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We cannot understand the phenomenon of remembering without invoking its opposite, forgetting. Taking his cue from Beckett - 'only he who forgets remembers' - Josipovici uncovers a profound cultural shift from societies that celebrated ritual remembrance...

Following The Broken Estate, The Irresponsible Self, and How Fiction Works - books that established James Wood as the leading critic of his generation - The Fun Stuff confirms Wood's pre-eminence, not only as a discerning judge but also as an appreciator...

In April 1926, the Japanese poet Taneda Santoka (1882-1940) set off on the first of many walking trips, journeys in which he tramped thousands of miles through the Japanese countryside. These journeys were part of his religious training as a Buddhist...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780955296369Author Isabella DucrotFormat PaperbackPage Count 36Imprint Sylph EditionsPublisher Sylph Editions

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781644450895Author Lars HornFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Graywolf PressPublisher Graywolf PressWeight(grams) 313gDimensions(mm) 212mm * 144mm * 16mm

Smashing It celebrates the exceptional works and words of 31 leading working-class artists in Britain. Featuring writing, lyrics and images by Wiley, Maxine Peake, Malorie Blackman, Riz Ahmed and many more, it also includes reflections from artists on...

Advertisements for Myself is a comprehensive collection of the best of Norman Mailer's essays, stories, interviews and journalism from the Forties and Fifties, linked by anarchic and riotous autobiographical commentary. Laying bare the heart of a witty,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789354893346Author Ajay ChhibberFormat HardbackPage Count 492Imprint HarperCollins IndiaPublisher HarperCollins IndiaWeight(grams) 480gDimensions(mm) 250mm...

Harold Rosenberg was undoubtedly the most important American art critic of the twentieth century. It was he who first coined the term "Action Painters" to refer to the American Abstract Expressionists such as Pollock, Kline, and de Kooning...

This fourth and final volume, which completes the Cambridge edition of The Letters of Samuel Beckett, covers the final twenty-four years of what was, as Beckett saw it, a surprisingly long life. During these years he produced many of his finest and most...

In his brief but distinguished life, Anton Chekhov was a doctor, a documentary essayist, an admired dramatist, and a humanitarian. He remains a nineteenth-century Russian literary giant whose prose continues to offer moral insight and to resonate with...

Find out about the life of a caterpillar, from tiny egg to beautiful butterfly. Using the world's largest known database of writing for and by children, our experts have defined 300 ambitious words to help children succeed at school. We've combined...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781398821347Author Peter GrayFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Arcturus Publishing LtdPublisher Arcturus Publishing Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780358381754Author Robert AtwanFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing CompanyPublisher Houghton Mifflin Harcourt...

An exemplary collection of work from one of the world's leading scholars of intellectual history "Foeldenyi . . . stage[s] a broad metaphysical melodrama between opposites that he pursues throughout this fierce, provoking collection (expertly translated...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780984679867Author Jean De La FontaineFormat PaperbackPage Count 140Imprint Sleeping Cat BooksPublisher Sleeping Cat BooksWeight(grams) 159g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781614981862Author H P LovecraftFormat PaperbackPage Count 512Imprint Hippocampus PressPublisher Hippocampus PressWeight(grams) 676gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

When Trisha Low moves west, her journey is motivated by the need to arrive "somewhere better"-someplace utopian, like revolution; or safe, like home; or even clarifying, like identity. Instead, she faces the end of her relationships, a family whose...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781420939279Author Vincent Van GoghFormat PaperbackPage Count 94Imprint Digireads.comPublisher Digireads.comWeight(grams) 150gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780940450370Author Flannery O'ConnorFormat HardbackPage Count 1300Imprint The Library of AmericaPublisher The Library of AmericaWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780983697237Author Walter Jackson BateFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Contra Mundum PressPublisher Contra Mundum PressWeight(grams) 135gDimensions(mm)...

Balancing long-overlooked and well-known works from early modern England, Same-sex desire in early modern England, 1550-1735: An anthology of literary texts and contexts is a collection of English texts about homoerotic love, relationships, desires, and...

This edition, the first modern one in English, introduces undergraduates and more advanced students to the therapeutic possibilities of Seneca's Stoic philosophy. The short treatises De otio and De brevitate vitae balance each other by representing...

'The most detailed, amusing and accurate account ever of the post-war world of the English Establishment' William Shawcross, Daily Telegraph'Extremely entertaining' Jane Ridley, Literary ReviewKenneth Rose was one of the most astute observers of the...

Paul Dukes was sent into Russia in 1918, shortly after the Bolshevik Revolution. His role was to keep the British spy networks in place during the "Red Terror", when the Cheka secret police were killing large numbers of opponents of the communist regime...

This second edition of Shakespeare's narrative poems contains an introductory section on recent critical interpretations. Fully annotated and introduced, it includes all the poems which can be confidently assigned to Shakespeare, excluding the Sonnets:...

Biography is well recognised as a peculiarly British vice. This new anthology is a collection of essays by some of the best biographers now writing in Britain. They tell of the ups and downs of life writing: of problems with families and friends of their...

'At three in the morning I crept out of Carlsbad, they wouldn't have let me go if I hadn't. I wasn't going to be stopped, for it was time.' This is the authentic day-to-day record never before translated, of the first eight weeks of freedom as Germany's...

Sixty years ago, the University of Chicago Press undertook a momentous project: a new translation of the Greek tragedies that would be the ultimate resource for teachers, students, and readers. They succeeded. Under the expert management of eminent...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486299365Author T S EliotFormat PaperbackPage Count 130Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams) 159g

"We are the rebels asking for the storm, and believing that truth is only to be found in an endless search ... Two years of prison for Pussy Riot is our tribute to a destiny that gave us sharp ears, allowing us to sound the note A when everyone else is...

A landmark of nationalist fiction, Hugh MacLennan's Two Solitudes is the story of two races within one nation, each with its own legend and ideas of what a nation should be. In his vivid portrayals of human drama in prewar Quebec, MacLennan focuses on...

'When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford,' said Samuel Johnson in 1777. Since then the capital has been characterised variously as a 'riddle', a 'cesspool' and a 'modern Babylon', and both...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578750842Author Christabelle Grace MarbunFormat PaperbackPage Count 132Imprint Christabelle MarbunPublisher Christabelle MarbunWeight(grams)...

These artful new translations of nine of Arthur Schnitzler's most important stories and novellas-including "Dream Story," on which Stanley Kubrick based his widely acclaimed film Eyes Wide Shut-reinforce the Viennese author's remarkable achievement as...

Mr Noon is a sardonic tale about the amorous adventures of Gilbert Noon, a young schoolmaster in Lawrence's home county of Nottinghamshire who gets entangled with a girl, loses his job, and decides to leave the country to escape the narrow provincial...

Despite the turbulent times in which he lived, the Buddhist priest Kenko met the world with a measured eye. As Emperor Go-Daigo fended off a challenge from the usurping Hojo family, and Japan stood at the brink of a dark political era, Kenko held fast to...

Eclectic essays on ethics, education, and much else besides.Plutarch (Plutarchus), ca. AD 45-120, was born at Chaeronea in Boeotia in central Greece, studied philosophy at Athens, and, after coming to Rome as a teacher in philosophy, was given...

In a frank and unpretentious series of letters addressed to a teenage granddaughter, this highly original book teaches us to know and understand the world we live in and its rules, and how to behave in it. In these thirty letters, Alan Macfarlane answers...

The latest edition of this highly praised anthology of ancient Egyptian literature offers fresh translations of all the texts as well as some twenty-five new entries, including writings from the late literature of the Demotic period at the end of...