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1	50 Essays: A Portable Anthology more books like this by Samuel Cohen (Editor) add to wishlist "50 Essays: A Portable Anthology" directly addresses students' and instructors' concerns that composition readers are too expensive and too large. With a net price of $21, less than half the size and price of comparable readers, "50 Essays" meets the needs of a wide variety of classrooms. The carefully chosen table of contents presents enough ... see all copies from $2.65! new only from $21.40! \| SVS
2	Oxford Book of Essays more books like this by John Gross (Editor) add to wishlist The essay is one of the richest of literary forms. Its most obvious characteristics are freedom, informality, and the personal touch - though it can also find room for poetry, satire, fantasy, and sustained argument. All these qualities, and many others, are on display in 'The Oxford Book of Essays'. The most wide-ranging collection of its kind to ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.53! \| first editions \| SVS
3	Touchstone Anthology of Contemporary Creative Nonfiction: Work from 1970 to the Present more books like this by Lex Williford (Editor), Professor Michael Martone (Editor) add to wishlist An exceptional showcase of topflight memoir, literary journalism, personal essay, and cultural criticism, this uniquely comprehensive collection is the first and only creative nonfiction volume to cover all genres, from magazine writing to book excerpts. see all copies from $6.76! new only from $7.44!
4	The Seagull Reader: Essays more books like this by Joseph Kelly, PH.D. (Editor) add to wishlist A small and inexpensive reader that includes the most widely taught essays-along with some pieces that have never before been anthologized in a composition reader. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $12.25! \| first editions \| SVS
5	Eight Modern Essayists more books like this by William Smart add to wishlist This in-depth collection represents 8 essential twentieth-century essayists, with 3-5 pieces by each author. Included are Virginia Woolf, George Owell, E. B. White, James Baldwin, Joan Didion, James McConkey, Cynthia Ozick, and Alice Walker. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $48.00! \| first editions \| SVS
6	Essays of Elia more books like this by Charles Lamb add to wishlist Charles Lamb, one of the most engaging personal essayists of all time, began publishing his Elia essays in the "London Magazine" in 1820; they were so immediately popular that a book-length collection was published in 1823. Inventing the persona of "Elia" allowed Lamb to be shockingly honest and to gain a playful distance for self-examination. The ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $9.18! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
7	The Essays of Michel de Montaigne more books like this by Michel de Montaigne add to wishlist In 1572, after a career in the magistracy, Michel de Montaigne intended to retire from public life and began the reading and writing that were to develop into "essays" of his thought and opinions. These essays are collected in this volume. see all copies from $3.57! new only from $15.38! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
8	The monsters and the critics : the essays of J.R.R. Tolkien more books like this by J. R. R. Tolkien add to wishlist Complete collection of Tolkien's essays, including two on Beowulf, which span three decades beginning six years before The Hobbit to five years after The Lord of the Rings. The seven 'essays' by J.R.R. Tolkien assembled in this new paperback edition were with one exception delivered as general lectures on particular occasions; and while they ... see all copies from $12.02! new only from $12.02!
9	Major Modern Essayists more books like this by Gilbert H Muller add to wishlist Freshman Composition; Intermediate or Advanced Composition. This essay reader provides in-depth introductions to fifteen of this century's most distinctive writers of nonfiction prose in the English language. The collection is arranged chronologically-from Virginia Woolf to Barry Lopez-and includes authors from the United States and Great Britain ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $32.80! \| first editions
10	My Belief: Essays on Life and Art more books like this by Hermann Hesse add to wishlist see all copies from $4.87! new only from $49.95! \| first editions
11	Essays more books like this by Francis Bacon add to wishlist One of the major political figures of his time, Sir Francis Bacon (1561-1626) served in the court of Elizabeth I and ultimately became Lord Chancellor under James I in 1617. A scholar, wit, lawyer and statesman, he wrote widely on politics, philosophy and science - declaring early in his career that 'I have taken all knowledge as my province'. In ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.32! \| first editions \| SVS
12 view cover	The Norton Book of Personal Essays more books like this by Joseph Epstein (Editor) add to wishlist In this anthology of 20th-century essays, some of the most admired American and British writers express their lively, candid, entertaining, thoughtful, and--above all--varied opinions. Covering the profound and the buoyant, the traditional and the new, the expected and the surprising are Mark Twain, Willa Cather, Oliver Sacks, M.F.K. Fisher, E.B. ... see all copies from $2.61! new only from $12.21! \| first editions \| SVS
13 view cover	Essays more books like this by George Orwell, John Carey (Introduction by) add to wishlist (Book Jacket Status: Jacketed) A generous and varied selection-the only hardcover edition available-of the literary and political writings of one of the greatest essayists of the twentieth century. Although best known as the author of "Animal Farm" and "Nineteen Eighty-four," George Orwell left an even more lastingly significant achievement in ... see all copies from $13.25! new only from $22.75! \| SVS
