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Learn on Your Own Time at Home or On the Go
Author
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2008]
Lexile measure
1300L
Language
English
Description
"All Art Is Propaganda follows Orwell as he demonstrates in piece after piece how intent analysis of a work or body of work gives rise to trenchant aesthetic and philosophical commentary. With masterpieces such as "Politics and the English Language" and "Rudyard Kipling" and gems such as "Good Bad Books," here is an unrivaled education in, as George Packer puts it, "how to be interesting, line after line"--Amazon.com.
Author
Publisher
W. Morrow
Pub. Date
[1988]
Language
English
Description
A collection of essays covering a wide range of topics--from delicate family relations and the life of a writer to black issues, consumerism, television, and the national anthem--all with a sense of wry humor and sympathy with, an understanding of, humanity
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Jenny Diski was a fearless writer, for whom no subject was too difficult, even her own diagnosis with cancer. Her columns in the London Review of Books -- selected here by her editor and friend Mary-Kay Wilmers, ranged from subjects as various as happiness, social psychology, self-absorption and cats -- have been described as 'virtuoso performances', and 'small masterpieces'.
Author
Language
English
Description
"In Vesper Flights, Helen Macdonald brings together a collection of her best loved essays with new pieces on topics ranging from nostalgia for a vanishing countryside to the tribulations of farming ostriches to her own private vespers while trying to fall asleep. Meditating on notions of captivity and freedom, immigration and flight, Helen invites us into her most intimate experiences: observing songbirds from the Empire State Building as they migrate...
