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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812974607Author Estelle B. FreedmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 496Imprint Modern Library IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 362g

A witty satire of the medical profession The Doctors' Dinner Party is an eleventh-century satire in the form of a novella, set in a medical milieu. A young doctor from out of town is invited to dinner with a group of older medical men, whose...

Personal records from the sands of Egypt.This is the first of two volumes giving a selection of Greek papyri relating to private and public business. They cover a period from before 300 BC to the eighth century AD. Most were found in rubbish heaps or...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780140187595Author Marina TsvetaevaFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Penguin ClassicsPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 136gDimensions(mm) 196mm...

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

Selections from Leopardi's prose masterwork, Zibaldone, one of the great intellectual diaries in European literature, expertly translated by Tim ParksRevenge-Revenge is so sweet one often wishes to be insulted so as to be able to take revenge, and I...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250013989Author Andr AcimanFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 249gDimensions(mm) 213mm *...

A Book of the Year 2019 in The Morning Star. This is a rare glimpse into the inner workings of a small, ambitious press over a period of radical transformation in publishing. Each of Carcanet's fifty years is marked by an exchange of letters -...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781683964742Author Carl BarksFormat HardbackPage Count 208Imprint FantagraphicsPublisher FantagraphicsWeight(grams) 862gDimensions(mm) 256mm * 184mm * 26mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781916375819Author Stephen DornanFormat PaperbackPage Count 70Imprint Ulster-Scots Academy PressPublisher Ulster-Scots Academy PressWeight(grams)...

Aeschylus' Agamemnon, opening play of the Oresteia trilogy, with its brilliant theatrical effects, is a masterpiece. The revenge plot - a murder - is simple, the language and imagery complex and thrilling. The play features two extraordinary women: the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814257821Author Whitney OttoFormat PaperbackPage Count 312Imprint Ohio State University PressPublisher Ohio State University PressWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781612193618Author James AgeeFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Melville House PublishingPublisher Melville House PublishingWeight(grams) 213g

D. H. Lawrence's 'Study of Thomas Hardy', written in the early months of World War I, was originally intended to be a short critical work on Hardy's characters, but developed into a major statement of Lawrence's philosophy of art. The introduction to...

Twentieth-century work on Welsh manuscripts has been dependent on the publications of Gwenogvryn Evans a century ago. This text provides a coherent view of the Welsh manuscript tradition and detailed studies which have transformed our understanding of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780786704545Author PerseusFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Carroll & Graf Publishers IncPublisher Carroll & Graf Publishers IncWeight(grams) 300g

Bruce Boone is a critical figure at the crossroads of late twentieth-century avant-garde and social movement writing. Dismembered is the long overdue collection that spans nearly five decades of Boone's life, from the early 1970s to the present...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912710546Author Mike JenkinsFormat PaperbackPage Count 150Imprint Culture Matters Co-operative LtdPublisher Culture Matters Co-operative Ltd

"After looking for him in the poems, we search for him in the prose. The pursuit of the Other in Pessoa's work is never-ending," writes Edwin Honig. Essential to understanding the great Portuguese poet are the essays written about (and by) his...

Illustrated in a stark and simple style, The Book of Bunny Suicides is a collection of hilarious and outrageous cartoons that makes the perfect gift for anyone in touch with their dark side."Wonderfully deviant."-The Washington PostRabbits. We'll never...

The Buddhist monk Ashva*ghosha composed Life of the Buddha in the first or second century CE probably in Ayodhya. This is the earliest surviving text of the Sanskrit literary genre called kavya and probably provided models for Kali*dasa's more famous...

Oppian of Cilicia flourished in the latter half of the 2nd century, and dedicated his Fishing (in five books) to Antoninus, presumably Marcus Aurelius. It deals with the habits and characteristics of fish as well as giving instructions for fishing: if...

An expansive collection of texts providing insight into the inner life, creativity, and practice of the innovative American artist Anne Truitt Spanning more than fifty years, this comprehensive volume collects the letters, journal entries, interviews,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781955055703Author Rolf EkeusFormat HardbackPage Count 305Imprint Lynne Rienner PublishersPublisher Lynne Rienner PublishersWeight(grams) 316g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781497880269Author G H PemberFormat HardbackPage Count 570Imprint Literary Licensing, LLCPublisher Literary Licensing, LLCWeight(grams) 925gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679750802Author Rita DoveFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Pantheon Books IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 210gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

The statesman defends a friend and assails an enemy.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 the rise,...

An annotated selection of the letters of the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and playwright Edna St. Vincent Millay, from childhood through the last year of her life Throughout her life, Edna St. Vincent Millay wrote hundreds of letters, which together...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781945586002Author Nancy SwisherFormat PaperbackPage Count 180Imprint Thomas Noble BooksPublisher Thomas Noble BooksWeight(grams) 209gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780525565314Author Edward W. SaidFormat PaperbackPage Count 656Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 584gDimensions(mm) 202mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780982375617Author Stacie Vander PolFormat PaperbackPage Count 148Imprint Pacific Publishing StudioPublisher Pacific Publishing StudioWeight(grams)...

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...

These letters give the account of Rilke's own state of mind and of his final approach to the threshold of his great works. They show the rapid change he underwent after his reaction to the first excitement of the war; how his dismay at the cruelty and...

Demonstrates the wider genesis of the conflict between the two nations. This text presents contextual aspects in order to explain the growing discord between the two former friendly governments of Eritrea and Ethiopia. It looks at historical relations...

A masterpiece of Arabic love poetry in a new and complete English translationThe Translator of Desires, a collection of sixty-one love poems, is the lyric masterwork of Muhyiddin Ibn 'Arabi (1165-1240 CE), one of the most influential writers of classical...

How does the soul relate to the body? Through the ages, innumerable religious and intellectual movements have proposed answers to this question. Many have gravitated to the notion of the "subtle body," positing some sort of subtle entity that...

In the decades between the two World Wars, Greek writers and artists adopted surrealism both as an avant-garde means of overturning the stifling traditions of their classical heritage and also as a way of responding to the extremely unstable political...

William Empson was the foremost English literary critic of the twentieth century. He was a man of huge energy and curiosity, and a genuine eccentric who remained imperturbable in the face of all the extraordinary circumstances in which he found himself...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781957363288Author Kim MahoodFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Scribe UsPublisher Scribe UsWeight(grams) 363g

Graham Hettlinger's brilliant translations of Bunin's stories in Sunstroke (2002) were widely acclaimed. In The Elagin Affair, Mr. Hettlinger continues to acquaint English-language readers with a Bunin they may not have appreciated. Bunin's sensual,...