Times Like These — On Grief, Hope & Remarkable Love by Michelle Langstone
$14.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Literature | Reading Level: very good
A stunning collection of moving and beautifully written personal essays from Michelle Langstone. 'These essays about love, loss, and memories of night voyages with her dad glow from within, like phosphorescence on the sea. Just what we need in times like these.' - Diana Wichtel 'Evocative, lyrical, surp ...Show more
Northrop Frye on Culture and Literature - A Collection of Review Essays by Northrop Frye; Robert D. Denham (Introduction by)
$10.00 NZD
Category: Literature | Reading Level: good-very good
Who Wants to Create Australia - Essays on poetry and ideas in contemporary Australia by Martin Harrison
$10.00 NZD
Category: Essays | Reading Level: good
Agamemnon's Kiss - Selected Essays by Inga Clendinnen
$10.00 NZD
Category: Essays | Reading Level: good
Inga Clendinnen writes about everything from the books that terrified her as a child to what history can teach us about ourselves and our own times. She describes visits to the beach and to a museum dedicated to the Holocaust. She recounts the experience of falling ill and the prospect of death; and abo ...Show more
The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table by Oliver Wendel Holmes
$15.00 NZD
Category: Essays | Reading Level: very good
Walter Pater - Miscellaneous Studies - A Series of Essays by Walter Pater
$15.00 NZD
Category: Essays | Reading Level: good-very good
Advancement of Learning/Novum Organum/New Atlantis by Francis Bacon
$12.00 NZD
Category: Essays | Series: Great Books of The Western World 30 | Reading Level: very good
The Purple Decades by Tom Wolfe
$15.00 NZD
Category: Essays | Reading Level: good-very good
Before he became a best-selling novelist (The Bonfire of the Vanities), Tom Wolfe was an essayist and keen observer of 1960s and 1970s culture for Esquire and Rolling Stone. (This is the man who coined the phrase Me Decade, after all.) This ear-candy collection of 20 essays and articles narrated by Edoa ...Show more
The Moral and Historical Works of Lord Bacon including the essays apophthegms, wisdom of the ancients' New Atlantis, and Life of Henry the Seventh by Francis Bacon; Joseph Devey (notes etc)
$35.00 NZD
Category: Essays | Series: Bohn's Standard Library | Reading Level: good
Twilight of Love - Travels with Turgenev by Robert Dessaix
$8.00 NZD
Category: Essays
Robert Dessaix has had his own forty year relationship whith Turgenev and his work, first as a student of Russian, then as a tutor and now as an old friend. A truly remarkable work of memoir, literary biography and travel writing - a cultural and physical exploration - Dessiax has found the pulse that q ...Show more
Happy Alchemy - On the Pleasures of Music and the Theatre by Robertson Davies; Brenda Davies (Editor)
$16.00 NZD
Category: Essays | Reading Level: very good