En route to his next destination, Lonely Planet founder Tony Wheeler looks at the world's biggest business: travel. An unashamed travel addict, Wheeler writes about the joys of escaping home, satiating wanderlust, and why the bird's-eye view from the window seat is best. Confronting travel's great tensions-employment, income and connection versus overcrowding and cultural damage-he comes down on the side of 'pack and go'.
The Edinburgh Review, or Critical Journal, Vol. 75
by Francis Jeffrey
An Epicure in the Terrible
To commemorate the centennial of the birth of H. P. Lovecraft, the editors have assembled essays by leading Lovecraft scholars that embody a wide variety of critical approaches. Biographical essays treat Lovecraft's relation to his parents and his heritage; thematic essays discuss issues such as the function of the narrator in his fiction; and the comparative and genre studies examine Lovecraft's relation to modernism.
The First Anthology
by Robert B. Silvers, Barbara Epstein, and Rea S. Hederman
History of Literary Criticism in the Renaissance (Classic Reprint)
by J E Spingarn
Des Satyres, Brutes, Monstres Et Demons
by Francois Hedelin Aubignac
Collection of Essays, Vol 1
by Alice Meynell and Meynell Alice Meynell
Collection of Essays, Vol 2
by Alexander Eastman Charles Alexander Eastman
Fuelled by innumerable cigarettes, Martin Amis provides dazzling portraits of contemporaries and mentors alike: Larkin and Rushdie; Greene and Pritchett; Ballard and Burgess and Nicholson Baker; John Updike - warts and all. Vigorously zipping across to Washington, he exposes the double-think of nuke-speak; in New Orleans the Republican Convention gets a going over. And then there's sport: he visits the world of darts and its disastrous attempt to clean itself up; dirty tricks in the world of che...