Literary Collections

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...

The Press and the People is the first full-length study of cheap print in early modern Scotland. It traces the production and distribution of ephemeral publications from the nation's first presses in the early sixteenth century through to the age of...

This is the first stage history of Shakespeare's King Henry V to cover the play's theatrical life since its first performance in 1599. Staging this play has always been a political act, and the substantial introduction traces its theatrical interventions...

M. Tullius Cicero was a prolific writer, his writing covering an astonishingly wide spectrum: oratory, letters, epic and didactic poetry, pamphlets, philosophical and rhetorical treatises. He was also a major political figure at Rome during the Late...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781771333535Author Jane CawthorneFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Inanna Publications and Education Inc.Publisher Inanna Publications and Education Inc...

On June 23rd, 1950, Pavese, Italy's greatest modern writer received the coveted Strega Award for his novel Among Women Only. On August 26th, in a small hotel in his home town of Turin, he took his own life. Shortly before his death, he methodically...

"These are stories to cherish, as brilliant and charming as the writer himself."-Olivia Laing "The sensibility of a magician, a trickster's dark humor, and a formidable musical and literary erudition."-The New York Times Joseph Keckler's signatures are...

Dr. Michio Kaku, one of the most influential living scientists and a New York Times best-selling author, selects the year's top science and nature writing from writers who balance research with humanity and, in the process, uncover riveting stories of...

What happens when cataracts rob an art critic of his sight? John Berger, whose classic book Ways of Seeing has been in print for fifty years, joins forces with Turkish illustrator Selcuk Demirel to reflect on his own experience of loss of vision. 'John...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486847283Author George MarshFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)...

The material collected here is a treasure trove, a fine retrospective and a comprehensive guide to the work of Ireland's greatest living novelist, John Banville. Selections are drawn from all of his novels, up to and including 2012's Ancient Light; each...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781398433182Author Edel PierceFormat HardbackPage Count 316Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers

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...

A landmark selection of the works one of the greatest Greek writers of the twentieth centuryStripped of their ancestral lands and persecuted by other proud dynasties, the once illustrious Eumorphopoulos family have been brought low. But when their rivals...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780838754313Author Joseph O'NeillFormat HardbackPage Count 263Imprint Bucknell University Press,U.S.Publisher Associated University Presses

Although Paul Auster and J.M. Coetzee had been reading each other's books for years, the two writers did not meet until February 2008. Not long after, Auster received a letter from Coetzee, suggesting they begin exchanging letters on a regular basis and,...

An indispensable collection of one of America's most outspoken and original critics of the second half of the twentieth century Man of letters, political critic, public intellectual, Irving Howe was one of America's most exemplary and embattled writers...

Long before the Romantics embraced nature, people in the West saw the human and nonhuman worlds as both intimately interdependent and violently antagonistic. With its peerless selection of ninety-eight original sources concerned with the natural world...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781598535808Author Lisa YaszekFormat HardbackPage Count 551Imprint The Library of AmericaPublisher The Library of America

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781621459323Author Reader's DigestFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint Trusted Media BrandsPublisher Trusted Media BrandsWeight(grams) 839gDimensions(mm)...

The final volume of the Cambridge Dekker contains The Welsh Ambassador, The Noble Spanish Soldier, Lust's Dominion, The Sun's Darling, London's Tempe and Britannia's Honour. Professor Bowers's edition is recognized as a model critical old-spelling text,...

Surrealism as a movement has always resisted the efforts of critics to confine it to any static definition-surrealists themselves have always preferred to speak of it in terms of dynamics, dialectics, goals, and struggles. Accordingly, surrealist groups...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781614981756Author H P LovecraftFormat PaperbackPage Count 402Imprint Hippocampus PressPublisher Hippocampus PressWeight(grams) 535gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

A Tenderfoot is a novice, someone unaccustomed to hardship. Here, he is a white boy growing up in 1960s Ethiopia, a place he loves even as he learns his own privilege and foreignness. Later he hears rumours of a famine in the mountains and imagines a boy...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781623717476Author Zeina SaabFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Interlink BooksPublisher Interlink Publishing Group, IncWeight(grams) 212g

The era in the United States between the Civil War and the end of World War I, was marked by increased nation-building, immigration, internal migration and racial tension. This period of time saw the rise of local colour literature, which described the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060737825Author Lori LeibovichFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint HarperCollins PublishersPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams)...

Make better food choices and live a healthier life with NUTRITION: CONCEPTS AND CONTROVERSIES. More conversational than a pure-science text, this book explores the essentials of nutrition--including how the body breaks down and uses food, food safety,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812971378Author William FaulknerFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Modern Library IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 277gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780142004937Author Mark KurlanskyFormat PaperbackPage Count 496Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 459gDimensions(mm) 213mm * 137mm...

Cees Nooteboom wrote the poems that make up Monk's Eye on two islands: he began them on the Dutch island of Schiermonnikoog and finished them on the Spanish island of Minorca, where he has spent summers for decades. The poems--which can be read...

"Perhaps it is no coincidence that the nineteenth century-the century when, it has been said, sexuality as such (and various taxonomized sexual identities) were invented-is the period when American short stories were invented, and when they were the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781570627163Author Matsuo BashoFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Shambhala Publications IncPublisher Shambhala Publications IncWeight(grams)...

Over the past few years, in essays published in n+1, Jewish Currents, and elsewhere, Ari M. Brostoff has grappled with the intellectual upheavals and political contradictions that surfaced during the Trump era. After the breaking point of the 2016...

'Few travelled in these days, for, thanks to the advance of science, the earth was exactly alike all over. Rapid intercourse, from which the previous civilization had hoped so much, had ended by defeating itself. What was the good of going to Peking when...

There are around 7 million carers in the UK alone - unpaid people who look after someone who needs help because of their illness, frailty, disability, mental health problem or addiction and cannot cope without support. The Curae Prize was established...

Five plays by this virtuoso of the theatre have been gathered in one volume and given scholarly attention. Dion Boucicault, the most popular dramatist of the second half of the nineteenth century, was also one of the most prolific and representative...

For this definitive collection of Pound's Literary Essays, his friend (and English editor) T. S. Eliot chose material from five earlier volumes: Pavannes and Divisions (1918), Instigations (1920), How to Read (1931), Make It New (1934), and Polite Essays...

"Jenny is the future of nonfiction in America. What an absurdly arrogant statement to make. I make it anyway. Watch."-John D'Agata "Yes, Aristotle, there can be pleasure without 'complete and unified action with a beginning, middle, and end.' Jenny...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780805062960Author Wallace StegnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Henry Holt & Company IncPublisher Henry Holt & Company IncWeight(grams) 340g