Litterære essayer

Love's Executioner offers us the humane and extraordinary insight of renowned psychiatrist Irvin D. Yalom into the lives of ten of his patients - and through them into the minds of …

An ancient inscription identified some of the ruins at el Amarna as "The Place of the Letters of the Pharaoh." Discovered there, circa 1887, were nearly four hundred cuneiform …

Ifølge Weber er det sosiologiens oppgave ikke bare å finne regulariteter i menneskelige handlinger, slik de opptrer i forskjellige samfunn og kulturer, men også å forstå det …

"Essays" er en av de store klassikerne i fransk litteratur og en selvskreven del av Vestens litterære kanon. Hva er det særegne med Montaignes "Essays"? Først og fremst det …

Newsday has said that Nick Tosches "casts brilliant black light." The San Diego Reader has said that "Tosches's best sentences uncoil like rattlesnakes and strike with a venom …

Unmissable. Like chancing upon an oasis, you want to drink it slowly... Subtle, unpredictable, surprising' Guardian.Things I Don't Want to Know is the first in Deborah Levy's …

'But, you may say, we asked you to speak about women and fiction - what has that got to do with a room of one's own?'A Room of One's Own grew out of a lecture that Virginia Woolf …

From the twice-Man Booker Prize-shortlisted author of Hot Milk and Swimming Home : Dazzling, essential, entirely unlike anything else -- a memoir on modern womanhood, rejecting …

From one of the great thinkers and writers of our time, comes the unmissable final instalment in Deborah Levy's critically acclaimed 'Living Autobiography'.'A beautifully crafted …

A new expanded edition of Tolkienââ?¬â?¢s most famous, and most important essay, which defined his conception of fantasy as a literary form, and which led to the writing of The …