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Montaigne: Essays

Montaigne: Essays

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    Montaigne: Essays

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    • Know thyself
    • In 1580, Michel de Montaigne, a French nobleman, courtier, and mayor of Bordeaux, dedicated this "honest book" to his family and friends so that they might know him as he really was. It may be...
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Essays

Essays

In these beautiful essays, Wallace Shawn takes us on a revelatory journey in which the personal and political become... more

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Small Wonder: Essays

Small Wonder: Essays

In her new essay collection, the beloved author of High Tide in Tucson brings to us, out of one of history's darker... more

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    Small Wonder: Essays

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    • Great book
    • Interesting read
      Has lots of meaning and detail.

      Book arrived within delivery estimate and there wasn't anything that rendered the book unreadable.
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    • worst book i've ever read
    • This book was required reading for my advanced placement english class. I consider myself a lover of the written word. I dream of someday becoming a novelist, or at least an english teacher. It...
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    • My Review From Southwest BookViews Summer 2002
    • After Barbara Kingsolver accumulated a number of editorial pieces in response to the September 11 attacks, friends pointed out that she had a book in the making. As she writes in her forward,...
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Essays from Contemporary Culture

Essays from Contemporary Culture

Praised for its collection of essays on contemporary issues, the fifth edition offers more coverage of critical... more

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Essays of the Masters

Essays of the Masters

This unorthodox but delightful anthology of 42 essays focuses on the masters of world literature. more

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    Essays of the Masters

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    • Essays at Essays
    • My problem with this selection is not the essayists or "essays" chosen, per se, but with the EDITOR, Mr. Nieman. He has managed to truncate or abbreviate or stop in medias res every "essay" he has...
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Essays (Large Print Edition)

Essays (Large Print Edition)

I read the other day some verses written by an eminent painter which were original and not conventional. The soul... more

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The Afterlife: Essays and Criticism

The Afterlife: Essays and Criticism

"A good book," wrote John Milton, "is the precious life-blood of a master-spirit, embalmed and treasured up on... more

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The Last Empire: Essays 1992-2000

The Last Empire: Essays 1992-2000

Like his National Book Award?winning United States, Gore Vidal?s scintillating ninth collection, The Last Empire,... more

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    The Last Empire: Essays 1992-2000

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    • the last empire
    • Vidal's political essays should be required reading
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    • mostly illogical, but intellegent
    • Gore Vidal, clearly one of the great essayists of our time, a wonderful man to read. He speaks to the best iun us and one must be educated to fully comprehend his literary indulgences....
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Where I Live: Selected Essays

Where I Live: Selected Essays

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Art and Culture: Critical Essays

Art and Culture: Critical Essays

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Essays: First and Second Series

Essays: First and Second Series

Our most eloquent champion of individualism, Emerson acknowledges at the same time the countervailing pressures of... more

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    Essays: First and Second Series

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    • Prophetic!
    • Emerson's essays are prophetic. Like peeling an onion; every time you read them, you understand life, the human race, and yourself, at a deeper level.
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No Other Book: Selected Essays

No Other Book: Selected Essays

Randall Jarrell was only fifty-one at the time of his death, in 1965, yet he created a body of work that secured his... more

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    No Other Book: Selected Essays

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    • One of the Best Critics of the Century
    • I came across this book about a year ago. I picked up a used copy of it, and read "The Age of Criticism." Afterwards I could not put the book down. I was not familiar with Jarrell's essays, and...
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    • Yes, Another Book
    • Jarrell's lush communication style has always thrilled me. For the rare impact Jarrell's style has on me.

      I am moved simply by the effort to bring Jarrell back to the fray.

      It is enough for me...

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    • This book puts essays by an important writer back into print
    • This book puts essays by an important American writer back into print, but it's a bad book. Beginning with the cover's silver lamella treatment but extending especially to the selection and the...
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Essays on Aristotle's Poetics

Essays on Aristotle's Poetics

Aimed at deepening our understanding of the Poetics, this collection places Aristotle's analysis of tragedy in its... more

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    • Tragedy Teaches Us Something About Life
    • I read these works for a graduate seminar on Aristotle.
      Poetry appeals to human passions and emotions. Powerful beautiful language and metaphor really appeal to emotion. This idea really...
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An Essay Concerning Human Understanding

An Essay Concerning Human Understanding

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and... more

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    • Lock is Genius
    • I don't know much about philosophy or the study of knowledge, i just read on my own and go wherever my mind take me, but i do know that this book is pretty amazing. Although this book is a tough...
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    • Not unless you need it...
    • For the most part, this book is unreadable and uninspiring. The abridged editions are not much better. It was highly influential in its time, so it's standard reading for history-of-philosophy...
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Consider the Lobster: And Other Essays

Consider the Lobster: And Other Essays

Do lobsters feel pain? Did Franz Kafka have a sick sense of humor? What is John Updike+s deal anyway? And who won the... more

