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How to Tell a Story and Other Essays

by Mark Twain

In How to Tell a Story and Other Essays, iconic American author Mark Twain discusses his own experience as a writer and his personal style. In various essays in the collection he attacks a contemporary of his,...


To the Batpole: An Essay/Parody on Batman

by Alex Bledsoe

From Batman Unauthorized: Vigilantes, Jokers, and Heroes in Gotham City: Alex Bledsoe imagines Alfred's reaction to Bruce Wayne's confusion over the onset of puberty.


Essays - First Series

by Ralph Waldo Emerson

American essayist, philosopher and poet Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882) lead Transcendentalism in the early nineteenth century and greatly influenced the later New Thought movement. Summing up his work, Emerson...


Essays of Robert Louis Stevenson

by Robert Louis Stevenson

G. K. Chesterton said of Scottish writer Robert Louis Stevenson that he "seemed to pick the right word up on the point of his pen, like a man playing spillikins." This collection of Stevenson's essays includes:...


Essays - Second Series

by Ralph Waldo Emerson

American essayist, philosopher and poet Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882) lead Transcendentalism in the early nineteenth century and greatly influenced the later New Thought movement. Summing up his work, Emerson...


Letters on England

by Voltaire

Letters on England gathers together Voltaire's essays about his time in England between 1726 and 1728. Comparable to Alexis De Tocqueville's Democracy in America, Voltaire looks at English culture as an outsider,...


Intentions

by Oscar Wilde

Oscar Wilde was one of the most successful playwrights of the Victorian era. He was also a notorious supporter of the decadence and aesthetic movements, eventually jailed for having a young male lover. His name...


Third Class in Indian Railways

by Mahatma Gandhi

From the text: I have now been in India for over two years and a half after my return from South Africa. Over one quarter of that time I have passed on the Indian trains travelling third class by choice. I have...


The Essential Thoreau

by Henry David Thoreau

Collected here in this omnibus edition are Henry David Thoreau's most important works including A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers; The Selected Essays of Henry David Thoreau, including Civil Disobedience;...


The Lost Art of Losing

by Gregory Norminton

The Lost Art of Losing is a collection of thoughts, rants and aphorisms by award-winning novelist Gregory Norminton. By turns comic and despairing, jubilant and wry, they present, through fragments, a picture...


Happy and Merry

by Lisa Scottoline & Francesca Serritella

Just in time for Christmas comes a collection of the very best holiday essays from the bestselling Mother/Daughter writing duo. Whether their shopping for matching reindeer dog sweaters or having second helpings...


A Slayer Comes to Town: An Essay on Buffy the Vampire Slayer

by Scott Westerfeld

From Seven Seasons of Buffy: Science Fiction and Fantasy Authors Discuss Their Favorite Television Show: Scott Westerfeld analyzes the success of Buffy as a nontraditional "Trespass" story.


DON'T PRESS THAT BUTTON!: An Essay on James Bond

by J. A. Konrath

From James Bond in the 21st Century: Why We Still Need 007: J.A. Konrath's spy gagdget shopping list includes "usefulness" analyses and a cool-factor review.


Sex in Seattle: An Essay on Grey's Anatomy

by Jacqueline Carey

From Grey's Anatomy 101: Seattle Grace, Unauthorized: Jacqueline Carey explores the presence of sex in Grey's Anatomy and how it informs character interactions in a way that is refreshingly realistic.


A Novelist and a Zombie Walk Into a Bar: Translating The Walking Dead to Prose

by Jay Bonansinga

From Triumph of The Walking Dead: Robert Kirkman's Zombie Epic on Page and Screen: Jay Bonansinga explores the translation of comic books into novels.


A Few Blown Fuses Before the Night is Over: An Essay on True Blood

by Jacob Clifton

From A Taste of True Blood: The Fangbanger's Guide: Jacob Clifton discusses the "guide" figure and the effect V has on characters' relationships.


my favourite words, phrases, sentences, and paragraphs

by Victoria Miguel

 My favourite words, phrases, sentences, and paragraphs  comprises  a list of words, phases, and quotations accompanied by stories, anecdotes, and essays that explore the role of language and quotation as...


...Always a Fan

by , Mike Resnick & Tony Lewis

Mike Resnick's second collection of essays, anecdotes, speeches, and convention reports (not to mention lists and obituaries), written for science fiction fan magazines, includes topics as diverse as Edgar Rice...


Transmission and the Individual Remix

by Tom Mccarthy

Sub-titled "How Literature Works" this essay by the renown novelist is a provocative and entertaining work of postmodern theory that re-evaluates literature and literary meaning from Aeschylus to Kraftwerk....


The Muse Is Always Half-Dressed in New Orleans: And Other Essays

by Andrei Codrescu

Codrescu's New Orleans is a layered world of masks that he removes without shrinking from either their horror or their demonic joy. This scented, vibrant, corrupt, dreamy city that "habla suneos" (speaks dreams)...