Literary Collections

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781614983125Author H P LovecraftFormat PaperbackPage Count 546Imprint Hippocampus PressPublisher Hippocampus PressWeight(grams) 721gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

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...

"A wide ranging, challenging and constantly surprising collection ... focusing on the divisions the war created between men and women."Pat BarkerThis is an anthology of short stories of World War I from 25 classic writers. Gertrude Stein, Virginia Woolf...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590178508Author E. B. WhiteFormat PaperbackPage Count 392Imprint NYRB ClassicsPublisher The New York Review of Books, IncWeight(grams) 392gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593312728Author Rax KingFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 210gDimensions(mm) 202mm * 132mm *...

As I step out of the conservatory facing North, supported by my pusher, the first that catches my eye is the dying Sycamore which escapes death every year by producing a healthy crop of leaves, but it looks so decrepit that surely it can't pull that...

I don't recall if I saw my first gunman in my childhood nightmares or on my childhood streets. There were plenty in both and they looked very much like each other. So begins Reggie Chamberlain-King's introduction to The Black Dreams, a thrilling...

Hildegard of Bingen [1098-1179], an important figure in her own time, has come increasingly to critical attention in recent years. Cause et Cure, attributed to Hildegard, is both a cosmological text and a medical handbook; it is a densely layered work...

A thoughtful collection of soul-soothing writing, O's Little Book of Calm & Comfort is the antidote to life's trying times.Featuring essays and interviews from some of the most celebrated contributors to O, The Oprah Magazine, this heartening collection...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781960045003Author R CliftFormat PaperbackPage Count 314Imprint Rachel CliftPublisher Rachel CliftWeight(grams) 308g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780345478238Author Frederick DouglassFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams)...

Why is a focus on gender so important for interpreting the world in which we live? Sixteen world-famous scholars have been brought together to address this question from their respective fields: Political Theory, Philosophy, Medical Anthropology, Law,...

The first volume of Jack Kerouac's selected letters, published in 1995, was hailed as an important and revealing addition to Kerouac scholarship. This second and final volume, comprising letters written between 1957, the year On the Road was published,...

Despite Freud's enormous influence on twentieth-century interpretations of the humanities, there has never before been in English a complete collection of his writings on art and literature. These fourteen essays cover the entire range of his work on...

Eclectic essays on ethics, education, and much else besides.Plutarch (Plutarchus), ca. AD 45-120, was born at Chaeronea in Boeotia in central Greece, studied philosophy at Athens, and, after coming to Rome as a teacher in philosophy, was given...

At once a memoir and a personal version of the author's highly influential Language of Psychoanalysis, this work by one of the world's leading proponents of psychoanalytic theory and practice offers an autobiographical perspective on the private...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312253998Author WalkerFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 245gDimensions(mm) 207mm * 143mm *...

Andrei Sinyavsky wrote Strolls with Pushkin while confined to Dubrovlag, a Soviet labor camp, smuggling the pages out a few at a time to his wife. His irreverent portrait of Pushkin outraged emigres and Soviet scholars alike, yet his "disrespect" was...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781501159015Author Lacy M JohnsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Scribner Book CompanyPublisher Scribner Book CompanyWeight(grams) 272gDimensions(mm)...

The legend of Saint Patrick is irresistibly captivating-he drove the snakes out of Ireland, battled the druids, and used the three-leaf Shamrock to convert the pagan Irish to belief in the Christian Trinity. Yet, as so often happens, these stories are...

Pindar-the 'Theban eagle', as Thomas Gray famously called him-has often been taken as the archetype of the sublime poet: soaring into the heavens on wings of language and inspired by visions of eternity. In this much-anticipated new study, Robert Fowler...

Drawing on her own experiences as a woman of Iranian and British Isle descent, writer Hollay Ghadery dives into conflicts and uncertainty surrounding the bi-racial female body and identity, especially as it butts up against the disparate expectations of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780986239359Author J H BrownFormat PaperbackPage Count 52Imprint Curious PublicationsPublisher Curious PublicationsWeight(grams) 136g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812994391Author Truman CapoteFormat HardbackPage Count 672Imprint Modern Library IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 646gDimensions(mm) 210mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781640092686Author Beth PiatoteFormat HardbackPage Count 208Imprint CounterpointPublisher Counterpoint

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906075903Author Paul McDonaldFormat PaperbackPage Count 105Imprint Greenwich Exchange LtdPublisher Greenwich Exchange Ltd

What makes science fiction genres better than others at challenging social conventions, especially gender? Are speculative works structured differently when addressed to traditionally under-portrayed individuals or communities? This collection of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781787806832Author Maria EdgeworthFormat PaperbackPage Count 132Imprint Horse's MouthPublisher Horse's MouthWeight(grams) 204gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *...

Things in heaven and earth.Aristotle, great Greek philosopher, researcher, reasoner, and writer, born at Stagirus in 384 BC, was the son of a physician. He studied under Plato at Athens and taught there (367-347); subsequently he spent three...

Gathering a wide range of traditional African myths, this compelling new collection offers tales of heroes battling mighty serpents and monstrous birds, brutal family conflict and vengeance, and desperate migrations across vast and alien lands. From...

The Great Exhibition of 1851 has become a touchstone for the nineteenth century. The Crystal Palace produced a commodity world, an imperial spectacle, a picture of capitalism, a liberal dream, a vision of modern life. Historians have saturated the Great...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780995674028Author Jay ArmstrongFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint ElementumPublisher ElementumWeight(grams) 608gDimensions(mm) 274mm * 210mm * 12mm

Founder of the Left Bank bookstore Shakespeare and Company and the first publisher of James Joyce's Ulysses, Sylvia Beach had a legendary facility for nurturing literary talent. In this first collection of her letters, we witness Beach's day-to-day...

Love, sex, death, boredom, ecstasy, existential angst, political upheaval - the history of literature offers a rich and varied exploration of the human condition across the centuries. In this absorbing companion to literature's rich past, arranged by...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781498186377Author Frank ParsonsFormat PaperbackPage Count 174Imprint Literary Licensing, LLCPublisher Literary Licensing, LLCWeight(grams)...

'Dear Mr. Adam, I am writing on behalf of the Central Watch and Social Problems Committee of the Mothers' Union to ask whether you have a programme in mind on the moral issue of venereal disease.''Sir, Where are the B.B.C's censors? We do not care for...

Diana Athill has corresponded with the American poet Edward Field for over thirty years, freely sharing jokes, pleasures and pains with her old friend, and writing with an intimacy and spontaneity even more revealing than the candour of her celebrated...

After becoming popularized by the troubadours of southern France in the twelfth century, the social system of 'courtly love' soon spread. Evidence of the influence of courtly love in the culture and literature of most of western Europe spans centuries...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780394741048Author Rainer Maria RilkeFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 74gDimensions(mm) 175mm...

Elizabeth Waterston is a 2011 Fellow of The Royal Society of Canada. The final volume of the immensely successful The Selected Journals of L.M. Montgomery covers the years 1935 to 1942, the year of Montgomery's death. No longer dwelling in a farm...