The Oxford book of essays
This collection of 140 essays by 120 writers features classics, curiosities, meditations, diversions, old favorites, and recent examples.
A collection of more than 150 selected essays by Francis Bacon, Jonathan Swift, John Updike, Clive James, and other authors.
The Oxford book of essays
This collection of 140 essays by 120 writers features classics, curiosities, meditations, diversions, old favorites, and recent examples.
A generous and varied selection-the only hardcover edition available-of the literary and political writings of one of the greatest essayists of the twentieth century. Though best known as the author of Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell left an even more lasting…
Christopher Hitchens was an unparalleled, prolific writer, who raised the polemical essay to a new art form, over a lifetime of thinking and debating the defining issues of our times. As an essayist he contributed to the New Statesman, Atlantic Monthly, London Review of Books, T…
"These seminal, uncollected essays by the late Christopher Hitchens showcase the notorious contrarian's genius for rhetoric, and offer sharp rebukes to tyrants and the ill-informed everywhere. Christopher Hitchens was arguably the most erudite, provocative, and polarizing writer…
Loose cannons: selected prose
by Sanchez, Lila, Middleton, Christopher, Kleinzahler, August, Trussell, Philip
fromRecencies
Loose cannons: selected prose
by Sanchez, Lila, Middleton, Christopher, Kleinzahler, August, Trussell, Philip
fromRecencies
Like his poetry, Middleton's prose pieces are alive with incongruity, collage, and surprising juxtapositions.
Like his poetry, Middleton's prose pieces are alive with incongruity, collage, and surprising juxtapositions.
This volume brings together sixteen essays on British, Irish and American poets from the late nineteenth century to the present day. It offers a series of entertaining and compelling readings of the lives and works of Gerard Manley Hopkins, W.B. Yeats, Edward Thomas, T.S. Eliot,…
50 essays: a portable anthology
"50 Essays: A Portable Anthology is a bestselling value-priced reader because its virtues don't stop at the price. The book's carefully chosen selections engage students and include both classic essays and high-interest, contemporary readings. The editorial apparatus is flexible…