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Publisher
Vintage International, Vintage Books, a Division of Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Perhaps the most important philosopher of the twentieth century, Albert Camus (1913-1960), winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, is more relevant today than ever before. Personal Writing brings together, for the first time, thematically-linked essays from across Camus's writing career that reflect the scope of his personal preoccupations. Featuring a foreword by acclaimed Camus scholar Alice Kaplan (author of Looking for the Stranger), this volume...
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"From the acclaimed scientist and writer, essays collected for the first time in book form, on ravens and other birds, insects, trees, elephants, and more: once again 'passionate observations [that] superbly mix memoir and science.'(New York Times)"--
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
1992.
Language
English
Description
A collection of essays dealing with a variety of subjects including modern writing, feminism and education. In "Women and Fiction" Virginia Woolf considers the reasons why so many educated women began writing novels in the 18th century. In another she discusses the lack of education that women received and the narrowness of conventional education.
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Formats
Description
A collection of the year’s best essays selected by André Aciman, author of the worldwide bestseller Call Me by Your Name.
“An essay is the child of uncertainty,” André Aciman contends in his introduction to The Best American Essays 2020. “The struggle to write what one hopes is entirely true, and the long incubation every piece of writing requires of a writer who is...
“An essay is the child of uncertainty,” André Aciman contends in his introduction to The Best American Essays 2020. “The struggle to write what one hopes is entirely true, and the long incubation every piece of writing requires of a writer who is...
Author
Publisher
Project Gutenberg
Language
English
Description
Excerpt: "I do not know whether this will awaken a sympathetic lassitude in, say, fifty per cent. of its readers, or whether my experience is unique and my testimony simply curious. At any rate, it is as true as I can make it. Whether this is a mere mood, and a certain flagrant exhilaration my true attitude towards things, or this is my true attitude and the exuberant phase a lapse from it, I cannot say. Probably it does not matter. The thing is that...
18) What is cinema?
Author
Publisher
University of California Press
Pub. Date
[1967-71]
Language
English
Author
Series
Publisher
Hoover Institution Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"In this latest collection of essays selected from his syndicated newspaper columns, Walter E. Williams takes on a range of controversial issues surrounding race, education, the environment, our Constitution, and more"--Publisher's description.
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