The World Within the Word - Essays by William H Gass
$14.00 NZD
Category: Essays | Reading Level: very good
William H. Gass, one of america's most brilliant and eclectic minds, examines literature, culture, writers, and the nature and uses of language and the written word.
Reading Russell - Essays, 1941-1988 on Ideas, Literature, Art, Theatre, Music, Places, and Persons by John Russell; Ruth A Peltason
$20.00 NZD
Category: Essays | Reading Level: very good
John Russell was chief art critic for The New York Times, and wrote about literature, theatre, dance and music for The New Statesman and Nation
Kin of Place - Essays on 20 New Zealand Writers by C K Stead
$20.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Literature | Reading Level: very good
Distinguished novelist and poet, C. K. Stead is also widely respected as a critic whose analytic sophistication is matched by a lively and engaging style. Here he combines most of the important essays in In the Glass Case (AUP, 1981), long out of print, and five from Answering to the Language (AUP, 1989 ...Show more
Shelf Life by C.K. Stead
$16.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Literature | Reading Level: very good
The best of C. K. Stead's 'afternoon work': reviews and essays, interviews and diaries, lectures and opinion pieces. Every morning for the last thirty years, C. K. Stead has written fiction and poetry. Shelf Life collects the best of his afternoon work: reviews and essays, interviews and diaries, lectur ...Show more
The Uncollected Oscar Wilde by Oscar Wilde; John Wyse Jackson (ed.)
$10.00 NZD
Category: Essays | Reading Level: very good
Radical Chic and Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers by Tom Wolfe
$7.00 NZD
Category: Essays | Reading Level: good
Radical Chic and Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers is classic Tom Wolfe, a funny, irreverent, and delicious (The Wall Street Journal) dissection of class and status by the master of New Journalism The phrase 'radical chic' was coined by Tom Wolfe in 1970 when Leonard Bernstein gave a party for the Black Pant ...Show more
Six Faces Of Love by James K Baxter
$30.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Literature | Reading Level: good
Lytton Styrachey - Biographical Essays by Lytton Strachey
$15.00 NZD
Category: Essays | Reading Level: very good
The Last Gift of Time - Life Beyond Sixty by Carolyn G Heilbrun
$10.00 NZD
Category: Essays | Reading Level: good
The feminist writer and author of the Amanda Cross mystery series looks back on a youthful pledge to commit suicide at seventy, explaining why, given that her sixties have been her happiest decade, she decided not to take her life. First published 1997.
How to Be Nowhere - Essays and Texts 1971-1994 by Ian Wedde
$30.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Literature | Reading Level: very good
The Writer at Work: Essays by C K Stead by C.K. Stead
$25.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Literature | Reading Level: very good
"The Writer at Work" is a new book of essays by C.K.Stead that mixes literary criticism and autobiography. His two previous volumes of criticism are "In the Glass Case: Essays in NZ Literature" (1981) and "Answering to the Language" (1989). This book is arranged in six parts, moving outwards from New Ze ...Show more
Mauve Gloves and Madmen, Clutter and Vine by Tom Wolfe
$15.00 NZD
Category: Essays | Reading Level: very good
"When are the 1970's going to begin?" ran the joke during the l976 presidential bid. In these stories and essays Wolfe meets the question head-on -- even providing the label "The Me Decade". Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.