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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909889125Author Sigrid RausingFormat PaperbackImprint Granta MagazinePublisher Granta MagazineWeight(grams) 340gDimensions(mm) 210mm * 145mm * 15mm

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...

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...

A master of the jeweled style.Ausonius (Decimus Magnus), ca. AD 310-ca. 395, a doctor's son, was born at Burdigala (Bordeaux). After a good education in grammar and rhetoric and a short period during which he was an advocate, he took to teaching rhetoric...

A selection of representative fiction, nonfiction, and poetry from the Anthology from 1953 to present.Book InformationISBN 9780393027693Author George PlimptonFormat HardbackPage Count 688Imprint WW Norton & CoPublisher WW Norton & CoWeight(grams) 1160g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780953221394Author Ernest PollardFormat PaperbackPage Count 310Imprint Day BooksPublisher Day Books

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312427757Author Judith ThurmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 427Imprint St. Martins Press-3PLPublisher St. Martins Press-3PLWeight(grams) 544g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780993077852Author Michael MeallyFormat PaperbackPage Count 172Imprint Peripeteia PressPublisher Peripeteia PressWeight(grams) 249gDimensions(mm) 234mm *...

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,...

The stories collected in this volume reflect the rich tradition of medieval Jain storytelling between the seventh and fifteenth centuries, from simple folk tales and lives of famous monks to sophisticated narratives of rebirth. They describe they ways in...

What motivated the 16th century explorers? The question is a vexed one the world over. To this day, a troubled folkloric status hangs about the better-known names. Many of the Tudor explorers set sail from the South West peninsula. Morpurgo, with his own...

Newsday has said that Nick Tosches "casts brilliant black light." The San Diego Reader has said that "Tosches's best sentences uncoil like rattlesnakes and strike with a venom that spreads poison through all the little Sunday-school ideas...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780345430595Author Dominick DunneFormat PaperbackPage Count 528Imprint Ballantine Books Inc.Publisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 428gDimensions(mm)...

In the archives of the Memorial International Human Rights Centre in Moscow is an extraordinary diary, a rare first-person testimony of a commander of guards in a Soviet labour camp. Ivan Chistyakov was sent to the Gulag in 1937, where he worked at...

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...

Daisetsu Teitaro Suzuki was a key figure in the introduction of Buddhism to the non-Asian world. Many outside of Japan encountered Buddhism for the first time through his writings and teaching, and for nearly a century his work and legacy have...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781683966852Author Carl BarksFormat HardbackPage Count 384Imprint Fantagraphics BooksPublisher Fantagraphics BooksWeight(grams) 2531gDimensions(mm) 342mm *...

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 9781953368669Author Zito MaduFormat PaperbackPage Count 185Imprint Belt PublishingPublisher Belt PublishingWeight(grams) 186g

Refined midnight oil.Aulus Gellius (ca. AD 123-170) is known almost wholly from his Noctes Atticae, "Attic Nights," so called because it was begun during the nights of an Attic winter. The work collects in twenty books (of Book VIII only the index is...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374532727Author Czeslaw MiloszFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Farrar Straus GirouxPublisher Farrar Straus GirouxWeight(grams) 277g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780618125005Author Tatyana TolstayaFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Houghton Mifflin (Trade)Publisher Houghton MifflinWeight(grams) 262g

Politics, religion, culture, travel, science and technology, family life: nothing escaped the eye and pen of Samuel Langhorne Clemens, better known as Mark Twain, nineteenth-century America's most famous writer and a legend in his own lifetime. Though...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780063233928Author Sarah WeinmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Ecco PressPublisher Ecco PressWeight(grams) 295g

Things in heaven and earth.Aristotle, great Greek philosopher, researcher, reasoner, and writer, born at Stagirus in 384 BC, was the son of a physician. He studied under Plato at Athens and taught there (367-347); subsequently he spent three...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780620935340Author Taboom MediaFormat PaperbackPage Count 98Imprint Mathoko's BooksPublisher Mathoko's BooksWeight(grams) 245g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781931082617Author Isaac Bashevis SingerFormat HardbackPage Count 832Imprint The Library of AmericaPublisher The Library of America

TOO FAMOUS collects pieces Michael Wolff has written as a columnist for New York, Vanity Fair, The Guardian, GQ and The Hollywood Reporter, and adds several new ones. Written over a 20-year period, the book spans that moment in popular culture when...

Georg Simmel is one of the most original German thinkers of the twentieth century and is considered a founding architect of the modern discipline of sociology. Ranging over fundamental questions of the relationship of self and society, his influential...

Early in his career, Marcel Proust, who greatly admired John Ruskin, published translations of two works by the English critic - La Bible d'Amiens (1900) and Sesame et les Lys (1906). He wrote a substantial preface to each book and provided discursive...

Before the introduction of antisepsis and inoculation, people commonly died due to unsanitary conditions in the home, or following surgery or childbirth. Between them, the great scientists Louis Pasteur (1822-1893) and Joseph Lister (1827-1912) extended...

This book of poetry has been a labour of love. The collection is an expression of love, lust, reality and surrealism, written from the heart. The poems are a direct result of the way Carla Woodburn views life and expresses the situations around her...

The first definitive edition in English of writings by poet, painter, pickpocket-plagiarist, and consummate anti-artist Francis Picabia, one of Dada's leading figures. Poet, painter, self-described funny guy, idiot, failure, pickpocket, and anti-artist...

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The poetry of Odysseus Elytis owes as much to the ancients and Byzantium, as to the surrealists of the 1930s and the architecture of the Cyclades, bringing romantic modernism and structural experimentation to Greece. Collected here are the two speeches...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781761340154Author Erin RileyFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Viking AustraliaPublisher Penguin Random House Australia

During the 1950s and '60s, writers E.B. White and Edmund Ware Smith carried on a long correspondence by letter, despite living only a few miles apart on the coast of Maine. Often the letters were written from one or the other while they were traveling,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780767906319Author David RakoffFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Broadway Books (A Division of Bantam Doubleday DelPublisher Broadway Books (A Division...

Antonio and Mellida was the first play by John Marston performed by the newly revived Paul's Company in 1599. Marston sought to display a variety of talents, comic, tragic, satiric and historical, advertising his own dramatic skills and the prowess of...

A memoir of leaving the evangelical church and the search for radical new ways to build community. Jeanna Kadlec knew what it meant to be faithful--in her marriage to a pastor's son, in the comfortable life ahead of her, in her God--but there was no...