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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780228814290Author Eighteen-BisangFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Tellwell TalentPublisher Tellwell Talent

Antiquity's satirist supreme.Lucian (ca. AD 120-190), the satirist from Samosata on the Euphrates, started as an apprentice sculptor, turned to rhetoric and visited Italy and Gaul as a successful traveling lecturer before settling in Athens and...

A sweeping chronicle from Aeneas to Alexander Severus.Dio Cassius (Cassius Dio), circa AD 150-235, was born at Nicaea in Bithynia in Asia Minor. On the death of his father (Roman governor of Cilicia) he went in 180 to Rome, entered the Senate, and...

Jason, in exile in Corinth, is marrying the king's daughter. It looks as though his problems are over, though it's hard on Medea, who has betrayed her family for him, followed him all the way from Colchis, killed for him, and borne him two sons. ...

Ranging from Ta-Nehisi Coates's case for reparations to D'Angelo's simmering blend of R&B and racial justice, Jesse McCarthy's dazzling essays capture debates at the intersection of art, literature and politics in the twenty-first century with virtuosic...

This issue on Russia explores how an old country is finding new ways to think and write. As well as fiction by Russian writers, there is a report on a visit to the once unvisitable Siberia, interviews with the survivors of Stalin's gulag, and a...

Junior and his elephant family are excited to visit Human Town, where they can observe humans in their own town! The novelty soon wears thin, as they notice major issues humans have caused, which are causing them to become extinct. Junior hopes that this...

J.G.Ballard is the author of the novels "Crash", "Empire of the Sun" and "Rushing to Paradise". Throughout his career he has also been a regular contributor to magazines and newspapers. This book collects together pieces of his journalism, grouped under...

An entertaining collection of over 400 folk tales of legends, stories, and magic. Translated from the original Norwegian, Danish, and Swedish, this highly acclaimed work is perfect for bedside or fireside reading. About the Author Reimund Kvideland is...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374526238Author Czeslaw MiloszFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint Farrar, Straus & Giroux IncPublisher Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc

Poet Mark Ford has described the letters of James Schuyler as witty, graceful, sophisticated and gossipy.' Particularly poignant and delightful are these newly released Schuyler letters to fellow poet Frank O'Hara. They are entertaining, offhanded,...

Historians agree: the diary of Leon Werth (1878-1955) is one of the most precious--and readable--pieces of testimony ever written about life in France under Nazi occupation and the Vichy regime. Werth was a free-spirited, unclassifiable writer, the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913853068Author Owen J HurcumFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Black Bee BooksPublisher Black Bee BooksDimensions(mm) 234mm * 153mm * 17mm

This reissue of Menand's classic intellectual history of T.S. Eliot and the singular role he played in the rise of literary modernism features an updated Afterword by the author, as well as a detailed critical appraisal of the progression of Eliot's...

Honouring strong new voices from around the world, the 2014 Commonwealth Short Story Prize is a global award, open to unpublished as well as published writers, with a truly international judging panel.This global anthology presents the winner of the 2014...

"Five charming novellas ... which have astonishing freshness, color, and warmth."- The New YorkerFirst published in 1686, this collection of five novellas by Ihara Saikaku was an immediate bestseller in the bawdy world of Genroku Japan. The book's...

'Show me another pleasure like dinner which comes every day and lasts an hour.' - Talleyrand 'He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.' - Jonathan Swift 'There is no love sincerer than the love of food' wrote George Bernard Shaw in 1903. ...

