Ahad Ha'am is mainly remembered as the 'father of cultural Zionism.' But these essays show him to...
Brilliant polymath Raymond Tallis tackles the big questions: Do we have free will? Can humanity f...
Priestley defined the essay as a 'prose masterpiece in miniature' and he expressed his thoughts o...
In the winter of 1811, Lewis Way had an epiphany on the road to Exmouth. From that moment the ecc...
Five writers grapple with reality and fiction, and the alchemical process of turning life into ar...
Last printed in 1968, this is a unique guidebook from the late, great architectural writer Ian Na...
Morpurgo dramatizes the perilous hours during which Drake's Golden Hinde was stranded on a reef o...
Joseph Roth, whose many novels included The Radetsky March, was one of the most enigmatic writers...
The great Victorian William Morris was fascinated by Iceland, which inspired him to write one of ...
In these essays Virginia Woolf explores the nature of the finite self and how individual experien...
Osip Mandelstam (1891-1938) was a Russian poet and essayist. He visited Armenia in 1930 and was i...
Cyclogeography is an essay about the bicycle in the cultural imagination and a portrait of London...