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To the dry bones of grammar Bhatti gave juicy flesh in his poem, telling the greatest Indian story in elegant Sanskrit. Composed in the fourth century CE, in South India, "Bhatti's Poem: The Death of Ravana" is both a poetic retelling of Rama's...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781936932016Author Rowan Hisayo BuchananFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Feminist Press at The City University of New YorkPublisher Feminist Press at...

The word "terroir" refers to the climate and soil in which something is grown. Natasha Saje applies this idea to the environments that nurture and challenge us, exploring in particular how the immigrant experience has shaped her identity. She revisits...

The Book of Liberation is perhaps the most enigmatic philosophical text from ancient India. Presented as the teachings of Bhishma as he lies dying on the battlefield, after the epic war between the Pandavas and Kauravas, it was composed by unknown...

The Rise of Wisdom Moon was composed during the mid-eleventh century by Krishna mishra, an otherwise unknown poet in the service of the Chandella dynasty, whose cultural and religious capital was Khajuraho. The early popularity of Krishna mishra's work...

A celebration of Granta's first quarter century with new writing from the writers who made its reputation, including Martin Amis, Paul Auster, William Boyd, Amit Chaudhul, Richard Ford, James Hamilton-Paterson, Jan Morris, Blake Morrison, Jayne Anne...

Each of the ten princes has several adventures on his quest to be reunited with the crown-prince. Variegated violence and sorcery figure in their exploits, but love affairs are even more prominent. Commentators have lambasted Dandin's heroes for their...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781946511553Author Alexis Pauline GumbsFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Boston Review/Boston Critic Inc.Publisher Boston Review/Boston Critic Inc.

This anthology is the essential resource for readers, critics, and publishers interested in contemporary European literature. In this, the eighth installment of the series, the anthology continues its commitment to uncovering the best prose writing...

The Hsu-Tang Library presents authoritative and eminently readable translations of classical Chinese literature, in bilingual editions, ranging across three millennia and the entire Sinitic world. The Misadventures of Master Mugwort: A Joke Book...

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 9780976159230Author H. P. LovecraftFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Hippocampus PressPublisher Hippocampus PressWeight(grams) 563g

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

Bestselling author and New Yorker writer Adam Gopnik embarks on a wildly creative inquiry into perhaps the oldest question: how do we learn a new skill? For decades, Adam Gopnik has been one of our most beloved writers, a brilliantly perceptive critic...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781960045003Author R CliftFormat PaperbackPage Count 314Imprint Rachel CliftPublisher Rachel CliftWeight(grams) 308g

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. ...

Love, sex, death, boredom, ecstasy, existential angst, political upheaval - the history of literature offers a rich and varied exploration of the human condition across the centuries. In this absorbing companion to literature's rich past, arranged by...

A richly diverse collection of classical Indian terms for expressing the many moods and subtleties of emotional experienceWords for the Heart is a captivating treasury of emotion terms drawn from some of India’s earliest classical languages. Inspired by...

Since the middle of the twentieth century, Maurice Blanchot has been an extraordinarily influential figure on the French literary and cultural scene. He is arguably the key figure after Sartre in exploring the relation between literature and philosophy. ...

'An ass, clothed in the skin of a lion...'Aesop's animal fables are some of the earliest stories ever told, thought to have been composed by a slave in Greek antiquity and giving glimpses of a world that is harsh, pitiless and yet also eerily familiar...

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...

Greco-Roman antiquity's premier Jewish historian.Josephus, soldier, statesman, historian, was a Jew born at Jerusalem about AD 37. A man of high descent, he early became learned in Jewish law and Greek literature and was a Pharisee. After pleading in...

SPECIAL COMMENDATION in Africa's 100 Best Books of the Twentieth Century. The series is illustrated throughout with maps and black and white photographs. Volume 7 examines the period of partition, conquest and occupation from the beginnings of the...

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

"Mark Musa, in editing and translating Petrarch's Canzoniere, has performed a wonderful service to the English-speaking reader. Here, in one volume, are included the poet's own selection of the best lyric verse he wrote throughout his life, accompanied...

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...

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...

In 1978, more than 3,500 letters written over a thirty-year friendship between Eleanor Roosevelt and Lorena Hickok were discovered by archivists. Although the most explicit letters had been burned (Lorena told Eleanor's daughter, "Your mother wasn't...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781638930662Author Sophie GilbertFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Atlantic EditionsPublisher Atlantic EditionsWeight(grams) 91g

The sophisticated schoolmaster.The importance of Isocrates for the study of Greek civilization of the fourth century BC is indisputable. From 403 to 393 he wrote speeches for Athenian law courts, and then became a teacher of composition for would-be...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781479598380Author Michael DahlPage Count 24Imprint Picture Window BooksPublisher Capstone Press

The history of humankind has always been marked by natural catastrophes, migrations, discoveries, revolutions, and wars. But there have also been speeches that marked an era; instilling hope in crucial moments, reawakening the collective conscience of a...

South Africa's democracy is often seen as a story of bright beginnings gone astray, a pattern said to be common to Africa. The negotiated settlement of 1994, it is claimed, ended racial domination and created the foundation for a prosperous democracy -...

A Penguin ClassicWidely considered the greatest work by the foremost Brazilian author of the twentieth century, The Double Death of Quincas Water-Bray comes to Penguin Classics in a new translation by the dean of Portuguese-language translators, Gregory...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780525575061Author Flannery O'ConnorFormat HardbackPage Count 400Imprint ConvergentPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 646g

Originally published in 1958, this book forms the first part of a two-volume edition of Keats's letters, covering the period from 1814 to 1818. Several letters and papers not previously contained in English editions of the correspondence are included,...

The publication of Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart (1958) is heralded as the inaugural moment of modern African fiction, and the book remains the most widely read African novel of all time. Translated into dozens of languages, it has sold more than...

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...

Seven Rooms brings together highlights from Hotel, a magazine for new approaches to fiction, non-fiction & poetry which, since its inception in 2016, provided a space for experimental reflection on literature's status as art & cultural mediator...

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...