Literary Essays
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The Uncaged Voice
Cormorant Books£12.99| /Freedom, truth, and justice are taken for granted in some countries. In others, they are aspirational. And yet in others, they are deemed justifica...
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Theogony
Focus Publishing (US)£11.99| /This translation contains an introduction, commentary and interpretive essay and well as numerous notes and annotations to provide the history and ...
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Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£10.99| /A model of what an edition of a philosohic text for an introductory level should be. Introduction does an admirable job of putting Berkeley's thoug...
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Union & Liberty
Liberty Fund Inc. (US)£10.95| /Calhoun's most important constitutional and political writings are now available as complete, unabridged texts and in a single volume, many for the...
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Vindication of Natural Society
Liberty Fund Inc. (US)£8.95| /This is a new edition of Edmund Burke's first work, originally issued anonymously in 1756 as a letter attributed to 'a late noble writer'. In 1757 ...
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Voices, Places
Paul Dry Books (US)£20.99| /How are voices like places? They move through us as we move through them. Celebrated poet David Mason explores surprising connections in geography ...
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Waiting
University of Alberta Press (CA)£21.99| /The verb esperar means to wait. It also means to hope.--"The Past Was a Small Notebook, Much Scribbled-Upon", Cora Siré Waiting, that most human of...
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We Are Not Avatars
Palimpsest Press£15.99| /Renowned poet and editor John Barton collects his most provocative essays, public lectures, and reviews produced over the past twenty-five years. B...
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Wieland; or The Transformation
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£14.99| /Wieland; or The Transformation (1798) ties revolutionary-era Gothic themes to struggles over the politics of Enlightenment on both sides of the Atl...
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Wisdom in Nonsense
University of Alberta Press (CA)£10.99| /I broke all the rules that my dad gave me. It was he who had given me, in part, the confidence to think of my life as being worthy to mix with tho...
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Wisdom of Adam Smith
Liberty Fund Inc. (US)£7.95| /Adam Smith was an eloquent man of considerable philosophical and historical learning. His most incisive and enduring observations are collected her...
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Writer Who Stayed
Paul Dry Books (US)£15.99| /William Zinsser, author of "On Writing Well" and many other books, wrote a weekly blog for the American Scholar -- about writing, the arts, New Yor...
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