Shakespeare: the Invention of the Human by Harold Bloom
$32.95 AUD
Category: On Writing
Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human, is the culmination of a lifetime of reading, writing about, and teaching Shakespeare. Preeminent literary critic Harold Bloom leads us through a comprehensive reading of every one of the dramatist's plays, brilliantly illuminating each work with unrivaled warmth, ...Show more
Art Of Dramatic Writing: Its Basis in the Creative Interpretation of Human Motives by Lajos Egri
$25.00 AUD
Category: On Writing
Learn the basic techniques every successful playwright knows Among the many "how-to" playwriting books that have appeared over the years, there have been few that attempt to analyze the mysteries of play construction. Lajos Egri's classic, The Art of Dramatic Writing, does just that, with instruction t ...Show more
In Other Words by Jhumpa Lahiri; Ann Goldstein (Translator)
$30.00 AUD
Category: On Writing
In Other Words is at heart a love story - of a long and sometimes difficult courtship, and a passion that verges on obsession- that of a writer for another language. For Jhumpa Lahiri, that love was for Italian, which first captivated and capsized her during a trip to Florence after college. Although La ...Show more
Silent Woman by J. Malcolm
$24.00 AUD
Category: On Writing
Janet Malcolm has produced a brilliant, elegantly reasoned meditation on the art of biography, in which she takes as her example the various biographies of the poet Sylvia Plath. "The Silent Woman" is an astonishing feat of criticism and literary detection. It is not a book about the life of Sylvia Plat ...Show more
Last Night's Reading - Illustrated Encounters with Extraordinary Authors by Kate Gavino
$30.00 AUD
Category: On Writing
Irresistible illustrations of authors and the charming, wise and hilarious things they say at their readings. At every book reading Kate Gavino attends, she hand-letters the event's most memorable quote alongside a charming portrait of the author. In Last Night's Reading, Kate takes us on her journey th ...Show more
Usage & Abusage by Eric Partridge
$9.95 AUD
Category: On Writing | Series: Popular Penguins
Usage and Abusage is Penguin's classic linguistic reference book that not only tells you how to use English correctly, but is also a declaration of war on its misuse. Covering grammatical problems, words that are commonly abused and confused, matters of style, as well as providing advice on how to commu ...Show more
Why Read Moby-Dick? by Nathaniel Philbrick
$25.00 AUD
Category: On Writing
A “brilliant and provocative” (The New Yorker) celebration of Melville’s masterpiece—from the bestselling author of In the Heart of the Sea One of the greatest American novels finds its perfect contemporary champion in Why Read Moby-Dick?, Nathaniel Philbrick’s enlightening and entertaining tour throug ...Show more
Between You and Me - Confessions of a Comma Queen by Mary Norris
$23.00 AUD
Category: On Writing
The most irreverent and enjoyable book on language since Eats, Shoots and Leaves. Mary Norris has spent more than three decades guarding the New Yorker's grand traditions of grammar and usage. Now she brings her vast experience and sharpened pencil to help the rest of us, in a charming language book as ...Show more
One Continuous Mistake by Gail Sher
$30.00 AUD
Category: On Writing | Series: Arkana S.
Based on the Zen philosophy that we learn more from our failures than from our successes, "One Continuous Mistake" teaches a refreshing new method for writing as spiritual practice. In this unique guide for writers of all levels, Gail Sher
Fair Dinkum! Aussie Slang by H. G. Nelson
$20.00 AUD
Category: On Writing
Australian slang unites the true blue and the dinky-di and separates the cheeky little possums from the happy little Vegemites. When we use slang, we're connecting with the diggers in the villages of France ordering a vin blanc ('plonk') and the Indigenous Dharug-speakers of Sydney locating one another ...Show more
The Right to Write by Julia Cameron
$28.00 AUD
Category: On Writing
What if everything we have been taught about learning to write was wrong? In The Right to Write, Julia Cameron's most revolutionary book, the author of the bestselling self-help guide The Artist's Way, asserts that conventional writing wisdom would have you believe in a false doctrine that stifles creat ...Show more
The Daemon Knows: Literary Greatness and the American Sublime by Prof. Harold Bloom
$45.95 AUD
Category: On Writing
Hailed as 'the indispensable critic' by The New York Review of Books, Harold Bloom has for decades been sharing with readers and students his genius and passion for understanding literature and explaining why it matters. In The Daemon Knows, he turns his attention to the writers of his own national lite ...Show more