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Old songs in a new cafe
By Robert James Waller. 1983
Nineteen essays written since 1983 by Waller, a folksinger and author of the bestselling "Bridges of Madison County/" The writings…
include a loving tribute to his wife, thoughts on his daughter leaving home at eighteen, a book signing on a snowy day in St. Ansgar, playing "Wabash Cannonball" for a program with Charles Kuralt, and thoughts on his fiftieth birthday. Bestseller. 1983.May your first love be your last, and other stories
By Gregory Clark. 1978
Dans la forêt du miroir: [essais sur les mots et sur le monde]
By Alberto Manguel, Christine Le Boeuf. 2000
The uncommercial traveller, and, Reprinted pieces
By Charles Dickens. 1890
Thirty-seven essays by Charles Dickens published in the weekly journal All the Year Round between 1860 and 1869. Dickens records…
his observations of people and places in "Travelling Abroad," "Arcadian London," "The Italian Prisoner," "Bound for the Great Salt Lake," "In the French-Flemish Country," "Aboard Ship," and others. 1890.Trying to save Piggy Sneed
By John Irving. 1996
Collection of short works contains three memoirs including the title entry, six short stories, and homages to writers Charles Dickens…
and Gunter Grass. As Irving tells the story of his grandmother's retarded garbage collector, Piggy Sneed, he warns that any memoir from a writer with a good imagination is false. This and many of the other pieces were previously published in journals. Some strong language. 1996.Why do the Jews need a land of their own?
By Sholom Aleichem. 1984
Walden
By Henry David Thoreau. 1960
Records Thoreau's life at the Walden Pond retreat, his detailed observation of nature, and his comments on the world's problems.…
His essay, "Civil disobedience," argues that one's conscience must dictate whether one should support an immoral government. 1960, c1854.View from a height
By Isaac Asimov. 1964
The blue caterpillar and other essays
By Samuel F Pickering. 1997
In these eleven essays, the author sifts through an accumulation of daily events, selecting insights and anecdotes about various seasons,…
places, and people. Long walks provide fodder for his writing, and he finds meaning in the examination of all that he encounters. c1997.The points of my compass: letters from the east, the west, the north, the south
By E. B White. 1962
The long view
By Alan Paton. 1968
A selection of essays published in "Contact," a South African journal during the period 1958 to 1966. They are concerned…
with the politics of liberalism and race relations in South Africa today. 1968.The future of religions
By Paul Tillich, Jerald C Brauer. 1966
The fields of noon
By Sheila Burnford. 1964
The essays, or, Counsels, civil and moral, and Wisdom of the ancients
By Francis Bacon. 1883
The best of Gregory Clark
By Gregory Clark. 1959
Shadows on the grass
By Isak Dinesen. 1960
Principes et préceptes du retour à l'évidence
By Joseph Jean Lanza del Vasto. 1973
Puissances du sommeil
By Jacqueline Risset. 1997
Qui dit je en nous?: une histoire subjective de l'identité
By Claude Arnaud. 2006
Réflexion sur le thème de l'identité. L'auteur aborde quelques cas d'imposteurs (dont le fameux Martin Guerre), d'agents doubles, d'êtres à…
identités floues (tel Michael Jackson) et de victimes du syndrome de la personnalité multiple, vus à travers le prisme d'auteurs clefs tels que Pessoa et Pirandello. 2006.Point de fuite (Edition Critique De L'oeuvre D'hubert Aquin Ser. #Vol. 1)
By Hubert Aquin, Guylaine Massoutre. 1995