Books of English essays

  • Hours in a Library: (essays)
    Hours in a Library: (essays)
    By Sir Leslie Stephen

    ... and what is the state of the balance at his banker's—how ishe to introducetheideal element which must, in some degree, be present inall genuine art? What precisely ismeantby 'ideal' is aquestion which forthemoment Ipretermit.

  • The True Adventures of the Rolling Stones
    The True Adventures of the Rolling Stones

    Then he started easing his way back towards the shore , thinking only of the shore and that each careful step brought him one step closer . ' Hey ! He stopped and turned slowly around in the water , wishing this thing had happened when ...

  • And Even Now
    And Even Now
    By Max Beerbohm

    He can be dull and null enough with us sometimes— a mere asker of questions, or drawer of comparisons between this and that brand of cigarettes, or full expatiator on the merits of some new patent razor. A whole hour and more may be ...

  • Samuel Johnson and the Essay
    Samuel Johnson and the Essay
    By Robert Donald Spector

    In Greene Centennial Studies , edited by Paul J. Korshin and Robert R. Allen , pp . 271-99 . Charlottesville : University Press of Virginia , 1984 . Holmes , Richard . Dr. Johnson and Mr. Savage . New York : Pantheon Books , 1993 .

  • 真理是一颗日光下的珍珠
    By Francis Bacon

    Ben shu shi ying guo si xiang jia pei gen de sui bi ji,Yuan shu pei gen sui bi zhu yao shou lu le yi xie yi lun xing zhi de duan wen,She ji zheng zhi,Jing ji,Zong jiao,Ai qing,Hun yin,You yi,Yi shu,Jiao yu,Lun li deng fang fang mian mian,Qi ...

  • Present Concerns
    Present Concerns
    By Clive Staples Lewis

    In the nineteen essays collected in Present Concerns, he touches on all of these and more. Though wide-ranging, these essays all share one thing: C.S. Lewis's characteristic pragmatism and persuasiveness.

  • 50 Classic Essays

    50 Classic Essays

  • 培根隨筆: 理性思考的58則建言
    培根隨筆: 理性思考的58則建言
    By 曹明倫, 培根

    Traditional Chinese edition of Francis Bacon Essays.

  • 培根随笔集
    By Bacon, 培根, Francis·培根

    本书收入论真理、论死亡、谈养生之道、谈习惯和教育、谈荣誉和名声等58篇文章。

  • Present Concerns
    Present Concerns
    By Clive Staples Lewis

    Nineteen essays-on democratic values, threats to educational and spiritual fulfillment, literary censorship, and other topics all displaying Lewis’s characteristic sanity and persuasiveness. Introduction by Walter Hooper.

  • 史密斯散文选
    By 万·主, 洛根·皮尔索尔·史密斯

    这是一部堪称不朽的散文集.作者由于这部自题为"琐事集"的小书而蜚声世界文坛.这里表现的确实是一些微不足道的小事, 然而在诙谐幽默的语趣中, 却充满了供你深思的意义, ...

  • The Major Works
    The Major Works
    By Francis Bacon

    This authoritative edition was originally published in the acclaimed Oxford Authors series under the general editorship of Frank Kermode.

  • Jak zmieniałam zdanie: eseje okolicznościowe
    By Zadie Smith, Społeczny Instytut Wydawniczy Znak

    Changing My Mind announces Zadie Smith as one of our most important contemporary essayists, a writer with the rare ability to turn the world on its side with both fact and fiction.

  • Essays
    Essays
    By George Orwell

    Included among the more than 240 essays in this volume are Orwell's famous discussion of pacifism, "My Country Right or Left," his scathingly complicated views on the dirty work of imperialism in "Shooting an Elephant," and his very firm ...

  • The Collected, Essays, Journalism and Letters of George Orwell. V. 3. As I Please
    By George Orwell

    The Collected, Essays, Journalism and Letters of George Orwell. V. 3. As I Please

  • Late Essays and Articles
    By David Herbert Lawrence

    Thirty-nine essays and articles, written by D.H. Lawrence in the period between 1926 and his death in 1930, are collected in this volume.

  • Nineteenth Century English Prose: Early Essayists: Lamb, Hazlitt, Hunt, De Quincey, Macaulay
    Nineteenth Century English Prose: Early Essayists: Lamb, Hazlitt, Hunt, De Quincey, Macaulay
    By Frederick William Roe

    Nineteenth Century English Prose: Early Essayists: Lamb, Hazlitt, Hunt, De Quincey, Macaulay

  • The Collected Works of G.K. Chesterton
    The Collected Works of G.K. Chesterton
    By Gilbert Keith Chesterton

    The Collected Works of G.K. Chesterton

  • Late Essays and Articles
    By David Herbert Lawrence

    Late Essays and Articles

  • New Malaysian Essays
    New Malaysian Essays

    Di kanan mangkuk chik kut teh adalah secawan kopi tarik kurang manis, percubaan futile untuk mengurangkan gula. Sebelumnya, saya memilih makan di situ kerana berfikir, barangkali, untuk menyambut Merdeka, saya boleh makan malam ...