First published in 1919 by Ezra Pound, Ernest Fenollosa's essay on the Chinese written language has become one of the most often quoted statements in the history of American poetics. As edited by Pound, it presents a powerful conception of language that...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911231141Author Sarah SentillesFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Text PublishingPublisher Text Publishing

The statesman on the history and practice of Roman oratory.Cicero (Marcus Tullius, 106-43 BC), Roman lawyer, orator, politician and philosopher, of whom we know more than of any other Roman, lived through the stirring era that saw ...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913835170Author Denise BrownFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Hashtag PressPublisher Hashtag Press

This new selection of essays by Oscar Wilde show-cases the varied aspects of his genius. For Pearson, the biographer, the essays and dialogues illustrate the many faces of Wilde's extraordinary character: wit, romancer, talker, lecturer, humanist and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789353336257Author Abhirup BhattacharyaFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Rupa Publications India Pvt Ltd.Publisher Rupa Publications India Pvt Ltd.

Sasha Sokolov is one of few writers to have been praised by Vladimir Nabokov, who called his first novel, A School for Fools, "an enchanting, tragic, and touching book." Sokolov's second novel, Between Dog and Wolf, written in 1980, has long intimidated...

Examines the war in Sierra Leone as a crisis of modernity. Do small wars in Africa manifest a 'new barbarism'? What appears as random, anarchic violence is no such thing. The terrifying military methods of of Sierra Leone's soldiers may not fir...

Ancient Roman word lore.Varro (M. Terentius), 116-27 BC, of Reate, renowned for his vast learning, was an antiquarian, historian, philologist, student of science, agriculturist, and poet. He was a republican who was reconciled to Julius Caesar and ...

Dripping with a panache that can turn in a comic instant to the most conciliatory humility, Josep Pla's foray into the land and sea most familiar to him will plunge readers head-first into its mysterious depths. Here are adventures and shipwrecks, raspy...

Radical leftist stories...for children In 1912, a revolutionary chick cries, "Strike down the wall!" and liberates itself from the "egg state." In 1940, ostriches pull their heads out of the sand and unite to fight fascism. In 1972, Baby X grows up...

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"Is this the most important book ever written on psychedelic mixed drinks? Almost certainly. High Cocktails is written with academic rigour, caution, expert insight and the mixological mastery of some of the very best bartenders and chefs in the world,...

Queer Eye star Jonathan Van Ness dives into his favourite subjects in Love That Story, a new collection of heartfelt and entertaining essays. From experiencing heartbreaking grief to uncovering the hidden LGBTQ history of his hometown, Quincy, from...

A collection of magical Italian folk and fairy tales-most in English for the first timeThe Pomegranates and Other Modern Italian Fairy Tales presents twenty magical stories published between 1875 and 1914, following Italy's political unification. In...

In 1822 William Hazlitt, forty-four years old and married, was both tormented and enchanted by Sarah Walker, his landlady's nineteen-year-old daughter. "Liber Amoris" is the chronicle of that obsession, an extraordinary fragment of Romantic...

Rhetorical remnants.The Loeb Classical Library series Fragmentary Republican Latin continues with oratory, an important element of Roman life from the earliest times, essential to running public affairs and for advancing individual careers long before it...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385095402Author Rene DescartesFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint Anchor BooksPublisher Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group IncWeight(grams)...

How to Read a Japanese Poem offers a comprehensive approach to making sense of traditional Japanese poetry of all genres and periods. Steven D. Carter explains to Anglophone students the methods of composition and literary interpretation used by Japanese...

A collection of medieval tales of Byzantine saints, including some rejected by the Church, translated into English for the first time.The legends collected in Saints at the Limits, despite sometimes being viewed with suspicion by the Church, fascinated...

The emperor who renounced Christianity.Julian (Flavius Claudius Iulianus) "the Apostate," Roman Emperor, lived AD 331 or 332 to 363. Born and educated in Constantinople as a Christian, after a precarious childhood he devoted himself to literature and ...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781956005097Author Alfred ChesterFormat PaperbackPage Count 380Imprint Spuyten DuyvilPublisher Spuyten DuyvilWeight(grams) 458gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm...

This court epic describes events leading up to the birth of Kumara, the war god who will defeat the demon Taraka. The gods try to use Kama, the Indian Cupid, to make the ascetic god Shiva fall in love with the daughter of the Himalaya mountain. Kama...