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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...

Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in CriticismA leading trans scholar and activist explores cultural representations of gender transition in the modern periodIn Pleasure and Efficacy, Grace Lavery investigates gender transition as it...

"Not writing is always a relief and sometimes a pleasure. Writing about what cannot be written, by contrast, is the devil's own job." In this unusual text, a blend of essay, fiction, and literary genealogy, South African novelist Ivan...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsShort-listed for National Book Critics Circle Awards 2011.Book InformationISBN 9780307744500Author Jonathan LethemFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint Vintage...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781476765198Author Jeffrey EugenidesFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 272gDimensions(mm) 211mm *...

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...

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

The Penn Greek Drama Series presents original literary translations of the entire corpus of classical Greek drama: tragedies, comedies, and satyr plays. It is the only contemporary series of all the surviving work of Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789353334079Author Gowhar GeelaniFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Rupa Publications India Pvt Ltd.Publisher Rupa Publications India Pvt Ltd.

Scholars at dinner.In The Learned Banqueters, Athenaeus describes a series of dinner parties at which the guests quote extensively from Greek literature. The work (which dates to the very end of the second century AD) is amusing reading and of ...

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

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 *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781683966616Author Carl BarksFormat HardbackPage Count 260Imprint Fantagraphics BooksPublisher Fantagraphics BooksWeight(grams) 1089gDimensions(mm) 269mm *...

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

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814258767Author Marlena WilliamsFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Ohio State University PressPublisher Ohio State University PressWeight(grams)...

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...

'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.'...

An issue devoted to the dubious rewards and strange effects of fame which successfully avoids mentioning Andy Warhol.This edition centres around celebrity, both good and bad. Contributions include: the search for Hitler's doctor; an Irish republican...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781935625001Author Edward L BishopFormat PaperbackPage Count 326Imprint Pace University PressPublisher Pace University PressWeight(grams) 435gDimensions(mm)...

This Norton Critical Edition is based on new translations by leading Kafka scholar and translator Stanley Corngold. Thirty stories are included, accompanied by detailed annotations. "Backgrounds and Contexts" offers a glimpse of Kafka's creative process...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781908853714Author S. J. BradleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 140Imprint Valley PressPublisher Valley Press

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...

This is a major collection of more than seventy essays, critical pieces, biographical sketches, and memoirs by the renowned poet, translator, and essayist. It includes long-inaccessible contributions to journals and magazines together with previously...

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,...

SPECIAL COMMENDATION in Africa's 100 Best Books of the Twentieth Century. The series is illustrated throughout with maps and black and white photographs. The twelfth to the sixteenth centuries constitute a crucial phase in the continent's history, and...

'I suppose that, if this collection has a point, it is the desire of one individual to see the idea of confrontation kept alive' -- Christopher Hitchens, IntroductionChristopher Hitchens is widely recognized as having been one of the liveliest and most...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781914066047Author Nick CharlesFormat PaperbackPage Count 52Imprint Hawksmoor PublishingPublisher Hawksmoor Publishing

Though it wasn't successful at its first performance, in the centuries since then, Euripides's Medea has established itself as one of the most powerful and influential of the Greek tragedies. The story of the wronged wife who avenges herself upon her...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781629631059Author Marge PiercyFormat PaperbackPage Count 118Imprint PM PressPublisher PM PressWeight(grams) 108g

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The life and miracles of a pagan holy man.Philostratus' colorful biography of Apollonius of Tyana, recounting the sayings and miracles of a Pythagorean sage, incidentally provoked a long-lasting debate between pagans and Christians. This volume, which...

A collection of Roger Mayne's intimate street and family photography. This beautiful book reassesses the work of acclaimed British photographer Roger Mayne (1929 2014), famous for his arresting street scenes capturing Britain's post-war youth. It...

Subject of a full-length segment on Morning Edition when it first appeared in hardcover, Literature from the "Axis of Evil" quickly went to the top of the Amazon bestseller list. Its publication was celebrated by authors including Azar Nafisi and Alice...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780553378276Author David James DuncanFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing GroupPublisher Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing...

Greek Literature and the Ideal contends that the development of Greek literature was motivated by the need to endow political geography with a sense of purposeful structure. Alexander Kirichenko argues that Greek literature was a crucial factor in the...

In Melville's Wisdom: Religion, Skepticism, Literature in Nineteenth-Century America, Damien B. Schlarb explores the manner in which Herman Melville responds to the spiritual crisis of modernity by using the language of the biblical Old Testament wisdom...

It has long been thought that imperial portrait types were officially commissioned to commemorate specific historical moments and that they were made available to both the mint and the marble workshops in Rome, assuming a close correspondence between...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781565842809Author Lois KeithFormat PaperbackPage Count 223Imprint New PressPublisher New PressWeight(grams) 295gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 19mm

Say goodbye to boring history readings. Through colorful anecdotes, first-person quotations and the authors' signature wit, Kennedy/Cohen/O'Mara/Piehl's THE BRIEF AMERICAN PAGEANT: A HISTORY OF THE REPUBLIC has earned the reputation as one of the most...