Literary Collections

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781999952280Author Nigel JenkinsFormat PaperbackPage Count 248Imprint The Hmm FoundationPublisher The Hmm Foundation

In this brief and powerful book, Diana Fuss takes on the debate of pure essence versus social construct, engaging with the work of Luce Irigaray and Monique Wittig, Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Houston Baker, and with the politics of gay identity.Reviews"...

Belles lettres.Sidonius Apollinaris, a Gallo-Roman, was born at Lugdunum (Lyon) about AD 430. He married Papianilla, daughter of the Emperor Avitus in whose honor he recited at Rome on 1 January 456 a panegyric in verse. Sidonius later joined a...

THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER'Heart-breaking, heart-warming, and hilarious: a glorious debut' Ruth Hogan'Strong and taut' Anne Griffin 'Fresh, thoughtful and original' Irish Times'I really enjoyed this, Eleanor is a lovely writer' Sheila O'FlanaganMeet...

A collection of the best science and nature articles written in 2021, selected by guest editor renowned marine biologist Dr. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson and series editor Jaime Green. Dr. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson, renowned marine biologist and co-founder of...

Robert Durling's much-anticipated translation of the Paradiso, the third and final volume of Dante's Divine Comedy, is available at last. Durling's prose translations of the Inferno and the Purgatorio garnered high praise, and with this superb version of...

"Not writing is always a relief and sometimes a pleasure. Writing about what cannot be written, by contrast, is the devil's own job." In this unusual text, a blend of essay, fiction, and literary genealogy, South African novelist Ivan...

The text of the Periplous or 'circumnavigation' that survives under the name of Skylax of Karyanda is in fact by an unknown author of the 4th century BC. It describes the coasts of the Mediterranean and Black Sea, naming hundreds of towns with...

Sophocles' "Ajax" is one of the most disturbing and powerful surviving ancient tragedies. But it is also difficult to understand and interpret. What are we to make of its protagonist's extremism? Does Ajax deserve the isolation and divine...

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 9781494057176Author Joseph A SchumpeterFormat PaperbackPage Count 246Imprint Literary Licensing, LLCPublisher Literary Licensing, LLCWeight(grams)...

An expansive collection of texts providing insight into the inner life, creativity, and practice of the innovative American artist Anne Truitt Spanning more than fifty years, this comprehensive volume collects the letters, journal entries, interviews,...

Published fifty years ago under the title Harpoon of the Hunter, Markoosie Patsauq's novel helped establish the genre of Indigenous fiction in Canada. This new English translation unfolds the story of Kamik, a young hero who comes to manhood while on a...

An unrivaled compendium of ancient Roman knowledge.Pliny the Elder, Gaius Plinius Secundus (AD 23-79), a Roman of equestrian rank of Transpadane Gaul (N. Italy), was uncle of Pliny the letter writer. He pursued a career partly military in Germany,...

Tayeb Salih is internationally known for his classic novel Season of Migration to the North. With humour, wit and erudite poetic insights, Salih shows another side in this affectionate memoir of his exuberant and irrepressible friend Mansi Yousif...

This Norton Critical Edition is based on new translations by leading Kafka scholar and translator Stanley Corngold. Thirty stories are included, accompanied by detailed annotations. "Backgrounds and Contexts" offers a glimpse of Kafka's creative process...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780995651661Author Angelis PublicationsFormat HardbackPage Count 100Imprint Angelis PublicationsPublisher Angelis PublicationsWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679722014Author Rainer Maria RilkeFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm) 203mm...

Against the backdrop of brutal invasion, it is much easier for right-wing figures to target marginalised groups, and during wartime the queer community is exceedingly vulnerable to persecution, scapegoating and censorship. Being visibly queer in Ukraine...

Modern Japanese Literature is Donald Keene s critically acclaimed companion volume to his landmark Anthology of Japanese Literature. Now considered the standard canon of modern Japanese writing translated into English, Modern Japanese Literature includes...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374534721Author Aleksandr SolzhenitsynFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Farrar, Straus and GirouxPublisher Farrar, Straus and GirouxWeight(grams)...

Woven Shades of Green is an annotated selection of literature by authors who focus on the natural world and the beauty of Ireland. It begins with the Irish monks and their largely anonymous nature poetry, written at a time when Ireland was heavily...

In five elegant autobiographical meditations Calvino delves into his past, remembering awkward childhood walks with his father, a lifelong obsession with the cinema and fighting in the Italian Resistance against the Fascists. He also muses on the social...

Denton Welch (1915-48) died at the age of thirty-three after a brief but brilliant career as a writer and painter. The revealing, poignant, impressionistic voice that buoys his novels was much praised by critics and literati in England and has since...

A collection of outstanding British periodical essays from the era in which the genre was invented From the pens of spectators, ramblers, idlers, tattlers, hypochondriacs, connoisseurs, and loungers, a new literary genre emerged in eighteenth-century...

This volume provides a wide-ranging collection of the writing of noted Bloomsbury figure Vita Sackville-West. One of the most well known lesbian authors of the 20th century, Sackville-West was a central figure among the Bloomsbury modernists, and had a...

How can we know if the peace that has been established following a civil war is a stable peace? More than half of all countries that experienced civil war since World War II have suffered a relapse into violent conflict, in some cases more than once...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486420707Author Norman R. YetmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 157Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)...

This English translation of Michel Serres' 1982 book Genese captures in lucid prose the startling breadth and depth of his thinking, as he probes the relations between order, disorder, knowledge, anxiety, and violence. Written in a unique blend of...

This collection of essays explores the crucial place of Homer in the shifting cultural landscape of the twentieth century. It argues that Homer was viewed both as the founding father of the Western literary canon and as sharing important features with...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307273604Author Mason CurreyFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint Alfred A. KnopfPublisher Alfred A. KnopfWeight(grams) 397gDimensions(mm) 191mm * 132mm *...

This is a major collection of more than seventy essays, critical pieces, biographical sketches, and memoirs by the renowned poet, translator, and essayist. It includes long-inaccessible contributions to journals and magazines together with previously...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909889125Author Sigrid RausingFormat PaperbackImprint Granta MagazinePublisher Granta MagazineWeight(grams) 340gDimensions(mm) 210mm * 145mm * 15mm

An unrivaled compendium of ancient Roman knowledge.Pliny the Elder, Gaius Plinius Secundus (AD 23-79), a Roman of equestrian rank of Transpadane Gaul (N. Italy), was uncle of Pliny the letter writer. He pursued a career partly military in Germany,...

Albert Camus's lively journals from his eventful visits to the United States and South America in the 1940s, available again in a new translation. In March 1946, the young Albert Camus crossed from Le Havre to New York. Though he was virtually unknown to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781904246435Author George Mackay BrownFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Steve Savage Publishers LimitedPublisher Steve Savage Publishers Limited

Thomas Hoccleve (1368-426) was one of Chaucer's first disciples and is represented in this book by a selection of his works, newly edited from his own copies and fully annotated. It provides students and other readers new to his work with a very fair...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781905881819Author Sigrid RausingFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Granta MagazinePublisher Granta MagazineWeight(grams) 350gDimensions(mm) 210mm *...

"The greatest novel of physical love which China has produced." -Pearl S. BuckA saga of ruthless ambition, murder, and lust, The Golden Lotus (Jin Ping Mei) has been called the fifth Great Classical Novel in Chinese literature, joining the Four Great...

Anne Doyle has a dark side: an affinity for the ghoulish, unexplainable and supernatural. Reincarnated as the mistress of macabre, Ireland's best-loved newsreader delights in presenting Tales of the Otherworld, a fabulously frightful anthology of...