Catálogo de libros: Ensayos literarios

10177 Catálogo de libros: Ensayos literarios

Literatura y estudios literarios / Prosa: no ficción / Ensayos literarios
Libros Eliminar filtro Inglés Eliminar filtro Literatura y estudios literarios Eliminar filtro Prosa: no ficción Eliminar filtro Ensayos literarios Eliminar filtro Quitar filtros
  • What Is It Like to be Alive?
    Chris Arthur
    In What is it Like to be Alive? Fourteen Attempts at an Answer, prize-winning essayist Chris Arthur looks into life’s mirror and offers an account of what can be seen in ordinary things. Each of the book’s fourteen essays is an exercise in seeing beyond the obvious, and finding hidden depth in the places and things we might otherwise take for granted. Arthur ranges over subject...
    Disponible

    19,66 €

  • Away From Home Anthology
    Away From Home is a print anthology of thrilling poetry and riveting prose about stepping outside your comfort zone and into the realization that other people live radically different lives. Edited by Frances Klein and Will Klein. ...
    Disponible

    13,88 €

  • Call Me Zach Hively Because That Is My Name
    Zach Hively
    Few challenges are greater than navigating the world as a so-called adult. Yet Zach Hively does his best to evade them all. The perils of rental housing? Finding friendship as a hermit who rather dislikes people? Bears? There’s nothing he can’t talk his way through (or out of) in these short essays.Call Me Zach Hively Because That Is My Name assembles, if not the best, at leas...
    Disponible

    15,83 €

  • The American Crisis
    Thomas Paine
    This influential series of pamphlets, written by Thomas Paine during the American Revolutionary War, served as a powerful call to arms for the colonists. With his stirring prose, Paine sought to inspire the American people to persevere in their fight for independence from British rule. The essays address the challenges faced by the fledgling nation, rallying the spirit of resis...
    Disponible

    15,46 €

  • Bentham
    John Stuart Mill
    There are two men, recently deceased, to whom their country is indebted not only for the greater part of the important ideas which have been thrown into circulation among its thinking men in their time, but for a revolution in its general modes of thought and investigation. These men are Jeremy Bentham and Samuel Taylor Coleridge -- the two great seminal minds of England in the...
    Disponible

    10,25 €

  • Like You Never Had Wings
    Charlene Elsby / Joe Koch / Kyle Winkler
    In this collection, Joe Koch, Kyle Winkler, and Charlene Elsby examine the evolving landscapes of horror. Each essay highlights the cultural, philosophical, and emotional shifts shaping our universal anxieties. ...
    Disponible

    11,01 €

  • Things You Never Knew Existed
    Josh Olsen
    a book of essays by Josh OlsenJosh Olsen’s third collection of nonfiction, Things You Never Knew Existed, was written during a period of transition, in a space of underemployment, familial challenges, and adult disillusionment, where trading cards, action figures, and pro wrestling aren’t mere reminders of a carefree youth, but function as lifelines to self-care. These essays r...
    Disponible

    15,35 €

  • Alarms and Discursions
    G.K. Chesterton / G.KChesterton
    Alarms and Discursions is a vibrant collection of essays by G.K. Chesterton, filled with his signature wit, paradoxical insights, and sharp observations on a wide range of topics. From the mundane to the profound, Chesterton’s essays delve into everything from social issues to everyday curiosities, always with a sense of wonder and a deep appreciation for the absurdities of lif...
    Disponible

    13,32 €

  • Concerning Cats
    Helen M. Winslow / Helen MWinslow
    Helen M. Winslow (1851-1938), a scholar, linguist , novelist and poet, wrote from an early age. Concerning Cats describes the lives and humans of a variety of actual felines. ...
    Disponible

    17,43 €

  • Sleepless Nights Scribbling
    Arjun Unnikrishnan
    Sleepless Nights Scribbling is a collection of writings tracing the evolution of the writer over a decade. This book brings to the reader a refreshing look at stories and essays from the perspective of a millennial Indian facing the challenges of a changing nation. Politics, entertainment, human condition, sexuality, social taboos, customs, religion; various topics pertinent in...
    Disponible

