Essays

Classics

Essays

• Essays in Idleness by Yoshida Kenko
• Essays by Francis Bacon
• The Complete Essays by Michel de Montaigne
• The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton
• Selected Essays by Samuel Johnson
• A Dissertation Upon Roast Pig and Other Essays by Charles Lamb
• Walden by Henry David Thoreau
• The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson
• The Complete Essays of Mark Twain
• The Painter of Modern Life and Other Essays by Charles Baudelaire
• In Defense of Sanity: The Best Essays of G.K. Chesterton
• 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
• The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats (vols. IV and V)
• Selected Essays by Virginia Woolf

  

• Selected Essays by D.H. Lawrence
• Selected Essays by T.S. Eliot
• Kokoro by Lafcadio Hearn
• Geography of the Imagination by Guy Davenport
• Essays of E.B. White
• Against Interpretation and Other Essays by Susan Sontag
• We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live by Joan Didion
• Dreamers of Dreams: Essays on Poets and Poetry by John Simon
• Huxley and God: Essays on Religious Experienceby Aldous Huxley
• Mystery and Manners by Flannery O'Connor
• Literary Essays of Ezra Pound
• In Favor of the Sensitive Man, and Other Essays by Anais Nin
• Portraits and Observations: The Essays of Truman Capote
• The Best of Myles by Flann O'Brien
• A Jacques Barzun Reader by Jacques Barzun
• Reflections on Exile by Edward W. Said
• The Vintage Mencken by H.L. Mencken
• The Portable Dorothy Parker by Dorothy Parker

  

• Due Considerations: Essays and Criticism by John Updike
• Shaking a Leg: Collected Journalism and Writings by Angela Carter
• Fame & Folly: Essays by Cynthia Ozick
• The Donald Richie Reader by Donald Richie
• Dreamer of Dreams by John Simon
• On Histories and Stories by A.S. Byatt
• Wormholes: Essays and Occasional Writings by John Fowles
• Finding a Form by William H. Gass
• An Elemental Thing by Eliot Weinberger

Modern and Contemporary Essays (non-English Language)

• Selected Non-Fictions by Jorge Luis Borges
• Visions of Excess by Georges Bataille
• Species of Spaces and Other Pieces by Georges Perec
• Letters, Numbers, Forms: Essays by Raymond Queneau
• Selected Essays of Zhou Zuoren
• Selected Bilingual Essays of Lin Yutang
• Illuminations: Essays by Walter Benjamin

  

• A Barthes Reader by Roland Barthes
• Six Memos for the Next Millennium by Italo Calvino
• The Selected Prose of Fernando Pessoa
• Less Than One: Selected Essays by Joseph Brodsky
• Myself With Others: Essays by Carlos Fuentes
• The Labyrinth of Solitude by Octavio Paz
• The Spirit of Prague by Ivan Klima
• Encounter: Essays by Milan Kundera
• How to Travel with a Salmon & Other Essays by Umberto Eco
• Anathemas and Admirations by E.M. Cioran
• Passing By: Selected Essays by Jerzy Kosinski
• Other People's Trades by Primo Levi
• Nobody's Home by Dubravka Ugresic
• Campo Santo by W.G. Sebald