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  • Devil Sent the Rain
    Tom Piazza
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    15,40 €

  • Able Muse, Winter 2020/21 (No. 28 - print edition)
    Alexander Pepple / Stephen Kampa
    This is the annual Able Muse Review (Print Edition) - Winter 2020/2021 issue, Number 28. This issue continues the tradition of masterfully crafted poetry, fiction, essays, art & photography, and book reviews that have become synonymous with the Able Muse-online and in print. After more than a decade of online publishing excellence, Able Muse print edition maintains the superla...
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    19,03 €

  • Home Movie, Nowhere
    Julia Madsen
    In this work, the Heartland is not an inert pastoral surface. It’s a worn-out VHS tape you find under the bed. It’s the scratching sound of a rat in the wall. Somewhere between C.D. Wright and James Agee, this book wields the tools of documentary and reduces them to their barest elements with a clarity both beautiful and terrifying. Her Iowa is filled with spider sacs, cataract...
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    9,24 €

  • Ideas of Good and Evil
    William Butler Yeats
    Ideas of Good and Evil (1903) is a collection of wide-ranging essays by Irish poet W.B. Yeats. Writing on such subjects as the art of poetry, politics, and the occult, Yeats proves himself to be not only a master of verse and drama, but an immensely talented essayist and thorough scholar.'What is ’Popular Poetry’?' reflects on a changing Irish literary landscape which has, over...
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    9,88 €

  • The Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon
    Washington Irving
    In this collection of thirty-four essays and short stories, Washington Irving explores the personality of his pseudonym, Geoffrey Crayon, while providing a study on human behavior. Rip Van Winkle introduces the famed literacy title character, an unmotivated, care-free man who drinks and parties with strangers in the mountains, falls asleep, and wakes up twenty years later in p...
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    14,32 €

  • The Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon
    Washington Irving
    In this collection of thirty-four essays and short stories, Washington Irving explores the personality of his pseudonym, Geoffrey Crayon, while providing a study on human behavior. Rip Van Winkle introduces the famed literacy title character, an unmotivated, care-free man who drinks and parties with strangers in the mountains, falls asleep, and wakes up twenty years later in p...
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    22,26 €

  • Stand Out
    JK Larkin
    'Stand Out' - includes 'the best of' The Red Penguin Collection, featuring writers, poets and playwrights from around the globe. Editor JK Larkin has curated this collection, as well as the poignant, insightful and inspiring volumes in the collection listed below. Included in 'Stand Out' are:Realiteen: Reflecting On Growing Up'The Typography of Her Chest' by Evelyn Sharenov'Bec...
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    15,77 €

  • Living on COVID Time
    Story Circle Network
    Moments of life captured in an unprecedented global pandemicReal Women Write: Living on COVID Time is Volume 19 of prose and poetry by members of Story Circle Network. The 52 authors of the 80 pieces in this collection wrote about their lives, engaging with experiences and emotions uniquely their own, in response to the spread of COVID-19 through a year filled with many other p...
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    10,84 €

  • Remembering Keats - Essays & Poetry in Dedication to the Romantic Poet
    Various
    'Remembering Keats' is a brand-new collection of poetry and essays by various authors dedicated to English Romantic poet John Keats (1795-1821). Together with Lord Byron and Percy Bysshe Shelley, he was a key figure during the second generation of Romantic poets most famous for such poems as 'Sleep and Poetry', 'Ode to a Nightingale', and 'On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer'...
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    25,96 €

  • George Orwell Essays
    George Orwell
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    38,12 €

  • An Epic Odyssey of Madness and Mayhem
    Carla Bastos
    It was a year like none other. We learned to see ourselves, and each other, differently. We found new ways to do life. From the sublime to the ridiculous, the tragic to the absurd to the occasional ray of hope, the long, winding road that was the year 2020 is captured here in a series of essays. Thought-provoking and familiar, Bastos’s writing encapsulates what we learned, and ...
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    16,28 €

  • A Dedication to Sir Richard Francis Burton
    Various
    Sir Richard Francis Burton KCMG FRGS (1821–1890) was a British writer, poet, linguist, explorer, translator, geographer, ethnologist, orientalist, Freemason, diplomat, and cartographer best remembered for extensively travelling in and exploring Africa, Asia, and the Americas. An extraordinary polyglot, he spoke 29 languages and gained extensive knowledge of many different cultu...
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    16,45 €

  • Zimbolicious Anthology
    Tendai Rinos Mwanaka
    Zimbolicious Anthology: An Anthology of Zimbabwean Literature and Arts, Vol 5 is the fifth in this yearly journal of Zimbabwean literature and the arts as it happens. The poetry covers a range of subjects; love, spirituality, religion, migration, poet’s vocation and as usual the political direction or situation in the country. The fiction deals with a wide range issues, from re...
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    44,98 €

  • In My Cell
    Dominique Brown
    In My Cell is a collection of essays written from the vantage of an incarcerated Black Man in the Virginia Department of Corrections amid a global pandemic, racial tension and unrest, and the 2020 Presidential Election. Dominique Brown offers his experience, perspective, and heartfelt emotions in these 23 captivating essays designed to either make you love or loathe him. Brown ...
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    16,09 €

  • The Essays
    Francis Bacon
    The Essays (1625) is a collection of writings by Francis Bacon, one of England’s most prominent philosophers and scientists whose work was central to shaping the ideals of the Renaissance and scientific revolution. Although Bacon is remembered today as the father of modern science, this collection contains his thoughts on mostly moral and civil matters, highlighting his immense...
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    9,82 €

  • The Essays
    Francis Bacon
    The Essays (1625) is a collection of writings by Francis Bacon, one of England’s most prominent philosophers and scientists whose work was central to shaping the ideals of the Renaissance and scientific revolution. Although Bacon is remembered today as the father of modern science, this collection contains his thoughts on mostly moral and civil matters, highlighting his immense...
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    17,76 €

