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Wormholes: Essays and Occasional Writings by John Fowles
$20.00 NZD
Category: Essays | Reading Level: very good
The Burroughs File by William S. Burroughs
$14.00 NZD
Category: Essays | Reading Level: very good
Trenchant writings by that sardonic "hombre invisible," William Seward Burroughs, perpetrator ofNaked Lunch and other shockers. These malefic and beatific, mordant and hilarious straight-face reports on life are mostly from scatter-shot publications in obscure places, foreign and domestic. Including com ...Show more
A Writer's People: Ways of Seeing and Feeling by V. S. Naipaul
$10.00 NZD
Category: Essays | Reading Level: very good
The Nobel Prize winner writes candidly about cultural currents, ideas, experiences and the part they play in a life of writing. Over the course of his astonishing fifty-year career, V.S. Naipaul
Romulus or The Future of The Child by Robert T. Lewis
$8.00 NZD
Category: Essays | Series: Today and Tomorrow | Reading Level: very good
The Painted Kipper by Harman Grisewood
$12.00 NZD
Category: Essays | Series: The New Thinker's Library | Reading Level: very good
A Study of the Spurious in the Contemporary Scene
Eminent Victorians by Lytton Strachey
$12.00 NZD
Category: Essays | Series: The Pheonix Library | Reading Level: good
How to Cure a Fanatic by Amos Oz
$8.00 NZD
Category: Essays | Reading Level: very good
Internationally acclaimed novelist Amos Oz grew up in war-torn Jerusalem, where as a boy he witnessed firsthand the poisonous consequences of fanaticism. In two concise, powerful essays, the award-winning author offers unique insight into the true nature of extremism and proposes a reasoned and respectf ...Show more
On Beauty and Being Just by Elaine Scarry
$8.00 NZD
Category: Essays | Reading Level: good
Various political arguments have been put forward against beauty: that it distracts us from more important issues; that it is the handmaiden of privilege; that it masks political interests. In "On Beauty and Being Just" Elaine Scarry challenges such theories, offering not only a passionate defence of be ...Show more
Religio Medici and Other Writings by Sir Thomas Browne
$10.00 NZD
Category: Essays | Series: Everyman's Library No. 92 | Reading Level: very good
Pietà by George Klein
$16.00 NZD
Category: Essays | Reading Level: good-very good
As Albert Camus's famous dictum has it, the only truly important philosophical question is suicide, or whether or not life is worth living. Now, in Pieta, his latest collection of essays, George Klein--distinguished biologist, writer, Holocaust survivor, and humanist--faces this question head on, in a s ...Show more
Winter Pollen - Occasional Prose by Ted Hughes
$25.00 NZD
Category: Essays | Reading Level: very good
This volume contains writings by English poet Ted Hughes (1930-1998) that cover a period of over thirty years and include essays, book reviews, commissioned articles, prefaces, autobiographical reflections, and items never before published. He writes about Shakespeare, Keats, Coleridge, Isaac Bashevis S ...Show more
Letter to My Mother (Mini Modern Classics) by Georges Simenon
$2.00 NZD
Category: Essays | Series: Mini Modern Classics | Reading Level: near fine
As you are well aware, we never loved each other in your lifetime. Both of us pretended.' Simenon explores the complexity of parent child relationships and the bitterness of things left unsaid in this stark, confessional piece.