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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909275065Author Patricia L. HughesFormat PaperbackPage Count 142Imprint Hues BooksPublisher Hues BooksWeight(grams) 600g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909889064Author Sigrid RausingFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Granta MagazinePublisher Granta MagazineWeight(grams) 420gDimensions(mm) 210mm *...

The image of the pirate never fails to capture the imagination. The cut-throat sea robbers of history who plundered richly laden merchant ships are legendary. The likes of Blackbeard, Captain Kidd and Henry Morgan are romanticised and celebrated in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780933377295Author Naomi Shihab NyeFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Eighth Mountain Press,Publisher Eighth Mountain Press,

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781739480189Author Donald N M PatonFormat PaperbackPage Count 90Imprint Rymour BooksPublisher Rymour Books

A career-spanning collection of writings by the Nobel laureate Elias Canetti, edited and introduced by Pulitzer Prize winner Joshua Cohen. He embarked on no adventures, he was in no war. He was never in prison, he never killed anyone. He neither won...

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...

Serialized in Ford Madox Ford's English Review in 1908-9, A Personal Record (1912) both documents and fictionalizes Conrad's early life and the opening stages of his careers as a writer and as a seaman. It is also an artistic and political manifesto...

In 1902, a nineteen-year-old aspiring poet named Franz Kappus wrote to Rilke, then twenty-six, seeking advice on his poetry. Kappus, a student at a military academy in Vienna similar to the one Rilke had attended, was about to embark on a career as an...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781423652694Author Ralph Waldo EmersonFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint Gibbs M. Smith IncPublisher Gibbs M. Smith Inc

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781623719227Author Thomas SuarezFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint Olive Branch PressPublisher Interlink Publishing Group, Inc

This anthology presents important early essays that laid the foundation for queer studies of the Bloomsbury Group together with new essays that build upon this foundation to provide ground-breaking work on Bloomsbury figures and cultural achievements. As...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781515427261Author Friedrich Wilhelm NietzscheFormat HardbackPage Count 118Imprint Wilder PublicationsPublisher Wilder PublicationsWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781646220113Author Margot KahnFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint CatapultPublisher Catapult

With a new Introduction by Said S. Samatar and an Afterword by the author This series of Classics in African Anthropology is primarily drawn from a distinct family of texts which dominated the academic analysis of society in mid-20th century Africa...

The basic writings of Chuang Tzu have been savored by Chinese readers for over two thousand years. And Burton Watson's lucid and beautiful translation has been loved by generations of readers. Chuang Tzu (369?-286? B.C.) was a leading philosopher...

Unfailingly elegant and endlessly relevant, the four essays in this collection treat literature as a vital record of our political hypocrisies, our social failings, and the ennobling limits of our ideological aspirations. Delving into the literary canon,...

Slaves And Masters is arguably one of the most divisive albums in Deep Purple's history. A product of Ian Gillan's sacking from the band and the recruitment of former Rainbow vocalist Joe Lynn Turner, in 1990, Slaves And Masters divided the fanbase...

With a style that combined biting sarcasm with the "language of the free lunch counter," Henry Louis Mencken shook politics and politicians for nearly half a century. Now, fifty years after Mencken's death, the Johns Hopkins University Press...

"Those who wish to deepen their acquaintance with Murasaki's wondrous world will certainly find Puette's guide most helpful." -The Japan TimesThis is the most complete reader's guide available on Japan's highly revered novel, the eleventh-century...

Four Lectures by Lisa Jarnot is the seventh book in the Bagley Wright Lecture Series, comprising autobiographical essays that form an intimate, uncompromising, and generous glimpse into a remarkable life in poetry.Across the lectures, or talks, given...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781509552153Author Hugh PenningtonFormat PaperbackPage Count 140Imprint Polity PressPublisher Polity PressWeight(grams) 138g

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...

Remains of a universal chronicle.Diodorus Siculus, Greek historian of Agyrium in Sicily (ca. 80-20 BC), wrote forty books of world history, called Library of History, in three parts: mythical history of peoples, non-Greek and Greek, to the Trojan War;...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780140157963Author Mitchell A. LeaskaFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Penguin Books LtdPublisher Penguin Books LtdWeight(grams) 301gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250872661Author Judith ThurmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 454g

When Liz Macintyre's mother died she found a collection of 300 letters from her father Alex, spanning his service in Italy and Egypt in the Second World War. His career began in 1940 sailing down the west coast of Africa, then up to Egypt, and the next...

According to most of the media, the left and the political establishment, Donald Trump was a racist, sexist, dangerous man who debased the office of US President, embarrassed his country and brought it to the brink of civil war. Throughout his...

The Protagoras is one of Plato's most entertaining dialogues. It represents Socrates at a gathering of the most celebrated and highest-earning intellectuals of the day, among them the sophist Protagoras. In flamboyant displays of both rhetoric and...

A renowned writer and committed pacifist throughout the 1930s - a conviction that resulted in his imprisonment before and after the Occupation - Jean Giono spent the war in the village of Contadour in Provence, where he wrote, corresponded with other...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780645583649Author Phillipa Nefri ClarkFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Phillipa Nefri ClarkPublisher Phillipa Nefri ClarkWeight(grams) 299g

Scholarly edition of Aelfric's Colloquy with supporting introduction and glossary.Book InformationISBN 9780859890984Author G. N. GarmonswayFormat PaperbackPage Count 74Imprint University of Exeter PressPublisher Liverpool University Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781683961369Author Guido MartinaFormat HardbackPage Count 187Imprint Fantagraphics BooksPublisher Fantagraphics BooksWeight(grams) 748gDimensions(mm) 262mm...

"Five charming novellas ... which have astonishing freshness, color, and warmth."- The New YorkerFirst published in 1686, this collection of five novellas by Ihara Saikaku was an immediate bestseller in the bawdy world of Genroku Japan. The book's...

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...

A new selection of essays from Michael Hofmann - one of our most exceptional critics of contemporary literature. 'Superb and invigorating.' Nicholas Shakespeare, Daily TelegraphIn these thirty essays, Hofmann brings his signature wit and sustained...

From one of the world's most passionately engaged and acclaimed literary citizens comes Writing with Intent, the largest collection to date of Margaret Atwood's nonfiction, ranging from 1983 to 2005. Composed of autobiographical essays, cultural...

During forty years of travel, V. S. Naipaul has created a wide-ranging body of work, an exceptional and sustained meditation on our world. Now his finest pieces of reflection and reportage - many of which have been unavailable for some time - are...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913996161Author Dyfed EdwardsFormat PaperbackPage Count 332Imprint Gwasg y Bwthyn CyfPublisher Gwasg y Bwthyn Cyf