Literary Collections

Personal records from the sands of Egypt.This is the first of two volumes giving a selection of Greek papyri relating to private and public business. They cover a period from before 300 BC to the eighth century AD. Most were found in rubbish heaps or...

'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...

In May 1941 Lena Mukhina was an ordinary teenage girl, living in Leningrad, worrying about her homework and whether Vova - the boy she liked - liked her. Like a good Soviet schoolgirl, she was also diligently learning German, the language of Russia's...

SPECIAL COMMENDATION in Africa's 100 Best Books of the Twentieth Century. The series is illustrated throughout with maps and black and white photographs. Africa has moved from international conflict under foreign domination to struggles for political...

" This masterful translation of one of the most popular books of world literature makes available to an English readership the animal tales known collectively as Kalila and Dimna . Named after the two jackals of Pancatantra fame, this collection of...

The Alexandra attributed to Lykophron is a minor poetic masterpiece. At 1474 lines, it is one of the most important and notoriously difficult Greek poems dating from the Hellenistic period (most likely the early second century BC). Most of the poem...

Justus Lipsius' De Constantia (1584) is one of the most important and interesting of sixteenth century Humanist texts. A dialogue in two books, conceived as a philosophical consolation for those suffering through contemporary religious wars, De...

'A daring collection written in response to lockdown' Alison MacLeod 'A collection that reminds us what it is to be human. A book for right now' , Angela Readman '18 well-chosen stories, loosely based on the idea of solitude, explore loss, loneliness and...

Late antique court poetry.Claudius Claudianus, Latin poet of great affairs, flourished during the joint reigns (AD 394-5 onwards) of the brothers Honorius (Emperor in the West) and Arcadius (in the East). Apparently a native of Greek Alexandria in Egypt,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781946774682Author Raphael BrownFormat PaperbackPage Count 230Imprint Quick Time PressPublisher Quick Time PressWeight(grams) 340gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062978110Author T S EliotFormat HardbackPage Count 208Imprint Ecco PressPublisher Ecco PressWeight(grams) 454g

One of the most gifted American journalists of the twentieth century, A. J. Liebling learned his craft as a newspaper reporter before joining The New Yorker in 1935. This volume collects five books that demonstrate his extraordinary vitality and...

Anyone in search of England can do no better than to take up Karel Capek's Letters from England. Humorous, insightful and imbued with a profound humanity, Capek's letters convey a bemused admiration for a country which in the 1920's still lived according...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781420964271Author Emma GoldmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 146Imprint Digireads.comPublisher Digireads.comWeight(grams) 195gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 9mm

The selections not only include St. Thomas Aquinas's views on government, law, war, property, and sexual ethics, but also provide the theological, epistemological, and psychological background for his political and ethical thought, including the Five...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781528953474Author Jax MoulFormat PaperbackPage Count 62Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers

This third volume of a projected six reinforces Huxley's stature as one of the most acute and informed observers of the social and ideological trends of the years between the world wars. It contains the important collection of essays "Music at Night" as...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781916481701Author Whittlesey WordsmithsFormat PaperbackPage Count 426Imprint Whittlesey WordsmithsPublisher Whittlesey Wordsmiths

What Thoreau can teach us about working-why we do it, what it does to us, and how we can make it more meaningfulHenry at Work invites readers to rethink how we work today by exploring an aspect of Henry David Thoreau that has often been overlooked:...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781789501766Author HomerFormat HardbackPage Count 384Imprint ArcturusPublisher Arcturus Publishing Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781420974720Author AristotleFormat PaperbackPage Count 36Imprint Digireads.comPublisher Digireads.comWeight(grams) 59gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 2mm

Reading a story to another person creates a bond between two people. It is often assumed that reading aloud is only for children, but the practice was once a common pleasure for adults too. The time has come to rediscover it. This simple yet powerful...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780995456440Author Alexandra LloydFormat PaperbackPage Count 214Imprint Taylor Institution LibraryPublisher Taylor Institution Library

'There is nothing to forget' A young girl wakes up alone next to a burning truck and befriends a nearby cloud; an Eritrean design student works to recreate his lost childhood home whilst studying in London; a group of illegal immigrants endure...

Since the publication of Vansina's earlier book, oral traditions have now become widely accepted as a legitimate source of history. Although written by a leading historian of Africa, Vansina's work on oral traditions ranges far beyond Africa, so has a...

Klotsvog is a novel about being Jewish in the Soviet Union and the historical trauma of World War II-and it's a novel about the petty dramas and demons of one strikingly vain woman. Maya Abramovna Klotsvog has had quite a life, and she wants you to know...

Ancient Roman word lore.Varro (M. Terentius), 116-27 BC, of Reate, renowned for his vast learning, was an antiquarian, historian, philologist, student of science, agriculturist, and poet. He was a republican who was reconciled to Julius Caesar and was...

Southern Chile was an open frontier when the beloved poet Pablo Neruda was born there in 1904. A motherless, pensive child in the wild, he began writing poems long before quitting the countryside for Santiago, where he spent his bohemian student years...

Ancient expertise on water and warfare.Frontinus, Sextus Iulius, ca. AD 35-103, was a capable Roman civil officer and military commander. Praetor of the city in 70 and consul in 73 or 74, 98 and 100, he was, about the year 76, sent to Britain as governor...

Uncovering the professional secrets of con artists and swindlers in the medieval Middle East The Book of Charlatans is a comprehensive guide to trickery and scams as practiced in the thirteenth century in the cities of the Middle East, especially in...

'Engaging, witty, thoughtful, clever, casual, ebullient, erudite and thoroughly modern' Spectator'A dazzling talent - hilarious, winning and deft' Malcolm Gladwell In Mid-Air is a collection of short essays by the acclaimed writer and speaker, Adam...

Washington Irving (1783-1859) was the first American literary artist to earn his living solely through his writings and the first to enjoy international acclaim. In addition to his long public service as a diplomat, Irving was amazingly prolific: His...

'IB was one of the great affirmers of our time.' John Banville, New York Review of BooksThe title of this final volume of Isaiah Berlin's letters is echoed by John Banville's verdict in his review of its predecessor, Building: Letters 1960-75, which saw...

Bestselling author and New Yorker writer Adam Gopnik embarks on a wildly creative inquiry into perhaps the oldest question: how do we learn a new skill? For decades, Adam Gopnik has been one of our most beloved writers, a brilliantly perceptive critic...

The Aeneid - thrilling, terrifying and poignant in equal measure - has inspired centuries of artists, writers and musicians.Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library; a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket sized classics with gold foiled edges and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780955736940Author Peter McMannersFormat PaperbackPage Count 228Imprint Susta PressPublisher Susta PressWeight(grams) 129g

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...

"I have tried to make a sketch or a model in several dimensions of the potency of Arendt's idea of invisibility, the necessary inconspicuousness of thinking and reading, and the ambivalently joyous and knotted agency to be found there. Just beneath the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781621450719Author Mary RoachFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Trusted Media BrandsPublisher Trusted Media BrandsWeight(grams) 272gDimensions(mm) 206mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780544817340Author Hilton AlsFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Mariner BooksPublisher Mariner BooksWeight(grams) 290g