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    • Missing one key piece...
    • DFW's content is not the object of this review. Rather, I am reviewing (and objecting to) the Kindle version of the book, which does not include the marvelous essay, "Host." Although I (now)...
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    • Refreshing ...
    • David Foster Wallace's, "Consider The Lobster," was the type of book I find myself drawn to. It is a collection of essays that DFW wrote without coming across as trying to force feed to his...
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    • Semi-Ugh (updated)
    • I gave this one star, but I should update it to 2. The essay that attracted me first was on English usage, but it seemed daunting to tackle it. But once I got into it, that alone lifted my rating...
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Selected Essays of William Carlos Williams

Selected Essays of William Carlos Williams

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    • A good introduction to his thought
    • My point of view: I have a PhD in American Lit, but do not currently work in academia. I write from the perspective of an educated enthusiast.

      I have not read any other book of his...
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The Essays: A Selection (Penguin Classics)

The Essays: A Selection (Penguin Classics)

To overcome a crisis of melancholy after the death of his father, Montaigne withdrew to his country estates and began... more

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    • Five Stars for Montaigne, One for Screech
    • Over the years I have kept a copy of the Essays by my favorite reading chair to be enjoyed at random, particularly in the middle of the night when Entropy seems to hold the upper hand. They...
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    • Wherever we read we meet the man
    • Montaigne goes on his adventures of mind, and explores worlds seemingly far from his own , and yet always somehow leads us back to himself. His digressions and his ramblings in thought mark a new...
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Confucius and the Analects: New Essays

Confucius and the Analects: New Essays

Confucius is one of the most influential figures--as historical individual and as symbol--in world history; and the... more

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    • Great book. A "must read" for the Confucian student.
    • A great collection of essays. I learned a lot. My favorite essays were: (2) Naturalness revisited: why westerners should study Confucius, (3) Ren and Li in the Analects, (4) "What does Heaven...
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One Hundred Great Essays (Penguin Academics)

One Hundred Great Essays (Penguin Academics)

One Hundred Great Essaysis published as part of the Penguin Academics Series, a series of low-cost, high-quality... more

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    • Comprehensive and nicely printed
    • If you are an instructor of advanced English Composition or a literature class, this volume, edited by Robert DiYanni, is very comprehensive and represents a wide range of subjects and styles.
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    • Commentary on the State of Belles Lettres?
    • In part this review is based upon my use of the book in the classroom, in essay writing classes. But this may not be so much a bias, for what other possible reason would this book be written? (And...
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All Art Is Propaganda: Critical Essays

All Art Is Propaganda: Critical Essays

As a critic, George Orwell cast a wide net. Equally at home discussing Charles Dickens and Charlie Chaplin, he moved... more

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    • Provides Orwell's reflections on a range of critical topics from literature to art
    • George Orwell was a fine essayist and successful critic, discussing art and literature with equal ability and ALL ART IS PROPAGANDA: CRITICAL ESSAYS is a key recommendation for all kinds of...
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Nature and Other Essays (Thrift Edition)

Nature and Other Essays (Thrift Edition)

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On Writing Research: The Braddock Essays 1975-1998

On Writing Research: The Braddock Essays 1975-1998

This compiliation includes twenty-six of the Braddock essays, recently written afterwords as each author reflects on... more

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The Orwell Reader: Fiction, Essays, and Reportage

The Orwell Reader: Fiction, Essays, and Reportage

Here is Orwell?s work in all its remarkable range and variety. The selections in this anthology show how Orwell... more

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    • Fiction in Fragments...Orwell hidden.
    • I am no stranger to the sin of pride. I pride myself on being systematic and as a result being as objective as possible.I believe I have read every available writing Orwell has ever written.
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    • A Moveable Feast
    • The blurb on the back of the book calls THE GEORGE ORWELL READER "a feast of reading for the thinking person." It is. For years this book was virtually my Bible, occupying a permenent place on the...
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    • The originals in their entirety are more appropriate for him
    • I was disappointed with this compendium of the grand writer's work. I consider Animal Farm a great treatise on the ills of communism from both a generic and specific point of view, and was hoping...
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At the Same Time: Essays and Speeches

At the Same Time: Essays and Speeches

"A writer is someone who pays attention to the world," Susan Sontag said in her 2003 acceptance speech for the Peace... more

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    • Serious vs Fun
    • Well, Sontag would never have been given the chaired Professorship of Fun at Cornell or Duke or John Hopkins. American intellectuals have left her behind, along with Gore Vidal and Edmund Wilson....
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    • Standard Sontag
    • Susan Sontag was one of the most insightful and intelligent essayists of the last century. Her death is a tremendous loss to American Arts and Letters. At the Same Time is a collection of...
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The Best American Essays of the Century

The Best American Essays of the Century

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Essays (Everyman's Library Classics & Contemporary Classics)

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