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By: Youngmi Mayer
ISBN: 9780316569231
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2025
UK Publication Date: 12th December 2024
Publisher: Little, Brown & Company
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From standup comedian Youngmi Mayer comes a gripping and unforgettable memoir interrogating whiteness, gender, and sexuality in America, navigating a tumultuous childhood in Korea and Saipan, and coming to terms with her parents' shortcomings, for fans of Hua Hsu, Rebecca Solnit, and Lindy West.
(Paperback, Main - Canons)
By: Hermann Hesse
ISBN: 9781786894458
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2019
UK Publication Date: 1st November 2018
Publisher: Canongate Books
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A collection of essays on the absurdity of war, from the Nobel Prize laureate.
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By: Salman Rushdie
ISBN: 9780099542254
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2010
UK Publication Date: 4th February 2010
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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Drawing from two political and several literary homelands, this collection presents a remarkable series of trenchant essays, demonstrating the full range and force of Salman Rushdie's remarkable imaginative and observational powers.
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By: Wendell Berry
ISBN: 9781582437064
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2011
Publisher: Counterpoint
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(Paperback)
By: Amitav Ghosh
ISBN: 9781847081940
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2012
UK Publication Date: 5th January 2012
Publisher: Granta Books
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From the bestselling author of The Glass Palace and Sea of Poppies, an extrarodinary work of non-fiction that combines ancient history with a modern day travelogue.
(Paperback)
By: Jenny Diski
ISBN: 9781408879948
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2017
UK Publication Date: 9th March 2017
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Paperback)
By: Adam Gopnik
ISBN: 9781786489241
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2019
UK Publication Date: 3rd October 2019
Publisher: Quercus Publishing
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A collection of witty, illuminating essays on life, art and family by the acclaimed author and New Yorker writer
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By: Jhumpa Lahiri
ISBN: 9781408866139
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2017
UK Publication Date: 9th February 2017
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Hardback)
By: Oscar Wilde
ISBN: 9781788730334
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2019
Publisher: Verso Books
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Works of Wilde's annus mirabilis of 1891 in one volume, with an introduction by renowned British playwright.
(Paperback, Main)
By: Katie Roiphe
ISBN: 9781782112082
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2013
UK Publication Date: 25th June 2013
Publisher: Canongate Books
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This powerful collection of essays ranges from pop culture to politics, from Hillary Clinton to Susan Sontag, from Facebook to Mad Men, from Joan Didion to David Foster Wallace to - most strikingly - the author's own life.
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By: Marcel Proust
ISBN: 9781841598970
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2001
UK Publication Date: 29th June 2001
Publisher: Everyman
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Scott Moncrieffs translation to take into account the new definitive French editions of la recherch du temps perdu (the final volume of these new editions was published by the Bibliothque de la Pliade in 1989).
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By: Marcel Proust
ISBN: 9781841598987
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2001
UK Publication Date: 29th June 2001
Publisher: Everyman
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In The Guermantes Way Proust's narrator recalls his initiation into the dazzling world of Parisian high society. Looking back over his time in the glamorous salons of the aristocracy, he satirises this shallow world and his own youthful infatuation with it.
(Hardback)
By: Marcel Proust
ISBN: 9781841598994
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2001
UK Publication Date: 29th June 2001
Publisher: Everyman
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Marcel continues his voyage of discovery through the homosexual world, where affairs of the ageing Baron de Charlus lead to unexpected and hilarious adventures.
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By: Alice Walker
ISBN: 9780753819609
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2006
UK Publication Date: 20th October 2005
Publisher: Orion Publishing Co
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The first collection of Alice Walker's non-fiction spanning fifteen years in the career of this remarkable writer.
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By: Ross Gay
ISBN: 9781399716017
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2024
UK Publication Date: 24th October 2023
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
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An intimate and electrifying collection of essays from the New York Times bestselling author of The Book of Delights.
(Hardback)
By: Ross Gay
ISBN: 9781399716291
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2023
UK Publication Date: 25th October 2022
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
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An intimate and electrifying collection of essays from the New York Times bestselling author of The Book of Delights.
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By: Rita Banerjee
ISBN: 9789354356995
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Sep 2022
Publisher: Bloomsbury India
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By: George Orwell
ISBN: 9781782276753
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2021
UK Publication Date: 7th January 2021
Publisher: Pushkin Press
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Unfailingly elegant and endlessly relevant, the four essays in this collection treat literature as a vital record of our political hypocrisies, our social failings, and the ennobling limits of our ideological aspirations.
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By: David Mamet
ISBN: 9780571201921
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2005
Publisher: Faber & Faber
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With the signature literary swagger that has made him the most original voice of American stage and screen, David Mamet's essays touch on his most intimate interests and obsessions.
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By: James Baldwin
ISBN: 9781883011529
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 1998
UK Publication Date: 1st February 1998
Publisher: The Library of America
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"Collected Essays" is the most comprehensive gathering of Baldwin's nonfiction ever published. The collection confirms his as a uniquely prophetic voice in American letters. Included are such famous essays as "The Harlem Ghetto", "Everybody's Protest Novel", Many Thousands Gone", and "Stranger in the Village".
(Hardback)
By: James Thurber
ISBN: 9781883011222
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Oct 1996
Publisher: The Library of America
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(Hardback)
By: Jean Stafford
ISBN: 9781598536829
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2021
Publisher: The Library of America
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(Paperback)
By: Stefan Zweig
ISBN: 9781782274759
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2019
UK Publication Date: 28th March 2019
Publisher: Pushkin Press
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A collection of the great writer's observations, made during his travels across the Europe he loved so much.
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By: Claire Messud
ISBN: 9780349726557
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2020
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
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A collection of personal and critical essays on everything from childhood to womanhood, literature to visual arts and the relationship between form and meaning in storytelling.
