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Confessions of a Recovering Environmentalist(2017) KINGSNORTH, PAULWith lyrical evocations of nature and the wild, this book features essays that have charted the change in Kingsnorth's thinking. It articulates a vision that he calls 'dark ecology,' which stands firmly in opposition to the belief that technology can saveVezava: Mehka21,02 € -
Ex Libris(2000) FADIMAN, ANNEThe author is the sort of person who learned about sex from her father's copy of "Fanny Hill", and who once found herself poring over a 1974 Toyota Corolla manual because it was the only thing in her apartment that she had not read at least twice. This tiVezava: Mehka15,41 € -
Man and Nature: Or, Physical Geography as Modified by Human Action(2021) MARSH, GEORGEThis landmark text analyzes the impact of human action on nature by linking the environmental degradation of ancient Mediterranean civilization to the United States of the 1800s. Profoundly topical today as it was in 1864.Vezava: Mehka10,50 € -
Known and Strange Things(2017) COLE, TEJUA collection of essays from the award-winning author of Open City and Every Day Is for the Thief. It comes with pieces on politics, photography, travel, history and literature. It covers subjects as diverse as Virginia Woolf, W G Sebald, Instagram, BarackVezava: Mehka21,02 € -
Essays From The Hermit's Lodge(2022) KINTEH, ALIEssays From The Hermit's Lodge is a collection of irreverent writing, scribbled from the forlorn hand of author Ali Kinteh.Vezava: Mehka18,52 € -
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Writing Home(2014) BENNETT, ALANAlready a bestseller, this is a wonderfully entertaining collection of Alan Bennett's prose writings. as part of the 1960s revue 'Beyond the Fringe' Bennett helped to kick-start the English satire revolution, and has since remained one of our leading dramVezava: Mehka23,82 € -
Quarry(2016) HOWE, SUSAN (STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK, BUFFALO)The Quarry presents new and pivotal Susan Howe prose pieces.Vezava: Mehka21,61 € -
Selected Writings of Paul Valery(1986) VALERY, PAULThis selection from representative works of the great French poet-philosopher is based on the Paris Morceaux Choisis volume, which was assembled by Valéry himself.Vezava: Mehka24,94 € -
Mystery and Manners(2014) O'CONNOR, FLANNERYIncludes three essays on regional writing, including "The Fiction Writer and His Country" and "Some Aspects of the Grotesque in Southern Fiction"; two pieces on teaching literature, including "Total Effect and the 8th Grade"; and four articles concerningVezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Selected Writings(1982) APOLLINAIRE, GUILLAUMEA bilingual, illustrated edition of The Selected Writings of Apollinaire, the only representative collection in English translation, with a comprehensive critical Introduction by the translator, Roger Shattuck.Vezava: Mehka24,94 € -
Selected Writings of Christine de Pizan(1997) PIZAN, CHRISTINE DEChristine de Pizan (ca. 1364-ca. 1421) is Europe’s first professional woman writer. She wrote an astonishing body of work in many genres, including lyric poetry, allegorical dream visions, history, political treatises, and biography.Vezava: Mehka30,40 € -
Walden / Civil Disobedience / and Other Writings(2008) THOREAU, HENRY DAVIDIn addition to the texts of "Walden" and "Civil Disobedience", this title reprints the important works, "Slavery in Massachusetts", "Walking" and "Wild Apples". It includes the best critical writing on the texts by nineteen contributors.Vezava: Mehka24,70 € -
Writer and the World(2011) NAIPAUL, V.S.Concentrating mainly on India, the Americas, Africa and the Diaspora, this wonderful collection of essays is a clear-eyed and magnificent introduction to this writer’s extraordinary world.Vezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Love of the World(2010) MCGAHERN, JOHNAn enlightening collection of essays, reviews and speeches by 'one of the greatest writers of our era' (Hilary Mantel) and 'the Irish novelist everyone should read' (Colm Tóibín). 'Wise and compelling ...Vezava: Mehka18,21 € -
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Small Wonder(2003) KINGSOLVER, BARBARAThis essay collection brings to us out of one of history's darker moments an extended love song to the world we still have. The essays are grounded in the author's belief that our largest problems and their solutions have grown from the Earth's remotest cVezava: Mehka18,21 €
