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The Anatomy of Melancholy
The Anatomy of Melancholy is an encyclopedic study of melancholy by the English scholar Robert Burton, published in Oxford in 1621 under the pseudonym Democritus Junior.
The Antilles: Fragments of Epic Memory
The Antilles: Fragments of Epic Memory is the Nobel Lecture delivered by Saint Lucian poet Derek Walcott in Stockholm in December 1992, after winning the Nobel Prize in Literature.
The Argumentative Indian
The Argumentative Indian is a 2005 essay collection by the Indian economist and Nobel laureate Amartya Sen arguing that India's long tradition of public argument shapes its history and democracy.
The Art of the Novel
The Art of the Novel (L'Art du roman) is a 1986 book of essays on the novel by Milan Kundera, his first major work written directly in French.
The Book of Tea
The Book of Tea (茶の本) is Okakura Kakuzō's 1906 English-language essay, published in New York, presenting the Japanese tea ceremony, Taoism, Zen, and Teaism to Western readers; seven chapters, first Japanese translation 1929.
The Book of the Crown
The Book of the Crown (Kitāb al-Tāj fī Akhlāq al-Mulūk, كتاب التاج في أخلاق الملوك) is a ninth-century Arabic mirror-for-princes work by al-Jāḥiẓ on the ethics of kings.
The Bow and the Lyre
The Bow and the Lyre (El arco y la lira) is an essay on poetry and the poem by the Mexican poet Octavio Paz, first published in 1956.
The Captive Mind
The Captive Mind (Zniewolony umysł) is a 1953 collection of nine essays by Polish Nobel laureate Czesław Miłosz on why East European intellectuals accepted and served the postwar Stalinist regimes.
The Citizen of the World
The Citizen of the World is a 1762 collection of satirical essays by Oliver Goldsmith, written in the persona of the Chinese philosopher Lien Chi Altangi.
The Collected Essays of Ralph Ellison
The Collected Essays of Ralph Ellison is a 1995 Modern Library volume gathering Ralph Ellison's nonfiction, edited by John F. Callahan with a preface by Saul Bellow.
The Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters of George Orwell
The Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters of George Orwell is a four-volume posthumous edition of Orwell's nonfiction, edited by Sonia Orwell and Ian Angus and published in London in 1968.
The Colonizer and the Colonized
The Colonizer and the Colonized is a 1957 book-length essay by the French-Tunisian writer and sociologist Albert Memmi, a central theoretical statement of the anticolonial movement.
The Common Reader
The Common Reader is a two-volume collection of critical essays by Virginia Woolf, published by the Hogarth Press in 1925 and 1932, treating writers from Chaucer to Conrad for the ordinary reader.
The Conspiracy Against the Human Race
The Conspiracy Against the Human Race is a 2010 nonfiction book by horror writer Thomas Ligotti, arguing that conscious existence is intrinsically bad and later cited as an influence on True Detective.
The Crack-Up
The Crack-Up is a series of three autobiographical essays by F. Scott Fitzgerald, published in Esquire in 1936, describing his breakdown; reprinted in book form in 1945, they became a landmark of American confessional writing.
The Critic as Artist
The Critic as Artist is an essay by Oscar Wilde arguing that criticism is itself a creative art, first published in 1890 and revised for his 1891 collection Intentions.
The Decay of Lying
The Decay of Lying is an 1889 dialogue essay by Oscar Wilde arguing that life imitates art and that lying, the telling of beautiful untrue things, is art's proper aim.
The Defence of Poesy
The Defence of Poesy is an essay by Sir Philip Sidney defending poetry, published in 1595 and regarded as the first major work of English literary criticism.
The Everlasting Man
The Everlasting Man is a 1925 work of Christian apologetics by G. K. Chesterton, written as a reply to H. G. Wells's The Outline of History.
The Frontier in American History
The Frontier in American History is a 1920 collection of essays by historian Frederick Jackson Turner, published by Henry Holt and Company, that advances his frontier thesis.
The Future of Culture in Egypt
The Future of Culture in Egypt (مستقبل الثقافة في مصر) is a 1938 book by Taha Hussein arguing that Egypt belongs culturally to the Mediterranean.
The Genius of Christianity
The Genius of Christianity (Génie du christianisme) is an 1802 apologetic essay by the French writer Chateaubriand, defending Christianity on aesthetic and emotional grounds rather than through doctrine.
The God That Failed
The God That Failed is a 1949 collection of six autobiographical essays by writers disillusioned with communism, edited by British politician Richard Crossman and conceived with Arthur Koestler.
The Great Derangement
The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable is a 2016 essay by Amitav Ghosh arguing that the realist novel is unequipped to represent climate change.
The Holocaust Industry
The Holocaust Industry: Reflections on the Exploitation of Jewish Suffering is Norman G. Finkelstein's 2000 Verso book arguing Jewish organizations exploited Holocaust memory and the 1990s restitution litigation, notably the $1.25 billion Swiss banks settlement, for financial and political gain.
The Importance of Living
The Importance of Living is a 1937 book of philosophy and essays by Chinese writer Lin Yutang, written in English to present Chinese life philosophy to Western readers.
The Intelligentsia and the Revolution
The Intelligentsia and the Revolution (Интеллигенция и революция) is a January 1918 essay by the Russian Symbolist poet Alexander Blok, calling on the intelligentsia to listen to the music of the revolution.
The Invention of Tradition
The Invention of Tradition is a 1983 Cambridge University Press volume edited by Eric Hobsbawm and Terence Ranger arguing that many supposedly ancient practices were recently invented.
The Labyrinth of Solitude
The Labyrinth of Solitude (El laberinto de la soledad) is a 1950 book of essays by Mexican poet Octavio Paz that interprets Mexican history and identity through solitude.
The Labyrinth of Solitude and Other Writings
The Labyrinth of Solitude and Other Writings is the English-language edition of Octavio Paz's 1950 book of essays examining Mexican national character through the theme of solitude.