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|style="background:#C6D9F0;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:Essays_in_Idleness.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''Essays in Idleness''<br/> ( ) <br/>by Yoshida Kenko </small> | |style="background:#C6D9F0;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:Essays_in_Idleness.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''Essays in Idleness''<br/> ( ) <br/>by Yoshida Kenko </small> | ||
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|style="background:#C6D9F0;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:in_Defense_of_Sanity.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''In Defense of Sanity: The Best Essays''<br/> ( ) <br/>by G.K. Chesterton </small> | |style="background:#C6D9F0;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:in_Defense_of_Sanity.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''In Defense of Sanity: The Best Essays''<br/> ( ) <br/>by G.K. Chesterton </small> | ||
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|colspan=5 style="background:#8DB3E2;"|'''Further Classic''' | |colspan=5 style="background:#8DB3E2;"|'''Further Classic Essays''' | ||
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|colspan=5|<small>''Essays'' ( ) by Francis Bacon </small> | |colspan=5|<small>''Essays'' ( ) by Francis Bacon </small> | ||
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|colspan=5|<small>''Essays'' ( ) by Robert Louis Stevenson </small> | |colspan=5|<small>''Essays'' ( ) by Robert Louis Stevenson </small> | ||
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|colspan=5 style="background:#8DB3E2;"|'''Modern and Contemporary Essays (English Language)''' | |||
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|style="background:#C6D9F0;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:a_Collection_of_Essays.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''A Collection of Essays''<br/> ( ) <br/>by George Orwell </small> | |||
|style="background:#C6D9F0;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:Geography_of_the_Imagination.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''Geography of the Imagination''<br/> ( ) <br/>by Guy Davenport </small> | |||
|style="background:#C6D9F0;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:We_Tell_Ourselves_Stories.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''We Tell Ourselves Stories In Order to Live''<br/> ( ) <br/>by Joan Didion </small> | |||
|style="background:#C6D9F0;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:the_Portable_Dorothy_Parker.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''The Portable Dorothy Parker''<br/> ( ) <br/>by Dorothy Parker </small> | |||
|style="background:#C6D9F0;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:an_Elemental_Thing.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''An Elemental Thing''<br/> ( ) <br/>by Eliot Weinberger </small> | |||
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|colspan=5 style="background:#8DB3E2;"|'''Further Modern and Contemporary Essays (English Language)''' | |||
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|colspan=5|<small>''Early and Later Essays'' ( ) by W.B. Yeats </small> | |||
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|colspan=5|<small>''Selected Essays'' ( ) by Virginia Woolf </small> | |||
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|colspan=5|<small>''Selected Essays'' ( ) by T.S. Eliot </small> | |||
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|colspan=5|<small>''Selected Essays'' ( ) by D.H. Lawrence </small> | |||
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|colspan=5|<small>''Kokoro'' ( ) by Lafcadio Hearn </small> | |||
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|colspan=5|<small>''Essays'' ( ) by E.B. White </small> | |||
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|colspan=5|<small>''Against Interpretation and Other Essays'' ( ) by Susan Sontag </small> | |||
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|colspan=5|<small>''Dreamers of Dreams: Essays on Poets and Poetry'' ( ) by John Simon </small> | |||
