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
Alice Meynell 1947-1922 - Prose and Poetry Centenary Volume by Alice Meynell; Vita Sackville-West (introduction)
$20.00 NZD
Category: Essays | Reading Level: very good
The Shorter Strachey by Lytton Strachey; Michael Holroyd (Introduction by); Paul Levy (Introduction by)
$10.00 NZD
Category: Essays | Reading Level: very good
The Last Cigarette - The Smoking Diaries by Simon Gray
$12.00 NZD
Category: Essays | Reading Level: very good
Swift's Satires and Personal Writings by Jonathan Swift
$10.00 NZD
Category: Essays | Reading Level: 499
The Essential Mailer by Norman Mailer
$20.00 NZD
Category: Hardback fiction | Reading Level: very good
Love of the World - Essays by John McGahern
$14.00 NZD
Category: Essays | Reading Level: very good
John McGahern did not spread himself thinly as a writer. Nearly all of his creative energy went into what was central for him: the great novels and stories that are now part of the canon of Irish and world literature. Yet he spoke out when he felt he had something worth saying and his non-fiction writin ...Show more
The Journal Box by Elizabeth Smither
$14.00 NZD
Category: Essays | Reading Level: very good
This work comprises four journals kept at different times since 1975 by the poet Elizabeth Smither. It records a rich life of the mind and of feelings, discussing friends, events, literary and religious ideas, gardens, clothes and more.