Literary Collections

Spirited verse.Prudentius (Aurelius Prudentius Clemens) was born in AD 348 probably at Caesaraugusta (Saragossa) and lived mostly in northeastern Spain, but visited Rome between 400 and 405. His parents, presumably Christian, had him educated in...

Oscar Wilde's early fame ensured that throughout his short life he was written about by many of those he met. He was celebrated - or mocked - as the master of the ingenious epigram, the provocative paradox, the witty aside or the extravagant conceit. In...

This volume is an excellent introduction to Wordsworth's poetry. His great autobiographical poem The Prelude runs to thirteen books in the text of 1805. But by 1799 the poet had already written a version covering his childhood and adolescence in under a...

WINNER OF THE AMERICAN BOOK AWARD Powerhouse, world-renowned LGBTQ poet and spoken-word artist Staceyann Chin curates the first full-length collection of her poems. Crossfire collects Staceyann Chin's empowering, feminist-LGBTQ-Caribbean,...

Livy Ab Urbe Condita Books I-VBook InformationISBN 9780198146612Author Robert OgilvieFormat HardbackPage Count 416Imprint Oxford University PressPublisher Oxford University PressDimensions(mm) 194mm * 131mm * 29mm

Set in a modern, urban Paris, the prose pieces in this volume constitute a further exploration of the terrain Baudelaire had covered in his verse masterpiece, The Flowers of Evil: the city and its squalor and inequalities, the pressures of time and...

First published in 1994, this scholarly edition of a major Renaissance text is edited and introduced by John Henry Jones, a leading expert on the Faust legend. The English translation of the best-selling German Faust Book of 1587 has long been known as...

A gathering of poetic blossoms.The Greek Anthology (literally, "Gathering of Flowers") is the name given to a collection of about 4500 short Greek poems (called epigrams but usually not epigrammatic) by about 300 composers. To the collection (called...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780795300912Author William L. ShirerFormat PaperbackPage Count 302Imprint Rosetta BooksPublisher Rosetta Books

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780061715617Author Dennis CooperFormat PaperbackPage Count 377Imprint Harper PerennialPublisher Harper PerennialWeight(grams) 304g

Notable writers-including UK poet laureate Simon Armitage, Julian Barnes, Margaret MacMillan, and Jenny Uglow-celebrate our fascination with the houses of famous literary figures, artists, composers, and politicians of the pastWhat can a house tell us...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780140084801Author William BoydFormat PaperbackPage Count 252Imprint Granta BooksPublisher Granta BooksWeight(grams) 320gDimensions(mm) 210mm * 147mm * 14mm

WINNER of the Association for the Study of Women and Mythology's Sarasvati Nonfiction Book Award! Path-breaking lesbian poet & scholar Judy Grahn returns to the stories of Inanna the Mesopotamian goddess of erotic love and justice to reimagine the...

Paul Gottfried's critical engagement with political correctness is well known. The essays in Revisions and Dissents focus on a range of topics in European intellectual and political history, social theory, and the history of modern political movements...

Did you hear the one about the newlywed who rushes off for legal advice before the honeymoon is over? Or the husbands who arrange for an enormous tub in which to cure their sugary wives with a pinch of salt? How about a participatory processional toward...

A major poet, writer, and painter, Dante Gabriel Rossetti was seen as the dominating cultural presence in the second half of the nineteenth century. He founded the Pre-Raphaelite movement, revised and reimagined Blake's project of marrying images and...

By the age of thirty, Weldon Kees (1914-55) was a poet, journalist, musician, painter, photographer, and short story writer living in New York City. Despite a contract for a forthcoming novel, however, he stopped writing fiction, moved to San Francisco,...

The 1792 Harpers' Meeting in Belfast was indeed an important event in the history and life of the town. Belfast's reformers and radicals desired a better future, but they also shared an interest in the past. Through their support for the few surviving...

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, textual notes on the plays and poems and an extensive Introduction. Shakespeare's plays...

In this multi-volume edition, the poetry of W.B. Yeats (1865-1939) is presented in full, with newly-established texts and detailed, wide-ranging commentary. Yeats began to write verse in the nineteenth century, and over time his own arrangements of poems...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780993186677Author David FlintFormat PaperbackPage Count 148Imprint Hungry Eye BooksPublisher Hungry Eye BooksWeight(grams) 127g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780061189364Author Pete DexterFormat PaperbackPage Count 289Imprint Ecco PressPublisher Ecco PressWeight(grams) 249g

The life of UsA mah ibn-Munqidh epitomized the height of Arab civilization as it flourished in the period of the early Crusades. His memoirs present an uncommon non-European perspective and understanding of the military and cultural contact between East...

Simon Schama, in defence of the essay in the age of Twitter, writes: 'The self-propulsion of a ranging intelligence is the dynamo that drives a powerful essay; the headlong gallop of thought to a destination the reader can't predict and which may not...

Karl Klein's edition of Timon of Athens introduces Shakespeare's play as a complex exploration of a corrupt, moneyed society. Klein sees the protagonist not as a failed tragic hero, but as a rich and philanthropic nobleman, surrounded by greed and...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780916260477Author BertFormat PaperbackPage Count 284Imprint Christian Publishers LLCPublisher Christian Publishers LLCWeight(grams) 400g

The Book of Marvels, a compilation of marvellous events of a grotesque, bizarre or sensational nature, was composed in the second century A.D. by Phlegon of Tralles, a Greek freedman of the Roman emperor Hadrian. This remarkable text is the earliest...

Surveying the dizzying universe of classic books, Michael Dirda, the Pulitzer Prize-winning literary essayist, proves himself to be one of the most engaging critics of our time-and great fun to read. Opening with an impassioned critique of modern reading...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780976159216Author H. P. LovecraftFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Hippocampus PressPublisher Hippocampus PressWeight(grams) 449gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

An intimate glimpse into the professional and romantic relationship between Harriet Pattison and the renowned architect Louis Kahn On a winter day in 1953, a mysterious man in a sheepskin coat stood out to Harriet Pattison, then a theater student at Yale...

William Hazlitt (1778-1830), that most engaging of English essayists, is provocatively and congenially at home in this new collection of his city essays that spark with urbane wit and gossip. Characters from his world come alive: Wordsworth and Beau...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909526464Author Christopher FraylingFormat HardbackPage Count 230Imprint Reel Art PressPublisher Reel Art Press

Hart Crane's long poem The Bridge has steadily grown in stature since it was published in 1930. At first branded a noble failure by a few influential critics- a charge that became conventional wisdom-this panoramic work is now widely regarded as one of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143134442Author Audre LordeFormat HardbackPage Count 208Imprint Penguin ClassicsPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 283gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature'Pamuk is taking the world we thought we knew and making it fresh and alive' New York Times'Wonderfully readable, a joy to dip into.' Joseph O'Connor, Irish Sunday IndependentFrom the internationally bestselling...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789354894268Author Anirudh SuriFormat HardbackPage Count 556Imprint HarperCollins IndiaPublisher HarperCollins IndiaDimensions(mm) 360mm * 160mm * 40mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909631434Author Marina WarnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 44Imprint Sylph EditionsPublisher Sylph Editions

Antiquity's most influential mythological handbook.The Library provides in three books a grand summary of traditional Greek mythology and heroic legends. Written in clear and unaffected style, the compendium faithfully follows the Greek literary...

'I was approached by a courteous young man who handed me a visiting card engraved with his name, Joseph, and his profession: Senior Officers' Pimp.' Norman Lewis embarks on his career as a British spy in Arabia 'Why yes, what a pleasure to meet you.'...