    15,76 €

  • Empty Pool
    Isabel Zapata
    Neither essays nor prose poems, the pieces in Empty Pool propose a new genre: the essay poem. Vivid and restless, Zapata’s mind ranges through motherhood, octopi, the Covid pandemic, photography, extinction, dogs, translation, birds, memory, recipes, reading aloud, and people who live as if they are 'contestants in a sinister gossiptransmission contest organized by some telecom...
    Disponible

    18,04 €

  • Eclectic Essays, Poems, Prose & Quotes
    R. H. W. Dorsey
    Eclectic Essays, Poems, Prose & Quotes is a collection of both published and previously published content by R. H. W. Dorsey. The subjects on the pages of this offering are an eclectic mix of current events and topics that include miracles, racism, grief, and other subjects of interest. One of the essays, On Being a Grateful Soul, was put on a shortlist of essays by Fountain Ma...
    Disponible

    5,67 €

  • Certain Personal Matters
    H. G. Wells / HGWells
    H.G. Wells’ collection of humorous and witty essays, including such topics as 'Thoughts on Cheapness and My Aunt Charlotte,' 'On the Choice of a Wife,' 'In a Literary Household,' 'The Language of Flowers,' 'The Book of Curses,' 'The Writing of Essays,' 'The Pleasure of Quarrelling,' 'How I Died,' and many more! ...
    Disponible

    14,52 €

  • Growing Up in an Immigrant Household and Community
    Vicky Giouroukakis
    Although there are thousands of media sources that relate the trials and tribulations of immigrants coming to this country to pursue the American dream, there are few that document the experiences of children of immigrants who typically straddle two worlds: the world of their parents and the country in which they are born.Growing Up in an Immigrant Household: Essays by Descenda...
    Disponible

    23,25 €

  • Bad Mothers and Other Miscreants
    Ann Bronston
    There are a million ways to screw up at mothering. One character in Ann Bronston’s hilarious, heartbreaking debut collection, Bad Mothers and Other Miscreants, silently inserts fuck into conversations with her young children. Another secretly wishes her troubled son dead. A third, fueled by religious mania, visits violence upon her own child. lf these maternal crimes sound grim...
    Disponible

    13,10 €

  • Rabindranath and Gangadhar
    Manindra Kumar Meher / Malabika Patel
    This book is a comparative study between two great poets of the adjacent states. While studying and analyzing their works both in Bengali and Odia, the author never felt who is superior or inferior of the two, but how equally inspiring both the poets are by delving deep into their souls.  This book would be a great read for the common readers and great source of knowledge for t...
    Disponible

    17,70 €

  • THE 1960’s
    Nancy Hoffman
    In sixty essays Nancy Hoffman gives you a glimpse of growing up in the sixties. A retired teacher of thirty-two years, Nancy shares her memories and insights of an iconic decade. After reading her words and enjoying the many retro photos, it is the hope of this author that you the reader, walk away with a positive feeling about this memorable time in history. Since her retireme...
    Disponible

    16,59 €

  • The Necessity of Poetics
    Robert Sheppard
    The Necessity of Poetics marks the moves Robert Sheppard has made as a poet-critic around the notion of poetics in general, and the poetics of linguistically innovative poetry in particular, and his own poetics as an outcome of those. It traces those moves, but offers them to fellow poets, critics, and even to literary historians. It incites and ignites and invites readers to i...
    Disponible

    22,22 €

  • Jagged Fiction - A Collection
    Valerie J Runyan
    JAGGED FICTION- A COLLECTION IS AN ARRAY OF NARRATIVES NOT FOR THE FAINT OF HEART, IT IS FOR ADULTS WHO ENJOY DIVERSE INCLUSIVE FICTION WITH SHARP EDGES. ...
    Disponible

    22,43 €

  • To Melt the Stars
    Anna Vaught
    To Melt the Stars is a collection of essays looking at love at first conversation, queerness, weird wedding days, motherhood, romance, baby loss, and intergenerational trauma, among other themes. Anna Vaught’s essays address dark and difficult themes, and do so without holding back, but that darkness is enlivened by a rhythm and buoyancy of language. These essays are rich in al...
    Disponible

