Jonathan Swift by Jonathan Swift; Denis Donoghue (Editor)
$6.00 NZD
Category: Essays | Series: Penguin Critical Anthologies Ser. | Reading Level: good
In this series, a contemporary poet selects and introduces a poet of the past. By their choice of poems and by the personal and critical reactions they express in their prefaces, the editors offer insights into their own work as well as providing an accessible and passionate introduction to the most imp ...Show more
My Generation: Fifty Years of Sex, Drugs, Rock, Revolution, Glamour, Greed, Valor, Faith and Silcon Chips by Michael Gross
$20.00 NZD
Category: Essays | Reading Level: very good
The Man From Nowhere & Other Prose by James McNeish
$15.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Literature | Reading Level: good-very good
The Essayes or Counsels Civil or Moral of Francis Bacon
$35.00 NZD
Category: Essays | Reading Level: very good
Eminent Victorians: The Illustrated Edition by Lytton Strachey
$15.00 NZD
Category: Essays | Reading Level: very good
An unparalleled manifesto for the modern biographer, Lytton Strachey's razor-sharp essays about four prominent Victorians brought him tremendous fame. However, the great pacifist's subjects did not fare as well. Strachey skewers the legends glorifying Florence Nightingale, educator Thomas Arnold, Cardin ...Show more
The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby by Tom Wolfe
$8.00 NZD
Category: Essays | Series: Picador Bks. | Reading Level: good
Tom Wolfe's debut collection of essays - a brilliant, form-bending dive into the future of America as it careenedthrough the 1960s In 1965, Tom Wolfe dropped like a bomb onto the American literary scene with his first book, The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby, an incandescent panorama of A ...Show more
Thoughts in a Dry Season - A Miscellany by Gerald Brenan
$12.00 NZD
Category: Essays | Reading Level: very good
The Friend - A Series of Essays, to Aid in the Formation of Fixed Principles in Politics, Morals and Religion, with Literary Amusements Interspersed by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
$14.00 NZD
Category: Essays | Series: Select Bibliographies Reprint Ser. | Reading Level: very good
The Norton Book of Personal Essays by Joseph Epstein (Editor)
$12.00 NZD
Category: Essays | Reading Level: good
Blending the profound and the buoyant, the traditional and the new, the expected and the surprising, The Norton Book of Personal Essays offers a basketful of delights sure to find a permanent place on readers' shelves. Mark Twain, Max Beerbohm, Virginia Woolf, Willa Cather, M. F. K. Fisher, F. Scott Fit ...Show more
And The Judges Said: Essays by James Kelman
$14.00 NZD
Category: Essays | Reading Level: very good
A wide-ranging volume of essays from the Booker Prize-winning author, dealing with matters literary, artistic, political and philosophical. Outlined are some of the influences that led Kelman to create literary art from music to Russian writers, from the steel industry to the Kurds in Turkey.