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By: Tom Piazza
ISBN: 9780062008220
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2011
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Inc
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By: Geoffrey Martin
ISBN: 9780141439945
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2004
UK Publication Date: 30th October 2003
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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The Domesday Book was described by David Hume as "the most valuable piece of antiquity possessed by any nation". This text presents a complete translation of this extraordinary document.
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By: George Orwell
ISBN: 9780156262248
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 1972
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Inc
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From the author of 1984, the classic semi-autobiographical story about the adventures of a penniless British writer in two cities.
Down and Out in Paris and London follows the journey of a writer among the down-and-out in two great cities.
(Paperback)
By: Various
ISBN: 9781529344509
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2022
UK Publication Date: 1st September 2022
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
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A first-of-its-kind essay anthology that showcases the brightest East and Southeast Asian voices in Britain today, edited by Helena Lee, Acting Deputy Editor at Harper's Bazaar.
(Hardback)
By: Various
ISBN: 9781529344479
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2022
UK Publication Date: 20th January 2022
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
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A first-of-its-kind essay anthology that showcases the brightest East and Southeast Asian voices in Britain today, on a broad range of subjects, edited by Helena Lee, Acting Deputy Editor at Harper's Bazaar.
(Hardback)
By: Natalie Eve Garrett
ISBN: 9781936787791
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2019
UK Publication Date: 29th October 2019
Publisher: Catapult
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An illustrated anthology of essays about the comfort foodsand recipesthat helped writers survive painful times in their lives. With contributions from Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Anthony Doerr, Colum McCann, Lev Grossman, Carmen Maria Machado, Claire Messud, Maile Meloy, Alexander Chee, Edwidge Danticat, and many more
(Paperback)
By: Leifur Eiriksson
ISBN: 9780140447705
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2004
UK Publication Date: 30th September 2004
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Egil's Saga tells the story of the long and brutal life of tenth- century warrior-poet and farmer Egil Skallagrimsson: a morally ambiguous character who was at once the composer of intricately beautiful poetry, and a physical grotesque capable of staggering brutality.
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By: Onyekachi Wambu
ISBN: 9781399601917
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2023
UK Publication Date: 22nd June 2023
Publisher: Orion Publishing Co
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An inspiring anthology of some of the best Black British writing centred around the experiences of the Windrush generation, published for the 75th anniversary and featuring new writing from Bernardine Evaristo, Margaret Busby and Mike Philips.
(Paperback, Main - Re-issue)
By: Milan Kundera
ISBN: 9780571250899
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2010
UK Publication Date: 19th August 2010
Publisher: Faber & Faber
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Milan Kundera's new collection of essays is a passionate defence of art in an era that, he argues, no longer values art or beauty.
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By: Martial
ISBN: 9780375760426
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2002
Publisher: Random House USA Inc
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By: David Jones
ISBN: 9780571339501
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2017
UK Publication Date: 27th April 2017
Publisher: Faber & Faber
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A collection of all the essays that David Jones wished to see preserved in his lifetime, reissued in paperback with a cover based on the artist's original design.
(Hardback)
By: Lydia Davis
ISBN: 9780241371473
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2019
UK Publication Date: 7th November 2019
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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(Paperback)
By: Friedrich Hlderlin
ISBN: 9780140447088
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2009
UK Publication Date: 27th August 2009
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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One of Germany's greatest poets, Johann Christian Friedrich Holderlin (1770-1843) was also a prose writer of intense feeling, intelligence and perception. This title includes translation of selected letters and essays that traces the life and thoughts of this extraordinary writer.
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By: Virginia Woolf
ISBN: 9780701206710
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2011
UK Publication Date: 24th March 2011
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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Presents essays on Turgenev, Goldsmith, Congreve, Gibbon and Horace Walpole. This title is suitable for for students, common readers and scholars alike.
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By: Tim Robinson
ISBN: 9780241987292
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2020
UK Publication Date: 13th August 2020
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Dwayne A. Day
ISBN: 9781560987734
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 1999
Publisher: Smithsonian Books
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This comprehensive work describes the origin, technology and subsequent far-reaching effects on foreign policy which arose as a result of the Corona satellites.
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By: Lynne Sharon Schwartz
ISBN: 9780807072219
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2018
Publisher: Beacon Press
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By: George Orwell
ISBN: 9780156033138
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2009
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Inc
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George Orwell was first and foremost an essayist, producing throughout his life an extraordinary array of short nonfiction that reflected--and illuminated--the fraught times in which he lived.
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By: Umberto Eco
ISBN: 9780749396282
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 1995
UK Publication Date: 15th May 1995
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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Holography, wax museums, the secret meaning of spectator sports, Superman and the intellectual effects of over-tight jeans are just a few of the subjects covered in this collection of witty, entertaining and thought-provoking delights from Umberto Eco, celebrated author of The Name of the Rose.
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By: Joseph Epstein
ISBN: 9781668009727
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2024
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
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(Hardback)
By: Jo Ann Beard
ISBN: 9780316497237
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2021
Publisher: Little, Brown & Company
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Searing and exhilarating new essays from the beloved, award-winning author of The Boys of My Youth and In Zanesville.
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By: Paul Theroux
ISBN: 9780241977507
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2019
UK Publication Date: 25th April 2019
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Seamus Heaney
ISBN: 9780571210916
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2005
UK Publication Date: 7th April 2003
Publisher: Faber & Faber
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A gathering of Seamus Heaney's prose of three decades. Whether autobiographical, topical or specifically literary, these essays and lectures circle the central preoccupying questions: How should a poet live and write What is his relationship to be to his own voice and place
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By: Gary Indiana
ISBN: 9781644211625
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2022
Publisher: Seven Stories Press,U.S.
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Most of the earlier essays in this collection were first printed in a collection entitled Let it bleed: essays, 1985-1995, published in 1996 in New York by High Risk Books/Serpent's Tail.
