Essays

Classics

 * Essays in Idleness by Yoshida Kenko
 * Essays by Francis Bacon
 * The Complete Essays by Michel de Montaigne
 * The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton
 * Selected Essays by Samuel Johnson
 * A Dissertation Upon Roast Pig and Other Essays by Charles Lamb
 * Walden by Henry David Thoreau
 * The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson
 * The Complete Essays of Mark Twain
 * The Painter of Modern Life and Other Essays by Charles Baudelaire
 * In Defense of Sanity: The Best Essays of G.K. Chesterton
 * The Soul of Man Under Socialism and Selected Critical Prose by Oscar Wilde
 * Essays by Robert Louis Stevenson

Modern and Contemporary Essays (English Language)

 * A Collection of Essays by George Orwell
 * The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats (vols. IV and V)
 * Selected Essays by Virginia Woolf810107-L.jpg
 * Selected Essays by D.H. Lawrence
 * Selected Essays by T.S. Eliot
 * Kokoro by Lafcadio Hearn
 * Geography of the Imagination by Guy Davenport
 * Essays of E.B. White
 * Against Interpretation and Other Essays by Susan Sontag
 * We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live by Joan Didion
 * Dreamers of Dreams: Essays on Poets and Poetry by John Simon
 * Huxley and God: Essays on Religious Experienceby Aldous Huxley
 * Mystery and Manners by Flannery O'Connor
 * Literary Essays of Ezra Pound
 * In Favor of the Sensitive Man, and Other Essays by Anais Nin
 * Portraits and Observations: The Essays of Truman Capote
 * The Best of Myles by Flann O'Brien
 * A Jacques Barzun Reader by Jacques Barzun
 * Reflections on Exile by Edward W. Said
 * The Vintage Mencken by H.L. Mencken
 * The Portable Dorothy Parker by Dorothy Parker712170.jpg
 * Due Considerations: Essays and Criticism by John Updike
 * Shaking a Leg: Collected Journalism and Writings by Angela Carter
 * Fame & Folly: Essays by Cynthia Ozick
 * The Donald Richie Reader by Donald Richie
 * Dreamer of Dreams by John Simon
 * On Histories and Stories by A.S. Byatt
 * Wormholes: Essays and Occasional Writings by John Fowles
 * Finding a Form by William H. Gass
 * An Elemental Thing by Eliot Weinberger

Modern and Contemporary Essays (non-English Language)

 * Selected Non-Fictions by Jorge Luis Borges
 * Visions of Excess by Georges Bataille
 * Species of Spaces and Other Pieces by Georges Perec
 * Letters, Numbers, Forms: Essays by Raymond Queneau
 * Selected Essays of Zhou Zuoren
 * Selected Bilingual Essays of Lin Yutang
 * Illuminations: Essays by Walter Benjamin568357-L.jpg
 * A Barthes Reader by Roland Barthes
 * Six Memos for the Next Millennium by Italo Calvino
 * The Selected Prose of Fernando Pessoa
 * Less Than One: Selected Essays by Joseph Brodsky
 * Myself With Others: Essays by Carlos Fuentes
 * The Labyrinth of Solitude by Octavio Paz
 * The Spirit of Prague by Ivan Klima
 * Encounter: Essays by Milan Kundera
 * How to Travel with a Salmon & Other Essays by Umberto Eco
 * Anathemas and Admirations by E.M. Cioran
 * Passing By: Selected Essays by Jerzy Kosinski
 * Other People's Trades by Primo Levi
 * Nobody's Home by Dubravka Ugresic
 * Campo Santo by W.G. Sebald