The Essayes or Counsels Civil or Moral of Francis Bacon
$35.00 NZD
Category: Essays | Reading Level: very good
Eminent Victorians: The Illustrated Edition by Lytton Strachey
$15.00 NZD
Category: Essays | Reading Level: very good
An unparalleled manifesto for the modern biographer, Lytton Strachey's razor-sharp essays about four prominent Victorians brought him tremendous fame. However, the great pacifist's subjects did not fare as well. Strachey skewers the legends glorifying Florence Nightingale, educator Thomas Arnold, Cardin ...Show more
The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby by Tom Wolfe
$8.00 NZD
Category: Essays | Series: Picador Bks. | Reading Level: good
Tom Wolfe's debut collection of essays - a brilliant, form-bending dive into the future of America as it careenedthrough the 1960s In 1965, Tom Wolfe dropped like a bomb onto the American literary scene with his first book, The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby, an incandescent panorama of A ...Show more
Thoughts in a Dry Season - A Miscellany by Gerald Brenan
$12.00 NZD
Category: Essays | Reading Level: very good
The Friend - A Series of Essays, to Aid in the Formation of Fixed Principles in Politics, Morals and Religion, with Literary Amusements Interspersed by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
$14.00 NZD
Category: Essays | Series: Select Bibliographies Reprint Ser. | Reading Level: very good
The Norton Book of Personal Essays by Joseph Epstein (Editor)
$12.00 NZD
Category: Essays | Reading Level: good
Blending the profound and the buoyant, the traditional and the new, the expected and the surprising, The Norton Book of Personal Essays offers a basketful of delights sure to find a permanent place on readers' shelves. Mark Twain, Max Beerbohm, Virginia Woolf, Willa Cather, M. F. K. Fisher, F. Scott Fit ...Show more
And The Judges Said: Essays by James Kelman
$14.00 NZD
Category: Essays | Reading Level: very good
A wide-ranging volume of essays from the Booker Prize-winning author, dealing with matters literary, artistic, political and philosophical. Outlined are some of the influences that led Kelman to create literary art from music to Russian writers, from the steel industry to the Kurds in Turkey.
The Secret Life: Three True Stories by Andrew O'Hagan
$14.00 NZD
Category: Essays | Reading Level: very good
The slippery online ecosystem is the perfect breeding ground for identities: true, false, and in between. The Internet shorthand IRL-"in real life"-now seems naïve. We no longer question the reality of online experiences but the reality of selfhood in the digital age.In The Secret Life, the essayist and ...Show more
Body Parts : Essays on Life-Writing by Hermione Lee
$12.00 NZD
Category: Essays | Reading Level: very good
As readers, we seem to be increasingly fascinated by studies of individual lives. In this timely, unusual and exhilarating collection Hermione Lee is concerned in different ways with approaches to 'life-writing': the relation of biography to fiction and history; the exploration of writers' lives in conn ...Show more
Polaroids From the Dead by Douglas Coupland
$10.00 NZD
Category: Essays | Reading Level: good
Douglas Coupland takes his sparkling literary talent in a new direction with this crackling collection of takes on life and death in North America -- from his sweeping portrait of Grateful Dead culture to the deaths of Kurt Cobain, Marilyn Monroe and the middle class.For years, Coupland's razor-sharp in ...Show more