Death Sentence: The Decay of Public Language by Don Watson
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Category: Essays, Language & Writing
Part diatribe, part cool reflection on the state of Australia's public language, Don Watson's Death Sentenceis scathing, funny and brilliant.' ... in public life the language has never been held in less regard. It withers in the dungeons of the technocratic mind. It is butchered by the media. In politic ...Show more
Women of Letters #7 Signed Sealed Delivered by Michaela McGuire
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Category: Essays, Language & Writing
"Dear Madonna, Thank you for showing me that it is okay to be both a devoted mother and on a podium drenched in glitter. Love, Em Rusciano Dear Leigh Sales, What kind of psychopath is unmoved by fairy wrens? Love, Annabel Crabb The art of letter writing is still the best way to connect, to express a th ...Show more
The Collected Schizophrenias by Esme Weijun West
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Category: Essays, Language & Writing
'I've inherited a love of a writing and a talent for the visual arts from my mother, as well as her long and tapered fingers; I've also inherited a tendency for madness' Esme Weijun Wang was officially diagnosed with schizoaffective disorder in 2013, although the hallucinations and psychotic episodes h ...Show more
Into the Woods - How Stories Work and Why We Tell Them by John Yorke
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Category: Essays, Language & Writing
The Revolutionary guide to dramatic writing, whether you're writing the next Chinatown, Breaking Bad, or Glengarry Glen Ross. The idea of Into the Woods is not to supplant works by Aristotle, Lajos Egri, Robert McKee, David Mamet, or any other writers of guides for screenwriters and playwrights, but to ...Show more
Species of Spaces and Other Pieces by Georges Perec
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Category: Essays, Language & Writing
Georges Perec produced some of the most entertaining and spirited essays of his age. His literary output was amazingly varied in form and style and this generous selection of Perec's non-fictional work also demonstrates his characteristic lightness of touch, wry humour and accessibility.
Aspects of the Novel by E.M. Forster, Oliver Stallybrass
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Category: Essays, Language & Writing | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
Sponsored by Trinity College of the University of Cambridge, The Clark Lectures have a long and distinguished history and have featured remarks by some of England's most important literary minds: Leslie Stephen, T. S. Eliot, F. R. Leavis, William Epsom, and I. A. Richards. All have given celebrated and ...Show more
Letters from a Stoic by Seneca
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Category: Essays, Language & Writing | Series: A\Penguin Classics Hardcover Ser.
Like the Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, Seneca's Letters are a treasure of practical wisdom on how to live and enjoy life. The focus is on living a simple, stress-free life thorough the use of rationalism. Seneca's timeless essays provide practical steps for people to deal with the human suffering that ...Show more
The Written World and the Unwritten World: Collected Non-Fiction by Italo Calvino
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Category: Essays, Language & Writing
A true celebration of literature in its many forms, The Written World and the Unwritten Worldbrings together essays, articles, interviews, forewords and notes from the inimitable mind of Italo Calvino. The fate of the novel, reading and translation are just some of the subjects examined in this remarkab ...Show more
Beyond the Pleasure Principle by Sigmund Freud
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Category: Essays, Language & Writing | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
A collection of essays including "On The Introduction of Narcissism", "Remembering, Repeating and Working Through", "Beyond the Pleasure Principle", "The Ego and the ID" and "Inhibition, Symptom and Fear".
'Unto This Last' & Other Writings by John Ruskin
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Category: Essays, Language & Writing | Series: Classics Ser.
First and foremost an outcry against injustice and inhumanity, Unto this Last is also a closely argued assault on the science of political economy, which dominated the Victorian period. Ruskin was a profoundly conservative man who looked back to the Middle Ages as a Utopia, yet his ideas had a considera ...Show more
The Rub of Time by Martin Amis
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Category: Essays, Language & Writing
Of all the great novelists writing today, none shows the same gift as Martin Amis for writing non-fiction - his essays, literary criticism and journalism are justly acclaimed. The Rub of Time comprises superb critical pieces on Amis's heroes Nabokov, Bellow and Larkin to brilliantly funny ruminations on ...Show more
On Drinking by Charles Bukowski
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Category: Essays, Language & Writing
The definitive collection of works on a subject that inspired and haunted Charles Bukowski for his entire life: alcohol.Charles Bukowski turns to the bottle in this revelatory collection of poetry and prose that includes some of the writer's best and most lasting work. A self-proclaimed "dirty old man," ...Show more