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|colspan=5|<small>''Huxley and God: Essays on Religious Experience'' ( ) by Aldous Huxley </small> | |||
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|colspan=5|<small>''Mystery and Manners'' ( ) by Flannery O'Connor </small> | |||
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|colspan=5|<small>''Literary Essays'' ( ) by Ezra Pound </small> | |||
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|colspan=5|<small>''In Favor of the Sensitive Man, and Other Essays'' ( ) by Anais Nin </small> | |||
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|colspan=5|<small>''Portraits and Observations: The Essays'' ( ) by Truman Capote </small> | |||
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|colspan=5|<small>''The Best of Myles'' ( ) by Flann O'Brien </small> | |||
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|colspan=5 style="background:#8DB3E2;"|'''Recommendation images''' | |colspan=5 style="background:#8DB3E2;"|'''Recommendation images''' | ||
Revision as of 13:28, 9 July 2012
Biographies
Essays
Essays | ||||
| Classic Essays | ||||
 Essays in Idleness ( ) by Yoshida Kenko |
 The Anatomy of Melancholy ( ) by Robert Burton |
 The Complete Essays ( ) by Mark Twain |
 The Painter of Modern Life and Other Essays ( ) by Charles Baudelaire |
 In Defense of Sanity: The Best Essays ( ) by G.K. Chesterton |
| Further Classic Essays | ||||
| Essays ( ) by Francis Bacon | ||||
| The Complete Essays ( ) by Michel de Montaigne | ||||
| Selected Essays ( ) by Samuel Johnson | ||||
| A Dissertation Upon Roast Pig and Other Essays ( ) by Charles Lamb | ||||
| Walden ( ) by Henry David Thoreau | ||||
| The Essential Writings ( ) by Ralph Waldo Emerson | ||||
| The Soul of Man Under Socialism and Selected Critical Prose ( ) by Oscar Wilde | ||||
| Essays ( ) by Robert Louis Stevenson | ||||
| Modern and Contemporary Essays (English Language) | ||||
 A Collection of Essays ( ) by George Orwell |
File:Geography of the Imagination.jpg Geography of the Imagination ( ) by Guy Davenport |
 We Tell Ourselves Stories In Order to Live ( ) by Joan Didion |
File:The Portable Dorothy Parker.jpg The Portable Dorothy Parker ( ) by Dorothy Parker |
 An Elemental Thing ( ) by Eliot Weinberger |
| Further Modern and Contemporary Essays (English Language) | ||||
| Early and Later Essays ( ) by W.B. Yeats | ||||
| Selected Essays ( ) by Virginia Woolf | ||||
| Selected Essays ( ) by T.S. Eliot | ||||
| Selected Essays ( ) by D.H. Lawrence | ||||
| Kokoro ( ) by Lafcadio Hearn | ||||
| Essays ( ) by E.B. White | ||||
| Against Interpretation and Other Essays ( ) by Susan Sontag | ||||
| Dreamers of Dreams: Essays on Poets and Poetry ( ) by John Simon | ||||
| Huxley and God: Essays on Religious Experience ( ) by Aldous Huxley | ||||
| Mystery and Manners ( ) by Flannery O'Connor | ||||
| Literary Essays ( ) by Ezra Pound | ||||
| In Favor of the Sensitive Man, and Other Essays ( ) by Anais Nin | ||||
| Portraits and Observations: The Essays ( ) by Truman Capote | ||||
| The Best of Myles ( ) by Flann O'Brien | ||||
| Recommendation images | ||||
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Philosophy
Travel Literature
Travel Literature | ||||
| General Travels | ||||
 The Travels ( ) by Ibn Battutah |
 The Journals ( ) of Captain James Cook |
 Collected Travel Writing ( ) by Evelyn Waugh |
 Travels With Herodotus ( ) by Ryszard Kapuscinsk |
 The Way of the World ( ) by Nicolas Bouvier |
| More General Travels | ||||
| From the Meadows of Gold ( ) by Mas'udi | ||||
| Voyages and Discoveries ( ) by Richard Hakluyt | ||||
| South: The Endurance Expedition ( ) by Ernest Shackleton | ||||
| The Last Grain Race ( ) by Eric Newby | ||||
| Pecked to Death by Ducks ( ) by Tim Cahill | ||||
| Yoga For People Who Can't Be Bothered to Do It ( ) by Geoff Dyer | ||||
| Travels in Europe | ||||
 Ibn Fadlan and the Land of Darkness ( ) by Ibn Fadlan |
 The Innocents Abroad ( ) by Mark Twain |
 Black Lamb and Grey Falcon ( ) by Rebecca West |
 A Time of Gifts ( ) by Patrick Leigh Fermor |
 The Rings of Saturn ( ) by W.G. Sebald |
| More Travels in Europe | ||||
| Guide to Greece ( ) Pausanias | ||||
| Recommendation images | ||||
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