Literary Collections

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)...

A collection of essays on writers and writing by the Booker-shortlisted novelist and critic.Writing about real lives takes various forms, which overlap and may be combined with each other: biography, autobiography, biographical criticism, biographical...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780993513107Author Siana BanguraFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint Haus of Liberated ReadingPublisher Haus of Liberated Reading

The London theatres arguably were the central cultural institutions in England during the Romantic period, and certainly were arenas in which key issues of the time were contested. While existing anthologies of Romantic drama have focused almost...

Un Nuevo Sol: British LatinX Writers is the first major anthology of UK-based writers of Latin American heritage, a vibrant, new vanguard in British literature. Representing a community that is the eighth biggest in London, one of the fastest growing and...

Part of a detailed compendium of late-Roman learning in each of the seven liberal arts, set within an amusing mythological-allegorical tale of courtship and marriage among the pagan gods. The text provides an understanding of medieval allegory and the...

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...

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...

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 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...

Claudia Rankine's bold new book recounts mounting racial aggressions in ongoing encounters in 21st century daily life and in the media. The accumulative stresses come to bear on a person's ability to speak, perform and stay alive. Our addressability is...

The Year of the Raven reaches new heights on dark wings! With a few years under its collective belt, the Hearthstone team needed to find an edge: sharper and more striking than a corvid's beak. In The Art of Hearthstone, Volume IV: Year of the Raven,...

James Byrne is a widely-travelled poet and editor, and in this, his 4th book from Arc, he reflects on the places, their histories and people that have made a lasting impression on him. He journeys to the Rohingya refugee camps in Cox' Bazar; through...

A collection of seven great works of Japanese literature in the original language, along with the English translation and a newly-revised custom dictionary - plus downloadable audio. Breaking into Japanese Literature lets readers enjoy seven classic...

Kyokutei Bakin's Nanso Satomi hakkenden is one of the monuments of Japanese literature. This multigenerational samurai saga was one of the most popular and influential books of the nineteenth century and has been adapted many times into film, television,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781570625473Author Ken WilberFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Shambhala Publications IncPublisher Shambhala Publications IncWeight(grams)...

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...

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...

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

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 *...

Proving himself yet again a master of every form, Barth conquers in his latest the ruminative short essay-" jeux d'esprits," as Barth describes them. These mostly one-page tidbits pay homage to Barth's literary influences while retaining his trademark...

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

Based on the popular Netflix series! In the early 20th century, esteemed writer Maurice Leblanc created Arsene Lupin, a French Sherlock Holmes-type who became known as the gentleman thief. Lupin's exploits, in pursuit of the rich, have been documented in...

The daring, mischievous micro-essays of award-winning French humorist Eric Chevillard, published in English for the first time Eric Chevillard is one of France's leading stylists and thinkers, an endlessly inventive observer of the everyday whose...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781905881994Author Sigrid RausingFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Granta MagazinePublisher Granta MagazineWeight(grams) 365gDimensions(mm) 210mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780743267748Author Judith ViorstFormat HardbackPage Count 64Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 231gDimensions(mm) 200mm * 161mm...

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

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781626540491Author John SinkankasFormat PaperbackPage Count 322Imprint Churchill & Dunn, LtdPublisher Churchill & Dunn, LtdWeight(grams) 748gDimensions(mm)...

This book takes a carefully considered look at the history of many lesser known but nevertheless advanced British flying wing, delta and tailless aircraft that stretch across much of the last century. The emphasis is on classified projects...

A remarkable companion piece to The Writer and the World, Naipaul's previous volume of highly acclaimed essays, Literary Occasions is a stirring contribution to the fading art of the critic, and a revelation of a life in letters.In these eleven extended...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780544582941Author Roxane GayFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Mariner BooksPublisher Mariner BooksWeight(grams) 308gDimensions(mm) 208mm * 140mm * 23mm

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

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780767917360Author A. J. LieblingFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Broadway Books (A Division of Bantam Doubleday DelPublisher Broadway Books (A...

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...

"Money is what God used to be. Good and evil have no meaning any longer except failure and success." Disgusted by society's materialism, Gordon Comstock leaves his job in advertising to pursue an ill-fated career as a poet. In his race to the bottom,...