  • Musings of an Infovore
    Raymond R. A. Burke
     A timely collection of over 200 essays and articles from writer Raymond Burke. Written between 2007-2011 in order to fill the time during a period of unemployment, it quickly evolved into a pursuit to satiate his infovore nature.Now in print for the first time, the thought-provoking musings on diverse subjects such as Arts & Humanities, Science, Religion, Politics, Society & L...
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    26,02 €

  • The American Satirist - The Witty Writings of Mark Twain
    Mark Twain
    Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1835–1910), more commonly known under the pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer, lecturer, publisher and entrepreneur most famous for his novels “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer” (1876) and “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” (1884). He is perhaps best remembered for his sharp wit and cutting satire, which manifested in both his speech and written ...
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    18,02 €

  • Best American Essays 2020
    A collection of the year’s best essays selected by André Aciman, author of the worldwide bestseller Call Me by Your Name. 'An essay is the child of uncertainty,' André Aciman contends in his introduction to The Best American Essays 2020. 'The struggle to write what one hopes is entirely true, and the long incubation every piece of writing requires of a writer who is thinking ...
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    15,27 €

  • Best American Travel Writing 2020
    Jason Wilson
    The year’s best travel writing, as chosen by series editor Jason Wilson and guest editor Robert Macfarlane. An eclectic compendium of the best travel writing essays published in 2019, collected by esteemed guest editor Robert Macfarlane, author of Mountains of the Mind and Underland. The Best American Travel Writing gathers together a satisfyingly varied medley of perspectives,...
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    17,11 €

  • Sundays
    Thomas Gardner
    Continuing the work begun in 2014’s Poverty Creek Journal, the lyric essays in Thomas Gardner’s Sundays focus on moments in our ordinary lives when something within us breaks and we are cast out to wander and sing, 'feeling [our] way toward something [in the invisible] that will press back.' 'Deep within us is a river, under it all, where everything comes undone,' Gardner write...
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    17,39 €

  • Bridges
    Mark Randolph Watters
    A compilation of poems, essays, limericks, and short stories, BRIDGES is my expression of accumulated wisdom and observations spanning my sixty-four years on this earth. Many of these spans, these personal bridges, are not yet complete, as construction continues as long as I can draw a breath. Someday all will be complete, as will be yours. Maybe herein we will find some com...
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    39,35 €

  • Blindsided
    Dawn Downey
    We strive for authenticity, but expediency often demands we suppress our true feelings. Dawn Downey struggles to find her genuine self, as she navigates her white surroundings. She wages an internal war, her intuition recognizing bigotry and her intellect wanting-needing-to deny it. At the end of any given day, she is angry. She is weary. She despairs. 'You get to hopeless by s...
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    15,58 €

  • The Art of Perpetuation
    Alison Powell
    Vivid explorations of cryogenics, lion baiting, iDollators, dodo birds, SpaceX, and more populate The Art of Perpetuation, a poignant new collection of lyric essays from Alison Powell that troubles the boundaries between human and animal, living and dead, man and woman, adult and child. These nine whip-smart essays juxtapose personal narrative-memories of the author’s childhood...
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    10,30 €

  • Contemporary Fictions
    Judie Newman
    What does it mean to be contemporary? To write contemporary fiction? In this major collection of twenty-five essays Newman interrogates the value of the concept of “the contemporary” as a cultural and literary category, exploring novels and short fiction by American and postcolonial writers, including Marilynne Robinson, John Updike, Saul Bellow, Grace Paley, Nadine Gordimer, J...
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    132,28 €

  • The Foreign Connection
    Jamie McKendrick
    The word ‘foreign’ has gathered hostile associations but its Latin root – foris: a door – is close to the spirit of these writings which explore openings and connections across and within artforms, eras, cultures and languages. McKendrick traces a series of dynamic, often unexpected refigurations of idea, image and structure from Gaius Valerius Catullus to Valerio Magrelli, fro...
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    132,52 €

  • Brute Meaning
    David Trotter
    The essays collected in this volume trace the evolution over a period of thirty years of a critical approach resembling what would now be described as the ‘new materialism’. These essays insist that literature and film are never more vital than in their enactment of the ‘brute meaning’ Maurice Merleau-Ponty once found in the work of Paul Cézanne: the crude sense we make, as cre...
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    132,32 €

  • A Picture is a Purely Decorative Thing - Essays and Excerpts on The Arts
    Oscar Wilde
    “A Picture is a Purely Decorative Thing” is a brand new collection of essays and excerpts on the subject of The Arts written by Oscar Wilde. Contents include: “The Artist”, “The English Renaissance of Art”, “An Exposure of Naturalism”, “Sculpture at The Arts and Crafts”, “House Decoration”, “The Poetry of Archæology”, “The Art of Archæology”, “Art and the Handicraftsman”, “Mr. ...
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    22,53 €

  • Pagan Papers
    Kenneth Grahame
    Before the publication of The Wind in the Willows, Kenneth Grahame’s reputation was quite different. He was known both as a writer of delicately observed essays on childhood, and as an exquisite stylist, whose essays on adult subjects were pithy and distinctive exercises in wit. Pagan Papers was the collection with which he established his name in 1893.In The Romance of the Rai...
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    15,33 €

  • Awakening Starseeds
    Mike Pestano / Radhaa Nilia
    Welcome to the first and original Awakening Starseeds book series ever put out in the world. We realized that it’s time to come together with other Starseeds to journey into this historical time we are living in. From this age of darkness (Kali Yuga) we are entering the age of truth and light (Satya Yuga). As we watch the crumbling of the old paradigm, we can choose to be fearf...
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    18,73 €


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