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In this collection of moving, amusing, probing, and uncommon dialogues, Mailer establishes his own system of belief, one that rejects both organized religion and atheism and presents instead a view of the world as one created by an artistic God.

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A collection of essays, that casts a reflective eye on the author's experiences of early life in Russia and exile in America. With erudition, it explores subjects as varied as the dynamic of poetry, the nature of history and the plight of the emigre writer. It also includes a disastrous trip to Brazil, advice to students, and more.

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In 1894 Laura Ingalls Wilder, with her husband and young daughter, left the drought-stricken farm in South Dakota and travelled to a new farm and a new beginning in the Ozarks. In this diary, Laura describes that trip, the towns passed and the people they met along the way.

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#1 SEATTLE TIMES BESTSELLER

A playful and moving book of essays by a "born storyteller" (Seattle Times) who invites us into the miraculous and transcendent moments of the everyday

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Classic collection of Walter Benjamin's essay, including some of his most celebrated essays

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From beloved and bestselling author Roxane Gay, 'a strikingly fresh cultural critic' (Washington Post) comes an exhilarating collection of her essays on culture, politics, and everything in between.

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A reissue of the only selection of Oscar Wilde's epigrams produced in his lifetime.

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Other Colours is a collection of the best pieces from twenty years of writing from Orhan Pamuk, the winner of the 2006 Nobel Prize in Literature.

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Volume 20 of The Complete Works of George Orwell

In 'Reflections on Gandhi', published in January 1949, in which he modified the strictures made in a previous review, Orwell wrote, 'our job is to make life worth living on this earth, which is the only earth we have'.

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In this essay Alice Walker eloquently calls attention to ignores justices around the world.

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A collection of articles written by Stephen Fry for magazines, newspapers and radio, includes selected wireless essays of Donald Trefusis, the ageing professor of philology brought to life in Fry's novel "The Liar" and the best of Fry's weekly column for the "Daily Telegraph".

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Here he worked alongside the French model who became his wife and collaborator, including on the Delphos dress a flowing gown evoking classical Greece.

Morriss Red House, outside London, with its Gothic turrets and secret gardens, helped inspire his stunning floral and geometric patterns;

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Italy's famous sights are all to be found here - St Peter's in Rome, Naples with Vesuvius smouldering in the background and canals of Venice. In this book, the author portrays a nation of great contrasts: between grandiose buildings and squalid poverty, and between past and present, as he observes everyday life beside ancient monuments.

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Famed as a wit and bon viveur, Oscar Wilde lived up to his reputation. This selection of plays, poems and prose writings, introduced by Terry Eagleton, includes "The Importance of Being Earnest", "Lady Windermere's Fan", "The Picture of Dorian Gray", "The Critic as an Artist" and "Apologia".

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This is a selection of the poet's work, including all the great lyrics and the more important prophetic books. In her introduction the poet and critic expounds Blake's esoteric theory and shows how it helped to create a poetry which is unlike any other.

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Eclectic and illuminating, these essays are the last that Maugham published. Ranging from an appreciation of Goethe's novels, to an encounter with an Indian holy man, with a considered analysis of the form at which Maugham himself excelled - the short story - they present the enduring views and opinions of this eminent writer.

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Includes all issues such as political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia. This title offers an essay on style.

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This is a translation of one of the most important texts in the native languages of the Americas, "Popol Vuh: The Mayan Book of the Dawn of Life". This edition features with newly deciphered hieroglyphics that show the deep roots of the "Popol Vuh" in Mayan culture.

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Influencing Darwin, Tennyson and Dickens among others, Lyell's "Principles" was an ambitious attempt to forge links between observable causes - volcanoes, earthquakes, rivers, tides and storms - and the current state of the earth. This edition has an introduction by Jim Secord.