Literary Collections

Approaching its 200th birthday in the rudest of health, the Spectator is known for the quality of its writing and the deep eccentricity of some of its writers. Given the freedom to say what they want, they take that freedom and more, and the result is...

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

This is not a book about politics. It is a book about what makes us British, and what makes us European.Spend time with some of your favourite writers and artists in this truly unique collection spanning everything from art, language, food, music and...

George Orwell was first and foremost an essayist, producing throughout his life an extraordinary array of short nonfiction that reflected--and illuminated--the fraught times in which he lived. "As soon as he began to write something," comments George...

James Fintan Lalor (1807-1849) was one of the most original thinkers of the Young Ireland movement, and one of the most frequently appropriated by later Irish activists. From Michael Davitt to James Connolly, a host of self-proclaimed disciples...

'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...

The publishing house of John Murray was founded in Fleet Street in 1768 and remained a family business over seven generations. Intended both to entertain and inspire, Dear Mr Murray is a collection of some of the best letters from the John Murray Archive...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781925780666Author John LeonardFormat PaperbackPage Count 496Imprint Puncher and WattmannPublisher Puncher and WattmannWeight(grams) 720g

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780547241609Author Dave EggersFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint Mariner BooksPublisher Mariner BooksWeight(grams) 417gDimensions(mm) 206mm * 142mm * 26mm

'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...

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)...

This textbook ranges from the early twentieth-century to the full array of modernisms emerging between the First and Second World Wars. The editors introduce twentieth-century debates around genre, form and content reflected in both literary and critical...

In the summer of 1923 Virginia Woolf's nephews, Quentin and Julian Bell, started a family newspaper, The Charleston Bulletin. Quentin decided to ask his aunt Virginia for a contribution: 'it seemed stupid to have a real author so close at hand and not...

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 9780345478238Author Frederick DouglassFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams)...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781839403958Author Lao TzuFormat HardbackPage Count 208Imprint Sirius EntertainmentPublisher Sirius EntertainmentWeight(grams) 249gDimensions(mm) 170mm *...

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...

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...

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...

Meticulous eloquence.Publius Aelius Aristides Theodorus was among the most celebrated, versatile, and influential authors of the Second Sophistic era and an important figure in the transmission of Hellenism. Born to wealthy landowners in Mysia in AD 117,...

Through a unique set of documents never before published, this volume revisits the public furore when, at its Annual General Meeting forty years ago, the British Academy chose not to expel from its Fellowship the eminent art historian, Professor Anthony...

'Anthology' comes from the Greek word that stands for garlands - a bouquet of flowers. An anthology then, should be a small token of something much larger. In the case of flowers, they bring to mind the colour & fragrance of the fields, of a season...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781555977801Author Paul KingsnorthFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Graywolf PressPublisher Graywolf PressWeight(grams) 363gDimensions(mm) 208mm * 140mm...

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...

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

Many of London's Victorian buildings are built of coarse-textured yellow bricks. These are 'London stocks', produced in very large quantities all through the nineteenth century and notable for their ability to withstand the airborne pollutants of the...

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

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...

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

The Tenth Edition introduces diverse, compelling, relevant texts-from Civil War songs and stories to The Turn of the Screw to The Great Gatsby to poems by Juan Felipe Herrera and Claudia Rankine to a science fiction cluster featuring Octavia Butler and N...

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,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Hugo Award (Related Book) 2018.Book InformationISBN 9781328661593Author Ursula K. Le GuinFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing...

ONE OF LIT HUB'S MOST ANTICIPATED BOOKS OF 2023 * ESQUIRE's August 2023 Book Club Pick"If books are important to you because you're a reader or a writer, then how books are sold should be important to you as well. If it matters to you that your...

First published in 1999, this is a guide which provides easy access to a fairly complete range of the long poetry written in the Romantic and Victorian periods: epics, narrative poems, verse-novels and other work of over a certain length. The format...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781854114488Author Dylan ThomasFormat PaperbackPage Count 244Imprint SerenPublisher Poetry Wales PressWeight(grams) 320g