    11,66 €

  • Another North
    Jennifer Brice
    Another North is a paean to the material world-food, clothing, cars, and houses, of course, but also to wastrel beauty that serves no purpose but to catch at the human heart. ...
    Disponible

    45,66 €

  • Musings
    Lawrence Lambelet
    Mr. Lambelet’s interests, with degrees to match, range from physics to neuroscience. His main interest is in solving problems, however, which the twenty-three patents in his name purport to do. If you have curiosity about puzzles, you will enjoy the rifts on several subjects that seem to be unsolved conundrums. Subjects range from mathematical quandaries to the debate over free...
    Disponible

    14,65 €

  • Unfolding
    Lisa Colburn
    43 women writers58 poems, essays, and short stories1 anthology celebrating the human journeyWhat happens in a women’s writing circle? Community, stories, laughter, tears-the best things that make us human. In this stirring anthology edited by Market Street Writers founder Lisa Colburn, 43 women writers share poems, essays, and short stories that speak to us of anger and grief, ...
    Disponible

    16,33 €

  • She Says
    Jennifer Murvin
    She Says reimagines six famous short stories by and (largely about) men, giving voice to a silenced or secondary woman character. From the woman who giggles during a bank robbery (Tobias Wolff’s 'Bullet in the Brain') to the woman whose new pet parrot is actually her deceased husband ('Jealous Husband Returns in Form of Parrot' by Robert Olen Butler), these stories pose adjacen...
    Disponible

    14,00 €

  • Very Fine People
    A.R. Moxon
    For some people, the rise of Donald Trump’s MAGA cult represented only ongoing proof of a supremacist nation they had endured all along. Author A.R. Moxon was not one of them. He was caught unaware. Thus begins this confession of an American fool, a methodical mapping of the nation the author failed to see-a nation of 'very fine people' too convinced they are exceptionally good...
    Disponible

    21,15 €

  • Young Talents of Uzbekistan
    Tukhtaev Sardor
    This book 'Young Talents of Uzbekistan' is a collection of prose and poetry compiled by Tukhtaev Sardor of Uzbekistan. It includes several very thought-provoking essays on the topics of social issues and educational training as well as few moving, inspirational, and passionate poems in all shades of humanity and love by young and talented writers from Uzbekistan. ...
    Disponible

    20,97 €

  • Jad’ids. Gulom Zafariy
    Usmonov Olim / Rajabova Afruza
    Uzbekistan’s ancestors showed self-sacrifice and opened new method schools, theaters, libraries, and publishing houses. Newspapers and magazines were published in order to change the outlook and lifestyle of the members of the society. They sent young people to study in advanced countries. Hence special attention is paid to perpetuating the memory of those ancestors who sacrifi...
    Disponible

    20,03 €

  • The Gay Imagination
    Alan L Contreras
    A collection of essays, reviews and interviews related to the creative processes of gay and lesbian writers (mainly poets) and musicians. Includes an interview with Sparkbird (Stephan Nance) and an extended exchange with the late gay poet Reginald Shepherd. Also includes essays on the craft of poetry. ...
    Disponible

    15,77 €

  • Ramas y Raices
    Aimée Medina Carr / Karen D. Gonzales / Mario Acevedo
    In this inaugural anthology, CALMA-the Colorado Alliance of Latino Mentors and Authors-presents an illuminating collection of poems, short fiction, and essays, offering a compelling slice of Chicano history, one part of our contribution to literatura latina. Twenty-four contributors share evocative impressions encompassing the breadth of universal themes: romantic love; the imp...
    Disponible

    16,75 €

  • Damned Agitator
    Michael Gold / Mike Gold
    The most comprehensive collection of writings by an important twentieth-century radical writer.'Is it time to release Michael Gold from his personal gulag to range free in the pastures of 20th-century American literature?' - Jim Hoberman, The NationThis definitive collection of fiction, drama, poetry, and journalism, edited by the author of the award-winning biography Michael G...
    Disponible

    30,85 €


Primera 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 Última