Literary Collections

Be transported to the banks of the Seine, a corner boulangerie, or beneath the Eiffel Tower with these beautifully illustrated vignettes of life in the City of Light. What began as a way to fund travel became ten years of a letter subscription service...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375404641Author Sylvia PlathFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 227gDimensions(mm) 165mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780674864283Author Bruce LincolnFormat HardbackPage Count 286Imprint Harvard University PressPublisher Harvard University PressWeight(grams) 590g

Andreas Laskaratos (1811-1901), a prominent figure in modern Greek letters, was a writer and poet, a social thinker and, in many ways, a controversialist. A life-long enemy of hypocrisy wherever he found it, on many occasions he turned against...

Carolyne Larrington has gathered together a uniquely comprehensive collection of writing by, for and about medieval women, spanning one thousand years and Europe from Iceland to Byzantiu. The extracts are arranged thematically, dealing with the central...

Alcohol: No Ordinary Commodity is a collaborative effort by an international group of addiction scientists to improve the linkages between addiction science and alcohol policy. It presents, in a comprehensive, practical, and readily accessible form, the...

A brilliant collection of writings on the subject of the honeymoon. Offering context and commentary where necessary, the editors have canvassed history, fact and fiction for the gamut of newlywed experience, from the BrowningsAbout the AuthorRose Baring...

Invectives against Antony.Cicero (Marcus Tullius, 106-43 BC), Roman advocate, orator, politician, poet, and philosopher, about whom we know more than we do of any other Roman, lived through the stirring era that saw the rise, dictatorship, and death...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780645874297Author Alyssa CurtayneFormat HardbackPage Count 36Imprint Rising Spirit; Where Great Ideas GrowPublisher Rising Spirit; Where Great Ideas...

Hellenism and the Local Communities of the Eastern Mediterranean offers a timely re-examination of the relationship between Greek and non-Greek cultures in this region between 400 BCE and 250 CE. The conquests of Alexander the Great and his Successors...

St. Boniface, the early eighth-century English cleric who became known as "Apostle to the Germans," was an important agent in the conversion of the North German tribes from paganism to Christianity. His efforts were devoted as well to organizing and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781958921050Author Paul J MillsFormat PaperbackPage Count 294Imprint Light on Light PressPublisher Light on Light PressWeight(grams) 435gDimensions(mm)...

The Refugee Woman explores the Partition of Bengal in 1947, in its relationship to gender, by innovatively engaging with the cultural imagination of the displaced refugee woman in West Bengal. This work reads the above figure critically in order to trace...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781939375032Author Jack LondonFormat PaperbackPage Count 340Imprint Sabino Falls PublishingPublisher Sabino Falls PublishingWeight(grams) 499gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781328470225Author Consultant Statistician Walter BenjaminFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Mariner Books ClassicsPublisher Mariner Books...

Precious snippets of ancient song.The most important poets writing in Greek in the sixth century BC came from Sicily and southern Italy. Stesichorus was called by ancient writers "most Homeric"-a recognition of his epic themes and noble style. He...

In his latest tragicomedy Hamid Ismailov interrogates the intersection between tradition and modernity. A former radio-presenter wrongly interprets one of his dreams and thinks that he has been initiated into the world of spirits as a manaschi, one of...

Honorable Mention, Carr P. Collins Award for Best Book of Nonfiction, 2006 Grover Lewis was one of the defining voices of the New Journalism of the 1960s and 1970s. His wry, acutely observed, fluently written essays for Rolling Stone and the Village...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781925523096Author Tanya DalziellFormat HardbackPage Count 456Imprint Monash University PublishingPublisher Monash University Publishing

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781258944247Author Baron WrangelFormat HardbackPage Count 318Imprint Literary Licensing, LLCPublisher Literary Licensing, LLCWeight(grams)...

The Mausoleum of Lovers comprises Guibert's journals, kept from 1976-1991. Functioning as an atelier, it forecasts the writing of a novel, which does not materialize as such; the journal itself - a mausoleum of lovers - comes to take its place. The...

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Writing seems to be a problem of some kind. It isn't as if most people can just sit down and start to write brilliantly, get up from the desk, so something else all day, and then, next morning start again without any conflict or anxiety. To begin to...

Although Dylan Thomas died in 1953, his work has never been out of print and his notorious life continues to fascinate. To mark the centenary of Thomas's birth, Dylan Thomas's Swansea, Gower and Laugharne is being reprinted. This popular publication...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780857068170Author James GrantFormat PaperbackPage Count 244Imprint Leonaur LtdPublisher Leonaur LtdWeight(grams) 313g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780140150612Author James Bruce RossFormat PaperbackPage Count 768Imprint Penguin Random House AustraliaPublisher Penguin Random House AustraliaWeight(grams)...

When Latin American writers burst on to the world literary scene in the now famous "Boom" of the sixties, it seemed as if an entire literature had invented itself overnight out of thin air. Not only was the writing extraordinary but its sudden and...

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...

The young statesman's first major prosecution.Cicero (Marcus Tullius, 106-43 BC), Roman lawyer, orator, politician and philosopher, of whom we know more than of any other Roman, lived through the stirring era that saw the rise,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912916474Author T S EliotFormat HardbackPage Count 176Imprint Galileo PublishersPublisher Galileo Publishers

Delve into the lives and work of some of the world's great writers with this intriguing collection of correspondence. There is much to discover in this illustrated compendium of letters written by great novelists, poets, playwrights and essayists, from...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780996744775Author HeathFormat HardbackPage Count 300Imprint Hat & BeardPublisher Hat & Beard

Once it blooms, it changes everything. Love is uplifting, enlightening, transforming. In this timeless collection of more than 80 sonnets, William Shakespeare pays tribute to our most beautiful emotion. Read and share them with the one you love.About the...

This is an analysis of censorship from the perspective of one who has lived and worked under its shadow. The essays collected here attempt to understand the passion that plays itself out in acts of silencing and censoring. Coetzee argues that a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781945492525Author Mariana OliverFormat PaperbackPage Count 136Imprint Transit BooksPublisher Transit Books

This new addition to the Women Writers in English series records Anne Askew's narrative of her imprisonment for heresy and her interrogation by officials of church and state in the last days of Henry VIII. As a spiritual autobiography, a historical...

More widely studied and more frequently performed than ever before, John Webster's The Duchess of Malfi is here presented in an improved, accessible and throughly up-to-date edition. Starting with the authoritative Revels Plays edition of 1964, John...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781905881024Author Jason CowleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Granta MagazinePublisher Granta MagazineWeight(grams) 445gDimensions(mm) 210mm * 145mm...