Collections Littéraires / Essais

The Universal Vampire: Origins and Evolution of a Legend

de Barbara Brodman & James E. Doan

This book presents the vampire as a truly international phenomenon, not restricted to the original folk character, the literary vampire (such as Dracula), or 20^th and 21st-century film versions. Instead, we...

A Handful of Mischief: New Essays on Evelyn Waugh

de Donat Gallagher, Ann Pasternak Slater & John Howard Wilson

A Handful of Mischief: New Essays on Evelyn Waugh is a collection of essays based on presentations at the Evelyn Waugh Centenary Conference at Hertford College, Oxford in 2003. There are twelve different essays...

Tretower to Clyro: Essays

de Karl Miller & Andrew O'Hagan

Karl Miller is one of the greatest literary critics of the last fifty years, the founder of the London Review of Books and Lord Northcliffe Professor of Modern English Literature at University College, London....

Beauty and the Inferno

de Roberto Saviano

Roberto Saviano is best known for his work on the Italian mafia, but Beauty and the Inferno, winner of the European Book Award 2010, also tackles universal themes with great insight and humanity, with urgency,...

Bulletproof Diva

de Lisa Jones

In Bulletproof Diva, Lisa  Jones brings the wit and candor of her infamous  Village Voice column, "Skin Trade,"  to a much larger audience. Chock full of the  "fierce black girl humor" that has made...

A Day at the Beach: Recollections

de Geoffrey Wolff

With these interwoven autobiographical essays, Geoffrey Wolff, author of the acclaimed The Duke of Deception, recounts the moral (and immoral) education of a writer, friend, husband, and father, as he offers...

Richard Brinsley Sheridan: The Impresario in Political and Cultural Context

de Jack DeRochi & Daniel Ennis

This collection reinvigorates Sheridan studies by presenting his spectacular life and extraordinary works in the intricate political, social, and cultural context of Georgian London. The author of The Rivals,...

Pushkin's Children: Writing on Russia and Russians

de Tatyana Tolstaya, Jamey Gambrell & Alma Guillermoprieto

These twenty pieces address the politics, culture, and literature of Russia with both flair and erudition. Passionate and opinionated, often funny, and using ample material from daily life to underline their...

Portrait Inside My Head: Essays

de Phillip Lopate

In this stunning new collection of personal essays, distinguished author Phillip Lopate weaves together the colorful threads of a life well lived and brings us on an invigorating and thoughtful journey through...

Studies in Ephemera: Text and Image in Eighteenth-Century Print

de Kevin Murphy & Sally O'Driscoll

The book offers new perspectives on works that were central to the visual and literary culture of the Anglo-American world—ephemeral print—but which have received little scholarly attention in the past.

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The Education of a British-Protected Child: Essays

de Chinua Achebe

From the celebrated author of Things Fall Apart comes a new collection of autobiographical essays—his first new book in more than twenty years.

Chinua Achebe’s characteristically eloquent and nuanced voice...

Vermeer in Bosnia: Selected Writings

de Lawrence Weschler

From the master chronicler of the marvelous and the confounding–author of Mr. Wilson’s Cabinet of Wonder–here is a much-anticipated new collection of more than twenty pieces from the past two decades,...

An Essay Concerning Human Understanding

de , John Locke

John Locke is widely regarded as the father of classical liberalism. This essay was groundbreaking in its approach to foundation of human knowledge and understanding, he describes the mind at birth as a blank...

I Left My Heart in Shanghi, Alabama

de Carroll Dale Short

After Dale Short moved away (reluctantly) from his hometown of Shanghi [sic] in Walker County, Alabama, he wrote home every week -- by means of a newspaper column in The Daily Mountain Eagle, where he held his...

Dogs Bark, but the Caravan Rolls On: Observations Then and Now

de Frank Conroy

For thirty years, Frank Conroy's commentaries on life, music, and writing have appeared regularly in the New York Times Magazine, Harper's Magazine, Esquire, and GQ. DOGS BARK, BUT THE CARAVAN ROLLS ON collects...

Hugging the Shore: Essays and Criticism

de John Updike

WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD

“Writing criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging the shore is to sailing in the open sea,” writes John Updike in his Foreword to this collection...

Picked-Up Pieces: Essays

de John Updike

In John Updike’s second collection of assorted prose he comes into his own as a book reviewer; most of the pieces picked up here were first published in The New Yorker in the 1960s and early ’70s. If one...

Six Memos for the Next Millennium

de Italo Calvino

Six Memos for the Millennium is a collection of five lectures Italo Calvino was about to deliver at the time of his death. Here is his legacy to us: the universal values he pinpoints become the watchwords for...

Careless at Work: Selected Canadian historical studies

de J.M.S. Careless

This sampling of the work of J.M.S. Careless in the area of Canadian historical studies was selected by the eminent scholar himself, and represents much of his finest work. The collection spans the years from...

The Weight of Compassion: and Other Essays

de Eoin O'Brien

THERE ARE MANY facets to Samuel Beckett’s writing – humour, despair, love, poignancy, suffering – but for me there is one dominant characteristic, compassion, compassion for the human condition of existence.’...