Book Series: Selected Essays

Selected Essays

By Virginia Woolf

'A good essay must draw its curtain round us, but it must be a curtain that shuts us in, not out.' According to Virginia Woolf, the goal of the essay 'is simply that it should give pleasure.

In this magisterial volume, first published in 1932, Eliot gathered his choice of the miscellaneous reviews and literary essays he had written since 1917 when he became assistant editor of The Egoist.

Selected Essays

By William Troy

Includes critical essays on Henry James, Virginia Woolf, James Joyce, D. H. Lawrence, Gertrude Stein, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Stendhal, Balzac, Marcel Proust, Andre Malraux, Paul Valery, Thomas Mann, William Shakespeare (Antony and Cleopatra), ...

Selected Essays

By William Troy, Stanley Edgar Hyman

Mr. Fitzgerald , in his persistent concentration on " those fine moral decisions that people make in books ... He has more in common , let us say , with George Eliot , Henry James , and Joseph Conrad than with any of the more prominent ...

Selected Essays

By Samuel Johnson

This volume contains a generous selection from the essays Johnson published twice weekly as 'The Rambler' in the early 1750s.

Selected Essays

By Gore Vidal

* A new, accessible selection of brilliant and essential reading from one of America's modern masters

Selected Essays

By John Berger

The writing career of Booker Prize winner John Berger-poet, storyteller, playwright, and essayist-has yielded some of the most original and compelling examinations of art and life of the past half...

Selected Essays

By Virginia Woolf

'A good essay must draw its curtain round us, but it must be a curtain that shuts us in, not out.' According to Virginia Woolf, the goal of the essay 'is simply that it should give pleasure.

Selected Essays

By John Berger

John Berger's diverse achievements as a writer are widely recognized. In addition to plays, novels, short stories, and poetry, he has always written essays, expressing more than forty years of...

Selected Essays

By George Orwell

It is not possible for any thinking person to live in such a society as our own without wanting to change it. George Orwell was one of the most celebrated...

Selected Essays

By Karl Marx

In this thought-provoking collection of essays, Marx elucidates some his best-known theories and ideas about society, economics, and politics.

Selected Essays

By Joyce Cary

Selected Essays

By George Orwell

Orwell was one of the most celebrated essayists in the English language, and there are quite a few of his essays which are probably better known than any of his other writings apart from Aminal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four.

Selected Essays

By David Hume

These essays represent not only those areas where Hume's arguments are revealingly typical of his day, but also where he is strikingly innovative in a period already famous for its great thinkers.

Selected Essays

By David Hume

These essays represent not only those areas where Hume's arguments are revealingly typical of his day, but also where he is strikingly innovative in a period already famous for its great thinkers.

Selected Essays

By Robert Penn Warren

Selected Essays

By Virginia Woolf

'A good essay must draw its curtain round us, but it must be a curtain that shuts us in, not out.' According to Virginia Woolf, the goal of the essay 'is simply that it should give pleasure.