Essays
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The Art of Travel
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Offers insights into things that range from holiday romance to hotel mini-bars, airports to sight-seeing. This book...
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An Image of Africa/ The Trouble with Nigeria
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Asserts the author’s belief in Joseph Conrad as a ‘bloody racist’ and his conviction that Conrad&...
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London Journal 1762-1763
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Edinburgh-born James Boswell, at 22, kept a daily diary of his eventful second stay in London from 1762 to 1763. Th...
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Night Walks
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Charles Dickens describes his time as an insomniac, when he decided to cure himself by walking through London in th...
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The Painter of Modern Life
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Explores beauty, fashion, dandyism, the purpose of art and the role of the artist. This book describes the painter ...
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The Essays (A Selection)
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To overcome a crisis of melancholy after the death of his father, Montaigne withdrew to his country estates and beg...
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Walden and Civil Disobedience (AND Civil Disobedience)
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Disdainful of America’s booming commercialism and industrialism, Henry David Thoreau left Concord, Massachuse...
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The Faith of a Writer: Life, Craft, Art
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The author of I’ll Take You There and The Tattooed Girl offers insight into the creative process, sharing the...
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Lost, Stolen or Shredded
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Like Sherlock Holmes’ dog in the night time, sometimes the true significance of things lies in their absence....
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Dear Mark Twain: Letters from His Readers
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A voracious pack-rat, Mark Twain hoarded his readers’ letters as did few of his contemporaries. This title co...
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Childhood
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Written when the author was eighty-three years old, but dealing with only the first twelve years of her life, this ...
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