Literary Collections

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906841409Author Edwin MorganFormat PaperbackPage Count 424Imprint Association for Scottish Literary StudiesPublisher Association for Scottish Literary...

After centuries of oppressive Ottoman rule, the Arab world began to find new vitality and freedom in the twentieth century. The accompanying resurgence of creative expression is splendidly reflected in this definitive anthology of contemporary Arabic...

The preeminent orator of ancient Athens.Demosthenes (384-322 BC), orator at Athens, was a pleader in law courts who later became also a statesman, champion of the past greatness of his city and the present resistance of Greece to Philip of Macedon's...

Drawing on her own experiences as a woman of Iranian and British Isle descent, writer Hollay Ghadery dives into conflicts and uncertainty surrounding the bi-racial female body and identity, especially as it butts up against the disparate expectations of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781905881970Author Sigrid RausingFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Granta MagazinePublisher Granta MagazineWeight(grams) 312gDimensions(mm) 210mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781505116427Author John Henry NewmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 152Imprint Saint Benedict PressPublisher Saint Benedict PressWeight(grams) 141gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143104988Author VariousFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Penguin ClassicsPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 261gDimensions(mm) 196mm * 127mm *...

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,...

Wilson Harris is one of the outstanding literary innovators of the century. His novels date from The Palace of the Peacock to Jonestown . This long-awaited volume matches Harris's career with his critical writings, from 1961 to the present day. ...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781787806832Author Maria EdgeworthFormat PaperbackPage Count 132Imprint Horse's MouthPublisher Horse's MouthWeight(grams) 204gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *...

Has Africa moved on from 'classical corruption? What are the political and economic origins of official implication in crime? What are the new frontiers of crime in South Africa? This book examines the growth of fraud and smuggling in African states,...

Greek culture matters because its unique pluralistic debate shaped modern discourses. This ground-breaking book explains this feature by retelling the history of ancient literary culture through the lenses of canon, space and scale. It proceeds from the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781683964308Author Bobbi Jg WeissFormat HardbackPage Count 208Imprint FantagraphicsPublisher Fantagraphics

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

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781608683253Author Joseph CampbellFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint New World LibraryPublisher New World Library

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781621458401Author Reader's DigestFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint Trusted Media BrandsPublisher Trusted Media BrandsWeight(grams) 789gDimensions(mm)...

Shortlisted for the 2022 National Book Critics' Circle John Leonard Prize for best first book '...I don't know what comes after, once I decide to let desire have its way with me. How to un-melt the melted? How to turn the ground powder back into a...

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 ...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143122906Author John LeonardFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint The Penguin PressPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 346gDimensions(mm) 212mm *...

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

Astra Magazine is the new literary magazine of the moment, a must-read for anyone interested in the most vital contemporary literature from around the world. Astra Magazine connects readers and writers from New York to Mexico City, Lagos to Berlin,...

Eclectic essays on ethics, education, and much else besides.Plutarch (Plutarchus), ca. AD 45-120, was born at Chaeronea in Boeotia in central Greece, studied philosophy at Athens, and, after coming to Rome as a teacher in philosophy, was given...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780156035224Author Virginia WoolfFormat PaperbackPage Count 688Imprint Mariner BooksPublisher Mariner BooksWeight(grams) 4527g

This is the first book-length study of Sydney-based Horwitz Publications, the largest and most dynamic Australian pulp publisher to emerge after World War II. Although best known for its cheaply produced, sometimes luridly packaged, softcover books,...

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...

A literary legend's engaging review of his career, stressing the work he never completed, and why. Over seven decades, John McPhee has set a standard for literary nonfiction. Assaying mountain ranges, bark canoes, experimental aircraft, the Swiss...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593297612Author Zadie SmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 102gDimensions(mm) 180mm * 127mm *...

The seventh in our popular Words of Wisdom series, The Writer Says summons readers to an intimate gathering of novelists, essayists, grammarians, academics, and journalists-a glittering cocktail party, where the guests may be self identified introverts...

In 2012 the African Writers Series celebrated its 50th anniversary. Africa Writes Back tells the publishing story behind some of the books and authors in the series. Africa Writes Back was published in 2008 to coincide with the 50th anniversary of the...

A brilliant new translation of the short improvisational fiction and memoirs of Lu Xun, the father of modern Chinese literature.This captivating translation assembles two volumes by Lu Xun, the founder of modern Chinese literature and one of East Asia's...

Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822) was one of the major poets of the English Romantic period. This is the final volume of a six-volume edition of The Poems of Shelley, which aims to present all of Shelley’s poems in chronological order and with full...

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)...

Ancient expertise on water and warfare.Frontinus, Sextus Iulius, ca. AD 35-103, was a capable Roman civil officer and military commander. Praetor of the city in 70 and consul in 73 or 74, 98 and 100, he was, about the year 76, sent to Britain as governor...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781998898022Author Samia MarshyFormat PaperbackPage Count 222Imprint Metonymy PressPublisher Metonymy Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781644452943Author Laura MarrisFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Graywolf PressPublisher Graywolf PressWeight(grams) 454g

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...

"Passionate and revealing love letters from the iconic lesbian novelist . . . Radclyffe Hall is getting a fresh look. . . . Glasgow has chosen these letters well and provides helpful context." --Kirkus Review "Many assumptions have been made about the...

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...