Literary Collections

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780857302564Author James SallisFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint No Exit PressPublisher Oldcastle Books Ltd

This volume presents new texts of Cicero's dialogues on political philosophy, De Re Publica and De Legibus, together with corrected versions of the editor's previously published editions of Cato Maior de Senectute and Laelius de Amicitia. The texts are...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780395974698Author Richard BrautiganFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Houghton Mifflin (Trade)Publisher Houghton Mifflin

From Great Yarmouth to Aberystwyth, Westering is a coast-to-coast journey crossing the Fens, Leicester, the Black Country and central Wales. It connects landscape, place and memory to evoke a narrative unravelling the deep topography, and following a...

The New Cambridge Shakespeare appeals to students worldwide for its up-to-date scholarship and emphasis on performance. The series features line-by-line commentaries and textual notes on the plays and poems. Introductions are regularly refreshed with...

This manga recreation of Shakespeare's text transfers the action from Ancient Rome to a future Iraq, once again facing dictatorship after its prolonged struggles to establish a democracy. Part of the successful Manga Shakespeare series, a fusion of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781684931019Author Glenn ClarkFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Mockingbird PressPublisher Mockingbird PressWeight(grams) 82gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm...

SPECIAL COMMENDATION in Africa's 100 Best Books of the Twentieth Century. The series is illustrated throughout with maps and black and white photographs. Volume 2 covers the period beginning at the close of the Neolithic era, from around the eighth...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780358381709Author TanaisFormat HardbackPage Count 352Imprint Mariner BooksPublisher Mariner BooksWeight(grams) 140g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909889347Author Sigrid RausingFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Granta MagazinePublisher Granta MagazineWeight(grams) 520gDimensions(mm) 210mm *...

The Cambridge edition of Lady Chatterley's Lover (and A Propos of 'Lady Chatterley's Lover') is the first ever to restore to Lawrence's most famous novel the words that he wrote. It removes typists' corruptions and compositors' errors, which have marred...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909889286Author Sigrid RausingFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Granta MagazinePublisher Granta MagazineWeight(grams) 355gDimensions(mm) 210mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781449472405Author Susanna GeogheganFormat HardbackPage Count 96Imprint Andrews McMeel PublishingPublisher Andrews McMeel PublishingWeight(grams)...

One of a series of thematic collections of texts. Each includes general notes on the texts, as well as discussion of themes, issues and context.One of a series, this one concentrating on the theme of 'love'.ReviewsIt has everything for wider reading for...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783753301181Author Kathy AckerFormat PaperbackPage Count 394Imprint Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther Konig,GermanyPublisher Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther...

Cultivated farming advice.Cato (M. Porcius Cato) the elder (234-149 BC) of Tusculum, statesman and soldier, was the first important writer in Latin prose. His speeches, works on jurisprudence and the art of war, his precepts to his son on various...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781644398982Author Oscar WildeFormat PaperbackPage Count 52Imprint Indoeuropeanpublishing.comPublisher Indoeuropeanpublishing.comWeight(grams) 77g

Knitting Yarns explores what is so magical about knitting and how it can inspire joy and help us get through life-changing events. Knitting occupies an important a place in the hearts of a number of writers. Ann Hood has collected twenty-seven original...

Rhetorical remnants.The Loeb Classical Library series Fragmentary Republican Latin continues with oratory, an important element of Roman life from the earliest times, essential to running public affairs and for advancing individual careers long before...

Some of the finest speeches ever made have been spoken in Ireland. This book highlights 45 eminent and influential speeches, from Robert Emmet's defiant speech from the dock on the eve of his execution, to Panti Bliss's passionate 21st century oratory in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781781727300Author Gosia BuzzancaFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint SerenPublisher Poetry Wales PressWeight(grams) 250gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 318mm * 20mm

The subjects of Salman Rushdie's collection of non-fiction range from The Wizard of Oz, U2, India and Indian writing, the death of Princess Diana, and football, to twentieth-century writers including Angela Carter, Arthur Miller, Edward Said, J. M...

The 15 writers featured in this new anthology of French short stories represent the best of the genre, from Merimee to the present day. The selection includes writers as diverse as Balzac, Colette, Duras and Boulanger and is designed to introduce...

Jun'ichiro Tanizaki is one of the most eminent Japanese writers of the twentieth century, renowned for his investigations of family dynamics, eroticism, and cultural identity. Most acclaimed for his postwar novels such as The Makioka Sisters and The Key,...

The First 'Women in Love' is one of Lawrence's greatest works, and is the only full length work of fiction which he completed between The Rainbow and the extensively revised Women in Love. It is a piece of fiction generated in the England, and the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780525434962Author Heather HavrileskyFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Anchor BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 221gDimensions(mm) 201mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780156364751Author Virginia WoolfFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Mariner Books ClassicsPublisher Mariner Books ClassicsWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780380788828Author Suzanne VegaFormat PaperbackPage Count 289Imprint HarperCollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 300g

'So they took the blossoms of the oak, and the blossoms of the broom, and the blossoms of the meadow-sweet, and produced from them a maiden, the fairest and most graceful that man ever saw...' In this superb collection of tales, Celtic mythology and...

"All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn," Ernest Hemingway once declared. First published in 1885, the book has delighted millions of readers, while simultaneously riling contemporary sensibilities, and...

An instant New York Times bestseller, I'll Show Myself Out is the eagerly anticipated second essay collection from Jessi Klein, author of the acclaimed debut You'll Grow Out of It.Longlisted for the PEN Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590171486Author Joseph JoubertFormat PaperbackPage Count 184Imprint NYRB ClassicsPublisher The New York Review of Books, IncWeight(grams)...

The Ghosts of Birds offers thirty-five essays by Eliot Weinberger: the first section of the book continues his linked serial-essay, An Elemental Thing, which pulls the reader into "a vortex for the entire universe" (Boston Review). Here, Weinberger...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781584351757Author Robert GluckFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Semiotext (E)Publisher AutonomediaDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 27mm

This Norton Critical Edition includes: 166 poems spanning the range of Cummings's career, selections of his prose and dramatic writing, twelve paintings and sketches, and three facsimiles of his drafts-the first ever annotated and cross-genre collection...

In this anthology, Vietnamese writers describe their experience of what they call the American War and its lasting legacy through the lens of their own vital artistic visions. A North Vietnamese soldier forms a bond with an abandoned puppy. Cousins find...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143108047Author Benjamin TaylorFormat PaperbackPage Count 544Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 532g

From memoir to journalism, personal essays to cultural criticism, this indispensable anthology brings together works from all genres of creative nonfiction, with pieces by fifty contemporary writers including Cheryl Strayed, David Sedaris, Barbara...

The people in the United States are experiencing an extreme degree of division, political partisanship, and civic disorder. Destructive fights are waged about matters such as misinformation, voting rights, school curriculum, government spending, and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781946774927Author Leo CottonFormat PaperbackPage Count 182Imprint Quick Time PressPublisher Quick Time PressWeight(grams) 272gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm...