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This quiet dust: and other writings
eBook. English.
Published
London: Vintage, 2000
In This Quiet Dust, William Styron addresses great moral issues with passion and precision. He covers the dark side of the American and European dream...
Johnny Panic and the bible of dreams, and other prose writings
eBook. English.
Published
London: Faber, 2013
This edition contains the 13 stories included in the first, together with five pieces of Plath's journalism as well as a few fragments from her journal...
Coventry
eBook. English.
Published
London: Faber & Faber, 2019
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After the publication of Outline, Transit and Kudos - in which Rachel Cusk redrew the boundaries of fiction - this writer of uncommon brilliance returns...
Against interpretation and other essays
eBook. English.
Published
London: Penguin Books, 2009
This is a selection from Sontag's early writings about the arts and contemporary culture. As well as the title essay, 'On Style and Notes on Camp', the...
The life of images: selected prose
eBook. English.
Published
New York: Ecco, 2015. 2015
"Decades after immigrating to the States in 1954, [Simic] retains an outsider's perspective: inquisitive, incredulous, amazed by the apparently ordinary...
Borges and mathematics: lectures at Malba
Paperback. English.
Published
West Lafayette, IN: Purdue University Press, 2012
<p><em>Borges and Mathematics</em> is a short book of essays that explores the scientific thinking of the Argentine writer Jorge Luis...
The essential Goethe
eBook. English.
Published
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2018
This is a comprehensive and representative one-volume collection of Goethe's writings, providing English-language readers easier access than ever before...
How fiction works
eBook. English.
Published
London: Vintage, 2009
In the tradition of E.M. Forster's 'Aspects of the Novel' and Milan Kundera's 'The Art of the Novel', 'How Fiction Works' is a scintillating and searching...
Mystery & manners: occasional prose
eBook. English.
Published
London: Faber and Faber, 2014
At her death in 1964, O'Connor left behind a body of unpublished essays and lectures as well as a number of critical articles that had appeared in scattered...
Understanding a photograph
eBook. English.
Published
London: Penguin Books, 2013
John Berger's writings on photography are some of the most original of the twentieth century. This selection contains many groundbreaking essays and previously...
