Literary Essays
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Swimming Sydney: A tale of 52 swims
Chris BakerCurrent price €19.54Original price €22.99Swimming Sydney is a tale of 52 swims in and around Sydney that take place over a calendar year. From Palm Beach to Cronulla, Mount Druitt to Bondi...
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A Short History of Russian Literature (Classic Reprint)
Serge TomkeyeffCurrent price €24.75Original price €27.50Current price €24.75Original price €27.50Save 10% -
The Svetlana Boym Reader
Svetlana BoymCurrent price €41.39Original price €45.99Svetlana Boym was a prolific writer, a charismatic professor, a novelist, and a public intellectual. She was also a fiercely resourceful and reflec...
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Black Folk Could Fly: Selected Writings by Randall Kenan
Randall KenanCurrent price €23.38Original price €27.50Virtuosic in his use of literary forms, nurtured and unbounded by his identities as a Black man, a gay man, an intellectual, and a Southerner, Rand...
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The Fran Lebowitz Reader: The Sunday Times Bestseller
Fran LebowitzCurrent price €14.88Original price €17.50Contrary to what many of you might imagine, a career in letters is not without its drawbacks - chief among them the unpleasant fact that one is fre...
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Pedagogy of the Depressed
Dr. Christopher SchabergCurrent price €19.79Original price €21.99This book is one English professors assessment of university life in the early 21st century. From rising mental health concerns and trigger warning...
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Decline of the English Murder: and Raffles and Miss Blandish
George OrwellCurrent price €9.34Original price €10.99Your pipe is drawing sweetly, the sofa cushions are soft underneath you, the fire is well alight, the air is warm and stagnant. In these blissful c...
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The Little Book of Nature Blessings: Myths, Rituals and Practices for Finding Calm in the Natural World
Teresa DellbridgeCurrent price €15.73Original price €18.50Many people in todays world feel ungrounded, adrift in an environment fraught with pressure but often devoid of meaning. Smart phones, social medi...
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A Room of Ones Own
Virginia WoolfCurrent price €17.99Original price €19.99A Contemporary Classics hardcover edition of Virginia Woolfs classic plea for aworld in which women are free to use their gifts. In this influentia...
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Friedrich Dürrenmatt: Selected Writings, Volume 3, Essays: Volume 3
Friedrich DürrenmattCurrent price €23.85Original price €26.50These translations of Friedrich Dürrenmatts essays introduce the writer to a new generation of readers. The Swiss writer Friedrich Dürrenmatt (1921...
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Countries That Dont Exist: Selected Nonfiction
Sigizmund KrzhizhanovskyCurrent price €19.79Original price €21.99Almost unknown during his lifetime, Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky is now hailed as a master of Russian prose. His short stories and novels, unpublishabl...
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Dear Friend, You Must Change Your Life'': The Letters of Great Thinkers
Bloomsbury Publishing PLCCurrent price €26.99Original price €29.99In Dear Friend, you must change your life, we see some of the most fascinating thinkers in history at their most private and profound, reaching out...
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Ambition: An Essay on the Burning Desire to Rise
Professor Eckart GoebelCurrent price €24.75Original price €27.50We describe people who are consumed or devoured by ambition as if by a predator or an out-of-control inferno. Thinkers since deepest antiquity h...
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The Svetlana Boym Reader
Svetlana BoymCurrent price €138.59Original price €153.99Svetlana Boym was a prolific writer, a charismatic professor, a novelist, and a public intellectual. She was also a fiercely resourceful and reflec...
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The Art of Astonishment: Reflections on Gifts and Grace
Professor or Dr. Alice BrittanCurrent price €25.65Original price €28.50First Place Winner in Non-Fiction from the 2023 Next Generation Indie Book Awards Part literary history, part personal memoir, Alice Brittan's bea...
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Gastro-modernism: Food, Literature, Culture
Clemson University Digital PressCurrent price €110.69Original price €122.99Current price €110.69Original price €122.99Save 10% -
Take My Name But Say It Slow: Essays
Thomas DaiCurrent price €24.23Original price €28.50Thomas Dai has never gone by his Chinese name, Nuocheng, fashioned from the Knoxville (Chinese: Nuokeshiweier) of his childhood and the Chengdu his...
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Scouting for Boys: A Handbook for Instruction in Good Citizenship
Robert Baden-PowellCurrent price €11.89Original price €13.99'A Scout is a Friend to all' An amalgam of imperial myth, borrowed tips on health and hygiene, and object lessons in woodcraft, the 1908 text of R...
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A Town Without Time: Gay Talese''s New York
Gay TaleseCurrent price €22.53Original price €26.50From legendary journalist Gay Talese, a collection of his greatest reporting on New York City.Along with Joan Didion, Norman Mailer, Tom Wolfe and ...
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Twenty-Two Impressions: notes from the Major Arcana
Jessica FriedmannCurrent price €15.73Original price €18.50A poetic new essay collection in which the symbols of the tarot brush up against life in a changing world. The Tarot de Marseille is a 16th-century...
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A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (Collins Classics)
Mary WollstonecraftCurrent price €4.46Original price €5.25Current price €4.46Original price €5.25Save 15% -
Voices and Visions: Essays on New Orleans''s Literary History
University Press of MississippiCurrent price €28.79Original price €31.99Contributions by Ruth R. Caillouet, Mary C. Carruth, Nancy Dixon, Kathleen Downes, Edward J. Dupuy, Shari Evans, Paul Fess, Carina Evans Hoffpauir,...
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Charles Darwin and Other English Thinkers: With Reference to Their Religious and Ethical Value (Classic Reprint)
S. Parkes CadmanCurrent price €29.25Original price €32.50Current price €29.25Original price €32.50Save 10% -
La petite fille de laine: et autres nouvelles
Marie Prouvot PicCurrent price €15.29Original price €16.99Current price €15.29Original price €16.99Save 10% -
Constant Reader: The New Yorker Columns 192728
Dorothy ParkerCurrent price €16.99Original price €19.99When, in 1927, Dorothy Parker became a book critic for the New Yorker, she was already a legendary wit, a much-quoted member of the Algonquin Round...
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Radio Plays: The Wasted Years; Crossing the River; The Prince of Africa; Writing Fiction; A Kind of Home: James Baldwin in Paris; Hotel Cristobel; A Long Way from Home; Dinner in the Village; Somew...
Caryl PhillipsCurrent price €28.79Original price €31.99Caryl Phillips is one of the most respected writers of his generation. An award-winning author best known for his fiction, essays and stage plays, ...
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The Contemporary Short Story: A Practical Manual (Classic Reprint)
Harry Torsey BakerCurrent price €28.79Original price €31.99Current price €28.79Original price €31.99Save 10% -
Engaging Torah: Modern Perspectives on the Hebrew Bible
Hebrew Union College PressU.S.Current price €29.25Original price €32.50In this volume of essays, eminent Jewish scholars from around the world present introductions to the different parts of the Bible for the wider pub...
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Muhammad Iqbal: Essays on the Reconstruction of Modern Muslim Thought
Edinburgh University PressCurrent price €32.85Original price €36.50Commonly known as the 'spiritual father of Pakistan', the philosophical and political ideas of Muhammad Iqbal shaped the face of Indian Muslim nati...
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Beckett Matters: Essays on Beckett''s Late Modernism
S.E. GontarskiCurrent price €93.59Original price €103.99Collects Stan Gontarski's finest essays on the work of Samuel Beckett over a forty-year periodRepresenting a profound engagement with the work of S...
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