Sister Outsider by Audre Lorde
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Category: Essays Language and Writing | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
The woman's place of power within each of us is neither white nor surface; it is dark, it is ancient, and it is deep The revolutionary writings of Audre Lorde gave voice to those 'outside the circle of this society's definition of acceptable women'. Uncompromising, angry and yet full of hope, this co ...Show more
Slouching Towards Bethlehem by Joan Didion
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Category: Essays Language and Writing
This is Joan Didion's first work of nonfiction, offering an incisive look at the mood of 1960s America and providing an essential portrait of the Californian counterculture. She explores the influences of John Wayne and Howard Hughes, and offers ruminations on the nature of good and evil in a Death Vall ...Show more
The Elements of Style, Illustrated by William Strunk, Jr. (Author) , E. B. White (Author) , Maira Kalman (Illustrated by)
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Category: Essays Language and Writing
The only style manual ever to appear on bestseller lists has explained to millions of readers the basic principles of plain English. The book's mantra - make every word tell - is still on point. Whether seventeen or seventy, this much-loved classic, now in its fourth edition, will forever be the go-to g ...Show more
The Roving Shadows by Pascal Quignard
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Category: Essays Language and Writing
There are few, if any, voices more distinct in contemporary French literature than that of Pascal Quignard, a prolific writer of rare erudition and elegance. Essayist, critic, translator, novelist and musician, Quignard attempts here an ambitious amalgam of his many artistic styles in a fragmentary work ...Show more
The White Album by Joan Didion
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Category: Essays Language and Writing
An extraordinary report on the aftermath of the 1960s in America by the New York Times-bestselling author of South and West and Slouching Towards Bethlehem.In this landmark essay collection, Joan Didion brilliantly interweaves her own "bad dreams" with those of a nation confronting the dark underside of ...Show more
Why You Should Read Children's Books, Even Though You Are So Old and Wise by Katherine Rundell
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Category: Essays Language and Writing
Katherine Rundell - Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, and prize-winning author of five novels for children - explores how children's books ignite, and can re-ignite, the imagination; how children's fiction, with its unabashed emotion and playfulness, can awaken old hungers and create new perspectives ...Show more
A Burst of Light: and Other Essays by Audre Lorde
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Category: Essays Language and Writing
"The self-described black feminist lesbian mother poet used a mixture of prose, theory, poetry, and experience to interrogate oppressions and uplift marginalized communities. She was one of the first black feminists to target heteronormativity, and to encourage black feminists to expand their understand ...Show more
A Field Guide To Getting Lost by Rebecca Solnit
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Category: Essays Language and Writing | Series: Canons
In this investigation into loss, losing and being lost, Rebecca Solnit explores the challenges of living with uncertainty. A Field Guide to Getting Lost takes in subjects as eclectic as memory and mapmaking, Hitchcock movies and Renaissance painting, Beautifully written, this book combines memoir, histo ...Show more
A Sense of Place - A Response to an Environment: the Swan River Coastal Plain, Western Australia by George Seddon
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Category: Essays Language and Writing
In 1972, George Seddon wrote Sense of Place, documenting his experience and research into the Swan Coastal Plain, which has since become a landmark Australian environmental publication. Among its claims to influence is having given modern currency to the term sense of place. Although Seddon did not coin ...Show more
Abandon Every Hope: Essays for the Dead by Hayley Singer
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Category: Essays Language and Writing
Abandon Every Hope mournfully investigates the literatures of the slaughterhouse and a world motivated by profitable death, to ultimately ask- where does this horror begin and how can it end?;Can anyone smell the suffering of souls? Of sadness, of hell on earth? Hell, I imagine, has a smell that bloats ...Show more
Abominations - Selected Essays From a Career of Courting Self-Destruction by Lionel Shriver
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Category: Essays Language and Writing
A masterful collection from one of the most acclaimed writers of our time. Abominations: Selected essays from a career of courting self-destruction showcases Lionel Shriver's relentlessly sceptical and deeply insightful thoughts on our contemporary era. Uniting essays from the Spectator, New York Times, ...Show more