Abandon Every Hope: Essays for the Dead by Hayley Singer
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Category: Essays / Short Stories
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
Your Utopia by Bora Chung (translated by Anton Hur)
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Category: Essays / Short Stories
By the internationally acclaimed author of Cursed Bunny, in another thrilling translation from the Korean by Anton Hur, Your Utopia is full of tales of loss and discovery, idealism and dystopia, death and immortality. "Nothing concentrates the mind like Chung's terrors, which will shrivel you to a boui ...Show more
Old Babes in the Wood by Margaret Atwood
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Category: Essays / Short Stories
A highly personal new collection of stories by the bestselling, twice Booker-winning cultural icon Margaret Atwood is celebrated as one of the most gifted storytellers in the world. This new collection showcases her many talents -- and the return of her beloved characters Nell & Tig They explore the ...Show more
The War Against Cliche by Martin Amis
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Category: Essays / Short Stories
"War Against Cliche" is a collection of essays.
Notes from the Henhouse: Collected Essays by Elspeth Barker
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Category: Essays / Short Stories | Series: W&N Essentials Ser.
In Notes from the Henhouse, you will find: A Gothic castle, a draughty Norfolk farmhouse and a malevolent Aga A pet pig, Portia with a penchant for drama, an obsession with geraniums and an addiction to wine (the Bulgarian vintage) George Barker, poet and beloved husband, warbling cowboy songs into h ...Show more
The Deadline - Essays by Jill Lepore (Contribution by)
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Category: Essays / Short Stories
Few, if any, historians have brought such insight, wisdom, and empathy to public discourse as Jill Lepore. Arriving at The New Yorker in 2005, Lepore, with her panoptical range and razor-sharp style, brought a transporting freshness and a literary vivacity to everything from profiles of long-dead writer ...Show more
Roman Stories by Jhumpa Lahiri
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Category: Essays / Short Stories
From the internationally bestselling, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Interpreter of Maladies comes an exquisitely crafted work of fiction. Jhumpa Lahiri sets her gaze on the eternally beautiful city, illuminating the frailties of the human condition and dissecting lives lived on the margins. A man r ...Show more
Short Stories - From a Murder Mystery, to a Man Who Never Was by Derryn Hinch
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Category: Essays / Short Stories
Short Stories: and now for something completely different, as they once said in a famous film. Over more than 45 years Derryn Hinch has written 19 books from novels to autobiographies; Scrabble, Wordle, and several diet and health books. But he had never tried anything like this. A compendium of short s ...Show more
The Common Reader: First Series (Collins Classics) by Virginia. Woolf
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Category: Essays / Short Stories | Series: Collins Classics Ser.
HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics.'A good essay must have this permanent quality about it; it must draw its curtain round us, but it must be a curtain that shuts us in not out'In the first volume of her critical essays, Virginia Woolf discusses the ...Show more
Pleasure of Thinking by Wang Xiaobo
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Category: Essays / Short Stories
The dazzling essays of the beloved, subversive Chinese writer Wang Xiaobo, a continual bestseller in China, now in English for the first time. Wang Xiaobo made his name as a novelist but his essays, too, have become ongoing bestsellers in China since their publication in the 1990s. Bringing together hi ...Show more
The School of Life: Collected Essays by The School of Life
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Category: Essays / Short Stories
A 15th anniversary collection of The School of Life's most popular andessential essays on self-knowledge, relationships, work and culture. The School of Life is an organisation with a focused mission at its heart: to help foster calm, self-understanding and greater emotional maturity. Over 15 years, we ...Show more
Justice and Hope: Essays, Lectures and Other Writings by Raimond Gaita
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Category: Essays / Short Stories
The collected writings of Raimond Gaita 'From where will we draw the moral energy to stay true to justice?' For more than three decades the incomparable voice of Raimond Gaita has been summoning us to new conversations that deepen our understanding of what matters most to human life and awaken the sen ...Show more