14 view cover	Of Empire more books like this by Francis Bacon add to wishlist The perfect books for the true book lover, Penguinas Great Ideas series features twelve more groundbreaking works by some of historyas most prodigious thinkers. Each volume is beautifully packaged with a unique type-driven design that highlights the bookmakeras art. Offering great literature in great packages at great prices, this series is ideal ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.69! \| first editions \| SVS
15 view cover	The Eloquent Essay: An Anthology of Classic & Creative Nonfiction more books like this by John Loughery (Editor) add to wishlist This anthology of seventeen modern essays shows the form at its most varied and dramatic. Purposefully concise, it gathers together exemplars of the personal narrative, the argument, the anecdotal essay, digressive discourse the "open letter, " and others. Some of the most engaging authors of our time write on subjects as diverse as becoming a ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.99! \| SVS
16 view cover	Bacon's Essays more books like this by Francis Bacon add to wishlist These 58 essays are a literary legacy from English philosopher, lawyer, scientist, and statesman Francis Bacon. Among the subjects explored are truth, death, nobility, travel, marriage, health, riches, beauty, negotiating, ambition, and gardens. see all copies from $5.00! new only from $20.52! \| first editions \| SVS
17 view cover	The Commerce of Everyday Life: Selections from the Tatler and the Spectator more books like this by Joseph Addison, Richard Steele, Professor Erin MacKie (Editor) add to wishlist This edition offers a selection of essays from The Tatler and The Spectator (1709-1714), periodical papers that helped define eighteenth-century culture and standards. Selections are taken from the authoritative Donald E Bond editions of The Tatler and The Spectator and have been carefully chosen to introduce readers to the rich variety of the ... see all copies from $8.44! new only from $16.82! \| first editions \| SVS
18 view cover	The Spirit of the Age: Victorian Essays more books like this by Gertrude Himmelfarb (Editor) add to wishlist None of the stereotypes of Victorian England - narrow-minded, inhibited, moralistic, complacent - prepares us for the vitality, variety, and above all the extraordinary quality of intellectual life displayed in this volume of essays. Selected and annotated by Gertrude Himmelfarb, a distinguished historian of Victorian thought, the writings address ... see all copies from $16.85! new only from $17.67! \| first editions \| SVS
19 view cover	And Even Now more books like this by Sir Max Beerbohm add to wishlist Sir Henry Maximilian Beerbohm (1872-1956) was an English parodist and caricaturist. His first book, The Works of Max Beerbohm, was published in 1896. Having been interviewed by George Bernard Shaw himself, in 1898 he followed Shaw as drama critic for the Saturday Review, on whose staff he remained until 1910. From 1935 onwards, he was an ... see all copies from $4.95! new only from $8.73! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
20 view cover	Under This Blazing Light more books like this by Amos Oz, N R M de Lange (Translator), Nicholas De Lange (Translator) add to wishlist This collection - published here in English for the first time - brings together a number of political, personal and literary pieces by Israel's most celebrated novelist and litterateur. Topics covered include: an examination of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict as a dispute between 'right and right'; reflections on the character of Zionism, on the ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.75! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
21 view cover	Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral more books like this by Francis Bacon add to wishlist 'their excellence and their value consisted in being the observations of a strong mind operating upon life; and in consequence you find what you seldom find in other books.' Samuel Johnson Celebrated today as a writer and scientist, Francis Bacon was for the most part of his life occupied with the law and public affairs at a high level. Although ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $12.09! \| first editions \| SVS
22 view cover	Cengage Advantage Books: A Pocketful of Essays: Volume II, Thematically Arranged, Revised Edition more books like this by David Madden add to wishlist Including titles in fiction, poetry, drama, and essays, David Madden's Pocketfuls series are slim volumes including only the essentials of the most familiar and most often taught works in each genre. Priced to be affordably packaged with two or even three other volumes, each book in the Pocketful series can also be used separately. This volume of ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $9.11! \| first editions \| SVS
23 view cover	A Woman Scorn'd: Responses to the Dido Myth more books like this by Michael Burden add to wishlist One of the most compelling and durable of the great classical myths is that concerning Dido and Aeneas, which throughout the centuries has been appropriated and misappropriated for political and artistic ends. It offers much material for such uses: the representation of a city (Carthage) as an exotic encapsulation of the East: Dido's lack of ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $150.20!
24	Selected English Essays Wc32 more books like this by William Peacock (Editor) add to wishlist see all copies from $6.00! new only from $31.85! \| first editions
25 view cover	Wormholes: Essays and Occasional Writings more books like this by John Fowles add to wishlist A collection of non-fiction writing from John Fowles which includes articles written for magazines; book reviews from "The New York Times Book Review" and the "Irish Press"; various forewords and introductions; a tribute to William Golding; and some autobiographical pieces. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.00! \| signed copies \| first editions

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