Literary Collections

With three plays focusing on the family and how it struggles to stay together by telling lies - and exposing them, Henrik Ibsen's Ghosts and Other Plays is translated with an introduction by Peter Watts in Penguin Classics.In Ghosts, Osvald Alving...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143135210Author Alain LockeFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint PlumePublisher Penguin Putnam Inc

'This brilliant collection of essays should be a feast for his admirers, as well as for those who approach his dazzling oeuvre for the first time-Calvino is not only constantly and supremely intelligent; he is constantly and supremely faithful to his...

'Mary Gaitskill is willing to think about the problematic with complexity and humanity, and without taking sides or engaging in all the fashionable moral hectoring that passes for serious thought these days.' Eimear McBride Nuanced, daring and tender,...

Cicero Orationes. Vol. I (Rosc. Am., I. Pomp., Clu., Cat., Mur., Cael.)Book InformationISBN 9780198146056Author A. C. ClarkFormat HardbackPage Count 352Imprint Clarendon PressPublisher Oxford University PressWeight(grams) 430gDimensions(mm) 192mm * 131mm...

`Nobody's Business': The Aran Diaries of Ernie O'Malley presents new insights into the contradictions and complexities of the mind of Ernie O'Malley, one of mid-twentieth century Ireland's foremost cultural critics. In 1941, 1955 and 1956, the former...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780907282822Author Robbie MoffatFormat PaperbackPage Count 830Imprint Palm Tree PublishingPublisher Palm Tree PublishingWeight(grams) 798g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781614981879Author H P LovecraftFormat PaperbackPage Count 502Imprint Hippocampus PressPublisher Hippocampus PressWeight(grams) 662gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780140145809Author William BoydFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Granta BooksPublisher Granta BooksWeight(grams) 325gDimensions(mm) 210mm * 146mm * 15mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780865972834Author Richard WeaverFormat PaperbackPage Count 861Imprint Liberty Fund IncPublisher Liberty Fund IncWeight(grams) 1034g

'It promises to be one of the literary highlights of 2021 - publication of the diaries of Patricia Highsmith, one of the most conflicted, fascinating novelists of the 20th century' Edward Helmore, Guardian'My secrets-the secrets that everyone has-are...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781838019624Author Julian StoddFormat PaperbackPage Count 103Imprint Sea Salt PublishingPublisher Sea Salt Publishing

The captivating letters by the most idiosyncratic, witty and irrepressible of the notorious Mitford sisters.Here's what readers are saying:'It is both laugh-out-loud funny and enthralling' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐'A wonderful record of a remarkable woman' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐'A total...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781644452929Author Stacey D'ErasmoFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Graywolf PressPublisher Graywolf PressWeight(grams) 454g

"Ex-Friends" is filled with brilliant portraits of some of the cultural icons who defined our time. While it has some of the elements of a personal diary, it is also a journal de combat describing the intellectual and social turbulence of the 60s and 70s...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781510741577Author Graham TarrantFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint Skyhorse PublishingPublisher Skyhorse PublishingWeight(grams) 340gDimensions(mm) 211mm...

In December 1820, at twenty-one years old, Edward Geoffrey Stanley, the future 14th earl of Derby and three-times prime minister, began an extensive tour of continental Europe. By the time of his return to England twenty months later, he had visited many...

The goals of budo-the martial arts and ways of Japan-lie in refining the body and spirit. The techniques, methods, and rituals of budo can provide invaluable lessons for today's martial artists-and serve as guides to a well-lived life.In Traditions, Dave...

Written in the 1840s and published here for the first time, Julia Ward Howe's novel about a hermaphrodite is unlike anything of its time-or, in truth, of our own. Narrated by Laurence, who is raised and lives as a man and is loved by men and women alike,...

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

Reading, like travelling, takes you on a journey of discovery into new places, cultures and ways of living. This book brings those two worlds together. It is a literary exploration of global proportions, a rich survey of the finest novels set or written...

This volume presents a winning selection of the very best essays from the long and distinguished career of Stanley Wells, one of the most well-known and respected Shakespeare scholars in the world. Wells's accomplishments include editing the entire canon...

This anthology makes available to students and general readers the rich variety of Victorian magazines for women. The extracts range from fashion magazines to feminist journals, from serious works for Christian mothers to tales of romance and passion for...

A chronicle of Rome in crisis.The History of Herodian (born ca. AD 178-179) covers a period of the Roman empire from the death of the emperor Marcus Aurelius (AD 180) to the accession of Gordian III (238), half a century of turbulence, in which we can...

Over the course of the twentieth century, Mongolian life was transformed, as a land of nomadic communities encountered first socialism and then capitalism and their promises of new societies. The stories collected in this anthology offer literary...

By turns reflective, entertaining and moving, this book reveals how some of the most influential and best loved writers of our time were shaped by their inspirational teachers. Nobel laureate J. M. Coetzee, Margaret Drabble, Stephen Greenblatt, Ngugi wa...

In The Small Heart of Things, Julian Hoffman intimately examines the myriad ways in which connections to the natural world can be deepened through an equality of perception, whether it's a caterpillar carrying its house of leaves, transhumant shepherds...

From the controversy in 1995 that heralded Blasted, to her death in February 1999, Sarah Kane built a reputation as an established playwright of international stature. This is the first volume of collected essays by some of the leading scholars in their...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909889255Author Sigrid RausingFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Granta MagazinePublisher Granta MagazineWeight(grams) 270gDimensions(mm) 210mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781474418140Author Scott HamesFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Edinburgh University PressPublisher Edinburgh University Press

By now, Yukio Mishima's (1925-1970) dramatic demise through an act of seppuku after an inflammatory public speech has become the stuff of literary legend. With Patriotism, Mishima was able to give his heartwrenching patriotic idealism an immortal vessel...

A vivid and personal documentation of T. S. Eliot's most crucial years, both in his private and public life.Despairing of his volatile, unstable marriage, T. S. Eliot, at 44, resolves to put an end to his eighteen-year union with Vivien Haigh-Wood Eliot...

When Kei Miller describes these as essays and prophecies, he shares with the reader a sensibility in which the sacred and the secular, belief and scepticism, and vision and analysis engage in profound and lively debate. Two moments shape the space in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781598535808Author Lisa YaszekFormat HardbackPage Count 551Imprint The Library of AmericaPublisher The Library of America

Stories to Awaken the World, the first complete translation of Xingshi hengyan, completes the publication in English of the famous three-volume set of Feng Menglong's popular Chinese-vernacular stories. These tales, which come from a variety of sources...

Greek Through Reading stresses the importance of early reading of good and varied Greek to give the student a sense of idiom. The Greek selections come from twenty-five authors ranging from Homer to the Anthology. These are arranged in fourteen...

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

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780451494924Author Zachary AuburnFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Three Rivers PressPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 193gDimensions(mm)...

An exciting collection of mythology about heroes, heroines, villains, and monsters in the intriguing world of the nomad warriors of the CaucasusThe Nart sagas are to the Caucasus what Greek mythology is to Western civilization. Tales of the Narts expands...

Life of William Grimes, the Runaway Slave is the first fugitive slave narrative in American history. When it appeared in New York in 1825, it was the longest African American autobiography published up to that time. Because Grimes wrote and published his...