio Prize 2020**Winner of non-fiction book of the year at the Irish Book Awards*An extraordinarily intimate book of essays that chart the experiences that have made Sinead Gleeson the woman and the writer she is today, for readers of The Last Act of Love and I Am, I Am, I Am.

This famed Payne edition of Select Works of Edmund Burke is universally revered by students of English history and political thought.

Calhoun's most important constitutional and political writings are now available as complete, unabriEAed texts and in a single volume, many for the first time since the 1850s.

Originally published by Oxford University Press in the 1890s, the famed three-volume Payne edition of Select Works is universally revered by students of English history and political thought.

For much of Europe the seventeenth century was, as it has been termed, an "e;Age of Absolutism"e; in which single rulers held tremendous power.

A career-spanning collection of essays by Nobel laureate Peter Handke, featuring two new works never before published in EnglishQuiet Places brings together Peter Handke's forays into the border regions of life and story, upending the distinction between literature and the literary essay.

On September 13, 1998, John Scalzi sat down in front of his computer to write the first entry in his blog Whatever--and changed the history of the Internet as we know it today.

Divided into three books, Kames's Sketches of the History of Man draws together the concerns of many of his earlier works.

'Sacks is rightly renowned for his empathy .

Sir Henry Sumner Maine was one of the great intellects of the Victorian era.

A Boston Globe Best Nonfiction Book of 2011Celebrated as one of the most poignant stylists of his generation, Andre Aciman has written a luminous series of linked essays about time, place, identity, and art that show him at his very finest.

From the author of the international bestseller What I Loved, a provocative collection of autobiographical and critical essays about writing and writers.

The spirit of our times can appear to be one of joyless urgency.

Adam Smith was an eloquent man of considerable philosophical and historical learning.

It's Not About the Burqa is an anthology of frank and insightful essays by Muslim women about the contemporary Muslim female experience.

A unique love story and a classic work of philosophy, rooted in the mysterious workings of the human heart and mind.

One of NPR's Best Books of the Year A DEBUT COLLECTION OF FIERCE, FUNNY ESSAYS ABOUT GROWING UP THE DAUGHTER OF INDIAN IMMIGRANTS IN WESTERN CULTURE, ADDRESSING SEXISM, STEREOTYPES, AND THE UNIVERSAL MISERIES OF LIFEIn One Day We'll All Be Dead and None of This Will Matter, Scaachi Koul deploys her razor-sharp humor to share all the fears, outrages, and mortifying moments of her life.

Two weeks before his death, Oliver Sacks outlined the contents of The River of Consciousness, the last book he would oversee .

Gershom Carmichael (1672-1729) was the first professor of moral philosophy at the University of Glasgow, preceding Hutcheson, Smith, and Reid.

Uncle Tungsten radiates all the delight and wonder of a boy's adventures, and is an unforgettable portrait of an extraordinary young mind.

In his volume of critical essays The Government of the Tongue, Seamus Heaney scrutinizes the poetry of many masterful poets.

'Seeing Voices is both a history of the deaf and an account of the development of an extraordinary and expressive language' - Evening Standard Imaginative and insightful, Seeing Voices by Oliver Sacks offers a way into a world that is, for many people, alien and unfamiliar - for to be profoundly deaf is not just to live in a world of silence, but also to live in a world where the visual is paramount.

This famed Payne edition of Select Works of Edmund Burke is universally revered by students of English history and political thought.

This edition contains the thirty-nine essays included in Essays, Moral, Political, and Literary that made up Volume I of the 1777 posthumous Essays and Treatises on Several Subjects.

A collection of essays on books and why they matter by the Pulitzer Prize-winning writer of THE AMAZING ADVENTURES OF KAVALIER & CLAY and WONDER BOYS.

'Locked-in syndrome: paralysed from head to toe, the patient, his mind intact, is imprisoned inside his own body, unable to speak or move.

Tolkien's famous translations and lectures on the story of two fifth-century heroes in northern Europe.

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