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The pleasures of the past
By David Cannadine. 1990
This collection of 30 essays covers a wide range of issues from 19th- and 20th-century British history. The book's content…
ranges from essays on the monarchy, political ambitions and urban decay, through to studies of time, food and sex. It also includes an examination of some major personalities. 1990.The most wonderful books: writers on discovering the pleasures of reading
By Emilie Buchwald, Ed Dorris Michael. 1997
A collection of short essays by fifty-seven authors who reflect on favourite childhood books or the significance of reading. Sherman…
Alexie recalls that he learned to read with a Superman comic book. Confined to her house by polio, Bapsi Sidhwa discovered "an alternate existence" in books. Contains brief biographical notes on contributors. 1997.The mortgaged heart
By Carson McCullers. 1971
The middle-aged man on the flying trapeze (Mandarin Humour Ser.)
By James Thurber. 1992
First published in 1935, this volume contains six essays about language and people, described by the author as "mainly humorous,…
but with a few kind of sad ones mixed in." 1992.The immortal wilderness
By John Hay. 1987
Book-ends: collected intros and outros
By Michael Chabon. 2019
Traité des gestes
By Charles Dantzig. 2017
Les mains ? Et les sourcils. Et les yeux. Et les pieds. Et la bouche, avec le sourire. Toutes ces…
parties du corps accomplissent des gestes. Les objets nouveaux, comme les tablettes numériques ou les cigarettes électroniques, en font faire d'inédits, tandis que d'autres disparaissent, pour parfois réapparaître. De quelle mystérieuse façon un poignet cassé sur la hanche, geste des aristocrates du XVIIIe siècle, a-t-il ressurgi chez un rocker de 1960 ? Le geste de la main d'un bébé qui s'ouvre comme une étoile de mer ne serait-il pas un souvenir des âges immémoriaux où nous étions algues ou poissons ? Y a-t-il des gestes d'hommes, des gestes de femmes ? Des gestes nationaux, des gestes universels ? Gestes de la sexualité, gestes de la politique, gestes des comédiens, gestes imités de nos morts aimés, les gestes ne sont pas l'ombre des mots ; ils peuvent être une forme de création. Plus encore qu'un langage du sens, un rapport unique au temps. Voici un livre inattendu, lumineux et sensible, riche de mille réflexions tirées de l'Histoire, de la littérature, de la peinture, du cinéma, de la danse, de l'observation des présidents de République comme des femmes druzes fabriquant de la pâte à pita. Que disent ces gestes que tout le monde fait et que personne ne semble vraiment regarder ?The year of no summer: a reckoning
By Rachel Lebowitz. 2018
On April 10th, 1815, Indonesia's Mount Tambora erupted. A build-up of ash in the stratosphere altered weather patterns and lead,…
in 1816, to a year without a summer. Instead, there were June snowstorms, food shortages, epidemics, inventions, and the proliferation of new cults and religious revivals. These linked lyrical essays chart the events and effects of the apocalyptic year following the eruption. Weaving history, fairytale, mythology, and memoir, Lebowitz ruminates on our interaction with weather and the natural world, motherhood, transformation, war, the human appetite for destruction, and our search for God and meaning in times of disaster. 2018. Uniform title: Essays.The end of the end of the earth: essays
By Jonathan Franzen. 2018
In this provocative new collection, Franzen returns with renewed vigor to the themes-both human and literary-that have long preoccupied him.…
Whether exploring his complex relationship with his uncle, recounting his young adulthood in New York, or offering an illuminating look at the global seabird crisis, these pieces contain all the wit and disabused realism that we've come to expect from the award-winning author. 2018.Comme un roman
By Daniel Pennac. 1992
Un essai narratif au ton primesautier qui ne manque ni de clarté, ni d'humour, ni de bon sens et qui…
constitue un bel éloge de la lecture libre, du plaisir de lire. Une partie du livre s'adresse aux parents de jeunes enfants, l'autre aux enseignants des niveaux élémentaire et secondaire. 1992.L'histoire de la journée d'hier
By Léon Tolstoï. 1986
Dans son journal, du 24 mars 1851, Tolstoï exprime son intention "d'écrire sa journée" avec toutes les impressions et toutes…
les pensées qu'elle engendre. "L'histoire de la journée d'hier" est le premier exemple de monologue intérieur jamais écrit jusque-là. 1986.Noces suivi de L'été
By Albert Camus. 1981
Le patriarcat
By Ernest Borneman, Jeanne Etore. 1979
Le psychanalyste allemand Ernest Boreneman tente dans cet essai d'établir une chronologie de la préhistoire, fondée sur l'évolution des moyens…
techniques de production. Cette chronologie explique les phases du changement social survenu lors du passage de clans conduits par des femmes à des états dirigés par des hommes. Persuadé que la libération de la femme sera aussi celle de l'homme, l'auteur se livre à une réflexion poussée sur l'abolition des relations de pouvoir. 1979. Titre uniforme: Das Patriarchat.Historical essays
By H. R Trevor-Roper. 1957
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