2,677円 Real ladies do not travel - or so it was once said. This collection of women's travel writing dispels the notion by showing how there are few corners of the world that have not been visited by women travellers. There are also few difficulties, physical or emotional, real or imagined, that have no...

0円 Author Michael Pollick was commissioned by a gourmet coffee microroaster in Portland, Oregon to create microshort essays for their coffee can labels and newsletters. The instructions were straightforward: Keep them under 400 words, keep them family-friendly, and mention the word "coffee&quot...

164円 According to Wikipedia: "Walter Horatio Pater (4 August 1839 - 30 July 1894) was an English essayist and critic of art and literary critic....his study of "Aesthetic Poetry" appeared in the Fortnightly Review, to be succeeded by essays on Leonardo da Vinci, Sandro Botticelli, Pico della Mirandola...

164円 Collection of essays of literary criticism, including Scott and the Ballads, Auld Maitland,The Ballad of Otterburne, Scott's Traditional Copy and how he edited it, The Mystery of the Ballad of Jamie Telfer, and Kinmont Willie. According to Wikipedia: "Andrew Lang (March 31, 1844, Selkirk - July 2...

4,693円 The subjects of this stylish and audacious collection of essays range from an assault in Nicaragua to a Morgellons meeting; from Frida Kahlo's plaster casts to a gangland tour of LA. Jamison is interested in how we tell stories about injury and pain, and the limits that circumstances, bodies and ...

164円 According to Wikipedia: "Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., (August 29, 1809 October 7, 1894) was an American physician and professor who also achieved fame as a writer. During his lifetime, he was one of the best regarded poets of the 19th century and is considered a member of the Fireside Poets."

1,088円 A collection of the most fascinating essays, articles, and interpretations of bestselling author Anne Rice's complete works, by a variety of journalists and scholars. It includes a history of vampire literature, a professional dominatrix's examination of Rice's erotica, and a behind-the-scenes lo...

496円 13 essays on the importance of representation in science fiction and fantasy, with an introduction by author Alex Dally MacFarlane. Proceeds from the sale of this collection go to the Carl Brandon Society to support Con or Bust. Full table of contents: Introduction by Alex Dally MacFarlane. “Pa...

1,122円 Essays in Our Changing Order is split into three sections, Essays in Economics, Miscellaneous Papers, and War Essays. Veblen was in reality was one of those rare men who may be said to have been ahead of his time, ahead in the sense that what he said and thought was destined to be accepted by suc...

1,122円 This antiquarian volume contains a collection of E. V. Lucas's writings and short essays on a variety of subjects. These witty and often thought-provoking essays make for fascinating light reading, and will be of considerable interest to fans and collectors of Lucas's work. The essays contained h...

1,122円 This vintage book contains a collection of letters written by John Muir to Ezra S. Carr. Whilst he was at university, Muir was a frequent caller at Carr’s house. She was a botanist and lover of nature whom Muir would come to consider his spiritual mother - he felt that Carr thoroughly understood ...

1,122円 This antiquarian book comprises a collection of forty-one essays written by the famous Anglo-French writer and historian, Hilaire Belloc. Full of Belloc's hallmark Dickensian wit, this collection of interesting and insightful essays will appeal to fans and collectors of his work, and would make f...