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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781941667040Author AristophanesFormat PaperbackPage Count 66Imprint Omo PressPublisher Omo PressWeight(grams) 132gDimensions(mm) 254mm * 178mm * 4mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486831855Author Rainermaria RilkeFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780857067302Author Austin Patrick CorcoranFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Leonaur LtdPublisher Leonaur LtdWeight(grams) 172g

A love letter to Korean pop sensation BTS and an ode to fandom. An Atlantic Edition, featuring long-form journalism by Atlantic writers, drawn from contemporary articles or classic storytelling from the magazine's 165-year archive.The supersonic rise of...

"It is impossible for me to write about the imagination; it is like asking a fish to describe the sea," Mary Ruefle announces at the start of her essay. With wit and intellectual abandon, Ruefle draws inspiration from Wittgenstein, Shakespeare, Jesus,...

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...

This work, first published in 1944, provides the most reliable texts of the Lives of Welsh Saints based upon the Cotton MS in the British Library from 1200. Out of print for over 50 years, this work is still the standard edition of these Lives and is...

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

A collection of essays, both fiction and non-fiction, examining psychiatry from the patient's couch and the psychiatrist's chair.This issue examines the experience from the patient's couch and the psychiatrist's chair, in both fiction and non-fiction...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780992858131Author Leone RossFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Fincham Press RoehamptonPublisher Fincham Press Roehampton

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781800745612Author Tony MalcolmFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Olympia PublishersPublisher Olympia Publishers

For decades the suburbs have been where art happens despite: despite the conformity, the emptiness, the sameness. Time and again, the story is one of gems formed under pressure and that resentment of the suburbs is the key ingredient for creative...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679730040Author Eudora WeltyFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 309gDimensions(mm)...

This latest volume of The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Jonathan Swift is the first fully annotated edition of Swift's Irish prose writings from 1726 to 1737. Works in this volume include the famous A Modest Proposal, the acerbic A Short View of the...

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY SIR RANULPH FIENNESThe Last Expedition is Captain Scott's gripping account of his expedition to the South Pole in 1910-12. It was meant to be a voyage of scientific discovery and a heroic exploration of the last unconquered...

Presenting stories which represent each layer of the city of Moscow, from the centre of power to the outer rings of desolate estates and tumbledown shacks, this fascinating collection offers a lively and varied portrait in fiction of Russia's mysterious...

Charlton Athletic represent a model of how a Premiership football club should be run. Former manager Alan Curbishley reveals the secrets of the club's success - from the boardroom and manager's office down to the dressing room and pitchside - and...

A private printed, limited edition facsimile of Aldous Huxley's 1940 essay on the significance and power of words. An argument as timely as it is timeless, Aldous Huxley's Words and Their Meanings argues the significance and power of words. A less...

An epic saga of samurai warfare in medieval JapanThis celebrated literary classic has delighted generations of Japanese. In its pages, you will find a vivid contemporary description of the fourteenth-century intrigues and battles that led to the...

The original essays in Oxford Twenty-First Century Approaches to Literature mean to provoke rather than reassure, to challenge rather than codify. Instead of summarizing existing knowledge, scholars working in the field aim at opening fresh discussion;...

Lysistrata is the third and last of Aristophanes' peace plays. It is a dream of peace, of how the women could help to achieve an honourable settlement, conceived when Athens was going through its blackest, most desperate crisis since the Persian War...

An international collection of the traditional tales that inspired some of Shakespeare's greatest playsShakespeare knew a good story when he heard one, and he wasn't afraid to borrow from what he heard or read, especially traditional folktales. The...

This fourth volume of W. H. Auden's prose provides a unique picture of this legendary writer's mind and art when he was at the height of his powers, from 1956 through 1962, including the years when he was Professor of Poetry at Oxford. The volume...

In January 2003, the British media splashed the news that anti-terror police had disrupted an Al-Qaeda cell, poised to unleash the deadly poison ricin on the capital. Police had reportedly found traces of ricin, as well as a panoply of bomb and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780399574474Author Eleanor BrownFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Putnam Publishing Group,U.S.Publisher Putnam Publishing Group,U.S.

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143117742Author John KeatsFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 121gDimensions(mm) 196mm * 127mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781598536164Author Andrew BlaunerFormat HardbackPage Count 352Imprint The Library of AmericaPublisher The Library of America

A major translation achievement, this anthology presents a rich assortment of classical Arabic poems and literary prose, from pre-Islamic times until the eighteenth century, with short introductions to guide non-specialist students and informative...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781497934160Author Dr Rudolf SteinerFormat PaperbackPage Count 46Imprint Literary Licensing, LLCPublisher Literary Licensing, LLCWeight(grams)...

Winner of the 2022 Southern Book PrizeWinner of the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the EssayAn Indie Next Selection for September 2021A Book Marks Best Reviewed Essay Collection of 2021A Literary Hub Most Anticipated Book of 2021A...

This remarkable book by one of the great writers of the twentieth century includes essays on a proposed universal language, a justification of suicide, a refutation of time, the nature of dreams, and the intricacies of linguistic forms. Borges comments...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780805075885Author Jane SmileyFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Henry Holt & Company IncPublisher Henry Holt & Company IncWeight(grams)...

Uplifting tales from one of the most influential Arabic books of the Middle Ages One of the most popular and influential Arabic books of the Middle Ages, Deliverance Follows Adversity is an anthology of stories and anecdotes designed to console and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781951682262Author Jan ValtinFormat PaperbackPage Count 592Imprint Orchard InnovationsPublisher Orchard InnovationsWeight(grams) 676gDimensions(mm) 216mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781952119774Author Daniel GumbinerFormat PaperbackImprint McSweeney's PublishingPublisher McSweeney's Publishing

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780956807601Author Stephen SmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 172Imprint B&D BooksPublisher B&D Books

Like stars in the sky, pixels may seem like tiny, individual points. But, when viewed from a distance, they can create elaborate images. Each pixel contributes to this array, but no individual point can create the whole. The thirty stories that comprise...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781593762667Author Leslie FiedlerFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Soft Skull PressPublisher CounterpointWeight(grams) 448gDimensions(mm) 221mm * 147mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781476784403Author Sari BottonFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Gallery BooksPublisher Gallery BooksWeight(grams) 281gDimensions(mm) 228mm * 153mm * 18mm

A wide-ranging collection of interviews and profiles from twenty years of Jonathan Cott's remarkable writings "All I really need to do is simply ask a question," Jonathan Cott occasionally reminds himself. "And then listen." It sounds simple, but in...