Literary Essays

Journey into the underworld through three thousand years of visions of hell, from the ancient Near East to modern AmericaFrom the Hebrew Bible's sh...

Christopher Lloyd has been writing a weekly column in Country Life since 1963 and, until now, this wealth of garden literature has been denied to a...

A brilliantly varied new selection of D. H. Lawrence''s essays, chosen and introduced by Geoff DyerFor D. H. Lawrence the novel was the pinnacle, '...

Wales may be small, but culturally it is richly varied. The aim in this collection of essays on a number of English-language authors from Wales is ...

New Critical gathers Roland Barthes''s essays on classic texts of French literature, works by La Rochefoucauld, Chateaubriand, Proust, Flaubert, Fr...

These selections from the esteemed career of Gottfried Benn?one of the most significant German poets of the 20th century?showcase his early, shocki...

This collection of Vera Brittain's poetry and prose, some of it never published before, commemorates the men she loved - fiancé, brother and two cl...

Meghan Daum is one of the most celebrated nonfiction writers of her generation, widely recognised for her fresh, provocative approach with which sh...

In Knitting Pearls, two-dozen writers write about the transformative and healing powers of knitting. Jodi Picoult remembers her grandmother and how...

In Knitting Pearls, two-dozen writers write about the transformative and healing powers of knitting. Jodi Picoult remembers her grandmother and how...

Oliver Sacks died in August 2015 at his home in Greenwich Village, surrounded by his close friends and family. He was 82. He spent his final days d...

Trees are guiding symbols for Yelizaveta P. Renfro in her life and in her work. Combining memoir and nature writing, this book comprises nine essay...

2016 Foreword Reviews Indies Award, Silver 2016 Association for Mormon Letters Award 2017 Independent Publisher Book Award, Gold This introspective...

As Europe faced its darkest days, Stefan Zweig was a passionate voice for tolerance, peace and a world without borders. In these moving, ardent ess...

The essays collected in this volume by Paul Guyer, one of the world's foremost Kant scholars, explore Kant's attempt to develop a morality grounded...

A New York Times article once stated that the art of the essay as delivered by [Sam] Pickering is the art of the front porch ramble. As Pickering h...

Half of What I Say is Meaningless is a series of memoirs, set by turns in Joseph Bathantis hometown of Pittsburgh as well as in his ultimate home i...

In 'The Decay of Lying' Oscar Wilde uses his decadent ideology in an attempt to reverse and therefore reject his audiences' 'normal' conceptualizat...

This first book of essays from Bob Winship provides the reader with an in-depth look a one of Texass finest writers.

'Thich Nhat Hanh's work has proven to be the antidote to our modern pain and sorrows' Ocean VuongFeelings come and go like clouds in a windy sky. C...

Reflections on the profound influence of poet, educator, and social activist Gwendolyn Brooks through examinations of her life and work. Poet, educ...